| 1 | Ain’t No Cure for Love | healing |
| 2 | Anthem | consolation |
| 3 | Ballad of the Absent Mare | horses |
| 4 | Bird on a Wire | similes |
| 5 | Born in Chains | roots |
| 6 | Come Healing | healing |
| 7 | Democracy | America |
| 8 | Don’t Go Home with Your Hard-On | advice |
| 9 | Everybody Knows | the truth |
| 10 | Famous Blue Raincoat | clothes |
| 11 | First We Take Manhattan | rallying cries |
| 12 | The Future | the future |
| 13 | Going Home | music for funerals |
| 14 | Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye | goodbye songs |
| 15 | I Can’t Forget | forgetting |
| 16 | I Tried to Leave You | procrastination |
| 17 | Love Itself | quietly performed |
| 18 | Lullaby | gentleness |
| 19 | The Partisan | resistance |
| 20 | The Sisters of Mercy | kindness |
| 21 | Take This Longing | seduction |
| 22 | Tower of Song | songs about songs |
| 23 | You Want It Darker | adult lullabies |