Except for the songs that made my Top 20 songs of 2005 and the representative tracks from my Top 20 Albums of 2005, these are the rest of the best lighter/mellow rock tracks of 2005, volume three. To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2004 and November 30, 2005.

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1. World Leader Pretend “Tit For Tat” Punches (Warner Brothers)
2. The Mountain Goats “Dance Music” The Sunset Tree (4AD)
3. Lou Barlow “Holding Back the Year” Emoh (Merge)
4. Turin Brakes “Fishing For A Dream” Jackinabox (Astralwerks)
5. Tori Amos “Witness” The Beekeeper (Epic)
6. Orenda Fink “Invisible Ones Guard the Gate” Invisible Ones (Saddle Creek)
7. Maria Taylor “Speak Easy” 11:11 (Saddle Creek)
8. Martha Wainwright “BMFA” Martha Wainwright (Zoë)
9. Devendra Banhart “I Feel Just Like A Child” Cripple Crow (XL)
10. The White Stripes “As Ugly As I Seem” Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
11. Bright Eyes “Old Soul Song” I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek)
12. The Mountain Goats “Magpie” The Sunset Tree (4AD)
13. Lou Barlow “Mary” Emoh (Merge)
14. Crooked Fingers “Twilight Creeps” Dignity and Shame (Merge)
15. Matt Pond PA “Brooklyn Stars” Several Arrows Later (Altitude)
16. Eels “Railroad Man” Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Vagrant)
17. Death Cab for Cutie “Some Day You Will Be Loved” Plans (Atlantic)
18. Mia Doi Todd “The Way” Manzanita (Plug Research)
19. The Kills “Ticket Man” No Wow (Rough Trade)
20. Lou Barlow “Legendary” Emoh (Merge)