If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

A bit high brow for me, but its brilliant none the less!!

Won't get fooled again - The Who
Shiver - Coldplay
Wish you Were here - Pink Floyd
Headlong - The Frames
Hurt - Johnny Cash Version
Take me out - Franz
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
Trouble - Ray Lamontagne
Woman Like a Man - Damien Rice
Ground beneath her Feet - U2
Kiss from a rose - Seal
New York New York - Ryan Adams
Tongue - Bell X1
Wake Up - Arcade Fire
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
What the World is waiting for - Stone Roses
Bridge over troubled water - Paul Simon
Working class hero - John Lennon

Some additions:
Faithful Departed - Christy Moore
There There - Radiohead
FEAR - Ian Brown
Obstacle 1 - Interpol
The Island - Paul Brady
Peace like a River - Paul Simon
Irish Blood, English Heart - Morrisey