Beautiful veins and bloodshot eyes
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
—Foo Fighters, "Let It Die", taken out of context for lulz.
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Share a lyric with me. Relatable, weird, cryptic, poetic, upbeat, sad, angry; anything that speaks to you. (Or that gets stuck in your head against your will.)
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
—Foo Fighters, "Let It Die", taken out of context for lulz.
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Share a lyric with me. Relatable, weird, cryptic, poetic, upbeat, sad, angry; anything that speaks to you. (Or that gets stuck in your head against your will.)
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—Rollins Band, "Low Self Opinion". This song just means a lot to me in general. I got self essteem issues so this kinda just feels good to hear.
I am the dirt under your nails
I wanna know how you see you
-Against Me! “Delicate, Petite and Other Things I’ll Never Be”
Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
Shadows will scream that I'm alone-lone-lone
-twenty one pilots, "Migraine"
(don't mind me, minds are on my mind...)
Open up and see what you find
- Warpaint, "Disco//Very"
I just wanna know what's on your mind
I used to say, "I wanna die before I'm old"
But because of you, I might think twice
-twenty one pilots "We Don't Believe What's On TV"
And a paper plate of course
You think of everything
When waves come crashing at your door
I've been down, been down before
And I have faith, but I need more
We're specks of dust caught in a whirlwind
Nothingness behind the curtain
Life is short, but death is certain
That will always be our burden
We spent so long just getting by
That’s the thing about survival
Who the hell, who the hell likes living just to die.
Noah Kahan, “You’re Gonna Go Far”
down at the Dairy Queen
Indigo girls
Dairy Queen
- Poppy, "Bloodmoney"
Is falling from me
My poor soul
All bruised passivity
All your regrets
Ride rough-shod over me
—David Bowie, "Strangers When We Meet"
Prove you can be force fed war and spit peace
-Caligula's Horse, "The Cannon's Mouth"
You will find yourself believing
You will find your reason why
I see those same old eyes still gleaming
I see those same old eyes still shine"
--Amistat, "Same Old Eyes"
"Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of the people
who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums..."
-Les Miserables
Well, they say it's non-existent but it's playing with my mind
And phone calls don't cost a dime
In the caverns of your feelings where the sun will never shine
The Meat Puppets, "Climbing"
Feel so wrong don't belong in this reality
Run away
Won't be long I'll be gone before anyone finds me
Make them go away
These twisted thoughts inside my head
https://youtu.be/R4760pb9ERg?si=3GeHmwQ5I_9_3Lab
Your final surrender, a defiant surrender
It's a national stain
The dude's insane
Back on the floor until they name your replacement..."
Defy & Surrender, Local H
(There are pretty great lyrics in most of their songs - especially on the 12 Angry Months album)
- “funeral singers” sylvan Esso
They said, "He don't work here"
We said, "If you don't got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin'"
-- Dead Milkmen, "Punk Rock Girl"
And ordered some hot tea
The waitress said "Well no
We only have it iced"
So we jumped up on the table
And shouted "anarchy"
Your touch is so tender
Your skin is like water
On a burning beach
And it brings me relief
-- Crowded House "Nails in My Feet"
Guess?
Till the levee breaks down,
The water comes in,
And the river takes the town.
— Wood Brothers, “River Takes The Town”
Everything you gave
Hold me 'til I die
Meet you on the other side
–Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam, “Just Breathe”
If I knew you once, now I know you less.
In the sinking sand, where we've come to rest,
Have I had a hand in your loneliness?
- Joanna Newsom, "Go Long"
One of my favourite lyricists of all time, tbh. It was really hard to pick a single song and line.
Make me sure
Remind me I'm the animal
Who dances for the Dawn
~Finnegan Tui 'old one'
The song of the Holy Ghost
Tempted the soul from the pennies to the gold
Like the dust I spit from my mouth"
Black Lung by The Dead South
Will get their hooks into you
They’ll pull you down
You’ll frown
They’ll tar you and drag you through town
But you still don’t like to leave before the end of the movie
“End of the Movie” by Cake
You wear it well
Just like a king
Revenge is the saddest thing
Honey, I'm afraid to say
You deserve everything
-Rilo Kiley, “Breakin’ Up
So let me know baby when you’ve had enough
Oh do the dead, turn blue
Yeah the surfin’ dead, as dead as you
—The Cramps, “Surfin’ Dead”
But we only get one shot for today
- Champion "Next Year"
Or from a park bench
You could be a politician
Or a bitchy princess
But if you're lookin' for a fist
And you're lookin' to unite
Put your knuckleheads together
Make a fist and fight
Not to your death
And not to your grave
I'm talkin' 'bout that freedom
Fight like a brave
-the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.
Billy Joel, Say Goodbye to Hollywood
This stood out to me since it came out and I was a kid.
These rhymes are Darryl's, the burgers are Ronald's... Ronald's... Ronald's...
Run D.M.C.
Hit It Run
And the public gets what the public wants.
But I don't get what this society wants, I'M GOING UNDERGROUND....."
The Jam, Going Underground.
March - 1980.
We've become the walls we raise
We don't believe enough but we still cared
Standing on the edge without a prayer
So come on, come on it's all we got
Our hands are full, our lives are not
The loose affiliation with the real
We're sleeping at the wheel - Matchbox 20
Lonely as an IV drip
Came crashing through the window
-The Tragically Hip, “At the Hundredth Meridian”
- Eve 6 "girlfriend"
Oh honey you know that you can (and will) lick my big fat doo
- “Lick Doo,” Kyuss
The way things are this minute
So when you're gone, I can go on
If memory can hold within it what I'm feeling
Should time try fading or stealing something away
— Santana, Hold On
But I’m trying really hard to not hate you
Hating you won’t make you suck any less
-Kokopelli face tattoo by AJJ
Nice to know my kind will be on my side
I don't believe the hype
And you know you're a terrible sight
But you'll be just fine
Just don't believe the hype
twenty one pilots, "The Hype"
If you decide, all is well
I'll keep on tryin' (tryin'), might as well (might as well)
If you decide (decide), all is well (all is well)
twenty one pilots, "Cut My Lip"
(can you tell I like twenty one pilots)
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel - Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna
But they're closing the bar and they want us to leave
Death Cab for Cutie - Crooked Teeth