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Thought this might be some fun, so…

What are some lines from song lyrics that really hit you the right way? It could be that it’s deep and meaningful, or just something that amuses you. I’ll start:

Isn’t it funny how laughter looks like crying with no sound, and raindrops taste like tears without the pain ~ Queensryche - Another Rainy Night (Without You)

Droplets of “yes” and “no” in an ocean of “maybe” ~ Faith No More - Falling to Pieces

A smile as sweet as flowers
Wilted so and soured
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired
~ Dave Matthews Band - The Dreaming Tree

Her lovers queued up in the hallway
I heard them scratching at the door
I tried to tell her about Marx and Engels,
God and Angels…
I don't really know what for…

But she looked good in ribbons
The Sisters Of Mercy ~ Ribbons

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[–] MrOtingocni@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"My hand to God

I didn't mean to

After all

Look what we've been through

Men come in different shades

That's how we're made

The little house on Ellis Drive

Is where I felt most alive

The oak tree covered that old Ford

I miss it Lord,

I miss it Lord

These blood red eyes

Don't see so good

But what's worse is if they could

Would I change my ways?

Wasted times and broken dreams

Violent colors so obscene

It's all I see these days

These days"

Just a deep and profound expression of regret for misconduct towards another, a special person, and the feeling of tremendous loss that comes from the inevitable, irrevocable, change there from.

I know it all too well.

[–] yyyesss@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Vicarious by TOOL

Eye on the TV, 'cause tragedy thrills me

Whatever flavor it happens to be like

"Killed by the husband"

"Drowned by the ocean"

"Shot by his own son"

"She used a poison in his tea

Then kissed him goodbye"

That's my kind of story

It's no fun 'til someone dies

Cause I need to watch things die

From a distance

Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies

You all need it too, don't lie

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" - Bad Word (Tears for Fears)


"Well, Americans don't care for much of anything
Land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
With human life not worth more than infected yeast,"

"Americans don't care too much for beauty
They'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach Complain if they can't swim" - Last Great American Whale (Lou Reed)

the entire songs is magnificent

[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Kill him. Fucking kill him. Kill him already kill him. Kill him already. Kill him already. Kill him. JUST FUCKING KILL HIM. FUCKING KILL HIM.

Shellac - Prayer to god

I sing this almost daily when I read the news.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking

Queen - Under Pressure

A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall

Bo Burnham - That Funny Feeling

(Honestly every line in that song is golden)

[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is this how it is?
Is this how it's always been?
To exist in the face of suffering and death
And somehow still keep singing?

Florence + The Machine - Free

Also:

I did my best, tried to impress, my childhood dream made flesh
And my dresses and my flowering sadness, so like a woman to profit from her madness
I was only beautiful under the lights, only powerful there
Burned down at thirty-six
Why did you dig me up for this?

Florence + The Machine - One of the Greats

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 1 points 6 days ago

FatM always has some stellar lines.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

There's a tool for everything A sawzall can set you free

There's copper in the hills, you ain't gotta mine it. Just a pickup truck in the dead of night. Birds of a feather, they'll flock and cry but the metal man don't care which way you fly.

-sawzall v surveillance, Nathan evans fox

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"And on I read, until the day was gone.

And I sat in regret of all the things I've done.

For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged.

In dreams until my death I will wander on."

Audioslave, Like A Stone.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

so practically this whole song (sorta half and really half of a half. its complicated) from jethro tull just becomes more and more relevant every year as the dystopia increases:

There's the stillness of death on a deathly unliving sea
And the motor car magical world long since ceased to be
When the Eve-bitten apple returned to destroy the tree

Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride
Spawning new millions throws the world on its side
Supporting their far-flung illusion, the national curse
And those with no sandwiches please get off the bus

The excrement bubbles
The century's slime decays
And the brainwashing government lackeys
Would have us say
It's under control and we'll soon be on our way
To a grand year for babies and quiz panel games
Of the hot hungry millions you'll be sure to remain

The natural resources are dwindling and no one grows old
And those with no homes to go to, please dig yourself holes

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

"We'll buy some drugs and watch a band / then jump in the river holding hands"

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

We brag on having bread, but none of us are bakers We all talk having greens, but none of us own acres If none of us own acres, and none of us grow wheat Then who will feed our people when our people need to eat?

Killer Mike ~ Ronald Reagan

[–] cnovel@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago

On y a mis la tête contre une brique Que même la brique, elle a eu mal

Which can be translated to

We smashed his head against a brick So hard even the brick got hurt

(From Renaud, Deuxième Génération)

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Fuck you all, fuck everyone and everything, you don't know me and you wouldn't want to anyway forced into the end, I fucked myself, I fucked myself again again, I am nothing, again, fuck everything

  • F.E. - 40 Below Summer
[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

"Democracy don't rule the world. You better get that through your head. This world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid". Bob Dylan form his album "Infidels" and the song is called "Sundown on the Union". The song is over 30 years old but Dylan saw it unwinding back then.

[–] darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Amiaryllis' Watashi Wa Ame cover

I suffer in this shallow puddle, while others drown among their turbulent seas

and

But, still i wish that i could suffer the pain of everyone so i'd understand

[–] wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.org 2 points 6 days ago

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Feathers on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath
- Massive Attack - Teardrop

Wanna be loved
Not for who you think I am
Nor what you want me to be
Could you love me for me?
Real love, with no strings attached
I wanna give you me heart
Don't want to take it back
And this is my chat (cho!)
- Buju Banton - Wanna Be Loved

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not another motherfucking politician, doing nothing but something for his own ambition.. The Power of Equality - The Red Hot Chili Peppers

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That entire album is badass.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Red Dirt Girl, all of it really but this always gets me:

She loved her brother I remember back when

He was fixin' up a '49 Indian

He told her, "Little sister, gonna ride the wind

Up around the moon and back again"

He never got farther than Vietnam

I was standin' there with her

When the telegram come for Lillian

Fontaines DC song A Hero's Death is probably the most uplifting punk song in existence, I love it.

Chorus:

Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.

Don't get stuck in the past.
Say your favourite things at mass.
Tell your mother that you love her.
And go out of your way for others.
Sit beneath a light that suits ya.
And look forward to a brighter future.

(Chorus)

Sink as far down as you can be pulled up.
Happiness really ain't all about luck.
Let your demeanour be your deep down self.
And don't sacrifice your life for your health.
When you speak, speak sincere.
And believe me friend, everyone will hear.

(Chorus)

Bring your own two cents.
Never borrow them from someone else.
Buy yourself a flower every hundredth hour.
Throw your hair down from your lonely tower.
And if, and if.
You find yourself in the family way.
Give the kid more than what you got in your day.

(Chorus)

Never let a clock tell you what you got time for.
It only goes around, goes around, goes around.
Take your family name for your own great sins.
'Cause each day is where it all begins.
And don't give up too quick.
You only get one line, you better make it stick.
If we give ourselves to every breath.
Then we're all in the running for a hero's death.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Often I am upset

That I cannot fall in love but I guess

This avoids the stress of falling out of it

Cavetown - Home

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Wish I could stand in the spray at the cliff of your sweet revenge

An ocean of naked serrated marble crushing in

Last Lion of Albion by Neko Case

[–] Million@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Dave the dope fiend shootin' dope Who don't know the meaning of water nor soap

[–] Enekk@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

You do it to yourself, you do And that's what really hurts Is that you do it to yourself, just you You and no one else You do it to yourself You do it to yourself

~ Radiohead, Just

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Who knows what this is from? "I know she a ho so I mo go, expose the funky bitch cause she thinks she's sooooo fisticated".

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I believe in this and it's been tested by research, He who fucks nuns will later join the church.

[–] Superdooper@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Would this be a Clash reference?

[–] Fartemis@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Rattlesnake Rattlesnake Rattlesnake Rattles me

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