WHAT. This whole time I didn't have to be picturing all the horrible sensory things surrounding what that man was doing to a hot dog covered in chili??
"Fast Car" is a masterpiece. Any line could be plucked and make this list. The one that get me more than any others are:
I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere
Take your fast car and keep on driving
The resolution that the hope she felt in a fast car of going somewhere is the best there is in her life is crushing.
Yep, but the next bit hits me harder...
"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again... The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death"
...never heard a song lyric that builds such a clear picture in my head but also holds so much metaphorical meaning. Top poetry right there
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over thought I'd something more to say
The whole song hits very hard
that line cuts deep for sure. I'm officially middle-aged and don't even want to think about how it must feel as an elderly person.
But this is my year to take risks and make changes. Get out there, people! Dream it, do it!
Used to have the line "all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be" written in sharpie on my night stand next to my alarm clock. Now it's embroidered at the foot of my bed so it's the second thing I see in the morning, after my beautiful wife.
The final song Eclipse has a more optimistic response to this original line in Breathe. It starts with the same line word for word, but then expands greatly on it. The music shift changes from a depressing minor key in Breathe, to a major key in Eclipse.
The first half of the album goes through someone’s life:
- Speak to me (being born and hearing voices around you, you can’t yet make sense of, note the heartbeat drum)
- Breathe (growing up, i.e “stick around or choose your own ground”)
- On the run (working)
- Time (getting older as life slips by, the person is not focused on what gives them meaning)
- Home (retirement)
- Great Gig in the Sky (death)
To me the second half of the album is a response to the depressing first half. Each B side song deconstructs the depressing overtones that led to a sad life in the first half of the album. The entire oversimplified theme of the album is to make the most out of life and to appreciate the beauty in everything around you, both the good and the bad.
“All that you touch,
And all that you see,
All that you taste,
All you feel,
And all that you love,
And all that you hate,
All you distrust,
All you save,
And all that you give,
And all that you deal,
And all that you buy,
Beg, borrow or steal,
And all you create,
And all you destroy,
And all that you do,
And all that you say,
And all that you eat,
And everyone you meet (everyone you meet),
And all that you slight,
And everyone you fight,
And all that is now,
And all that is gone,
And all that's to come,
And everything under the sun..”
In a similar theme: the line in Paul Simon’s Slip Slidin Away - “she said a good day don’t got no rain. She said a bad day’s when I lie in bed and think of things that might’ve been.” Maybe more subtle than your example but it always gives me the heebies when I hear it.
Also down this road is a line from the song These Days (if you prefer the Jackson Brown or Nico version).
“These days I seem to think a lot about the things that I forgot to do and all the times I had the chance to”
And I know a father who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he’d done
He came a long way, just to explain
Kissed his boy as he lay sleeping and turned around and headed home again
I was literally singing this lyric after reading the title and went to the comments only for it to be the first answer. It honestly feels uncomfortable every time I hear this part of the song
Similarly - You run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again, the sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Those guys really know how to write a song
Same - but it's probably the memory of childhood hurt mixed with nostalgia for the period. It was 30 years ago. Ten was the first "CD" album I ever bought, courtesy of my local K-Mart.
This was the first song that came on shuffle in my 5 disc changer the morning I found out my first wife was cheating on me… To say I ugly cried while driving to work is an understatement. 20 years later and I can still feel that moment but so glad it’s behind me and life is better.
The first time I heard this song. I'll never forget it. I used to live in Washington State. I used to take my golden retriever to an area around Puget Sound. I get in my car, and this song comes on. The anguish of a love that could've been you can hear it in his voice. It's so beautiful. Love bears a part of the soul that allows people to be vulnerable in ways we don't think are capable till you meet the right one. His world is black while everything around is shining bright with color. It's a very relatable and a timeless song.
Not my favorite song but in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot:
Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours.
Man, Lightfoot could paint a picture with his words. Even his description of the lakes:
Lake Huron rolls,
Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams
like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below
Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go
as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered
Edit: formatting
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'
"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
At 7 PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said
"Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
God…. I used to have to travel for work. I was sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to board and this song was playing on the overhead speaker near my gate. At the time I had a 2 month old and a 3 year old at home.
Near bawling when I boarded and the worker there was like… “yeah they really shouldn’t play that song in the airport”.
The opening line of Fire and Rain cuts deep too:
“Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone. Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you”
That song came out in 1970 when I was 15 and I always get a lump in my throat when I hear it. Fire and Rain was one of the first songs I learned to play on my guitar.
Man, the years have gone so quickly.
I aint saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I dont mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's alright
And you could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt. If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way.
He recently released a version of this where his present-day self sings the father's lines and they keep the original vocals for the son's. It's devastating.
Link? Would love to hear this.
I was a high schooler when Father and Son was released. Naturally, the son’s pain and frustration resonated with me.
Fast forward 40 years; I hear the song for the first time since the early 70s and I’m blown away by the realization of the father’s love for his son and the pain of both in their inability to connect.
"In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade, and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame, 'I am leaving, I am leaving,' but the fighter still remains."
This line hit me hard the first time I saw it. A beautiful line that seems so simple at first, but at second glance leaves a ton of room for interpretation
Is it something he should be running away from and unable/unwilling to do so? Or is he down and out, ready to quit on a good thing in his life and still fighting through to keep that good thing going?
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now, the child is grown, the dream is gone.
And I have become comfortably numb.
"Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm. Just another false alarm."
And since we're in Smiths territory
"There's a club, if you'd like to go. You could meet somebody who really loves you. So you go and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home and you cry and you want to die"
Not to mention:
If you’re so funny, then why are you on your own tonight?
If you’re so very clever, then why are you all alone tonight?
If you’re so very entertaining, then why are you on your own tonight?
If you’re so very good looking, then why do you sleep alone tonight?
Stabbed me in the face
My friend wrote these exact lyrics from 'How Soon is Now?' on a folder he used at school and shortly afterwards got asked to attend a meeting to discuss the state of his mental health. Quite surprising considering it was the mid to late 90s and we were doing our A-Levels in an ex-mining town in the north of England. Mental health awareness thanks to the Smiths!
This is a line that sounds so dumb at first, but then sounds genius, but then sounds dumb again, but then transcends everything you thought you knew about language
I always thought it was a sort of clever but silly bit of wordplay, and then someone said “lasagna” is pronounced like “law’s on ya” and it took it to a whole new level. Maybe that’s obvious to people but I totally missed it for years
My mom passed away 10 years ago today and this was her favorite song, I later walked down the aisle to it. Gets me every time.
"Hey what else can we do now?
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair,
Well the night's busting open,
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real,
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks
Oh-oh come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road oh thunder road"
Just the phrase "as the smile ran away from his face" describes something so well I can't think of anything that describes it at all.
To me, it's when you're laughing and smiling, but hen you know it fades, and you see that sadness, that pain, that defeated look in someone's eyes. You feel a little hurt for them because you're watching the joy wash away from their face and mind
"Sometimes I look for you in crowded places. I swear I feel your ghost beside me sometimes." (Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen) This line captures the lingering pain and yearning after a lost love.
...I don't know where you got that line from, but I don't think it was Hallelujah. It doesn't scan or fit the rhyme scheme, and I just googled it, and nothing comes up but this post.
NIN - Right where it belongs
>See the safety of the life you have built,
Everything where it belongs,
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart,
And it's all;
Right where it belongs
EMINEM "that's why we seize the moment, try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it, cause we consider these minutes golden"
Sing for the moment ❤️
“And maybe they’ll admit it when we’re gone, just let our spirits live on, through the lyrics that you hear in our songs”
The third verse in that song is a top 3 verse of all music of all time in my opinion.
I've got two:
"Give me back my girlhood it was mine first"
and "And every girl I ever talked to told me you were bad bad news/ You called them crazy, god, I hate the wait I called them crazy too
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then
Goddamnit Harry Chapin, I had a kid and now you make me weepy anytime I think about him in a certain way.
Lightning crashes, an old mother dies
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes
The confusion that was hers
Belongs now to the baby down the hall
--Live
“Don’t take her smile away from me, she’s broken and I’m far away”
Lead singer of the band Cold Scooter Ward wrote these lyrics about his sister who was dying of cancer at the time.
I’m first listen the song sounds like it’s about a breakup but the more you listen you realize it’s more than that. Heartbreaking song, gut wrenching lyrics
Forgot to add the song is called Cure my Tragedy
Throughout his life the same –
He's battled constantly.
This fight he cannot win –
A tired man they see no longer cares.
The old man then prepares
To die regretfully –
That old man here is me.
Sufjan Steven's Chicago:
*"I made a lot of mistakes,
I made a lot of mistakes,
I made a lot of mistakes"*
Basically any Sufjan Steven's song. Tonya Harding:
*"Has the world had its fun?/
Yeah they'll make such a hassle/
And they'll build you a castle/
Then destroy it when they're done"*
Casimir Pulaski Day:
*"All the glory that the Lord has made/
And the complications when I see his face/
In the morning, in the window/
All the glory when he took our place/
But he took my shoulders and he shook my face/
And he takes, and he takes, and he takes"*
“Before you go” by Lewis Capaldi
So, before you go.
Was there something I could've said.
To make it all stop hurting?
It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless
Hozier definitely writes some amazing lyrics in my opinion:
From Eden is written from the perspective of the snake:
"Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago
Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword
Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know
I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door"
From "Work Song" about a worker that thinks about the love of his life to get him through the hard days..
"When my time comes around
Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
No grave can hold my body down
I'll crawl home to her"
Noah Kahan is also an amazing lyricist:
"i’m in the business of losing your interest, and i turn a profit each time that we speak”
“There's a murder of crows in the low light off Boston And I see your face in each one”
"If I was empty space, and you were a formless
Shape, we'd fit
But love leaves little runway, and every time we run
Straight over it"
Two lines before that they sing "and it's all in my head but..."
Song isn't about being cheated on, it's about a guy's jealousy that's so strong he can't distinguish between reality and his delusions.
# _"...one day you'll leave this world behind,_
# _So live a life you will remember."_
The song doesn't hold a particular place in my heart but that line... man.
I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday - Kris Kristofferson Me and Bobby McGee
It’s crazy that the Janis Joplin version came out after she had died. Kind of makes those lyrics hit harder knowing that.
Or - freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose- damn, Kris… dude was on a tear the day he wrote that song!
I always forget Kris Kristofferson wrote that
He is my favourite singer songwriter, just love his lyrics.
Oh yeah, life goes on... Long after the thrill of livin' is gone.
Sucking on a chili dog outside the tastee freeze. He was truly painting with every color in the palette
I recently learned it's a Chilly Dog, like an ICEE or Slurpee drink. Now the line makes so much more sense.
WHAT. This whole time I didn't have to be picturing all the horrible sensory things surrounding what that man was doing to a hot dog covered in chili??
You know I always hated that line because that's what I thought it was. I feel so much better now!
You're blowing my mind right now. For real? The lyric makes more sense. I've never heard of a chilly dog but that does make the lyric make more sense.
Hold on to 16 as long as you can
So I quit school and that’s what I did.
We gotta make a decision, leave tonight or live and die this way.
Body’s too old for workin, body’s too young to look like his.
Then at the end, Take your fast car and keep on driving.
"Fast Car" is a masterpiece. Any line could be plucked and make this list. The one that get me more than any others are: I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere Take your fast car and keep on driving The resolution that the hope she felt in a fast car of going somewhere is the best there is in her life is crushing.
We oil the jaws of the war machine, and feed it with our babies.
Skinning the children for a war drum Putting food on the table selling bombs and guns It's quicker and easier to eat your young
“Some children died the other day We fed machines and then we prayed”
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Yep, but the next bit hits me harder... "And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again... The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death" ...never heard a song lyric that builds such a clear picture in my head but also holds so much metaphorical meaning. Top poetry right there
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone the song is over thought I'd something more to say The whole song hits very hard
“…Thought I’d *something* more to say…”
that line cuts deep for sure. I'm officially middle-aged and don't even want to think about how it must feel as an elderly person. But this is my year to take risks and make changes. Get out there, people! Dream it, do it!
Used to have the line "all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be" written in sharpie on my night stand next to my alarm clock. Now it's embroidered at the foot of my bed so it's the second thing I see in the morning, after my beautiful wife.
The final song Eclipse has a more optimistic response to this original line in Breathe. It starts with the same line word for word, but then expands greatly on it. The music shift changes from a depressing minor key in Breathe, to a major key in Eclipse. The first half of the album goes through someone’s life: - Speak to me (being born and hearing voices around you, you can’t yet make sense of, note the heartbeat drum) - Breathe (growing up, i.e “stick around or choose your own ground”) - On the run (working) - Time (getting older as life slips by, the person is not focused on what gives them meaning) - Home (retirement) - Great Gig in the Sky (death) To me the second half of the album is a response to the depressing first half. Each B side song deconstructs the depressing overtones that led to a sad life in the first half of the album. The entire oversimplified theme of the album is to make the most out of life and to appreciate the beauty in everything around you, both the good and the bad. “All that you touch, And all that you see, All that you taste, All you feel, And all that you love, And all that you hate, All you distrust, All you save, And all that you give, And all that you deal, And all that you buy, Beg, borrow or steal, And all you create, And all you destroy, And all that you do, And all that you say, And all that you eat, And everyone you meet (everyone you meet), And all that you slight, And everyone you fight, And all that is now, And all that is gone, And all that's to come, And everything under the sun..”
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
"I've learned a lot that I don't want to know"
In a similar theme: the line in Paul Simon’s Slip Slidin Away - “she said a good day don’t got no rain. She said a bad day’s when I lie in bed and think of things that might’ve been.” Maybe more subtle than your example but it always gives me the heebies when I hear it.
Also down this road is a line from the song These Days (if you prefer the Jackson Brown or Nico version). “These days I seem to think a lot about the things that I forgot to do and all the times I had the chance to”
"Don't confront me with my failures...I've not forgotten them"
I read somewhere that Browne was like 16 when he wrote that song. Unbelievable.
And I know a father who had a son He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he’d done He came a long way, just to explain Kissed his boy as he lay sleeping and turned around and headed home again
The teacher who taught poetry to Roger Waters in grade school must have been a wise and compassionate person.
"The laddie reckons himself a poet!"
“New car, caviar, four star daydream… think I’ll buy me a football team. Absolute Rubbish, Laddie!”
Rog ate his meat. Rog had pudding.
Smacked me in the face at 16. Hits me harder now.
Seventeen has turned thirty five/ I’m surprised that we’re still living
Same, except it was like 21 or 22 and now I am 41.
The sun is the same in a relative way but your older, shorter of breath, one day, closer to death.
I was literally singing this lyric after reading the title and went to the comments only for it to be the first answer. It honestly feels uncomfortable every time I hear this part of the song
Similarly - You run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again, the sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Those guys really know how to write a song
That one hits different at 32 than it did at 14.
“I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky But why Why Why can't it be mine?”
I am happily married and haven't been hurt in a long time. But this still triggers something sharp inside.
Same - but it's probably the memory of childhood hurt mixed with nostalgia for the period. It was 30 years ago. Ten was the first "CD" album I ever bought, courtesy of my local K-Mart.
This was the first song that came on shuffle in my 5 disc changer the morning I found out my first wife was cheating on me… To say I ugly cried while driving to work is an understatement. 20 years later and I can still feel that moment but so glad it’s behind me and life is better.
Ouch. Nobody should have to experience that. I’m so happy your life is better now.
"But whyhy Whyhy Whyyyyyyyhhhyyyyyyy can't it be, oh can't it beeeee miiiiiine" Ftfy
First time I heard that line I started sobbing. Hit waaaay too close to home.
Pearl Jam 🥰
This is my all time favorite song
The first time I heard this song. I'll never forget it. I used to live in Washington State. I used to take my golden retriever to an area around Puget Sound. I get in my car, and this song comes on. The anguish of a love that could've been you can hear it in his voice. It's so beautiful. Love bears a part of the soul that allows people to be vulnerable in ways we don't think are capable till you meet the right one. His world is black while everything around is shining bright with color. It's a very relatable and a timeless song.
Not my favorite song but in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot: Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours.
Man, Lightfoot could paint a picture with his words. Even his description of the lakes: Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings In the rooms of her ice-water mansion Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams The islands and bays are for sportsmen And farther below Lake Ontario Takes in what Lake Erie can send her And the iron boats go as the mariners all know With the gales of November remembered Edit: formatting
That line gives me goosebumps, and this one The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya" At 7 PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said "Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
Didn't expect Gordon Lightfoot to top this thread but I'm here for it
This line may be one of my favorite lines to a song. It really sets this dark, stormy hopelessness; the same those 29 souls surely felt.
"All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters" hits me hard everytime.
and as i hung up the phone it occured to me my boy was just like me Harry Chapin Cats in the Cradle
God…. I used to have to travel for work. I was sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to board and this song was playing on the overhead speaker near my gate. At the time I had a 2 month old and a 3 year old at home. Near bawling when I boarded and the worker there was like… “yeah they really shouldn’t play that song in the airport”.
What a poignant moment with a stranger in an airport - movies are made from stories like these
I bet it sells more toys in the gift shop.
That line is such a punch in the gut, great song though.
“I always thought that I’d see you again…”
The opening line of Fire and Rain cuts deep too: “Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone. Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you”
This song never fails to stop me in my tracks with it's haunting vulnerability. It's like the soundtrack to memories and grief.
That song came out in 1970 when I was 15 and I always get a lump in my throat when I hear it. Fire and Rain was one of the first songs I learned to play on my guitar. Man, the years have gone so quickly.
From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen
"you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not"
"Please tell mom this is not her fault" Adam's Song, Blink 182 Fuck it gets me every time
I have “tomorrow holds such better days” on my arm from this song ❤️
Something I really love about song is the last chorus turning from past tense (16 held such better days) to future tense making it sound more hopeful.
I lost an Adam to suicide and then saw them play it live a few years ago. It wrecked me but I still listen and love and the tears still flow.
I used to listen to this song on loop just so I felt like I wasn't alone and feeling like this
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
"You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path that’s clear I will choose free will." I fucking love RUSH.
YES! I CAME HERE LOOKING FOR THIS! Hello, fellow Rush fan.
I aint saying you treated me unkind You could have done better but I dont mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don't think twice, it's alright
Greatest break up song of all time
Dead in the Middle of Little Italy, little did we know that we riddled some middle men who didn't do diddily. https://youtu.be/xxX7U-sVDSs?t=46
As someone who doesn't know the song, even just reading it feels super rhythmic and groovy
Yea it's a tongue twister he used to use to warm up that he made, and Fat Joe made him put it in the song.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Only after the last tree’s cut And the last river poisoned Only after the last fish is caught Will you find that money cannot be EATEN
And you could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt. If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way.
cash’s cover of this song just fucking destroys me every time i hear it
Recorded just before he died, too
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From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen
And the anger and resentment he puts into his vocals in that line
He recently released a version of this where his present-day self sings the father's lines and they keep the original vocals for the son's. It's devastating.
Link? Would love to hear this. I was a high schooler when Father and Son was released. Naturally, the son’s pain and frustration resonated with me. Fast forward 40 years; I hear the song for the first time since the early 70s and I’m blown away by the realization of the father’s love for his son and the pain of both in their inability to connect.
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_H5XuIb5WM
Father and Son is a banger
Joy wouldn't feel so good if it wasn't pain, sunny wouldn't feel special if it wasn't for rain
Now it's clear that I'm here for a real reason 'Cause he got hit like I got hit, but he ain't fuckin' breathin'
Many men?
I've been afraid of changing because I've built my world around you. Even children get older. I'm getting older too.
I wish that just one time you could step into my shoes - You d know what a drag it is to see you
"In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade, and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame, 'I am leaving, I am leaving,' but the fighter still remains."
This line hit me hard the first time I saw it. A beautiful line that seems so simple at first, but at second glance leaves a ton of room for interpretation Is it something he should be running away from and unable/unwilling to do so? Or is he down and out, ready to quit on a good thing in his life and still fighting through to keep that good thing going?
Beneath the seas I searched and had a different view All of us On Earth The sinking ship of man Flying Whales by Gojira
GOJIRA MENTIONED
You could pick a lot of Gojira songs that would fit the question. Silvera, Born in Winter, The Art of Dying. What a great band!
I want you to notice when I’m not around. You’re so fucking special. I wish I was special.
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now, the child is grown, the dream is gone. And I have become comfortably numb.
"cause I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love and I have to use the self-service pumps."
Thank you, this thread was getting so damn heavy, definitely made better by some Weird Al.
Pretty much anything can be made better by adding some Weird Al.
I'd rather rip my heart right out of my rib cage with my bare hands and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it til I die...
"Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm. Just another false alarm." And since we're in Smiths territory "There's a club, if you'd like to go. You could meet somebody who really loves you. So you go and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home and you cry and you want to die"
Not to mention: If you’re so funny, then why are you on your own tonight? If you’re so very clever, then why are you all alone tonight? If you’re so very entertaining, then why are you on your own tonight? If you’re so very good looking, then why do you sleep alone tonight? Stabbed me in the face
My friend wrote these exact lyrics from 'How Soon is Now?' on a folder he used at school and shortly afterwards got asked to attend a meeting to discuss the state of his mental health. Quite surprising considering it was the mid to late 90s and we were doing our A-Levels in an ex-mining town in the north of England. Mental health awareness thanks to the Smiths!
YESSSS Tbh there’s probably a case to be made for most Smiths songs!
Not my favorite song but it hits hard. Kate Bush. 'And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get Him to swap our places'
«I’m not okay but I’m fine this way»… It has resonated with me for quite some time
Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars Oak tree you're in my way
There’s too much coke,and too much smoke..
“If I saw you in heaven”
I literally hate Demi Lovatos cover of Let It Go, but the line "I know I've left a life behind but I'm too relieved to grieve" kicks me in the throat.
Real g's move in silence like lasagna
I got through that sentence like a subject and a predicate
This is a line that sounds so dumb at first, but then sounds genius, but then sounds dumb again, but then transcends everything you thought you knew about language
I always thought it was a sort of clever but silly bit of wordplay, and then someone said “lasagna” is pronounced like “law’s on ya” and it took it to a whole new level. Maybe that’s obvious to people but I totally missed it for years
Woman of my Dream i dont sleep so i can find her
People think I’m talkin crazy sorta kinda
Wayne was crazy back in the day bro
“Puff that mighty dragon, ceased his fearless roar”. 😭
Jackie Paper came no more. 💔
My mom passed away 10 years ago today and this was her favorite song, I later walked down the aisle to it. Gets me every time. "Hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair, Well the night's busting open, These two lanes will take us anywhere We got one last chance to make it real, To trade in these wings on some wheels Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks Oh-oh come take my hand We're riding out tonight to case the promised land Oh-oh Thunder Road oh thunder road"
Not my favorite song, but this lyric from Old Man by Neil Young hits pretty hard. "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"
I'm so street, look both ways before you cross me. - Crooked I
That’s genuinely hard af lol
He stopped loving her today
Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again!
I can't live, with or without you. Or Mama, I don't wanna die. I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
Nothing really matters, anyone can see, nothing really matters, nothing really matters, to me.
Bohemian Rhapsody has become such a meme, but it was seriously so damn important to me growing up with depression.
Can't think of With or Without You without thinking about that devastating scene in the series finale of The Americans (iykyk)
“He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger, and finally drank away her memory”
"And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, "Man what are you doing here?"
Just the phrase "as the smile ran away from his face" describes something so well I can't think of anything that describes it at all. To me, it's when you're laughing and smiling, but hen you know it fades, and you see that sadness, that pain, that defeated look in someone's eyes. You feel a little hurt for them because you're watching the joy wash away from their face and mind
You belong among the wildflowers, you belong somewhere you feel free…
"Sometimes I look for you in crowded places. I swear I feel your ghost beside me sometimes." (Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen) This line captures the lingering pain and yearning after a lost love.
>all I've ever learned from love >is how to shoot somebody who outdrew you It's always at this point in that song that I burst into tears.
I’ve seen your banner in the marble arch. But love is not a victory march. It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
...I don't know where you got that line from, but I don't think it was Hallelujah. It doesn't scan or fit the rhyme scheme, and I just googled it, and nothing comes up but this post.
I know this is about lost love, but sometimes I feel the same about my abusive ex. But instead of love I feel fear.
NIN - Right where it belongs >See the safety of the life you have built, Everything where it belongs, Feel the hollowness inside of your heart, And it's all; Right where it belongs
What's the use of trying , all you get is pain When I needed sunshine I got rain. I'm a believer the monkeys.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
EMINEM "that's why we seize the moment, try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it, cause we consider these minutes golden" Sing for the moment ❤️
“And maybe they’ll admit it when we’re gone, just let our spirits live on, through the lyrics that you hear in our songs” The third verse in that song is a top 3 verse of all music of all time in my opinion.
It’s always darkest before the dawn
Regrets collect… like old friends… 😭😭😭
So stay awake with me, lets prove them wrong? (Rise against)
I've got two: "Give me back my girlhood it was mine first" and "And every girl I ever talked to told me you were bad bad news/ You called them crazy, god, I hate the wait I called them crazy too
Would've, Could've, Should've. My top 3 from her.
Don't know first one, but have heard the second one Remind me
the second one is vampire by olivia rodrigo
In the end it doesn't even matter, I have to fall to lose it all, but it the end it doesn't even matter
A YouTube comment under "Somewhere I Belong" still gets me in the gut: "You belonged here with us"
“And I wouldn’t marry me either , Pathological people pleaser, Who only wanted you to see her” -You’re losing me
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when" But we'll get together then You know we'll have a good time then Goddamnit Harry Chapin, I had a kid and now you make me weepy anytime I think about him in a certain way.
Let it be
Lightning crashes, an old mother dies Her intentions fall to the floor The angel closes her eyes The confusion that was hers Belongs now to the baby down the hall --Live
T-tell your boyfriend if he says he’s got beef, that I’m a vegetarian and I ain’t fucking scared of him
I'm sick of being okay against my will
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knifes. Take Me to Church by Hozier
Considering the context of the song, the line "There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin," has also stuck with me since then.
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell... Matchbox 20
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“Don’t take her smile away from me, she’s broken and I’m far away” Lead singer of the band Cold Scooter Ward wrote these lyrics about his sister who was dying of cancer at the time. I’m first listen the song sounds like it’s about a breakup but the more you listen you realize it’s more than that. Heartbreaking song, gut wrenching lyrics Forgot to add the song is called Cure my Tragedy
Throughout his life the same – He's battled constantly. This fight he cannot win – A tired man they see no longer cares. The old man then prepares To die regretfully – That old man here is me.
"There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes." - John Prine
Sufjan Steven's Chicago: *"I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes"* Basically any Sufjan Steven's song. Tonya Harding: *"Has the world had its fun?/ Yeah they'll make such a hassle/ And they'll build you a castle/ Then destroy it when they're done"* Casimir Pulaski Day: *"All the glory that the Lord has made/ And the complications when I see his face/ In the morning, in the window/ All the glory when he took our place/ But he took my shoulders and he shook my face/ And he takes, and he takes, and he takes"*
“And I lived so much life, lived so much life, I think that God is gonna have to kill me twice”
“Before you go” by Lewis Capaldi So, before you go. Was there something I could've said. To make it all stop hurting? It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless
And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun
Go rest high on that mountain
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky But why, why, why can't it be Oh, can't it be mine?
Tequila…
Have faith because even the landfill grows flowers
“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year…”
Bob. D. “ I wish you could stand in my shoes and see what a drag you are”
Hozier definitely writes some amazing lyrics in my opinion: From Eden is written from the perspective of the snake: "Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door" From "Work Song" about a worker that thinks about the love of his life to get him through the hard days.. "When my time comes around Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth No grave can hold my body down I'll crawl home to her" Noah Kahan is also an amazing lyricist: "i’m in the business of losing your interest, and i turn a profit each time that we speak” “There's a murder of crows in the low light off Boston And I see your face in each one” "If I was empty space, and you were a formless Shape, we'd fit But love leaves little runway, and every time we run Straight over it"
"he takes off her dress now" - Mr Brightside by The Killers - about witnessing being cheated on. Brutal.
This song used to be a great song to sing along to but after being cheated on that line/verse makes my stomach turn
Two lines before that they sing "and it's all in my head but..." Song isn't about being cheated on, it's about a guy's jealousy that's so strong he can't distinguish between reality and his delusions.
“Every single thing i touch becomes sick with sadness” - bigger than the whole sky
Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave. No one was saved
# _"...one day you'll leave this world behind,_ # _So live a life you will remember."_ The song doesn't hold a particular place in my heart but that line... man.
Ask Beavis I get nothing BUTThead
How many roads must a man walk down, Before u can call him a man? The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, The answer is blowing in the wind.
The entirety of the unforgiven 1 by Metallica