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
"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.
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
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
FatM always has some stellar lines.
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
"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.
“We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band / then jump in the river holding hands”
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
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)
“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.
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
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
Burn the land and boil the sea, You can’t take the sky from me.
From Firefly. Sung by Sonny Rhodes, written by Joss Whedon
I knew it the second I read the first three words!
“I am a leaf on the wind!”
“Watch how I soar”
You know, suicide isn’t painless,
When you leave everyone in pain.
NOFX - DoornailsOoh! I like that. It reminds me of Red Reddington from the show The Blacklist voicing his take:
Have you ever seen the aftermath of a suicide bombing?
I have. June 29th, 2003. I was meeting two associates at the Marouche restaurant in Tel Aviv. As my car was pulling up, a 20-year-old Palestinian named Ghazi Safar entered the restaurant and detonated a vest wired with C-4
The shock wave knocked me flat, blew out my eardrums. I couldn’t hear. The smoke… It was like being under water. I went inside. A nightmare. Blood, parts of people. You could tell where Safar was standing when the vest blew. It was like a perfect circle of death. There was almost nothing left of the people closest to him. Seventeen dead, 46 injured. Blown to pieces. The closer they were to the bomber, the more horrific the effect
That’s every suicide. Every single one. An act of terror perpetrated against everyone who’s ever known you. Everyone who’s ever loved you. The people closest to you, the ones who cherish you are the ones who suffer the most pain, the most damage. Why would you do that? Why would you do that to people who love you?
That show is so bad, but that character is one of my all time favourites. Spader is a genius
Yeahs he commands a room for sure.
Is that a rebuttal to “suicide is painless” by, among others, Manic Street Preachers ?
You mean the theme song from M*A*S*H?
Potatoes
Strangers passing in the street. By chance, two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me
~ Pink Floyd - Echoes
Oh I absolutely love this song. I was in a band back in the early 2000’s that did a cover of this. Was definitely one of my favorites.
“To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave” Primus
Great album!!






