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

  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 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
  • SkaraBrae@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Strangers passing in the street. By chance, two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me

    ~ Pink Floyd - Echoes

  • Fallibilist@feddit.uk
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    16 days ago

    (Don’t have to be) a big bucks Hollywood star
    (Don’t have to drive) a super car to get far
    (Don’t have to live) a life of power and wealth
    (Don’t have to be) beautiful, but it helps

  • MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
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    11 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.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Tally Hall’s song “Ruler of Everything” is a “nothing matters and that’s terrifying” song. Contrasting that song, though, earlier in the album is “Spring and a Storm”, imo a “nothing matters and that’s okay and special” song. It ends with:

    Create until nothing is left to create

    And the Universe bursts with an overworked sigh

    Then pretend to, pretend to recrown the creation

    And sing the same thing 'til the clouds start to cry

    And then over and over and over again

    And then over and over and-- never again…

    In my opinion, a commentary on how everything has already been done and it’s all recycled, but it’s special because we’re here now, and eventually, on a personal and a universal level, there’ll be a last time.

    • Pratai@piefed.caOPEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Okay. That shit sounds awesome. Going to check that out for sure. I’ll add that it sort of reminds me of a line from band called Deconstruction- (it’s the bassist and guitarist from Jane’s Addiction in a side project)

      The song is called:

      Wait For History

      The line is:

      Terra-cotta fountains all dried up
      leave it all again to the roaches
      when our dirty sidewalk becomes sheet rock 
      and history becomes geology.

  • Lena@gregtech.eu
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    16 days ago

    I must fight this sickness
    Find a cure
    I must fight this sickness

    From The Cure - Pornography

    I love how the lyrics are strangely optimistic compared to the rest of the album (in that they recognize that the horrific self-loathing and depressing thoughts presented in the other tracks on the album must come to an end). I also like how they reference the band’s name at the perfect moment. Truly some of the best closing lines of all time.

  • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I came to the club drunk with a fake ID
    Don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me?
    I’ve been with ten women who got HIV
    Now, don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me?
    I got genital warts and it burns when I pee
    Don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me?
    I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree
    You probably wanna grow up to be just like me
    Eminem - Role Model

  • yyyesss?@lemmy.world
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    14 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

  • cnovel@jlai.lu
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    15 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)

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    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