For me it's: Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage. From Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Smashing Pumpkins.
I'm 38 now, and cheesy as it may be, that line still sums up my feelings towards the world.
For me it's: Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage. From Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Smashing Pumpkins.
I'm 38 now, and cheesy as it may be, that line still sums up my feelings towards the world.
Most definitely.
When mountains crumble to the sea
There will still be you and me
from Thank you by Zeppelin.
loved it the moment i heard it first 30+ years ago, had it at my wedding and still means the world to me and my better half
Love this
Younger me: “fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me”
40-something me: “warrior…struggling…to remain…consequential”
Love it!
Modest Mouse "Bury Me"
"life handed us a paycheck and we said 'we worked harder than this'"
“Good news for people who love bad news, we’ve lost the part and we just can’t choose. We are humming birds who are just not willing to move, and there’s good news for people who love bad news.”
Beating tired bones Tripping through remember when Once invincible Now the armor's wearing thin Heavy shield down
Tool - Invincible
Definitely hits harder as we grow older.
"Someone still loves you" - Radio Gaga - Queen
I sang a few times to stray cats I adopted...
God bless you for this! i Feed stray animals from time to time as well
"My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies. Fairytales of yesterday may grow and never die, I can fly, my friend"
The Show Must Go On, Queen.
I'm getting the sheet music of that lyric tattooed in a treble clef shape when I have the money, it's such an uplifting line on a quite sad song
From the most desperate and unknown place that he was at, he nailed it. Unreal the dedication.
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Do you play it on repeat until you fall asleep?
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Are you sure you know the lyrics to this song?
You’ve taken the best of me, so come get the rest of me
I'd listen to the words he say
But in his voice I heard decay
The plastic face forced to portray
All the insides left cold and grey
There is a place that still remains
It eats the fear, it eats the pain
The sweetest price he'll have to pay
The day the whole world went away
NIN
This place is old, it feels just like a beat up truck I turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn. Smells of cheap wine, cigarettes, this place is always such a mess Sometimes i think I'd like to watch it burn
Wallflower-one headlight
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.
Right in two-tool
While you could listen to any Tool song and find something profound, this is just one of my favorite examples.
That entire song is pretty profound!
Let me know the way
Before there's hell to pay
Give me room to lay the law and let me go
I've got to make a play
To make my lover stay
So, what would an angel say?
The devil wants to know
Criminal by Fiona Apple
Too many to name. But the first lines that came to mind were from Love Ridden by Fiona Apple.
“I want your warmth but it will only make colder when it’s over.
So I can’t tonight, baby. No, not baby anymore. If I need you I’ll just use your simple name. Only kisses on the cheek from now on. And in a little while, we’ll only have to wave.”
"You could have done anything, if you wanted.
And all your friends and family think that you're lucky.
But the side of you they'll never see, Is when you're left alone with your memories, That hold your life together, like glue
This Is The Day by The The (Matt Johnson)
the whole of that song in itself is so perfect lyrically
There are many, but here's one:
"This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us."
--"Who Wants To Live Forever," by Queen
I am not afraid to keep on living I am not afraid to walk this world alone
-Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance
"And in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you made"
The Beatles - The End
Never mind what's been selling, it's what you're buying.
-Fugazi
“The true prophet never spoke, he just smiled and saw the joke” - Flogging Molly: This Present State of Grace
“So, in a word don’t shed a tear, I’ll be here when it all gets weird” Flogging Molly- If I Ever Leave This World Behind
Are these times contagious
I've never been this bored before
Is this the prize I've waited for?
Now as the hours passing
There's nothing left here to insure
I long to find the messenger
Collective Soul / Run
"As the distance to your dreams stretch beyond reach, don't lay down and die" from Alter Bridge
Ohgr 'Cracker' - "Another moment documents / the fleeting magic of what could have been"
Love this
Thank you. It hits very close to home; I've bad ocd, and have waisted many years self medicating until I got help; every good moment is mirrored by the thought of how much better I could have made it.
I’m sorry about your OCD I truly hope things have gotten better.
“Don’t you lock up something that you wanted to see fly; hands are for shaking, not tying.” - Fell On Black Days, Soundgarden
I don't think I can feel any longer I only know that the void is getting stronger The only time that it's real is when you cry
Monster magnet ‘cry’. Strip away all the fluff and it’s a man and his depression talking to each. Wyndorf doesn’t get half the credit he deserves! And gravity well is a banger
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So if you wanna stay up all night We can hit the record shops Or just stay in bed drinking Spanish reds Waiting for the rain to stop It's passing through and you know that you Are looking like an angel now I watch you fall asleep on a dead-end street And the world is right somehow And the world is right somehow
Banner Pilot -Spanish Reds
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"Save your scissors for someone else's skin." City and Colour. Stopped selharm that day.
I learned the truth at 17. That love was meant for beauty queens. And high school girls with clear skin smiles. Who married young and then retired.
Get them to love you
While they may depending on your words and your wealthhhh eh
The only one who's really judging you is yourself....nobody else aaaaaaaaaa nobody else.
"And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above." Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells
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We're All Gonna Die!!! -Baby FuzZ
“Everyone knows what went down because the news was spread all over town, and fact is only what you believe, and fact and fiction work as a team. It’s almost always fiction in the end, the content begins to bend when context is never the same, But it’s all relative, even if we don’t understand And it’s all understood, especially when we don’t understand Then it’s all just because, even if we don’t understand Then let’s all just believe”
It’s All Understood - Jack Johnson
From "Farewell Transmission" by Songs: Ohia
"After tonight if you don't want this to be
A secret out of the past
I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it
I'll streak his blood across my beak
Dust my feathers with his ashes
Feel his ghost breathing down my back"
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The Beatles: “Life goes on within and without you”
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if my thought-dreams could be seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only
Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind; to withstand the world, that's what it takes. All that steel and stone is no match for the air, my friend. What doesn't bend breaks.
-Ani DiFranco
More recently, pretty much the entirety of Roads Untraveled by Linkin Park, but especially the end:
Weep not for roads untraveled
Weep not for sights unseen
May your love never end and if you need a friend,
There's a seat here alongside me.
"The way I see things is so simple The fact I'm walking standing on this land Exhausted is the realm of nature, friends are dying The living creatures on our side The way I see myself so confused so sophisticated I have to stay away from me But I still don't get the point What's worth destroying all the worlds Try not to get it anymore"
Song: Gojira - A sight to behold
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All things from Neil young and joy division
Surrender but don't give yourself away
"Oh take your time, don't live to fast. Troubles will come and they will pass"
Simple man by lynyrd skynyrd
And he takes and he takes and he takes
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
Weirdly, nothing comes to mind atm but yours is too true, I can't top that.
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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.
Pink Floyd "Time"