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

You know, suicide isn't painless,
When you leave everyone in pain.
NOFX - Doornails

Ooh! 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?

Our hopes and expectations:

Black holes and revelations.

• Muse, Starlight

One of my absolute favorite lines in a song that doesn't require the entire song to understand the context and subtext.

Love it. Great song!

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.

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.

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.

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 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

I knew it the second I read the first three words!

“I am a leaf on the wind!”

I'll give it a listen; thank you for the rec!

I listed to the song you linked! Like it a lot. They remind me a bit of a mix between The Shins and Jellyfish. Really good combo!

(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

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.

I'm standing on a stage
Of fear and self-doubt
It's a hollow play
But they'll clap anyway

My body is a cage
We take what we are given
Just because you've forgotten
Doesn't mean you're forgiven

• Peter Gabriel: My Body Is A Cage

"Watch how I soar"

Take a look to the sky just before you die.

It's the last time you will.

My first thought was Trump.

What if I was to cut my wrists
And paint pictures on the wall
Of a burning sunset
Over a deep red sea
Would you see
Would you see

The God Machine - Pictures of a Bleeding Boy

"With the heart of a child and the wit of a fool
It's a wonder why i don't try to build a wall around you"

Full Circle by Half Moon Run

Can be applied to so many people, though I initially heard it as "...why China don't build a wall around you", which I think also works well!

In my life
I hope I lie
And tell everyone you were a good wife
And I hope you die
I hope we both die

No Children by The Mountain Goats.
The entire song is lyrically amazing. It's about a divorcing couple who were frankly broken to begin with. And while just reading the lyrics make it seem like a big downer of a song, it's in a major key, and there is catharsis to be found in its hatred.

Oh. I like this. It’s like it works well just as a stand alone statement.

Sort of reminds me of Rootless Tree by Damian Rice

It breaks my heart because the chorus goes:

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it if It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out,
let me out, let me out of this hell when you're around

But the last chorus, goes:

Fuck you, fuck you, I LOVE you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out,
let me out, let me out of this hell when you're around

That one word change- changes the entire meaning of the song. It’s awful to separate and break up, but to acknowledge the love that remains is… man. It breaks me.

Yikes. That one hit home a bit. Gonna listen to that.

Blackened roar, massive roar, fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry

Oh I fucking LOVE that song. I’ve known of him since the late 70’s, however, Admittedly… this song, I never heard until it was in the TV show House.

Amazing song!

Okay. That’s a bit dark. Must take a lot for someone to want this. Some pain runs deep. Poetic as fuck though!

"Why would you let someone else tell you what your soul is worth?" Tallah - A primeval detachment

Kismat, Bloodywood

The paths that destiny leads to

There is sunlight in some places and shade in other (Shade in other)

Weight of these responsibilities

Time, a blind blacksmith

Has crafted this shield, has crafted this shield of mine

I first heard it in the Netflix show DARK. That show introduced me to so many amazing songs.

I like this. It’s evocative! And I love lyrics with visual cues.

Nowadays, it doesn’t matter what led you to something great, just that you got to witness it.

Now Paul is a real estate novelist,
who never had time for a wife

(...)

Poor, poor Paul.

Or, lucky, lucky Paul?

It’s all in the perspective. I mean, had he a wife, he may never have found himself talkin’ with Davey who was still in the navy.

Sleep Token - Look to Windward

Oh and I, I used to know myself.

Oh and you, you used to know me well.

Oh and I, I wish I could leave myself alone.

Oh and you, you wish you could make me whole.

Sleep Token - Gethsemane

What might be good for your heart, might not be good for my head.

What was there at the start, might not be there in the end.

Do you want to hurt me? Do you want to hurt me? Because nobody hurts me better.

Sleep Token - Infinite Baths

Drift with me, drift with me.

All this glory you did not earn, all these lessons you did not learn. You will drown in an endless sea.

If it's blood that you want from me, you can empty my arteries. Will you halt this eclipse in me? Will you halt this eclipse in me? In me?

Teeth of god, blood of man, I will be, what I am.

Tom Waits and Massive Attack - Boots on the Ground [paraphrased]

Boots on the ground

Cut you off at the ankles

Throw the rest away

Motion City Soundtrack's Time Turned Fragile - One day I'll fail to breath and all you'll have left is memories. https://genius.com/Motion-city-soundtrack-time-turned-fragile-lyrics

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again

Regina Spektor - On the Radio

Sorry for just pasting these, the band always post lyrics in wall of text format because that’s kind of how the vocals come off…

Thou - Death to the King and All His Loyal Subjects

Ascending through the hive of the ancients, crafting candles of ethereal dissent, we are the heirs and masters to the grey throne of melancholia. We are so very worthless, and everything we do is meaningless. Towering, gilded, white pedestals erected in supplication to these raise'ed demigods, detached and preening with conceit. We are so very worthless, and everything we do is meaningless. Everything we've ever done--everything we'll ever do--is meaningless. Attend our needs. Servants, lie in debasement, sustained on the crumbs of pseudo intellect, dime store wisdom disguised as politico philosophy. The illusion of ideology. The imposition of precious ego. No room for opposition. One view rules all. One view ruins all. What was once a strength is now an affectation, a glamour cast over unsuspecting acolytes. But straddling mystery and candor leaves the bloody lips exposed. Reticence abandoned. Mythos dismantled. Blustering malcontents, so pedestrian, so very mundane. Childish bores talking and talking and talking in circles. Oh, you treacherous swine. Self entitled scum hiding in the fog of poverty, the veil of the oppressed. Self righteous ire. Self absorbed privilege. Self aggrandizing dribble. Tribulations contrived amidst vacillating abstraction reeking of guilt and greed. Fecund ambivalence from ostentatious parasites. Deluded vanity inextricably entwined. Instability, insecurity. Flagellants revealed. We are so very worthless, and everything we do is meaningless. Go now to the scourge pits to atone.

Kind of niche music (blackened sludge/doom metal) but Thou are pretty much my favorite band. These lyrics are in my head a lot. The disgust of the vocalist is a form of expression I would make if I had the ability. Cathartic, imo.

https://thou.bandcamp.com/track/death-to-the-king-and-all-his-loyal-subjects

For the Dutch: Bokkers - Jezus
Ze lup noe met Jezus en dat vin ik gemeen
Want zo’n keerl zo as Jezus, doarvan is er maar één
Ze lup noe met Jezus, want zien liefde is groot
Moar as ik Jezus ooit teeg'n kom, oe dan hou ik um dood

The song is about a guy who's girlfriend/wife has found Jesus, but the guy seems to think Jesus is just another guy. Translation:
She now walks with Jesus, and I think that's mean
Because a guy like Jesus, there's only one of him
She now walks with Jesus, because his love is great
But if I ever come across Jesus, oh then I'l beat him to death

Yeah, that one word change is absolutely the crux of it.

It actually re-reminds me of a live performance of the song I mentioned that I really wish I could find now. Before the song the singer is doing some banter with the audience (which he is super good at), to tell them to sing along and says something along the lines of, "Someday you're gonna need this song, and I want you to remember when the time comes...and you'll know when it comes...that I gave you something. And you can say, 'so much I love you. So much I want you to die now.'" And then they kick in to the song.

On the super super off chance that anyone who sees this knows which mountain goats show that was, let me know.

Love a bit of pet shop boys

Is that a rebuttal to "suicide is painless" by, among others, Manic Street Preachers ?

La nuit est écarlate, trempez-y vos drapeaux (The night is scarlet red, dip your flags in it)

Aux enfants de Montmartre, la victoire ou le tombeau (For Montmartre's children, it's the victory or the tomb)

Lyrics from La Danse des Bombes by Louise Michel (a recent version with music here). The first verse gets me everytime i hear it.

We'll you can spend all your life making lots of money but, only Jesus gonna save you honey

Biram (5:5)

I repeat myself when under stress

I repeat myself when under stress

I repeat myself when under stress

I repeat myself when under stress

-Indiscipline by King Crimson

Also:

The music of rebellion makes you wanna rage

But it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age

-The Sound of Muzak by Porcupine Tree

"To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave" Primus

https://youtu.be/AccbAu2KmFg

I often find it's hard to really capture lyrics just writing them out.

"The weather never really matterered it was just something there was to talk about

We fall into patterns and habits and there's not much we can do about that

Rearrange the room again
I want to live somewhere as small as i feel when i fall asleep or wake up"

Little known band joyride! is a consistent favorite of mine.

https://joyride-sf.bandcamp.com/album/joyride

You mean the theme song from M*A*S*H?