How you doing? How you been?
Life got heavy didn't it, don't be shy, speak your mind
I'm not perfect, nor are you
But we both got things we been through
So I'll do all I can, to try to understand
'Cause I wanna love strangers like neighbors, I wanna be unafraid
So when the tears roll like waterfalls you can call my name

Hybrid Minds & Netsky - Let me hold you

The "real estate novelist" tells you he is not where he wants to be.

"You look so good I'd suck on your daddy's dick"
~ Notorious B.I.G.

That show is so bad, but that character is one of my all time favourites. Spader is a genius

Let's put one classic here. One that is sadly more and more relevant these days...

Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds...Oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait `till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning,
as you hear the bodies burning.
No more war pigs of the power,
hand of god has struck the hour.
Day of judgement, god is calling,
on their knees the war pigs crawling.
Begging mercy for their sins,
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings...Oh lord, yeah!

• War Pigs, Black Sabbath

"I guess it goes to show, does it not?
That we've no idea what we've got
Until we lose it.
And no amount of love will keep it around
If we don't choose it."

Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

A few of my favorites from Modest Mouse:

Working on living, I'm working on leaving
I'm working on leaving the living
Love you more than everything, loved it more than anything
Loved everything more than anything
Working on drinking, I'm working on driving, I'm working on driving my dreams
Working on living, I'm working on leaving
I'm working on leaving the living

• Workin’ on Leavin’ the Livin'

The third planet is sure that they're being watched
By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped
When you get to the promised land
You're gonna shake the eye's hand

• 3rd Planet

And it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water, in the oceans, in our bodies
And another had been found, another ocean on the planet
Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic, and how
Well the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
And the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth

• 3rd Planet

Two songs come to mind for me off the same album (therapy, by radical face):
Dead ends:

There ain't no fixing this, but I like that you tried 
Sometimes the hardest part is being right 
There ain't no helping me, but I like that you lied 
Sometimes it's worth the burn marks to feel the light

There’s two versions of this album, a regular one and an “alternate reality” one with the same lyrics but a bit more uplifting of a take on them. The regular version of this verse is fucking crushing, I love it so much

Hard of hearing:

Another evening spent 
In the corners of my brain 
Where I wander off into the dark 
And I close my eyes and hope 
The wolves won't follow me 
But hope's hard of hearing 
So I'm waiting for the teeth

I had to learn that the helping hand 
Can be the same that holds the knife 
I know I'm not well but I'm alright 
You gotta learn how to take your hits 
When your hands are always tied 
I know I'm not well but I'm alright

This one I think I prefer the alternate reality version, it’s just the perfect melancholy song

Actually, no one in that bar is where they want to be with the possible exception of the piano player. The old man trying to remember the good old days, the bartender who wants to be an actor, the lonely business men drowning their sorrows. It seems to me that they would all rather be somewhere or someone else.

Dying is easy it's living that scares me to death

Cold - Annie Lennox

I am not usually fond of slow ballads, but Annie Lennox has the depth to pull me in.

The Goats, I forget which track from the album Tricks of the Shade:

Not forgotten like the Arawaks
We mowed down a race so an engine could ride a pair of tracks
Who cares about the facts we got food on the table
Saying thanks because the giving was the reason for the fable

And from another track, same album:

Columbus destroyed more Indians than Hitler killed Jews
But on his birthday you get sales on shoes
And this is all old news but I'm afraid you can't find it
You snooze you lose so I choose to rewind it
Offer gun for gold but behold a real plan
Using shady treaties trading trickies for land
They should've scalped his ass before he even touched sand

"I would give my life to get some rest

But I'll do anything that Simon says"

Just all of "Common People" really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0

"Rising up from the land of the gator

He's a modern day gladiator

Six foot six angry and mean, a living breathing war machine

Made his name in the rising sun with blood soaked battles that he won

Time and time his hand was raised

As all his victims felt his rage"

"They pass you on the road with a

Smile and you have to look twice

And you wonder to yourself

"Could a woman really look that nice?"

Girls in cars girls in cars

I love girls in cars girls in cars

Girls in cars"

The rivers are full of crocodile nasties And he who made kittens put snakes in the grass - Bungle in the Jungle - Jethro Tull

Some rich men came and raped the land. Nobody caught 'em. Put up a bunch of ugly boxes, and, Jesus, people bought 'em - The Last Resort - Eagles

Hey fuck you, I just got this song out of my head.

It is good though, especially the way it kinda drags and drones, and the lyrics fit somewhat awkwardly in the music. Invokes this feeling of droll persistence that complements the lyrics.

ARE WE HUMAN OR ARE WE DANCER? - THE KILLERS

THEY CALL ME TWO CHAINS CUZ I GOT 2 CHAINS - 2 CHAINZ

BABY SHARK DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO - I DUNNO

Potatoes

Everything is written, we're just reading the lines we're given, like we were actors
Hoping that we make it to the curtain call
We're fighting over bit parts, stepping on each others' toes
But the audience is eyein' the clock, 'cause they know how the story goes
And they're holding on to hope until it's gone

Enormous by Streetlight Manifesto

She could have turned out to be almost anything, with the possible exception of what I wanted her to be. Jackson Browne

Two-eyed lie, is it fight or fly?
I wanna be the shoelace that you tie
'Til the end, will you be my friend?
I wanna be the mountain, kiss the sky
Yeah, I wanna be the vapor gets you high
Yeah, I wanna feel so happy that I cry
Yeah, I wanna be the shoelace that you tie
Yeah, I wanna live forever 'til I die
Yeah, I wanna live forever 'til I die

Big Thief - Blue Lightning

It's a verb! It's a verb!
Freedom is a verb
Something never finished, never done
It's something you must make
It's something you must take
It's something you must constantly become

Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird - Freedom is a Verb

I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome
And a wristwatch that's a pocket knife and a megaphone
And a wristwatch that tells me I'm on my own

MJ Lenderman - Wristwatch

My time is a piece of wax
Falling on a termite
Who's choking on the splinters

~Beck, "Loser"

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

~Kris Kristofferson, Me and Bobby McGee

The people who love me still ask me,
"When are you coming back to town?"
I answer, "Quite frankly, when they stop building roads,
And all God needs is gravity to hold me down."

~Alison Kraus, "Gravity"

Four hundred years later, I learned about my roots,
And how they traded in their white sheets for badges and blue suits

~Onyx, "Getto Mentalitee"

Is your mother worried?
Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?

~Chaise Longue by Wet Leg

You want me to love you in moderation
Do I look moderate to you?

~Florence + The Machine, "Moderation"

And the salt in my wounds
Isn't burning anymore than it used to.
It's not that I don't feel the pain
It's just I'm not afraid of hurting anymore.

~Paramore, "Last Hope"

the shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan.

~Incubus, from "Consequence"

I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve. I have a history of losing my shirt.

~"One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies

And if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice

~ Rush- Freewill

That line helped kick my ass into gear and actually start living the life I wanted instead of sitting paralyzed by my fears

Love is watching someone die

~ Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said

That song just kinda broke me after watching my mom slowly die of cancer

"Jaws at my heels

Mean nothing to me

Knives at your throats

All that I see

Don't doubt me

I am vengeance

I'm built for war"

Vengeance by Converge

Great for those days when I need a little pep in my step.

Molly Nilsson: I Hope You Die

I hope you die
by my side
the two of us at the exact same time
I hope we die
long from now
the two of us at the exact same time

That’s dark!

Love it. Great songs!

Worn all great lines. Meaningful as fuck too!

Gonna check these out later. Love the lines though.

Oh I like this one! Checking that out.

Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake
Rattles me

That’s some good shit! Poignant!

Classic. Did a cover of that back in the day. Was more of a cover of Faith No More’s cover though.

Yeahs he commands a room for sure.

I like that! Will listen in a bit!

Great album!!

Kill him. Fucking kill him. Kill him already kill him. Kill him already. Kill him already. Kill him. JUST FUCKING KILL HIM. FUCKING KILL HIM.

Shellac - Prayer to god

I sing this almost daily when I read the news.

LMAO! Good lord!!

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

so practically this whole song (sorta half and really half of a half. its complicated) from jethro tull just becomes more and more relevant every year as the dystopia increases:

There's the stillness of death on a deathly unliving sea
And the motor car magical world long since ceased to be
When the Eve-bitten apple returned to destroy the tree

Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride
Spawning new millions throws the world on its side
Supporting their far-flung illusion, the national curse
And those with no sandwiches please get off the bus

The excrement bubbles
The century's slime decays
And the brainwashing government lackeys
Would have us say
It's under control and we'll soon be on our way
To a grand year for babies and quiz panel games
Of the hot hungry millions you'll be sure to remain

The natural resources are dwindling and no one grows old
And those with no homes to go to, please dig yourself holes

The Faith No More cover is the better version imo

Heh. When you first see the title you expect it to be some angry metal song, actually wishing for someone to die, but then you listen to it and it turns out quite poetic and romantic, in an "us spending time apart is unthinkable, even in death" kind of way

Every single song Streetlight puts out is a banger, even though they take years to make them. Highly recommend!

Often I am upset

That I cannot fall in love but I guess

This avoids the stress of falling out of it

Cavetown - Home

One Week has been permanently tied to its usage in Smooth by Neil Cicierega for me

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

This one really does make you think, doesn't it? "Me and Bobby McGee" is a song I listen to for the tune for the most part, but listening to the lyrics is a bit of a different experience.

Red Dirt Girl, all of it really but this always gets me:

She loved her brother I remember back when

He was fixin' up a '49 Indian

He told her, "Little sister, gonna ride the wind

Up around the moon and back again"

He never got farther than Vietnam

I was standin' there with her

When the telegram come for Lillian

Fontaines DC song A Hero's Death is probably the most uplifting punk song in existence, I love it.

Chorus:

Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.
Life ain't always empty.

Don't get stuck in the past.
Say your favourite things at mass.
Tell your mother that you love her.
And go out of your way for others.
Sit beneath a light that suits ya.
And look forward to a brighter future.

(Chorus)

Sink as far down as you can be pulled up.
Happiness really ain't all about luck.
Let your demeanour be your deep down self.
And don't sacrifice your life for your health.
When you speak, speak sincere.
And believe me friend, everyone will hear.

(Chorus)

Bring your own two cents.
Never borrow them from someone else.
Buy yourself a flower every hundredth hour.
Throw your hair down from your lonely tower.
And if, and if.
You find yourself in the family way.
Give the kid more than what you got in your day.

(Chorus)

Never let a clock tell you what you got time for.
It only goes around, goes around, goes around.
Take your family name for your own great sins.
'Cause each day is where it all begins.
And don't give up too quick.
You only get one line, you better make it stick.
If we give ourselves to every breath.
Then we're all in the running for a hero's death.

THEY CALL ME TWO CHAINS CUZ I GOT 2 CHAINS - 2 CHAINZ

Pack it up, lyrics have been solved

Modest Mouse has some great lyrics but my favorite is the opening notes of Dramamine that go beeeoowww buuuooowww beeeeowww

Have you heard Freakwater's version?

I believe in this and it's been tested by research,
He who fucks nuns will later join the church.

Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.

Who knows what this is from? "I know she a ho so I mo go, expose the funky bitch cause she thinks she's sooooo fisticated".