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Enekk lemmy.world Enekk@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#102 · Quote Reply

You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself, just you
You and no one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

~ Radiohead, Just

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foodandart lemmy.zip foodandart@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-10-07
#103 · Quote Reply

Not another motherfucking politician, doing nothing but something for his own ambition.. The Power of Equality - The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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ApollosArrow lemmy.world ApollosArrow@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-19
#104 · (edited) Quote Reply

Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking

Queen - Under Pressure

A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall

Bo Burnham - That Funny Feeling

(Honestly every line in that song is golden)

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stickly lemmy.world stickly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-09
#105 · Quote Reply

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 ...

Certain white guys will grow up listening to this and somehow end up cheering for fascists and complaining about their favorite bands "going woke"

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Pratai piefed.ca Pratai@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-12
#106 · Quote Reply

Not another motherfucking politician, doing nothing but something for his own ambition.. The Power of Equality - The Red Hot Chili Peppers

That entire album is badass.

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wet_bones lemmy.4d2.org wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.org
Joined: 2025-02-15
#107 · Quote Reply

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Feathers on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath
- Massive Attack - Teardrop

Wanna be loved
Not for who you think I am
Nor what you want me to be
Could you love me for me?
Real love, with no strings attached
I wanna give you me heart
Don't want to take it back
And this is my chat (cho!)
- Buju Banton - Wanna Be Loved

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eupraxia lemmy.blahaj.zone eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-02
#108 · Quote Reply

Gonna check these out later. Love the lines though.

<3

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Million lemmy.zip Million@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-06-30
#109 · Quote Reply

Dave the dope fiend shootin' dope
Who don't know the meaning of water nor soap

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Hanrahan slrpnk.net hanrahan@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-03-14
#110 · (edited) Quote Reply

"the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" - Bad Word (Tears for Fears)


"Well, Americans don't care for much of anything
Land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
With human life not worth more than infected yeast,"

"Americans don't care too much for beauty
They'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach
Complain if they can't swim" - Last Great American Whale (Lou Reed)

the entire songs is magnificent

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Superdooper lemmy.world Superdooper@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-28
#111 · Quote Reply

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

Would this be a Clash reference?

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edgarde lemmy.world edgarde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#112 · (edited) Quote Reply

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 ...

When I saw All Them Witches the house sound put on "War Pigs" before the band (who dislike being compared to Sabbath) came on, and the entire audience sang it en masse like it was the national anthem. Which it kinda is now — maybe Hegseth will use it non-ironically and without listening to the words all the way through.

Also, T-Pain's version, ^YouTube^

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darkreader2636 lemmy.zip darkreader2636@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-01
#113 · (edited) Quote Reply

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

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YappyMonotheist lemmy.world ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-26
#114 · (edited) Quote Reply

"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.

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thespcicifcocean lemmy.world thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-13
#115 · Quote Reply

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

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cabillaud lemmy.world cabillaud@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#116 · Quote Reply

That entire album is badass.

Shit boomer's music

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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-09
#117 · Quote Reply

"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.

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cnovel jlai.lu cnovel@jlai.lu
Joined: 2025-02-06
#118 · Quote Reply

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)

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historicaldocuments lemmy.world historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-04-04
#119 · Quote Reply

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

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Pratai piefed.ca Pratai@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-12
#120 · Quote Reply

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 ...

FatM always has some stellar lines.

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Pratai piefed.ca Pratai@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-12
#121 · (edited) Quote Reply

Shit boomer's music

Yeah bud. Your generation will never know talent like that. So, go sulk somewhere quietly or tell it you your prompt.

EDIT: Hey kiddo, when you delete your message, no message is sent to the inbox. This isn’t Reddit. So your cowardly bullshit won’t work here.

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Amnesigenic lemmy.ml Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-03-07
#122 · (edited) Quote Reply

*Wish I could stand in the spray at the cliff of your sweet revenge

And ocean of naked serrated marble crushing in*

Last Lion of Albion by Neko Case

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yyyesss? lemmy.world yyyesss@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#123 · (edited) Quote Reply

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

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fruitycoder sh.itjust.works fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-11
#124 · Quote Reply

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

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tigermountain lemmy.world tigermountain@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-15
#125 · Quote Reply

"We'll buy some drugs and watch a band / then jump in the river holding hands"

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MrOtingocni lemmy.world MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-06
#126 · (edited) Quote Reply

"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.

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