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“Together we’ll find your monster soul.”
I really wish my cactus never died
Artist: Knapsack Can't remember the song name right now
It's the opening lyric to the song, and I just think it's a great way to illustrate depression, and wanting with every fibre of your being to do something but being unable to. Cactuses are one of the easiest plants to take care of, so wanting to keep it alive but having it die just shows how helpless it can get
Driving every mile inside a paper mache lion
Going home is sort of hopeless
From Food by Radiation City.
It me
I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles Such are promises All lies and jest Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest
The Boxer is good, but The whole of The Sound of Silence is one of my faves.
If I can only choose one:
And when the broken-hearted people
Living in the world agree
There will be an answer
Let it be
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer
Let it be
The Beatles, "Let It Be"
When I have to make choices like this, I really feel like Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio had it right in "Blue Carolina":
You know all my favorite singers
Have stolen all of my best lines
"The teacher stands in front of the class, but the lesson plan he can't recall. The student's eyes, don't perceive the lies, bouncing off every fucking wall. His composure is well kept. I guess he fears playing the fool. The complacent students sit, and listen to the bullshit that he'd learned in school.
Europe ain't my rope to swing on. Can't learn a thing from it, yet we hang from it. Gotta get it, gotta get it together then, like the motherfuckin' Weathermen."
Adding one more that speaks to me alot at the moment, even if it's not an all time favorite:
"All at once,
the world can overwhelm me,
there's almost nothing that you can tell me,
that would ease my mind.
Which way will you run?
When it's allways all around you.
The feeling's lost and found you again,
the feeling that we have no control."
Most people don't change, they only get old.
I must fight this sickness
Find a cure
I must fight this sickness
The Cure - Pornography
I don't know why I like these lyrics, but they hit hard
Around the world
Around the world Around the world Around the world
Around the world Around the world Around the world Around the world
Around the world Around the world Around the world Around the world
Around the world Around the world Around the world Around the world
- Daft Punk, Around the World
Motherfucker, I’m resourceful, resilient. I power through the waves of disappointment. Maybe not quite thriving but I’m buoyant. I am at peace these days (give or take a fit of blinding rage).
Propagandhi
Lies are a funny thing
They slip through your fingertips because they never happened to you.
I Sat By the Ocean by Queens of the Stone Age.
Well, I lived with one Well, I lived with one, I lived with two, I even lived with a third I wanna tell you about number one He was a miserable shitwringing turd Like he reminded me of some evil gnome Shaking hands was like shaking a hot, fat, oily bone Holding on for far too long Yes he took me in, he took me in He said that I looked pale and thin I told him he looked fat His lips were red and licking wet His house was roasting hot In fact it was a fucking slum Scum! Scum! Well then he hooked up with some slut from the same game Black snow! Black snow! Cocksuckstress, and I should know Mean and vicious, her microphone always smelled suspicious His and herpes bath towel type If you know what I mean I could not look at him, worm He'd be taking a shower and who should walk in He was the epitome of their type Her middle name was Welcome, his was Wipe Scum! Scum! Well you're on the shit list Thrust and twist, twist and screw You gave me a bad review And maybe you think that it's all just water under the bridge Well my un-friend, I'm the type that holds a grudge I'm your creator I think you fucking traitor, chronic masturbator, Shitlicker, user, self-abuser, jigger jigger! What rock did you crawl from? Which, did you come? You Judas, Brutus, Vitus, Scum! Hey four-eyes, come That's right, it's a gun Face is bubble, blood, and, street Snowman with six holes clean into his fat fuckin guts Psychotic drama mounts Guts well deep then a spring is fount I unload into his eyes Blood springs Dead snow Blue skies
„Lucy in the sky with Diamond Dave’s not here“
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theatre songs always have amazing lyrics.
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
Sun is the same, in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
I'm surprised this isn't getting more love. For me it's a toss up between Time and Money lyrics-wise.
Maybe I will never be, all the things that I want to be, now is not the time to cry, now's the time to find out why....
"Time to get paid, blow up like the world trade" hits so much harder post 2001.
"Would it pain you more to walk on water
Than to wear a crown of thorns?
It wouldn't pain me more to bury you rich
Than to bury you poor."
Maybe win the lottery Buy myself a lobotomy Scoop out my brains, and maybe then blend right in with management.
Idk I just work here - DURRY
"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?" Bruce Springsteen This line pops up in my head from time to time.
“And honestly I have been
Begging for answers
That you and only you can give to me
My voice crying loud
I’ve been crying for days now
And as I start to run I stop to breathe
And I was nearly scared to death
Of why you left in paragraphs
The words were nearly over us
You stop and turn and grab your bags
I’ll be here by the ocean just waiting for proof that there’s sunsets and silhouette dreams
All my sandcastles fall like the ashes of cigarettes and every wave drags me to sea
I could stand here for hours just to ask god the question “is everyone here make believe?”
With a tear in his voice he said “son, that’s the question”
Does this deafening silence mean nothing to no one but me?
"If the world we're living have a single soul that you love, if it holds a shred of meaning, then it's worth every single fight" Natewantstobattle's Sorario Days
If this theme does give you hope, I don't know what will
FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!"
- Rush, Freewill
Not even joking, I find myself quoting this all the time.
The kids are playing-up downstairs
"The hand that feeds deserves to be bitten when it beats." - Hand that Feeds by the Crane Wives
When being broke as fuck is getting me down, I jam to that song and I don't feel so bad after.
All of What a Fool Believes
He came from somewhere back in her long ago,
The sentimental fool don't see-
Tryin' hard to recreate,
What had yet to be created. Once in her life
She musters a smile,
For his nostalgic tale.
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize:
It never really was.
She~ had a place in his life,
He~ never made her think twice...
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes~, he sees~
No-wise-man-has-the-power(!) to reason away, [if love can come, and love can go-]
What seems~ to be~ [-why can't love return, oh no]
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all~... keeps sending him...
Somewhere back in her long ago.
Where he can still believe there's a place in her life,
Someday, somewhere... she will return.
She~ had a place in his life,
He~ never made her think twice...
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go....
But what a fool believes~, he sees~
No-wise-man-has-the-power(!) to reason away, [I believe she's never gone away]
What seems~ to be~ [no, nah nah]
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all~... keeps sending him...
Always move forward
Going straight will get you nowhere
💚
The simple narrative taught in every history class Is demonstrably false and pedagogically classist Don't you know the world is built with blood? And genocide and exploitation The global network of capital essentially functions To separate the worker from the means of production And the FBI killed Martin Luther King Private property's inherently theft And neoliberal fascists are destroying the left And every politician, every cop on the street Protects the interests of the pedophilic corporate elite That is how the world works (really?) That is how the world works Genocide the Natives, say you got to it first That's how it works
How the world works - bo Burnham
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!!!
"When they try to pull you under... And they're out to steal your thunder... Gotta make them recognize... You're a phoenix and it's time to RISE!!! TONIGHT!!!"
From "Sunset Neon - Tonight"
Arguably my favorite song ever. It encourages and motivates you to do the thing whatever that may be.
"I think you're blind to the fact That the hand you hold Is the hand that holds you down"
Everclear - Everything to Everyone
Hard to choose between:
I once had a life, or rather
Life had me
I was one among many
Or at least I seemed to be
Can You Get to That - Funkadelic
We are stardust
(Billion year old carbon)
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
Time - Pink Floyd
The Sun is the same, in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR‽
Still baffles me how you can release music like that and then become a trump supporter
Oh no... nononono. I feel all gross now. all my heroes are dead...
Where does the kool-aid come from, and why do they drink it‽
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"I walk a lonely road, the only road that i have ever known"
“ I'll make time now, would you wait? I can meet you at the bottom but it won't be the same “
Cowboy tears by Oliver tree
My dad is a cowboy who lived on a farm his whole life. Went crazy in his 50’s and by 60 needs full time memory care at a dementia home. The whole song makes me sob, to me it’s about a cowboy with dementia that I had a shitty last few years with. Love you, dad.
🎶 The
I'm all alone in this crowd
Who are you to me? Whom I supposed to be? Not exactly sure, anymore
Where's this going to? Can I follow through? Or just follow you, for a while?
-Vampyre of time and memory QOTSA
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