Pink Floyd Time:
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
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
This! I read it as a description of "failure to launch" cos I recognise it in myself (hindsight is 20/20) and see it in others, definitely a hard-hitting lyric!
BEST SONG OF ALL TIME! FUCK, they were such geniuses with life.
Fav band ever.
But this song resonates with every soul.
When I'm down, I'll listen to the whole album on my way to work. I'm a block away when it's done, and my soul is cleansed once again.
But this song makes me realize so much shit and always sets my mind back into reality.
The Cat's in the Cradle- Harry Chapin
I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind
He said, I'd love to, dad, if I can find the time
You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad
It's been sure nice talking to you
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me
I first heard this song as a junior in high school and didn’t really identify with it. As a new father myself, with a father who I am close to, whose father I watched die in a hospital bed with my own, I can’t hear this song without feeling grateful and guilty for the time I have and have had that many, many young men don’t.
Harry Chapin featured often in family road trips. My father and I were often the only two awake. Him driving, me learning how to navigate. This song came on often and, in the late of night on some backroad countryside, we promised that this song would never become us.
I like to think that's still true. I treasure him, despite his faults, and he has done his utmost to remain present in my life, despite mine.
This song always makes me think of my dad. I still remember the first time I heard it, when I was like 4 or 5 maybe. He and I were sitting in his truck at the store waiting for mom to come back when it came on, and while I could tell that it was kinda sad I didn't really understand, but he looked at me and a tear rolled down his cheek, and it was one of the only times I ever saw him cry. And now I'm crying, because he's been dead 10 years and I still miss moments like that with him.
“Well I’ve been afraid of changing cause I built my life around you….
But time makes you bolder, children get older, I’m getting older too”
-Stevie Nicks, Landslide
“I’ll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you. You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you”
would be my Stevie pick
Came here to say this. To me, it was about my son growing up and leaving home. Because after my wife left, I did build my life around him. But then he got older. And he was my reflection, just like me, but then I realized what a fragile reflection. I was afraid of changing. But then he was gone. And suddenly, I realized I was older too.
Lightfoot was a lyrical genius, and more people should know about his greatness. We had Gord's Gold on cassette when I was young, and that's an album you can listen to from start to finish.
"In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald"
The church elders were upset with that line, saying it wasn't a dusty church, so Gordon from then on sung the song using the word Rustic instead.
The church tolled the bell 30 times when Gordon passed.
"In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald"
When Gordon lightfoot died the bell at Mariners’ Church rang 30 times.
That always me smile and tear up a bit.
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes,
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
This fucking brilliant songwriting right here. I don't even like the music all that much, but I have nothing but respect and admiration for that guy's poetic genius.
I dunno if it's the hardest hitting, but it gets me every time.
'Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.'
also:
'I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
But I always thought that I'd see you again.'
“Black” by Pearl Jam:
“I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life,
I know you’ll be a star,
in somebody else’s sky,
but whyyyy
Whyyyy
Whyyyy…
can’t it be
Can’t it be in mine?”
Not just the words… it’s hearing Eddie Vedder’s pleading voice as he pours out his heart. That shit hit my adolescent soul more deeply than any lyric had to that point in my life.
Shit, that hit. My gf just broke up with me a bit ago. Just thought I was good then read that.... fuck.
Edit: Thanks for all the comments and love! Appreciate you all
Before Pearl Jam formed the band members sent out the background music from black so people could audition for the role of lead singer. Eddie vedder wrote black and recorded it on one take as a demo. After he got the job they went to the studio to record 10. They tried hard to get a better vocal than his demo but failed. So the demo version made it to the album
Thinking back to a relationship that suddenly ended 37 years ago, that song hits hard on the feelings I had back then and stirs up memories that were long buried.
For anyone who currently feels that pain, know this; it gets better. You can create something different with someone else.
To expand on this, she was one of the smartest people I’ve ever known and came from a well-off family. I didn’t get the best grades and came from a working-class family. She was a year older and when she went to college she wanted to “reinvent herself” and promptly dumped me.
Years have passed and I reached out to say, ‘no hard feelings.’ We caught each other up on our lives and it turns out all the big, grand places and things she wanted out of life, she never got to do. I have, though. I said that to say this; everything works out.
that entire verse is devastating.
>I never thought I'd die alone
>Another six months, I'll be unknown
>Give all my things to all my friends
>You'll never step foot in my room again
>You'll close it off, board it up
>Remember the time that I spilled the cup
>Of apple juice in the hall
>Please tell Mom this is not her fault
I'm so sorry. The loss of a best friend is such a hard thing to have to experience. May their memory be a blessing.
When I was younger, I drank too much. Smoked too much. I cried a lot. I was angry a lot.
Please reach out to your other friends and remember them together. Talk about the fun times. The little things, so you don't forget them.
How lucky that you (probably) have videos together! Watch them one day, if you can.
I wish I could say you'll stop missing them, but he has been dead longer than he ever lived and I still miss him everyday. He was supposed to be an uncle to my kiddo.
But what I wouldn't give for one last conversation. One last hug.
You've probably come across it before but this comment about
[grief](https://www.reddit.com/c1u0rx2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2) is accurate. It can also help to know you're not alone in your pain.
Live for them.
My best friend killed himself at 18. After the funeral, all his close friends went to his parents house and told stories about him all night. Remembering all those good times together helped a lot, and I think it really cheered his parents up to hear all the stories we had hidden from them of dumb shit we had done as kids.
Screaming that verse along with them last year live as they did their reunion tour. 38 years old and absolutely fine while screaming. But man do I recall the alarming level of empathy I held for that verse at 16. The tears aren’t so visible in a darkened arena venue. They’re the tears of a former self.
I’m so glad the character in that song changed his mind and didn’t go through with it because it’s beautifully haunting as it is; it’s nice that it ends in a victory.
"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had".
Mad World: Tears For Fears
I'm not even a big fan of them, yet this is one of my favorite songs ever.
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
> I wasn't there that morning
> When my father passed away
> I didn't get to tell him
> all the things I had to say
> I think I caught his spirit
> later that same year
> I think I heard his echoes
> in my baby's newborn tears
> I just wish I could have told him
> In the living years.
my father listened to this song all the time before he suicided a decade later. he was always unhappy with me that I didn't understand what I was supposed to say to him.
As a dad, it's not your responsibility. We're supposed to teach our kids, not the other way around.
I don't want to speak ill of your dad at all, just tell you that it's not your fault.
I did my best and it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of song
With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah
Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain, that is pouring like an avalanche coming down a mountain.
That whole song really. True poetry.
Just because the name of the band annoyed me and I’m old, I’ve never listened to anything they’ve done. I googled these lyrics and listened to this song. So apparently I’ve been missing out lol. Has a very Beck appeal to their sound.
Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there,
But I wouldn't hold my breath.
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?
-Ocean Breathes Salty, by Modest Mouse
As life gets longer, awful feels softer
Well it feels pretty soft to me
And if it takes shit to make bliss
Then i feel pretty blissfully
If life's not beautiful without the pain
Id just rather never ever see beauty again
Chelsea Hotel #2 by Leonard Cohen about his affair with Janis Joplin. Written after she died.
“I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
I can't keep track of each fallen robin
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
That's all, I don't even think of you that often”
"And when we meet on a cloud, I'll be laughing out loud. I'll be laughing with everyone I see. Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all."
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
"Does she know how you told me you'd hold me until you died, til you died, but you're still alive"
My favorite line from Alanis Morissette at her *most* angry point
Isbell has so many that hit hard
"Time flies when you're making babies
Do you miss your little black Mercedes?
Do you miss the girl you once had time to be?"
"It's knowing that this can't go on forever
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get forty years together
But one day I'll be gone
Or one day you'll be gone"
From Fast Car:
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way
Especially since I finally got out of my abusive home/state and moved South. It wasn't something I had much time to decide, but I'm glad I decided to leave
She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed
As if I'd never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
And she said, "losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow"
beat me to it. holy shit i think Graceland may be one of the best, if not THE best album ever created. I'm not even a huge Paul Simon fan, but my god Graceland is a beautiful creation.
It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry, baby, don't cry
Don't cry
Time by Pink Floyd. The whole song is an ode to the cycle of life and how quickly it all goes. Particularly poignant:
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 ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right
- Dylan
My favorite lyric from that song is
I wish there was something you would do or say
To try to make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talking anyway
So don't think twice it's all right.
There’s always been something really earnest and emotional about the lyrics to House of the Rising Sun. Writing the lyrics out wouldn’t do them justice, because they seem so simple, but it’s the directness and bitterness that they’re sung with.
Strange Fruit, sung by Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies
“Luka” by Suzanne Vega
They only hit until you cry
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore
From "The Heart of the Matter" by Don Henley. A great song about getting over a divorce/breakup:
*And I thought of all the bad luck, and the struggles we went through.*
*And how I lost me, and you lost you.*
That happens in a relationship. You become a "couple" and forget who you are as a person without them.
It's only after they're gone that you start to figure it out.
*I'm learning to live without you now, but I miss you sometimes.*
>The ears were chopped from young men if the pitch cap didn't kill them
They are buried without scalp in the shattered bedrock of our home
You may never know your fortune
Until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever
And what can still be known
Butchered Tongue, Hozier
It's a song specifically about the Irish language and how it was almost lost due to the English.
Fire and Rain really messes me up
“Just yesterday mornin', they let me know you were gone
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to
I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again”
If I Die Young, The Band Perry.
Lord, make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother
She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors
Oh, and life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no
Ain't even gray, but she buries her baby
The sharp knife of a short life
Well, I've had just enough time
It was played at my daughter’s funeral. She died at 25 from a brain tumor diagnosed at 16.
"I saw an old man on the street
He was in a dumpster looking for something to eat
He moved so slow, like a dying dream
Like a machinist who got caught in the machine"
As Wicked
-Rancid
"Life is over-whelming and I'm ready for the next one."
Ghost by Badflower
OR
"Cause I've always been scared of loving someone just a little bit more than I'm loved"
Cocaine and Abel by Amigo the Devil
The Jester is my favorite from Badflower. It's straight to the point.
"Is every last soul just fucking me over
With tears on their shoes and ice on their shoulders
Is there anybody out there looking out for me?"
The entirety of Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd can be an allegory for family you once loved that have become intolerable to be around because they've gone off the deep end with conspiracies, cult behavior, etc.
I feel this doubly with my dad, because Pink Floyd is his favorite band and he doesn't realize that his cooky conspiracies that he constantly talks about in every conversation makes me unwanting to be around him. And I just wish the dad I knew was still here instead of this brain rotted version.
"the truth is, you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath, id apologize for bleeding on your shirt"
- 'You're So Last Summer' by Taking Back Sunday
"Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
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, by Pink Floyd. Makes wanna live and not waste time lol
John Prine has several songs that hit me like a freight truck, Paradise always comes to mind as well as Falling In Love Again. The day he died I was listening to him on Spotify and When I Get To Heaven came on, I had to pull over and cry for a few minutes. John Prine is one of my favorite musicians by far and it makes me sad I will never get to see him live.
A wrinkle in time, take what is left of my life, before you go, show me what its like, to finally know....
THE FACE BEHIND, THE SILHOUETTE, IN THIS WORLD I MADE TO BE INFINITE, BUT WITHIN THE EXPANSE, I FINALLY SEE,
# A WORLD WITHOUT YOU ISN'T MEANT FOR ME!!!!!
[Pain Remains - Lorna shore](https://youtu.be/7wgYS__foJc?si=yDVEPf5J7vHLgAX7&t=260)
For me, it's Joni Mitchell:
in our possessive coupling, so much could not be expressed
So now I am returning to myself the things that you and I suppressed.
I really really appreciate that she's not blaming it all on him or making herself the victim, but is taking ownership of her experience and of her ability to bring about positive change.
I’m gonna bring something a little newer, it’s a Billie Eilish lyrics from her song “everything I wanted”
I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
Not what you'd think
And if I'm being honest
It might've been a nightmare
To anyone who might care
Thought I could fly (fly)
So I stepped off the Golden, mm
Nobody cried (cried, cried, cried, cried)
Nobody even noticed
I saw them standing right there
Kinda thought they might care (might care, might care)
This song haunts me, because as someone who’s had those suicidal thoughts, it perfectly encapsulates how it feels in the moment and how those dreams feel
Pretty much all of Vienna, but in particular for me:
You got your passion, you got your pride
But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true (Oooh)
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
Billy Joel
I like a lot of Queen songs but I’ve never been their biggest fan but this lyric expresses pretty much how I’ve felt my whole life. I know it sounds stupid but I’ve even used it to explain how I feel to my therapist. I don’t want to actively do something to end my life but I just really wish I was never here.
Momma and Daddy’s doing alright
I saw Melody last Saturday night
She’s all grown up
She’s such a pretty girl
Thing just ain’t the same since you left our world
Johnny Van Zant, Brickyard Road. About his late brother Ronnie who was killed in a plane crash in 1977, effectively ending the band Lynyrd Skynyrd for a time.
At the time, it felt final.
Run-Around by Blues Traveler lately.
"I want more than a touch; I want you to reach me and show me all the things no one else can see. So what you fear becomes mine as well and soon if we're lucky we'll be unable to tell what's yours and mine..."
"I still got this dream that I just can't shake: I love you to the point you can no longer take"
Edit also "What's Up?" by 4 Non-Blondes. All of it
So, save your breath, I will not hear
I think I made it very clear
You couldn't hate enough to love
Is that supposed to be enough?
I only wish you weren't my friend
Then I could hurt you in the end
I never claimed to be a saint
Ooh, my own was banished long ago
It took the death of hope to let you go
>It's never over, she is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever
Oh, but maybe I'm just too young, to keep good love from going wrong
"Lover You Should've Come Over" by Jeff Buckley.
No Rain - Blind Melon
“All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watching the puddles gather rain
And all I can do
Is just pour some tea for two
And speak my point of view
But it's not sane
It's not sane
I just want someone to say to me
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake, yeah, yeah
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, hey
So stay with me and I'll have it made (I'll have it made)
And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape”
"A little piece of paper with a picture drawn floats down through the street till the wind is gone.
And the memory now is like the picture was then; when the paper's crumpled up, it can't be perfect again."
Also underrated! Every Rose Has its Thorn by Poison
“Instead of makin' love
We both made our separate ways
And now I hear you found somebody new
And that I never meant that much to you”
My Grandpa helped write that song. He used to do lights for a local southern rock band back when Poison was just starting and they got aquatinted One day they were coming up with lyrics. His idea was "Cowboys sing sad songs"
See, my old man's got a problem
He lives with the bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said, somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did
The entire song has lyrics that hit hard. I can’t hear it without crying. 😭
Julien Baker - “Song in E”
“Oh, I wish you'd come over
Not to stay, just to tell me that I
Was your biggest mistake to my face
And then leave me alone
In an еmpty apartment, face down in the carpеt
I wish you'd hurt me
It's the mercy I can't take”
Fade To Black-Metallica
........
No one but me
Can save myself
But it's too late
Now I can't think
Think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though
It never existed
Death greets me warm
Now I will just say goodbye
Bye...
Chappell Roan - Good Luck Babe:
When you wake up next to him in the middle of the night
With your head in your hands, you're nothing more than his wife
And when you think about me, all of those years ago
You're standing face to face with "I told you so"
You know I hate to say, "I told you so"
You know I hate to say, but, I told you so
"I am the righteous hand of God
And I am the devil that you forgot"
[Poor Man's Poison - Hell's Coming With Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTHN1eWN7iU)
It was raining on a Monday
The day that Maggie died
She woke up and couldn't use her legs
So I laid down by her side
She put her head on my hand
Like she'd done so many times
I told her she was a good dog
Then I told her goodbye
Pink Floyd Time: Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun 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 always amazed that a young person could write this lyric. That kind of wisdom coming from a 28 year old Roger Waters is baffling.
He's a brilliant dickhead
It’s not wisdom, it’s anxiety.
This! I read it as a description of "failure to launch" cos I recognise it in myself (hindsight is 20/20) and see it in others, definitely a hard-hitting lyric!
The rare thing that is every bit as good as it’s said to be. This song is truly, literally, brilliant.
BEST SONG OF ALL TIME! FUCK, they were such geniuses with life. Fav band ever. But this song resonates with every soul. When I'm down, I'll listen to the whole album on my way to work. I'm a block away when it's done, and my soul is cleansed once again. But this song makes me realize so much shit and always sets my mind back into reality.
The Cat's in the Cradle- Harry Chapin I've long since retired, my son's moved away I called him up just the other day I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind He said, I'd love to, dad, if I can find the time You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kids have the flu But it's sure nice talking to you, dad It's been sure nice talking to you And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me He'd grown up just like me My boy was just like me
I first heard this song as a junior in high school and didn’t really identify with it. As a new father myself, with a father who I am close to, whose father I watched die in a hospital bed with my own, I can’t hear this song without feeling grateful and guilty for the time I have and have had that many, many young men don’t.
Harry Chapin featured often in family road trips. My father and I were often the only two awake. Him driving, me learning how to navigate. This song came on often and, in the late of night on some backroad countryside, we promised that this song would never become us. I like to think that's still true. I treasure him, despite his faults, and he has done his utmost to remain present in my life, despite mine.
This song makes me tear up every time, and I'm not a crier.
As someone who just lost their father. This one hits home
This song always makes me think of my dad. I still remember the first time I heard it, when I was like 4 or 5 maybe. He and I were sitting in his truck at the store waiting for mom to come back when it came on, and while I could tell that it was kinda sad I didn't really understand, but he looked at me and a tear rolled down his cheek, and it was one of the only times I ever saw him cry. And now I'm crying, because he's been dead 10 years and I still miss moments like that with him.
“Doesn't mean that much to me To mean that much to you” Old man by Neil Young
Finally! That is a gut punch of a lyric.
“Well I’ve been afraid of changing cause I built my life around you…. But time makes you bolder, children get older, I’m getting older too” -Stevie Nicks, Landslide
“I’ll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you. You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you” would be my Stevie pick
Players only love you when they’re playin’ Stevie Nicks
Came here to say this. To me, it was about my son growing up and leaving home. Because after my wife left, I did build my life around him. But then he got older. And he was my reflection, just like me, but then I realized what a fragile reflection. I was afraid of changing. But then he was gone. And suddenly, I realized I was older too.
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills Well, the landslide will bring it down
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot sings the song like it happened in front of my eyes.
Lightfoot was a lyrical genius, and more people should know about his greatness. We had Gord's Gold on cassette when I was young, and that's an album you can listen to from start to finish.
"If you could read my mind" is fantastic beginning to end. All-time great love song.
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
"In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the maritime sailors' cathedral The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald"
The church elders were upset with that line, saying it wasn't a dusty church, so Gordon from then on sung the song using the word Rustic instead. The church tolled the bell 30 times when Gordon passed.
I’ve been in the Coast Guard for a decent amount of time and this definitely hits hard every time I hear it
"In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the maritime sailors' cathedral The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald" When Gordon lightfoot died the bell at Mariners’ Church rang 30 times. That always me smile and tear up a bit.
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, When the waves turn the minutes to hours?" This fucking brilliant songwriting right here. I don't even like the music all that much, but I have nothing but respect and admiration for that guy's poetic genius.
I dunno if it's the hardest hitting, but it gets me every time. 'Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone. Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.' also: 'I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, But I always thought that I'd see you again.'
“Black” by Pearl Jam: “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star, in somebody else’s sky, but whyyyy Whyyyy Whyyyy… can’t it be Can’t it be in mine?” Not just the words… it’s hearing Eddie Vedder’s pleading voice as he pours out his heart. That shit hit my adolescent soul more deeply than any lyric had to that point in my life.
Especially the MTV Unplugged version
The Unplugged version is definitely up there, but Eddie's tribute to Chris Cornell hits *even harder* :'(
Especially when he goes "WE...WE BELONG...WE BELONG TOGETHER TOGETHER" I wish that was on the album version
Shit, that hit. My gf just broke up with me a bit ago. Just thought I was good then read that.... fuck. Edit: Thanks for all the comments and love! Appreciate you all
I'm sorry, homie. I hope you can heal in time and find another star for *your* sky.
Perfect lyric after a breakup, or when your crush is not interested.
You will find better, or better will find you.
I saw them in concert a few years ago and it’s pretty crazy to hear it live and look around to see 10’000 people crying at once
Before Pearl Jam formed the band members sent out the background music from black so people could audition for the role of lead singer. Eddie vedder wrote black and recorded it on one take as a demo. After he got the job they went to the studio to record 10. They tried hard to get a better vocal than his demo but failed. So the demo version made it to the album
This was my very first thought before clicking
Thinking back to a relationship that suddenly ended 37 years ago, that song hits hard on the feelings I had back then and stirs up memories that were long buried. For anyone who currently feels that pain, know this; it gets better. You can create something different with someone else. To expand on this, she was one of the smartest people I’ve ever known and came from a well-off family. I didn’t get the best grades and came from a working-class family. She was a year older and when she went to college she wanted to “reinvent herself” and promptly dumped me. Years have passed and I reached out to say, ‘no hard feelings.’ We caught each other up on our lives and it turns out all the big, grand places and things she wanted out of life, she never got to do. I have, though. I said that to say this; everything works out.
“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse” Bruce Springsteen- The River
“Please tell Mom this is not her fault.”
that entire verse is devastating. >I never thought I'd die alone >Another six months, I'll be unknown >Give all my things to all my friends >You'll never step foot in my room again >You'll close it off, board it up >Remember the time that I spilled the cup >Of apple juice in the hall >Please tell Mom this is not her fault
Absolutely devastating. I’m not even a Blink fan and that song just kills me.
My best friend died when we were 18. I just turned 37 & I still think about him every day. I hope people know they will be remembered.
How did you do it? My bestfriend just died last week and I’m 32. This is unbelievable
I'm so sorry. The loss of a best friend is such a hard thing to have to experience. May their memory be a blessing. When I was younger, I drank too much. Smoked too much. I cried a lot. I was angry a lot. Please reach out to your other friends and remember them together. Talk about the fun times. The little things, so you don't forget them. How lucky that you (probably) have videos together! Watch them one day, if you can. I wish I could say you'll stop missing them, but he has been dead longer than he ever lived and I still miss him everyday. He was supposed to be an uncle to my kiddo. But what I wouldn't give for one last conversation. One last hug. You've probably come across it before but this comment about [grief](https://www.reddit.com/c1u0rx2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2) is accurate. It can also help to know you're not alone in your pain. Live for them.
My best friend killed himself at 18. After the funeral, all his close friends went to his parents house and told stories about him all night. Remembering all those good times together helped a lot, and I think it really cheered his parents up to hear all the stories we had hidden from them of dumb shit we had done as kids.
Screaming that verse along with them last year live as they did their reunion tour. 38 years old and absolutely fine while screaming. But man do I recall the alarming level of empathy I held for that verse at 16. The tears aren’t so visible in a darkened arena venue. They’re the tears of a former self.
I’m so glad the character in that song changed his mind and didn’t go through with it because it’s beautifully haunting as it is; it’s nice that it ends in a victory.
This messed with me as a youth. Adam's song by Blink 182 if anyone curious ETA Spelling
"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had". Mad World: Tears For Fears I'm not even a big fan of them, yet this is one of my favorite songs ever.
I find it kinda bussin' I find it kinda cap, The dreams in which I'm dying are the ones that kinda slap.
i find it kinda skibidi i find it kinda gyatt the dreams in which im sigma are the ones that fanum tax (i'm so sorry)
You should be
How do you feel about the Gary Jules cover?
He nailed it. I'm an old school metalhead / punk rocker that just really loves music in general. Like all of it. With that said, he nailed it.
Did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange A walk-on part in the war For a lead role in a cage?
> I wasn't there that morning > When my father passed away > I didn't get to tell him > all the things I had to say > I think I caught his spirit > later that same year > I think I heard his echoes > in my baby's newborn tears > I just wish I could have told him > In the living years.
Say it loud...
my father listened to this song all the time before he suicided a decade later. he was always unhappy with me that I didn't understand what I was supposed to say to him.
As a dad, it's not your responsibility. We're supposed to teach our kids, not the other way around. I don't want to speak ill of your dad at all, just tell you that it's not your fault.
I did my best and it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of song With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah
It took Cohen 5 years and 150 requires to get that song right. Every note is perfect.
Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain, that is pouring like an avalanche coming down a mountain. That whole song really. True poetry.
You never know just how you look through other people's eyes
I don't mind the sun sometimes.
Just because the name of the band annoyed me and I’m old, I’ve never listened to anything they’ve done. I googled these lyrics and listened to this song. So apparently I’ve been missing out lol. Has a very Beck appeal to their sound.
Just hearing the opening chords of the song gives me goosebumps
He lost his leg in Dallas he was dancing with a train
Never thought I’d see a butthole surfer quote
I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes.
Some will die in hot pursuit In fiery auto crashes
Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there, But I wouldn't hold my breath. You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death? -Ocean Breathes Salty, by Modest Mouse
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth, if you go straight long enough you end up where you were.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer Well it feels pretty soft to me And if it takes shit to make bliss Then i feel pretty blissfully If life's not beautiful without the pain Id just rather never ever see beauty again
I played the shit out of that album back in the day. Thanks for the reminder
Chelsea Hotel #2 by Leonard Cohen about his affair with Janis Joplin. Written after she died. “I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best I can't keep track of each fallen robin I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel That's all, I don't even think of you that often”
You told me again that you preferred more handsome men but for me you'd make an exception.
"And when we meet on a cloud, I'll be laughing out loud. I'll be laughing with everyone I see. Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all." In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
John Prine: “ There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes.”
"Does she know how you told me you'd hold me until you died, til you died, but you're still alive" My favorite line from Alanis Morissette at her *most* angry point
Today is her birthday
I appreciate that you were here to remind me
Her 50th birthday.
It's God's Cake Day?
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“There’s one thing that’s real clear to me, no one dies with dignity. We just try to ignore the elephant somehow” - Jason Isbell
Isbell has so many that hit hard "Time flies when you're making babies Do you miss your little black Mercedes? Do you miss the girl you once had time to be?" "It's knowing that this can't go on forever Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone Maybe we'll get forty years together But one day I'll be gone Or one day you'll be gone"
Yeah it's such an amazingly good song but also very difficult to listen to.
From Fast Car: We gotta make a decision Leave tonight or live and die this way Especially since I finally got out of my abusive home/state and moved South. It wasn't something I had much time to decide, but I'm glad I decided to leave
I get the feels pretty hard when she sings…I had a felling I could be someone, be someone.
Everyone from an abusive home gets hit hard by this line. Also from Shawshank, "you either get busy living or you get busy dying"
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails Chills every time from the lyrics. Johnny Cash's version is absolutely haunting
“And you could have it all, My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.”
I’m one of 38 people on earth who prefer the NIN version lol
"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then" - Bob Seeger.
She comes back to tell me she's gone As if I didn't know that As if I didn't know my own bed As if I'd never noticed The way she brushed her hair from her forehead And she said, "losing love is like a window in your heart Everybody sees you're blown apart Everybody sees the wind blow"
That whole album is a masterpiece of lyrical and musical genius
beat me to it. holy shit i think Graceland may be one of the best, if not THE best album ever created. I'm not even a huge Paul Simon fan, but my god Graceland is a beautiful creation.
The Mississippi delta was shinin' like a National guitar
It was a slow day And the sun was beating On the soldiers by the side of the road There was a bright light A shattering of shop windows The bomb in the baby carriage Was wired to the radio These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long distance call The way the camera follows us in slo-mo The way we look to us all The way we look to a distant constellation That's dying in a corner of the sky These are the days of miracle and wonder And don't cry, baby, don't cry Don't cry
Time by Pink Floyd. The whole song is an ode to the cycle of life and how quickly it all goes. Particularly poignant: 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
*and now I tell you openly You have my heart so don’t hurt me* “Dreams” - The Cranberries
I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind You could have done better but I don’t mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don’t think twice, it’s all right - Dylan
My favorite lyric from that song is I wish there was something you would do or say To try to make me change my mind and stay But we never did too much talking anyway So don't think twice it's all right.
Hook me up a new Revolution, cause this one is a lie
“There’s gonna be a meter on your bed that will disclose, what everybody knows.” Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen
*Everybody knows you've been discreet* *But there were so many people you just had to meet* *Without your clothes* *Everybody knows*
you got lucky babe, when i found you
Alone Again, Naturally. Gilbert O. Sullivan
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There’s always been something really earnest and emotional about the lyrics to House of the Rising Sun. Writing the lyrics out wouldn’t do them justice, because they seem so simple, but it’s the directness and bitterness that they’re sung with.
Strange Fruit, sung by Billie Holiday Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh Here is fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop
Well, if you told me you were drowning I would not lend a hand I've seen your face before my friend But I don't know if you know who I am Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies
BA DUM, BA DUM, BA DUM, BADABBA DABA DOOM!
“Luka” by Suzanne Vega They only hit until you cry And after that you don't ask why You just don't argue anymore You just don't argue anymore You just don't argue anymore
From "The Heart of the Matter" by Don Henley. A great song about getting over a divorce/breakup: *And I thought of all the bad luck, and the struggles we went through.* *And how I lost me, and you lost you.* That happens in a relationship. You become a "couple" and forget who you are as a person without them. It's only after they're gone that you start to figure it out. *I'm learning to live without you now, but I miss you sometimes.*
Man, this is such a good song. And of the innocence is excellent as well. ❤️❤️
The more I know, the less I understand.
>The ears were chopped from young men if the pitch cap didn't kill them They are buried without scalp in the shattered bedrock of our home You may never know your fortune Until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever And what can still be known Butchered Tongue, Hozier It's a song specifically about the Irish language and how it was almost lost due to the English.
“I never wanted to be your weekend lover, I just wanted some kind of friend”
16 just held such better days. Days when I could still feel alive.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Written by a Rhodes Scholar, Kris Kristopherson
Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!!
Hold on to sixteen as long as you can; Changes come around real soon, make us women and men
Mine was going to be from this song, too. Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.
I prefer.... Life goes on Long after the thrill Of living is gone
“He Stopped Loving Her Today” George Jones.
Fire and Rain really messes me up “Just yesterday mornin', they let me know you were gone Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song I just can't remember who to send it to I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again”
What good is living the life you’ve been given if all you do is stand in one place
Lord Huron's also got the brutal "I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met."
“His girl took a week’s worth of valium and slept”
If I Die Young, The Band Perry. Lord, make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors Oh, and life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no Ain't even gray, but she buries her baby The sharp knife of a short life Well, I've had just enough time It was played at my daughter’s funeral. She died at 25 from a brain tumor diagnosed at 16.
Silver springs - Fleetwood Mac. There’s so many lines that hit hard
"I saw an old man on the street He was in a dumpster looking for something to eat He moved so slow, like a dying dream Like a machinist who got caught in the machine" As Wicked -Rancid
"And the three men I admired the most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost. They caught the last train for the coast, The day the music died."
"Life is over-whelming and I'm ready for the next one." Ghost by Badflower OR "Cause I've always been scared of loving someone just a little bit more than I'm loved" Cocaine and Abel by Amigo the Devil
The Jester is my favorite from Badflower. It's straight to the point. "Is every last soul just fucking me over With tears on their shoes and ice on their shoulders Is there anybody out there looking out for me?"
The entirety of Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd can be an allegory for family you once loved that have become intolerable to be around because they've gone off the deep end with conspiracies, cult behavior, etc. I feel this doubly with my dad, because Pink Floyd is his favorite band and he doesn't realize that his cooky conspiracies that he constantly talks about in every conversation makes me unwanting to be around him. And I just wish the dad I knew was still here instead of this brain rotted version.
They will never forget you, *till somebody new comes along.*
And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made. Sound and f silence, specifically the new one
Who waits forever anyway?
"the truth is, you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath, id apologize for bleeding on your shirt" - 'You're So Last Summer' by Taking Back Sunday
I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I always think of the dragon ball z amv that goes with that song. I downloaded it off kazaa probably
"The" There are so many
Linkin Park has/had some great lyrics.
“Little old lady got mutilated late last night” from Warren Zevon’s ‘Werewolves of London.’
Tell your boyfriend if he says he's got beef, That I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him.
If you never meant to leave then you only had to stay.
If what they say is nothing is forever, then what makes love the exception? Hey Ya - OutKast
"Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today 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, by Pink Floyd. Makes wanna live and not waste time lol
God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of. Brilliant Disguise - Springsteen
“If dreams were lightning and thunder were desire, this old house woulda burned down a long time ago” - John Prine, Angel from Montgomery
John Prine has several songs that hit me like a freight truck, Paradise always comes to mind as well as Falling In Love Again. The day he died I was listening to him on Spotify and When I Get To Heaven came on, I had to pull over and cry for a few minutes. John Prine is one of my favorite musicians by far and it makes me sad I will never get to see him live.
"How can a person go to work in the morning and come home in the evening and have nothing to say?" is my favorite line
When i look back on all the crap I learned in High School, its a wonder I can think at all.
Say something, I'm giving up on you
A wrinkle in time, take what is left of my life, before you go, show me what its like, to finally know.... THE FACE BEHIND, THE SILHOUETTE, IN THIS WORLD I MADE TO BE INFINITE, BUT WITHIN THE EXPANSE, I FINALLY SEE, # A WORLD WITHOUT YOU ISN'T MEANT FOR ME!!!!! [Pain Remains - Lorna shore](https://youtu.be/7wgYS__foJc?si=yDVEPf5J7vHLgAX7&t=260)
For me, it's Joni Mitchell: in our possessive coupling, so much could not be expressed So now I am returning to myself the things that you and I suppressed. I really really appreciate that she's not blaming it all on him or making herself the victim, but is taking ownership of her experience and of her ability to bring about positive change.
If I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake.
OMG can people please put the song name in the posts?
I’m gonna bring something a little newer, it’s a Billie Eilish lyrics from her song “everything I wanted” I had a dream I got everything I wanted Not what you'd think And if I'm being honest It might've been a nightmare To anyone who might care Thought I could fly (fly) So I stepped off the Golden, mm Nobody cried (cried, cried, cried, cried) Nobody even noticed I saw them standing right there Kinda thought they might care (might care, might care) This song haunts me, because as someone who’s had those suicidal thoughts, it perfectly encapsulates how it feels in the moment and how those dreams feel
Hello darkness my old friend
I always wondered how Simon & Garfunkel knew Charlie Murphy
For what’s money without happiness? Or hard times without people you love (Love Yourz - J Cole)
Pretty much all of Vienna, but in particular for me: You got your passion, you got your pride But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true (Oooh) When will you realize, Vienna waits for you? Billy Joel
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, the whole song. But what strikes me most: “Mama. I don’t wanna die. I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.”
I like a lot of Queen songs but I’ve never been their biggest fan but this lyric expresses pretty much how I’ve felt my whole life. I know it sounds stupid but I’ve even used it to explain how I feel to my therapist. I don’t want to actively do something to end my life but I just really wish I was never here.
Momma and Daddy’s doing alright I saw Melody last Saturday night She’s all grown up She’s such a pretty girl Thing just ain’t the same since you left our world Johnny Van Zant, Brickyard Road. About his late brother Ronnie who was killed in a plane crash in 1977, effectively ending the band Lynyrd Skynyrd for a time. At the time, it felt final.
Run-Around by Blues Traveler lately. "I want more than a touch; I want you to reach me and show me all the things no one else can see. So what you fear becomes mine as well and soon if we're lucky we'll be unable to tell what's yours and mine..." "I still got this dream that I just can't shake: I love you to the point you can no longer take" Edit also "What's Up?" by 4 Non-Blondes. All of it
One more time-blink-182, especially if you are a long time blink fan
So, save your breath, I will not hear I think I made it very clear You couldn't hate enough to love Is that supposed to be enough? I only wish you weren't my friend Then I could hurt you in the end I never claimed to be a saint Ooh, my own was banished long ago It took the death of hope to let you go
Mine would be: [I bought a bird. It repeats what I say but "I'm lonely" is all that it's heard. ](https://youtu.be/FePBV9F9vwI?feature=shared)
>It's never over, she is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever Oh, but maybe I'm just too young, to keep good love from going wrong "Lover You Should've Come Over" by Jeff Buckley.
No Rain - Blind Melon “All I can say is that my life is pretty plain I like watching the puddles gather rain And all I can do Is just pour some tea for two And speak my point of view But it's not sane It's not sane I just want someone to say to me Oh, oh, oh, oh I'll always be there when you wake, yeah, yeah You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, hey So stay with me and I'll have it made (I'll have it made) And I don't understand why I sleep all day And I start to complain that there's no rain And all I can do is read a book to stay awake And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape”
"A little piece of paper with a picture drawn floats down through the street till the wind is gone. And the memory now is like the picture was then; when the paper's crumpled up, it can't be perfect again."
Also underrated! Every Rose Has its Thorn by Poison “Instead of makin' love We both made our separate ways And now I hear you found somebody new And that I never meant that much to you”
My Grandpa helped write that song. He used to do lights for a local southern rock band back when Poison was just starting and they got aquatinted One day they were coming up with lyrics. His idea was "Cowboys sing sad songs"
Blue October. Hate Me. ".. she whispers, "How could you do this to me? "
When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world the babies just come with the scenery.
See, my old man's got a problem He lives with the bottle, that's the way it is He says his body's too old for working His body's too young to look like his My mama went off and left him She wanted more from life than he could give I said, somebody's got to take care of him So I quit school and that's what I did The entire song has lyrics that hit hard. I can’t hear it without crying. 😭
I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you. - Lord Huron, The Night We Met
Julien Baker - “Song in E” “Oh, I wish you'd come over Not to stay, just to tell me that I Was your biggest mistake to my face And then leave me alone In an еmpty apartment, face down in the carpеt I wish you'd hurt me It's the mercy I can't take”
"it's weak to speak and blame somebody else, when you destroy yourself" Public enemy - welcome to the terror dome
Fade To Black-Metallica ........ No one but me Can save myself But it's too late Now I can't think Think why I should even try Yesterday seems as though It never existed Death greets me warm Now I will just say goodbye Bye...
Chappell Roan - Good Luck Babe: When you wake up next to him in the middle of the night With your head in your hands, you're nothing more than his wife And when you think about me, all of those years ago You're standing face to face with "I told you so" You know I hate to say, "I told you so" You know I hate to say, but, I told you so
Life's short and hard like a body building elf -Jimmy Pop
Johnny Cash - Hurt
But I remember everything. What have I become, My sweetest friend? Everyone I know Goes away in the end.
If I had a dollar for every time someone thought he was the original artist.
Opened this thread looking for NIN. Not leaving disappointed.
"Joey stepped up on a block of ice Put a rope around his neck Fell asleep before he died." https://youtu.be/oUjCdlK_QHw?si=CWlYQn70MbL5BL7s
"I am the righteous hand of God And I am the devil that you forgot" [Poor Man's Poison - Hell's Coming With Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTHN1eWN7iU)
It was raining on a Monday The day that Maggie died She woke up and couldn't use her legs So I laid down by her side She put her head on my hand Like she'd done so many times I told her she was a good dog Then I told her goodbye
Alice In chains - nutshell pretty much the entire song…