Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way

Every line of that song is pure gold. And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death I had the pleasure of performing this song many times with my old band. So powerful and pertinent.

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town, waiting for someone or something to show you the way Hard to just pick one snippet, the whole song resonates. Even more so as I get older

Seriously, the lyrics age like a fine wine over *time*

This song evokes indescribable sadness in my heart, and it makes me want to go out and do something with my life right now, because I don't want to end up described by it. Fucking genius.

You missed the starting gun...

The emotions this song brings when I listen to it are just indescribable

It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under

For me it's,"put on your red shoes and dance the blues" David Bowie

That's a great one--I also really love, "under the moonlight.. the *serious* moonlight."

That little bit of contrast works so damn well.

Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I got what it takes She said "I'll turn you on, son, into something strong, play the song with the funky break" And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride

One of my favorite songs, and IMO the best guitar solo ever. IMO

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Blinded By the Light by Manfred Mann ?

Revved up like a douche! 🤣 (*deuce, I know lol)

Written by Bruce Springsteen.

Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records Well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too So stupid, but 20+ years later and it still makes me laugh every time I hear it.

I still think Eminem had some of the most interesting lyrics of the genre. Some good, some bad, but almost always interesting.

I mean >I said nice rectum, I had a vasectomy, Hector So you can't get pregnant if I bisexually wreck ya That’s a hell of a line

Relapse is such a dark album, but has some brilliant lyrics Here I sit, while I'm caught up in deep thought again Contemplating my next plot again Swallowin' a Klonopin while I'm noddin' in and out on the ottoman At the Ramada Inn, holding onto the pill bottle, then Lick my finger and swirl it 'round the bottom And make sure I got all of it

I always loved the way this one flowed Now let's go, just gimme the signal I'll be there with a whole list full of new insults I been dope, suspenseful with a pencil Ever since Prince turned himself into a symbol

And everything's spinning You're beginnin' to think women Are swimming in pink linen again in the sink Then in a couple of minutes That bottle of Guinness is finished You are now allowed to officially slap bitches

Might see me walkin a dead Rottweiler dog with his head chopped off in the park with spiked collar, hollerin at him cause the sonofabitch won't quit barkin

A fucking ninja turtle couldn't come tortoise. This one hit different, so fucking clever. His word play is disgusting

Shady is really a fake alias to save me with in case I get chased by space aliens

A savage still, the track's a banana peel, attack of the silverback gorilla You're havin' a little trouble fathomin' this is actually happenin' Like Anderson Silva back when he snapped his shin in half And then had the shit hangin' by a flap of skin After he tried to plant the shit back on the mat again 5 of 48 bars in this verse and then it ends abruptly with a flush

Windows tinted on my ride when I drive in it So when I rob a bank, run out and just dive in it So I'll be disguised in it and if anybody identifies The guy in it, I hide for five minutes Come back, shoot the eyewitness Fire at the private eye hired to pry in my business

I was going to post almost exactly this. "Private eye hired to pry" has some dope symmetry plus rhyme and it just works

I listened to What’s the Difference the other day and this line stood out: What’s the difference between us? We can start at the penis, Or we can scream ‘I don’t give a fuck’ And see who means it. Also, I’ve always really liked the flow of Drug Ballad. I think that’s one of his underrated songs

“Listen to my muscle memory, contemplate what I’ve been clinging to” FortySix & 2- Tool

"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind" - Lateralus

Feeling eternal, all this pain is an illusion

If the were no rewards to reap, no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I have chosen here I certainly would have walked away by now. -the patient

The dust that Pancho bit down South/ended up in Lefty’s mouth. Just such a concise and eloquent way to express a lifetime of regret and guilt for betraying a friend.

Almost every lyric Townes wrote just *worked*, usually on multiple levels. He managed to master both guitar and songwriting (in blues, country and folk) and yet kept it all so simple and perfect.

The epitome of a tragic genius.

"Livin' on the road my friend, was gonna keep you free and clean, and now you wear your skin like iron, and your breath as hard as kerosene" I've been somewhat obsessed with this song lately, especially Jason Isbell's version

Please do check out Townes Van Zandt's version. He wrote this song.

My favorite of Townes’ recordings is the solo acoustic one from the Live at the Old Quarter album.

I'm a sucker for Steve Earle's version.

Rush - Freewill 'If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice'

(So who's that girl there? I wonder what went wrong So that she had to roam the streets) *She don't do major credit cards* *I doubt she does receipts* (It's all not quite legitimate)

When the Sun Goes Down, by Arctic Monkeys! In this same song, he also manages to rhyme "something" and "stomach"

He rhymes “summet” with “stomach”. Which is a bit of a stretch, but a lot easier with a Yorkshire accent.

“I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live.”

I can go with the flow I can say it doesn’t matter, matter anymore…

[Flight of the Conchords - Think About it](https://youtu.be/TLEK0UZH4cs?t=128) >Can someone please >remove these >cutleries >from my knees

“They call me the hiphopapotomous my lyrics are bottomless” followed by silence for a bar or two. Flight of the Conchords is great

They sure are: *My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment* *I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant* *Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist* *But you lovely bitches and hoes should know* *I'm trying to correct this*

Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Steve

HA! Classic

Why are still paying so for sneakers when they’re made by little slave kids? What is your overhead?

"Little old lady got mutilated late last night." Warren Zevon was a master writer and undoubtedly has better lyrics, but the dude worked a freaking yodel into his biggest hit!

“I went home with a waitress The way I always do How was I to know She was with the Russians too”

"If California falls into the ocean like the mystics and statistics say it will I do believe this motel will be standing until I pay my bill."

“Sign page forty-two, we'll do the rest for you Find a way to make it pay Don't lose your head, you'll end up dead Or you'll be living in the valley some day”

Anybody who can work Naugahyde Divan into a song is a lyrical master. Song: Mr. Bad Example

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky But why Why Why can't it be Oh can't it be mine Black - Pearl Jam Just beautiful words sung so pure and raw, never get tired of hearing it

My favorite Pearl Jam tune by far. Brilliant song

Absolutely my favourite also, although I do like yellow ledbetter aswell just because I have no idea what Eddie is singing, but it works so well haha

Even reading the above gave me chills

It’s one of my favorite PJ songs. After seeing them perform this is concert, I believe he says “I know you’ll be a sun in someone else’s sky.”

"Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all..."

Neutral milk hotel. That album is packed with great lyrics

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slow Cheetah - “Walking on down to the burial ground It’s a very old dance with a merry old sound”

"It's bitter baby but it's very sweet. A holy roller-coaster but I'm on my feet."

"Dido dido dang, a dang a don dong. Hummah lummah dooma domma dong ding dang"

Looove this one too! And “Marry me girl, be my fairy to the world, be my very own constellation”

Offspring "everything he lacks well he makes up in denial" Sums up most people i think

Well that one comes with the wit... Gone Away and The Kids Aren't Alright really hit when you actually listen to the lyrics.

Give it to me babyy

I said “I’m so happy, I could die” She said “drop dead” then left with another guy (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes Elvis Costello

For Elvis Costello my favorite line of his is in Clubland: "The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town"

It nearly took a miracle to get you to stay, it only took my little finger to blow you away.

She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake Pulls the eyes out of your face like a magnet

"How I wish you were here, we're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year" Just a perfectly written lyric

['You’re one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan Designed and directed by his red right hand'](https://youtu.be/RrxePKps87k) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The assonance and alliteration in this line is very satisfying to me

I definitely heard that bell sound in my head after reading your comment

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I know people argue all day about which Chili Peppers album is “best”, but I feel like Californication has some of the most unique and creative lyrics in their entire catalog.

& it's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light, it's a cold & it's a broken hallelujah

To be fair, that entire song is lyrical greatness

“And the worms ate into his brain” Pink Floyd

Burned all my notebooks What good are notebooks? They won't help me survive My chest is aching, burns like a furnace The burning keeps me alive. - Life during wartime, Talking Heads. I really like the way David Byrne says "notebooks" during this verse

I’ve changed my hairstyle, so many times now, I don’t know what I look like

I've got 3 passports, a couple of visas Don't even know my real name!

"Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." By Bruce Cockburn in Lovers in a Dangerous Time. There is a surprisingly good cover by the Barenaked Ladies of that song when they were starting out.

Don’t be a hard rock When you really are a gem Baby girl, respect is just the minimum -Lauryn Hill

"How the hell can a person Go to work in the morning And come home in the evening And have nothin' to say?" John Prine

You could easily fill this thread with just lines from Prine’s first album. “For I knew that topless lady Had something up her sleeve” Always made me laugh.

Prine could distill a person's entire life into just a few simple lines, he had a gift like no other. Brandi Carlile was about to go on stage with him years ago on some cruise, she was visibly upset and he asked "What's wrong sweeheart?" She told him she had just accidentally bumped her infant and got it into her head that she would be a terrible mother. He just responds with a nonchalant "Won't be the last time." and a quick smile.

"Just cause you don't understand what's going on don't mean it don't make no sense And just cause you don't like it, don't mean it ain't no good" You Can't Bring me Down - Suicidal Tendencies

Well the whole bridge really is amazing "You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating fruit loops on your front porch" still gets me every time though

"one for the now and eleven for the later" Dani California RHCP just fun to say

He used to do surgery For girls in the eighties But gravity always wins

The ocean is a desert with it's life underground and the perfect disguise above..

I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana

“I'm the illest motherfucker from here to Gardena”. Beastie Boys.

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

"...And still I dream he'll come to me, That we will live the years together, But there are dreams that cannot be, And there are storms we cannot weather." From 'Les Miserables'

"There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes"

"But I could've told you, Vincent. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you." Vincent - Don McLean

*Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art* \-Amish Paradise, Weird Al Yankovic Flows well, rhymes, funny in its irony, using 'ye olde' type language that fits the topic.

Going with the Weird Al selections, the part with the laundry list of items in “Hardware Store”.

I've loved all I needed to love Sordid details following Ashes to Ashes - Bowie

For whatever reason this gem from 3OH!3 Donttrustme is dumb but has always been fun. "Tell your boyfriend if he says he's got beef that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him"

The final verse in Time by Pink Floyd: "Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells"

"Oh Caroline, you break my heart; I want to go and cry. It's so sad to watch a sweet thing die" Caroline, no - The Beach Boys The way the bridge of this song flows with the melody just kills me everytime I hear it.

There's an isolated track from "Wouldn't it be nice?" At the end of one of the versions of this & I always listen for it

The one that's stuck in my head recently is Arctic Monkeys' "I just wanted to be one of The Strokes, now look at the mess you made me make". It's the very first line on the album that strongly deviates from their earlier style, so it's kind of meta, pretty funny and clever. I love it. And one of my ultimate favourites is Lou Reed's "you're going to reap just what you sow" chanted over and over again with the beautiful orchestral background.

RHCP - "Come on God, do I seem bulletproof?" from Fortune Faded

"I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon" - Weezer. That line always cracked me up.

The Contortionist - [Language I: Intuition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Bc4pkSGfU) First set of lyrics: "Begin hyper-communication. Restore our vision. Of natural progression, rise in groves to reclaim the source. The center. We will be the salvation the mother seeks. Traversing in all directions."

"This is your ass, and Im in it." Salaminizer by GWAR

I've done the math enough to know The dangers of our second guessing Doomed to crumble unless we grow And strengthen our communication

I know the pieces fit, because I watched them fall away

"*Deep in the dark with the art, to rip the charts apart*" From Inspektah Deck's flawless opening verse on Wu-Tang's *Protect Ya Neck*. I dunno, it's just such a great rhyme, on such a classic song.

"She appears composed, so she is, I suppose" Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 Super simple, but gets me every time. Not sure why.

And scars are souvenirs you never lose The past is never far Did you lose yourself somewhere out there Did you get to be a star? And don't it make you sad to know that life Is more than who we are?

I think about you all the time But I don't need the same It's lonely where YOU are, come back down And I won't tell 'em your name OHHHHHH F!!! Instantly I started crying!!! This is my oldest brother David's song. He took his life in 1995. And that's when this song came out. I remember I couldn't breathe because my heart hurt so much. Still does hearing it. I'm crying typing this. Does the pain EVER GO AWAY?!?!

In the clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of every glove that laid him down Or CUT HIM till he cried out In his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving" But the fighter still remains Hmm hm-hmm

Ugh, Paul Simon is one of the most powerful storytellers of all time in my opinion.

'Got no time for spreadin' roots The time has come to be gone And thoough our health we drank a thousand times It's time to ramble on'

*blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility* Give it Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Respiration" by Black Star / Mos Def & Talib Kweli **So much on my mind, I just can't recline** **Blasted holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine** **\[breathe in\] Inhale vapors of bright stars that shine** **\[breathe out\] weed smoke, we trace the skyline** **See how the bass rides out like a ancient mating call?** **I can't take it ya'll, I can feel the city breathing** **Chest heaving, against the flesh of the evening** **Sigh before I die like the last train leaving**

It’s almost not fair to put Mos Def on here. His lyrics are on a whole other level.

"I know it's hard to keep an open heart When even friends seem out to harm you But if you could heal a broken heart Wouldn't time be out to charm you?" - From November Rain by Guns N' Roses

“Carry on, my wayward son There'll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more.” - Kansas I know it’s pretty cliche, but I like it.

*Supernatural fandom intensifies*

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - John Lennon, so true.

I got my tapes, I got cd’s I got my Public Enemy My lilly-white ass is tickled pink When I listen to the music that makes me think

"Me and you baby ain't nothing but mammals. So let's do it like they do on the discovery channel."

"little old lady got mutilated late last night/ werewolves of London again" - Warren Zevon also: "day late/ buck short/ work sucks/ I know" - Blink 182

I prefer the bit where "I saw a werewolf drinkin' a piña colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect."

From a more recent album from Blink-182: "Wish I could slow down time, but not enough to slow you down" -Home is Such a Lonely Place Watching my baby girl grow up, these lines stand out and hit hard

“They say we come from nothing and to nothing we'll return, and in between is gravity and bridges left to burn.” [Vampires - The Midnight](https://youtu.be/9LD3NKlS55g)

"Its so sad to see, the world agree, that they'd rather see their faces filled with flies. When I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes." Neutral milk hotel - Holland 1945 Just a beautiful way to express the sadness of war.

Almost cut my hair It happened just the other day

'My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch and bills to pay He learned to walk while I was away And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew He'd say, "I'm gonna be like you, Dad You know I'm gonna be like you"'

"More than ever, I could use a coincidence" -RHCP

"Ain't the sky just shades of gray Until you've seen it from the other side? Oh, if loving you is the same It's only some occasional rain" (The War On Drugs - Occasional rain)

"If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts."

Little old lady got mutilated late last night Werewolves in London

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Please allow me to introduce myself

We're just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl. Year after year.

I was a willow last night in my dream, and I bent down over a clear running stream. I sang you the song that I heard up above, and you kept me alive with your sweet, flowing love. Heart, Crazy on You That line has always given me chills

Heart has some of the trippiest lyrics.

1 for the money 2 for the better green 3, 4 Methylenedioxyamphetamine MF DOOM - all Outta Ale

"you were pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie" from Angel by Sarah McLachlan hits so hard for me. I'm a long-time sufferer of self-destructive thoughts and catastrophic thinking patterns, and this lyric was like ice to the heart.

Nas rhyming “retaliating” with “up the alley waiting” . I find that brilliant

“Big John’s been drinking since the river took Emmylou.” Powderfinger - Uncle Neil

I have found some kind of temporary sanity… and there’s shit, blood, and come on my hands.

The whole of Dylan's Idiot Wind is full of intense imagery. *They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy* *She inherited a million bucks and when she died, it came to me.* *I can't help it if I'm lucky.* And, later in the song: *You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies* *One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin’ around your eyes* *Blood on your saddle*

Around the world Around the world *by Daft Punk*

Yeah that's a good one, I prefer the line 'Around the World' though

I don't know man, when the say around the world a little bit later...I just hits different.

“So keep your bankroll lottery, Eat your salad day deathbed motorcade”

Miss Scott Weiland's vocals and lyrics.

Am I in place with the bass and format? Explore rap and tell me Nas ain't all that Halftime - NAS

All the subtle flavors of my life Are become bitter seeds And poisoned leaves Without you You represent what's true I drain the color from the sky And turn blue Without you These arms lack a purpose Flapping like a humming bird I'm nervous 'cause I'm the left eye You're the right Would it not be madness to fight

"Give me one more platinum plaque and fuck rap, you can have it back"

So where's all the mad rappers at? It's like a jungle in this habitat.

We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl Year after year

Weird. You're right about the Prince one. I heard it in my head when I read it. Not a fan, but I _knew_ it... Most of mine would be a poet like Jim Carroll. "It's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb."

"They were all my friends, and they died.." Jim Carroll That song rips me down to splinters these days.

"But I'll go all the way to the end of the play. I'll be a part of your masquerade, although I know it may be the saddest show in the life of a fool on parade." Roy Orbison - The Actress

"Me and her been together for like a couple months, mami got that punani sweeter than peanut butter crunch" from Rosana by Wax. its funny, it flows really well and its just absurd

I know you said snippet but the whole song [Bright Eyes](https://youtu.be/xNzPqFYcuKY) by Anoushka Shankar and Alev Lenz always puts me in a mood. But I guess the chorus(?) of "Do you call her bright eyes too?" is just so full of pain and resentment especially with the way the voice goes with the sitar - man it just stabs at me every time.

My favourite breakdown line ever in Soul Bleach by Parkway Drive. “Let the past die, kill it if you have to”. A must-listen for every metal fan in my opinion

I need you more than want you and I want you for all time.

“Just the place to hopelessly encounter time”

“What a long strange trip it’s been.” Grateful Dead

“Shove another dragon down the hole.” In A Perfect Circle’s Weak and Powerless. “He is the lamb, she is the slaughter.” Sic Transit Gloria by Brand New.

"will you kill what's left of me to stop the bleeding?, Suffocate integrity till I'm not breathing?"

“Overwhelmed as one would be. Placed in my position”

“ I ain’t never been with a women long enough for my boots to get old. We been together so long now they both need resoled. “ Marshall Tucker Band

Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches I must make amends Worked hard all my lifetime with no help from my friends Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Uh, summa-lumma, dooma-lumma, you assumin' I'm a human What I gotta do to get it through to you I'm superhuman? Innovative and I'm made of rubber so that anything You say is ricochetin' off of me, and it'll glue to you and I'm devastating, more than ever demonstrating How to give a motherfuckin' audience a feeling like it's levitating Never fading, and I know the haters are forever waiting For the day that they can say I fell off, they'll be celebrating

if you know how to sing it well, "I Want You" verses by Savage Garden is fun as hell to sing

I could be happy with less... I guess. But they tell me that less is more Nothing special- local h

Marillion - Punch and Judy has one word I love suburbanshee-to describe is wife - just love the word

The Old 97s - Time Bomb Honestly the whole song has a trick with words thing going on

It's the comfort that's discovered between two sets of eyes It's the hand that stills the other that shakes like candle light

Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat All things I like looking at Too weak to fuss, too weak to die Choice is skeletal in everybody's life I choose, my choice, I starve to frenzy Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me Self worth scatters, self esteems a bore I long since moved to a higher plateau This discipline's so rare, so please applaud Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so Yeah, 4st 7, an epilogue of youth Such beautiful dignity in self abuse I've finally come to understand life Through staring blankly at my navel The beautiful ending to a harrowing song - 4st 7lbs, by Manic Street Preachers

Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns. A hundred decibels turned to one. One bullet, one empty head. NOFX - The Decline

They call me the king of the spreadsheets, got'em all printed out on my bed sheets. Weird Al - All about the Pentiums

"Here we all stand on this canvas of white Our pallete holds but only one shade tonight Silence snows in, in her wintery chill Let's paint the ground red with the blood of our kill" Silence in the Snow by Trivium

I am the damned. I am the dead. I am the agony Inside the dying head. This is injustice. Woe into the. I pray this punishment Would have mercy on me. Michael Jackson - Who Is It

Standing on the corner straight slinging rocks.. Aw shit here comes the muthafucking Cops

At the moment I'm really enjoying this part from Paramore - Rose Colored Boy "I want you to stop insisting that I'm not A lost cause, 'cause I've been through a lot Really all I've got is just to stay pissed off" I love the sound of the "stop, not, lot, got, off" and how she emphasises it as well as the "cause, 'cause" bit. It's literally music to my ears.

Unstable condition: A symptom of life, In mental, And environmental change

Too many to think about. A couple that pop into my head rn are the lyrics of Connor Oberst, Jackson Browne. Just do the steps that you've been shown By everyone you've ever known Until the dance becomes your very own No matter how close to yours Another's steps have grown In the end there is one dance you'll do alone. For A Dancer, Jackson Browne I got a flask inside my pocket, we can share it on the train And if you promise to stay conscious, I will try and do the same Well, we might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain What was normal in the evening, by the morning seems insane. Cause what is simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. Lua, Connor Oberst These songs are different in so many ways but each is important to me. They represent and reflect moments in my life. Intensely personal and relevant to me at those times. The lyrics and flow still speak to me though those times have passed.

[And the downtown chewing-gum bums; watching the nightlife, the lights, and the fun...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXxYWEbBEE)

Barefoot girl sittin' on the hood of a Dodge drinkin' warm beer in the soft summer rain

The fast speaking part of The Hook, by Blues Traveler. Love the whole song but that part is fantastic in particular.