Here’s some of mine.
" I think God it’s moving his tongue, there’s no crowd on the streets and no sun, in my own summer"
“You and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals, so let’s do it like they do on the discovery channel”
“I felt the hate rise up in me, kneel down and clear the stone of leaves, i wandered out where you can’t see, inside my shell i wait and bleed”
"CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES, THIS IS MY LAST RESORT, suffocation, no breathing, don’t give a fuck if i cut my arm bleeding! "
And one in Spanish
“No te puedo dejar de querer, nos hemos reido y llorado los 3, yo quiero darte mi alegria, mi guitarra, mis poesias, y solo se me ocurre amarte”
The songs are (in order) : My own summer by deftones, The bad touch by the bloodhound gang, Wait and bleed by slipknot, Last resort by papa roach, Y solo se me ocurre amarte by Alejandro Sánz.
Emmylou Harris wrote two that are so beautiful and so sad, if you need to cry, Boulder to Birmingham:
"I don’t want to hear a sad song full of heartbreak and desire
The last time I felt like this, I was in the wilderness, and the canyon was on fire
And I stood on the mountain in the night and I watched it burn, I watched it burn"
And also in the same song she sings - “well you really got me this time, and the hardest part is knowing I’ll survive” wow.
If that somehow doesn’t work, Red Dirt Girl might.
"She loved her brother, I remember back when
He was fixing up a 49 Indian
Told her, little sister gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again
Well he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come for Lillian
Now he’s lying somewhere about a million miles from Meridian "
There’s too many, but I won’t lie if I take any few lines from L. Cohen’s “The Future”:
"Your servant here, he has been told To say it clear, to say it cold It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop You feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: It is murder"
🎶 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🎵
I hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn’t over
And I hope you blink before I do
I hope I never get sober…
I am drowning
There is no sign of land
You are coming down with me
Hand in unlovable hand
And I hope you die
I hope we both dieMountain Goats right?
Lies are a funny thing, they slip through your finger tips because they never happened to you.
I Sat By the Ocean by Queens of the Stone Age.
The whole start to Graceland by Paul Simon is pretty vivid:
The Mississippi Delta Was shining like a national guitar.
I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the Civil War.
I’m going to Graceland, Graceland - Memphis, Tennessee
I’m going to GracelandPoor boys and pilgrims with families and we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old he is the child of my first marriage
But I’ve reason to believe we both will be received in GracelandI have never been to Tennessee. But this intro really conjures up some vivid imagery of driving down a highway through some historic country, along a river in the company of a child - and being among many others going to the same place.
It’s pure poetry.
The “National Guitar” line is even more clever than first appears since there were also literal National guitars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_String_Instrument_Corporation
If you’re going to ask a question to everyone and also answer it, the best practice is to put your own answer as a comment, rather than in the textbox.
To answer the question:
True, there’s been trouble and trickery, sir
Trembling and tribulations
Twitches from switches of hickory, sir
You, sir, and your usurpations
But my patience wears very thin
When you play the violinfrom “When You Play the Violin” by the Gothic Archies. It’s not emotionally resonant, I just love the wordplay.
No
Real G’s move in silence like lasagna
“I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. Don’t know where it goes, but it’s home to me, and I walk alone.”
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
“And it’s whispered that soon if we all call the tune Then the piper will lead us to reason And a new day will dawn for those who stand long And the forests will echo with laughter”
- Stairway To Heaven
In keeping with their embrace and transformation of The Blues, Led Zeppelin lyrics are hopeful in the face of sadness.
They say all the best things in life are free
So 🗡️give💣 all your beer and your rum to me
Yeah, the clock moves around and the child is a joy, But death doesn’t care just who it destroys, Now the woman gets sick, thins down to the bone, She says, “Where I’m going next, I’m going alone”
Paul Kelly - Deeper Water
Especially that last line. Damn powerful. And the whole song talks to me as a father of a 10year old.
I can recommend it for a listen
Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right
Amebix - Knights of the Black Sun
So from the rooftops call it out You where always free Yes from the rooftops call it out And ever may you be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTP0HXjs88
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law My name is called religion; sadistic, sacred whore
And every breath that is in your lungs is a tiny little gift to me.
-The White Stripes
Manufacturing consent is the name of the game.
The bottom line is money, nobody gives a fuck.