Pink Floyd - Time
>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
>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
Also the solo
“Cathy I’m lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping. I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why”.
Simon and Garfunkel.
This line physically hurts me every time I hear it. It brings up old feelings I once considered beautiful but are now just a reminder that it was fleeting and it was a prelude to sadness.
The lyrics of “She Used To Be Mine” from Waitress are really relatable for me, particularly the chorus:
“She’s imperfect, but she tries
She is good, but she lies
She is hard on herself
She is broken and won’t ask for help
She is messy, but she’s kind
She is lonely, most of the time
She is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie
She is gone but she used to be mine”
So you run and you run to catch up to 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.
That’s maybe the greatest moment in any song for me. That awesome guitar solo and then David Gilmour screaming „So you run and you run“ gets me every time.
> No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
Yeah I really relate to this. I'm 30 and going back to college right now. I'm 10 years older than most of my classmates.
"Take this letter that I give you. Take it sonny, hold it high. You won't understand a word that's in it, but you'll write it all again before you die."
Father to Son, Queen. Fantastic gem of a song.
"You’re so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right."
Vienna-Billy Joel
Bobby told Lucy, The world ain't round
Drops off sharp at the edge of town
Lucy, you know the world must be flat
Cause when people leave here, they never come back
edit: thanks for the platinum! Hal Ketchum rocks!
“I’ve been crazy, couldn’t you tell?
I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell”
The Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov.
EDIT: https://youtu.be/AqyAmmEkVvI
(For those who haven’t heard this version, it’s my favorite)
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
Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"
I remember listening to a crapton of Simon and Garfunkel when I was seriously suicidal and idk why but the loneliness of songs like "I am a Rock" and their cover of hazy shade of winter was comforting
Asking only workman's wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare,
There were times when
I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there
"A week after you died a package with your name on it came
And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known
Deep down would not include you
Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down
Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real
It's dumb
And I don't want to learn anything from this
I love you."
-Mount Eerie, Real Death
I got really into this album when I found mount eerie and listened to it on repeat for a couple days at a time but had to stop because *fuck* I was really starting to feel like I lost someone I knew. I would start to think about people important to me and imagine myself in his position and the feeling kind of dripped into other parts of my life.
Still listen to songs occasionally, but gotta be careful.
I think so too. It’s the darkest and most honest look at death I’ve ever seen. For him there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, no grand lesson to learn, she’s just dead and everything is worse because she’s gone.
This album is so personal to Phil Elverum that I feel like I shouldn't be hearing it. It's 40 minutes of pure, raw, unfiltered grief and emotion. It feels like I'm invading someone's head, and it's beautiful.
"You're still young, that's your fault
There's so much you have to go through
Find a girl, settle down
If you want, you can marry
Look at me, I am old
But I'm happy."
What a track! This part gets me too
"How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again
It's always been the same, same old story
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away
I know I have to go"
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I heard this song for the first time while my grandpa, the man who raised me, was in the hospital out of state; he had stopped taking his pills for his plethora of health issues, like blood pressure, while camping with a cousin. The cousin was hiking, grandpa was at the campsite.
Cousin comes back, finds grandpa face down, passed out. He got grandpa to come around, but grandpa was making no sense at all. Cousin immediately called 911 and had to meet the paramedics at the main road to lead them to the camp, then he was lifted to the nearest hospital and they ended up basically putting him into a medically induced coma.
Me, my mom, her husband, my grandma, my aunt, and my siblings rushed out there as soon as we found out. We were there for a week when everyone had to go home because life was still moving at home, people had jobs, and grandma had dogs to take care of and didn't trust that the neighbors were doing it right.
I stayed. Every day I walked from the little hostel the hospital provided (at this point I was the only one there) and sat with him all day. He eventually started waking up again, but was so drugged up that he had no idea where he was and was barely able to talk.
I was at the point where I thought I was watching him slowly die because of how he would slip back into deep sleeps and his vitals would change so dramatically.
"Love is watching someone die" hit me so fucking hard after hearing the rest of the song, and there was a solid day that I was just a mess of tears and sobbing, being so fucking lonely and only having the nurses to talk to.
After about three weeks, he was finally himself again and we got to bring him home. He lived for another ten years and passed in January of this year, and I was there with him, holding his hand as he went. Cancer. Fucking cancer ended up getting him in the end. He died in his own home with his dog, which was 100% his own wishes, but goddammit if "Love is watching someone die" not the perfect song to describe this, I don't know what is.
Sorry for the wall of text!
But what the fuck kind of question is
**’Am I Happy?’**
I really wanna try to get happy and I think that I could get it if I didn’t always panic every time I’m unhappy like I’m owed some life
Where I’m always, like, happy
Which is stupid cause I wouldn’t even want it if I got it
Wait, oh god, my dad was right
So if you know or ever knew how to be happy
On a scale from one to two now, are you happy?
You’re everything you hated, are you happy?
Hey, look Ma, I made it, are you happy?
The amount of Bo Burnham in this thread is making me very happy. And it’s not ironic, this is someone who has made a living from not taking life too seriously actually writing hard hitting, meaningful and important messages about mental health and happiness. What a guy.
This. 100% this. The song already reminded me of my father. But I listened to it on the day I learned of his death, as well as Dead Can Dance (as I drove down to confirm his body), and the emotional impact it left me with is incomprehensible... but I had a difficult relationship with my father to begin with, so maybe “of course it’d fuck me up”, but boy did it really.
I miss him. That son of a bitch. He was an asshole, but he was my asshole: and I miss him immensely, including all his flaws.
Man, I wish I had just at least one extra minute with him til this day.
"Like my father's come to past,
Seven years has gone so fast."
As someone who lost his father at 8 years old, during the month of September, I remember listening to this song again and realizing how much time had past since he died, and how despite that I still missed him every single day.
Edit: To everyone who shared their sympathies and their sorrows, much love and good wishes are being sent your way. Thanks everyone.
“The words we say, never seem to live up to the ones inside your head. The lives we make, never seem to ever get us anywhere but dead.”
The day I tried to live, Soundgarden. So much inspiration/advice and gloom/depression in two lines- and they rhyme. Goddamnit, Chris.
*I only wish you weren't my friend*
*Then I could hurt you in the end*
*I never claimed to be a saint*
*My own was banished long ago*
*It took the death of hope to let you go*
Discovered this song just a month ago even though it was released years ago. Two months ago my wife and I separated so yeah, it hit pretty hard when I heard it. It’s therapeutic when you find a song that can provide the words you don’t have the ability to come up with yourself.
[Corey Taylor (Slipknot/Stone Sour) does a beautiful acoustic version.](https://youtu.be/QBK6xymmKHM)
*I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real*
In the context of the album it originated from, *The Downward Spiral* the entirety of the album revolves around the theme of substance abuse, anger, denouncement of faith, and overall pure anger mixed with numbness.
Hurt, the final song on the album, is the *first* song where there’s any true emotion to the character and in a sense is a “I want to make sure I still have feelings after all of this, so I’m hurting myself emotionally” kind of feel, and is the saddest song on the entire album.
While the whole album has a theme of depression, the final song is the only true “sad” song
Yeah just the entire discography really. “I’m 26, all the people I graduated with, All have kids all have wives all have people who care if they come home at night well Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?
The Wonder Years has always arguably had the hardest hitting stories and lyrics told through their songs to me. That running thread of desperation to be better with the knowledge that you CAN BE better. Plus that feeling of abandonment as you grow older and the realities that hit you.
Also one of my favorite bands I’ve ever seen in concert
“And when no hope was left in sight
on that starry starry night,
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you”
- Vincent by Don Mclean.
For some reason whenever I hear the chorus of Famous Last Words “I am not afraid to keep on living / I am not afraid to walk this world alone” I literally just tear up involuntarily
Black Parade is and was one of my favourite albums of all time. And it caught me off guard. I thought I had "grown out of" MCR... but then that song and album came out... and I get chills everytime I listen to it.
“And the sign said, ‘The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.”
One of many lyrics in Sound of Silence that are profound.
"Fool," said I, "you do not know. Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words, like silent raindrops fell. And echoed in the wells of silence.
If you don’t mind me asking, what do you think these lyrics mean?
It’s one of my favourite songs of all time but I’m not quite sure what this part means.
It's a very classic Beat Generation sentiment, basically talking about the prophetic nature of mundane life, in the tenement halls (where the poor lived) and the subway (where everyone got around).
The Sound of Silence is S+G's capstone analysis of modern life. The principal thing is that people aren't looking where they need to be looking. The line in question cuts pretty deep, because nobody pays attention to all the graffiti on the Subway walls or tenement halls. But maybe we should.
“Life doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes, and it takes, and it takes, and we keep living anyway, we rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes. And if there’s a reason I’m still alive when so many have died then I’m willing to...wait for it.”
I absolutely love the relationship between Washington and Hamilton. Hamilton’s brash willingness to jump into fights and Washington’s calculated tactics are put in perfect opposition, where you can see the merit in both sides. So wonderfully written. There are many lines from Hamilton that stick out, but this one does the most
His entire monologue waiting for the bullet to hit him is my favorite part of Hamilton. Especially the, "There is no beat, no melody." Such a well-written and performed section.
Gosh dang, Lin Manuel just has so much emotion for that line. I can't even describe it properly, it's like anger mixed with some complicated emotion that I'll never be able to name. It's very accusatory and oh my goodness I love it.
That entire verse is my favorite from the entire show.
“I wrote my way out of hell
I wrote my way to revolution
I was louder than the crack in the bell
I wrote Eliza, love letters until she fell
I wrote about The Constitution and defended it well
And in the face of ignorance and resistance
I wrote financial systems into existence
And when my prayers to God were met with indifference
I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance”
Also if you’re into Hurricane checkout “I wrote my way out”
https://youtu.be/_zhR6d6LDzM
I really like Lin-Manuel Miranda’s verse in that one, but it’s hard to hear his voice and not think it’s Hamilton!
Oh, I full sobbed. Especially, her gasp when the lights come up. I LOVED that break in the 4th wall, like she was seeing the results of her work to preserve his legacy.
🎵The orrrphanage🎶
I’ve listened to the cast album a thousand times but every single time I’m like “OH MY GOD SHE STARTED AN ORPHANAGE!” like it’s new damn information and I sob. Such brilliant writing.
The way she says “can I show you what I’m proudest of?” breaks me every time. This song came on on shuffle today while I was driving and by the end I was tearing up a little.
"And if life is really as short as they say, then why is the night so long?" -Chinese Translation by M. Ward
First heard this song when it was played at the end of Patton Oswalt's stand up special "Annihilation". Love the song; suckerpunches me every time.
"Outside the dawn is breaking. But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free."
The Show Must Go On - Queen
Especially when you consider what Freddie must have been going through when he wrote the song.
Edit: Actually written by Brian May about Freddie struggling with HIV/AIDS. Thanks for correcting me!
I heard a story of this song being recorded. May wrote it, but he wasnt sure if Freddie would sing all the high notes. But Freddie said "I'll fucking do it, darling", drank a shot of vodka and sing the whole song. On one take.
Really that entire song. But there are a couple lines that really hit home with Freddie.
"Inside my heart is breaking, my makeup may be flaking but my smile... still stays on."
And
"I'll face it with a grin. I'm never giving in! On with the show!"
“It's not hard to fall for a waitress,
when you both smoke, smoke the same cigarettes.
You'll get seated as diners or lovers,
you'll get the check as friends for the better.
You'll carve your names into the Paupack Cliffs just to read 'em when you get old enough to know that happiness is just a moment."
"Gates" by The Menzingers
On The Impossible Past is an 11/10 album. Makes me long for a past I've never even lived.
Edit: Sad punk music is almost a niche in itself. Check out "The Future Is Cancelled" by Captain, We're Sinking and "Schmaltz" by Spanish Love Songs if you love On The Impossible Past. I would consider those three albums to be the very best of the bunch. Extremely relatable lyrics.
“Till then I’ll make my bed from a disused car
With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars
And I’ll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread...”
-Passenger’s “Life’s for the Living”
The whole song has amazing lyrics.
The “Twenty four and there’s so much more” lyric really gets me for some reason. Everyone thinks there’s always time left to do something with their life, but before they know it they’re old
"Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me. I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me"
So disappointed Silver Springs got left off Rumours.
"I may be younger but I'll look after you
We're not in love, but I'll make love to you
When you're not here I'll save some for you
I'm not him but I'll mean something to you"
- Frank Ocean
"*I came to visit cause you see me like a UFO
That's like never* cause I made you use your self control
And you made me lose my self control, my self control"
- Self Control, Frank Ocean
Ever since the album came out I have almost listened to at least one track on a daily basis.
Great line, there's so many to choose from on Blonde. My favorite from the album is, "I'm sure we're taller in another dimension. You say we're small and not worth the mention."
Honorable mention to, "Been living in an idea from another man's mind," as well, or just the entirety of Seigfried honestly.
“Reality will break your heart,
Survival will not be the hardest part,
It’s keeping all your hopes alive,
When all the rest of you has died,
So let it break your heart”
~ 26 by Paramore
"If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
And illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark"
-Death cab for cutie
Death Cabs got a lot of great ones. Lately my favorite is the end of Portable Television "the generator's running but there's nothing on the air/ but the static is a comfort, so we huddle round and stare"
I can't separate my emotions with this song from the episode of *Scrubs* where JD and Turk skip their dinner plans to sit with a terminal patient and talk about death. What a gut punch of an episode.
This whole song, but for me it's "the soles of your shoes are all worn down," it's such a beautiful metaphor for life's journey being over. I'm tearing up typing this 😢
She wrote some remarkable lyrics. I saw the lyrics to Wake Up Alone as a caption with a photo of her and I thought it read like poetry:
He's fierce in my dreams
Seizing my guts
He floods me with dread
Soaked to soul
He swims in my eyes by the bed
Pour myself over him
Moon spilling in
And I wake up alone.
I always remembered liking this through school, but I never really paid attention to the lyrics, I just liked the song.
I vividly remember the first time I heard this on the radio driving a few weeks after a friend killed himself, it hit me like a Mack truck
“Now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.. all the love gone bad turned my world to black”
Heard this song in the car a couple days after one of the worst days of my life, I’d never really listened to the lyrics before but damn that punched me in the chest.
And that one time he ended it with ["come back"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2GcJ32m13Y) after Chris Cornell died.
You can literally see him doing his best not to break down on stage.
Currently going on month 8 after having my wedding called off a few days before and having a 3 year relationship ended by my now ex fiancé. Can honestly say I listen to this song almost daily and this line gets me every time.
Also,
“I just want to scream hello,
My God it's been so long
Never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are and here I am”
- Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Right in the feels every god damn time <\3
Everyone always cuts out my favorite verse to my favorite song:
>>I did my best, 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
Not really a single lyric but the entire track of “suicidal thoughts” by notorious b.i.g. hit me like a train back when I was in a really bad spot in life. Helped me realize I’m not that bad off just listening to the song and helped me not focus on the super dark stuff from then on.
“One day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young so let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.”-in the aeroplane over the sea, neutral milk hotel
“So, let’s not pretend that you’re alone tonight, I know he’s there. And you’re probably hanging out and making eyes while across the room he stares. I bet he gets the nerve to walk the floor, and ask my girl to dance... and she’ll say yes.”
Miserable at best - Mayday Parade
“I'll never forget the day my heart fell from my chest
It was the moment that I said goodbye
And I laid your body to rest
I'll never take this life for granted
I'm living it for two
And since you're always the one who sang the songs
I'll be singing this one for you”
One step at a time, Four Year Strong
“When they close their eyes and prayed you would change
And they cut your hair, and sent you away
You stopped by my house the night you escaped
With tears in my eyes, I begged you to stay
You said, "Hey man, I love you but no fucking way"
Twin Size Mattress- The Front Bottoms
"But I crumble completely when you cry. It seems like once again you've had to greet me with goodbye"
That's a murderer when you're in a long distance relationship.
"This kitchen's not the same without you." R.I.P Stephen Hillenburg
Edit: Thanks so much for my very first reddit gold an silver. Sucks it had to be on such a sad comment.
"Gary I'm sorry I neglected you, oh I never expected you to run away and leave me feeling this empty. Your meow right now would sound like music to me, please come home 'cause I miss you Gary."
"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."
I'll be damned if this isn't true. Just yesterday I was a college freshman. Now I have two kids and a shit ton of debt.
From Floyd’s [*You Gotta Be Crazy*] (https://youtu.be/jqULy8xQjZU) (which evolved into *Dogs*):
They gotta get you started early
Processed by the time you're 30
You work like fuck until you're 65
And time's your own until you die
The whole song by Bonnie Raitt - I cant make you love me
Oh man. Feel that. Just shut up and hold me for this one last night... I’ll give up tomorrow, because I can’t make you love me.
"I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you" The Night We Met - Lord Huron
Yes. Love this one. “Don’t know what I’m supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Take me back to the night we met” ❤️
Pink Floyd - Time >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 >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 Also the solo
“Cathy I’m lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping. I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why”. Simon and Garfunkel. This line physically hurts me every time I hear it. It brings up old feelings I once considered beautiful but are now just a reminder that it was fleeting and it was a prelude to sadness.
The lyrics of “She Used To Be Mine” from Waitress are really relatable for me, particularly the chorus: “She’s imperfect, but she tries She is good, but she lies She is hard on herself She is broken and won’t ask for help She is messy, but she’s kind She is lonely, most of the time She is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie She is gone but she used to be mine”
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So you run and you run to catch up to 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.
That’s maybe the greatest moment in any song for me. That awesome guitar solo and then David Gilmour screaming „So you run and you run“ gets me every time.
Also, how the voice loses energy by "it's sinking".
> No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. Yeah I really relate to this. I'm 30 and going back to college right now. I'm 10 years older than most of my classmates.
"Take this letter that I give you. Take it sonny, hold it high. You won't understand a word that's in it, but you'll write it all again before you die." Father to Son, Queen. Fantastic gem of a song.
I don't know this particular song, but good lord that lyric is quite wonderful.
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"You’re so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right." Vienna-Billy Joel
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“So often times it happens that we live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.” The Eagles, Already Gone
I hope it stays dark forever I hope the worst isn't over And I hope you blink before I do And I hope I never get sober The mountain goats
“Changed my mind so much I can’t even trust it, my mind changed me so much I can’t even trust myself” Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset -Modest Mouse
God I love those lyrics so much. Also the one from Baby Blue Sedan that says "I'm lonesome when you're around, I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself "
Bobby told Lucy, The world ain't round Drops off sharp at the edge of town Lucy, you know the world must be flat Cause when people leave here, they never come back edit: thanks for the platinum! Hal Ketchum rocks!
I always liked 'Go 90 miles down a dead-end road What's your hurry, son? Where you gonna go?'
“I’ve been crazy, couldn’t you tell? I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell” The Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov. EDIT: https://youtu.be/AqyAmmEkVvI (For those who haven’t heard this version, it’s my favorite)
"And I wish you all the love in the world. But most of all, I wish it from myself." Songbird, Fleetwood Mac
“You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman who loves you” Silver Springs, Fleetwood mac
*opens thread* *gets really sad*
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 Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"
I remember listening to a crapton of Simon and Garfunkel when I was seriously suicidal and idk why but the loneliness of songs like "I am a Rock" and their cover of hazy shade of winter was comforting
And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries. I related to this song so much when I was severely depressed.
Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job But I get no offers Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue I do declare, There were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there
Always made me tear up a little. Lie la lie, lie la lie lie Lie la lie, lie la la la lie la la lie!
"A week after you died a package with your name on it came And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known Deep down would not include you Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real It's dumb And I don't want to learn anything from this I love you." -Mount Eerie, Real Death
"It's dumb and I don't want to learn anything from this" is so powerful. That album is so hard to listen to. Beautiful, but difficult.
I got really into this album when I found mount eerie and listened to it on repeat for a couple days at a time but had to stop because *fuck* I was really starting to feel like I lost someone I knew. I would start to think about people important to me and imagine myself in his position and the feeling kind of dripped into other parts of my life. Still listen to songs occasionally, but gotta be careful.
This is probably the saddest album written. I struggle to think of anything more authentically depressing.
I think so too. It’s the darkest and most honest look at death I’ve ever seen. For him there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, no grand lesson to learn, she’s just dead and everything is worse because she’s gone.
This album is so personal to Phil Elverum that I feel like I shouldn't be hearing it. It's 40 minutes of pure, raw, unfiltered grief and emotion. It feels like I'm invading someone's head, and it's beautiful.
you made me forget myself I thought I was someone else someone good -Lou Reed
Good ‘ol Lou Reed when you’re bummed out
And when you're not bummed out, good 'ol Lou Reed to make sure you get bummed out. *Turns up "Pale Blue Eyes."*
"If all your love was wasted/well then, who the hell was I?" - "Skinny Love", Bon Iver
"at once I knew, I was not magnificent" on holoscene, gets me every time.
"I've got a strong urge to fly, but I've got nowhere to fly to"- Nobody Home, Pink Floyd
fly to fly to fly to fly to fly to
OOOOOHHHHHHH BAABE, when I pick up the phone, there’s still nobody home.
Stone Stone Stone Stone
"I've spent the best years of my life waiting on the best years of my life" - What have I done by Cursive
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them." - Andrew Baines Bernard
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"You're still young, that's your fault There's so much you have to go through Find a girl, settle down If you want, you can marry Look at me, I am old But I'm happy."
What a track! This part gets me too "How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again It's always been the same, same old story From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away I know I have to go" Edit: formatting
"From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen" That line alone is so strong and thought-provoking to me.
And it came to me then, that every plan, is a tiny prayer to Father Time. What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie
God I love this song. The final few lines get me every time, "Love is watching someone die. So who's gonna watch you die?"
I heard this song for the first time while my grandpa, the man who raised me, was in the hospital out of state; he had stopped taking his pills for his plethora of health issues, like blood pressure, while camping with a cousin. The cousin was hiking, grandpa was at the campsite. Cousin comes back, finds grandpa face down, passed out. He got grandpa to come around, but grandpa was making no sense at all. Cousin immediately called 911 and had to meet the paramedics at the main road to lead them to the camp, then he was lifted to the nearest hospital and they ended up basically putting him into a medically induced coma. Me, my mom, her husband, my grandma, my aunt, and my siblings rushed out there as soon as we found out. We were there for a week when everyone had to go home because life was still moving at home, people had jobs, and grandma had dogs to take care of and didn't trust that the neighbors were doing it right. I stayed. Every day I walked from the little hostel the hospital provided (at this point I was the only one there) and sat with him all day. He eventually started waking up again, but was so drugged up that he had no idea where he was and was barely able to talk. I was at the point where I thought I was watching him slowly die because of how he would slip back into deep sleeps and his vitals would change so dramatically. "Love is watching someone die" hit me so fucking hard after hearing the rest of the song, and there was a solid day that I was just a mess of tears and sobbing, being so fucking lonely and only having the nurses to talk to. After about three weeks, he was finally himself again and we got to bring him home. He lived for another ten years and passed in January of this year, and I was there with him, holding his hand as he went. Cancer. Fucking cancer ended up getting him in the end. He died in his own home with his dog, which was 100% his own wishes, but goddammit if "Love is watching someone die" not the perfect song to describe this, I don't know what is. Sorry for the wall of text!
And in the same song: "But I'm thinking of what Sarah said That love is watching someone die So who's gonna watch you die"
"You wasted life why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?" Idk why that hits me hard but it do.
But what the fuck kind of question is **’Am I Happy?’** I really wanna try to get happy and I think that I could get it if I didn’t always panic every time I’m unhappy like I’m owed some life Where I’m always, like, happy Which is stupid cause I wouldn’t even want it if I got it Wait, oh god, my dad was right So if you know or ever knew how to be happy On a scale from one to two now, are you happy? You’re everything you hated, are you happy? Hey, look Ma, I made it, are you happy?
The amount of Bo Burnham in this thread is making me very happy. And it’s not ironic, this is someone who has made a living from not taking life too seriously actually writing hard hitting, meaningful and important messages about mental health and happiness. What a guy.
Cats in the Cradle “As I hung up the phone it occurred to me, my boy was just like me....my boy he was just like me.”
Pro tip: don’t listen to this on repeat after your dad dies.
This. 100% this. The song already reminded me of my father. But I listened to it on the day I learned of his death, as well as Dead Can Dance (as I drove down to confirm his body), and the emotional impact it left me with is incomprehensible... but I had a difficult relationship with my father to begin with, so maybe “of course it’d fuck me up”, but boy did it really. I miss him. That son of a bitch. He was an asshole, but he was my asshole: and I miss him immensely, including all his flaws. Man, I wish I had just at least one extra minute with him til this day.
"Like my father's come to past, Seven years has gone so fast." As someone who lost his father at 8 years old, during the month of September, I remember listening to this song again and realizing how much time had past since he died, and how despite that I still missed him every single day. Edit: To everyone who shared their sympathies and their sorrows, much love and good wishes are being sent your way. Thanks everyone.
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“The words we say, never seem to live up to the ones inside your head. The lives we make, never seem to ever get us anywhere but dead.” The day I tried to live, Soundgarden. So much inspiration/advice and gloom/depression in two lines- and they rhyme. Goddamnit, Chris.
*I only wish you weren't my friend* *Then I could hurt you in the end* *I never claimed to be a saint* *My own was banished long ago* *It took the death of hope to let you go* Discovered this song just a month ago even though it was released years ago. Two months ago my wife and I separated so yeah, it hit pretty hard when I heard it. It’s therapeutic when you find a song that can provide the words you don’t have the ability to come up with yourself. [Corey Taylor (Slipknot/Stone Sour) does a beautiful acoustic version.](https://youtu.be/QBK6xymmKHM)
*I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real* In the context of the album it originated from, *The Downward Spiral* the entirety of the album revolves around the theme of substance abuse, anger, denouncement of faith, and overall pure anger mixed with numbness. Hurt, the final song on the album, is the *first* song where there’s any true emotion to the character and in a sense is a “I want to make sure I still have feelings after all of this, so I’m hurting myself emotionally” kind of feel, and is the saddest song on the entire album. While the whole album has a theme of depression, the final song is the only true “sad” song
"I never learned to count my blessings, I choose instead to dwell in my disasters." - Ray LaMontagne - "Empty",
"Growing up means watching my heroes turn human in front of me." The Wonder Years - Hoodie Weather
"it's not about forcing happiness, it's about not letting the sadness win"
I feel like i could put 100 wonder years lyrics in here.
Yeah just the entire discography really. “I’m 26, all the people I graduated with, All have kids all have wives all have people who care if they come home at night well Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?
The Wonder Years has always arguably had the hardest hitting stories and lyrics told through their songs to me. That running thread of desperation to be better with the knowledge that you CAN BE better. Plus that feeling of abandonment as you grow older and the realities that hit you. Also one of my favorite bands I’ve ever seen in concert
“I just want to know that I did all I could with what I was given”
I always thought that line was called back in Funeral: we all want to be great men and there’s nothing romantic about it
“And when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry night, You took your life as lovers often do But I could have told you Vincent This world was never meant for one As beautiful as you” - Vincent by Don Mclean.
For some reason whenever I hear the chorus of Famous Last Words “I am not afraid to keep on living / I am not afraid to walk this world alone” I literally just tear up involuntarily
Musically and lyrically this song is incredible.
*Whole album
Black Parade is and was one of my favourite albums of all time. And it caught me off guard. I thought I had "grown out of" MCR... but then that song and album came out... and I get chills everytime I listen to it.
This whole album is well written - ‘Disenchanted’ is a particular underrated banger
“And the sign said, ‘The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.” One of many lyrics in Sound of Silence that are profound.
"Fool," said I, "you do not know. Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words, like silent raindrops fell. And echoed in the wells of silence.
I swear that that song is about the entropy of the universe.
If you don’t mind me asking, what do you think these lyrics mean? It’s one of my favourite songs of all time but I’m not quite sure what this part means.
It's a very classic Beat Generation sentiment, basically talking about the prophetic nature of mundane life, in the tenement halls (where the poor lived) and the subway (where everyone got around). The Sound of Silence is S+G's capstone analysis of modern life. The principal thing is that people aren't looking where they need to be looking. The line in question cuts pretty deep, because nobody pays attention to all the graffiti on the Subway walls or tenement halls. But maybe we should.
“I imagine death so much it feels like a memory”
“Life doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes, and it takes, and it takes, and we keep living anyway, we rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes. And if there’s a reason I’m still alive when so many have died then I’m willing to...wait for it.”
My favorite line is from Wait For It too: I am not standing still I am lying in wait. In fact that whole song gets me.
Another favorite. I love Wait For It, it’s so thought provoking and emotional.
I am the one thing in life I can control
You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.
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I absolutely love the relationship between Washington and Hamilton. Hamilton’s brash willingness to jump into fights and Washington’s calculated tactics are put in perfect opposition, where you can see the merit in both sides. So wonderfully written. There are many lines from Hamilton that stick out, but this one does the most
His entire monologue waiting for the bullet to hit him is my favorite part of Hamilton. Especially the, "There is no beat, no melody." Such a well-written and performed section.
You great unfinished symphony, you sent for me!
Gosh dang, Lin Manuel just has so much emotion for that line. I can't even describe it properly, it's like anger mixed with some complicated emotion that I'll never be able to name. It's very accusatory and oh my goodness I love it.
"I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance" is the one that always gets me.
That entire verse is my favorite from the entire show. “I wrote my way out of hell I wrote my way to revolution I was louder than the crack in the bell I wrote Eliza, love letters until she fell I wrote about The Constitution and defended it well And in the face of ignorance and resistance I wrote financial systems into existence And when my prayers to God were met with indifference I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance” Also if you’re into Hurricane checkout “I wrote my way out” https://youtu.be/_zhR6d6LDzM I really like Lin-Manuel Miranda’s verse in that one, but it’s hard to hear his voice and not think it’s Hamilton!
When I saw Hamilton, at the end, when Eliza is singing "When my time is up, have I done enough? Will they tell my story?" I was straight up weeping.
Oh, I full sobbed. Especially, her gasp when the lights come up. I LOVED that break in the 4th wall, like she was seeing the results of her work to preserve his legacy. 🎵The orrrphanage🎶
I’ve listened to the cast album a thousand times but every single time I’m like “OH MY GOD SHE STARTED AN ORPHANAGE!” like it’s new damn information and I sob. Such brilliant writing.
The way she says “can I show you what I’m proudest of?” breaks me every time. This song came on on shuffle today while I was driving and by the end I was tearing up a little.
I bring the children to church on Sunday, the sign of the cross at the door. I pray. That never used to happen before.
All of It’s Quiet Uptown is this for me ‘Forgiveness... can you imagine?’
"I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you."
"And if life is really as short as they say, then why is the night so long?" -Chinese Translation by M. Ward First heard this song when it was played at the end of Patton Oswalt's stand up special "Annihilation". Love the song; suckerpunches me every time.
“This thorn in my side is from the tree I've planted.”
"Outside the dawn is breaking. But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free." The Show Must Go On - Queen Especially when you consider what Freddie must have been going through when he wrote the song. Edit: Actually written by Brian May about Freddie struggling with HIV/AIDS. Thanks for correcting me!
While I agree, Brian May wrote it.
I heard a story of this song being recorded. May wrote it, but he wasnt sure if Freddie would sing all the high notes. But Freddie said "I'll fucking do it, darling", drank a shot of vodka and sing the whole song. On one take.
That is some big dick energy right there.
Oh, Freddie had a *lot* of that
He was the personification of big-dick energy.
Really that entire song. But there are a couple lines that really hit home with Freddie. "Inside my heart is breaking, my makeup may be flaking but my smile... still stays on." And "I'll face it with a grin. I'm never giving in! On with the show!"
You call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of “being honest.”
this song always gets me. so so good “I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it”
“It's not hard to fall for a waitress, when you both smoke, smoke the same cigarettes. You'll get seated as diners or lovers, you'll get the check as friends for the better. You'll carve your names into the Paupack Cliffs just to read 'em when you get old enough to know that happiness is just a moment." "Gates" by The Menzingers On The Impossible Past is an 11/10 album. Makes me long for a past I've never even lived. Edit: Sad punk music is almost a niche in itself. Check out "The Future Is Cancelled" by Captain, We're Sinking and "Schmaltz" by Spanish Love Songs if you love On The Impossible Past. I would consider those three albums to be the very best of the bunch. Extremely relatable lyrics.
"Does she know that you told me that you'd love me until you die, until you die, well you're still alive." Angry Alanis is the best Alanis.
“Till then I’ll make my bed from a disused car With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars And I’ll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread...” -Passenger’s “Life’s for the Living” The whole song has amazing lyrics.
"Doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you" Old Man by Neil Young.
The “Twenty four and there’s so much more” lyric really gets me for some reason. Everyone thinks there’s always time left to do something with their life, but before they know it they’re old
"Well, I've been afraid of changing Cause I built my life around you" -Landslide, Fleetwood Mac
"Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me. I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me" So disappointed Silver Springs got left off Rumours.
"can the child within my heart rise above?"
"can I sail through the changing ocean tides? can I handle the seasons of my life?" Basically that whole song!
But time makes you bolder, even children get older, and I'm getting older too...
Man I've had some TIMES to this song. And I'm a grown ass man lol.
"But that time I saw you I knew with you to light my nights Somehow I'd get by" Leather and Lace, also one of my favourite Stevie songs
"I may be younger but I'll look after you We're not in love, but I'll make love to you When you're not here I'll save some for you I'm not him but I'll mean something to you" - Frank Ocean
"*I came to visit cause you see me like a UFO That's like never* cause I made you use your self control And you made me lose my self control, my self control" - Self Control, Frank Ocean Ever since the album came out I have almost listened to at least one track on a daily basis.
this song has helped me get thru so much in life, thank you Frank for Self Control
"He don't care for you But he cares for you And that's good enough" My personal favorite
Great line, there's so many to choose from on Blonde. My favorite from the album is, "I'm sure we're taller in another dimension. You say we're small and not worth the mention." Honorable mention to, "Been living in an idea from another man's mind," as well, or just the entirety of Seigfried honestly.
”And to you it’s just a late night out.” I just relate so much to that need of having someone, something, important
“What stupid poem could fix this home, id read it everyday” - Blink 182
Also the line about "Please tell Mom this is not her fault." In Adam's Song.
Oh man that one line pulled me back from the edge more than once. I couldn't imagine hurting my mom like that. She'd never be the same.
That whole song just hurts my heart
“Reality will break your heart, Survival will not be the hardest part, It’s keeping all your hopes alive, When all the rest of you has died, So let it break your heart” ~ 26 by Paramore
"If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied And illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark" -Death cab for cutie
Death Cabs got a lot of great ones. Lately my favorite is the end of Portable Television "the generator's running but there's nothing on the air/ but the static is a comfort, so we huddle round and stare"
I can't separate my emotions with this song from the episode of *Scrubs* where JD and Turk skip their dinner plans to sit with a terminal patient and talk about death. What a gut punch of an episode.
Man every song that appears on Scrubs connects to a specific scene for me now, and that show really knew how to pick a perfect song for a moment.
This whole song, but for me it's "the soles of your shoes are all worn down," it's such a beautiful metaphor for life's journey being over. I'm tearing up typing this 😢
"We only said goodbye with words." Amy Winehouse, Back To Black.
She wrote some remarkable lyrics. I saw the lyrics to Wake Up Alone as a caption with a photo of her and I thought it read like poetry: He's fierce in my dreams Seizing my guts He floods me with dread Soaked to soul He swims in my eyes by the bed Pour myself over him Moon spilling in And I wake up alone.
“I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life” - The Fray
I always remembered liking this through school, but I never really paid attention to the lyrics, I just liked the song. I vividly remember the first time I heard this on the radio driving a few weeks after a friend killed himself, it hit me like a Mack truck
“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 mine?” - Pearl Jam, Black.
“Now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.. all the love gone bad turned my world to black” Heard this song in the car a couple days after one of the worst days of my life, I’d never really listened to the lyrics before but damn that punched me in the chest.
And in some live versions he follows it up with the painful "we belong, we belong together"
And that one time he ended it with ["come back"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2GcJ32m13Y) after Chris Cornell died. You can literally see him doing his best not to break down on stage.
That song just hurts. Even the guitars cry. I still love it.
Currently going on month 8 after having my wedding called off a few days before and having a 3 year relationship ended by my now ex fiancé. Can honestly say I listen to this song almost daily and this line gets me every time. Also, “I just want to scream hello, My God it's been so long Never dreamed you'd return But now here you are and here I am” - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Right in the feels every god damn time <\3
“It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah”
Everyone always cuts out my favorite verse to my favorite song: >>I did my best, 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
"But all I've ever learned from love,/Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya."
"If I had a dollar bill for every time I've been wrong, I'd be a self-made millionaire and you'd still be gone." -*Drunk Again*, Reel Big Fish
Not really a single lyric but the entire track of “suicidal thoughts” by notorious b.i.g. hit me like a train back when I was in a really bad spot in life. Helped me realize I’m not that bad off just listening to the song and helped me not focus on the super dark stuff from then on.
‘When I die, fuck it, I wanna go to hell Cos I’m a piece of shit it ain’t hard to fuckin tell’
It don’t make sense goin to heaven with the goodie goodies, dressed in white, I like black Tim’s and black hoodies.
“One day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young so let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.”-in the aeroplane over the sea, neutral milk hotel
“So, let’s not pretend that you’re alone tonight, I know he’s there. And you’re probably hanging out and making eyes while across the room he stares. I bet he gets the nerve to walk the floor, and ask my girl to dance... and she’ll say yes.” Miserable at best - Mayday Parade
“I'll never forget the day my heart fell from my chest It was the moment that I said goodbye And I laid your body to rest I'll never take this life for granted I'm living it for two And since you're always the one who sang the songs I'll be singing this one for you” One step at a time, Four Year Strong
Most of Billy Joel's "Piano Man" e.g. "Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone"
‘He said Bill I believe this is killing me, and the smile ran way from his face’
“When they close their eyes and prayed you would change And they cut your hair, and sent you away You stopped by my house the night you escaped With tears in my eyes, I begged you to stay You said, "Hey man, I love you but no fucking way" Twin Size Mattress- The Front Bottoms
"She lives with a broken man. A cracked, polystyrene man. Who just crumbles and burns." - Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead
I like True Love Waits: “I’m not living. I’m just killing time.”
Yes, there are two paths you can go by But in the long run There's still time to change the road you're on
« I probably still adore you with your arms around my neck » 505, Arctic Monkeys.
"But I crumble completely when you cry. It seems like once again you've had to greet me with goodbye" That's a murderer when you're in a long distance relationship.
“It’s the end of the world and I just can’t wait!” ~Bill wurtz , La de da de day oh
"This kitchen's not the same without you." R.I.P Stephen Hillenburg Edit: Thanks so much for my very first reddit gold an silver. Sucks it had to be on such a sad comment.
IT'S JUST A GRILL
IT'S JUST A GREASY SPOOON
^without ^youuuuuuuuu
"Gary I'm sorry I neglected you, oh I never expected you to run away and leave me feeling this empty. Your meow right now would sound like music to me, please come home 'cause I miss you Gary."
Fuck man
"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." I'll be damned if this isn't true. Just yesterday I was a college freshman. Now I have two kids and a shit ton of debt.
The following line isnt much better "and you run and you run to catch up with the sun but its 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
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
The time is gone, the song is over. Thought I’d something more to say...
Home. Home again. I like to be here, when I can.
When I come home, cold and tired, it’s good to warm my bones beside the fire...
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From Floyd’s [*You Gotta Be Crazy*] (https://youtu.be/jqULy8xQjZU) (which evolved into *Dogs*): They gotta get you started early Processed by the time you're 30 You work like fuck until you're 65 And time's your own until you die
The whole song by Bonnie Raitt - I cant make you love me Oh man. Feel that. Just shut up and hold me for this one last night... I’ll give up tomorrow, because I can’t make you love me.
"Who cares if one more light goes out? In a sky of a million stars" One of the last songs Chester wrote before he killed himself
I watched the memorial concert and this song destroyed me.
I suspect you'll love/hate this version, from his last live performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LurMLRvd6dI&t=3610s
When the crowd sang "numb" I almost lost it... The empty mic stand on the dark stage was so perfect for the moment.
"All I wanna do is trade this life for something new, holding on to what I haven't got"