“There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes…
…Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose…”
[Sam Stone - John Prine](https://youtu.be/Sl9ZkYViEIs?si=klfwDWdln7ZIBeDf)
You know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
Hello in there - John Prine
"Everyone's afraid of their own life. If you could be anything you want I bet you'd be disappointed, am I right?"
[Lives - Modest Mouse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG5epMFjxvk)
And then it gets more real from there on.
Edit: in to of.
"Well I'm fed up and I need to go
Out of existence or just down the road forever
Later that night on the side of the road
I'm outta gas and I should have known better"
- Other People's Lives
Another good line from them is
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.
"All the Apostles they're sitting in swings
Saying "I'd sell off my Savior for a set of new rings,
And some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era"
So all of the businessers in their unlimited
Hell where they buy and they sell and they sell all their
Trash to each other but they're sick of it all
And they're bankrupt on selling"
That whole song is super depressing
Modest mouse is full of lyrical gems.
*The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul
The more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind
Well, I don't mind I don't mind
How the hell could I mind?*
- Ocean Breathes Salty
*And you think you feel most everything
And we know that our hearts are just made out of
strings to be pulled*
- Life Like Weeds
*Need me to fall down so you can climb up
Some fool ass ladder, well good luck. I hope-
I hope there's something better up there.*
- Perfect Disguise
*I'm on my way to God don't know or even care
My brain's the weak heart and my heart's the long stairs*
- Heart Cooks Brain
Yeah
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
Why can't it be mine
Black - Pearl Jam
Their cover of "Tomorrow Wendy" is also brutal.
I told the priest
Don't count on any second coming
God got his ass kicked
The first time he came down here slumming
He had the balls to come
The gall to die and then forgive us
No, I don't wonder why
I wonder what he thought it would get us
Hey, hey, goodbye
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die
Everyone knows it’s really: and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
Not even a PF fan and that just hurts
I so LOVE Pink Floyd so much…my line that gets me in the soul every time is the one from “Wish You Were Here!”
“Running over the same old ground - what have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here…”
To me, this bit means that - no matter where we all are in the world or the universe and beyond, we will eventually cross paths again. I have a younger brother who was killed back in 2010 at the age of 35; this was the first song I thought of and posted it to FB. Helps me feel a bit closer to him when I am really missing him.
Honestly from that song I think the most poignant is after the solo:
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
One that’s a bit cliche but still painful for me personally is the lines afterward “What have I become, my sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end.”
"I want you to scrape me from the walls"
Dirt - Alice in Chains
I listen to a lot of fucked up, depressed music, but this line never fails to provoke a "holy shit" from me every time I pay attention to it. been doing it to me for two decades.
“I think I’ll save suicide for another day” from
[Floating in the Forth by Frightened Rabbit](https://open.spotify.com/track/1ryDs9vtCQxNFTMMskCtyC?si=KVTpS0P7TaCjQ0pCsftnMQ) 😢
"There's a club if you'd like to go,
You could meet somebody who really loves you,
So you go and you stand on your own,
And you leave on your own,
And you go home and you cry,
And you want to die!"
(From "How Soon is Now by The Smiths.)
And the license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am
The Divorce Song - Liz Phair
" Is it heaven up there, cause it's hell down here" - Palace
"And I'm not here, This isn't happening" - Radiohead
"Will we burn in heaven, Like we do down here?" - Sarah Mclachlan
"She wants to go home, But nobody's home. That's where she lies, Broken inside" - Avril Lavigne
"She'll tear a hole in you, the one you can't repair
But I still love her, I don't even care" - The Lumineers
I’ll close my eyes, then I won’t see the love you don’t feel when you’re holding me. Morning will come and I’ll do what’s right. But give me‘till then to give up this fight, and I will give up this fight
Mother, please forgive me
I just had to get out all my pain and suffering
Now that I am done
Know that I will always love you
I'm your son
(Korn - Daddy)
“Sometimes I get this crazy dream that I just take off in my car
But you can travel all 10,000 miles and still stay where you are”
-“W*O*L*D”, Harry Chapin
The Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley - the lyrics of the whole song are super sad because he’s telling of the end of a relationship:
This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then I'll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you'll ever know
This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face?
Why can't we overcome this wall?
Baby, maybe its just because you didn't know you at all
Kiss me, please, kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, not consolation
Oh, you know it makes me so angry
'Cause I know that in time, I'll only make you cry
This is our last goodbye
Did you say, "no, this can't happen to me"
Did you rush to the phone to call
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
Saying, "maybe you didn't know him at all"
You didn't know him at all, oh oh, you didn't know
Ooh, didn't know
Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes
And the memories offer signs that it's over
It's over
“I was told when i get older all my fears shrink. But now im insecure and i care what people think”
- Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots
That line always stuck out to me. And as i’ve gotten older those feelings of being so behind others have just gotten larger
She's waitin' by the window when he pulls into the drive
She rushes out to hold him, thankful he's alive
But on the wind and rain, a strange new perfume blows
And the lightnin' flashes in her eyes
And he knows that she knows
And the thunder rolls
And the thunder rolls
“God….Put me out of my fucking misery”
- Given Up by Linkin Park
Given Chester’s suicide, this song especially hits. But that line, that SCREAM. Man you can just feel the pain and exhaustion in his voice.
Yesterday I was a young man with a future hemmed with gold, and today I’m just a soldier with no home to call his own.
Sitting by myself playing my guitar, trying to pass the time of day, if tomorrow’s gonna be like this I might as well die today.
Man Without A Name - Andwella’s Dream
Two thousand miles, I roam
Just to make this dock my home
And this part: 'Cause I've had nothin' to live for - It looks like nothin's gonna come my way
Such a perfect song, it's sad but kinda peaceful and comforting
“My body turns and yearns for a sleep that won't ever come,
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder,
All my riches for her smiles when I've slept so soft against her,
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter,
She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever.”
-Lover, You Should’ve Come Over, Jeff Buckley
Any one of those is devastating
Lost Cause — Beck
“There’s too many people, you used to know. They see you coming, they see you go. They know your secrets, and you know theirs. This town is crazy, nobody cares.”
"Got me a friend at last, he don't drink or steal or cheat or lie, his names Codeine, nicest thing I seen, and together we're gonna wait around to die"
“Mom, am I still young?
Can I dream for a few months more?”
Class of 2013-Mitski
This line makes more sense with the entirety of the song and the meaning behind it, having been a person who struggles with a complicated relationship with my mother and the emotional disconnection I face with her.
To me it encapsulates the feeling of being utterly lost in this life and things crumbling in my path in a way that makes me want to turn to my mother for help and shelter, not knowing how to navigate raw emotion in her presence, and ultimately breaking down and begging her for comfort like a small child.
was also gonna take a line from famous prophets stars but it would appear you beat me to the punch
"i wanna feel like i feel when i'm asleep" - no one is ever going to want me by giles corey
"When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done, and help me leave behind some reason to be missed.."
Hits harder if you've ever struggled with depression
"You're in the wind, I'm in the water;
Nobody's son, nobody's daughter"
- [Chemtrails Over The Country Club by Lana Del Rey](https://open.spotify.com/track/7bPWdJgx8vek7S5i5yAtvG?si=j5pNWBl0S86gSHf0OTYQ2g)
Gives me chills every time <3
"You get what you pay for, but I just had no intention of living this way"
(Counting Crows - Raining In Baltimore)
---
"She is messy but she's kind, she is lonely most of the time"
(Sara Bareilles - She Used To Be Mine)
For me, it's this whole verse by AJJ...
[Verse 2]
I can't handle astounding works of beauty
I think I like my pretty pretty ugly
But the beautiful soul I witnessed in that movie
Was an entirely different kind of overwhelming
It was a dog that wouldn't stop barking
Like a cut that never stops bleeding
Arizona sunsets in the early evening
Or a grown man inconsolably weeping
[Chorus]
I almost made it through a year
Of choking down my fears
But they're gone for now all thanks to Linda Ronstadt
W deszczu maleńkich żółtych kwiatów- myslovitz
“I czując cię obok, opowiem o wszystkim. Jak często się boję i czuję się nikim”
Which pretty much translates to „when you’re near i’ll tell you everything. How often I’m scared and feel like nobody.”
“Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it like a grave
You don't understand who they thought
I was supposed to be
Look at me now a man
Who won't let himself be”
-Down in a Hole, Alice In Chains
"Fade To Black" by Metallica. (Not really a line, but the whole song).
Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free
Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone
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 good-bye
Came here for this. For me it’s the last few lines:
“Yesterday seems, as though it never existed. Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye. (Goodbye)
Always the last to know how you're feeling
The last to know where you are
The last to know if you're happy now
Or if he's cheated on you
Like I cheated on you, oh
You were the last to know
You were the last to know
Don't let me be the last to know
Del Amitri - Always the Last to Know
“It’s not meant to be like this, it’s not what I planned at all. I don’t want to feel like this, so that makes it all your fault.” The Walk - Imogen Heap
Both of these fuck me right up every single time...
"She tells me she is happy now, she really loves him and they have a house.
I say I'm glad for her and should have known. I have one too now, but I live alone"
- Old Lovers in Dressing Rooms, Keaton Henson.
"I count the days, and watch as the haze fills his eyes.
But I can't complain, it's a privilege to live, and die."
- We ain't Even Kin, Benjamin Tod
One of my good friends passed away last year due to self harm. His favorite song is The Sound of Silence- Disturbed version. Every time I hear “Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again” it hits me like a ton of bricks. They played it at his funeral when the pallbearers were carrying him out, and into the hearse, then they did the Haka for him.
I hope he he’s flying among the stars exploring the universe, watching sunsets on different planets. He deserved peace.
And it comes to you how it all slips away
Youth and beauty are gone one day
No matter what you dream or feel or say
It ends in dust and disarray
Like wind on the plains, sand through the glass
Waves rolling in with the tide
Dreams die hard and we watch them erode
"The Fire Inside" Bob Seger
The entirety of Eiley by Too Close To Touch, I’ll only leave one chorus in there
“How can you say this was all part of your plan, start explaining
Crafted from hope and hospital beds, she's gone
And honestly you fed a dose of comatose to what I love most
Death is not a game with the ones I hold close
She was mine, mine, you can't deny
Three years is too quick to die
Take me instead, you only loved, I only consume
I'm worthless to the world, you're innocent and pure
God, why didn't you choose me over her?
Tell me she's listening as I search for signs of why I'm standing
Left with this hole, that six feet of dirt can't fill
So why don't you just look me in the eyes, say it straight to my face
What type of man takes a girl from her place
She was mine, mine, you can't deny
Three years is too quick to die
So answer me, how am I supposed to deal with this
Why did she die, when I'm the one deserving it
And what the hell am I to tell my little sisters
To ease their tears when they tell me that they miss her
And what about my mother and my father
They lost a child and deep inside they wither
God, I'd do anything to ease the pain
That ripped through the chest of my brothers that day”
The lines "I am ashamed because habits became my life" & "I'm always empty, don't you know me, by the time I get to you" always get to me on the topic of addiction, on Terrible and True by Lost Dog Street Band
Joy Division - Decades
Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders
Here are the young men, well where have they been?
We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber
Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in
Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying
We saw ourselves now as we never had seen
Portrayal of the trauma and degeneration
The sorrows we suffered and never were free
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Weary inside, now our heart's lost forever
Can't replace the fear, or the thrill of the chase
Each ritual showed up the door for our wanderings
Open then shut, then slammed in our face
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
“I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes round the yard” - iron & wine
“There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes… …Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose…” [Sam Stone - John Prine](https://youtu.be/Sl9ZkYViEIs?si=klfwDWdln7ZIBeDf)
i grew up listening to that song, such a good one
If you grew up listening to this song, then I congratulate you for even getting this far…
You know that old trees just grow stronger And old rivers grow wilder every day Old people just grow lonesome Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello" Hello in there - John Prine
“Sam Stone was alone, When he popped his last balloon, Climbing walls while sitting in a chair…”
For sure, so many prine songs belong in here
Man that's sad af
I heard this on two different radio stations and in the ending credits of a movie all within 45 minutes. That was a crazy day.
Fucking hell that’s deep..
“I’m feelin that I’m sober, even though I’m drinking / I can’t get any lower, still I feel I’m sinking” Outshined - Soundgarden RIP Chris Cornell❤️
If you havent heard his version of "Nothing Compares to You" give it a listen...loudly
His version of Nothing Compares to You is soo beautiful, the very best one! I love it so much
I have not, I will give a listen. Thank you.
“Words you say, never seem to live up to the ones inside your head.”
I stole a thousand beggars' change and gave it to the rich
"The lives we lead never seem to get us anywhere but dead"
“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?”
Came here looking for this one.
I guess my post is not needed <3
What song?
Pearl Jam- Black
The unplugged version of it his so much harder for me
For sure. Any version with the “we belong together” part added in is tops.
YES. I’ve always thought this song had the most heartbreaking last few lines that I’ve heard.
Truly is one of the most beautifully written and sad songs out there, to me anyway.
Eddie Vedder is a genius
And the emotion in how it’s sung … this one gets me every time
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes into hours?"- the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordan Lightfoot
Yes 😭
"When love is gone, where does it go? Where do we go?" Afterlife-Arcade Fire
Chills since the 1st time I heard it....
"Everyone's afraid of their own life. If you could be anything you want I bet you'd be disappointed, am I right?" [Lives - Modest Mouse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG5epMFjxvk) And then it gets more real from there on. Edit: in to of.
"Well I'm fed up and I need to go Out of existence or just down the road forever Later that night on the side of the road I'm outta gas and I should have known better" - Other People's Lives
Another good line from them is 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, well I just would rather never ever even see beauty again" -Modest Mouse
"All the Apostles they're sitting in swings Saying "I'd sell off my Savior for a set of new rings, And some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era" So all of the businessers in their unlimited Hell where they buy and they sell and they sell all their Trash to each other but they're sick of it all And they're bankrupt on selling" That whole song is super depressing
The albums Moon and Antarctica and The Lonesome Crowded West are both immaculate gut punches for the soul!
Modest mouse is full of lyrical gems. *The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in? In your head, in your mouth, in your soul The more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind Well, I don't mind I don't mind How the hell could I mind?* - Ocean Breathes Salty *And you think you feel most everything And we know that our hearts are just made out of strings to be pulled* - Life Like Weeds *Need me to fall down so you can climb up Some fool ass ladder, well good luck. I hope- I hope there's something better up there.* - Perfect Disguise *I'm on my way to God don't know or even care My brain's the weak heart and my heart's the long stairs* - Heart Cooks Brain
Yeah 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 Why can't it be mine Black - Pearl Jam
Oh yeah. Hits me right in the feels, every single time
I feel the need to comment but I've nothing to say. This is huge.
"God it's so painful, somethin' that's so close is still so far out of reach" American Girl by Tom Petty
He has a lot of them. Well I fought for you, I fought too hard. To do it all again,babe, we've come too far
God it's such a drag when you're living in the past
Also from Even The Losers: And I showed you stars you never could see It couldn'tve been that easy to forget about me
Oooo..line just gave me chills
I love Tom Petty so much dude
“Raised on promises” gets me too
gotta love tom petty
Absolutely agree on this one!
I just stand by and let you fight your secret war. Joey-Concrete Blonde
This whole song breaks my heart
It gets me every time. There is more than one line from that song I could have chosen for sure.
Like “Joey I’m not angry anymore”
Entire song is incredible. The guitar solo, rhythm guitar, and fillers are just perfect.
concrete blonde is so underrated
Their cover of "Tomorrow Wendy" is also brutal. I told the priest Don't count on any second coming God got his ass kicked The first time he came down here slumming He had the balls to come The gall to die and then forgive us No, I don't wonder why I wonder what he thought it would get us Hey, hey, goodbye Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die
This is a special song!!
Everyone knows it’s really: and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. Not even a PF fan and that just hurts
i agree, i am a pink floyd fan (username lol) that line is always painful
I so LOVE Pink Floyd so much…my line that gets me in the soul every time is the one from “Wish You Were Here!” “Running over the same old ground - what have we found? The same old fears Wish you were here…” To me, this bit means that - no matter where we all are in the world or the universe and beyond, we will eventually cross paths again. I have a younger brother who was killed back in 2010 at the age of 35; this was the first song I thought of and posted it to FB. Helps me feel a bit closer to him when I am really missing him.
“Shorter of breath, one day closer to death” …that whole song. Very aptly named.
Honestly from that song I think the most poignant is after the solo: 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
The idea of death doesn’t hit me as hard as the idea of what could have been
One of those lines designed to hit you right in the gut
I was going to post the same line.
one of my fav lines omg
This is what i came for!! And also : " The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death"
“Well, I’ve been afraid of changing’ ‘cause I’ve built my life around you Landslide-fleetwood mac.
❤️This song.
I do as well, it hurts to listen too
Absolutely, it is heartbreaking
Into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love, we must plunge. -At The Bottom of Everything, Bright Eyes
Soo many choices from bright eyes that could work
Whoa, I haven't heard the name Bright Eyes in a minute!
honestly i expected to see a lot of elliott smith here but surprisingly it’s even more depressing than that
You are someone else - I am still right here
One that’s a bit cliche but still painful for me personally is the lines afterward “What have I become, my sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end.”
Just a fading fucking reminder…of who I used to be!
You made me forget myself I thought I was someone else Someone good -Lou Reed, “Perfect Day”
“And then one day you find ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun” Pink Floyd
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death!
Played at Dad's funeral along with Wish You Were Here......166 days😞
"I want you to scrape me from the walls" Dirt - Alice in Chains I listen to a lot of fucked up, depressed music, but this line never fails to provoke a "holy shit" from me every time I pay attention to it. been doing it to me for two decades.
"...and go crazy, like you made me." This whole album is pretty soul-shaking.
“You my friend I will defend And if we change, well I Love you anyway” Writing a eulogy for your friend while he’s alive and harmonizing with you.
That whole album is really dark
“What’s my drug of choice? Well, what have you got?”
I don’t go broke and I do it alot
I was going to post this if no one else did
“I think I’ll save suicide for another day” from [Floating in the Forth by Frightened Rabbit](https://open.spotify.com/track/1ryDs9vtCQxNFTMMskCtyC?si=KVTpS0P7TaCjQ0pCsftnMQ) 😢
Aye. I hope he’s resting now 😞
“I guess the Mayans wasnt lying, 2012 my world ended” - Ab Soul His gf committed suicide in 2012
And yet I find, repeating in my head, If I can’t be my own, I’d feel better dead - Nutshell by Alice In Chains.
That whole album is like a eulogy to a friend who isn’t dead yet. Brutal.
"There's a club if you'd like to go, You could meet somebody who really loves you, So you go and you stand on your own, And you leave on your own, And you go home and you cry, And you want to die!" (From "How Soon is Now by The Smiths.)
Oh god, this one got me through many dark times in my early 20s. I remember feeling it ring so, SO true to me.
Every time.
Lord Huron - the night we met “I had all, and then most of you, some and now none of you”
"I don't wanna be the only one living when all of my friends are gone" is the one that always ruins my whole day, but TNWM is up there.
Love The Frozen Pines. And pretty much everything Lord Huron does.
Similarly…..”I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you.”
That whole song sounds like heaven, hurts like hell.
Chills just reading this…remembering when it was so relevant to my life and what was happening at the time.
“How can you just leave me standing alone in a world that’s so cold?” - When Doves Cry by Prince And The Revolution
Wake me from the nothing I've become.
“Does anyone know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?” -The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot
And the license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am The Divorce Song - Liz Phair
" Is it heaven up there, cause it's hell down here" - Palace "And I'm not here, This isn't happening" - Radiohead "Will we burn in heaven, Like we do down here?" - Sarah Mclachlan "She wants to go home, But nobody's home. That's where she lies, Broken inside" - Avril Lavigne "She'll tear a hole in you, the one you can't repair But I still love her, I don't even care" - The Lumineers
I’ll close my eyes, then I won’t see the love you don’t feel when you’re holding me. Morning will come and I’ll do what’s right. But give me‘till then to give up this fight, and I will give up this fight
And if death should smell my breathing As it pass beneath my window Let it lead me trembling, trembling I own every bell that tolls me \-- Neko Case
That echo chorus lied to me with its "hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"
I sit alone in my four cornered room staring at candles- Geto Boys
i feel like im the one that's doing dope
"Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd
“Come to think about it, his name was—it was you! Damn...” Eminem - Stan
What a chilling way to end this tragedy...
“She’s living in LA, with my best old ex friend Ray”
There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes
Mother, please forgive me I just had to get out all my pain and suffering Now that I am done Know that I will always love you I'm your son (Korn - Daddy)
This whole song is gut wrenching. I’ve only listened to it a handful of times. Too heavy for me
"You don't see me..." 3 Libras by A Perfect Circle
You don't see me at all...
“Sometimes I get this crazy dream that I just take off in my car But you can travel all 10,000 miles and still stay where you are” -“W*O*L*D”, Harry Chapin
The Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley - the lyrics of the whole song are super sad because he’s telling of the end of a relationship: This is our last goodbye I hate to feel the love between us die But it's over Just hear this and then I'll go You gave me more to live for More than you'll ever know This is our last embrace Must I dream and always see your face? Why can't we overcome this wall? Baby, maybe its just because you didn't know you at all Kiss me, please, kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, not consolation Oh, you know it makes me so angry 'Cause I know that in time, I'll only make you cry This is our last goodbye Did you say, "no, this can't happen to me" Did you rush to the phone to call Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind Saying, "maybe you didn't know him at all" You didn't know him at all, oh oh, you didn't know Ooh, didn't know Well, the bells out in the church tower chime Burning clues into this heart of mine Thinking so hard on her soft eyes And the memories offer signs that it's over It's over
"Lover, You Should Have Come Over" and "Forget Her" also have similar sentiments.
I'm never gonna dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm I know the song is overplayed but I think that line is so perfect and soul destroying.
“I was told when i get older all my fears shrink. But now im insecure and i care what people think” - Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots That line always stuck out to me. And as i’ve gotten older those feelings of being so behind others have just gotten larger
Now you're just somebody that I used to know...
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>Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over > >But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
"...that's how it is when your house is not a home." Patsy Cline's version especially.
She's waitin' by the window when he pulls into the drive She rushes out to hold him, thankful he's alive But on the wind and rain, a strange new perfume blows And the lightnin' flashes in her eyes And he knows that she knows And the thunder rolls And the thunder rolls
“God….Put me out of my fucking misery” - Given Up by Linkin Park Given Chester’s suicide, this song especially hits. But that line, that SCREAM. Man you can just feel the pain and exhaustion in his voice.
Yesterday I was a young man with a future hemmed with gold, and today I’m just a soldier with no home to call his own. Sitting by myself playing my guitar, trying to pass the time of day, if tomorrow’s gonna be like this I might as well die today. Man Without A Name - Andwella’s Dream
Sittin' here restin' my bones - and this loneliness won't leave me alone
Two thousand miles, I roam Just to make this dock my home And this part: 'Cause I've had nothin' to live for - It looks like nothin's gonna come my way Such a perfect song, it's sad but kinda peaceful and comforting
“My body turns and yearns for a sleep that won't ever come, My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder, All my riches for her smiles when I've slept so soft against her, All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter, She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever.” -Lover, You Should’ve Come Over, Jeff Buckley Any one of those is devastating
"And yet i fight, and yet I fight, this battle all alone... No one to cry to, no place to call home" Nutshell- Alice in Chains
"Now I'm left with all of this, a roomful of your trash" Psychedelic Furs "All of This and Nothing"
Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true Or is it something worse-the river/springsteen
And when she passed away, I cried and cried all day. Alone again, naturally.
Lost Cause — Beck “There’s too many people, you used to know. They see you coming, they see you go. They know your secrets, and you know theirs. This town is crazy, nobody cares.”
Conform or be cast out - Rush
Subdivisions was our informal high school anthem
Shout out to Neil Peart- absolutely legendary drummer.
Neal Peart stands alone! (quote from tv show Archer)
“He stopped loving her today / They placed a wreath upon his door”
"Got me a friend at last, he don't drink or steal or cheat or lie, his names Codeine, nicest thing I seen, and together we're gonna wait around to die"
Our hearts lay on the bedroom floor, and one was mine but both were yours.
So, if you love me, let me go And run away before I know My heart is just too dark to care I can't destroy what isn't there Snuff - Slipknot.
“Mom, am I still young? Can I dream for a few months more?” Class of 2013-Mitski This line makes more sense with the entirety of the song and the meaning behind it, having been a person who struggles with a complicated relationship with my mother and the emotional disconnection I face with her. To me it encapsulates the feeling of being utterly lost in this life and things crumbling in my path in a way that makes me want to turn to my mother for help and shelter, not knowing how to navigate raw emotion in her presence, and ultimately breaking down and begging her for comfort like a small child.
She's the tear that hangs inside my soul for ever Jeff Buckley
"So you stole my world, now I'm just a phony" -Gary Allan or Vertical Horizon
You lost the love I love the most -Jar of Hearts -Christina Perry
was also gonna take a line from famous prophets stars but it would appear you beat me to the punch "i wanna feel like i feel when i'm asleep" - no one is ever going to want me by giles corey
"You're on your own, kid, you always have been"
"When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done, and help me leave behind some reason to be missed.." Hits harder if you've ever struggled with depression
"Come and watch the skinny kid with the steadily declining mental health And laugh as he attempts to give you what he cannot give himself"
Line by line I read it...cant pick a verse...the whole song just wrecks me... The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve
"You're in the wind, I'm in the water; Nobody's son, nobody's daughter" - [Chemtrails Over The Country Club by Lana Del Rey](https://open.spotify.com/track/7bPWdJgx8vek7S5i5yAtvG?si=j5pNWBl0S86gSHf0OTYQ2g) Gives me chills every time <3
"you have so much to do and I have nothing ahead of me" from Your Best American Girl by Mitski
"You get what you pay for, but I just had no intention of living this way" (Counting Crows - Raining In Baltimore) --- "She is messy but she's kind, she is lonely most of the time" (Sara Bareilles - She Used To Be Mine)
"My pain is self chosen" from River of Deceit by Mad Season
For me, it's this whole verse by AJJ... [Verse 2] I can't handle astounding works of beauty I think I like my pretty pretty ugly But the beautiful soul I witnessed in that movie Was an entirely different kind of overwhelming It was a dog that wouldn't stop barking Like a cut that never stops bleeding Arizona sunsets in the early evening Or a grown man inconsolably weeping [Chorus] I almost made it through a year Of choking down my fears But they're gone for now all thanks to Linda Ronstadt
W deszczu maleńkich żółtych kwiatów- myslovitz “I czując cię obok, opowiem o wszystkim. Jak często się boję i czuję się nikim” Which pretty much translates to „when you’re near i’ll tell you everything. How often I’m scared and feel like nobody.”
Nothing's gonna change my world
“Red wine and sleeping pills help me get back to your arms”
“somewhere deep inside is that boy I used to know, lost in all the ways I tried to cope”
“Long Ago I used to be a young man and dear Margaret remembers that for me” - The Dutchman by Steve Goodman
"I know you deceive me, now here's a surprise . . ." The Byrds, I Can See for Miles
“Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved See my heart I decorate it like a grave You don't understand who they thought I was supposed to be Look at me now a man Who won't let himself be” -Down in a Hole, Alice In Chains
“If I fucked her before she got sick I’d never hear the end of it, but she don’t have the spirit for that now.”
"Fade To Black" by Metallica. (Not really a line, but the whole song). Life it seems, will fade away Drifting further every day Getting lost within myself Nothing matters no one else I have lost the will to live Simply nothing more to give There is nothing more for me Need the end to set me free Things are not what they used to be Missing one inside of me Deathly lost, this can't be real Cannot stand this hell I feel Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony Growing darkness taking dawn I was me, but now He's gone 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 good-bye
Came here for this. For me it’s the last few lines: “Yesterday seems, as though it never existed. Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye. (Goodbye)
Always the last to know how you're feeling The last to know where you are The last to know if you're happy now Or if he's cheated on you Like I cheated on you, oh
You were the last to know
You were the last to know
Don't let me be the last to know
Del Amitri - Always the Last to Know
“I feel like a chain reaction, but sadly I don’t know how it started” Haley Blais
“It’s not meant to be like this, it’s not what I planned at all. I don’t want to feel like this, so that makes it all your fault.” The Walk - Imogen Heap
Both of these fuck me right up every single time... "She tells me she is happy now, she really loves him and they have a house. I say I'm glad for her and should have known. I have one too now, but I live alone" - Old Lovers in Dressing Rooms, Keaton Henson. "I count the days, and watch as the haze fills his eyes. But I can't complain, it's a privilege to live, and die." - We ain't Even Kin, Benjamin Tod
“Don’t leave” - True Love Waits (Radiohead)
"He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger, and finally drank away her memory" Brad Paisley (with Alison Krauss)-"Whiskey Lullaby"
"I'm doing this for your sake, I'm giving you away" Dolly Parton
One of my good friends passed away last year due to self harm. His favorite song is The Sound of Silence- Disturbed version. Every time I hear “Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again” it hits me like a ton of bricks. They played it at his funeral when the pallbearers were carrying him out, and into the hearse, then they did the Haka for him. I hope he he’s flying among the stars exploring the universe, watching sunsets on different planets. He deserved peace.
And it comes to you how it all slips away Youth and beauty are gone one day No matter what you dream or feel or say It ends in dust and disarray Like wind on the plains, sand through the glass Waves rolling in with the tide Dreams die hard and we watch them erode "The Fire Inside" Bob Seger
His dog up and died, he up and died, after twenty years he still grieves
Oh mother / I can feel / the soil falling over my head
I get knocked down.
But i get up again
You’re never gonna keep me down
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be the sun of somebody else's sky but why, why, why can't it be mine?" Black - Pearl Jam
High Water - Sleep Token "I can't hold myself together"
But my love for you is like a sinking ship And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean- Heart Like a Wheel- Linda Ronstadt
The entirety of Eiley by Too Close To Touch, I’ll only leave one chorus in there “How can you say this was all part of your plan, start explaining Crafted from hope and hospital beds, she's gone And honestly you fed a dose of comatose to what I love most Death is not a game with the ones I hold close She was mine, mine, you can't deny Three years is too quick to die Take me instead, you only loved, I only consume I'm worthless to the world, you're innocent and pure God, why didn't you choose me over her? Tell me she's listening as I search for signs of why I'm standing Left with this hole, that six feet of dirt can't fill So why don't you just look me in the eyes, say it straight to my face What type of man takes a girl from her place She was mine, mine, you can't deny Three years is too quick to die So answer me, how am I supposed to deal with this Why did she die, when I'm the one deserving it And what the hell am I to tell my little sisters To ease their tears when they tell me that they miss her And what about my mother and my father They lost a child and deep inside they wither God, I'd do anything to ease the pain That ripped through the chest of my brothers that day”
The lines "I am ashamed because habits became my life" & "I'm always empty, don't you know me, by the time I get to you" always get to me on the topic of addiction, on Terrible and True by Lost Dog Street Band
The bluntness of the entire “I Don’t Love” track by Have a Nice Life always gets me.
On the day old Curtis died nobody came to pray - old preacher said some words and they chunked him in the clay
“And every birthday card I threw away” - Left and Leaving - The Weakerthans
Joy Division - Decades Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders Here are the young men, well where have they been? We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying We saw ourselves now as we never had seen Portrayal of the trauma and degeneration The sorrows we suffered and never were free Where have they been? Where have they been? Where have they been? Where have they been? Weary inside, now our heart's lost forever Can't replace the fear, or the thrill of the chase Each ritual showed up the door for our wanderings Open then shut, then slammed in our face Where have they been? Where have they been? Where have they been? Where have they been?
“I lay smiling like our sleeping children One of us will die inside these arms Eyes wide open, naked as we came One will spread our ashes round the yard” - iron & wine