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Feb 1, 2023 10:35 AM
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Atrocity Exhibition by Joy Division has one of the most bleak opening lines to any song I've heard.

Asylums with doors open wide
Where people had paid to see inside
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, "I still exist"


With this opening, you already know why the song is called Atrocity Exhibition.
It's about the exploitation of the mentally ill for the entertainment of others.
One might say it's still a problem today, no?



So what are your favorite lines from a particular song?
Feb 1, 2023 10:52 AM
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Precious by Depeche Mode.

Precious and fragile things
Need special handling
My God what have we done to you?


We always tried to share
The tenderest of care
Now look what we have put you through


Things get damaged, things get broken
I thought we'd manage, but words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give


Hits even harder knowing that this song was written by the writer when imagining what his kids were going thru when he and his wife decided to divorce.
Best ending line in anime history = "My name is Saiki Kusuo. I am a psychic."
Feb 1, 2023 11:10 AM
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Rise - Origa

Save your tears
For the day
When our pain is far behind
On your feet
Come with me
We are soldiers stand or die

Save your fears
Take your place
Save them for the judgement day
Fast and free
Follow me
Time to make the sacrifice
We rise or fall

Feb 5, 2023 1:10 AM
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When I die, will they remember not
What I did, but what I haven't done?
It's not the end that I fear with each breath
It's life that scares me to death




This is one quote that has creeped into my mind, over the course of many years, ever since I listened to it when I was younger. I think it's because it touches upon a very specific fear that I have. One that I am not living up to the potential that I could, and that it will all be for naught. I often get so caught up in it, that I just forget to live in the moment. After all, as the chorus suggests, "The time that we kill keeps us alive." So, perhaps, it is not worth sweating it too much.

This ground is soiled by those before me and their lies. I dare not look up for on me I feel their eyes
Feb 5, 2023 3:02 AM
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The second stanza of the German national anthem is very underrated.
Everyone always talks about the first because it sounds a bit imperialistc or the third because it's the one that's sung today.

Deutsche Frauen, Deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und Deutscher Sang
Sollen in der Welt behalten
Ihren alten schönen Klang,
Uns zu edler That begeistern
Unser ganzes Leben lang

Easily the most inspiring part of the song.
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Feb 5, 2023 6:38 AM
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It's on my profile.                       
Feb 5, 2023 7:06 AM
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It's actually not such a deep song compared to those you guys posted, but I always did like the lyrics of "Your Call" by Secondhand Serenade.

"Listening to the song we used to sing in the car
Do you remember? Butterfly, Early Summer
It's playing on repeat, just like when we would meet"

"And I'm tired of being all alone
And this solitary moment makes me want to come back home"

Those lyrics made me think about my past, about how I would like to see the places I grew up in, where my old friends and I used to enjoy the smallest thing together, even if it was for a little fragment of my life. Now that I'm far from home, I feel like those memories are playing on repeat in my head, leaving me with a kind of melancholic feeling.
Now that I'm an adult life isn't only about friends and fun, and I really miss those times. I would like to turn back in time, to go back home, to see the genuine smile of those I love all around me.
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Feb 5, 2023 12:19 PM
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My favorite lyrics is from a song called Gold by Milck and it goes: 

Don't mistake my confidence for arrogance
Don't mistake my self-respect for disrespect, 'cause it
Took me years to turn these tears from water into gold
Yeah, I worked for it
I'm proud of it, darlin', darlin'
Sorrow into bold, pain is beautiful
When it makes you grow, turn these tears to gold, gold
desu desu binches
Feb 5, 2023 11:09 PM
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Alpha Rats Nest - The Mountain Goats

Ah, the fitful sleep and the fire engines
That I dream of when I dream
Someday we'll both wake up for good
I will try hard not to scream

The evening wind will shake the blinds
You're stirring from your slumber
We've got something hateful on our minds

Oh, sing, sing, sing

For the dying of the day
Sing for the flames that will rip through here
And the smoke that will carry us away

Yeah, sing for the damage we've done
And the worse things that we'll do
Open your mouth up and sing for me now
And I will sing for you


It is sung with such raw emotion that it has stuck with me ever since I first heard the song. The Mountain Goats always have such a unique, real way of articulating the emotions that come with complicated relationships.


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Feb 6, 2023 5:44 PM
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Bleed down to the fucking core
You're going down for fucking more
Screw your slimy guts
Driving me fucking nuts
Chainsaw in my bleeding hands
As I start to cut you in two
Your guts are steaming out
And I just love the sight
Maggots crawling in her cunt
I just love to lick that shit
Bury you in a slimy grave
You will rot forever there




Feb 6, 2023 9:14 PM

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yoshi's island - glass beach

When they leave no room to breathe in the space they carved out for us
When they get inside your head, give you white lies and black eyes
When they try to change your shape until your sense of self dies
But you make me feel like I'm out of my body
We ran out of words to say we're hopelessly lonely
So don't leave the city, please don't leave the covers too
Just stay right here babe, let's live life like lovers do

This entire song is so, so perfect. These lyrics perfectly capture the theme of loving someone you aren't supposed to love, yet you can't help but be hopelessly enamored with them.


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Feb 12, 2023 8:51 AM

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Feb 12, 2023 12:11 PM

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"Why is life a game where we are forced to play
I think it's safe to assume
Don't feed off a loss or a win
The reward is to survive"

-Control Denied "Cut Down"
Feb 21, 2023 11:12 PM
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Invitation todoitanara
Open up the dungeon. Nozomi wa nani?
Sanka nara no claim dare ga naru no? Ace
Get Ready? Shut it down hiki-kaesenai

Hateshinaku tsuzuku inochi no rasen
Jikuu mo tsuki-nukete
Subete toki-hanatareru made

Shihayoku mata wa Diamonds
Love & Peace? Donna yabou mo
Sekai wa kimi no omoidoori
Come on! Got to go the next round
Kachi-kitte misete(Hey!)

Unmei no shunkan wo standby
Sorezore ga idaku drama
Trust ・ Last
Furi-otosaretara soko de Drop out (Wow)

Dareka wo kizutsukete shimatte
Kizu tsuite mo orirarenai game
Trust ・ Last
Mune ni waki-tatsu yokubou no hi wo tsuke (Go for the win!)

Azamuki kazamuki yomitori
Mata te wo kumi Uragiri
Kitai to negai akiramenai

Kachi-totta yume no naka de
Tell me nani wo mitsukeru?

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Feb 22, 2023 12:25 AM

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I'm curious to know exactly how you are
I keep my distance, but that distance is too far
It reassures me just to know that you're okay
But I don't want you to go on needing me this way

And I don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
Don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know, don't want to know
Feb 22, 2023 6:44 AM
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Doctor Doctor, what is wrong with me
This supermarket life is getting long
What is the heart life of a colour TV


What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl

News hound sniffs the air
When Jessica Hahn goes down


He latches on to that symbol of detachment
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling


The celebrity of the abused shell, the belle
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
And the children on Melrose
Strut their stuff
Is absolute zero cold enough
And out in the valley, warm and clean
The little ones sit by their TV screens


No thoughts to think
No tears to cry
All sucked dry


Feb 22, 2023 6:51 AM

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Bury all your secrets in my skin
Come away with innocence, and leave me with my sins
The air around me still feels like a cage
And love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again

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
Deliver me into my fate
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you
Ooh, my smile was taken long ago
If I can change I hope I never know

I still press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every kiss
I couldn't face a life without your light (without your light)
But all of that was ripped apart when you refused to fight

So, save your breath, I will not hear
I think I made it very clear
You couldn't hate enough to love
Is that supposed to be enough?
I only wish you weren't my friend
Then I could hurt you in the end
I never claimed to be a saint
Ooh, my own was banished long ago
It took the death of hope to let you go

Oh, oh
So, break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself
And I won't listen to your shame
You ran away, you're all the same
Angels lie to keep control
Ooh, my love was punished long ago
If you still care, don't ever let me know
If you still care, don't ever let me know



Feb 22, 2023 11:32 AM

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the entire song bullet from hollywood undead helped me to overcome the suicide from one of my friends. he was depressive and no one really noticed it until it was to late. i have strong feelings with every song about suicide but bullet hits different because they released it 3 weeks after his death and they were one of his favourite bands. Rip brother.

My legs are dangling off the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrist again, and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head, and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone

Gone too far, yeah, I'm gone again
It's gone on too long, tell you how it ends
I'm sitting on the edge with my two best friends
One's a bottle of pills, and one's a bottle of gin
I'm 20 stories up, yeah, up at the top
I polished off this bottle, now it's pushing me off
Asphalt to me has never looked so soft
I bet my momma found my letter, now she's calling the cops

I gotta take this opportunity before I miss it
'Cause now I hear the sirens and they're off in the distance
Believe me when I tell you that I've been persistent
'Cause I'm more scarred, more scarred than my wrist is
I've been trying too long with too dull of a knife
But tonight, I made sure that I sharpened it twice
I never bought a suit before in my life
But when you go to meet God, you know, you wanna look nice

So if I survive, then I'll see you tomorrow
Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow

My legs are dangling off the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrist again, and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head, and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone

We hit the sky, there goes the light
No more sun, why's it always night?
When you can't sleep, well, you can't dream
When you can't dream, well, what's life mean?
We feel a little pity, but don't empathize
The old are getting older, watch a young man die
A mother and a son and someone you know
Smile at each other and realize you don't

You don't know what happened to that kid you raised
Or what happened to the father who swore he'd stay
I didn't know 'cause you didn't say
Now mama feels guilt, yeah, mama feels pain
When you were young, you never thought you'd die
Found that you could, but too scared to try
Looked in the mirror and you said goodbye
Climbed to the roof to see if you could fly

So if I survive, then I'll see you tomorrow
Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow

My legs are dangling off the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I'll slit my wrist again, and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone
My legs are dangling off the edge
A stomach full of pills didn't work again
I'll put a bullet in my head, and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone

I wish that I could fly
Way up in the sky
Like a bird so high
Oh, I might just try
I wish that I could fly
Way up in the sky
Like a bird so high
Oh, I might just try
Oh, I might just try

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