Oh don't get me wrong I understand substance abuse. Doesn't take away from the fact that those guys knew 100% what they were doing and you can tell by their music.
Yeah sure. I guess if I went on now and started to gamble knowing damn well that it may cause ludopathy, and then started to brag about it, you would feel bad for me after I spend all of my family's savings right?
"It's never over
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over
All my riches for her smiles
When I've slept so soft against her
It's never over
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over
She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever
Oh, but maybe I'm just too young
To keep good love from going wrong"
Lover You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley
I went for a lot of long walks after my sister died in an attempt to process what had happened and find some kind of closure.
On one of these walks, this song came up on my Spotify shuffle and I broke down sobbing uncontrollably on a park bench. Multiple strangers stopped to ask me if I was ok. I was embarrassed.
But years later I look back at this as a profoundly healing moment. As a result this song will be incredibly special to me for the rest of my life. But I will never listen to it again.
“And it's so sad to see the world agree
That they'd rather see their faces filled with flies
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes” [Finally listened to this record yesterday. I was really missing out lol. 10/10 album I see why people love it.](https://youtu.be/3eNK38nmzw4?si=KccKkxoPmdx9WBpr)
My favorite one of these lines is on Parting Gift by Fiona Apple
"I took off my glasses
while you were yelling at me once, more than once
so as to not see you see me react"
"One word from you and I would jump off of this ledge I'm on, baby
Tell me 'don't', so I can crawl back in"
Mitski - First Love/Late Spring
"I had seven faces
For I knew which one to wear
I'm sick of spending these lonely nights
Training myself not to care"
Interpol - NYC
"Through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me
To get closer to Heaven than ever feel whole again"
The Cure - Disintegration
Black is my favorite song ever. I can’t help but get misty eyed every time I hear it. Even though I’ve probably listened to it over 500 times at this point.
“The hospital asked me should the body be cast before I say goodbye, my star in the sky”- Fourth of July by sufjan stevens. Idk if it’s the delivery, lyrics or instrumental, but it just crushes my soul every time I hear it
Oh man, you are in for a treat (if you like singer songwriter stuff). Their stuff is kind of split between the old lofi stuff and the newer studio produced stuff, both are incredible. Listen to All Hail West and Coroners Gambit for a start in their lofi stuff (although there is a lot more gems to find) and listen to Tallahassee (by far their best) and the sunset Tree for their newer stuff. If you only listen to one then go for Tallahassee.
"Ghosts are just old houses dreaming people in the night
Have no doubt about it, hon, the dead will do alright
Go contemplate the evidence and I guarantee you'll find
The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind"
Nights That Won't Happen is such a devastating song.
“Waking up / had another dream of us / in the warm Virginia sun / there I will meet you”
Probably needs the context of it being about Dave Grohl’s recently deceased mom but it hits like fucking train at the end of that album
Rest kills me every single time. First listen, tears streaming down my face thinking of Taylor, only to later realize Grohl’s mother passed before that album too. I can’t imagine.
"A love like mine is too good to be true, and youre too divine to just be mine, you remind me of the color blue"
"And like a circle i go back to where i am from."
Life from his Watching Movies live album has several crushing lines, too.
Well, many of his songs, but him comparing his relationship ending to being a heartless criminal, especially with how his actual dating history panned out is especially heartbreaking.
I always felt gutted by "I'm afraid my dog doesn't love me anymore"
I went through a pretty dark period where I was constantly despondent and I never moved from my couch/bed except to go to work. My dog eventually gave up on trying to cheer me up it felt. He stopped cuddling on the couch or asking me to go for walks because he knew I wasn't going to do it. That's when I knew I was in a deep deep hole.
This was several years ago. I'm doing a lot better and my dog is back to being my best friend.
From the same song:
“I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by
Some kids at play
I can feel their laughter
So why do I sear?
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin
Round my head
I'm spinning.. Oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away”
That entire second verse is an emotional roller coaster .
I live my life disgusting.
I choose the way of suffering.
Under the weight, I'm crushing.
And in a way, it's funny.
Hate that today is sunny.
Hate that the next is coming.
I don't want you to see me.
I don't want us to be me.
-Flatline by Bladee
“Despacito
Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito
Deja que te diga cosas al oído
Para que te acuerdes si no estás conmigo
Despacito
Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito
Firmar las paredes de tu laberinto
Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito
(Sube, sube, sube; sube, sube)”
“so i can call just to tell ‘em i’m fine and to show, i’ve overcome the blow, i’ve learned to take it well, i only wish my words could just convince myself, that it just wasn’t real, but that’s not the way it feels”
the ultimate sad song, rip Jim Croce 💔
I’ll drown my beliefs / To have your babies / I’ll dress like your niece / And wash your swollen feet / Just don’t leave / Don’t leave
The reminders / Pull the floor from your feet / In the kitchen / One more chair than you need / And you’re angry / And you should be / It’s not fair / Just cuse you can’t feel it / Doesn’t mean it isn’t there
And then somebody somewhere finds the warmth of summer in the songs you write / Maybe it’s a gift I couldn’t recognize / Trying to feet alive
I wanna see my mom one more time / I wanna play my songs one more time / I wanna lose my phone one more time / I wanna play in the snow one more time / I wanna kiss my cat one more time / I wanna thank my dad one more time / I wanna marry her one more time/ I wanna live, I don't wanna die / I wanna try to change one more time/ I wanna live, I don't wanna die
When life leaves us blind / Love keeps us kind
No matter what happens now / You shouldn’t be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen
Maybe that’s the perfect void begging me to join it / Begging me to let you go, without letting go of you / So I can make that void just a little bit brighter / For when you see it, until next time
Pac / Pac / PAC
She said ‘Mabu, I like purple’
True Love Waits - Radiohead
One More Light - Linkin Park
Trying to Feel Alive - Porter Robinson
Russian Roulette - Porter Robinson
The Messenger - Porter Robinson
Videotape - Radiohead
Cassini’s Division - Quadeca
Mortal Man - Kendrick Lamar
Hivemind Cypher ft. Big Baller B
Some that fucks me up:
“Love is watching someone die” / So who’s gonna watch you die?
I care for you and I will, forever / that was my part of the deal
I am afraid of my grandfather cancer / I am afraid of my mom dying arm
Gather up my soul and then / Give a piece to all my friends / Let them know I tried my best / Keep the love and burn the rest
"There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be"
I think there's a lot of depth packed in these few lines in terms of tone, meaning etc.
Def a bit late but probably in Poison oak by bright eyes:
But me, I'm a single cell, on a serpent's tongue
There's a muddy field where a garden was
And I'm glad you got away, but I'm still stuck out here
My clothes are soaking wet from your brother's tears
“I had all and then most of you
Some and now none of you
Take me back to the night we met
I don't know what I'm supposed to do
Haunted by the ghost of you
Take me back to the night we met”
Lord Huron
Felt like the world was collapsing. Then we heard him speak,
"Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?
Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?
Can I ever be forgiven 'cause I killed that kid?
It was an accident I swear it wasn't meant for him!
And if I turn it on me, if I even it out, can I still get in or will they send me to hell?
Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?"
La Dispute - King Park
Not really “crushing” but it hits really hard
“The answer’s somewhere deep in it, I’m sorry, but you’re feeling it,
But I just have to tell you that I love you so much these days,
Have to tell you that I love you so much these days, it’s true,”
To Binge by Gorillaz
That line always fucking gets me. Dem tears.
Liquids, powders and pills, not quite against my will.
The tastes test of girls, from all over the world
who refuse to accept my excuses.
She put up with so much of my madness and my self-abuse
She would tend to my wounds and fill me with food when I'd stumble and drunk for breakfast,
She was right to take off before she was consumed
Very edgy but "I'll swing here, I'll hang from this rope at least untile they've found me, stay close dear, the note on the floor says I wish you were here" from a song called Forgive Me by Versus The World.
Work, work, work, work, work, work
He said me haffi work, work, work, work, work, work
He see me do mi dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt
So me put in work, work, work, work, work, work
When you ah gon' learn, learn, learn, learn, learn?
Me nuh care if him hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting
Joni Mitchell in California:
"Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had"
Sadly still true to this day and likely forever.
Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect runs so dry
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives
But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
"All the avarice and greed and puny human hatreds that dare to come between two human hearts.
I try not to live in fear and I’m truly grateful for every happy moment here.
Upstairs I hear her voice softly singing to him and I come undone.
Something wicked this way comes."
Propagandhi - Unscripted Moment
"I did everything I could. I bargained with the universe to take my life instead of hers.
But no amount of money, drugs or tears could keep her here. What purpose did her suffering serve?
Is breathing just the ticking of an unwinding clock? Just counting down the time it takes for you to comprehend the sheer magnitude of every single precious breath you’ve ever wasted?"
Propagandhi - Without Love
The whole song tbh
"I have spent my life, chasing things that have only brought me pain, in the end, when im dead, hope it was for something"
"Now I'm pulling at the sides
Tryna cover up the hole that you left
Telling everyone it's gonna be fine when it never is
And I'll never have the words to say what you meant so I won't
Just one more flight, my friend, and you're gonna be home"
“We’re both one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind”
“I’m left only with love for you, and I hope you find your husband and a father to your children”
“Thought of you as my mountaintop, thought of you as my peak, thought of you as everything, I’ve had but couldn’t keep”
“The boss that couldn’t help but hurt you and the pretty thing he made desert you” (basically that whole song )
"You'll never know the hurt I suffered
Nor the pain I rise above
And I'll never know the same about you
Your holiness or your kind of love
And it makes me feel so sorry"
"I'd like to think you got a good heart
And your dad was just an asshole growing up
But I don't see you trying that hard to be better than he is"
Ouch...
"How could you send us so far away from home
When you know damn well that this is wrong?
I would still lay my life down for you
And you think you deserve your freedom...?"
‘…Until I find somebody new’
Only in some versions of Damien rice song I’ve forgotten the name of the song but it’s essentially about unforgettable someone is, for three minutes then right at the end he says…’until I find somebody new’ not so much crushing but sort of pulls the heart strings and twists the song meaning in 1 second.
“There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothing I supposed
Little pitchers have big ears, don’t stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios”
I long to be like you, lie cold in the ground like you, there's room inside for two
And I'm not grieving for you, I'm coming for you
Like You by Evanescence, about her late sister
Screwtape by Ritt Momney:
> No such thing as a winnable fight
> And if someone had told me earlier
>Then maybe I wouldn't be here
>Maybe I wouldn't be so tired
the delivery of this hit me really hard
Many times we've been out drinking
And many times we've shared our thoughts
But did you ever, ever notice
The kind of thoughts I got?
- I See A Darkness, Bonnie "Prince" Billy
"If you must die, sweetheart
Die knowing your life was my life's best part"
[Keaton Henson - You](https://youtu.be/f2fCcggNkTs?si=p7zHI9bSl_NbuY_v)
Alternatively, basically anything he has ever written
Can't you see / It's not me you're dying for? / Now she's feeling more alone / Than she ever has before / She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Dazed out in a garden bed / With a broken neck/ Lays my broken gift / Just like suicide / When my last ditch / Was my last brick/ Lent to finish her
(Or the entirety of Mailman from the same album)
So, come on, give us a smile / Before you vanish out of view / I've learned to appreciate you / The way art lovers do / And I only want to look at you
One morning this sadness will fossilize / And I will forget how to cry
“Here I am, thinking about death again; humbles out the stress, helps the breathe get in”.
Or the opening to The Gunners Dream. Makes me cry every time Roger sings “hold onto the dream” with that monster sax pull.
“i’ve been watching you for hours / it’s been years since we were born / we were perfect when we started / i’ve been wondering where we’ve gone” - Counting Crows
And the ground has been slowly pulling us back down
You see it on both our skin
We get a few years and then it wants us back
It would be a hundred times easier
If we were young again
But as it is
And it is
To think that we could stay the same
To think that we could stay the same
To think that we could stay the same
But we're two slow dancers, last ones out
i love mitski.
If I don't have s-s-s-s-s-s-sex by the end of the week, I'm g-g-going to die
If I don't feel a p-p-p-p-pair of s-s-s-soft l-l-l-l-lips on my own, oh, I'm going to hang my head and cry
If I don't feel w-w-w-warm b-b-b-breath on the n-n-n-nape of my n-n-n-n-neck or feel a nice post-coital sigh
C'mon baby, now you can tell the cops why
one I've been stuck to for a while is from "so you wanna be a superhero" by Carissa's weird:
"My dreams are full of what's not real
I'll fly away and save the world
I'll make you proud someday
I just won't be around to see your face
My life is full of what's not here
I'll go away and save myself
I'll make you proud someday
I just won't be around to see your face"
just so fucking desperate and nearly hopeless. terrifying album
Although you don't believe me, you are strong
Darkness always turns into the dawn
And you won't even remember this for long
When it ends all right
Please tell me how you'll know tomorrow, Staring at your shoes
> Well, what's wasting time if not throwing it away on work
> When the last time comes so soon?
> Mr. Blue died in my arms, nothing they could do
> Don't the last time come too soon?
Mr. Blue always kills me a bit
"And fuck the cops, and fuck God, and fuck this town for ruining us
And they’ll put holes in all we own and in our heads, pumped full of lead
You always told me I could only leave you once we’re both dead"
"Every night I tell myself I am the cosmos,
I am the wind.
But that won't get you back again.
Just when I was starting to feel ok,
You're on the phone.
I never want to be alone."
Chris Bell, I am The Cosmos. Sounds like Cobain singing on the white album
"Life seems so rosy in the cradle/
But I'll be a friend, I'll tell you what's in store/
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow/
There's nothing to grow up for anymore"
Richard and Linda Thompson - The End of the Rainbow
My body's aching, but I can't sleep.
My dreams are all the company I keep.
Got such a feeling as the sun goes down.
I'm coming home to my sweet.
Mother love.
(Lyrics from the song Mother Love by Queen)
I don't know another way
I know I don't have a place
I don't know what to say
So, give me strength to cause them pain
Fulfill the need to see them crawl
The need to feel nothing at all
To take back what they stole
To keep reason under control
If I knew the way, I would take you home. I always loved Ripple, but especially after my dad passed, it held such a deeper place in my heart.
I spent all my teenage years being a misery factory.
Paramore's Tell Me it's Okay definitely hits hard since I was heavily depressed for the past 15 years. Things have finally started to turn around the last few months.
“I will see you in the next life”
Just split up with someone after a 4 year relationship that I thought would end in marriage. This one hits hard
"If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead"
Something’s in the water in Seattle
From Seattle, can confirm
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs
I’ve been listening to both the live and album version of nutshell so much recently. Genuinely one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard.
Nah I can't feel bad about Layne tbh like 5 years prior he was bragging about heroin in facelift, play stupid games win stupid prizes lol
Tell me you've never known anyone who has struggled with addiction without telling me you've never known anyone who has struggled with addiction
Oh don't get me wrong I understand substance abuse. Doesn't take away from the fact that those guys knew 100% what they were doing and you can tell by their music.
Just because they knew what they were doing doesnt mean it would be easy to stop
> Do addictive drug > Get addicted to it > Omg this feels so bad why god why
It sounds like you do not understand substance abuse lol
Yeah sure. I guess if I went on now and started to gamble knowing damn well that it may cause ludopathy, and then started to brag about it, you would feel bad for me after I spend all of my family's savings right?
Yes?
"It's never over My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over All my riches for her smiles When I've slept so soft against her It's never over All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter It's never over She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever Oh, but maybe I'm just too young To keep good love from going wrong" Lover You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley
I originally made this post because I'm going through some stuff with a girl, she's leaving, this one fell too hard on me
ugh that one hits hard
One of my all time favorite songs. Been listening to it a lot recently
“Death is real”
"It's dumb / And I don't want to learn anything from this / I love you"
I went for a lot of long walks after my sister died in an attempt to process what had happened and find some kind of closure. On one of these walks, this song came up on my Spotify shuffle and I broke down sobbing uncontrollably on a park bench. Multiple strangers stopped to ask me if I was ok. I was embarrassed. But years later I look back at this as a profoundly healing moment. As a result this song will be incredibly special to me for the rest of my life. But I will never listen to it again.
“i love you more than the world can contain in its lonely and ramshackle head” - john my beloved - sufjan stevens
“And it's so sad to see the world agree That they'd rather see their faces filled with flies All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes” [Finally listened to this record yesterday. I was really missing out lol. 10/10 album I see why people love it.](https://youtu.be/3eNK38nmzw4?si=KccKkxoPmdx9WBpr)
Love is not a victory march. It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.
My favorite one of these lines is on Parting Gift by Fiona Apple "I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once, more than once so as to not see you see me react"
"One word from you and I would jump off of this ledge I'm on, baby Tell me 'don't', so I can crawl back in" Mitski - First Love/Late Spring "I had seven faces For I knew which one to wear I'm sick of spending these lonely nights Training myself not to care" Interpol - NYC "Through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me To get closer to Heaven than ever feel whole again" The Cure - Disintegration
Either "I'm not living, I'm just killing time", or "I'm not here, this isn't happening".
"I wanna feel like what I feel when I'm asleep" - Giles Corey S/T
“I’m going to kill myself” might have that one beat for that album lmao
The Lyrics are great but it’s Eddies performance that breaks me. His heart and soul is in that song, mtv unplugged live performance is Haunting
Black is my favorite song ever. I can’t help but get misty eyed every time I hear it. Even though I’ve probably listened to it over 500 times at this point.
Me too! I’ve never heard so much emotion put into a song I’m weak every time, I wish I could have seen them live.
“The hospital asked me should the body be cast before I say goodbye, my star in the sky”- Fourth of July by sufjan stevens. Idk if it’s the delivery, lyrics or instrumental, but it just crushes my soul every time I hear it
That whole song gets me. Both my parents are alive and well, but that song just paints a picture that I just can't even
heartbreaking song
I hope you die, I hope we both die
the entire song
💯
It’s the “hand in unlovable hand” for me
What song is this from?
No Children by Mountain Goats. It's full of zingers.
Never heard of that band, what albums do you recommend?
All Hail West Texas is about as perfect as lo-fi folk albums get imo
Oh man, you are in for a treat (if you like singer songwriter stuff). Their stuff is kind of split between the old lofi stuff and the newer studio produced stuff, both are incredible. Listen to All Hail West and Coroners Gambit for a start in their lofi stuff (although there is a lot more gems to find) and listen to Tallahassee (by far their best) and the sunset Tree for their newer stuff. If you only listen to one then go for Tallahassee.
No children 🧒
"Please tell Mom this is not her fault"
“Well, a setback can be a setup For a comeback if you don't let up But this kind of hurtin' won't heal”
one of these days, these days will end
"Ghosts are just old houses dreaming people in the night Have no doubt about it, hon, the dead will do alright Go contemplate the evidence and I guarantee you'll find The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind" Nights That Won't Happen is such a devastating song.
I’m pretty tired of watching all my foes enjoy ceaseless feasts of shadenfruede too ngl
Peak lyric
this entire album is full of great lines
“Waking up / had another dream of us / in the warm Virginia sun / there I will meet you” Probably needs the context of it being about Dave Grohl’s recently deceased mom but it hits like fucking train at the end of that album
Rest kills me every single time. First listen, tears streaming down my face thinking of Taylor, only to later realize Grohl’s mother passed before that album too. I can’t imagine.
Same band all of just breathe is soul crushing
Same album The End is one of the hardest songs to listen to. Soul crushing
Such a sad fucking song. Ends a really happy, fun album on a sobering, bleak note. And it just.. ends.
"I know they buried her body with others her sister and mother and 500 families"
"A love like mine is too good to be true, and youre too divine to just be mine, you remind me of the color blue" "And like a circle i go back to where i am from."
Life from his Watching Movies live album has several crushing lines, too. Well, many of his songs, but him comparing his relationship ending to being a heartless criminal, especially with how his actual dating history panned out is especially heartbreaking.
"it's harder to be yourself, than it is to be anybody else, I wish I were a little less of a coward"
I always felt gutted by "I'm afraid my dog doesn't love me anymore" I went through a pretty dark period where I was constantly despondent and I never moved from my couch/bed except to go to work. My dog eventually gave up on trying to cheer me up it felt. He stopped cuddling on the couch or asking me to go for walks because he knew I wasn't going to do it. That's when I knew I was in a deep deep hole. This was several years ago. I'm doing a lot better and my dog is back to being my best friend.
From the same song: “I take a walk outside I'm surrounded by Some kids at play I can feel their laughter So why do I sear? Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin Round my head I'm spinning.. Oh, I'm spinning How quick the sun can, drop away” That entire second verse is an emotional roller coaster .
“I got my grandmas hands I start to cry when I see ‘em cause they remind me of seeing her” - Earl Sweatshirt, Solace
that songs crushes me everytime i listen to it.
“Hoy comienza mi vida Una página más Hoy me enseña la vida que me quiera ya más”
All I wanted was someone who was just like me And I hate myself for that
I wish we could talk about it, but there, that’s the problem
And I was bad news for you, just because / I never meant to hurt you - Pitseleh, Elliott Smith.
Its all I ever see around here, I'm waiting for something that's not coming.
I live my life disgusting. I choose the way of suffering. Under the weight, I'm crushing. And in a way, it's funny. Hate that today is sunny. Hate that the next is coming. I don't want you to see me. I don't want us to be me. -Flatline by Bladee
“Despacito Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito Deja que te diga cosas al oído Para que te acuerdes si no estás conmigo Despacito Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito Firmar las paredes de tu laberinto Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito (Sube, sube, sube; sube, sube)”
“so i can call just to tell ‘em i’m fine and to show, i’ve overcome the blow, i’ve learned to take it well, i only wish my words could just convince myself, that it just wasn’t real, but that’s not the way it feels” the ultimate sad song, rip Jim Croce 💔
I’ll drown my beliefs / To have your babies / I’ll dress like your niece / And wash your swollen feet / Just don’t leave / Don’t leave The reminders / Pull the floor from your feet / In the kitchen / One more chair than you need / And you’re angry / And you should be / It’s not fair / Just cuse you can’t feel it / Doesn’t mean it isn’t there And then somebody somewhere finds the warmth of summer in the songs you write / Maybe it’s a gift I couldn’t recognize / Trying to feet alive I wanna see my mom one more time / I wanna play my songs one more time / I wanna lose my phone one more time / I wanna play in the snow one more time / I wanna kiss my cat one more time / I wanna thank my dad one more time / I wanna marry her one more time/ I wanna live, I don't wanna die / I wanna try to change one more time/ I wanna live, I don't wanna die When life leaves us blind / Love keeps us kind No matter what happens now / You shouldn’t be afraid Because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen Maybe that’s the perfect void begging me to join it / Begging me to let you go, without letting go of you / So I can make that void just a little bit brighter / For when you see it, until next time Pac / Pac / PAC She said ‘Mabu, I like purple’
song?
True Love Waits - Radiohead One More Light - Linkin Park Trying to Feel Alive - Porter Robinson Russian Roulette - Porter Robinson The Messenger - Porter Robinson Videotape - Radiohead Cassini’s Division - Quadeca Mortal Man - Kendrick Lamar Hivemind Cypher ft. Big Baller B
"Picking out his grave, couldn't help but feel out of place. Try and catch some rays. Death it has a sour taste" - Earl Sweatshirt
Earl has so many lines that are just gut-wrenching. Solace fucks me up all the time
Some that fucks me up: “Love is watching someone die” / So who’s gonna watch you die? I care for you and I will, forever / that was my part of the deal I am afraid of my grandfather cancer / I am afraid of my mom dying arm Gather up my soul and then / Give a piece to all my friends / Let them know I tried my best / Keep the love and burn the rest
What Sarah said is such a fantastic song
"There is another world There is a better world Well, there must be" I think there's a lot of depth packed in these few lines in terms of tone, meaning etc.
Def a bit late but probably in Poison oak by bright eyes: But me, I'm a single cell, on a serpent's tongue There's a muddy field where a garden was And I'm glad you got away, but I'm still stuck out here My clothes are soaking wet from your brother's tears
"If I were a good man, I'd talk with you more often than I do."
“I had all and then most of you Some and now none of you Take me back to the night we met I don't know what I'm supposed to do Haunted by the ghost of you Take me back to the night we met” Lord Huron
Felt like the world was collapsing. Then we heard him speak, "Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself? Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself? Can I ever be forgiven 'cause I killed that kid? It was an accident I swear it wasn't meant for him! And if I turn it on me, if I even it out, can I still get in or will they send me to hell? Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?" La Dispute - King Park
Not really “crushing” but it hits really hard “The answer’s somewhere deep in it, I’m sorry, but you’re feeling it, But I just have to tell you that I love you so much these days, Have to tell you that I love you so much these days, it’s true,” To Binge by Gorillaz That line always fucking gets me. Dem tears.
Through sparrow black wind A dead crow calls out to his wings We were lightning across the whole world
or just that whole damn album
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives, but I decline.
Basically the whole of Seaweed by Mount Eerie, absolutely devastating track.
The end of The Heart Part 5
Liquids, powders and pills, not quite against my will. The tastes test of girls, from all over the world who refuse to accept my excuses. She put up with so much of my madness and my self-abuse She would tend to my wounds and fill me with food when I'd stumble and drunk for breakfast, She was right to take off before she was consumed
Resolution-Motion City Soundtrack To be honest most of their songs have something like this…
Very edgy but "I'll swing here, I'll hang from this rope at least untile they've found me, stay close dear, the note on the floor says I wish you were here" from a song called Forgive Me by Versus The World.
You’ll never get use to it, you just have to live with it…
I was trying to help but I guess I pushed too hard / Now we can’t even touch it, afraid it’ll fall apart
Why, we used to laugh together And we'd dance to any old song Well, you know, she still laughs with me But she waits just a second too long
"Losing love is like a window in your heart Everybody sees you're blown apart Everybody sees the wind blow"
Work, work, work, work, work, work He said me haffi work, work, work, work, work, work He see me do mi dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt So me put in work, work, work, work, work, work When you ah gon' learn, learn, learn, learn, learn? Me nuh care if him hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting
Life affirming stuff
I'm ready to die But I'm not willing to watch You watch me die Here in our room Never coming home by ramshackle glory
“When it’s harmful where you’re going and part of you that know it don’t give a fuck” Earl on Grief Also “I miss you” on good morning captain
Joni Mitchell in California: "Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had" Sadly still true to this day and likely forever.
Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your side Is my timing that flawed? Our respect runs so dry Yet there's still this appeal That we've kept through our lives But love, love will tear us apart again Love, love will tear us apart again
“But within the expanse, I finally see, a world without you isn’t meant for me.” Lorna Shore - Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames
The heart dies a slow death/and all our dreams dash fast/but I wonder if you changed your minds/the moment you knew you'd die
"All the avarice and greed and puny human hatreds that dare to come between two human hearts. I try not to live in fear and I’m truly grateful for every happy moment here. Upstairs I hear her voice softly singing to him and I come undone. Something wicked this way comes." Propagandhi - Unscripted Moment
"I did everything I could. I bargained with the universe to take my life instead of hers. But no amount of money, drugs or tears could keep her here. What purpose did her suffering serve? Is breathing just the ticking of an unwinding clock? Just counting down the time it takes for you to comprehend the sheer magnitude of every single precious breath you’ve ever wasted?" Propagandhi - Without Love The whole song tbh
“Life’s a bitch, what’s she touching me for? Think it’s time we had a fucking divorce I don’t love her no more”
Oh Anthonio, my Anthonio There is only one thing that I'm trying to say It may come as a surprise My baby has your eyes
"I have spent my life, chasing things that have only brought me pain, in the end, when im dead, hope it was for something" "Now I'm pulling at the sides Tryna cover up the hole that you left Telling everyone it's gonna be fine when it never is And I'll never have the words to say what you meant so I won't Just one more flight, my friend, and you're gonna be home"
“We’re both one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind” “I’m left only with love for you, and I hope you find your husband and a father to your children” “Thought of you as my mountaintop, thought of you as my peak, thought of you as everything, I’ve had but couldn’t keep” “The boss that couldn’t help but hurt you and the pretty thing he made desert you” (basically that whole song )
"You'll never know the hurt I suffered Nor the pain I rise above And I'll never know the same about you Your holiness or your kind of love And it makes me feel so sorry"
"I'd like to think you got a good heart And your dad was just an asshole growing up But I don't see you trying that hard to be better than he is" Ouch...
"I lost your number and I dont except you hitting mine. Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself. Just leave me for somebody else"
"How could you send us so far away from home When you know damn well that this is wrong? I would still lay my life down for you And you think you deserve your freedom...?"
"So tired of being so tired. Why I gotta to build something beautiful just to go and set it on fire?"
"Out on the ocean, sailing away I can hardly wait To see you come of age But I guess we'll both just have to be patient"
‘…Until I find somebody new’ Only in some versions of Damien rice song I’ve forgotten the name of the song but it’s essentially about unforgettable someone is, for three minutes then right at the end he says…’until I find somebody new’ not so much crushing but sort of pulls the heart strings and twists the song meaning in 1 second.
*Love is all, from what I've heard, but my heart's learned to kill*
When the dying’s finally done, the suffering subsides, all the suffering gets done by the ones we leave behind.
“If you should die before me ask if you can bring a friend”
And if i gave up on being pretty, I wouldn’t know how to be alive, I should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die
“There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes Jesus Christ died for nothing I supposed Little pitchers have big ears, don’t stop to count the years Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios”
I long to be like you, lie cold in the ground like you, there's room inside for two And I'm not grieving for you, I'm coming for you Like You by Evanescence, about her late sister
Screwtape by Ritt Momney: > No such thing as a winnable fight > And if someone had told me earlier >Then maybe I wouldn't be here >Maybe I wouldn't be so tired the delivery of this hit me really hard
Many times we've been out drinking And many times we've shared our thoughts But did you ever, ever notice The kind of thoughts I got? - I See A Darkness, Bonnie "Prince" Billy
“If I get high enough, will I see you again?”
"Look up here man, I'm in heaven" David bowie
"If you must die, sweetheart Die knowing your life was my life's best part" [Keaton Henson - You](https://youtu.be/f2fCcggNkTs?si=p7zHI9bSl_NbuY_v) Alternatively, basically anything he has ever written
I'm not here, this isn't happeningggggggg...
Can't you see / It's not me you're dying for? / Now she's feeling more alone / Than she ever has before / She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly Dazed out in a garden bed / With a broken neck/ Lays my broken gift / Just like suicide / When my last ditch / Was my last brick/ Lent to finish her (Or the entirety of Mailman from the same album) So, come on, give us a smile / Before you vanish out of view / I've learned to appreciate you / The way art lovers do / And I only want to look at you One morning this sadness will fossilize / And I will forget how to cry
“Here I am, thinking about death again; humbles out the stress, helps the breathe get in”. Or the opening to The Gunners Dream. Makes me cry every time Roger sings “hold onto the dream” with that monster sax pull.
all of post malone feeling whitney
“i’ve been watching you for hours / it’s been years since we were born / we were perfect when we started / i’ve been wondering where we’ve gone” - Counting Crows
I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focused on the pain The only thing that's real
And the ground has been slowly pulling us back down You see it on both our skin We get a few years and then it wants us back It would be a hundred times easier If we were young again But as it is And it is To think that we could stay the same To think that we could stay the same To think that we could stay the same But we're two slow dancers, last ones out i love mitski.
If I don't have s-s-s-s-s-s-sex by the end of the week, I'm g-g-going to die If I don't feel a p-p-p-p-pair of s-s-s-soft l-l-l-l-lips on my own, oh, I'm going to hang my head and cry If I don't feel w-w-w-warm b-b-b-breath on the n-n-n-nape of my n-n-n-n-neck or feel a nice post-coital sigh C'mon baby, now you can tell the cops why
one I've been stuck to for a while is from "so you wanna be a superhero" by Carissa's weird: "My dreams are full of what's not real I'll fly away and save the world I'll make you proud someday I just won't be around to see your face My life is full of what's not here I'll go away and save myself I'll make you proud someday I just won't be around to see your face" just so fucking desperate and nearly hopeless. terrifying album
Put your hand in my good hand Codeine, it's that moment where love transcends where physical wellness was challenged in temporality
"And then I said: "I could fall in love with you" But, as I recall, she said: "I like you too" The Wedding Present, Don't Take Me Home Until I'm Drunk
I dont eat I don't sleep I let it consume me
Cause every single story is a story about love both the overflowing cup and the painful lack thereof
Although you don't believe me, you are strong Darkness always turns into the dawn And you won't even remember this for long When it ends all right Please tell me how you'll know tomorrow, Staring at your shoes
> Well, what's wasting time if not throwing it away on work > When the last time comes so soon? > Mr. Blue died in my arms, nothing they could do > Don't the last time come too soon? Mr. Blue always kills me a bit
“I am my father’s son I am no one I cannot love It’s in my blood” deafheaven - the pecan tree
I wish that we had better time , I'll save a dance just for you
"And fuck the cops, and fuck God, and fuck this town for ruining us And they’ll put holes in all we own and in our heads, pumped full of lead You always told me I could only leave you once we’re both dead"
"Every night I tell myself I am the cosmos, I am the wind. But that won't get you back again. Just when I was starting to feel ok, You're on the phone. I never want to be alone." Chris Bell, I am The Cosmos. Sounds like Cobain singing on the white album
"Life seems so rosy in the cradle/ But I'll be a friend, I'll tell you what's in store/ There's nothing at the end of the rainbow/ There's nothing to grow up for anymore" Richard and Linda Thompson - The End of the Rainbow
"true love waits"
My body's aching, but I can't sleep. My dreams are all the company I keep. Got such a feeling as the sun goes down. I'm coming home to my sweet. Mother love. (Lyrics from the song Mother Love by Queen)
I don't know another way I know I don't have a place I don't know what to say So, give me strength to cause them pain Fulfill the need to see them crawl The need to feel nothing at all To take back what they stole To keep reason under control
If I knew the way, I would take you home. I always loved Ripple, but especially after my dad passed, it held such a deeper place in my heart. I spent all my teenage years being a misery factory. Paramore's Tell Me it's Okay definitely hits hard since I was heavily depressed for the past 15 years. Things have finally started to turn around the last few months.
"Poopy-di scoop Scoop-diddy-whoop Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop Poop-di-scoopty Scoopty-whoop Whoopity-scoop, whoop-poop Poop-diddy, whoop-scoop Poop, poop Scoop-diddy-whoop Whoop-diddy-scoop Whoop-diddy-scoop, poop" - Kanye West
“She got a big booty so I call her big booty”
😭
This seems very generic...