Not sure if they’re my favourite, but always liked this sequence in Bulls on Parade:
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war, cannibal animal, I
Walk the corner to the rubble
That used to be a library, line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don’t know keeps the contracts alive and movin’
They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells“Why do we always send the poor”
we’re rolling bigger DOOBIES
and growing bigger BOOBIES
”en jaksa mutta jatkan / tämän yhden mäen vielä / sateen jälkeen täältä näkee kauas”
Vorna - Kauas
Don’t know exactly why, but this has always got to me, hits some spot nothing else prior ever had, and nothing else still has not since.
Translated to English, it’s something like:
“I have no will or energy, but I shall climb / this one last hill / after the rain you can see so far from here”
It doesn’t translate well, but something about it really resonates with me. I’ve lived with clinic depression for so long, and I’ve been so close to giving in, but always just choosing to climb that one last hill gives some perspective and after all these years… here I am.
I’m too tired to continue, but I’ll fight this one more fight before I fall to my eternal slumber. And after the fight, as the dust settles, the rains stop… well, the view is beautiful. The world is beautiful. But I’m tired… too tired to go on. So I shall only fight this one more fight before I get my peace. One last glance at the beauty. Ah, one more fight, but no more, and I’ll return back up this hill and this view shall be my last. But it’s so beautiful. Only one more fight, and… And so on and so on.
It just feels like I belong in those words.
Hello my friend. Sorry for the late reply.
I recognised the Finnish writing, even though I only know some basics, and I listened to the song.
Thanks for sharing how significant the lyrics are for you. I’m sorry for your struggle. It was a problem for me in my twenties and I was lucky to be able to mostly deal with it (therapy + medication + positive life experiences). I know many others are not so lucky.
I hope you choose to continue to stay for the beauty, in spite of the struggle.
This world, it turns on the thought of you dead.
- local H, misanthrope.
If you want, a second to breathe, I’ll give you all of my love, give you all that you need
- Sjowgren, seventeen
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Woah, that’s a solid line!
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How violent is hope
Love only knows
The Pogues - Pont Mirabeau
All you get is today, try to see it that way, don’t hold on too tight
Loosen your shoes, don’t listen to news that keeps you up at night
Don’t try to explain, try not to complain, no one really cares
And don’t try to find your place in line 'cause it’s everywhere
You don’t need to find your place in line 'cause it’s everywhere
Chris Smither - Place in Line
https://youtu.be/MztnxPiiDbIThat question is too hard, so I will just answer with the latest lyrics I brought up to anyone - was listening to Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, not a lyrical powerhouse. But the very beginning is one of the best beginnings -
“And I’d give up forever to touch you” is such a strong opening.
Usually for me it’s more a combination of the lyrics and delivery, not just the words.
At the moment?
I’m not searching the sky for a reason to live 'Cause I found beauty right here and found the passion to give So let me give you my heart, let me give you my tears Let me give you my life, let me give you my fears
I’ve always interpreted it as someone finding an alternative to suicide, by helping those around them.
I salute at the threshold of the North Sea of my mind And I nod to the boredom that drove me here to face the tide And I swim, I swim, oh swim Dip a toe in the ocean, oh how it hardens and it numbs The rest of me is a version of man built to collapse in crumbs And if I hadn’t come now to the coast to disappear I may have died in a landslide of rocks and hopes and fears So I swim until you can’t see land Swim until you can’t see land Swim until you can’t see land Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?
Up to my knees now, do I wade, do I dive? The sea has seen my like before, though it’s my first and perhaps last time Let’s call me a baptist, call this a drowning of the past She is there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back So I swim until you can’t see land Swim until you can’t see land Swim until you can’t see land Are you a man? Are you a bag of sand?
And the water is taller than me And the land is a marker line All I have is a body adrift in water, salt and sky
Edit: I had listed the lyrics to Boycott Heaven due to recency bias, but after more thought I think it’s Oblivion Song by cloudkissed
🎶It’s comforting to know that in a hundred years or so
🎶My memory will all but fade away
🎶It’s interesting to note that every clumsy song I wrote
🎶Will outlive me by forever and a day
🎶‘Cause despite all my potential I’m quite inconsequential
🎶And these tears that feel torrential will not matter any more
🎶And maybe it sounds morbid, but if my efforts are rewarded by oblivion
🎶That sounds nice to me
I’m glad I read those lyrics. Thanks for that, and the link.
immediately two very different songs come to mind.
aesop rock ‘daylight’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igUsHrFqegE
la dispute ‘king park’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8IT-xrQRqk
Between the Bars by Elliott Smith is a beautiful but sad song about alcohol addiction. These lyrics about how it robs you of potential while at the same time making you feel like anything is possible really hit home for me.
Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do
You won’t but you might
The potential you’ll be
That you’ll never see
The promises you’ll only make
- To you I’m just a man
- To me you’re everything.
Something in the orange - Zac Bryan
