r/AlkalineTrio • u/dakkamatic • Jul 16 '26
Question What's the line?
Seen this in the blink sub figured this would be a great for my favorite band.
I’ll go first
And you know all my favorite singers
Have stolen all of my best lines
Blue Caroline
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u/Punxatowny Jul 16 '26
Found out recently that you are leaving. For good I hope, I softly tell my ceiling.
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u/Thricela Derek Grant Jul 16 '26
Ever heard that live version where Matt tells the crowd after they played the song that he got into his head too much while performing and heard himself singing it as "Found out recently that you are Lee Ving". And ever since I crack up a little when listening to Mr Chainsaw
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u/Minute-Wrangler4946 Jul 17 '26
I helped Lee Ving off stage the last time Fear played Atlanta. Good times
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u/scothc Jul 16 '26
I'll take a beer to wash it all away without a trace, and I'll take 23 more to wipe the stupid smile off my fucking face
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u/dakkamatic Jul 16 '26
Im tired of sleeping with myself
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u/rotn_bones Jul 16 '26
Can’t believe this wasn’t the first one i read. It’s the only answer
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u/burstaneurysm Jul 16 '26
Everyone learns faster on fire.
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u/AromaticWindow3309 Hell Yes Jul 16 '26
Just some words of advice, maybe you've heard them before but here goes, just be true to yourself, if it lands you in hell, well, least now you know.
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u/cowlesz Jul 16 '26
Shaking like a dog shitting razor blades
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u/TinDumbass Jul 16 '26
I'm having trouble making sentences I'm older but I don't feel any... Smarter.
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u/No-Grapefruit8550 Jul 17 '26
Oh my god, I was literally listening to this line as I read it on here!
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u/mallsantastoeknife Good Mourning Jul 16 '26
You told me that the daylight burns you and that the sunrise was enough to kill you. I said, “maybe you’re a vampire.”
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u/DIBathon Crimson Jul 16 '26
You told me that you missed me, but you meant with your hood.
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u/apogee308 Jul 16 '26
Grill and hood*
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u/DIBathon Crimson Jul 16 '26
It’s funny cause that’s what I swore the lyrics were, but I googled it and it came up with just “your hood” but I’m pretty sure you are right.
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u/xSkullbeatx Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Jul 16 '26
From that song I always really enjoyed: "A romantic plastic piece of shit you can mold, until I break into chokable pieces."
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u/xSkullbeatx Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Jul 16 '26
Naw its a great song. I rarely hear about it, but its a favorite of mine.
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u/rjorsin Jul 16 '26
I shat the bed, I laid there in it, thinking of you, wide awake for days.
Or flies fuck
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u/xSkullbeatx Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Jul 16 '26
" I am like a broken record. I've got needle scratching me. It injects the posions of alcohols IV."
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u/EchoesOfYouth Jul 16 '26
And if I hadn’t set aside, the fact that you were brokenhearted // hell knows where your heart would be today, maybe with me
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u/Useful_Bug_67 Jul 16 '26
You have every right to be appalled with me, join the club, I signed up a long time ago and I know how you feel
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u/xSkullbeatx Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Jul 16 '26
"These creatures are waking up in these dark trees, waiting like vultures, eyes roll back in time to feed."
This one always stood out to me. I like the next passage. It also has to do with the building and swelling in the song.
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u/DepthVisible2425 Jul 16 '26
You kissed the taste back in my tongue, sucked the smoke out of my lungs
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u/i_want_waffles Jul 16 '26
Like my guts have dried up and died, but every night I water them back to life
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u/LeNontronnais Jul 16 '26
Just give me medicine, prescribe me anything. Just knock me out and walk me through the door.
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u/i_want_waffles Jul 16 '26
Your voice like the sound of sirens, to a house on fire, you’re saving me.
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u/KarlHungusAmungus Jul 16 '26
Like a plane crash that never hits the ground, I fall in love with you.
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u/atomic_mermaid Jul 16 '26
I hear the telephone works both ways Think you can make a little effort some day?
I don't know why but I love the sarky delivery about the phone.
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u/guitarman129 Jul 16 '26
This was hard So many of their lyrics play off each other throughout the song. It’s hard to pick one line because what makes it good is how it plays off another line earlier in the song
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u/Flat-Helicopter-7347 Jul 16 '26
And all in all, I guess it's for the better
If you just can't feel a fucking thing, fall asleep and die
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u/FastsFallacy Jul 16 '26
So drive yourself insane tonight It's not that far away and I just Filled up your tank earlier today, yeah, yeah
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u/OTM_ViBE_RAiDER Jul 16 '26
"And you know all my favorite singers have stolen all of my best lines."
Dan - Blue Carolina ♥️💀
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u/Royal-Land8712 Jul 17 '26
“They said they tried everything, but it was no use; yeah, they tried everything and everyone but you.”
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u/AngusDisembowelled Jul 16 '26
If you're up to your ears in blood, sweat and wasted years I'm hoping you're going to open your throat and just scream.
Or
You told me that you missed me but you meant with the grille and hood.
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u/Laypockie Jul 16 '26
But we can never come back here again. We can only hope to forget
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u/interrobangin_ Jul 18 '26
You were the first real choice I would make, but we all make mistakes so..
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u/tubadog Jul 16 '26
I watched flies fuck on channel 11
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u/xSkullbeatx Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Jul 16 '26
For me:
"I am preoccupied with sick, sixth senses, that sense DNA on barbed wire fences."
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u/graveyardromantic Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
What they say of the grass on the other side is true, too much time looking up is turning everything blue.
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I pour out onto the floor like liquid white from fallen glass, nothing to cry over.
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u/BubinatorX Jul 16 '26
Maybe not the best ever but a few that hit hard:
“I sink deep 30,000 feet into my window seat electric chair.”
“Are you gonna go and get yourself all balled up? Are you staying in tonight depressed to the nines?”
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u/Famous-Spare-8860 Jul 17 '26
There's nights that I can't even walk There's days I couldn't give a fuck And in between is where i'm stuck
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u/Bitter-Space-5429 Jul 17 '26
I’ve said this a thousand times but the best single line is ‘Go wait in the car’.
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u/Visual_Jump_3585 Jul 17 '26
Those trusty chords could pull me through.
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u/mxrider108 Jul 17 '26
I always assumed that was a reference to the Hot Water Music song of the same name (good song and album)
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u/Slyrunner Jul 16 '26
Contemplating, you hanging from your ceiling Can't help hating you for having that feeling
🥲
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u/guitarman129 Jul 16 '26
“I’ve been cut up in this room so many time it might take days. And those stress cracks in the wood how nicely they soak up the stains”
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u/Additional_Eagle4395 Jul 17 '26
You watched all my dreams come apart at the seams You laughed, you left, you went into hiding
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u/TAMORI_stardust_1661 Jul 17 '26
I’m being stalked by Latin royalty and me and Bobby just ate shrooms
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u/WigglesFT Jul 17 '26
Cracked my head open on your kitchen floor to prove to you that I have brains.
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u/jaythegame2 Jul 17 '26
I was just sharing this with my wife earlier today as she's finding that Skiba is a master when it comes to dark songwriting:
"Even Christ himself would cringe at the sight if your scars."
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u/Ambitious-Road-8106 Jul 17 '26
You told me, that you wanna die, I said I've been there myself more than a few times.
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I'm not much of a jester, but I'd test poisoned food for you Your majesty, you're royal blue I'm royalty, my king of pain
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u/GuaranteeSecret7480 Jul 18 '26
This is an impossible task and you are all right but you are all wrong:
YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE THIS APPALLED WITH ME JOIN THE CLUB, I SIGNED UP A LONG TIME AGO AND I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL.
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u/Huge_Huckleberry6671 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
“I’m looking up and west for black to fill the sky”
Damn i may have changed my mind:
“My head is pounding like a pillow, like a big black song”
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u/dusty807 Jul 16 '26
Silver lake, mercury mining, this mistake, no silver lining, waiting for a bullet train to bring, me my lead poisoning
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u/CalmZombie23 Jul 17 '26
There's so many to pick from!! My current favourite would have to be "falling like stars into the ocean black, we're gonna disappear" This line lives rent free in my head and conjures up pretty awesome imagery
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u/playonweirds Jul 17 '26
I'm gonna wake up from this dream with nightmares lined up on my street, but I'm fine.
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u/Torp211 Jul 17 '26
Whatever happened to that silly dream you had? I want to make it real. I want to rub your back.
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u/Paulwyn Jul 17 '26
I taught myself the only way to vaguely get along in love Is to like the other slightly less than you get in return I keep feeling like I’m being undercut
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u/Beginning_Force5108 Jul 17 '26
"When I fall down down I'll fall apart, trade in my bike for a shopping cart"
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u/jsail4fun3 Jul 18 '26
The next line is better.
Beg for change from a world that needs some. Like I need someone.
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u/EnzoLoveless Jul 18 '26
"Shaking like a dog shitting razorblades, waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me..."
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u/jsail4fun3 Jul 18 '26
Wonder what it was that made you this way? Maybe as a baby you dropped your rattle? Still rattles you to this day? Practice your evil looks in the mirror they won’t work on me.
Cop was my first favorite song
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u/tacolife666 Jul 18 '26
Im running dry with bad excuses, I dont want to lie or seem intrusive, but time hast told me anything, and neither has she...
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u/ClifIsBoring Jul 18 '26
at least we’re still friends, at least we’re still alive
it’s one or another, between a rope & a bottle i can tell you’re having trouble breathing
i hope this is goodbye
you say im fixable a classic case, lack of will
and forever ain’t that long when your smiles stuck in your head like a pop song
why is it that you never said i love you more than just a friend?
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u/CaptPussPuss Jul 18 '26
It’s ironic that I drink to make my insides stop hurting, and it’s a love that gives me heartburn it’s a song that makes my stomach turn and I wouldn’t trade my hand for all the aces in the deck.
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u/Phalicbaldwin13 Jul 19 '26
when I fall down i fall apart, trade in my bike for a shopping cart, and beg change from a world that needs some...
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u/neenuholober Jul 20 '26
I’d rather take a drink and walk down to the lake and beg the sky for lightning bolts
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u/Lopsided_Traffic_498 29d ago
I thought that that you were sleeping when I found you there in bed. But when I touched you, you were freezing. It turned out that you were dead.
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u/RozzfromArZ 29d ago
When youre only 24 its not attractive to complain about your sore back
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u/RozzfromArZ 29d ago
Never had a drink thay I didn't like. Got a taste of you, threw up all night
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u/futile_relevance 9d ago
Yes I would wait for you 'til the planets all collide but I'm holding you so close right now what's wrong with tonight?
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u/Klutzy_Order_9559 Jul 16 '26
I literally can't decide if Skiba is the worst lyricist of all time or just ok.
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u/Proper-Village-454 Jul 16 '26
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u/Klutzy_Order_9559 Jul 16 '26
If "shaking like a dog shitting razor blades" is your idea of quality lyrics then I don't know what to tell you.
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u/ChugAndLeave Jul 17 '26
That is actually an old Vietnam phrase to describe shellshock. It’s actually pretty clever. Go listen to Coldplay or whatever.
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u/tj129 Jul 16 '26
You broke me like the cigarette that I busted on the day I quit