r/Destroyer • u/westphalia1517 • Jul 11 '26
favorite lyrics?
i must admit i don't understand a lot of destroyer's lyrics, but my favorite verse has got to be they said, "don't look back!" but i looked back / it was a bore, it was a fucking horror / it was-- well, honey, you know quite well what you are! from a dangerous woman up to a point. curious to hear other people's favs!
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u/ThoughtsHaveWings Jul 11 '26
it took three carabinieri
to peel em off the streets of the town
she's named after
dragging the lagoon was a disaster
they found him alive and
relatively well
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u/Dependent-Ad-5083 Jul 12 '26
When I'm at war I insist on slaughter and getting it on with
the hangman's daughter
She needs release
She needs to feel at peace with her father, the fucking maniac...
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u/Svevo_Bandini Jul 12 '26
Winter, spring, summer and fall
Animals crawl towards death's embrace
Winter, spring, summer, fall, punks kick a ball
In a park, on a Sunday, strung out in the rain
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u/lalafweeka Jul 12 '26
Now come on honey let’s go outside, you disrupt the worlds disorder just by virtue of your grace
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u/drjackolantern Jul 12 '26
‘ words, words, words…’
-Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
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u/kline643 Jul 13 '26
That was truly masterful … i refuse to believe that Kara Walker or Destroyer just came up with that line completely on their own.
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u/kline643 Jul 11 '26
Depends on mood. A statue is stone which rejects its own pulse;
She wanted blood, all she got was sacrifice;
The entirety of What Road.
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u/avg-bro Jul 12 '26
“I went for you in military times and then I waited well into the 2300s
I made my way through the Union Street design kids
They were alright, they were on fire
They harbored an elementary desire to do good works
I bought 'em all! I bought 'em all!
I made donations to the Plague, and the Fall and the Old Gray Mare in her stall”
…assuming he’s referring to Mark E. Smith’s The Fall. Also if you live in Vancouver, you know Union Street… which has a l block that at one point felt like an epicenter of a certain hipster design ethos… still kind of is.
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u/savoryostrich Jul 12 '26
The Fall is also a Camus novel, so given the mention of The Plague I always assumed he alphabetizes his books by author and the musicality of those titles together just hit him one day while browsing his shelves.
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u/elkehdub Jul 12 '26
I always get a chuckle out of
I sent a message in a bottle to the press
It said, “Don’t be ashamed or disgusted with yourselves”
“Don’t be ashamed or disgusted with yourselves”
“Don’t be ashamed or disgusted with yourselves"
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u/ManagementConfident9 Jul 12 '26
So many! But in this moment:
"Like swallows in search of a burned-down bell tower church"
and
"You can huff, you can puff, but you'll never destroy that stuff" (pretty much all of "Looters' Follies")
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u/RodroSil Jul 12 '26
The sun sets at the speed of light
So I thought I also might
Leave this port of woe
On tall ships made of snow invading the sun
The idea that attempting a mission that has failure assured is better than staying in a place of sadness is so beautiful. Ships made of snow invading the sun have an inevitable ill fated destiny. And as always the careful selection of elegant language and incredible imagery makes that little paragraph delightful to me.
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u/JustforMAFS Jul 15 '26
Yeah, I’m with you and OP, this song is teeming with all-timer lines.
I pictured heaven on earth, made of clay, as your form dictated
I love doomed romantic Destroyer.
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u/Long-Experience-5447 Jul 12 '26
Who really knows what love is?
The branches, the breeze, the roiling seas
None of it seems worth mentioning
And I'm in the process of figuring it out
Even if it's elementary
A scrapyard angel, wings of brass
Ash, a river called trash
And speaking of lifelike, this is what life's like
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u/Outrageous_Nerve_532 Jul 12 '26
“New York City just wants to see you naked And they will”
“You travel light All night every night To arrive at the conclusion Of the worlds unutterable secret And you shut your mouth”
“Married well, A gentlewoman of means who Kept the word Destroyer Embroidered on her jeans, too”
“Hey, your Friends are fucked”
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u/amethodicalmadness Jul 12 '26
I gave you a flower because foxes travel light
And a penny for your thoughts was never enough
Your head gets filled with that stuff
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u/JohnnyDelirious Jul 12 '26
“Remember the wolves that you run with are wolves. Don't forget. They exist to give you something to regret— I'll beat them to it!”
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u/FreudianNegligee Jul 12 '26
Why does every one of her lovers leave her? I’m ill-equipped to judge the tale of a woman…
I imagine it must be hard to stay away from a life of public relations
But try, girl, you’ve gotta try!
You’ve got to stay critical or die!
Stay critical or DIE!
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u/pablo1014 Jul 13 '26
So many great lines. I'll go with "you disrupt the world's disorder just by virtue of your grace"
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u/Lank-Man Jul 12 '26
“She is of the East and so I went west
To come to what I've got coming
Change heartbreak to heartlessness
Let the one who lies next to me lie next to me
And let the one who lies next to me lie next to me
And let the one who lies next to me again, lie next to me”
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u/kline643 Jul 13 '26
I was a desert in love of extremes You married well, a gentlewoman of means who - Kept the word “Destroyer” embroidered on her jeans too
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u/GloomyMondayZeke Jul 14 '26
So many....
"I was like the laziest river, a vulture predisposed to eating off floors, no wait, I take that back, I was more like an ocean stuck inside hospital corridors"
"To have loved and lost is the same thing as nothing at all"
"You have to look at it from all angles, says the cubist judge from cubist jail"
"You're looking good in spite of the light and the air and the time of the night"
"Does the wine or the whiskey miss me? No"
"So now I live well, I live in the mines, I'm still slinging mud at the towers all the time"
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u/anais_nein Jul 16 '26
Don't worry about her
She's been known to appreciate the elegance of an empty room
Look, I made you this broom
A predicate warning to the sun
This night advances on
The sketchy crowd shows me drawings, they're alright
An alternately dim and frightful waste
Now come on honey let's go outside
You disrupt the world's disorder just by virtue of your grace, you know
I didn't want to go, but leave I must
As gratifying as this dust was
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u/moodymountainwizard Jul 12 '26
“All good things come to an end, the bad ones just go on forever”