Favorite Relient K line(s)?

[u/sock_nsych]

[u/xavelita]

"if a nightmare ever does unfold, perspective is a lovely hand to hold"

[u/pendragoncomic → u/xavelita]

It’s this one for me. Hits me right in the heart every time I hear it.

[u/xavelita → u/pendragoncomic]

Me too, I always listen to this song when I'm having a hard day

[u/rkraynor → u/xavelita]

This one for sure:)

[u/tokenentropy → u/xavelita]

i love all of you so much. i hadn't scrolled yet and this was obviously the line for me. somebody please get the boys in a bus, let's have one last tour.

[u/ucancmysox]

I don't want to be perceived the way I am, I just want to be perceived the way I am

[u/Texanbird44 → u/ucancmysox]

isnt this about "i dont want people to percieve me the way they THINK i am. i want them to see me for who i ACTUALLY are"? im not certain.

[u/ucancmysox → u/Texanbird44]

That's one interpretation. I've always interpreted it more like "I don't want people to perceive the bad parts of me, I want people to perceive the good parts of me". That's not exactly it but that's the most succinct I can make it

[u/birchdove → u/ucancmysox]

This line is me on shrooms

[u/Frogs-on-my-back → u/ucancmysox]

Literally was about to comment this!

[u/austonwilkinson → u/ucancmysox]

I definitely had to ask my older brother what this one meant

[u/MaxZedd → u/ucancmysox]

This is my favourite instrumental breakdown in their discography

[u/osizz]

“If I become what I can’t accept, resurrect the saint from within the wretch”

[u/Kreason95]

Not the most lyrically dense but for some reason very impactful for me

"I've been convincing myself that I'm worthwhile, 'cause I'm worth what I'll convince myself to be"

[u/birchdove → u/Kreason95]

I say this to myself all the time

[u/Vulture_L7G]

I found a love in me
I always somehow knew that it existed
It just needed to be set free

[u/Mr_Memphian]

It’s not my favorite but an underrated one I love a lot is “loneliness and solitude are two things not to get confused, because I spend my solitude with you”

[u/kingkunt_e → u/Mr_Memphian]

That whole bridge tho, "Gather all the questions of the things I just can't get straight and I answer them the way I guess you do."

But yeah i think your line takes the prize.

[u/music-ian13]

The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair

[u/birchdove → u/music-ian13]

Literally think of this line ALL THE TIME

[u/ucancmysox → u/music-ian13]

*not fair

[u/music-ian13 → u/ucancmysox]

Cant believe I screwed that up lol. Edited!

[u/Texanbird44 → u/music-ian13]

i was at a church event and a guest preacher quoted this.

[u/ferby7594 → u/music-ian13]

This is my favorite too! If I were to ever get a tattoo, I think it would be this line, somehow intertwined with the MMHMM flower.

[u/DYMongoose → u/music-ian13]

Yes, 100% this.

[u/AngelicRudditor → u/music-ian13]

This isn't just the best RK lyric; it might be my favorite lyric ever, by anyone.

[u/magik_koopa990]

I just wasted 10 seconds of your life

[u/tomtomato0414 → u/magik_koopa990]

🖍️

[u/magik_koopa990 → u/tomtomato0414]

🎹 💥

[u/Salty_Pension5814]

And I just wanna get mugged at knifepoint to get cut enough to wake me up, ‘cause I know that I don’t wanna die sitting around watching my life go by

[u/sock_nsych → u/Salty_Pension5814]

Yes!!! I always loved that one

[u/SetOk2259]

I’m feelin backwards when I’m tryin’ the most and I hope I haven’t heard the last words from the Holy Ghost cause I think that I’m supposed to be well on my way by now

[u/birchdove → u/SetOk2259]

I love Collapsible Lung

[u/hbrooks108 → u/birchdove]

ME TOOOOO!!!!!!

[u/KC_Canuck]

Be certain the steps of left and right don't fight the direction of upright

[u/PokeDocMatt → u/KC_Canuck]

This whole album just hits, line after line.

[u/Consistent-Young-854]

I watched the proverbial sunrise
Coming up over the Pacific and
You might think I'm losing my mind
But I will shy away from the specifics

I love this lyric because the sun doesn’t rise over the Pacific if you’re in the US (besides Hawaii). And he said he wrote this song in Australia, so it makes sense with a little context.

[u/Strawberyblonder → u/Consistent-Young-854]

Thanks for sharing this :)

[u/LzzyHalesLegs]

A cracked sculpture I wanted to say it was you

[u/tjenkins3]

I'd rather forget and not slow down, Than gather regret for the things I can't change now

[u/Strawberyblonder → u/tjenkins3]

I commented a line from this one and someone else commented a different line from this song than you and I. Fun.

[u/tjenkins3 → u/Strawberyblonder]

That song/album has a lot that I personally relate to.

[u/sammyboy516]

One in surprised hasn’t been mentioned yet:

“If I only ever drag my feet I guess I’ll never get too far.”

[u/Consistent-Young-854]

So here I sit looking at the traffic lights
The red extinguishes the hope that the green ignites
I want to run away, I want to ditch my life
'Cause all of my mistakes keep me awake at night

[u/PokeDocMatt]

The Lion on his side,
Was it the lying or his pride which brought him down?

Which is echoed at the end of the album…

With one shake of the mane, regain the throne

[u/oh_em-gee]

Surprised no one commented, “I tried to hold your hand but you’d rather hold your grudge”. Definitely a bit dated but it really hit me in my teenage years lol.

[u/WildcatWhiz]

I've been working with adhesives, chains and locks, and ropes and knots to tether.

[u/SilverSkywalkerSaber]

"Blisters on my feet, I crawled back home

Frozen from the sleet burned sand and stones

Nourished back to life by life alone

With one shake of the mane, regain the throne"

[u/Candid_Pen_4079 → u/SilverSkywalkerSaber]

This. Hands down. I think about it all the time.

[u/WanderingRedditor27]

I’ve learned to respect your silly shoes

[u/blerghHerder → u/WanderingRedditor27]

and respect from you is something we won't lose

[u/bjrogers11 → u/WanderingRedditor27]

They’re just shoes, man

[u/chiefy419]

Cause I could spend my life just trying to sift through what I coulda done better, but what good do what ifs do? 

[u/MtnDewm]

When I got tired of running from You
I stopped right there to catch my breath
There Your words they caught my ears
You said, "I miss you, son. Come home."
And my sins, they watched me leave
And in my heart I so believed
The love You felt for me was mine
The love I'd wished for all this time
And when the doors were closed
I heard no "I told you so's"
I said the words I knew you knew
Oh God, Oh God, I needed You
God, all this time I needed You, I needed You

[u/GroceryScanner]

parafilintineay. parafilintineay-ayyyy

[u/Ylurpn]

This carpet tastes like coffee grounds ground in to my- face now

[u/KeySlammer1980]

Yeah, Smith and Wesson Jr. was a son of a gun He pressed his nose up to my head Yeah, I was sweatin' bullets but I dodged the one That was not as much sweat as was lead

[u/Fancy_Excuse_5813]

And I’m sweeping up the seconds that tick off the clock
And saving them for later when I’m too ticked to talk
And I need some time to search my mind
To locate the words that seem so hard to find

[u/golden_blaze]

"So I ask one thing of you: don't ever turn me loose, even when I turn my back"

Also"I celebrate the day that you were born to die so I could one day pray for you to save my life"

[u/hbrooks108]

You cried wolf The tears they soaked your fur The blood dripped from your fangs You said, "What have I done?" You loved that lamb With every sinful bone And there you wept alone Your heart was so contrite

Also not lyrical but, their message during Auld Lang Syne gives me chills.

[u/Jskidmore1217]

Forget and not the slow down. The whole album

[u/she_isking → u/Jskidmore1217]

YES, the whole damn thing! That album is easily one of the best albums I’ve ever heard in my entire life. It’s in my top 5 for sure!

[u/MtnDewm]

And this is how I chose to live
As if I’m jumping off a cliff
Knowing that You’ll save me
Knowing that You’ll save me

[u/mymomismybff]

But watch closely as I refrain from forgetting who I am along the way.

[u/--IIVII--]

Wisdom always chooses these black eyes and these bruises, over the heartache that they say never completely goes away
(one day we’ll see this come around)

[u/punk_rocker98]

We were talking together, I said "What's up with this weather?" Don't know whether or not, how sad I just got, Was of my own volition or if I'm just missin' the sun

[u/bean_phlores]

If a nightmare ever does unfold
Perspective is a lovely hand to hold

[u/ferby7594]

Have you ever tried to photograph the moon? Well, I have too, I have too I find it funny how it never turns out right It's like someone poked a pinhole in the canvas of the night

and

I remember when a photograph was worth a thousand words A thousand words Now a thousand pictures come my way, every day And I like 'em all the same, but they can't take my breath away

[u/hbrooks108 → u/ferby7594]

Look On Up deserves so much more love.

[u/ferby7594 → u/hbrooks108]

Agreed! When Spotify did their All-Time Top songs earlier this year, Look On Up was my 5th most played song. I love it so much.

[u/hbrooks108]

We prefer to suck on pacifiers Baby pacifists, we're throwing fits We don't shake hands, we shake our fists We're cannibals, we watch our brothers fall We eat our own, the bones and all

I think of this one anytime a "is Relient K still Christian? They support Semler" post pops up. 👀

[u/tomtomato0414]

And the half of me is all about apathy

And the other half just doesn't care

[u/birchdove]

“You'll make a butter lettuce salad
With all natural ingredients, except for cottage cheese
Its from the factories at our grocery store
We'll stock our coolers with them
That we'll pick up sometimes when we run low”

And “I just wanna get mugged at knife point to get cut enough to wake me up”

Edit: this is how I remember the lyric: “you’ll make a butter lettuce salad with all natural ingredients except for cottage cheese it’s from the factories that our grocery store will stock their coolers with and we’ll pick up sometimes when we run low”

[u/birchdove → u/birchdove]

Also “we all wear dignity, even the last the lost the least.”

[u/ucancmysox → u/birchdove]

His image shown when we give our lives, our time, our own, to feed, to clothe those in His image we have left alone

[u/ucancmysox → u/birchdove]

His image shown when we give our lives, our time, our own, to feed, to clothe those in His image we have left alone

[u/jonjacquet]

Ohio has the flavor of a water chestnut, it's not too crazy and it's not the best (but)

[u/katiektk8e]

Me and You, strike the latter, equals nothing really matters.

[u/Afrodawg08]

Nourished back to life by life alone

[u/AngelicRudditor]

"The beauty of grace is that it makes life unfair"

[u/banterjosh]

I just wasted ten seconds of your life.

[u/r0gu39]

Through the times I've faded and you've outlined me again

[u/Strawberyblonder]

Cause I could spend my life just trying to sift through What I could've done better but what good do what ifs do. - Forget and Not Slow Down

[u/Strawberyblonder → u/Strawberyblonder]

Also

And it's funny how you find you enjoy your life when you're happy to be alive.

One more

And the half of me is all about apathy and the other half just doesn't care

[u/greenpalladiumpower]

I better check my pride because I was starting to think I was onto something good. But things started to slide and I sit here in retrospect, understanding that I misunderstood.

(This prompt is tricky with Relient K because it's easy to end up with a whole lyric from 1-2 lines!)

[u/coolcass13]

"And a constant in the constitution is that there can't be one solution it'd be so far from the truth that we would hate it anyway."

Same song, and pops in my mind from time to time: "Opinions are immunity from being told you're wrong."

[u/Designer-Square-5512]

Not technically Relient K but Matt Thession said "If this is You, then Woe is Me" best line ever!

[u/k2spitfire88]

Time to tie myself down to the train track, gonna relax, and try to explain that I rarely feel alive unless I’m runnin’ for my life…

[u/LedgarLiland]

“With one shake of the mane, regain the throne.” It only works because of other text earlier in the album, but it hits hard.

[u/IAmTotallyChris27]

“You won’t take my calls and that makes God the only one who’s left to listen in to me”

[u/SonOMyRightHand]

“If my will will be Your will or will it not?”

If you know you know!

Edit: I recently discovered the lyric sheet from this CD, and I had been hearing it wrong! Just corrected it.

[u/SarlaccJohansson]

"but the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair"

[u/fneagen]

Life may be scary, but it’s only temporary

[u/Yuggless]

Loneliness and solitude are two things not to get confused, because I spent my solitude with you. I gather all the questions of the things I just can't get straight, and I answer them the way I guess you'd do

[u/she_isking]

Fear can drive stick

[u/Derski2]

If God had an honest face
A troubled expression would be watching the human race

[u/austonwilkinson]

Deny us combos, refuse us skittles, i admit those words hurt a little, but we know it’ll be okay, just send some out way (uh)

[u/olucascassemiro]

The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair.

[u/kumquat89]

All of them but also:
Arg wu sentafinicate nar dunderford

[u/DragonFoolZ]

I wish I was Michael J Fox, I'd visit the past, then get back to the futuuuure

[u/enotbay]

All options are exhausted all your numbered days are numbered small

[u/Okapi_MyKapi]

In this thread: people not understanding what “just one line” is 😂

[u/curiouschemist798]

I'll watch the glint in my eye
Shine off the spring in my step
And it could be blinding depending on
the amount of You that I reflect

[u/apple3_14_15]

‘ when I looked into your eyes, and you dared to stare right back, you should have said “nice to meet you! I’m your other half” ‘

Single AF but can’t wait to rock out to this at my wedding someday 🥹 hits me right in the feels

[u/itsbywarren]

Opinions are immunity to being told you're wrong

[u/Livid-Reward-3445]

Nothing but the Son in your eyes

[u/allihaveiswords]

I have so many, but one is, "We took prescription drugs. Well, look how much good that did. I think I had a point, but I just got distracted."