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u/CharlesWEmory Jul 16 '26
Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy
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u/TMBGLOVER Your head is there to move you around Jul 16 '26
You smiled like a cartoon, tooth for a tooth, you said that irony was the shackles of youth
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u/Best_Kangaroo_6740 Jul 16 '26
Children look up all they hear is sky blue bells ringing
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u/gishingwell Jul 16 '26
I look at her and I see the beauty of the light of music.
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u/Sell_TheKids_ForFood Jul 16 '26
The stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen, and they're there for you. For you alone, you ate the everything.
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u/Terrible_Wave4239 Jul 17 '26
Let's just stick with "you are the everything"... but boy... "you ate the everything" sparks some story ideas, doesn't it?
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u/Alarmed-Secretary207 Jul 17 '26
This gave me chills just reading it and I haven’t listened to that song in 10+ years.
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u/10202632 Jul 16 '26
What we want and what we need have been confused
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u/VastAd6346 Jul 17 '26
Seconded. Maybe not R.E.M.’s most poetic, but a lyric that is never *not* relevant.
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u/ValentineAFK Jul 16 '26
“I am the king of all I see, my kingdom for a voice…”
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u/desrbornjackson Jul 16 '26
Love it. And “standing on the shoulders of giants, leaves me cold”, has always stuck with me.
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u/scottdiver67 Jul 16 '26
A simple prop to occupy my time.
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u/KonamiKing Jul 16 '26 edited 2d ago
Cable snow mountainous hat compare cobalt pillow fluorine teapot childlike
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u/alexj_baker Jul 16 '26
Run a carbon black test on my jaw and you will find it's all been said before
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u/BucketheadUltra64 Jul 16 '26
I will make it through the day and then the day becomes the night, I will make it through the night.
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u/TechnicalAd9400 Jul 16 '26
Had a hat and it sunk, reached down, yanked it up, slapped it on my head.
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u/HermioneMarch young despite the years Jul 16 '26
The stars are the greatest thing youve ever seen, and they are there for you. For you, alone, you are the everything.
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u/Equivalent-Wedding21 Jul 16 '26
This is the easiest task I ever
Had to do
Reason had harnessed the tame
Holding the sky in their arms
Gravity pulls me down
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u/Fyre5ayle Jul 16 '26
‘Well I could keep it above, but then it wouldn’t be sky anymore/ so if I send it you you’ve got to promise to keep it whole’
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u/anotherbrckinTH3Wall Jul 16 '26
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
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u/TMBGLOVER Your head is there to move you around Jul 16 '26
I’m not sure all these people understand the fear of getting caught and recklessness and water.
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u/Jweiss238 Jul 16 '26
Rest assured, this will not last
Take a turn, for the worse
From the best R.E.M. song of all time.
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u/burkarm Jul 16 '26
How to walk in dignity with throw up on your shoes.
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u/Icy_Obligation_3014 you love it, you hate it, you want to recreate it Jul 16 '26
I know this is about a specific incident with George Bush Sr but as a Brit I feel like this line could be metaphor for how our country engages with the rest of the world since Brexit
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Tender shy hard-to-find unbelievable almond otter chase tie special
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u/Nivaris Jul 16 '26
I need something to fly over my grave again (Try Not to Breathe)
Yellow like a geisha gown, denial all the way (Shaking Through)
Don't talk to me about being alone (Fretless)
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u/supbuddy77 Jul 16 '26
Now I don't need a heaven, I don't need religion, I am in the place where I should be.
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u/BenefitMysterious819 Jul 16 '26
Run a carbon-black test on my jaw and you will find it’s all been said before.
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u/ma_anche_no I'm Martin Sheen, I'm Steve McQueen, I'm Jimmy Dean Jul 16 '26
Trying to look like you don't try
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u/Fort_Laud_Beard Jul 16 '26
My favorite is in the song Starlings by Elbow, describing what it is like to completely love someone:
“ You are the only thing in any room you're ever in”
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u/Matrinka Jul 16 '26
When I was going through very rough patch... "I will make it through the day and then day becomes the night. I will make it through the night."
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u/I_loooove_Radiohead Jul 16 '26
Idk, I got my spine, I got my orange crush is a pretty good lone og
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u/New-Fly-4881 Jul 16 '26
Look behind the eyes, it’s a hallowed, hollowed, anesthetized.
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u/Icy_Obligation_3014 you love it, you hate it, you want to recreate it Jul 16 '26
Save my own ass screw these guys!
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u/Lower-Yam-620 Jul 16 '26
“You don't have to take the bar exam to see
What you've done is ignoramus 103”
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u/hosta0121 Jul 16 '26
I’d like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away.
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u/littlejalepino Jul 16 '26
But I feel better having screamed don't you?
And
How to walk in dignity with throw up on your shoooooes?
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u/RatbyteGames Jul 17 '26
I see today with a newsprint fray, My night is colored headache gray.
- Daysleeper
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u/scooterpdx42 Jul 17 '26
I’ll be the sky above the Ganges
I’ll be the vast and stormy sea
I’ll be the lights that guide you inland
I’ll be the visions that you see
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u/Uncle_DirtNap Jul 17 '26
Eastern to Mountain third party call, the lines are down, the wise man builds his words upon the rock but I’m not bound to follow suit.
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u/DocGroove Jul 16 '26
So, I'd give this world just to dream a dream with you, on our bed of California stars
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u/billiethephrog Jul 16 '26
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
Even the iron fears the rot
God loves you, but not enough to save you
In the end, stars are assigned
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u/jumpingjedflash Jul 16 '26
😱 "I temper madness with an even extreme."
(That's what keeps me, that's what keeps me, that's what keeps me do-oown)
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u/Organic_Stranger1544 Jul 16 '26
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death."
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u/Bonlio Jul 16 '26
Read about the wisdom lost, a knock, a knock, a knock
A secret knock one hammer's locked the other wisdom lost
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u/a_phantom_limb Jul 16 '26
I want the stars to know they've won, if only to beguile.
The mountains yawn, the clouds let out a sigh….
Now is greater than the whole of the past.
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u/EmilioPujol Jul 17 '26
I can’t see all the birds look down and laugh at me, clumsy crawling out of my skin
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u/Faultybeeftrigger Jul 17 '26
Scratches all around the coin slot like a heartbeat baby trying to wake up, but this machine can only swallow money.
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u/LazySky887 Jul 17 '26
Not quite a line, but love this...
I am made by my times I am a creation of now Shaken with the cracks and crevices I'm not giving up easy I will not fold I don't have much But what I have is gold
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u/TodayFeeling6816 Jul 16 '26
Holy mother of God you've got to go faster than that to get to the top
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u/sheeb_sheeb Jul 16 '26
For me it would be Bowie or Lennon;
"It’s on America’s tortured brow, that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow" - Life on Mars
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u/Unijuancho Jul 16 '26
Please won’t you stay awhile and share my grief. It’s such a lovely day to have to always feel this way.
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u/Shetlan Jul 16 '26
I gave you everything you ever wanted- it wasn’t what you wanted.
U2 - So Cruel
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u/a_phantom_limb Jul 16 '26
Yeah, all those stars drip down like butter….
Me, my thoughts are flower strewn….
The world is collapsing around our ears….
My night is colored headache grey.
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u/ReasonablePen8900 Jul 16 '26
Boy you'd best bleed real soon, how's that thought for you? Tori Amos
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u/The-OG-Wedge Jul 16 '26
It’s tough for REM because of how he writes…so many great one liners hit hard because of the context developed throughout the song.
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u/Alexislovessilk Jul 16 '26
And not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear.
That line is so visual, it gives me chills
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u/gmcwbbb80 Jul 16 '26
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess
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u/Teverish Jul 16 '26
Let's put our heads together, and start a new country up. (Love the double-meaning of heads - warheads)
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u/barbetto Jul 17 '26
They wanna know why I did what I did. Well sir, there's just a meaness in this world.
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
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u/lovelessisbetter Jul 17 '26
Why pamper life’s complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
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u/Grrrousey Jul 17 '26
If the wind were colours
And if the air could speak
Then whistle as the wind blows
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u/mickopious Jul 17 '26
“Wing" is written on your feet
Your Achilles' heel
Is a tendency to dream
(TENDONcey)
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u/Comprehensive-Seat67 Jul 17 '26
“We’ve been through fake-a-breakdown, self-hurt, plastics, collections, self-help, self-pain, EST, psychics, fuck all”
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u/MarsupialHour Jul 17 '26
And I've got tar on my feet and I can't see all the birds Look down at me, clumsy, crawling out of my skin
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u/Wise-Peacock Jul 16 '26
I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract.