Killer Lines
Not a favourite lines ever list cos fuck that effort, just some gr8 lines that have been popping my head recently, loosely ranked |
1 | | Eyedea & Abilities By the Throat
Empathy is the poor man's cocaine / and love is just a chemical by any other name |
2 | | Saosin Translating the Name
I have your voice on tape in a Southern accent screaming at me |
3 | | Andrew Jackson Jihad Christmas Island
Shoot him again, cos I can see his soul dancing |
4 | | Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan
Ah but I was so much older then / I'm younger than that now |
5 | | Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
So I'll go to college and I'll learn some big words / and I'll talk real loud, goddamn right I'll be heard / you'll remember that guy who said all those big words he musta learned in college |
6 | | The Smiths Meat Is Murder
It was dark as I drove the point home / and on cold leather seats, well it suddenly struck me / I just might die with a smile on my face after all |
7 | | Thursday War All the Time
One day we'll be complete like modern saints / baptise our kids in gasoline / and hang our doubts up in cathedrals so that they turn to faith in the coloured sunlight |
8 | | The National Boxer
You were always weird but I never had to hold you by the edges like I do now |
9 | | Elliott Smith Roman Candle
They never get uptight when a moth gets crushed / unless a lightbulb really loved him very much |
10 | | Jimmy Eat World Clarity
Lead my skeptic sight / to the table and the light |
11 | | mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
And if she comes circling back, we'll end where we begun / like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one |
12 | | Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap
You're constantly updating your hit parade of your ten biggest wanks |
13 | | Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something
I'm the same as I was when I was six years old / and oh my god I feel so damn old, I don't really feel anything |
14 | | Kendrick Lamar Section.80
When I lie on my back and look at the ceiling, it's so appealing to pray / I wonder if I'm just a villain dealing my morals away / some people look at my face, then tell me don't worry bout it / I give 'em back they deposit, no money, just total silence |
15 | | Leonard Cohen Various Positions
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born / dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn |
16 | | Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Ashes and diamonds / foe and friend / we were all equal in the end |
17 | | The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us...
Flesh is heretic / my body is a witch / I am burning it |
18 | | Crowded House Woodface
We are the mirrors / are the mirrors of each other in a lifetime of suspicion / cleansed in a moment of recognition |
19 | | Anberlin Cities
Wish your drinking would hurry and kill you / sympathy's better than having to tell you the truth |
20 | | Thrice Major/Minor
Now that you have been disarmed / we will cross over unharmed |
21 | | U2 Achtung Baby
Did you come here for forgiveness? / did you come to raise the dead? / did you come here to play Jesus / to the lepers in your head? |
22 | | The Weakerthans Reunion Tour
But I can't remember the sound you found for me |
23 | | Lydia Illuminate
With eyes unimpressed, you're stealing the conversations |
24 | | Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible
He's a boy / you want a girl so tear off his cock / tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want |
25 | | Alkaline Trio Good Mourning
And I wanted you to know / it was you that we were thinking of, as we quietly died in the snow |
26 | | Tears for Fears The Hurting
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad / the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had |
27 | | Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
At midnight all the agents, and the superhuman crew / go out to round up everyone that knows more than they do (just because Watchmen) |
28 | | Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
...and cut him 'til he cried out, in his anger and his shame / “I am leaving I am leaving but the fighter still remains” |
29 | | Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Did they get you to trade / your heroes for ghosts? |
30 | | R.E.M. Out of Time
I skipped the part about love / it seemed so shallow, and low |
31 | | Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness
Jesus Christ why is love so lonely |
32 | | Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish
Practice doesn't make perfect when it's interbreeding / speaking drivel can it be confused with heavy breathing? |
33 | | The National High Violet
Lay me on the table put flowers in my mouth / and we can say that we invented a summer-lovin' torture party |
34 | | Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind
Every glamorous sunrise, throws the planets out of line / a star sign out of whack, a fradulent zodiac |
35 | | The Beatles Abbey Road
And in the end the love you take / is equal to the love you make |
36 | | The Antlers Familiars
Well this is my house, so fuck your doubts and your cute battalion |
37 | | Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
Cos formulas are for nothing / if I can barely get to sleep |
38 | | Pearl Jam Ten
I know one day you'll have a beautiful life / I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky / but why, but why can't it be, can't it be mine? |
39 | | Jeff Buckley Grace
It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter / It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever |
40 | | The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
Let me get my hands / on your mammary glands |
41 | | Nas Illmatic
I switched my motto; instead of saying "fuck tomorrow" / that buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto (for my man Key) |
42 | | Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
And when we break, we'll wait for our miracle / God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life |
43 | | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In
There's a man in the theatre with girlish eyes / who's holding my childhood to ransom / on the screen there's a death, there's a rustle of cloth / and a sickly voice calling me handsome |
44 | | Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill
Veins full of disappearing ink / vomiting in your kitchen sink |
45 | | Eyedea & Abilities First Born
It's like reading a book where each words describe your thoughts / and in quotations, it reads whatever you say when you talk (2deep) |
46 | | Passenger (UK) Wicked Man's Rest
You can say I'm mad, you can say I'm crazy / but I'm only as bad as the maker who made me |
47 | | Radiohead In Rainbows
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking |
48 | | Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
There was blood on that blade / fuck me I'm falling apart |
49 | | The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
Growing up means / watching my heroes turn human in front of me |
50 | | mewithoutYou A to B: Life
My face has changed you know it's me / you know by the stillness in my eyes |
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