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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

And who the hell are you to tell me that I can’t leave my kid in the car?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 minute ago

"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" Mad World, Tears for Fears.

Stuck with me from when I listenerd originally.

[–] AccoSpoot@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Hey man, nice shot.

[–] Psychadelic_Sheep@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right

[–] thru_dangers_untold@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You've come far

and though you're far from the end,

You don't mind where you are,

cause you know where you've been

[–] nixon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

“Despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage”

&

“So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you could tell?
Did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here”

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago
[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

You can just replace company store with whatever capitalist institution owns you. 🫠

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 19 hours ago

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! x14

[–] gajahmada@awful.systems 1 points 12 hours ago

Stuffing corpses full of shit and pain.

They bloviate about a future beyond the moon. To bring about another planet's doom

To discover peaceful life and beat our war-drum to its tune Unless my prayers are answered

Our end is coming soon.

Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne

The rest of their discography is fantastic, but their lyrics in this album which penned by their former bass player is just another league.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

  • Pink Floyd, Time
[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

The older I get the less I like that one

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴

[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The unfortunate thing about this lyric is that people who have been asked to do nothing more than help keep our fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated, think this is for them.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

And some of those that burn crosses, are the same that hold office.

From wikipedia:

Zack de la Rocha sometimes changed the lyrics in the second verse from "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" to "Some of those that burn crosses are the same that hold office" when playing live.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. - Freewill by Rush.

[–] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It's when murder is justice that martyrs are made

A one gun salute for the new Independence Day

One Gun by Lamb of God

[–] inkzombie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago
[–] Cherry@piefed.social 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Manic Street Preachers are massively underrated. That's a fucking killer song.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do
Di-ba-di-de-do
Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do
Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do
Di-ba-di-de-do
Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

All coppers are bastards

[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Ten million dollars in a losing campaign

Twenty million starving and writhing in pain

Big, strong people, unwilling to give

Small in vision and perspective

One in five kids below the poverty line

One population running out of time

Bad Religion, Punk Rock Song from the album The Gray Race.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Abracadabra boom-shacka-dae

I'm Violent J and I'm back like a vertebrae

And I come with a hat full of tricks

Trunk full of Faygo, car full of fat chicks.

ICP. Hocus Pocus

[–] mosspiglet@discuss.online 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun

-Pink Floyd

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 2 minutes ago

I almost cry every time I hear those lyrics.

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[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 9 points 23 hours ago

You can check out, but you can never leave.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Deine Gewalt ist nur ein stummer Schrei nach Liebe

Deine Springerstiefel sehnen sich nach Zärtlichkeit

Du hast nie gelernt, dich zu artikulieren

Und deine Eltern hatten niemals für dich Zeit

Oh-ho-ho, Arschloch!

I only lived in Germany for a bit, but this one stuck in my head pretty hard. Schrei nach Liebe by Die Ärzte

[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

"Fuck the police"

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They call me the hiphoppopotamus

Flows that glow like phosphorus

Poppin' off the top o' this esophagus

Rockin' this metropolis

I'm not a large water dwelling mammal

Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago

Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?

Steve told me.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming

I've been waiting for the next Vengabus since 1998. Our public transport infrastructure is a fucking joke.

[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Ask not for whom the Vengabus comes, for it comes for thee.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Better, it hits harder every year.

I just wanna fuckin sleep

Bath Salts by Highly Suspect

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

The sun ablaze as Maria's foot touches the surface of sand

On northern land, as human contraband

Some rico from Jalisco passed her name to the Boss

She stuffed into a truckbed, she clutches her cross

Here comes the exhaust and it rips through her lungs

She's off fast to the pasture, like cattle she'll cross

Degree 106, sweat and vomit are thrown And she prays and suffocates upon the memories of home

Of Yanqui guns for blood, debts on the loans

Of smoldering fields, rape, rubble and bones

Of graves hidden, trapped up in visions of war

Of nothing, no one, nobody, no more


Hard to pick a RATM song, but Maria is one of my favourite lyrically. Also topical right now

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes I know my enemies; They're the teachers who taught me to fight me. Compromise, Conformity, Assimilation, Submission, Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Brutality, The elite - All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams

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[–] edg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuckin magnets, how do they work?

  • The bards Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope
[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Unforgettable

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some say the end is near Some say we'll see Armageddon soon Certainly hope will I sure could use a vacation from this Bull shit three ring sideshow circus of freaks

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

The Clash's "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"

All over people changing their votes

Along with their old codes

If Adolf Hitler flew in today

They'd send a limousine straight away

You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

[–] HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

"Funky life, I've been told, all that glitters is not gold"

"All that's black is really white, if you can see it"

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 19 hours ago

It is recent, but

There's no joy in my life There's no joy when I'm right I know what they say when I walk in the light There's no joy

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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