Lyrics
An incomplete and growing collection of impactful lyrics that stood out to me. Multiple lyrics from the same song are separated by ellipses, but are strong enough to stand alone. Please check out any artists or songs you haven’t listened to you see here, I wish you the best, and enjoy the music
Antarctigo Vespucci
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Breathless On DVD
Am I unhappy because I’m not free
Or not free because I’m unhappy
I wanted to see you to see if I still wanted to see you
Arctic Monkeys
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Body Paint
For a master of deception and subterfuge
You’ve made yourself quite the bed to lie in
…
And if you’re thinking of me, I’m probably thinking of you
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Four Out Of Five
The Information-Action Ratio is the place to go
Avenged Sevenfold
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M.I.A.
Two million soldiers can’t be wrong
…
Pray to God that our side is right
Benny Blanco
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Break My Heart
So be cautious when you’re searching, and don’t just give your love away
Bill Withers
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Lean on Me
I’m right up the road
I’ll share your load
If you just call me
Call me
If you need a friend
Bladee
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Hotel Breakfast
When you look at me and hate on me, I’m a mirror
If you look at me and don’t like me what does that say about you?
Bob Dylan
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Talkin' World War III Blues
I don’t blame them too much though, they didn’t know me
Bright Eyes
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At the Bottom of Everything
“We’re going to a party, it’s a birthday party
It’s your birthday party, happy birthday darling,
We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much”
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First Day of My Life
This is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But, now I don’t care, I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy
Built to Spill
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Big Dipper
He thought an Albertson’s stir fry dinner would make his apartment a home
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Car
If I don’t die or worse
I’m gonna need a nap
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Carry the Zero
And you’ve become
What you thought was dumb
A fraction of the sum
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Center of the Universe
I heard what I said to you
Thought it was all understood
But I wasn’t getting through
I’d go on if I could
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Fool's Gold
I’m gonna keep tryin’
If I don’t keep tryin’, I’m never gonna make it
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Girl
Someone I can talk to
Someone I don’t have to talk to
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Happiness
You don’t have to be so cruel
‘Cause all I do is a little less than what I can
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Strange
You’re not listening or
I’m not saying it right
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The Weather
And as long as its talking with you
Talk of the weather will do
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You Were Right
Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone
You were right when you said
This is the end
Catfish And The Bottlemen
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Soundcheck
Maybe I don’t act the way I used to
Cause I don’t feel the same about you
In fact that’s a lie
I want you
Chris Farren
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Permanent For Me
I don’t like being home, I feel my roots begin to grow into a ground
That was never meant to be permanent for me
…
I can’t stand living here, the more I do the more I fear the ground
Below will slowly come to be permanent for me
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Too Dark
And it feels nice to hear someone else’s voice
‘Cause I’ve only heard mine for forever
Cigarettes After Sex
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Each Time You Fall In Love
All I wanna know is if you love her how come you never give in
Circa Waves
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Old Friends
And honey do you mind if I lose myself?
Daft Punk
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Instant Crush
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
‘Cause I know it unlocks like a door
Denzel Curry
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Walkin
I’m killin’ off my demons ‘cause my soul’s worth redeemin’
DJ Muscleboy
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Summerbody
If you feel good about yourself
I feel good about you
Field Medic
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Mood Ring Baby
You’re green, you’re purple, you’re a silver ring of moods
I love you always
I’ll carry you
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One day you lick my wounds, the next day break my heart in two
Foo Fighters
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Everlong
And, I wonder, when I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
Forth Wanderers
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Nevermine
I don’t think I know who you are anymore
And I don’t think I knew who I was before
In my own home I’ve never been more
Unsure, no
Glass Animals
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Dreamland
You’ve had too much of the digital love
You want everything live, you want things you can touch
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Heat Waves
Sometimes, all I think about is you
…
Usually, I put something on TV
So we never think about you and me
But today, I see our reflections clearly in Hollywood
Laying on the screen
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You can’t fight it, you can’t breathe
You say somethin’ so lovin’, but
Now I gotta let you go
You’ll be better off in someone new
I don’t wanna be alone
You know it hurts me too
You look so broken when you cry
One more and then I’ll say goodbye
Jack Harlow
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Nail Tech
I caught the vibe that y’all giving off, and I’m tryna make myself less like it
Jack's Mannequin
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I'm Ready
I need caffeine in my blood stream, I take caffeine in the blood stream
Flowers for the sick and dead
Kanye West
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Bittersweet Poetry
Bittersweet
You’re gonna be the death of me
I don’t want you, but I need you
I love you and hate you at the very same time
Bittersweet
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You don’t see how your lies is affecting me?
You don’t see how our life was supposed to be?
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Ghost Town
We’re still the kids we used to be
Killstation
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Attraction
There’s no other place that I’d rather stay
Than inside your mind
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Illusion
You know it’s been so long since you’ve been in my arms
I’m going home where I’ll be all alone tonight
Lil Peep
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beamer boy
I love a girl that don’t even fuckin’ need a boy
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Big City Blues
I just wanna see you smile
I just wanna make you mine
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I don’t wanna think about you
Every time I think about you
I swear I fall in love again
I remember everything you said
Promise me it’s real
Girl, I got a deal
You could be my girl if I could be your world
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feelz
I would never put a knife in your back
The love I give is her is kinda creepy but fuck it
She orders and I deliver
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nineteen
Everybody think I’m cool, I don’t like that
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right here
Baby, how you doing? I know you’re not doing the best, but I’m here, I’ll always be here
Tell me if you need me and call me if you feelin alone ‘cause I’m here, I’m always right here
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Star Shopping
Right now I know that I’m not really worth it
If you give me time, I could work on it
Give me some time while I work on it
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Look at the sky tonight, all of the stars have a reason
A reason to shine, a reason like mine and I’m fallin’ to pieces
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white tee
I used to think I love you, now I know it ain’t true
Now I know it’s not you…
Mackned x Lil Peep x Lil Tracy
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Pictures 2
Can’t afford to fall in love with you
Not today, girl
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They say life is a bitch, and I miss her
Lil Uzi Vert
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Futsal Shuffle 2020
She ain’t answer me, so you know that I gotta shoot two at her
Mac Miller
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2009
But really I’m just tryna start believin’ in God
Modern Baseball
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Pothole
The fossils of my footsteps will be unearthed at a far off date, unknown
Impressed in concrete from walking home alone after walking you home
Modest Mouse
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Custom Concern
Gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta have a job
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Dramamine
We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
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Karma's Payment
I am not who I want to be
I probably will not ever be
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Never Ending Math Equation
Where do you move, when what you’re moving from
Is yourself, is yourself?
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Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
Let’s all have another Orange Julius
Thick syrup standing in lines
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The World At Large
You said that you did, but you didn’t understand
Nas
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Vernon Family
If you broke and your man don’t teach you, get rid of him
NF
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WHY
A lot of people know me, but they don’t know me well
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I’m a busy person, got no time for lies; one of a kind
…
Nothin’ to me’s ever good enough
I could be workin’ for 24 hours a day and think I never did enough
Peach Pit
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Alrighty Aphrodite
If I’d known you sold on maybe
I’d a let you waste another guy
Project 46
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Reasons
Look at the sky
The sun won’t ask
The sun won’t ask
The world if it can rise
Rihanna
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FourFiveSeconds
‘Cause all of my kindness
Is taken for weakness
Silver Jews
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The Frontier Index
Boy wants a car from his dad.
Dad says “First you got to cut that hair”
Boy says “Hey Dad, Jesus had long hair”
And Dad says “That’s right Son, Jesus walked everywhere”
Stephen Malkmus
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Freeze the Saints
You said, “Done is good”
But done well is so much fucking better
The Beatles
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Strawberry Fields Forever
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It’s getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
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No one I think is in my tree
I mean, it must be high or low
That is, you can’t, you know, tune in
But it’s alright
That is, I think it’s not too bad
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Cranberry sauce
The Crookes
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The I Love You Bridge
Who cares she told him no?
It’s the gesture, don’t you know?
And we’ll cling on and we won’t let go
The Front Bottoms
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Be Nice To Me
You say I’m changing
Sorry I didn’t know I had to stay the same
Can we talk about this later?
Your voice is driving me, driving me insane
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Twelve Feet Deep
Since when did “I wanna hear your voice” not become a good excuse?
Calling you three in the morning, laugh at sleep that we’ll both lose
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Twin Size Mattress
For the warning signs I’ve completely ignored
There’s an amount to take, reasons to take more
The Killers
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Exitlude
Aggresively we all defend the role we play
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It doesn’t really matter, don’t you worry, it’ll all work out
The Kooks
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Fractured and Dazed
I’ll never give your love
I’ll never give your love away
The Microphones
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Microphones in 2020
one moment thinking I’m wise
and in the next one I writhe,
trying to re-remind myself of something
learned then forgotten. Countless sunrises
burying the things I’d figured out the day before.
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Spending hours each morning reading poems and staring off
and then snapping back to urgency, I did my dishes
then I would sprint to the studio again.
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these wild swipes at meaning
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I will never stop singing this song. It goes on forever.
The Mountain Goats
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This Year
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
The Postal Service
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This Place Is A Prison
And I know that it’s not a party
If it happens every night
Smashing Pumpkins
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Luna
What moon songs do you sing your babies?
What sunshine do you bring?
Who belongs, who decides who’s crazy?
Who rights wrongs where others cling?
The Smith's
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A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
They said, “there’s too much caffeine
In your bloodstream
And a lack of real spice in your life”
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I Know It's Over
It’s so easy to laugh
It’s so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Tiny Meat Gang
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Sofia
She got me thinkin’ there’s a spark
Then she pull the plug, lights out, she go dark
Vampire Weekend
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Campus
How am I supposed to pretend
I never want to see you again?
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Hannah Hunt
A gardener told me some plants move
But I could not believe it
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Harmony Hall
But every time a problem ends, another one begins
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Oxford Comma
Why would you lie about something dumb like that?
Why would you lie ‘bout anything at all?
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Step
Stale conversation deserves but a breadknife
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Wisdom’s a gift, but you’d trade it for youth
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This Life
There’s a time when every man draws a line down in the sand
Voxtrot
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The Start of Something
Come by and see me, I’m a love letter away
Wilco
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Jesus, Etc.
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
XXXTENTACION
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Jocelyn Flores
I don’t wanna pretend we’re somethin’, we’re nothin’
Yunggoth
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Crying
I don’t even dream about her every night
Can’t you tell that I’m lying?
Notes
- Most lyrics are taken from Spotify or Genius
- Built to Spill has a cool handwritten lyric section on their website for all their songs.
- Please let me know if stumble across a dead link