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 :studio_microphone:

Vampire Weekend - Campus

How am I supposed to pretend
I never want to see you again?

Glass Animals - Dreamland

You’ve had too much of the digital love
You want everything live, you want things you can touch

Tiny Meat Gang - Sofia

She got me thinkin’ there’s a spark
Then she pull the plug, lights out, she go dark

Vampire Weekend - This Life

There’s a time when every man draws a line down in the sand

Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall

But every time a problem ends, another one begins

Lil Peep - beamer boy

I love a girl that don’t even fuckin’ need a boy

Lil Peep - 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
…
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

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Why would you lie about something dumb like that?
Why would you lie ‘bout anything at all?

Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt

A gardener told me some plants move But I could not believe it

Glass Animals - Heat Waves

Sometimes, all I think about is you
…
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

Peach Pit - Alrighty Aphrodite

If I’d known you sold on maybe
I’d a let you waste another guy

Lil Peep - white tee

I used to think I love you, now I know it ain’t true
Now I know it’s not you…

Lil Uzi Vert - Futsal Shuffle 2020

She ain’t answer me, so you know that I gotta shoot two at her

Nas - Vernon Family

If you broke and your man don’t teach you, get rid of him

Lil Peep - 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

The Front Bottoms - 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

The Front Bottoms - Twin Size Mattress

For the warning signs I’ve completely ignored
There’s an amount to take, reasons to take more

Forth Wanderers - 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

Lil Peep - Big City Blues

I just wanna see you smile
I just wanna make you mine
…
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

Lil Peep - 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

Kanye West - Ghost Town

We’re still the kids we used to be

Killstation - 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

Yunggoth - Crying

I don’t even dream about her every night
Can’t you tell that I’m lying?

The Kooks - Fractured and Dazed

I’ll never give your love
I’ll never give your love away

Killstation - Attention

There’s no other place that I’d rather stay
Than inside your mind

Modest Mouse - Karma’s Payment

I am not who I want to be
I probably will not ever be

DJ Muscleboy - Summerbody

If you feel good about yourself
I feel good about you

Mac Miller - 2009

But really I’m just tryna start believin’ in God

The Mountain Goats - This Year

I am going to make it through this year if it kills me

NF - WHY

A lot of people know me, but they don’t know me well
…
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

Denzel Curry - Walkin

I’m killin’ off my demons ‘cause my soul’s worth redeemin’

Rihanna - FourFiveSeconds

‘Cause all of my kindness
Is taken for weakness

Lil Peep - nineteen

Everybody think I’m cool, I don’t like that

Bladee - 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?

Catfish And The Bottlemen - 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

Benny Blanco - Break My Heart

So be cautious when you’re searching, and don’t just give your love away

Field Medic - Mood Ring Baby

You’re green, you’re purple, you’re a silver ring of moods
I love you always
I’ll carry you
…
One day you lick my wounds, the next day break my heart in two

Bill Withers - 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

Modern Baseball - 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

Kanye West - 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
…
You don’t see how your lies is affecting me?
You don’t see how our life was supposed to be?

Wilco - Jesus, Etc.

You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun

Built to Spill - Car

If I don’t die or worse
I’m gonna need a nap

The Smith’s - 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”

Jack’s Mannequin - I’m Ready

I need caffeine in my blood stream, I take caffeine in the blood stream
Flowers for the sick and dead

Vampire Weekend - Step

Stale conversation deserves but a breadknife
…
Wisdom’s a gift, but you’d trade it for youth

Modest Mouse - Never Ending Math Equation

Where do you move, when what you’re moving from
Is yourself, is yourself?

Voxtrot - The Start of Something

Come by and see me, I’m a love letter away

Antarctigo Vespucci - 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

Avenged Sevenfold - M.I.A.

Two million soldiers can’t be wrong
…
Pray to God that our side is right

Built to Spill - Girl

Someone I can talk to
Someone I don’t have to talk to

Chris Farren - Too Dark

And it feels nice to hear someone else’s voice
‘Cause I’ve only heard mine for forever

The Smiths - 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