I’m not talking about the full lyrics, but just a phrase or a sentence that you feel is right up your alley.

One of my personal favourites is from Barmy by The Fall: I got everything I want except for money.

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    "Sometimes I feel, oh yes, I could do

    Almost everything I wanted

    And it makes me cry"

    – Yoko Kanno, Flying Teapot, Cowboy Bebop soundtrack

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    This line from Uncle John’s Band by Grateful Dead is really simple and maybe kinda cheesy but it’s given me motivation and kept me in check a few times:

    Well the first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry anymore. 'Cause when life looks like easy street there is danger at your door

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    The deadly, yellow snow from right there where the huskies go.
    Frank Zappa - Nanook Rubs It

    Always makes me smile :)

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    And you are young and life is long

    And there is time to kill today

    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, Time

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    “I’m not suicidal I don’t wanna fuckin die. I just wanna be able to close my eyes and feel alright, but everyday I feel like dyin.”

    Suicidal Thoughts - Josh A

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    “Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain”

    “You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today”

    “But then one day you find, ten years have got behind you”

    “No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun”

    • Time, by Pink Floyd
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    “Music of rebellion makes you wanna rage;

    But it’s made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age”

    -The Sound of Muzak by Porcupine Tree

    Also, People=Shit by Slipknot. lmao

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    On an evening such as this It’s hard to tell if I exist. Pack the car and leave this town. Who’ll notice that I’m not around?

    I can hide out under there… I just made you say underwear! I can leave but I’ll just stay. All my stuff’s here anyway.

    Pinch me - Barenaked ladies

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    I went to the doctor

    I said I’m feeling kind of rough

    "Let me break it to ya son

    Your shits fucked up".

    I said "my shits fucked up?

    Well I don’t see how."

    He said "the shit that used to work.

    Won’t work now."

    -Warren Zevon

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    Some are born to move the world

    To live their fantasies

    But most of us just dream about

    The things we’d like to be

    Sadder still to watch it die

    Than never to have known it

    For you, the blind who once could see

    The bell tolls for thee

    ~Losing It, by Rush

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    I think that the truth is I’m scared

    I think I’m just scared to live

    I think that that the truth is I’m scared

    I think that the truth is I’m everything that I hate

    • Angela Baker and my obsession with fire
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    “Do You Believe In Shame” by Duran Duran

    I heard you speak my name
    Heard you singing The Stones
    Maybe heard you laughing in a line of static
    On my telephone

    So why your eyelids are closed
    Inside a case of rust
    And did you have to change
    All your poet’s fire into frozen dust?

    I try to justify it
    To learn from your mistake
    But where’s the stupid lie that has to make its point
    With such a pointless waste?”

    Simon wrote the lyric for the song about his friend Dave Miles, who tragically died of a drug overdose.

    https://youtu.be/n_Io3CtmdoQ?si=x6ybn7QWd8eoUR41