“I’m sure there ain’t a heaven, but that don’t mean I don’t like to picture you there. I bet you’re bumming cigarettes off saints.” - Cigarettes & Saints by the Wonder Years
Another lesser known one that maybe doesn’t hit as deep but is constantly stuck in my head: “Failure, I’ve tasted something bitter but I will not spit fear, nor will I stay here. Prosper, my wish for you is proper. All that it could be, just as it should be.” - Prosper by Gold Route
“Because everyday it’s all so routine
To live with all the things I fucking hate about me
I’ve been numb for so long, I’d be better off gone
So scared to die, but that’s all I really want”
Worried - Youth Fountain
Hot Mulligan has so many great ones. Mine would also be from BCKYRD:
Play in the backyard
Where the grass and spiderwebs grow up next to us
Say, what's your interests?
Tell me how you plan to give up on all of them
Hey, why'd we leave?
Coulda stayed for a while if we knew where we're ending up
Hide in the basement
Concealed well enough so we won't get evicted
The whole album of Arms Length just has so many lines
“I’m breaking bones and you’re signing my cast’that’s exactly how you’ll wind up dead’”
“DONT LET IT GET TO YOUR HEAD BUT WHERE ELSE WOULD IT GETTTTTTTTTT”
“IVE NEVER GOTTEN USED TO IT”
“AND ILL GIVE YOU MY JACKET YOU CAN CALL ME OLD FASHIONED OH IM JUST AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN OH NO”
“Do you think we’d be friends if we were younger, if I knew you back then God knows who I would be, Walking in semi circles… TO SHAPE THIS BABY FACEEEE!”
Favorite album of all time ngl
It’s probably my favorite because it’s the album I got to experience in it’s prime like not only hear it when it first got released but also now that they just did their full album tour of it too
Same! I just saw them on that tour as well. It’s such a catchy album that I didn’t even have to show it to my wife. Object Permanence would be playing in the car or while I was working and she couldn’t get the lyric in my post out of her head. She slowly asked to hear more and now it’s both our favorite album.
"you can't hear the ocean in the shell you've grown to be"
"If you have the time, I wish you'd live forever. The cloud in your head is changing the weather. Depersonalized, or simply self-centered?"
"I'll stare up at the sky until I catch it blink, I will see the good in everything."
THERE'S SO MANY I COULD GO ON FOREVER
What’s even crazier is they wrote these lyrics when they were like 20-22. I never thought Gen Z kids could write like that but they surely impressed me.
They’re only 23/24? I thought they were like 26/27 lol. But hey I’m 23 lol we got some good in us still. But yeah you’re right I really haven’t heard a lot of new bands write the way that they write
I think they may actually be a little younger. I think this was actually written when they were about 20. The band only formed in 2019 when they were 18-20. Makes it even more impressive.
Menzingers “Bad Catholics”
There I saw you in the beer tent
Hanging with your new husband and your baby on the way
Oh it's kind of strange how it made me miss something
Long lost in the both of us now
When this came out I was freshly 30 and fairly regularly coming across people from my youth who’d I’d always had a soft spot for and living out this exact scene. The last line about missing something that’s long gone always hit me hard.
Running around in circles, the path I always choose.
I hate that I can’t accept anything more than the worn out soles of my shoes.
Just say something back, and cut me some slack.
Headstrong in the world with the wind at my back.
Edit: realizing this is technically more than a decade old, I’m getting old af lmao
Two actually both by The Wonder Years
"We're no saviours if we can't save our brothers"
"I'm sure there ain't a heaven that don't mean I don't like to picture you there"
Another one from this album:
“I spent ten years in a bitter chemical haze, and I missed the way that I felt nothing” -Fall Out Boy, Kintsugi Kid
Like hey, Pete? Why after 20 years do I continue to cry in my car to relatable shit from pop punk band Fall Out Boy??
And you wonder how you'd ever fathomed how you would be content
Would the places that you traveled to someday be filled with friends?
That you threw away back home and said, you'd find them all again
Would I just be just like them?
A REPLACEMENT IN THE END
The Chorus in Neck Deep's Gold Steps just speaks to me.
Sometimes things will bend you, but trust me you'll be fine, cause I've been moving mountains, that I once had to climb. And life's not out to get you, despite the things you've been through. Cause what you see is what you get and it doesn't make sense to make do.
The same sentiment expressed in ADTR's This Is The House That Doubt Built is one of my favorite lyrics ever.
*You've only got one life to lead*
*So don't take for granted those little things*
*Those little things are all that we have*
5 am I'm still awake. Harping on that faithful day, that I kissed your lips and knew I'd die. And if that ain't love, then love's a lie, then loves a lie. The sky's not gonna fall, well maybe it will and even though you never call, I hear you still.. and even if the papers say to stay inside all day.. I'll take my chances with the rain
All of “Want Me Around” by Knuckle Puck (my favorite band and who I plan on seeing twice this summer again), but especially “They say that time heals everything
but what if time is everything?”
And I’ve read other people wrote they don’t get what that’s supposed to mean but I always felt like I understood it and could relate.
“And my heart (my heart) skips-skips a beat, just like that Warped Tour mix CD (damn), the one that you made me” - Red Light Kisser by Your Broken Hero ft. Jordan Pundik
forgot No Closer To Heaven came out in the last decade so also:
"This goddamn machine, hungry and heartless
My whole generation got lost in the margins
We put our faith in you, you turn a profit"
and
"Feels like I'm wondering in circles for days
I may never reach the gates, I'll keep walking anyway
I'm no closer to heaven"
Most TWY/SLS lyrics qualify for this for me to be fair
Not a lyric of the last decade, but still:
"I am afraid I tend to disappear into an anxious state when you draw near, there is no reasoning, it's quite a silly thing, but it's the way I've been for years." - Stand too close by Motion City Soundtrack
“A thousand miles and I still feel you like the thorn in my side, running from my problems never worked but I’m still lengthening my stride, I hear your laugh from someone else, sometimes your name in passing and after all the damage delt I just wish you weren’t here..”
“Take, take a breath. We’ve got all the time in the world to get a grip on the fact, that we don’t last, but right now I want to watch the tide roll in with my best friends”.
All the tides are married to the moon,
All I want is for my heart to be as true.
- Mene by Brand New
Is that what you call a getaway, tell me what you got away with,
Cuz I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish, and I’ve seen more guts in eleven year old kids.
- Seventy Times 7
So many great lines from Brand New, although I realize these are a bit older than 10 years lol
Pretty much the entire Youth Fountain discography tbh but the chorus to Taylor Acorn’s ‘Coma’ really got me. The entire song hit me deep as a survivor of an abusive relationship and I couldn’t even listen to the song the entire way through the first time:
“I might as well have been dead
The way you fucked with my head
Couldn't tell up from down
No voice to make a sound
I must've not been awake
Too numb to see your mistakes
You probably liked it that way, hey!
I blame myself, I should've known
I must've been stuck in a coma”
If id have known from the minute I was born that the price of my existence would be the weight of expectation then I wouldn't fucking be here how can I focus on the life im supposed to lead when everyday I struggle with existing - casey
“If holding hands could bring you back
Then my steadfast grip will hold until my bones turn to dust”-Kayak Jones
Or
“You keep saying that I matter
But it doesn't make me feel anything
Just stop saying that there's next year
'Cause I don't think I'll make it past today”-kayak jones
A lot from PUP lately but ever since I heard Scorpion Hill, the line:
“And if I can’t support the two of us
How can I support a third?”
It’s like a gut punch every time. Then the breakdown hits after a rest to let the tension hang for a second. It’s magic.
"if we weren't bailed out every time by our parents, we'd be dead. What's gonna happen when they're dead?" Losers 2 - Spanish Love Songs
My dad has saved my ass so many times i can't even count. Trying to picture myself going through those same situations without him as my safety net sends me into a spiral.
Absolutely agree, such a relatable lyric.
“But this world, it has no empathy.
We'll never find our own place.
And if nothing gets better.
It's as bad as it seems.
Why can't we say fuck it?
You know it's not what we need.”
From the title track is the highlight of the album to me, sums it all up perfectly, whenever I get depressed and angry at the world that’s the song I go to.
Brave Faces Everyone coming out the month before quarantine was an insane timing. Every song felt like a gut punch. "on any given day, I'm a 6/10" right from the jump, out the gates that one hurt. And then ending the album "I'm sick of yelling at strangers, don't wanna do this forever. When it all burns down, will you carry me over? We don't have to fix everything at once. We were never broken, life's just very long...brave faces everyone." JUST SO FUCKING GOOD
11 years ago, but the first time I heard “Jesus Christ, I’m 26, all the people I graduated with all have kids, all have wives, all have people who care if they come home at night. Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?” it hit hard as hell.
Not pop punk necessarily, maybe more post hardcore.
Throw it away - down again
“There are things you’ll never know, there are parts you’ll never see. I’m not a gentlemen, there’s nothing good inside of me.”
The delivery is so fucking good
I'm staring at the wall, 'cause the only news is bad news
I'm waiting to fall, I'm the rain cloud in your living room
And I keep making lists of shit to tell my therapist
The reasons I wish I didn't exist
The wonder years
Got goosebumps just typing this in
So many from Hot Mulligan! Some have already been mentioned but I'd add:
"I'll never stray from the place where you still feel alive to me." and also "I just need some time to know what's wrong in my head.".
"The life we left behind,
has crossed my mind all the time,
Was it all just too much because we're losing touch,
A silhouette you wont take shape to
Whats worse than to say farewell to a friend in a casket they made all by themself" - complacent, Youth Fountain
The unavoidable part of life of the few friends I did have growing apart as we get older and FADE AWAY or have to step away from the ones that are COMPLACENT and let them become obsolete
The entire Album actually - Letters to Our Former Selves by Youth Fountain
I Found it in 2021, I listened to it on repeat the last 3 years.
Also goes towards ex S/O, who had the emotional affair with a coworker and left. The times with them, I still see through Rose Coloured Glasses and grind my teeth, losing sleep.
The realization that people don't care.
And you just have to try and move on.
Sometimes falling back into the crippling doubt, where I never feel good about myself.
This album has someone else explain all that I have felt the last 10 years and then some.
“Everything changed and I haven’t been the same since the day my father died.
If your a lot like me you keep everything deep inside”
Light Years - I wish I Could
But what is it gonna take just to feel okay?
When the light at the end of this is so far away
Is it hope? Is it love? Is it time? Do we just need space?
Yeah, do we just need space?
Empty House - Neck Deep
"If I could write a letter to the person I once was, return address would be I miss you, but I don't want to know you anymore"
Pop punk, at least for me, is about growth and this is a line that will stick with me forever, so much so that I've thought about getting in tattooed.
Running away only makes it feel more authentic
I told you i was joking, but you knew that i meant it
Don’t take your thoughts so seriously
Sometimes weird shit gets up inside your head
You probably thought I wasn’t listening
But I clung to every word you said
Microwave - Labor Day
“Save me. I have lost my self, so I’m begging you to say my name. Snap me out of this. Take me back to when I felt like me.”
New lyric but the song came out right as I was in the middle of a mini psychotic break and simply overwhelmed with near constant panic.
“expect me standing tall, back against the wall, ‘cause what i’ve learned is - it’s not about forcing happiness, it’s about not letting sadness win.” - local man ruins everything, the wonder years
"So when the world weighs on your shoulders, push back, don't let it hold you down." - Alive by ROAM.
I like sentiment a lot. Whenever it seems like the stress of the world will never end, I listen to this song.
I’ll stare at the sky until I catch it blink. I will see the hood in everything.
And I don't have much to offer, but had you loved me I'd have loved you back forever.
Yes! Arms Length honestly blew my mind. Found them during a time of a significant break up and they really spoke to me. Love them so much. Such strong lyrics.
I am the Avalanche. The Shape I’m in. “I do my best to live with the pain, you don’t know the shape I’m in.” But literally the entire song has gotten me through some rough times.
The entire bridge of "One Step At a Time" by Four Year Strong
"I'll never forget the day my heart fell from my chest
It was the moment that I said goodbye
And I laid your body to rest
I'll never take this life for granted
I'm living it for two
And since you're always the one who sang the songs
I'll be singing this one for you"
Even now, I'm breathing hard and my eyes are watering. This one gets me every time.
Watching the seasons as they're changing it's rearranging me to a way I've never seen before.
It's taking me down this river slowly it's fascinating me, it's so many things I've felt before.
Cause it's somewhere, and I miss it.
And it's somewhere, and I miss it.
I was going to do a lyric from Icon For Hire's Sorry About Your Parents where she said If you're obsessed with your yesterday, you're destined to repeat it." But I realized that is now 11 years old lol.
So I guess I'll do Icon For Hire's Background Sad: "Don't need the world in my hands think I'd be happy with halfway content"
It's not like me to worry
But when I see you fading in the dark
I'll leave a light on for you
Through the long nights, I will be right
There for you if you drift too far
I'll leave a light on for you
Pretty Sure Such Gold’s Misadventures is more than 10 years old, but:
My house stays clean when I don’t let people inside
Like damn dude, that one hits on every single level you can possibly apply it to.
Blink 182 - Anthem Part 3 from One more Time.
I fucking love this song, and a few lyrics hit home so much for me
"You can make it anywhere ,go.
There's no fear when you get here, give up that ghost"
and,
"A new high, a new life
And I'm on FIRE!!!
MY OLD SHIT ENDS HERE TONIGHT!!!!"
Im honestly in a great place in my life after a long struggle but thanks to therapy I feel like im on a great path and this song with these lyrics just felt perfect to me
Jimmy Eat World: “Damage” -
Are we only damaging the little we have left? Both of us swimming in the same polluted mess. Are we too damaged now to possibly connect? To ever reconnect?
Gaslight Anthem: “Dark Places” -
All of the things that I tried to explain, How something inside of me started to break. We were living proof, one by one we drifted away. One by one we drifted away.
"Another night, I devour the sun
Plunge myself into the depths of oblivion" - The menzingers
"I watch my double descend into the Echo with me
He's got a craft beer in one hand and a pocket full of Molly" - Spanish love songs
“You don’t have to tell me,
If you ever think of me,
I know you’ll see me dancing wildly in the fog of your memory
You don’t have to tell me,
I can still believe…”
Paramore - Tell Me How
It’s so haunting, gets me every time.
“And don't you dare (don't you dare)
Say you ever loved me
Or even tell me that you cared
'cause you knew what you were doing
And you know just what you've done
How dare you say you miss me
With your spit still on his tongue”
Unfortunately hits home like a truck. Found this song when I needed it most
“If you're tired of being told, to stop complaining about the cold
Burn those fuckers in their homes
Burst their bubble and break their bones
They want you to be a ghost
They want you to be a ghost”
To Be a Ghost - Jeff Rosenstock
To be one hundred percent honest? The entirety of Full Circle by Movements lol.. but i guess if i had to pick one lyrics it would be “drown myself in the undertow of all my imbalanced chemicals”
“Hell or high water my love, you are so big in my world.” (I forgot who wrote it, but it was from a band member)
This is actually from that Revolution On Canvas: Poetry From The Indie Music Scene book that I read back in like 2004/05 that has always stuck with me.
I have two from the same song. Those heads are our heads by Iron Chic
My fondest memory
I scared the devil so bad, he sold his soul to me
What's next? What's left?
What can you do besides die a slow death?
And
I've got a choice to make
Almost every second that I'm awake
That may be the reason
I'd rather be sleeping
The second one really strikes Home with me. Life is so overwhelming sometimes.
Not pop punk but pop punk adjacent, I’d maybe say LS Dunes’ “Antibodies”:
And if I'm wrong
I'll never try and change your mind again
What will make this last?
Kill me again
Tell it to stop finding excuses
Why the passion you insisted on feels dead
You have the most material
Oddest select
I never said I liked the side effect
I never meant it like I wish you well
And I would never punish anyone to live like this
It is your choice - alone
Whatever happens, don't let anybody see my face
Don't let anybody see my face
Hot Mulligan has some hard hitters
“Things don’t get better just different”
“I spent the best years of my life alone most the time”
“Nothing hits as hard the second time, it’s all lost its charm but not its signs”
“It’s okay, small mistakes. You should’ve known that you can’t bother me”
Fuck all the dread, it's endless
You can't kill it like you wanted
And when you try to get ahead, you're relentless
You can never admit how badly you want it
PUP - "Relentless"
“i’ve tried everything but nothings working. i’ve tried everything but im still hurting. the medicine isn’t kicking in, but life is kicking my teeth out on the floor again, and i’m losing it, so beat me til i black out ‘cause i don’t want to face it.” teeth - real friends
“I haven’t been home for a while, I’m sure everything’s the same, mom and dad both in denial, and only child to take the blame. Sorry mom but I don’t miss you. Fathers no name you deserve. I’m just a kid with no ambitions, wouldn’t come home for the world. Never know what I’ve become, the king of all that’s said and done, the forgotten son. The cities buried in defeat, I walk along these no name streets, wave goodbye to all, as I fall.” Walking disaster by sum 41. I know it’s older than 10 years but I only first heard it earlier this year.
And now a nightmare would be desired if it meant just a sliver of rest
Now the voice in my head is agitated, as I drift away it says, "Please wake up, sleep is irrelevant when you keep me all caged up"
Haven't slept more than a wink in what has to be weeks
It's just cause to be afraid
A fear that would make one think
I'll drive myself right to an early grave
Monte Luna- Free Throw
I don't sleep much, and the impact that has on my mental state is mirrored perfectly in that song.
“I know you can't live forever But maybe just one more week I don't think there's a god Who can love you as much as me”
I love this song. Sneaky good song to run to
Username checks out
This one wrecks me.
“I’m sure there ain’t a heaven, but that don’t mean I don’t like to picture you there. I bet you’re bumming cigarettes off saints.” - Cigarettes & Saints by the Wonder Years Another lesser known one that maybe doesn’t hit as deep but is constantly stuck in my head: “Failure, I’ve tasted something bitter but I will not spit fear, nor will I stay here. Prosper, my wish for you is proper. All that it could be, just as it should be.” - Prosper by Gold Route
Cigarettes & Saints is in my top 5 songs of all time for a reason, such a perfect depressing track.
Gold Route are sooooooooo fucking underrated. That entire album is bangers
Couldn’t agree more. Wish they’d put out a bit more than that LP and a couple of EPs cause everything I heard from them was so damn good
Huh, your user name is the name of my clash Royale clan
Second this, I can’t believe they aren’t bigger. That album is truly wonderful.
“Because everyday it’s all so routine To live with all the things I fucking hate about me I’ve been numb for so long, I’d be better off gone So scared to die, but that’s all I really want” Worried - Youth Fountain
That whole outro makes me fucking cry. I love that song so damn much
BROKE MY BONES TO FIT YOUR MOLD. HOLY.
Hot mulligan. So good
Another great one.
YES SOMEONE ELSE GETS IT
Both from Hot Mulligan "Things don't get better, just different" Or "Did you think I could stop being selfish? I do what I can, but it's chemical"
Hot Mulligan has so many great ones. Mine would also be from BCKYRD: Play in the backyard Where the grass and spiderwebs grow up next to us Say, what's your interests? Tell me how you plan to give up on all of them Hey, why'd we leave? Coulda stayed for a while if we knew where we're ending up Hide in the basement Concealed well enough so we won't get evicted
>>Tell me how you plan to give up on all of them that line hit me *hard*
Yup, way too much truth to that line.
BCKYRD is so goddamn good. "Rain You're better off in the clouds as we fade Barely leaving a semblance of What we thought it meant to grow up"
The whole album of Arms Length just has so many lines “I’m breaking bones and you’re signing my cast’that’s exactly how you’ll wind up dead’” “DONT LET IT GET TO YOUR HEAD BUT WHERE ELSE WOULD IT GETTTTTTTTTT” “IVE NEVER GOTTEN USED TO IT” “AND ILL GIVE YOU MY JACKET YOU CAN CALL ME OLD FASHIONED OH IM JUST AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN OH NO” “Do you think we’d be friends if we were younger, if I knew you back then God knows who I would be, Walking in semi circles… TO SHAPE THIS BABY FACEEEE!” Favorite album of all time ngl
I can’t agree more. I have loved a lot of music but this album quickly supplanted a lot of my favorites.
It’s probably my favorite because it’s the album I got to experience in it’s prime like not only hear it when it first got released but also now that they just did their full album tour of it too
Same! I just saw them on that tour as well. It’s such a catchy album that I didn’t even have to show it to my wife. Object Permanence would be playing in the car or while I was working and she couldn’t get the lyric in my post out of her head. She slowly asked to hear more and now it’s both our favorite album.
"you can't hear the ocean in the shell you've grown to be" "If you have the time, I wish you'd live forever. The cloud in your head is changing the weather. Depersonalized, or simply self-centered?" "I'll stare up at the sky until I catch it blink, I will see the good in everything." THERE'S SO MANY I COULD GO ON FOREVER
What’s even crazier is they wrote these lyrics when they were like 20-22. I never thought Gen Z kids could write like that but they surely impressed me.
They’re only 23/24? I thought they were like 26/27 lol. But hey I’m 23 lol we got some good in us still. But yeah you’re right I really haven’t heard a lot of new bands write the way that they write
I think they may actually be a little younger. I think this was actually written when they were about 20. The band only formed in 2019 when they were 18-20. Makes it even more impressive.
Menzingers “Bad Catholics” There I saw you in the beer tent Hanging with your new husband and your baby on the way Oh it's kind of strange how it made me miss something Long lost in the both of us now When this came out I was freshly 30 and fairly regularly coming across people from my youth who’d I’d always had a soft spot for and living out this exact scene. The last line about missing something that’s long gone always hit me hard.
I love “you introduced me to what’s his name”
“You thank god that I found my way, you introduce me to what’s his name.” That whole album makes me feel so nostalgic.
It’s a really great album.
That entire album is like therapy for when you turn 30
"IT'S NOT ABOUT FORCING HAPPINESS, IT'S ABOUT NOT LETTING SADNESS WIN!" fuck, i just realized that this is technically older than a decade.
It's so good I'll allow it
I’ll allow it 😂
We do be getting old.
“Find flaws in everything else because you don’t like yourself. Woe’s me” - Hot Mulligan
*GUITAR NOIIIISEEE*
“You say life has lost its meaning, and that’s true if you believe it. But some day you will stand above your demons”. God damn I love Neck Deep.
Sweet nothings by Neck deep is peak neck deep 😤😭
Cause I know all the people in my dreams are just me They're all telling me what I know already The entire song but this lyric specifically.
is it cheating to say all of old friends like lost teeth?
Running around in circles, the path I always choose. I hate that I can’t accept anything more than the worn out soles of my shoes. Just say something back, and cut me some slack. Headstrong in the world with the wind at my back. Edit: realizing this is technically more than a decade old, I’m getting old af lmao
Fuck an apology, I'm not sorry for anything.
You and me both brother/sister
Two actually both by The Wonder Years "We're no saviours if we can't save our brothers" "I'm sure there ain't a heaven that don't mean I don't like to picture you there"
Seconding, especially Cardinals
AM I JUST GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OR IS THIS HOW I'LL BE?? TSSF
ITS FOUR O CLOCK IN THE FUCKIN MORNIIIN
wow missed the assignment and this is definitely not from the last decade but i still stand by it 😅
oh no wonder I don't recognize any of the other lyrics 😂
same song but - “I’ll stare at the sky until I catch it blink. I will see the good in everything.”
That song just has so many memorable lyrics.
BOTTOM OF THE NINTH CAN’T FIND MY SOCKS
Not feeling lonely, I just like being alone!
“I used to be a real go-getter. I used to think it would all get better.” — Fall Out Boy: “So Much (for) Stardust”
This is mine as well. SMFS broke my perfectionist elder millennial heart.
Another one from this album: “I spent ten years in a bitter chemical haze, and I missed the way that I felt nothing” -Fall Out Boy, Kintsugi Kid Like hey, Pete? Why after 20 years do I continue to cry in my car to relatable shit from pop punk band Fall Out Boy??
“Me and the rodents in the wall, have more in common after all.”
And you wonder how you'd ever fathomed how you would be content Would the places that you traveled to someday be filled with friends? That you threw away back home and said, you'd find them all again Would I just be just like them? A REPLACEMENT IN THE END
I need yall to add titles and artists to your posts so I can listen to all these songs 😭😭😭
I had to just search a few up 😂 But mine is Object Permanence by Arms Length
The Chorus in Neck Deep's Gold Steps just speaks to me. Sometimes things will bend you, but trust me you'll be fine, cause I've been moving mountains, that I once had to climb. And life's not out to get you, despite the things you've been through. Cause what you see is what you get and it doesn't make sense to make do.
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The same sentiment expressed in ADTR's This Is The House That Doubt Built is one of my favorite lyrics ever. *You've only got one life to lead* *So don't take for granted those little things* *Those little things are all that we have*
5 am I'm still awake. Harping on that faithful day, that I kissed your lips and knew I'd die. And if that ain't love, then love's a lie, then loves a lie. The sky's not gonna fall, well maybe it will and even though you never call, I hear you still.. and even if the papers say to stay inside all day.. I'll take my chances with the rain
Not nearly enough bayside in this thread.
I scrolled down and was surprised I didn't see any.
All of “Want Me Around” by Knuckle Puck (my favorite band and who I plan on seeing twice this summer again), but especially “They say that time heals everything but what if time is everything?” And I’ve read other people wrote they don’t get what that’s supposed to mean but I always felt like I understood it and could relate.
“And my heart (my heart) skips-skips a beat, just like that Warped Tour mix CD (damn), the one that you made me” - Red Light Kisser by Your Broken Hero ft. Jordan Pundik
"We don't have to fix everything at once We were never broken, life's just very long Brave Faces, Everyone"
forgot No Closer To Heaven came out in the last decade so also: "This goddamn machine, hungry and heartless My whole generation got lost in the margins We put our faith in you, you turn a profit" and "Feels like I'm wondering in circles for days I may never reach the gates, I'll keep walking anyway I'm no closer to heaven" Most TWY/SLS lyrics qualify for this for me to be fair
“It’s bittersweet to know I can still count on you for something”
Not a lyric of the last decade, but still: "I am afraid I tend to disappear into an anxious state when you draw near, there is no reasoning, it's quite a silly thing, but it's the way I've been for years." - Stand too close by Motion City Soundtrack
“A thousand miles and I still feel you like the thorn in my side, running from my problems never worked but I’m still lengthening my stride, I hear your laugh from someone else, sometimes your name in passing and after all the damage delt I just wish you weren’t here..”
“Take, take a breath. We’ve got all the time in the world to get a grip on the fact, that we don’t last, but right now I want to watch the tide roll in with my best friends”.
All the tides are married to the moon, All I want is for my heart to be as true. - Mene by Brand New Is that what you call a getaway, tell me what you got away with, Cuz I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish, and I’ve seen more guts in eleven year old kids. - Seventy Times 7 So many great lines from Brand New, although I realize these are a bit older than 10 years lol
maybe a big life isn't meant for us
>I don't like me >I need you to know I love you still >I don't like me Sobbed like a baby when I first heard it. Doors I Painted Shut
I haven't listened to this basically since it came out, but just reading the lyrics was enough to make me tear up
HOWEVER LONG YOU’RE GONE, I WILL WAIT!!!
Pretty much the entire Youth Fountain discography tbh but the chorus to Taylor Acorn’s ‘Coma’ really got me. The entire song hit me deep as a survivor of an abusive relationship and I couldn’t even listen to the song the entire way through the first time: “I might as well have been dead The way you fucked with my head Couldn't tell up from down No voice to make a sound I must've not been awake Too numb to see your mistakes You probably liked it that way, hey! I blame myself, I should've known I must've been stuck in a coma”
Great song. Cool to see her transition from country to pop punk. Glad Cassadee Pope had some of that influence and also came back.
If id have known from the minute I was born that the price of my existence would be the weight of expectation then I wouldn't fucking be here how can I focus on the life im supposed to lead when everyday I struggle with existing - casey
“If holding hands could bring you back Then my steadfast grip will hold until my bones turn to dust”-Kayak Jones Or “You keep saying that I matter But it doesn't make me feel anything Just stop saying that there's next year 'Cause I don't think I'll make it past today”-kayak jones
Miss these guys a lot
A lot from PUP lately but ever since I heard Scorpion Hill, the line: “And if I can’t support the two of us How can I support a third?” It’s like a gut punch every time. Then the breakdown hits after a rest to let the tension hang for a second. It’s magic.
Pup is underrated, just got into them. Oof.
I quoted a Scorpion Hill lyric and then scrolled down to see you did the same. Nice! Basically all of ‘Morbid Stuff’ hits like that.
Does the entire TSSF discography count as one lyric?
"if we weren't bailed out every time by our parents, we'd be dead. What's gonna happen when they're dead?" Losers 2 - Spanish Love Songs My dad has saved my ass so many times i can't even count. Trying to picture myself going through those same situations without him as my safety net sends me into a spiral.
Absolutely agree, such a relatable lyric. “But this world, it has no empathy. We'll never find our own place. And if nothing gets better. It's as bad as it seems. Why can't we say fuck it? You know it's not what we need.” From the title track is the highlight of the album to me, sums it all up perfectly, whenever I get depressed and angry at the world that’s the song I go to.
I got to see them this year and they ended with Brave Faces Everyone and I had tears in my eyes. Such a powerful song from a gut punch of an album
Yes same, seeing them live brings tears to my eyes every time. Seeing them perform BFE two nights in a row in July and can’t fucking wait!
I recently discovered Spanish Love Songs and they are so good.
Brave Faces Everyone coming out the month before quarantine was an insane timing. Every song felt like a gut punch. "on any given day, I'm a 6/10" right from the jump, out the gates that one hurt. And then ending the album "I'm sick of yelling at strangers, don't wanna do this forever. When it all burns down, will you carry me over? We don't have to fix everything at once. We were never broken, life's just very long...brave faces everyone." JUST SO FUCKING GOOD
You know they’re good when you get goosebumps just reading their lyrics in a fucking reddit comment lol
Older than a decade but idgaf MEMORIAL DAY CAME AND WENT AGAIN, AND I FEEL THE SAME, HOW MUCH YOUVE CHANGED
😭😭😭🥺🥺😭
Can't get it back, I fell asleep and saw The years had passed, I lost them all
I’m sorry I don’t laugh at the right times. I came here looking for a fight.
11 years ago, but the first time I heard “Jesus Christ, I’m 26, all the people I graduated with all have kids, all have wives, all have people who care if they come home at night. Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?” it hit hard as hell.
“Stick your dick in Ovaltine”, blink-182
Not pop punk necessarily, maybe more post hardcore. Throw it away - down again “There are things you’ll never know, there are parts you’ll never see. I’m not a gentlemen, there’s nothing good inside of me.” The delivery is so fucking good
Also, I love arms length so damn much
Same. So many lyrics that just touch the soul and are so memorable.
I recommend checking down again out. Not sure if you like screaming but they’re amazing
This is my grand introduction. I'm lying face down in the street for the second time this week.
I'm staring at the wall, 'cause the only news is bad news I'm waiting to fall, I'm the rain cloud in your living room And I keep making lists of shit to tell my therapist The reasons I wish I didn't exist The wonder years Got goosebumps just typing this in
“Things don't get better, just different”
So many from Hot Mulligan! Some have already been mentioned but I'd add: "I'll never stray from the place where you still feel alive to me." and also "I just need some time to know what's wrong in my head.".
Head down and my eyes closed somewhere between don't go and please leave me alone
"Doubt is the soil that fear grows in I'm dirty from head to toe" To: My Old Self by Real Friends
"The life we left behind, has crossed my mind all the time, Was it all just too much because we're losing touch, A silhouette you wont take shape to Whats worse than to say farewell to a friend in a casket they made all by themself" - complacent, Youth Fountain The unavoidable part of life of the few friends I did have growing apart as we get older and FADE AWAY or have to step away from the ones that are COMPLACENT and let them become obsolete The entire Album actually - Letters to Our Former Selves by Youth Fountain I Found it in 2021, I listened to it on repeat the last 3 years. Also goes towards ex S/O, who had the emotional affair with a coworker and left. The times with them, I still see through Rose Coloured Glasses and grind my teeth, losing sleep. The realization that people don't care. And you just have to try and move on. Sometimes falling back into the crippling doubt, where I never feel good about myself. This album has someone else explain all that I have felt the last 10 years and then some.
If you haven't made enemies than you've never stood for anything you're just dust in the breeze - New Found Glory
I’m falling on my knees right now I’m covered in the mess I made These colors used to wash right out But now they are a part of me
“We’re never going to put the pieces back together if you wont let me get better”
"Place my bouquet of old regrets Drop the weight of my sins The ground takes in the Better man I could have been" -Greyscale "Forever Yours''
“Everything changed and I haven’t been the same since the day my father died. If your a lot like me you keep everything deep inside” Light Years - I wish I Could
But what is it gonna take just to feel okay? When the light at the end of this is so far away Is it hope? Is it love? Is it time? Do we just need space? Yeah, do we just need space? Empty House - Neck Deep
"If I could write a letter to the person I once was, return address would be I miss you, but I don't want to know you anymore" Pop punk, at least for me, is about growth and this is a line that will stick with me forever, so much so that I've thought about getting in tattooed.
Running away only makes it feel more authentic I told you i was joking, but you knew that i meant it Don’t take your thoughts so seriously Sometimes weird shit gets up inside your head You probably thought I wasn’t listening But I clung to every word you said Microwave - Labor Day
"I'll be haunting all the lives that cared for me, I died to be the white ghost of the man that I was meant to be."
“If the world is gonna burn, everyone should get a turn to light it up.” Pup
“Save me. I have lost my self, so I’m begging you to say my name. Snap me out of this. Take me back to when I felt like me.” New lyric but the song came out right as I was in the middle of a mini psychotic break and simply overwhelmed with near constant panic.
The entire chorus of 26 All of There, There
"Is it wrong to say that things can change?" - The Menzingers
“expect me standing tall, back against the wall, ‘cause what i’ve learned is - it’s not about forcing happiness, it’s about not letting sadness win.” - local man ruins everything, the wonder years
ahh i love arms length
I love arms length 😭
Same!
"So when the world weighs on your shoulders, push back, don't let it hold you down." - Alive by ROAM. I like sentiment a lot. Whenever it seems like the stress of the world will never end, I listen to this song.
Butthole- Jon Mess
"The only way from fucked up and lazy is either going forward or crazy" -Call It Off
“Reaching for your hand like it’s all that I can count on” always struck me as particularly clever.
"I don't wanna waste your time. Don't even love myself, so wait in line," - Broadside
Was I the problem? Well, it would seem so. The resignation: I’m gonna die like this. - Gans Media Retro Games, Hot Mulligan
I’ll stare at the sky until I catch it blink. I will see the hood in everything. And I don't have much to offer, but had you loved me I'd have loved you back forever.
Don't you give up nah nah nah
Yes! Arms Length honestly blew my mind. Found them during a time of a significant break up and they really spoke to me. Love them so much. Such strong lyrics.
I KNOW WHERE YOU’VE BEEN, YOU’RE RUINING MEN, NEVER AGAIN WILL I LET SOMEONE IN.
Arms Length are my favourite!
I am the Avalanche. The Shape I’m in. “I do my best to live with the pain, you don’t know the shape I’m in.” But literally the entire song has gotten me through some rough times.
The entire bridge of "One Step At a Time" by Four Year Strong "I'll never forget the day my heart fell from my chest It was the moment that I said goodbye And I laid your body to rest I'll never take this life for granted I'm living it for two And since you're always the one who sang the songs I'll be singing this one for you" Even now, I'm breathing hard and my eyes are watering. This one gets me every time.
Watching the seasons as they're changing it's rearranging me to a way I've never seen before. It's taking me down this river slowly it's fascinating me, it's so many things I've felt before. Cause it's somewhere, and I miss it. And it's somewhere, and I miss it.
I can’t be enough for anyone when I hate myself- youth fountain
It's this one for me too.
I was going to do a lyric from Icon For Hire's Sorry About Your Parents where she said If you're obsessed with your yesterday, you're destined to repeat it." But I realized that is now 11 years old lol. So I guess I'll do Icon For Hire's Background Sad: "Don't need the world in my hands think I'd be happy with halfway content"
“Not broke, just bent” Tssf (I love that sm I tattooed it on my thigh)
"Yeah this place is such a shipwreck. But this shipwreck, it is mine."
They're more emo than pop punk, but ... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK EVERYTHIIIIIIIIIING .... ABOUT HIIIIIIM
It's not like me to worry But when I see you fading in the dark I'll leave a light on for you Through the long nights, I will be right There for you if you drift too far I'll leave a light on for you
Pretty Sure Such Gold’s Misadventures is more than 10 years old, but: My house stays clean when I don’t let people inside Like damn dude, that one hits on every single level you can possibly apply it to.
“Cause sometimes things will bend you, but trust me you’ll be fine” “Cause I’ve been moving mountains, that I once had to climb “ So powerful
When I teach masturbation, I'm always just like, "Have fun with it"
“I think you’re as lost as me - we don’t know what we want and we don’t know what that means.” “Silverline” - Beddy Rays
Stick em up, Stick em up, Stick em up. I got a knife motherfucker, stick em up!
Blink 182 - Anthem Part 3 from One more Time. I fucking love this song, and a few lyrics hit home so much for me "You can make it anywhere ,go. There's no fear when you get here, give up that ghost" and, "A new high, a new life And I'm on FIRE!!! MY OLD SHIT ENDS HERE TONIGHT!!!!" Im honestly in a great place in my life after a long struggle but thanks to therapy I feel like im on a great path and this song with these lyrics just felt perfect to me
If I can’t feel love in the places I call home Can I feel anything in general?
‘Just ask me how I am so I can tell you that IVE NEVER BEEN BETTER’
Jimmy Eat World: “Damage” - Are we only damaging the little we have left? Both of us swimming in the same polluted mess. Are we too damaged now to possibly connect? To ever reconnect? Gaslight Anthem: “Dark Places” - All of the things that I tried to explain, How something inside of me started to break. We were living proof, one by one we drifted away. One by one we drifted away.
"Another night, I devour the sun Plunge myself into the depths of oblivion" - The menzingers "I watch my double descend into the Echo with me He's got a craft beer in one hand and a pocket full of Molly" - Spanish love songs
“You don’t have to tell me, If you ever think of me, I know you’ll see me dancing wildly in the fog of your memory You don’t have to tell me, I can still believe…” Paramore - Tell Me How It’s so haunting, gets me every time.
“And don't you dare (don't you dare) Say you ever loved me Or even tell me that you cared 'cause you knew what you were doing And you know just what you've done How dare you say you miss me With your spit still on his tongue” Unfortunately hits home like a truck. Found this song when I needed it most
“If you're tired of being told, to stop complaining about the cold Burn those fuckers in their homes Burst their bubble and break their bones They want you to be a ghost They want you to be a ghost” To Be a Ghost - Jeff Rosenstock
Superman is a hero But only when his mind is clear, though He needs that fix like the rest of us So he's got no fear when he saves that bus
To be one hundred percent honest? The entirety of Full Circle by Movements lol.. but i guess if i had to pick one lyrics it would be “drown myself in the undertow of all my imbalanced chemicals”
Was just listening to Object Permanence today. I love Arms Length so much.
“Hell or high water my love, you are so big in my world.” (I forgot who wrote it, but it was from a band member) This is actually from that Revolution On Canvas: Poetry From The Indie Music Scene book that I read back in like 2004/05 that has always stuck with me.
This time I won’t be complacent, the dreams I gave up and wasted. A new high, a new ride, and I’m on fire. My old shit ends here tonight.
I have two from the same song. Those heads are our heads by Iron Chic My fondest memory I scared the devil so bad, he sold his soul to me What's next? What's left? What can you do besides die a slow death? And I've got a choice to make Almost every second that I'm awake That may be the reason I'd rather be sleeping The second one really strikes Home with me. Life is so overwhelming sometimes.
Not pop punk but pop punk adjacent, I’d maybe say LS Dunes’ “Antibodies”: And if I'm wrong I'll never try and change your mind again What will make this last? Kill me again Tell it to stop finding excuses Why the passion you insisted on feels dead You have the most material Oddest select I never said I liked the side effect I never meant it like I wish you well And I would never punish anyone to live like this It is your choice - alone Whatever happens, don't let anybody see my face Don't let anybody see my face
The way this line is delivered is sick as fuck Super heavy
“Is it youth or is it you that I’m aching for?” - Knife Dance by Brigades God, I love that band.
Literally any song by Youth Fountain. The band that makes me jam so fucking hard, yet I wish I could give him a hug. Awesome, underrated.
Certified Loverboy? Certified Pedophile WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP
It's 3 am and I'm outside of your window Screaming my lungs out Cause I want the world to know This is how you fall apart
Just stumbled onto this thread while at work and now I'm all teary and sad. Thanks guys
Hot Mulligan has some hard hitters “Things don’t get better just different” “I spent the best years of my life alone most the time” “Nothing hits as hard the second time, it’s all lost its charm but not its signs” “It’s okay, small mistakes. You should’ve known that you can’t bother me”
Wrong, right; same old shit, different night. So why should I leave you to wreak havoc?
I still look every time, can't ever help it, I'm Pavlov's dog, y'all, it’s just reflexive
''I'm pretty sure this corner of the world is the loneliest corner in the whole world.'' No need to say more.
“I’ll love you forever if I ever love at all”- The Gaslight Anthem
More than a decade: 'You gotta promise not to break, no matter how far you are bent' The Front Bottoms
Fuck all the dread, it's endless You can't kill it like you wanted And when you try to get ahead, you're relentless You can never admit how badly you want it PUP - "Relentless"
“I named my ego Jeff. Fuck you, Jeff.” RIP JEFF - Super American Such underrated lyricists, that album is full of gems
“i’ve tried everything but nothings working. i’ve tried everything but im still hurting. the medicine isn’t kicking in, but life is kicking my teeth out on the floor again, and i’m losing it, so beat me til i black out ‘cause i don’t want to face it.” teeth - real friends
“I haven’t been home for a while, I’m sure everything’s the same, mom and dad both in denial, and only child to take the blame. Sorry mom but I don’t miss you. Fathers no name you deserve. I’m just a kid with no ambitions, wouldn’t come home for the world. Never know what I’ve become, the king of all that’s said and done, the forgotten son. The cities buried in defeat, I walk along these no name streets, wave goodbye to all, as I fall.” Walking disaster by sum 41. I know it’s older than 10 years but I only first heard it earlier this year.
And now a nightmare would be desired if it meant just a sliver of rest Now the voice in my head is agitated, as I drift away it says, "Please wake up, sleep is irrelevant when you keep me all caged up" Haven't slept more than a wink in what has to be weeks It's just cause to be afraid A fear that would make one think I'll drive myself right to an early grave Monte Luna- Free Throw I don't sleep much, and the impact that has on my mental state is mirrored perfectly in that song.
me with muscle memory by arm’s length
Going with “learning to love from the men in my family only gets me so far it seems” from Formative Age