CERESUltra

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What's your favorite absolutely raw line from any song?

I'll start! for me, it's "Does anyone know/where the love of God goes/When the waves turn the minutes to hours" from The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot.

Starra
@Starra

Not sure if it really counts as "raw", but the line "Can't shake the devil's hand/And say you're only kidding" from TMBG's Your Racist Friend feels pretty powerful to me

CERESUltra
@CERESUltra

I love that song, and I hate that not only is it relevant 33 years later, but it is arguably MORE relevant than when it was written.

zandravandra
@zandravandra

mine is probably “If everybody knows how it's gonna end/Why doesn't someone stop me?” from We Are Scientists’ In Action

time goes by but I always end up thinking about that line

ItsMeLilyV
@ItsMeLilyV

"I wish I had a bullet big enough to fucking kill the sun"

from Hate, Rain On Me by AJJ is a line I will never forget

ldx
@ldx

I’m partial to this verse from This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie:

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there / And that sign said "No trespassin'" / But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin! / Now that side was made for you and me!

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kojote
@kojote

YES.

Gordon Lightfoot was a godsend starting guitar because I always loved his music and also he was very averse to having too many different lines in a song so once you've nailed that A => Em => G => D sequence, boy howdy you are set for at least five minutes of Great Lakes tragedy.

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CycleLunar
@CycleLunar

There's so many to chose from, but I literally pulled my name from Nirvana's "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" because of this line -

"She'll come back as fire to burn all the liars/
Leave a blanket of ash on the ground"

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Vosyl
@Vosyl

Idles is full of these but combined with the music video for 'Reigns' which is graphic in that it juxtaposes lyrics about class warfare with that of a nature documentary and people jeering as if they were watching a sporting event.

"How does it feel to have shanked the working classes into dust? /
How does it feel to have won the war that nobody wants? /
Huh? / Pull on my reigns"

Each line just resonates with this defiant force of Joe Talbot's voice, that lands the impact of how we're caught and ground by capitalism' machination. There is so many other songs by this band who's lines stay with me; but there's also this one song that's more personal 'Common Sense' by Viagra Boys.

"Why is it your apartment always looks like shit /
With lots of trash but you don't take care of none of it /
Why do you think it always ends up like this /
Like life's a joke and you're just taking the piss."

Which leads up to the line that hits me: "Or do you think there's someone else you can blame" It's just something that cuts through self-excuses I have, I can blame my parents, genetics, mental health, god, moments of my life, but any of that isn't going to improve my life in the here and now with what I can do in the moment.

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PineappleAnna
@PineappleAnna

"It is not love, if love is cold to touch"

VNV Nation - Gratitude (although the mixing on this song is pretty bad for hearing the lyrics... it was only after reading that first line after listening to the song that the words crushed me)

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