Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do
Di-ba-di-de-do
Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do
Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do
Di-ba-di-de-do
Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

You can just replace company store with whatever capitalist institution owns you. 🫠

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

The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming

I've been waiting for the next Vengabus since 1998. Our public transport infrastructure is a fucking joke.

Yes I know my enemies; They're the teachers who taught me to fight me. Compromise, Conformity, Assimilation, Submission, Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Brutality, The elite - All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

• Pink Floyd, Time

You can check out, but you can never leave.

They call me the hiphoppopotamus

Flows that glow like phosphorus

Poppin' off the top o' this esophagus

Rockin' this metropolis

I'm not a large water dwelling mammal

Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! x14

PARA BAILAR LA BAMBA
PARA BAILAR LA BAMBA SE NECESITA UN POQUITO DE GRACIA
UN POQUITO DE GRACIA PA'TI PA'MI ARRIBA Y ARRIBA
Y ARRIBA Y ARRIBA
POR TI SERÉ POR TI SERÉ

Some say the end is near Some say we'll see Armageddon soon Certainly hope will I sure could use a vacation from this Bull shit three ring sideshow circus of freaks

"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" Mad World, Tears for Fears.

Stuck with me from when I listenerd originally.

Tequila!

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

It's transcended time

Deine Gewalt ist nur ein stummer Schrei nach Liebe

Deine Springerstiefel sehnen sich nach Zärtlichkeit

Du hast nie gelernt, dich zu artikulieren

Und deine Eltern hatten niemals für dich Zeit

Oh-ho-ho, Arschloch!

I only lived in Germany for a bit, but this one stuck in my head pretty hard. Schrei nach Liebe by Die Ärzte

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. - Freewill by Rush.

“Despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage”

&

“So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you could tell?
Did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here”

Fuckin magnets, how do they work?

• The bards Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope

You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost, Everybody knows the fight was fixed, The poor stay poor, the rich get rich, That's how it goes, Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking, Everybody knows the captain lied, Everybody got this broken feeling, Like their father or their dog just died, Everybody talking to their pockets, Everybody wants a box of chocolates, And a long-stem rose, Everybody knows...

I wanna live in the city with no friends or family
I'm gonna look out the window of my color TV
I wanna remember to remember to forget you forgot me
I'm gonna look out the window of my color TV

The sun ablaze as Maria's foot touches the surface of sand

On northern land, as human contraband

Some rico from Jalisco passed her name to the Boss

She stuffed into a truckbed, she clutches her cross

Here comes the exhaust and it rips through her lungs

She's off fast to the pasture, like cattle she'll cross

Degree 106, sweat and vomit are thrown And she prays and suffocates upon the memories of home

Of Yanqui guns for blood, debts on the loans

Of smoldering fields, rape, rubble and bones

Of graves hidden, trapped up in visions of war

Of nothing, no one, nobody, no more

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Hard to pick a RATM song, but Maria is one of my favourite lyrically. Also topical right now

As far as story telling, and war goes, "The General" by Dispatch:

[Verse 1]

There was a decorated general with a heart of gold

That likened him to all the stories he told

Of past battles won and lost, and legends of old

A seasoned veteran in his own time

On the battlefield, he gained respectful fame

With many medals of bravery and stripes to his name

He grew a beard as soon as he could to cover the scars on his face

And always urged his men on

[Verse 2]

But on the eve of a great battle with the infantry in dream

The old general tossed in his sleep and wrestled with its meaning

He awoke from that night to tell what he had seen

And walked slowly out of his tent

All the men held tall with their chests in the air

With courage in their blood and a fire in their stare

And it was a grey morning and they all wondered how they would fare

Till the old general told them to go home

[Chorus]

He said, "I have seen the others, and I have discovered

That this fight is not worth fighting

And I've seen their mothers

And I will no other

To follow me where I'm going

So take your shower, shine your shoes, you got no time to lose

You are young and you must be living

So take your shower, shine your shoes, you got no time to lose

You are young and you must be living

Go now, you are forgiven"

[Verse 3]

But the men stood fast with their guns on their shoulders

Not knowing what to do with their contradicting orders

The general said he would do his own duty but he would extend it no further

The men could go as they pleased

But not a man moved, their eyes gazed straight ahead

Till one by one they stepped back, and not a word was said

And the old general was left with his own words echoing in his head

He then prepared to fight

[Chorus]

He said, "I have seen the others, and I have discovered

That this fight is not worth fighting

And I've seen their mothers

And I will no other

To follow me where I'm going

[Outro]

Go now, you are forgiven

Go now, you are forgiven

Go now, you are forgiven

Go

The lyrics that come to mind are:

"Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom"

"Who Has To Know My Dirty Little Secret, Don't Tell Anyone Or You'll Be Just Another Regret"

And various parts of Dragostea Din Tei ( the Numa Numa song )

All of these thanks to my early days on the interwebs.

Wear sunscreen Wear sunscreen

Jeff Tweedy is, I think, the greatest American lyricist of his generation. His stuff always hits. But for some reason, Wilco- She's a Jar and it's chorus, has always stuck with me.

"Just climb aboard

The tracks of a trains arm

In my fragile family tree

And watch me floating inches above

The people under me"

Another one from Jeff's (I've seen him in concert 5 times already, I can call him Jeff) solo Album, Jeff Tweedy- I know what it's like

"When the lights are dim

In my window I have a twin

I'm always looking out

And he's always looking in

I know what it's like

Starting over again"

And then, finally, from one of the greatest flows in the rap game, MF DOOM- Figaro, and this weird ass lyric that has lived rent-free in my head since I heard it

"Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat

Off sides like how Worf rides with Starfleet"

Abracadabra boom-shacka-dae

I'm Violent J and I'm back like a vertebrae

And I come with a hat full of tricks

Trunk full of Faygo, car full of fat chicks.

ICP. Hocus Pocus

Nothing More
"Fade In / Fade Out"

Just the other day I looked at my father
It was the first time I saw he'd grown old
Canyons through his skin and the rivers that made them
Carve the stories I was told

He said, "Son
I have watched you fade in
You will watch me fade out
I have watched you fade in
You will watch me fade out
When the grip leaves my hand
I know you won't let me down

Go and find your way
Leave me in your wake
Always push through the pain
And don't run away from change
Never settle, make your mark
Hold your head up, follow your heart
Follow your heart

Not the full lyrics but a great song that helped me mourn the losses in my life.

Ten million dollars in a losing campaign

Twenty million starving and writhing in pain

Big, strong people, unwilling to give

Small in vision and perspective

One in five kids below the poverty line

One population running out of time

Bad Religion, Punk Rock Song from the album The Gray Race.

"I think you are blind to the fact that the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down."

Everclear - Everything to Everyone

ABCDEFG...

"i just wanna get really high, smoke weed until i die"

Better, it hits harder every year.

I just wanna fuckin sleep

Bath Salts by Highly Suspect

Please tell mom this is not her fault

The entire lyric to The Weakerthans - This is a Fire Door, Never Leave Open

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Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room
And half illuminate a face before they disappear \ You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling \ I breathe out smoke against a window
Trace the letters in your name

Our letters sound the same
Full of all our changing
That isn't change at all
All straight lines circle sometime

You said, "Somewhere, there's a box full of replacement parts
To all the tenderness we've broken or let rust away."
Somewhere, sympathy is more than just a way of leaving
Somewhere, someone says, "I'm sorry."
Someone's making plans to stay

So tell me it's okay
Tell me anything
Or show me there's a pull
Unassailable

That will lead you there from the dark alone
To benevolence that you've never known
Or you knew when you were four and can't remember

Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams
And the silence knows what your silence means
And your metaphors, as mixed as you can make them
Are linked like days, together

I still hear trains at night when the wind is right
I remember everything
Lick and thread this string

That will never mend you or tailor more
Than a memory of a kitchen floor
Or the fire door that we kept propping open

And I love this place: the enormous sky
And the faces, hands that I'm haunted by
So why can't I forgive these buildings
These frameworks labeled home?

Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room
And half illuminate a face before they disappear

Hayes Carll sings, in his American Dream song - "Nothing changes, even when it wants to" and that struck me pretty hard.

Older-

Emmylou Harris the whole Red Dirt Girl song, my goodness but particularly "she loved her brother, I remember back when he was fixin up a '49 Indian. He told her "little sister gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again." Well he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come."

@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world my kids absolutely LOVE that Vincent song. It's so good, straight through.

Right now? "Democranz and republicrats" gets me.

the CEO's are shredding files
And the democrins and the republicrats
Are flashing their toothy smiles

And uncle Tom is posing for a photo op with the oval office clan
And uncle Sam is rigging cockfights in the promised land

*Ani Difranco, "Serpentine" *

The Clash's "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"

All over people changing their votes

Along with their old codes

If Adolf Hitler flew in today

They'd send a limousine straight away

Working 9 to 5 What a way to make a livin'...

The complete lyrics hold up very well

Hey man, nice shot.

too many to list really.
Top of my head:

To me, coming from you, friend is a four letter word. When i go fishing for the words, i am wishing you would say to me, i'm really only praying that, the words you'll soon be saying, like, betray the way you feel about me.

"I've seen the future. I can't afford it. To tell you the truth sir, someone just bought it." -ABC

Millionaire - ABC

Religion and sex are powerplays
Manipulate the people for the money they pay
Selling skin, selling God
The numbers look the same on their credit cards
Politicians say no to drugs
While we pay for wars in South America

Fighting fire with empty words
While the banks get fat
And the poor stay poor
And the rich get rich
And the cops get paid
To look away
As the one percent rules America

“Spreading the Disease” from the album “Operation: Mindcrime” by Queensrÿche (1988)

It is recent, but

There's no joy in my life There's no joy when I'm right I know what they say when I walk in the light There's no joy

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life

I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky

But why, why, why can't it be, oh can't it be mine?

_"I'm so appalled, Spalding ball Balding, Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all"

So Appalled - Kanye West

It's the sale 'ol shit Different day Gotta get up Gotta get up

WE ALL JUST WANT TO FUCK!! - Tommy Rogers, Between the Buried and Me - The Primer.

Brass Monkey That funky Monkey Brass Monkey junkie That funky Monkey

My mother always told me,
Always be good boy, don't ever play with guns
I shot a man in Reno
Just to watch him die.

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| | Aux armes, citoyens | To arms, citizens | | Formez vos bataillons, | Form your battalions | | Marchons, marchons ! | Let's march, let's march! | | Qu'un sang impur | So impure blood | | Abreuve nos sillons ! | Waters our furrows! |

La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem.

We need another revolution against the rich. This song should be blasted in front of the houses of rich fucks and whenever they show up in public.

The end of a song. Fuck the corporate world biaaatch.

“You'll never thrill the bold
Divisions in the sky
Of whom predestined you to always
Be the last in line” Winners - Deadsy

Every word in this song:

The Things I Do for Money - The Northern Pikes

Tequila

I work for my livin', my money's my own
And then that don't like me can leave me alone

“Memories, fading memories, blending into dull tableaux.”

"Please tell me it'll be okay"

Please Tell Me - Jon Worthy and the Bends