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.
clegko, 
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
cale_darkrin, Show me your strength,
it’s more than you know.
You’ll never what you’re made of
until you set foot down the road.
~Where the Skies End, by Starset
soloner, 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
moldyringwald, 
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
subspaceinterferents, 
Now you come to me and you’ve got green streaks in your hair
You walk like Greta Garbo, but you talk like Yogi Bear
What’s going on? What’s going on?
I really don’t believe what’s going on; what’s going on?
— Al Stewart
LordFarkWad7, 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
DirigibleProtein, “Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache”Synchronicity II, The Police
Drunemeton, 
“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 telephoneSo 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.
scytale, “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
thelsim, 
The deadly, yellow snow from right there where the huskies go.
Frank Zappa - Nanook rubs itAlways makes me smile :)
0ops, As she abused a sausage patty
thelsim, And said why don’t you treat me mean?
AceQuorthon, Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow!
Kolanaki, 
I sure could use a vacation from this Stupid shit! Silly shit! Stupid shit!
Tool - Ænima
lorez, Heaven is a kiss and a smile. George Michael.
porkchop, Paul Simon, Crazy Love. The line is “sad as a lonely, little wrinkled balloon.” Even as a kid, I always found that image so evocative.
lobsticle, Paul Simon has so many hard-hitting lyrics across his entire catalog. I’m sure I could find something from just about any album, but for me, what comes instantly to mind is this line from “The Cool, Cool River”: “And sometimes, even music/ Cannot substitute for tears”.
sanguinepar, 
From the same album…
“Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you’re blown apart”Such a devastating lyric.
Firebirdie713, You gotta hold on, ready or not You live for the fight when that’s all that you’ve got
Bon Jovi, Livin’ on a Prayer
beccaboben, “I’ve been on fire, and yet I’ve still stayed frozen”
CAKE No Phone
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