“ The ones who love us best are the ones we’ll lay to rest… The ones who love us least are the ones we’ll die to please“
Thanks to Dave-O for the tip
Song (click for full lyrics): Bastards of Young
Artist: The Replacements
Album: Tim
Year: 1985
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Categories: Coping · Life · Loneliness · Lyrics · Music · Pain · Replacements (The) · Tragedy · Year 1985 · Youth
“We don’t need any money to have any fun“
Song (click for full lyrics): Into Action
Artist: Tim Armstrong (featuring Skye Sweetnam)
Album: A Poet’s Life
Year: 2006
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Categories: Friends · Just Fun · Lyrics · Music · Tim Armstrong · Year 2006 · Youth
“All I want to do is be more like me and be less like you“
Song (click for full lyrics): Numb
Artist: Linkin Park
Album: Meteora
Year: 2003
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Categories: Coping · Life · Linkin Park · Lyrics · Music · Pain · Year 2003 · Youth
“Only love can bring the rain, that falls like tears from on high“
If you know the Who’s original classic then check out Pearl Jam’s cover of this song. If you heard it first by
Pearl Jam, help yourself to some rock culture and history and listen to it on Quadrophenia by the Who. Two of my all-time favorite bands come together.
Song (click for full lyrics): Love Reign O’er Me
Artist: The Who
Album: Quadrophenia
Year: 1973, 2007 (cover)
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Categories: Loneliness · Love · Lyrics · Music · Pearl Jam · Relationships · Who (The) · Year 1973 · Year 2007 · Youth
“He said ‘Son when, you grow up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?’“
Song (click for full lyrics): Welcome to the Black Parade
Artist: My Chemical Romance
Album: The Black Parade
Year: 2006
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Categories: Life · Lyrics · Music · My Chemical Romance · Pain · Tragedy · Year 2006 · Youth
“I wan’t to roll around like a kid in the snow“
Song (click for full lyrics): A Great Big Sled
Artist: The Killers
Album: Single
Year: 2006
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Categories: Killers (The) · Life · Lyrics · Music · Seasonal · Year 2006 · Youth
“Father Christmas, give us some money, don’t mess around with those silly toys.“
Song (click for full lyrics): Father Christmas
Artist: The Kinks
Album: Misfits
Year: 1998
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Categories: Kinks (The) · Lyrics · Music · Seasonal · Year 1998 · Youth
“I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record“
Song (click for full lyrics): Kiss Off
Artist: Violent Femmes
Album: Violent Femmes
Year: 1982
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Categories: Break Up · Coping · Life · Lyrics · Music · Relationships · Violent Femmes · Youth
From the Washington Post and VH1’s poll of the greatest lyrics of all-time in Britain. Number three.
“I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us”
Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Artist: Nirvana
Album: Nevermind
Year: 1991
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Props to Dicky Barrett from the Mighty Morning Show on Indie 103.1 for dialing me in on this. Tomorrow I will have to post some Bosstones wisdom.
“They can’t get nowhere, they’ve all gone beat crazy“
Song: Beat Crazy
Artist: Joe Jackson
Album: Beat Crazy
Year: 1980
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Categories: Joe Jackson · Just Fun · Lyrics · Music · Youth
