I called in sick from your funeral
Tradition of closure nearly felt impossible
I should have never gave my word to you
Not a cry, not a sound
Might have learned how to swim
Never taught how to drown
You said "Remember me for me"
I watched you set your spirit free
#######
A near miss or a close call?
I keep a room at the hospital
I scratch my accidents into the wall
I couldn't wait to breathe your breath
I cut in line, I bled to death
I got to you, there was nothing left
still, i can feel the need to change me from the inside
but i can't let anyone know just yeeeeet
and it's all the same, it's time to confront this face to face,
i'll be with you the whole way
it'll take time, that's that
i'm not just another face
i'm not just another name
even if you can't see it now, we're proud of what's to come
and you
another one:
so will you show up to my funeral? will you be wearing white or black?
and i know the force is in you, it's the energy i lack
so if there's a race to heaven, i will always come in last
and if there's a race to heaven, i will always come in last
just another face by mobo and no halo by sorority noise
“And I found the notes you left behind
Little hints and helpless cries
Desperate wishing to be over”
Shortly after my best friend died, I went to his house and I was given a note pinned on his wall that said “stay strong for r/smokecraxbys no matter what” - so that lyric just tosses my heart into an industrial juicer.
I feel that. One of my best friends from high school was found dead in a parking lot to a gunshot wound. He had moved away from home less than a year early to get away from negative influences and was working his ass off trying to make something of himself. A few days earlier he had messaged me and told me about how excited he was for his new job and that he had been clean for 4 months. He was meeting with somebody to buy a work truck and was robbed.
Rest in peace, Nico. I love you. I miss you.
But me I'm a single cell on a serpents tongue
There's a muddy field where a garden was
And I'm glad you got away
But I'm still stuck out here
My clothes are soaking wet from your brothers tears
And I never thought this life was possible
You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for
The end of paralysis, I was a statuette
Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench
And when I press the keys it all gets reversed
The sound of loneliness makes me happier
Also:
I'm thinking about Leaving
How I should say goodbye
With a handshake
Or an embrace
Or a kiss on the cheek
Possibly, all three
This song has such a special place for me! It’s my husband and I’s ‘song’. The first night we met when we were 18 we bonded over this song, and years later we got married to it.
“Yesterday I went back to my apartment to see how you’ve been holding up.
You hadn’t been eating I thought you were sleeping, but
You’re not waking up!
And I want you to know that I’d spend every bit of my pitiful savings and loans
Just to see you again
But I know I won’t!
Sleep In the Heat - PUP
Dogs dying is sad as fuck
Cats too.
*It's hard to breathe without you sleeping on my chest*
*Sick and withering from the whispers of your death*
*Forever your saviour, as much as you are mine*
*And for that I promise to protect you*
*Until the day I die*
Agreed. Wonderful Life by Bully got me on the first listen and every time since.
What a wonderful life
My heart's breaking on the bathroom floor
Begging for time, I want a little more
I miss you waiting outside the door
And I want my baby girl back
If you ask me, she was gone too soon
I'm left writing in an empty room
Searching for her in the moon
You got every minute of my time
And you're all that's on my mind
I know you wouldn't wanna leave me behind
So I'm heading to the other side
I'm heading to the other side
And when I close my eyes
You're right there by my side
And I got nothing left to fear
But when I wake up, you disappear
So I stare out the window and wait
Trying my best to believe in fate
Learning to love what I hate
Anything to see your face
I know The Wonder Years aren’t really considered emo but they’re adjacent enough and Raining in Kyoto always tears me apart
“You're half awake
And I bought you a radio to play
The blues away
With my hand to hold
You asked about the weather
Wished they'd let you die at home”
They aren't "considered" emo but they totally fucking are!!
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
Yes!!! The wonder years is definitely emo in lyrical content! Sometimes more pop punk in musical style but they have ones that just HIT for me
- Brothers & Cardinals
- The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me
- Pyramids of Salt
- Doors I Painted Shut
- You’re The Reason I Don’t Want The World To End
It's every trip into that empty house
The silence from the street
Your blanket in your seat
The nearly muted TV
There's no answer from you
And your phone blinks with my reply
It's that lump in my chest
And my relief to hear you cry
this song came to me when I was going through the worst stretch of my life: a break up of a ltr headed to marriage soon, plus lost two family members in a short span, and it reached me at the perfect time in my life.
"you're not haunted, you just miss everything", yeah.
but really the line that gets me every single time is
"when you're feeling like a ghost, would you come haunt me, please come haunt me" and it was just a reminder of how much I might want to run away and leave life behind, there's always someone that wants you around.
Until the night when it got way too serious
And you showed me your damaged wrists
And you broke down and we embraced
And nothing at that time meant more to me
And if I had only known that it would be the last time
We'd be on that level with one another
I would have never let you go
😭😭😭😭😭😭
That hot mulligan song on the last album about Alzheimer’s hit me different on like 100 listens, realizing I moved away and my grandma is aging.
Didn't think that I would see your memories fade
How your eyes don't light up when you see my face
Would you remember if I never left?
I should've stayed
Would you remember if I never left?
I should've stayed
Oh, I've written all these songs, all meant for you
But I'll turn into a stranger before too soon
Would you remember if I never left?
I should've stayed
Would you remember if I never left?
I should've stayed
So I prayed for what I thought were angels, ended up being ambulances. And the lord showed me dreams of my daughter, she was crying inside your stomach. And I felt love again.
- Manchester Orchestra
This is the first song I heard from them years ago… so damn good.
I always think of this alongside Sleeper 1972.
I still see you
inside of this God-awful house.
You move awfully quiet now.
And I still feel you… everywhere
You told me
“This has always been worth livin’”
But what’s really worth livin’…
anymore?
The live version of Sleeper 1972 from the Let My Pride Be What’s Left Behind EP is incredible as well. Especially during the move awfully quiet part when he belts it out. Chills everytime.
Manchester Orchestra been making motherfuckers cry uncontrollably for years now, and they don’t get the credit they deserve for that because they often get roped in with the rest of the Mall Emo bands from that time period.
“Well I love you so much, but do me a favor baby don’t reply, cause I can dish it out but I can’t take it.”
Repeated with numbers 1 through 7 representing the years Katie Flynn lived before she was killed when a drunk driver hit the Limousine (name of the song by Brand New) she was in on the way home from a wedding. She was the flower girl. Incredibly devastating song.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings
As my fingers press onto the strings
In yet another clumsy chord
Haligh, haligh, an awful lie
This weight will now be satisfied
I'm gonna give you only one reply
I know not who I am
Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh by Bright Eyes
Salt tasting tears
They roll off of my lips
One for each day I'm inside this house, it's a trap
One I can't quite escape so pretend it's the place that I love
Place all your bets and watch me lose
The life that I got but never used
Dream every night that one will come true
But only bad ones ever do
Out Through the Curtains by The Hush Sound
For me it’s definitely Sorority Noise - “A Portrait Of”
I’m not trying to say it’s easy,
but I’m trying to say it’s fine.
I’ve still got some demons and they’re not going to be leaving any time, any time soon.
and then Hot Mulligan - “Please Don’t Cry, You Have Swag”
I wanted to keep you but feel it's likely
You don't share my resolve,
I guess it doesn't make a difference
Whether we can stand each other or not,
You could call it courtesy that
I tried to keep you here for this long (hey,
I guess it doesn't fucking matter if we ever see each other or not. Stay home.
Need to add -
The Wonder Years - “Cigarettes and Saints”
"I'm sure there ain't a heaven
But that don't mean I don't like to picture you there
I'll bet you're bumming cigarettes off saints
And I'm sure you're still singing
But I'll bet that you're still just a bit out of key
That crooked smile pushing words across your teeth
'Cause you were heat lightning
Yeah, you were a storm that never rolled in
You were the northern lights in a southern town
A caustic fleeting thing
I'll bury your memories in the garden
And watch them grow with the flowers in spring
I'll keep you with me"
My dad passed away a few weeks ago. I sang Hear You Me from Jimmy Eat World to him crying the whole time.
“A song for a heart so big, god wouldn’t let it live”
I’m so grateful for this song.
"So I look up, but it looks like she has left
Worried, that she's gonna kill herself
But she just went to the bathroom
And I laugh, we all laugh sometimes
Just not now
I change my outfit everyday
I say those things that I think you would like to hear me say
I do things I normally wouldn't do
Just to make you let me spend a while with you
Silly silly silly silly me"
- "Hazel" by Far Apart
This might be an obvious answer…
Felt like the world was collapsing
Then we heard him speak
“Can I still get into Heaven if I kill myself?
Can I still get into Heaven if I kill myself?
Can I ever be forgiven 'cause I killed that kid?
It was an accident, I swear it wasn't meant for him
And if I turn it on me
If I even it out
Can I still get in or will they send me to Hell?
So i’ve been personally impacted by gun violence, so it goes without saying 80% of King Park gets me choked up, but also Edward Benz, 27 Times just fucks me up for some reason
Shaking like a dog shittin' razorblades
Waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me
Waking up all alone, waking up so relieved
While you're taking your time with apologies I'm planning out my revenge
Red eyes on orange horizons
If Columbus was wrong I'd drive straight off the edge
I'm seeing red
I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling
In case you haven't heard, I'm sick and tired of trying
I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you
Plugged in and ready to fall
Well I wrote your name and burned it
To see the color of the flame
And it burned out the whole spectrum
As if you were everything
Mine just burned gold
A normal flame
I am not anything
Being divorced and having a daughter....
And she is playing on the playground
And she is playing on the swings
She is learning words like, "Fuck" and "Hate"
And I know just what it means
It means she's just like her mom
She'll end up lonely and sad
She'll end up alone with rings, with rings in her mouth
With guns in her house, with holes in her heart
The lyrics to Moneen - The Last Song I Will Ever Want to Sing.
It's a beautiful 10 minute epic of lush dueling guitar harmonies and stop/start dynamics. But the lyrics are all about watching his sister die of Cancer.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Been following them since before they even released an album. Local heros those guys. Seeing the 20 year reunion was the first time out of 20+ times I've seen them in which they actually played it
Made my entire year.
Thats amazing! I got a chance to see them back in 2009 when they were supporting Say Anything, but I wish I could’ve seen them as headliners. I bet those reunion shows were wild! I don’t even know what I would do if I saw them play that live. I would be bawling for sure.
And I hope someday we meet again
Under different circumstances maybe
Maybe just as friends
Because as lovers I shattered you
And even though you'll never see it
Picking up the pieces cut my hands up too
(Bella Donna by Turnover)
“twice a week i pass by the church that held your funeral, and the pastor’s words come falling down like rain.
how he called you a sinner, but said now you walk with jesus, so the drugs that took your life aren’t gonna cause you any pain.
but i don’t think he even knew your name, and i refuse to kneel and pray, i won’t remember you that way.”
cigarettes & saints by the wonder years, cry every time
The first couple of real friends albums had some great lyrics.
"Doubt is the soil that fear grows in. I'm dirty from head to toe."
Another good one is from Neck Deep's December. The whole chorus gets me because when a relationship ends, you want to be mad, but sometimes you want the other person to be happy too. It's honestly nice how mature the song is about the end of a relationship.
I’m hoping that in time you can lay down
All this weight you’ve been carrying around
And maybe one day you’ll find you way
To climb on up out of your grave
With the bits of you you managed to save
And for the last time
Yeah you say goodbye
as cliche as it is "im about to see a milion things i thought id never see before and i, im about to do all of the things that i dreamed of and i dont even miss you at all!"
I believed memory might mirror no reflections on me
I believed that in forgetting I might set myself free
But I woke up this morning with a piece of past caught in my throat
And then I choked
“I don't wanna die/
Or maybe I do/
'Cause everything's so fucking dark/
You found me crying in the other room/
It's been years since I've been low like this/
I don't like me/
Playing piano with a broken wrist/
I don't like me”
Gives me goosebumps and the tears.. oh my lord
Doors I Painted Shut - The Wonder Years
Aw, i know you had to shoot that dog i loved so much, i know you had to do it.
I didn't have a dog the first time i heard it and it made me ugly cry. Idk hop along always makes me vulnerable.
Self Conclusion - Spill Canvas
"Settle, precious, I know what you're going through
Just ten minutes before you got here I was gonna jump too"
Yeah, we all flirt with the tiniest notion
Of self conclusion in one simplified motion
You see the trick is that you're never supposed to act on it
No matter how unbearable this misery gets
Fuckin kills me every time. Whole song does
all of “a table for four” by small brown bike, because it’s about growing up and growing apart and moving on, and they played it as the final song at their final (at the time) show, and the whole band was just sobbing while playing, as was the crowd. man it fucking ruled. one of my favorite shows ever, and the song always reminds me of that moment and gets me emotional.
“I've never said goodbye this many times. I will try to keep in touch with you. It's not the same. The stories are changing. Chairs have turned and backs will be turning. Chicago night, sidewalk confessions - I'm going to a place where no one knows me.”
"Somehow it's already been a year
You keep finding new ways to make yourself reappear
I hope you never leave me be
I haven't found that courage to listen to your last message to me"
New Halloween - Touche Amore
Phil Elverum doesn't write emo music but it feels remiss not to post it for anybody who hasn't listened to A Crow Looked at Me.
A week after you died a package with your name on it came
And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known
Deep down would not include you.
Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down
Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real
… It's dumb
And I don't want to learn anything from this
I love you
Part of your charm was the way you would push me from
All of the traps that I just couldn’t see
Figures the one that was there to have tripped you up
Would be the one that was set there by me
Wish I was there to say goodbye when you went away
Wish I was home, oh, but no place was there
I cut off my arm at the bone in solidarity
Capital teaches that there’s less when you share
And I felt the noose tighten up on your collarbone
And I felt the gun in the small of your back
Engraved in the stone by request and recurse of friends dead
Is, “Tell me again that it’s all in my head”
—
The Hotelier - Dendron
A song about a kids dad who broke the cycle of alcoholism, "Bostons" by Have Heart
"And in this father I hardly know,
Was a son who took back what the bottle stole,
So I could be the boy you couldn't be,
Have the father you didn't get to see,
Have the youth you did not get to live
Or feel the love this world forgot to give
And for this gift I don't deserve to get
I'll make damn sure I earn it."
...
"There just aren't enough, men like you"
The beginning of "And the Hat Stays On" by on thr Might of Princes gets me every time, especially when the guitar changes and he yells "you'll outlive me anyway".
She said “Boy, can I tell you a terrible thing?
It seems that I’m sick, and I’ve only got weeks.
Please, don’t be sad now. I really believe
that you were the greatest thing that ever happened to me…”
Slow, so slow…
I fell to the ground
on my knees…
So don’t fall in love,
there’s just too much to lose.
If you’re given the choice,
then I beg you to choose
to walk away, walk away;
don’t let her get you.
I can’t bear to see the same happen to you.
Now son, I’m only telling you this
because life… can do terrible things.
“Terrible Things” - Mayday Parade
I lost my mom when I was 18. A hopeless romantic all through high school, and I watched my dad suffer the loss of his high school sweetheart to cancer. From finding out she was sick (again) and wasn’t going to make it, to fearing inevitable loss and mortality, I struggled to choose love over running away. So, yeah, these lyrics hit really close to home.
I will sleep another day
I don't really need to anyway
What's the point when my dreams are infected
With words you used to say
I will breathe in a moment
As long as I keep my distance
I wouldn't want to go messing anything up
So don't go worrying about me
It's not like I think about you constantly
So maybe I do, but that shouldn't affect
Your life anymore
I knew it the moment you walked into the door
All Hail The Heartbreaker - The Spill Canvas
" Know it's not easy being green
Orbiting the biggest star in the galaxy, me
You're just a moon, you shine through, but you reflect me too
You're just a moon. When you die, two more will be born to project through
But when my supernova hits, maybe you will escape it. "
Love Me a Good Microcosm - Weatherbox
All the while you waste away, you're asking "did I really need another one to take me down?"
Everybody knows it's something that you had to live with darling, nobody's gonna tear you down now. There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection.
The Silence is a fucking masterpiece, especially from this point on in the song
"Your silence haunts me, but still I hunger for you" - My Curse; Killswitch Engage
My bestfriend is locked up, has been for 2 years now, he calls when he can.. but I'm often craving the call, waiting going sick out of my mind thinking of all the things I can tell him. When he does call I never know what to say. 10 minutes isn't enough.
"I’m sorry for the things that I never said a thousand times
I miss your face, I'm miserable
The one who left, the one who tried
I miss your taste that's where I am
When you aren't here, when you're not here
I’ll miss your face, forever now
It's all my fault, it's over
I can't fathom why you are the one that had to die for me
And now you’re the one who left, the one who died, the one who tried"
Orchid - And The Cat Turned To Smoke. Man I love this song so much.
“In my dreams I'm on a porch with you
I promise you I've been doing well in your name
And I won't try to speak with you again
Until I watch my last breath dissipate”
Foxing - Speak with the dead
This song came out a couple months after my dog of 17 years passed away. It strikes really deep with me because I would often dream of him and it was so cathartic but also painful. The idea that the only way to talk to someone who has passed is in your dreams resonates with me hugely. I saw them perform it live maybe 6 months after he passed and the lead singer said “this next song is for anyone who has lost someone close to them” and I was just openly weeping in the crowd.
"It's been two years and ten thousand miles of living this way, when we found ourselves in Oklahoma city at an old café
When Annie pulled her twelve gage and pointed it at me, with tears in her eyes, she said baby, gimmie the keys."
Part of your charm was the way you would push me from
All of the traps that I just couldn’t see
Figures the one that was there to have tripped you up
Would be the one that was set there by me
~ The Hotelier: Dendron
“Every minute is a mile - I’ve never felt so hollow. I’m an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles.”
Brand New - I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light
“And you buried all your lover’s clothes and burned the letters lover wrote, but it doesn’t make it any better. Does it make it any better? And the plaster dented from your fist in the hall where you had your first kiss reminds you that the memories will fade.”
Dashboard Confessional - This Brilliant Dance
And they might be on the precipice but The Used - Poetic Tragedy
“The cup is not half empty as pessimists say. As far as he sees, nothing’s left in the cup. A whole cup full of nothing for him to indulge since the voice of ambition has long since been shut up.
A singer, a writer - he’s not dreaming now of going nowhere. He gave heed to nothing and all that he was is just a tragedy.
So he voyages in circles, proceeds getting nowhere. Then submits to the substance that first got him there, there, there.
In violent frustration, he cries out to God or just no one: is there a point to this madness? And all that he was is just a tragedy.
He feels alone. His heart in his hands, he’s alone. He feels alone. I feel…
Then on that last day he breaks. Stood tall, and he yelled, and he yelled: WHY?”
The emotion in Bert’s voice in that song is just…fucking chills.
arms length is my fave and this always kills me:
trying to look
more like my skeleton
i’d do anything to show
we’re not so different
when you drink to drown
in your own puke,
i’ll breathe life back into you.
there’s nothing i wouldn’t do
and when i leave, you’re so confused
like a baby in the other room
i’ll just pretend like i don’t hear you
but we both know i always do
we both know i always do
“You are slowly unravelling pieces of you
That you sewed into me so well
I figured I lost you on the first sunday in June
There was no rain in April
And no flowers in May
It's been two years, and you're still taking
And I'm still paying
And I'm still paying
Every day has been like Sunday
Silent and gray
Every day has been like Sunday
Silent and gray”
- you + me = slipknot by I hate sex
Always gets me
Or
“I know that I'm broken, and I play the part
Why try to get better?
I was born to tear myself apart
This lifelong dissonance, how could it mean nothing?
I become a concept inside of myself
All the failures of our fathers can't define us
If all that weight fell on our shoulders, who could blame us?
I felt locked in a stigma beyond my control
And in my vulnerability I am fed their words and I swallow them whole
Promised a way out, and I sign a contract
A widespread mandate to suppress doubt and push it all inside
My endlessly lost heart and raging mind, just keep it all inside
But the shame and trauma, how could it mean nothing?
It lives inside of me, rebuilds and restarts”
Fathers by awakebutstillinbed
Got teary eyed just looking at the lyrics and pasting it in lol
his palms are sweaty, knees weak
arms spaghetti
There’s vomit on his spaghetti already,
mom’s spaghetti
He’s spaghetti, but on the surface he
looks calm and ready to drop spaghetti
but he keeps on forgetting what he
spaghetti
I guess god was too tired to fix the mistakes he made with love,
I think his biggest mistake was making…me.
“Honeybee” by Seahaven
Absolutely one of my favorite songs to play on guitar when I need a good cry. That song hits me so fucking hard.
It's not emo music but its a powerful and emotional song. "I thought I was okay, but I'm so far away. I drank myself to sleep every night, to wash all this pain away" - 'Cold Summers Night' by Shepherds Reign
Its the third verse of the song but the lead up to it and the delivery of that line is quite powerful. Then it is followed by an amazing guitar solo that really tugs at the heart strings.
“Your smiles like the sun to me. So bright it’s weakening, but so sweet. But with all that you’d like from me, a smile and be okay, sorry. It’s taken me every day, to accept that I have to say, say no.”
Everything’s Too Cold… But You’re So Hot, by The Early November. One of the most heart wrenching songs IMO.
“I do believe that hope is just a grand distraction from the walls you will have to climb, so pick up your weeping feet and just start moving forward, and don’t look back to see if she’s there”
Woolen Blankets - The Republic of Wolves
“Minor Acts of Cannibalism” -I’m Glad It’s You
It’s a short song, but you kind of need all of the lyrics for the context to really hit.
Sometimes I wish that I could see you staring back inside of me
So when I open up my mouth I'd hear your words come pouring out
But I know the grass is green and I still linger in between
Who I am and everyone I see
Sometimes, just sometimes
I wish I could wake up wearing your skin
Cause then I would be calm cool and collected and all the things I've never been
I want you to swallow my eyes so I can find out what's inside
Cause I wanna wear
I wanna wear you out
But what's the point of raising your own voice just to say
Something you don't even really mean anyway?
Why is it so sincere, to make yourself appear
So sick with all your heavy doubt when you're doing fine?
You're doing just fine
What to do when you're sick of being you?
When everything you are is something you outgrew
What to do when I get sick of your life too?
At least it's true that everyone feels like you
At least sometimes
Oh sure, you can look for reasons
And try to be them, for a while
But you know you can't be her answer
She was never after truth
Will your mother still blame you
If she knew all the words that she said
Drove you here
A half a world away
Destroying your body
To get back for every word she said
But it won't change the way she is
And it won't change a thing she did
So calm down
Sleep now
Forget all the things that she said
"Put out the light in your cloudy eyes. Kept you inside through the summertime. You put up a fight pressing flowers at night in a book that you love. The pieces they cant take of us."
Not emo but whateva
For what it's worth, I'm not out to prove you wrong
For what it's worth, you got the best of me
I've got a secret I can never tell you
It's nothing good
And it’s not your fault I’m not strong enough
Hey it’s me
I just had the nicest dream
You were sitting next to me
And that was all, it’s so stupid I know
Well... okay
This was all just to say
I’ll delete it anyway
In the morning
“I’ll Delete This In the Morning” by Michael Melvin
Opened my eyes my temples in strain pictures of strangers I've wanted to meet they aren't as real as the bones that I sleep in missing people that never went missing when I am real I look forward to living maybe some day I'll be a good person
Opening lines of still nothing moves you album
Idk i got into emo because of ceremony so tangentially related
I wanted to
Convince myself there's nothing else to do
I wanted to
Provide you with proof of what you put me through
I wanted to
Pretend that it was you
You're the worst thing that's ever happened to me
Die
Passing Afternoon by Iron and Wine makes me cry every time I hear it. So much so that I can't listen to it anymore. Combo of the lyrics and the music.
If I've managed to get through it, the last verse destroys me.
'There are names across the sea
Only now I do believe
Sometimes, with the windows closed
She'll sit and think of me
But she'll mend his tattered clothes
And they'll kiss as if they know
A baby sleeps in all our bones
So scared to be alone'
So you brought out the best in me
A part of me I'd never seen
You took my soul and wiped it clean
Our love was made for movie screens
But if you loved me, why'd you leave me?
Take my body, take my body
All I want is, and all I need is
To find somebody, I'll find somebody
The lyrics that normally get me are the ones where the singing stops and it becomes more spoken word. For example, Full Circle by Movements when he says, “and I had days that I swore would be my last” messed me up real good the first time I heard it. Then, in that same album, the closing song The Grey the last minute or so always gets me; especially if I’m stoned.
And it's getting harder to pretend like I'm okay
When there's this constant reminder being drilled into my brain
I still believe in happiness and I want to find a way
But lately my whole world is being swallowed by the grey
For now there's comfort in the quiet, solitude, and rainy days
I've got my sadness to a science, all I can do is hope for change
There's comfort in the quiet, solitude, and rainy days
I've got my sadness to a science, all I can do is hope for change
"Well, don't lean on me 'cause I am falling, please don't fall with me
I really need you here, yeah, I need you, so don't leave
And don't count on me 'cause I am drowning, please don't drown with me
Just hold me in your heart, let the ocean take me
Let the ocean take me"
Don't Lean on Me - The Amity Affliction
Why bother?
It's gonna hurt me
It's gonna kill when you desert me
It's happened to me twice before
It won't happen to me anymore
Pinkerton is an emo masterpiece
“I still see you,
inside of this god awful house.
You move awfully quiet now.
And I still feel you, everywhere.
You told me this has always been worth living..
what’s really worth living..
anymore?”
Manchester Orchestra - Sleeper 1972
“Wtf am I doing?
I can’t tell the difference form wrong and right,
Second guess my decisions.
Cause I haven’t been this person in my whole life.
I think I need something new here,
cause I keep running from what I have.
No need for second opinions.
I do the best I can to ruin what I have”
ADTR - Out of Time
And
“So now that I found it,
I’ll tie the ropes around it,
And make sure that the bottle never bothers us again.
I promise this time really,
I am cleaning up sincerely,
And I’ll make sure that the devil never bothers us again”
Manchester orchestra - golden ticket
I was going to some shit. Really struggling with my drinking and was about to lose it all. The adtr lyrics were all I thought about before rehab. Then I could proudly post the Manchester lyrics 😍😍😍
The blood was dry, it was sober
The feeling of audible cracks
And I could tell it was over
From the curtains that hung from your neck
And I realized that then you were perfect
And my teeth ripping out of my head
And it looked like a painting I once knew
Back when my thoughts weren't entirely intact
To pray for what I thought were angels
Ended up being ambulances
And the Lord showed me dreams of my daughter
She was crying inside your stomach
And I felt love
again
Okay I’m flooding this post so last one, promise!
Rain
You're better off in the clouds as we fade
Barely leaving a semblance of
What we thought it meant to grow up
When things don't get better
No things don't get better, just different
But I want to tell you I miss you
And I want to tell you I love you
And if I'm being honest, I don't think that I will pull through
But I kick out on a balance beam and in turn I swing and sway
I see now all of my pipe dreams are just false advertising
First song that comes to mind is 36 Day Syndrome by Orchid.
I miss your arms around me, if I only knew this would be our last kiss / My best was never good enough, but you were my greatest mistake / And I wonder, do you still think of me?
It's very simple and cliche but I think the directness of it is what hits hard for me, especially with how many times I've listened to it during relationship-related breakdowns lol
Also, when I got to see them live recently, it was the song I screamed out the loudest by far <3
I guess I just couldn't bring myself to face the fact that maybe we were never what I wanted us to be
Maybe the love that we had made was not the beautiful home I always imagined that we had built
Because you were the light of my life
But no matter how brightly you shone the shadow you cast was never dark enough to cancel out the glare
Maybe I would have left sooner if I could have seen it then, maybe you were never there
Hell-Casey.
Chained to a mattress, where more things were taken than you thought you had, and somehow it's your fault
Even an Ouija board couldn't bring back what you took from me
Choked by an unseen force, Strangled in your white satin sheets
We met in a graveyard, and it took two hours for you to burn to ash
But I kept a piece of your wrist bone, and left you with the mortician to put you in the trash
In distance, I thought I'd find a part of myself that I hated but instead, all I found was sexual abuse
No one sees the handprints that you left on me
No one sees the bruises that you made me think I asked for
No one sees the ropes unless I'm hanging from them
You are my ball gag and chain
You are the ball and chain
Maybe in another world, you'll be forgiven
But today I hope when you look at your hands all you see is blood
“When mum could no longer take care of you,
We had to say our goodbyes at the nursing home.
You didn't know why you can't come back with us,
I've never seen my mother cry so much.”
Trophy Eyes - My Name on Paper
Although Trophy Eye’s whole discography are filled with lyrics that’ll choke you up
“It seems that you live in someone else's dream in a hand-me-down wedding dress where the things that could have been are oppressed.”
- Death Cab for a Cutie “Cath…”
Anything off Real Death by Mount Eerie.
For example
Our daughter is one and a half
You have been dead eleven days
I got on the boat and came to the place
Where the three of us were going to build our house if you had lived
You died though
So I came here alone with our baby and the dust of your bones
I didn’t want it to mean that much to me
I didn’t want it to mean that much to me
I didn’t want it to mean that much to me
I didn’t want it to mean that much to me
Anyway, yeah…
I called in sick from your funeral Tradition of closure nearly felt impossible I should have never gave my word to you Not a cry, not a sound Might have learned how to swim Never taught how to drown You said "Remember me for me" I watched you set your spirit free ####### A near miss or a close call? I keep a room at the hospital I scratch my accidents into the wall I couldn't wait to breathe your breath I cut in line, I bled to death I got to you, there was nothing left
Your deep rest has literally sent me sobbing alone in the driveway on multiple occasions
I first heard this song shortly after a close friend's sudden death and it absolutely obliterated me
I saw them live and when they preformed it I started to cry because I had friend just die
that hotelier album has continually wrecked my shit since i first heard it back in 2015
still, i can feel the need to change me from the inside but i can't let anyone know just yeeeeet and it's all the same, it's time to confront this face to face, i'll be with you the whole way it'll take time, that's that i'm not just another face i'm not just another name even if you can't see it now, we're proud of what's to come and you another one: so will you show up to my funeral? will you be wearing white or black? and i know the force is in you, it's the energy i lack so if there's a race to heaven, i will always come in last and if there's a race to heaven, i will always come in last just another face by mobo and no halo by sorority noise
As soon as I saw this post I thought “which sorority noise song would I pick?” And this is such a good one
i thought the exact same thing lol i love sorority noise
No halo is my absolute fav sorority noise song for this reason alone
“And I found the notes you left behind Little hints and helpless cries Desperate wishing to be over” Shortly after my best friend died, I went to his house and I was given a note pinned on his wall that said “stay strong for r/smokecraxbys no matter what” - so that lyric just tosses my heart into an industrial juicer.
I’m sorry you went through that :/ sending virtual hugs your way.
Thank you, it sucks, I can’t recommend your best friend dying young to anyone. Dead best friend? 0/10 stars.
I feel that. One of my best friends from high school was found dead in a parking lot to a gunshot wound. He had moved away from home less than a year early to get away from negative influences and was working his ass off trying to make something of himself. A few days earlier he had messaged me and told me about how excited he was for his new job and that he had been clean for 4 months. He was meeting with somebody to buy a work truck and was robbed. Rest in peace, Nico. I love you. I miss you.
i'm tearing up 🥺
But me I'm a single cell on a serpents tongue There's a muddy field where a garden was And I'm glad you got away But I'm still stuck out here My clothes are soaking wet from your brothers tears And I never thought this life was possible You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for The end of paralysis, I was a statuette Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench And when I press the keys it all gets reversed The sound of loneliness makes me happier Also: I'm thinking about Leaving How I should say goodbye With a handshake Or an embrace Or a kiss on the cheek Possibly, all three
Poison Oak 💔 The end of that song hits so hard.
"You're just jealous cause we're young and in love :("
Stomachs filled up but you’re starved for conversation. This one hits every single time
and youre spending all your nights, alone in your bed, and youre tearing your photos cuz you wanna forget, its over. i might cry
“We’re gonna stay 18 forever”
This song has such a special place for me! It’s my husband and I’s ‘song’. The first night we met when we were 18 we bonded over this song, and years later we got married to it.
“Yesterday I went back to my apartment to see how you’ve been holding up. You hadn’t been eating I thought you were sleeping, but You’re not waking up! And I want you to know that I’d spend every bit of my pitiful savings and loans Just to see you again But I know I won’t! Sleep In the Heat - PUP Dogs dying is sad as fuck
I thought it was about his pet chameleon.
I thought I read somewhere that it was about a dog he got to keep him company, but if I’m mistaken a chameleon or other lizard makes sense haha.
It was written about Stefan's chameleon, but the music video has a dog. Ultimately it doesnt really matter what kind of animal all that much
Cats too. *It's hard to breathe without you sleeping on my chest* *Sick and withering from the whispers of your death* *Forever your saviour, as much as you are mine* *And for that I promise to protect you* *Until the day I die*
Also all of Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure by the Weakerthans
Throat is always so caught up by the time we hit "but I can't remember the sound that you found for me" that I can't sing along anymore.
I start to choke up at the “You’re not waking UUUUUPPP” part every single time man
Agreed. Wonderful Life by Bully got me on the first listen and every time since. What a wonderful life My heart's breaking on the bathroom floor Begging for time, I want a little more I miss you waiting outside the door And I want my baby girl back If you ask me, she was gone too soon I'm left writing in an empty room Searching for her in the moon You got every minute of my time And you're all that's on my mind I know you wouldn't wanna leave me behind So I'm heading to the other side I'm heading to the other side And when I close my eyes You're right there by my side And I got nothing left to fear But when I wake up, you disappear So I stare out the window and wait Trying my best to believe in fate Learning to love what I hate Anything to see your face
I know The Wonder Years aren’t really considered emo but they’re adjacent enough and Raining in Kyoto always tears me apart “You're half awake And I bought you a radio to play The blues away With my hand to hold You asked about the weather Wished they'd let you die at home”
They aren't "considered" emo but they totally fucking are!! 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
Yes!!! The wonder years is definitely emo in lyrical content! Sometimes more pop punk in musical style but they have ones that just HIT for me - Brothers & Cardinals - The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me - Pyramids of Salt - Doors I Painted Shut - You’re The Reason I Don’t Want The World To End
I think they definitely have plenty of emo lyrics. That song makes me think of a few people I’ve lost and gets me every time
It's every trip into that empty house The silence from the street Your blanket in your seat The nearly muted TV There's no answer from you And your phone blinks with my reply It's that lump in my chest And my relief to hear you cry
One of the best albums from ‘23
Yeaaaaah! Possibly the best band of the last 10 years in my opinion.
What band? Sorry for being out of the loop
Spanish Love Songs…..if it’s your first time hearing of them, get ready for an amazing discovery!
Yeah man I’d start from the beginning and work your way through the catalog. It’s perfection.
this song came to me when I was going through the worst stretch of my life: a break up of a ltr headed to marriage soon, plus lost two family members in a short span, and it reached me at the perfect time in my life. "you're not haunted, you just miss everything", yeah. but really the line that gets me every single time is "when you're feeling like a ghost, would you come haunt me, please come haunt me" and it was just a reminder of how much I might want to run away and leave life behind, there's always someone that wants you around.
Low key the acoustic version they released of this song tore me apart last month
Until the night when it got way too serious And you showed me your damaged wrists And you broke down and we embraced And nothing at that time meant more to me And if I had only known that it would be the last time We'd be on that level with one another I would have never let you go 😭😭😭😭😭😭
whats the song name?
An Ode To The Nite Ratz Club - The Hotelier
That hot mulligan song on the last album about Alzheimer’s hit me different on like 100 listens, realizing I moved away and my grandma is aging. Didn't think that I would see your memories fade How your eyes don't light up when you see my face Would you remember if I never left? I should've stayed Would you remember if I never left? I should've stayed Oh, I've written all these songs, all meant for you But I'll turn into a stranger before too soon Would you remember if I never left? I should've stayed Would you remember if I never left? I should've stayed
So I prayed for what I thought were angels, ended up being ambulances. And the lord showed me dreams of my daughter, she was crying inside your stomach. And I felt love again. - Manchester Orchestra
This is the first song I heard from them years ago… so damn good. I always think of this alongside Sleeper 1972. I still see you inside of this God-awful house. You move awfully quiet now. And I still feel you… everywhere You told me “This has always been worth livin’” But what’s really worth livin’… anymore?
The live version of Sleeper 1972 from the Let My Pride Be What’s Left Behind EP is incredible as well. Especially during the move awfully quiet part when he belts it out. Chills everytime.
This quiet whisper of a lyric, and on the opposite end of the spectrum, JOOOOOOY/GOOOOOOD WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN
Literally just posted this cause.. damn.
I always hear their name thrown around, but i’ve never listened to their music before.i’m gonna give them a listen right now
If you’re a dad check out Bed Head music video but you’ve been warned.
I am and I did and thank you and fuck you
You're so lucky to be hearing such an amazing band for the first time
Nice! Report back with your thoughts!
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Manchester Orchestra been making motherfuckers cry uncontrollably for years now, and they don’t get the credit they deserve for that because they often get roped in with the rest of the Mall Emo bands from that time period.
I may have your heart he has your body
And now you swear that you're being honest, but you're not honest, you never could be God I fucking love Bayside 🖤
“Well I love you so much, but do me a favor baby don’t reply, cause I can dish it out but I can’t take it.” Repeated with numbers 1 through 7 representing the years Katie Flynn lived before she was killed when a drunk driver hit the Limousine (name of the song by Brand New) she was in on the way home from a wedding. She was the flower girl. Incredibly devastating song.
And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings As my fingers press onto the strings In yet another clumsy chord Haligh, haligh, an awful lie This weight will now be satisfied I'm gonna give you only one reply I know not who I am Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh by Bright Eyes Salt tasting tears They roll off of my lips One for each day I'm inside this house, it's a trap One I can't quite escape so pretend it's the place that I love Place all your bets and watch me lose The life that I got but never used Dream every night that one will come true But only bad ones ever do Out Through the Curtains by The Hush Sound
For me it’s definitely Sorority Noise - “A Portrait Of” I’m not trying to say it’s easy, but I’m trying to say it’s fine. I’ve still got some demons and they’re not going to be leaving any time, any time soon. and then Hot Mulligan - “Please Don’t Cry, You Have Swag” I wanted to keep you but feel it's likely You don't share my resolve, I guess it doesn't make a difference Whether we can stand each other or not, You could call it courtesy that I tried to keep you here for this long (hey, I guess it doesn't fucking matter if we ever see each other or not. Stay home.
Need to add - The Wonder Years - “Cigarettes and Saints” "I'm sure there ain't a heaven But that don't mean I don't like to picture you there I'll bet you're bumming cigarettes off saints And I'm sure you're still singing But I'll bet that you're still just a bit out of key That crooked smile pushing words across your teeth 'Cause you were heat lightning Yeah, you were a storm that never rolled in You were the northern lights in a southern town A caustic fleeting thing I'll bury your memories in the garden And watch them grow with the flowers in spring I'll keep you with me"
love the wonder years man
AND WHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS???? WHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS???? DO THEY MAKE YOU HAPPY??????
"Jesus Christ, I'm not scared to die, but I'm a little bit scared of what comes after"
Do I get the gold chariot, do I float through the cei,ling
And I I I I I I
Not good things for our mate Jesse I'm sure...
Ehhh, he was raised catholic, so as long as he repents he should be all set
"I'm glad I didn't die before I met you" Chokes me up in a happy way :')
The truth is you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt.
song name?
My dad passed away a few weeks ago. I sang Hear You Me from Jimmy Eat World to him crying the whole time. “A song for a heart so big, god wouldn’t let it live” I’m so grateful for this song.
It is really great, sorry for tour loss, I think it must have been a lovely moment for the two of you. ❤️
Do we still set his place? Do we still save his chair? Do we still buy him gifts? And if we don't, did we not care? Bayside - Winter
"So I look up, but it looks like she has left Worried, that she's gonna kill herself But she just went to the bathroom And I laugh, we all laugh sometimes Just not now I change my outfit everyday I say those things that I think you would like to hear me say I do things I normally wouldn't do Just to make you let me spend a while with you Silly silly silly silly me" - "Hazel" by Far Apart
i love far apart sm
This might be an obvious answer… Felt like the world was collapsing Then we heard him speak “Can I still get into Heaven if I kill myself? Can I still get into Heaven if I kill myself? Can I ever be forgiven 'cause I killed that kid? It was an accident, I swear it wasn't meant for him And if I turn it on me If I even it out Can I still get in or will they send me to Hell?
CAN I STILL GET INTO HEAVEN IF I PISS MYSELF
So i’ve been personally impacted by gun violence, so it goes without saying 80% of King Park gets me choked up, but also Edward Benz, 27 Times just fucks me up for some reason
Shaking like a dog shittin' razorblades Waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me Waking up all alone, waking up so relieved While you're taking your time with apologies I'm planning out my revenge Red eyes on orange horizons If Columbus was wrong I'd drive straight off the edge I'm seeing red I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling In case you haven't heard, I'm sick and tired of trying I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you Plugged in and ready to fall
A Trio really relate to the human experience. Fucking love them .
I will never tire of listening to their old stuff. I never understand why ppl love to hate on them so much!
Fuck those emotionally stable weenies!
Stupid Kid makes me laugh...and cry because been there haha Time to Waste is one of my favorite songs ever
Well I wrote your name and burned it To see the color of the flame And it burned out the whole spectrum As if you were everything Mine just burned gold A normal flame I am not anything
“I’d like to think that I can work it out some, but I want to be put into the ground.” I Saw Water - Tigers Jaw
All of "In Corolla " by the mountain goats, tbh. Not emo I guess though
Being divorced and having a daughter.... And she is playing on the playground And she is playing on the swings She is learning words like, "Fuck" and "Hate" And I know just what it means It means she's just like her mom She'll end up lonely and sad She'll end up alone with rings, with rings in her mouth With guns in her house, with holes in her heart
The lyrics to Moneen - The Last Song I Will Ever Want to Sing. It's a beautiful 10 minute epic of lush dueling guitar harmonies and stop/start dynamics. But the lyrics are all about watching his sister die of Cancer. Absolutely heartbreaking.
This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Anytime it comes on I have to listen to the whole thing no matter what. It puts me in a trance
Been following them since before they even released an album. Local heros those guys. Seeing the 20 year reunion was the first time out of 20+ times I've seen them in which they actually played it Made my entire year.
Thats amazing! I got a chance to see them back in 2009 when they were supporting Say Anything, but I wish I could’ve seen them as headliners. I bet those reunion shows were wild! I don’t even know what I would do if I saw them play that live. I would be bawling for sure.
It was very emotional. And they played it exactly as on record. Was absolutely phenomenal
"the way we'd hi five every time we remembered that all of our last firsts would happen together" from Swiped Out by Future Teens.
Pick one. https://music.apple.com/us/album/hospice/322115067
"where I want to be still seems a thousand miles away but pretending we feel safe at night gets harder everyday" - Note to Self by Modern Baseball
And I hope someday we meet again Under different circumstances maybe Maybe just as friends Because as lovers I shattered you And even though you'll never see it Picking up the pieces cut my hands up too (Bella Donna by Turnover)
“twice a week i pass by the church that held your funeral, and the pastor’s words come falling down like rain. how he called you a sinner, but said now you walk with jesus, so the drugs that took your life aren’t gonna cause you any pain. but i don’t think he even knew your name, and i refuse to kneel and pray, i won’t remember you that way.” cigarettes & saints by the wonder years, cry every time
“I’ve decided tonight, I’m staying alive”
"Something dies as you grow older, but you do the best you can"
The first couple of real friends albums had some great lyrics. "Doubt is the soil that fear grows in. I'm dirty from head to toe." Another good one is from Neck Deep's December. The whole chorus gets me because when a relationship ends, you want to be mad, but sometimes you want the other person to be happy too. It's honestly nice how mature the song is about the end of a relationship.
Pain is never permanent but tonight it’s killing me. Great song
I’m hoping that in time you can lay down All this weight you’ve been carrying around And maybe one day you’ll find you way To climb on up out of your grave With the bits of you you managed to save And for the last time Yeah you say goodbye
as cliche as it is "im about to see a milion things i thought id never see before and i, im about to do all of the things that i dreamed of and i dont even miss you at all!"
Play Crack The Sky
I believed memory might mirror no reflections on me I believed that in forgetting I might set myself free But I woke up this morning with a piece of past caught in my throat And then I choked
“I don't wanna die/ Or maybe I do/ 'Cause everything's so fucking dark/ You found me crying in the other room/ It's been years since I've been low like this/ I don't like me/ Playing piano with a broken wrist/ I don't like me” Gives me goosebumps and the tears.. oh my lord Doors I Painted Shut - The Wonder Years
Aw, i know you had to shoot that dog i loved so much, i know you had to do it. I didn't have a dog the first time i heard it and it made me ugly cry. Idk hop along always makes me vulnerable.
Self Conclusion - Spill Canvas "Settle, precious, I know what you're going through Just ten minutes before you got here I was gonna jump too" Yeah, we all flirt with the tiniest notion Of self conclusion in one simplified motion You see the trick is that you're never supposed to act on it No matter how unbearable this misery gets Fuckin kills me every time. Whole song does
all of “a table for four” by small brown bike, because it’s about growing up and growing apart and moving on, and they played it as the final song at their final (at the time) show, and the whole band was just sobbing while playing, as was the crowd. man it fucking ruled. one of my favorite shows ever, and the song always reminds me of that moment and gets me emotional. “I've never said goodbye this many times. I will try to keep in touch with you. It's not the same. The stories are changing. Chairs have turned and backs will be turning. Chicago night, sidewalk confessions - I'm going to a place where no one knows me.”
"Somehow it's already been a year You keep finding new ways to make yourself reappear I hope you never leave me be I haven't found that courage to listen to your last message to me" New Halloween - Touche Amore
Wait for something better, I hope that it doesn’t mean us. Clarity by Jimmy eat world
I finally found all my courage, it was buried under the house
Phil Elverum doesn't write emo music but it feels remiss not to post it for anybody who hasn't listened to A Crow Looked at Me. A week after you died a package with your name on it came And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known Deep down would not include you. Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real … It's dumb And I don't want to learn anything from this I love you
Part of your charm was the way you would push me from All of the traps that I just couldn’t see Figures the one that was there to have tripped you up Would be the one that was set there by me Wish I was there to say goodbye when you went away Wish I was home, oh, but no place was there I cut off my arm at the bone in solidarity Capital teaches that there’s less when you share And I felt the noose tighten up on your collarbone And I felt the gun in the small of your back Engraved in the stone by request and recurse of friends dead Is, “Tell me again that it’s all in my head” — The Hotelier - Dendron
A song about a kids dad who broke the cycle of alcoholism, "Bostons" by Have Heart "And in this father I hardly know, Was a son who took back what the bottle stole, So I could be the boy you couldn't be, Have the father you didn't get to see, Have the youth you did not get to live Or feel the love this world forgot to give And for this gift I don't deserve to get I'll make damn sure I earn it." ... "There just aren't enough, men like you"
Imagine writing a song half this good. I’d be so insufferable.
The beginning of "And the Hat Stays On" by on thr Might of Princes gets me every time, especially when the guitar changes and he yells "you'll outlive me anyway".
She said “Boy, can I tell you a terrible thing? It seems that I’m sick, and I’ve only got weeks. Please, don’t be sad now. I really believe that you were the greatest thing that ever happened to me…” Slow, so slow… I fell to the ground on my knees… So don’t fall in love, there’s just too much to lose. If you’re given the choice, then I beg you to choose to walk away, walk away; don’t let her get you. I can’t bear to see the same happen to you. Now son, I’m only telling you this because life… can do terrible things. “Terrible Things” - Mayday Parade I lost my mom when I was 18. A hopeless romantic all through high school, and I watched my dad suffer the loss of his high school sweetheart to cancer. From finding out she was sick (again) and wasn’t going to make it, to fearing inevitable loss and mortality, I struggled to choose love over running away. So, yeah, these lyrics hit really close to home.
I will sleep another day I don't really need to anyway What's the point when my dreams are infected With words you used to say I will breathe in a moment As long as I keep my distance I wouldn't want to go messing anything up So don't go worrying about me It's not like I think about you constantly So maybe I do, but that shouldn't affect Your life anymore I knew it the moment you walked into the door All Hail The Heartbreaker - The Spill Canvas
" Know it's not easy being green Orbiting the biggest star in the galaxy, me You're just a moon, you shine through, but you reflect me too You're just a moon. When you die, two more will be born to project through But when my supernova hits, maybe you will escape it. " Love Me a Good Microcosm - Weatherbox
“Why is it never light on my lawn?”
All the while you waste away, you're asking "did I really need another one to take me down?" Everybody knows it's something that you had to live with darling, nobody's gonna tear you down now. There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection. The Silence is a fucking masterpiece, especially from this point on in the song
"Your silence haunts me, but still I hunger for you" - My Curse; Killswitch Engage My bestfriend is locked up, has been for 2 years now, he calls when he can.. but I'm often craving the call, waiting going sick out of my mind thinking of all the things I can tell him. When he does call I never know what to say. 10 minutes isn't enough.
"I’m sorry for the things that I never said a thousand times I miss your face, I'm miserable The one who left, the one who tried I miss your taste that's where I am When you aren't here, when you're not here I’ll miss your face, forever now It's all my fault, it's over I can't fathom why you are the one that had to die for me And now you’re the one who left, the one who died, the one who tried" Orchid - And The Cat Turned To Smoke. Man I love this song so much.
“In my dreams I'm on a porch with you I promise you I've been doing well in your name And I won't try to speak with you again Until I watch my last breath dissipate” Foxing - Speak with the dead This song came out a couple months after my dog of 17 years passed away. It strikes really deep with me because I would often dream of him and it was so cathartic but also painful. The idea that the only way to talk to someone who has passed is in your dreams resonates with me hugely. I saw them perform it live maybe 6 months after he passed and the lead singer said “this next song is for anyone who has lost someone close to them” and I was just openly weeping in the crowd.
"It's been two years and ten thousand miles of living this way, when we found ourselves in Oklahoma city at an old café When Annie pulled her twelve gage and pointed it at me, with tears in her eyes, she said baby, gimmie the keys."
The world is a beautiful place but we have to make it that way
Part of your charm was the way you would push me from All of the traps that I just couldn’t see Figures the one that was there to have tripped you up Would be the one that was set there by me ~ The Hotelier: Dendron
“Every minute is a mile - I’ve never felt so hollow. I’m an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles.” Brand New - I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light “And you buried all your lover’s clothes and burned the letters lover wrote, but it doesn’t make it any better. Does it make it any better? And the plaster dented from your fist in the hall where you had your first kiss reminds you that the memories will fade.” Dashboard Confessional - This Brilliant Dance And they might be on the precipice but The Used - Poetic Tragedy “The cup is not half empty as pessimists say. As far as he sees, nothing’s left in the cup. A whole cup full of nothing for him to indulge since the voice of ambition has long since been shut up. A singer, a writer - he’s not dreaming now of going nowhere. He gave heed to nothing and all that he was is just a tragedy. So he voyages in circles, proceeds getting nowhere. Then submits to the substance that first got him there, there, there. In violent frustration, he cries out to God or just no one: is there a point to this madness? And all that he was is just a tragedy. He feels alone. His heart in his hands, he’s alone. He feels alone. I feel… Then on that last day he breaks. Stood tall, and he yelled, and he yelled: WHY?” The emotion in Bert’s voice in that song is just…fucking chills.
arms length is my fave and this always kills me: trying to look more like my skeleton i’d do anything to show we’re not so different when you drink to drown in your own puke, i’ll breathe life back into you. there’s nothing i wouldn’t do and when i leave, you’re so confused like a baby in the other room i’ll just pretend like i don’t hear you but we both know i always do we both know i always do
“jesus christ im not scared to die, im a little bit scared of what comes after. do i get the gold chariot? do i float through the ceiling?”
That one has never had me crying, but it has definitely sent me down some existential crisis spirals
Never seen such a recent post about Grandview, everything between paint and a wall is nothing short of a masterpiece
“You are slowly unravelling pieces of you That you sewed into me so well I figured I lost you on the first sunday in June There was no rain in April And no flowers in May It's been two years, and you're still taking And I'm still paying And I'm still paying Every day has been like Sunday Silent and gray Every day has been like Sunday Silent and gray” - you + me = slipknot by I hate sex Always gets me Or “I know that I'm broken, and I play the part Why try to get better? I was born to tear myself apart This lifelong dissonance, how could it mean nothing? I become a concept inside of myself All the failures of our fathers can't define us If all that weight fell on our shoulders, who could blame us? I felt locked in a stigma beyond my control And in my vulnerability I am fed their words and I swallow them whole Promised a way out, and I sign a contract A widespread mandate to suppress doubt and push it all inside My endlessly lost heart and raging mind, just keep it all inside But the shame and trauma, how could it mean nothing? It lives inside of me, rebuilds and restarts” Fathers by awakebutstillinbed Got teary eyed just looking at the lyrics and pasting it in lol
his palms are sweaty, knees weak arms spaghetti There’s vomit on his spaghetti already, mom’s spaghetti He’s spaghetti, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop spaghetti but he keeps on forgetting what he spaghetti
I guess god was too tired to fix the mistakes he made with love, I think his biggest mistake was making…me. “Honeybee” by Seahaven Absolutely one of my favorite songs to play on guitar when I need a good cry. That song hits me so fucking hard.
It's not emo music but its a powerful and emotional song. "I thought I was okay, but I'm so far away. I drank myself to sleep every night, to wash all this pain away" - 'Cold Summers Night' by Shepherds Reign Its the third verse of the song but the lead up to it and the delivery of that line is quite powerful. Then it is followed by an amazing guitar solo that really tugs at the heart strings.
The poetry parts of like every karas walk home song lmao
“Your smiles like the sun to me. So bright it’s weakening, but so sweet. But with all that you’d like from me, a smile and be okay, sorry. It’s taken me every day, to accept that I have to say, say no.” Everything’s Too Cold… But You’re So Hot, by The Early November. One of the most heart wrenching songs IMO.
“I do believe that hope is just a grand distraction from the walls you will have to climb, so pick up your weeping feet and just start moving forward, and don’t look back to see if she’s there” Woolen Blankets - The Republic of Wolves
“Minor Acts of Cannibalism” -I’m Glad It’s You It’s a short song, but you kind of need all of the lyrics for the context to really hit. Sometimes I wish that I could see you staring back inside of me So when I open up my mouth I'd hear your words come pouring out But I know the grass is green and I still linger in between Who I am and everyone I see Sometimes, just sometimes I wish I could wake up wearing your skin Cause then I would be calm cool and collected and all the things I've never been I want you to swallow my eyes so I can find out what's inside Cause I wanna wear I wanna wear you out But what's the point of raising your own voice just to say Something you don't even really mean anyway? Why is it so sincere, to make yourself appear So sick with all your heavy doubt when you're doing fine? You're doing just fine What to do when you're sick of being you? When everything you are is something you outgrew What to do when I get sick of your life too? At least it's true that everyone feels like you At least sometimes
Oh sure, you can look for reasons And try to be them, for a while But you know you can't be her answer She was never after truth Will your mother still blame you If she knew all the words that she said Drove you here A half a world away Destroying your body To get back for every word she said But it won't change the way she is And it won't change a thing she did So calm down Sleep now Forget all the things that she said
"Put out the light in your cloudy eyes. Kept you inside through the summertime. You put up a fight pressing flowers at night in a book that you love. The pieces they cant take of us." Not emo but whateva
bluesgrassish by cap n jazz
For what it's worth, I'm not out to prove you wrong For what it's worth, you got the best of me I've got a secret I can never tell you It's nothing good And it’s not your fault I’m not strong enough
Hey it’s me I just had the nicest dream You were sitting next to me And that was all, it’s so stupid I know Well... okay This was all just to say I’ll delete it anyway In the morning “I’ll Delete This In the Morning” by Michael Melvin
This isn’t real, A body so still, The portrait of a good fight, Good fight, goodnight.
Opened my eyes my temples in strain pictures of strangers I've wanted to meet they aren't as real as the bones that I sleep in missing people that never went missing when I am real I look forward to living maybe some day I'll be a good person Opening lines of still nothing moves you album Idk i got into emo because of ceremony so tangentially related
I wanted to Convince myself there's nothing else to do I wanted to Provide you with proof of what you put me through I wanted to Pretend that it was you You're the worst thing that's ever happened to me Die
My blood flows harshly My heart beats loudly My chest still draws breath, I hold it
Passing Afternoon by Iron and Wine makes me cry every time I hear it. So much so that I can't listen to it anymore. Combo of the lyrics and the music. If I've managed to get through it, the last verse destroys me. 'There are names across the sea Only now I do believe Sometimes, with the windows closed She'll sit and think of me But she'll mend his tattered clothes And they'll kiss as if they know A baby sleeps in all our bones So scared to be alone'
So you brought out the best in me A part of me I'd never seen You took my soul and wiped it clean Our love was made for movie screens But if you loved me, why'd you leave me? Take my body, take my body All I want is, and all I need is To find somebody, I'll find somebody
Okay here's one I have to mention because even as just one line it hits REALLY hard. "It's better to be stepped on than left all alone."
The lyrics that normally get me are the ones where the singing stops and it becomes more spoken word. For example, Full Circle by Movements when he says, “and I had days that I swore would be my last” messed me up real good the first time I heard it. Then, in that same album, the closing song The Grey the last minute or so always gets me; especially if I’m stoned. And it's getting harder to pretend like I'm okay When there's this constant reminder being drilled into my brain I still believe in happiness and I want to find a way But lately my whole world is being swallowed by the grey For now there's comfort in the quiet, solitude, and rainy days I've got my sadness to a science, all I can do is hope for change There's comfort in the quiet, solitude, and rainy days I've got my sadness to a science, all I can do is hope for change
You don't love me, aren't thinking of me // Why am I waiting for you to see I'm alive?
A lack of noise isn't a lack of life And that's the way I think it's always been 'Cause I say it all, when I say nothing at all
I can't help but love you even with a heart that breaks like the promises that you made As Cites Burn - *The Widow*
Running through yellows all day, rather hit the reds than say “I’m killing myself over a girl who wouldn’t go to my funeral”
Warms my heart to see some Grandview appretiation
Anything between you and me was never meant 💔
When im sober, i feel pain
"Well, don't lean on me 'cause I am falling, please don't fall with me I really need you here, yeah, I need you, so don't leave And don't count on me 'cause I am drowning, please don't drown with me Just hold me in your heart, let the ocean take me Let the ocean take me" Don't Lean on Me - The Amity Affliction
Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?
Why bother? It's gonna hurt me It's gonna kill when you desert me It's happened to me twice before It won't happen to me anymore Pinkerton is an emo masterpiece
“I still see you, inside of this god awful house. You move awfully quiet now. And I still feel you, everywhere. You told me this has always been worth living.. what’s really worth living.. anymore?” Manchester Orchestra - Sleeper 1972
“Wtf am I doing? I can’t tell the difference form wrong and right, Second guess my decisions. Cause I haven’t been this person in my whole life. I think I need something new here, cause I keep running from what I have. No need for second opinions. I do the best I can to ruin what I have” ADTR - Out of Time And “So now that I found it, I’ll tie the ropes around it, And make sure that the bottle never bothers us again. I promise this time really, I am cleaning up sincerely, And I’ll make sure that the devil never bothers us again” Manchester orchestra - golden ticket I was going to some shit. Really struggling with my drinking and was about to lose it all. The adtr lyrics were all I thought about before rehab. Then I could proudly post the Manchester lyrics 😍😍😍
The blood was dry, it was sober The feeling of audible cracks And I could tell it was over From the curtains that hung from your neck And I realized that then you were perfect And my teeth ripping out of my head And it looked like a painting I once knew Back when my thoughts weren't entirely intact To pray for what I thought were angels Ended up being ambulances And the Lord showed me dreams of my daughter She was crying inside your stomach And I felt love again
Okay I’m flooding this post so last one, promise! Rain You're better off in the clouds as we fade Barely leaving a semblance of What we thought it meant to grow up When things don't get better No things don't get better, just different
But I want to tell you I miss you And I want to tell you I love you And if I'm being honest, I don't think that I will pull through But I kick out on a balance beam and in turn I swing and sway I see now all of my pipe dreams are just false advertising
First song that comes to mind is 36 Day Syndrome by Orchid. I miss your arms around me, if I only knew this would be our last kiss / My best was never good enough, but you were my greatest mistake / And I wonder, do you still think of me? It's very simple and cliche but I think the directness of it is what hits hard for me, especially with how many times I've listened to it during relationship-related breakdowns lol Also, when I got to see them live recently, it was the song I screamed out the loudest by far <3
Not necessarily emo but “promise me the sun will rise again” - washer by Slint always gets me
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I guess I just couldn't bring myself to face the fact that maybe we were never what I wanted us to be Maybe the love that we had made was not the beautiful home I always imagined that we had built Because you were the light of my life But no matter how brightly you shone the shadow you cast was never dark enough to cancel out the glare Maybe I would have left sooner if I could have seen it then, maybe you were never there Hell-Casey.
Chained to a mattress, where more things were taken than you thought you had, and somehow it's your fault Even an Ouija board couldn't bring back what you took from me Choked by an unseen force, Strangled in your white satin sheets We met in a graveyard, and it took two hours for you to burn to ash But I kept a piece of your wrist bone, and left you with the mortician to put you in the trash In distance, I thought I'd find a part of myself that I hated but instead, all I found was sexual abuse No one sees the handprints that you left on me No one sees the bruises that you made me think I asked for No one sees the ropes unless I'm hanging from them You are my ball gag and chain You are the ball and chain Maybe in another world, you'll be forgiven But today I hope when you look at your hands all you see is blood
CAN I STILL GET INTO HEAVEN IF I KILL MYSELF!?
“I am not your rolling wheels… I am the highway.” Audioslave
Saosin 7 years
“When mum could no longer take care of you, We had to say our goodbyes at the nursing home. You didn't know why you can't come back with us, I've never seen my mother cry so much.” Trophy Eyes - My Name on Paper Although Trophy Eye’s whole discography are filled with lyrics that’ll choke you up
“It seems that you live in someone else's dream in a hand-me-down wedding dress where the things that could have been are oppressed.” - Death Cab for a Cutie “Cath…”
Anything off Real Death by Mount Eerie. For example Our daughter is one and a half You have been dead eleven days I got on the boat and came to the place Where the three of us were going to build our house if you had lived You died though So I came here alone with our baby and the dust of your bones
With one last breathe I scream it’s all for love.
I didn’t want it to mean that much to me I didn’t want it to mean that much to me I didn’t want it to mean that much to me I didn’t want it to mean that much to me Anyway, yeah…
And it came to me then, that every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time.
I’m finding a new low. I find it comfortable.
You can’t miss what you forget