“We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band / then jump in the river holding hands”

We brag on having bread, but none of us are bakers We all talk having greens, but none of us own acres If none of us own acres, and none of us grow wheat Then who will feed our people when our people need to eat?

Killer Mike ~ Ronald Reagan

Vicarious by TOOL

Eye on the TV, 'cause tragedy thrills me

Whatever flavor it happens to be like

“Killed by the husband”

“Drowned by the ocean”

“Shot by his own son”

"She used a poison in his tea

Then kissed him goodbye"

That’s my kind of story

It’s no fun 'til someone dies

Cause I need to watch things die

From a distance

Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies

You all need it too, don’t lie

Wish I could stand in the spray at the cliff of your sweet revenge

An ocean of naked serrated marble crushing in

Last Lion of Albion by Neko Case

Is this how it is?
Is this how it’s always been?
To exist in the face of suffering and death
And somehow still keep singing?

Florence + The Machine - Free

Also:

I did my best, tried to impress, my childhood dream made flesh
And my dresses and my flowering sadness, so like a woman to profit from her madness
I was only beautiful under the lights, only powerful there
Burned down at thirty-six
Why did you dig me up for this?

Florence + The Machine - One of the Greats

There’s a tool for everything A sawzall can set you free

There’s copper in the hills, you ain’t gotta mine it. Just a pickup truck in the dead of night. Birds of a feather, they’ll flock and cry but the metal man don’t care which way you fly.

-sawzall v surveillance, Nathan evans fox

"And on I read, until the day was gone.

And I sat in regret of all the things I’ve done.

For all that I’ve blessed, and all that I’ve wronged.

In dreams until my death I will wander on."

Audioslave, Like A Stone.

“the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had” - Bad Word (Tears for Fears)

“Well, Americans don’t care for much of anything
Land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
With human life not worth more than infected yeast,”

“Americans don’t care too much for beauty
They’ll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They’ll watch dead rats wash up on the beach Complain if they can’t swim” - Last Great American Whale (Lou Reed)

the entire songs is magnificent

On y a mis la tête contre une brique Que même la brique, elle a eu mal

Which can be translated to

We smashed his head against a brick So hard even the brick got hurt

(From Renaud, Deuxième Génération)

“Democracy don’t rule the world. You better get that through your head. This world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid”. Bob Dylan form his album “Infidels” and the song is called “Sundown on the Union”. The song is over 30 years old but Dylan saw it unwinding back then.

Amiaryllis’ Watashi Wa Ame cover

I suffer in this shallow puddle, while others drown among their turbulent seas

and

But, still i wish that i could suffer the pain of everyone so i’d understand

Insanity laughs under pressure we’re breaking

Queen - Under Pressure

A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall

Bo Burnham - That Funny Feeling

(Honestly every line in that song is golden)

Burn the land and boil the sea, You can’t take the sky from me.

From Firefly. Sung by Sonny Rhodes, written by Joss Whedon

You know, suicide isn’t painless,
When you leave everyone in pain.
NOFX - Doornails

“To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave” Primus

https://youtu.be/AccbAu2KmFg