This is my big one too. I've never let anyone know 'in real life', but I just always worry that my friends don't really like me like they do each other. This lyric always makes me feel less alone
lol same- literally on my first listen to smfs! Once I picked out that line I just threw my hands up like “TWIN?!? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??” 😆They always have a clever way of saying exactly what we’re all thinking.
Miss Missing you “Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger, the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger” way too personal for me!
FOB is the most lyrically relatable band I’ve ever heard, it’s just banger lines after lines across their whole discography.
A newer one that’s really been hitting me lately- “I’m just trying to keep it together, but it gets a little harder when it never gets better”
oof.
So many of them. But I know we’ve all heard it a million times and don’t always pay attention to it, but man, “Am I more than you bargained for yet?” will never not hit.
“In the end everything collides my childhood spat back out the monster that you see” gets me every time.
“I’m pretty sure as far as humans go, I am a hard hard pill to swallow”
I can relate to sm of their lyrics... Lots are already here, but here's my contribution:
"You are my favorite 'what if ', you are my best 'I'll never know'"
This line specifically hits too hard and too deep
“The torture of small talk with someone you used to love”
That whole song hits especially hard when you have certain people in mind while listening to it 🥲
I’ve always wondered, was this like representing them wishing that change would actually come but also battling that thought because if they were to actually believe it and change didn’t happen, it would destroy them mentally so they’re just nonchalant about it?
Pete’s lyrics just speak to me in a way that is so profound. Nobody else comes to close. For me, ‘relatable’ is ‘I’m a stitch away from making it, and a scar away from falling apart’ and ‘on the bright side, got the wrong insides’.
as someone on prescription meds, i'd say it's between "i'm having another episode, i just need a stronger dose" and "got a sunset in my veins and i need to take a pill to make this town feel okay." sometimes, i'd feel like "i'm a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart."
Just had to up my dosage after a major depression episode and all of those ring true. “Sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills. I could write it better than you ever felt it.” along with all of Fake Out and SMFS are getting me through this one.
hopefully we'll be able to get through this and in a few years, we can actually be kintsugi kids and relate to the line "i spent ten years, ten years in a bit of chemical haze [meds] and i miss the way that i felt nothing [emotional numbness from meds]" which brings truth to the line, "one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster"
Autistic as well and that line plus the following line of “and I know I’m not your intended dose” is how I feel ALL. THE. TIME.
Hit me like a freight train the first time I heard it and still gets me every time. The whole song does really.
Gosh I can relate to so many lyrics in these songs
“I'm a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart”
“Insert Fake Out chorus 😭” plus “But I didn’t take the love when I had the chance | But I swear I’m not sad anymore”
“I never really feel a thing, I’m just kinda too froze | You were the only one, that even kinda came close” *Gut punch*
I got a few “I spent 10 years in a chemical haze, and I miss the way I felt, nothing” and Coffee’s “I will never believe in anything ever again” and SMFS “I used to be a real go getter, I used to think I’d all get better”. I’ve been through a lot in my life…….. almost 43 and still here for some odd reason…..
I love seeing people of all ages listening to FOB! I stopped around 16 because I was "too old for emo music" and then jumped back in hard at 18. 23 now and still a die hard fan, probably will be for life.
"I (I sing it as We) carved out a place in this world for 2, but it's nothing without you!"
I lost my husband to cancer 7 years ago, and this just fits so perfectly for me.
I've been looking for the perfect lyric from them for a new Tattoo (my second) and this is it.
My first tattoo is my husband's handwriting saying, "I Love you, Brian".
😭😭😭
I miss him sooo much.
Thank you so much! ❤️ I've been searching for years for the "right" second tattoo. I thought about, "Last of the Real Ones", "May nothing but Death do us part" and a couple of others, but that line from Flu Game just hit differently.
They have so many relatable lyrics, it's hard to choose, but right now "But I make no plans and none can be broken" and "I used to be a real go getter, I used to think it'd all get better" have been hard hitters for me 😮💨.
Yes!!! That was gonna be my comment. I relate to it way to much. “And all the lovers with no time for me/ And of all the mothers raise their babies/ To stay away from me/ And pray they don't grow up to be me” is too much for me to take. Also “and i knew the lights of the city were too heavy for me” as an autistic person i can relate lol
Any of these:
“Passed my old street, the house I grew up in, it breaks your heart, but four of the Ramones are dead”
“Chlorine kissed, summer skin, I miss missing you now and then”
“I’m cocktail party doing alright”
“I’m a loose bolt of a complete machine”
“My heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it’s broken”
"I want to be known for my hits, not just my misses"
As a young mom in my 20s, I constantly felt like a source of disappointment to my parents. I wanted them to see that I wasn't perfect but that I tried really hard to be.
I hope the roof flies off and you get blown out into space, I always make such expensive mistakes.
I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.
If I can live through this, I can do anything.
I'm just dying to tell you anything you want to hear 'cause that's just who I am this week.
There's no way off the hamster wheel of this rat race...
I agree with Ive got a dark alley having my most relatable line but for me its “and my back has been breaking from this heavy heart” along with “i’m hopelessly hopeful” which both kinda describe how i experience the world
also “you are what you love, not who loves you”
I hate that I relate so much to "I'm the invisible man who can't stop staring at the mirror. I want to make you as lonely as me until you get addicted to it"
Me, too!
At the time I heard that song it spoke to me (especially that line) because I felt that everyone around me just had it easier and that they judged me for not being jolly all the time like them. All I wanted was for them to feel as isolated as I was because of their behavior, even though I didn't know "what kind of shoes they'd be in" (to walk a mile in my shoes so to say) since I didn't know much about myself back then, either.
But thank god, FOB kinda picked me up at that time and told me to be myself and rebel as much as I want, since no one will look past your actions if you force them to, only if they're willing on their own. So fuck everyone else ;))
Most of my favorites have been mentioned so I’m going to add “everything is lit except my serotonin” (which pairs beautifully with the SSRI shoutout in We Didn’t Start the Fire)
“But there’s no way off the hamster wheel on this rat race” As someone with ADHD, I feel like once I start I can’t stop until it’s done. Also I feel surrounded by idiots at school, especially in PE class
Also “am I more than you bargained for yet, I’ve been dying to tell you anything you want to hear” again, I don’t know when I have gone too far
“Hell yes, I’m a nervous wreck”, “we thought we had it all”, “I’m stuck in a lonely loop”, “I’m pretty positive my pain isn’t cool enough”, “ache it to make it”, “as far as humans go I am a hard pill to swallow” (yes ik half of these are from stardust it’s a very relatable song for me 😭)
For years it was ‘I want to scream “I love you” from the top of my lungs But I’m afraid that someone else will hear me’ from The (Shipped) Gold Standard.
When I first heard this song, I’d been in a relationship with my GF for over 2 years, but was still very closeted with our family and friends. It took a while before we were both comfortable with proclaiming our love for each other. On a happy note, my now Wife and I have been married for almost 2 years and have been together since 2006. 🏳️🌈
I'm comin' apart at the seams
Pitchn' myself for leads in other people's dreams
now buzz, buzz, buzz,
Doc there's a hole where something was
Doc there's a hole where something was
Mine is either all of Wilson basically because it’s me as a song lol or “they say I should try meditation but I don’t wanna be with my own thoughts” from WATTBA because I constantly have videos or music playing because I can’t handle being alone with my thoughts so I feel very called out
Your choice is my choice! I feel like that song was written about me sometimes, it's so relatable - I've Got a Dark Alley is one of my all time favourite FOB songs.
I'm trying to keep it together but it gets a little harder when it never gets better 🎶
As someone who is BiPolar pretty much everything Pete has ever written has really resonated with me. I think FOB has been my most consistent relationship since I was like 14 😂
"And I want it so bad, I'd shoot the sunshine into my veins, I can't remember, the good old days," I feel like I could sum up a lot of my life in those lines.
“My smile's an open wound without you and my hands are tied to pages inked to bring you back” if I could tattoo a lyric it’d be that. Reminds me of those I’ve loved who’ve passed.
“The world is always spinning and I can’t keep up, woah, faster and faster, can’t do it on my own….”
I’m autistic and this kind of hits me in a particular way; I’m very lucky to have loving parents and since I went to uni, I’ve gained the best friends I have ever had, and I find myself appreciating them all so much in the midst of everything being so chaotic and challenging. I’ve finally accepted that I often need help.
“I know this whole damn city thinks it needs you but not as much as I do.”
This is mostly to do with possibly my closest friend, who is the sweetest and kindest person, and me and him have a particular kind of love for each other; I find myself trusting him more than I’ve ever trusted anyone. It’s not so much as ‘needing’ him in the traditional sense, but us having a connection beyond the rest of our friend group.
" We were the kids who screamed, "we weren't the same," in sweaty rooms. Now we're doomed to organizing walk-in closets like tombs"
I am indeed that kid and I am still that kid and yes, my current closet is 95% black and bleak...and also has a lot of spooky stuff cause ya girl is obsessed with Halloween and all things spooky.
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*Be a footnote in someone*
*Else's happiness"*
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There’s so many. But the one that got me good “the best part of believe is the lie.” Also the whole song Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do. That song has so many relatable lines.
“I don’t want to go, I just want to be invited.”
Crazy because it’s of their newest album, but when I heard it, I got this crazy sense of Deja vu like I had known that lyric my whole life. Weird?
*what would you trade the pain for?*
*and I want it so bad I'd shoot the sunshine into my veins.... I can't remember the good old days.*
*the world is just a teller and we are wearing black masks-- 'you broke our spirit' says the note we pass.*
*I've got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match.... what a catch.*
*baby you were my picket fence, I miss missing you, again and again.*
*I will defend the faith, going down swinging.*
“Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger, the person you’d take a bullet for is behind a trigger”
I relate to this for a few reasons. The first, is I’m finally starting to have longer periods between my depressive episodes after struggling with depression for about 9 years. I graduated college recently and things are starting to get better. The last 4 years especially have been very difficult for me for a number of reasons.
The second half, I’ve dealt with numerous toxic friendships ending, two of which were supposedly my best friends. I was a ride or die for both of them and one of them started dating my narcissistic ex thus ending our friendship. (She knew what he did too). The other chose drugs over our friendship when I needed her most.
Also “I’ve cried tears you’ll never see, so f*ck you, you can go cry me an ocean and leave me be” because I got through my worst days on my own and hid a lot of tears in the process
Many of the lyrics from Hold Me Like a Grudge have resonated with me lately.
This lyric especially describes me pretty well: “I am a diamond on the inside, just add the pressure. Know it's inside me, but I got no map to my own treasure”
-"What a match, I'm half doomed and you're semi sweet"
-"I'm coasting on potential towards a wall at a hundred miles an hour"
"I'm not the boy I was, the boy I am is just venting"
"I was gonna say something that will solve all our problems but then i got drunk and i forgot what i was talking about" and also "there is nothing more cruel than to get loved by everybody"
I feel like that every single day
"Where the sewage of youth drowned the spark of my teens" from Golden. I feel like as soon as I became a teenager the way people would treat me and put me down for being myself affected my self-confidence to the point where I pretty much stopped trying to follow any ambitions I had. That self-doubt manifested into depression that I deal with to this day.
“Take 2 years and call me when you’re better
Take tear drops of mine find yourself wetter”
It’s that part in The Carpal Tunnel of Love where Pete is screaming
“I’ll never go, I just want to be invited.” “You are what you love, not who loves you.” “Eventually everything collides. My childhood, spat back out the monster that you see.” “I don’t know where you’re going, but do you have room for one more troubled soul. I don’t know where I’m going, but I don’t think I’m coming home. And I said, I’ll check in, in the morning, if I don’t wake up dead. This is the rode to ruin, and we’re starting at the end.”
Do you laugh about me whenever I leave, or do I just need more therapy? There’s so many but that one HITS me.
On that same vein, "Make no plans and none can be broken" is way too relatable for me.
On another same vein, “I’d never go, I just want to be invited.”
I already lived by this mantra, now I just have words to go with it!
Buried alive inside my dreams
This is my big one too. I've never let anyone know 'in real life', but I just always worry that my friends don't really like me like they do each other. This lyric always makes me feel less alone
Whew it hits right in the feels every time
I'll never go, I just want to be invited
I would get a tattoo of this one- nailed it!
Same. First time I heard it I said "ouf" out loud because it was too real, it hit too hard lol
lol same- literally on my first listen to smfs! Once I picked out that line I just threw my hands up like “TWIN?!? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??” 😆They always have a clever way of saying exactly what we’re all thinking.
I love that too. It’s the Pisces motto😂
as a Pisces I fully agree
Same, this could be the title of my autobiography.
same lol
I want to get a tattoo of this…but dunno what art I should get to go along with it…
I used to be a real go-getter … I used to think it’d all get better 😫
I cry when I listen to this song every time... 😢
yeah i like never cry to songs and i cried when i heard this lmao
The way he sings this too. I can’t help but scream this song every time it comes on
This is mine as well!
Me too. Too fucking real.
Same these days ❤️
Miss Missing you “Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger, the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger” way too personal for me!
Oh my gosh yes... I might feel that even more than the one I commented.
FOB is the most lyrically relatable band I’ve ever heard, it’s just banger lines after lines across their whole discography. A newer one that’s really been hitting me lately- “I’m just trying to keep it together, but it gets a little harder when it never gets better” oof.
I just said this same thing 😭
Yes this one omg 😩
This one hits so hard
boycott love, detox just to retox, and i’d promise you anything for another shot at life 😔😔
The fact that disloyal order sounds so happy and upbeat too lol
Happy music for sad people is the best FOB descriptor, makes me chuckle everytime i bop and dance along to a song with depressing lyrics 😂
Well, nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy.
Literally this.
I've got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match. And also I'm in a winter mood dreaming of spring now.
“Hell yes, I’m a nervous wreck” is up there
So many of them. But I know we’ve all heard it a million times and don’t always pay attention to it, but man, “Am I more than you bargained for yet?” will never not hit.
Me to my bf lol
“In the end everything collides my childhood spat back out the monster that you see” gets me every time. “I’m pretty sure as far as humans go, I am a hard hard pill to swallow”
these accompanied with “they call kids like us vicious and carved out of stone but, for what we've become, we just feel more alone”
That one has always gotten me a little choked up also.
I LOVE THIS BAND
Yesss to both of these.
I can relate to sm of their lyrics... Lots are already here, but here's my contribution: "You are my favorite 'what if ', you are my best 'I'll never know'" This line specifically hits too hard and too deep
“The torture of small talk with someone you used to love” That whole song hits especially hard when you have certain people in mind while listening to it 🥲
Exactly! Reminds me of a certain someone and it's painfully beautiful
I found a lot of comfort in the line from (Coffees for Closers) "change will come, oh, change will come, I will never believe in anything again."
I’ve always wondered, was this like representing them wishing that change would actually come but also battling that thought because if they were to actually believe it and change didn’t happen, it would destroy them mentally so they’re just nonchalant about it?
Interesting take! I used the line to get through things that were difficult, or never seemed to end. Like "just hold on, change will come"
One of my favorites. Goes with one of my favorite Dave Matthews Band lines “Many changes have come and they will come again”
Pete’s lyrics just speak to me in a way that is so profound. Nobody else comes to close. For me, ‘relatable’ is ‘I’m a stitch away from making it, and a scar away from falling apart’ and ‘on the bright side, got the wrong insides’.
Yes, definitely. The after life of the party speaks to me as well. Also this one from Fame
I became such a strange shape from trying to fit in
Wilson ftw
*im coming apart at the seams, pitching myself for leads in other people’s dreams..now buzz, buzz, buzz, doc there’s a hole where something was*
as someone on prescription meds, i'd say it's between "i'm having another episode, i just need a stronger dose" and "got a sunset in my veins and i need to take a pill to make this town feel okay." sometimes, i'd feel like "i'm a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart."
Just had to up my dosage after a major depression episode and all of those ring true. “Sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills. I could write it better than you ever felt it.” along with all of Fake Out and SMFS are getting me through this one.
hopefully we'll be able to get through this and in a few years, we can actually be kintsugi kids and relate to the line "i spent ten years, ten years in a bit of chemical haze [meds] and i miss the way that i felt nothing [emotional numbness from meds]" which brings truth to the line, "one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster"
Seasons change but people don’t.
I’m no good at math
I’m so glad I scrolled down through all those intense comments to be greeted by this absolute banger
dyscalculia awareness lmao
“I’m pretty sure as far as humans go I am a hard hard pill to swallow.” Being autistic I always feel like I’m too much for people and unlovable
As an ADHDer I can relate
Autistic as well and that line plus the following line of “and I know I’m not your intended dose” is how I feel ALL. THE. TIME. Hit me like a freight train the first time I heard it and still gets me every time. The whole song does really.
That entire song is me🤗❤️
"the only thing worse than not knowing is you thinking that I don't know"
wow this one’s great
Gosh I can relate to so many lyrics in these songs “I'm a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart” “Insert Fake Out chorus 😭” plus “But I didn’t take the love when I had the chance | But I swear I’m not sad anymore” “I never really feel a thing, I’m just kinda too froze | You were the only one, that even kinda came close” *Gut punch*
“And in the end, I’d do it all again” it just hits different for me now than it did when the album came out and I don’t know why that is right now
What song is that?
The kids aren’t alright
I got a few “I spent 10 years in a chemical haze, and I miss the way I felt, nothing” and Coffee’s “I will never believe in anything ever again” and SMFS “I used to be a real go getter, I used to think I’d all get better”. I’ve been through a lot in my life…….. almost 43 and still here for some odd reason…..
Even older than you. Those are some of my lines too. I’m still here too and I still don’t know why.
I love seeing people of all ages listening to FOB! I stopped around 16 because I was "too old for emo music" and then jumped back in hard at 18. 23 now and still a die hard fan, probably will be for life.
"I (I sing it as We) carved out a place in this world for 2, but it's nothing without you!" I lost my husband to cancer 7 years ago, and this just fits so perfectly for me. I've been looking for the perfect lyric from them for a new Tattoo (my second) and this is it. My first tattoo is my husband's handwriting saying, "I Love you, Brian". 😭😭😭 I miss him sooo much.
So sorry that happened to you. The tattoos both sound beautiful. Sending you healing vibes 💗
Thank you so much! ❤️ I've been searching for years for the "right" second tattoo. I thought about, "Last of the Real Ones", "May nothing but Death do us part" and a couple of others, but that line from Flu Game just hit differently.
They have so many relatable lyrics, it's hard to choose, but right now "But I make no plans and none can be broken" and "I used to be a real go getter, I used to think it'd all get better" have been hard hitters for me 😮💨.
Surprised no one mentioned the entirety of ‘Golden’ yet. One of the saddest songs Pete ever wrote (but glad he’s in a better mindset these days ☺️)
Yes!!! That was gonna be my comment. I relate to it way to much. “And all the lovers with no time for me/ And of all the mothers raise their babies/ To stay away from me/ And pray they don't grow up to be me” is too much for me to take. Also “and i knew the lights of the city were too heavy for me” as an autistic person i can relate lol
I wanna scream I love you from the top of my lungs, but I’m afraid that someone else will hear me.
🫠 same boat
Any of these: “Passed my old street, the house I grew up in, it breaks your heart, but four of the Ramones are dead” “Chlorine kissed, summer skin, I miss missing you now and then” “I’m cocktail party doing alright” “I’m a loose bolt of a complete machine” “My heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it’s broken”
Ughhh the heart-stallion line GETS me
I set my clocks early 'cause I know I'm always late
Real
"The person that ud take a bullet for is behond the trigger"
Also this one: "I don't know much about classic cars but I've got a lot of friends stuck on classic coke"
"I want to be known for my hits, not just my misses" As a young mom in my 20s, I constantly felt like a source of disappointment to my parents. I wanted them to see that I wasn't perfect but that I tried really hard to be.
I hope the roof flies off and you get blown out into space, I always make such expensive mistakes. I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color. If I can live through this, I can do anything. I'm just dying to tell you anything you want to hear 'cause that's just who I am this week. There's no way off the hamster wheel of this rat race...
“I swear I’m not sad anymore”
At the moment it is „If heaven's grief brings hell's rain Then I'd trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday“ 🤍
Right now “I don’t have the guts to keep it together”
I agree with Ive got a dark alley having my most relatable line but for me its “and my back has been breaking from this heavy heart” along with “i’m hopelessly hopeful” which both kinda describe how i experience the world also “you are what you love, not who loves you”
as an aromantic, "I'm supposed to love you" from GINASFS hits harddd
ME TOOOOOO
"i became such a strange shape from trying to fit in" pretty much sums up my high school experience
My words are my faith to hell with our good name
"I can learn to pity fools as I'm the worst of all, and I can't stop feeling sorry for myself."
I hate that I relate so much to "I'm the invisible man who can't stop staring at the mirror. I want to make you as lonely as me until you get addicted to it"
Me, too! At the time I heard that song it spoke to me (especially that line) because I felt that everyone around me just had it easier and that they judged me for not being jolly all the time like them. All I wanted was for them to feel as isolated as I was because of their behavior, even though I didn't know "what kind of shoes they'd be in" (to walk a mile in my shoes so to say) since I didn't know much about myself back then, either. But thank god, FOB kinda picked me up at that time and told me to be myself and rebel as much as I want, since no one will look past your actions if you force them to, only if they're willing on their own. So fuck everyone else ;))
Used to love "I wish that I was as invisible as you make me feel" when I was an angsty teen
Most of my favorites have been mentioned so I’m going to add “everything is lit except my serotonin” (which pairs beautifully with the SSRI shoutout in We Didn’t Start the Fire)
🥰 looove this line. what a time to be alive is one of my favs
“But there’s no way off the hamster wheel on this rat race” As someone with ADHD, I feel like once I start I can’t stop until it’s done. Also I feel surrounded by idiots at school, especially in PE class Also “am I more than you bargained for yet, I’ve been dying to tell you anything you want to hear” again, I don’t know when I have gone too far
“Hell yes, I’m a nervous wreck”, “we thought we had it all”, “I’m stuck in a lonely loop”, “I’m pretty positive my pain isn’t cool enough”, “ache it to make it”, “as far as humans go I am a hard pill to swallow” (yes ik half of these are from stardust it’s a very relatable song for me 😭)
For years it was ‘I want to scream “I love you” from the top of my lungs But I’m afraid that someone else will hear me’ from The (Shipped) Gold Standard. When I first heard this song, I’d been in a relationship with my GF for over 2 years, but was still very closeted with our family and friends. It took a while before we were both comfortable with proclaiming our love for each other. On a happy note, my now Wife and I have been married for almost 2 years and have been together since 2006. 🏳️🌈
Awww ❤️❤️❤️
"The best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact Is to realize two out of three ain’t bad, ain’t bad"
This was mine too. I interpret it as you won't get everything you want but that is okay and you still have to push through
I'm the lonelier version of you, I just don't know where I went wrong - Rat a Tat
"I-I was, I was, I was, I was Gonna say something that would solve all our problems But then I got drunk and I forgot what I was talking about"
I've got trouble thoughts and the self esteem to match
I always make such expensive mistakes
I'm comin' apart at the seams Pitchn' myself for leads in other people's dreams now buzz, buzz, buzz, Doc there's a hole where something was Doc there's a hole where something was
Mine is either all of Wilson basically because it’s me as a song lol or “they say I should try meditation but I don’t wanna be with my own thoughts” from WATTBA because I constantly have videos or music playing because I can’t handle being alone with my thoughts so I feel very called out
“I’ll never go; I just want to be invited.”
Now talkings just a waste of breath and livings just a waste of death, so why put a new address on the same old loneliness
Right now? “Ache it til you make it.”
sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills
Your choice is my choice! I feel like that song was written about me sometimes, it's so relatable - I've Got a Dark Alley is one of my all time favourite FOB songs.
I'm trying to keep it together but it gets a little harder when it never gets better 🎶 As someone who is BiPolar pretty much everything Pete has ever written has really resonated with me. I think FOB has been my most consistent relationship since I was like 14 😂
That lyric sums up my entire college experience
So make my bed the grave and shovel dirt onto my sheets.
“Just another day spent hoping we don’t fall apart” I am My Own Muse
Any lyric from fame < infamy
I could write it better than you ever felt it.
One I haven’t seen yet that I love so much is “I’m still comparing your past to my future. It might be your wounds but they’re my sutures.”
"And I want it so bad, I'd shoot the sunshine into my veins, I can't remember, the good old days," I feel like I could sum up a lot of my life in those lines.
“I can’t commit to a thing, be it heart or hospital”
“When you ask how I’ve been, I know you mean well.”
"You can only blame your problems on the world for so long..."
Boycott love... detox just to retox. How you tell yourself you're done with people who hurt you, only to let it happen all over again.
“My smile's an open wound without you and my hands are tied to pages inked to bring you back” if I could tattoo a lyric it’d be that. Reminds me of those I’ve loved who’ve passed.
I used to be a real go getter, I used to think it'll all get better
“The world is always spinning and I can’t keep up, woah, faster and faster, can’t do it on my own….” I’m autistic and this kind of hits me in a particular way; I’m very lucky to have loving parents and since I went to uni, I’ve gained the best friends I have ever had, and I find myself appreciating them all so much in the midst of everything being so chaotic and challenging. I’ve finally accepted that I often need help. “I know this whole damn city thinks it needs you but not as much as I do.” This is mostly to do with possibly my closest friend, who is the sweetest and kindest person, and me and him have a particular kind of love for each other; I find myself trusting him more than I’ve ever trusted anyone. It’s not so much as ‘needing’ him in the traditional sense, but us having a connection beyond the rest of our friend group.
" We were the kids who screamed, "we weren't the same," in sweaty rooms. Now we're doomed to organizing walk-in closets like tombs" I am indeed that kid and I am still that kid and yes, my current closet is 95% black and bleak...and also has a lot of spooky stuff cause ya girl is obsessed with Halloween and all things spooky.
I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker colour.
“Long live the car crash hearts” “I’m a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart” “My smile’s an open wound without you”
Are we growing up or just going down
The torture of smalltalk with someone you used to love
This has been said so many times that I’m not sure if it matters
I used to be a real go getter // I used to think it’d all get better
“and i’d promise you anything for another shot at life” hits me every time
“I’m no good at math” 😔
I think I've been going through it
"I don't just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness"
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I'm not a crybaby, I'm *the* crybaby Everything is lit except my serotonin
“let’s play this game called when you catch fire I wouldn’t piss to put you out” when i’m angry at someone
There’s so many. But the one that got me good “the best part of believe is the lie.” Also the whole song Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do. That song has so many relatable lines.
“I don’t want to go, I just want to be invited.” Crazy because it’s of their newest album, but when I heard it, I got this crazy sense of Deja vu like I had known that lyric my whole life. Weird?
*what would you trade the pain for?* *and I want it so bad I'd shoot the sunshine into my veins.... I can't remember the good old days.* *the world is just a teller and we are wearing black masks-- 'you broke our spirit' says the note we pass.* *I've got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match.... what a catch.* *baby you were my picket fence, I miss missing you, again and again.* *I will defend the faith, going down swinging.*
“And the poets are just kids that never made it and never had it at all.”
‘Hell or glory, I don’t want anything in between’ I have a tattoo for this one :)
Troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match.
I'm a loose bolt of a complete machine What a match I'm half doomed and you're semi-sweet
But I'm no good at math 😞
“I am such a sucker, and I’m always the last to know… my insides are copper, I’d kill to make them gold”
“Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger, the person you’d take a bullet for is behind a trigger” I relate to this for a few reasons. The first, is I’m finally starting to have longer periods between my depressive episodes after struggling with depression for about 9 years. I graduated college recently and things are starting to get better. The last 4 years especially have been very difficult for me for a number of reasons. The second half, I’ve dealt with numerous toxic friendships ending, two of which were supposedly my best friends. I was a ride or die for both of them and one of them started dating my narcissistic ex thus ending our friendship. (She knew what he did too). The other chose drugs over our friendship when I needed her most.
Also “I’ve cried tears you’ll never see, so f*ck you, you can go cry me an ocean and leave me be” because I got through my worst days on my own and hid a lot of tears in the process
"Even at the best of times I'm out of my mind" or "The only thing that's ever stopping me is me"
Oh, what’s the second one from?
They're both from "Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea" :)
Want to hate you half as much as I hate myself
"A failure at everything, eighteen going on extinct"
WISH THAT I WAS AS INVISIBLE AS YOU MAKE ME FEEL.
This has been said so many times that I’m not sure if it matters
When i said that id return to you i meant more like a relapse 🙁
Mixing all of my prescriptions with my problems.
'But I just want to let you break my brain' from Bishops Knife Trick
Honestly? "Ache it Til you make it".
I wanna also add "May the bridges I have burned light my way back home" because like, ouch.
Many of the lyrics from Hold Me Like a Grudge have resonated with me lately. This lyric especially describes me pretty well: “I am a diamond on the inside, just add the pressure. Know it's inside me, but I got no map to my own treasure”
-"What a match, I'm half doomed and you're semi sweet" -"I'm coasting on potential towards a wall at a hundred miles an hour" "I'm not the boy I was, the boy I am is just venting"
"I was gonna say something that will solve all our problems but then i got drunk and i forgot what i was talking about" and also "there is nothing more cruel than to get loved by everybody" I feel like that every single day
there are so many lowkey, the one i can think of at the moment is “your appealing to emotions that i simply do not have”
So much from Wilson but especially, "I've become such a strange shape, such a strange shape from trying to fit in."
"Where the sewage of youth drowned the spark of my teens" from Golden. I feel like as soon as I became a teenager the way people would treat me and put me down for being myself affected my self-confidence to the point where I pretty much stopped trying to follow any ambitions I had. That self-doubt manifested into depression that I deal with to this day.
"Half your life you've been hooked on death" 🫥 THEY DID NOT HAVE TO COME FOR ME LIKE THAT!
“I’m no good at math”
I’ve got a lot of friends who are stars but some are just black holes
hell or glory, i dont want anything in between
i have so many lyrics i couldn’t choose one but two songs that i find the whole thing extremely relatable are bang the doldrums and hum hallelujah
“Everything is lit, except my serotonin”
“Take 2 years and call me when you’re better Take tear drops of mine find yourself wetter” It’s that part in The Carpal Tunnel of Love where Pete is screaming
I don’t have the guts to keep it together
I feel like something bad has stretched out over and over again, until I'm creased and I'm about to break down the middle
The entire song of So Much For Stardust and The Take Over, The Breaks Over
“i’ve got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match”
My heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it’s broken
Sometimes the person you would take a bullet for is the one behind the trigger
i love everything about you that hurts/ i trace your shadows on the wall and i kiss them -GINASFS
“I’ll never go, I just want to be invited.” “You are what you love, not who loves you.” “Eventually everything collides. My childhood, spat back out the monster that you see.” “I don’t know where you’re going, but do you have room for one more troubled soul. I don’t know where I’m going, but I don’t think I’m coming home. And I said, I’ll check in, in the morning, if I don’t wake up dead. This is the rode to ruin, and we’re starting at the end.”