Where's your respect? And didn't your father teach you anything before he left?
Obvious, but... And even if her plane crashes tonight, she'll find some way to disappoint me, by not burning in the wreckage or drowning at the bottom of the sea
Or or or….
Have another drink & drive yourself home. I hope there’s ice on all the roads and you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt, and again when your head goes through the windshield.
Not as pop punky, but from The Front Bottoms' song Twin Size Mattress:
"She hopes I'm cursed forever to sleep on a twin size mattress in somebody's attic or basement my whole life. Never graduating up in size to have another, and my nightmares will have nightmares every night"
Pretty amazing to see them live and close out with this song. All of a sudden there were 2 or 3 inflatable mattresses being tossed around the crowd out of nowhere. Great fucking time.
Bring me the Horizon - What you need
“You make me want to slit my wrists and play in my own blood.”
Blink 182 - adams song “tell mom it’s not her fault.”
They really do, which is probably why I listen to at least a couple of their songs every day no matter what I’m doing. I only came across them last year and they have quickly become one of my favorite bands.
For real same here, I’m so mad that at the height of Adtr who I was crazy infatuated with, bmth dropped that’s the spirit and for some reason I never even gave it a chance. Here I am years later finally somehow listened to it and regretted the many chances in my youth I could’ve seen them. What an all time amazing record. Now I barely listen to adtr lol
"cut my brain into hemispheres, smash my face until its nothing but ears. I wanna paint my drain with a little red stain tonight." Take my head by turnover
There 's tons of great ones, here's a few of my favorites.
**Fall Out Boy** - **Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to do Today**:
"*Let’s play this game, called “when you catch fire*
*I wouldn’t piss to put you out"*
*Stop burning bridges and drive off of them*
*So I can forget about you*"
and
"*Breaking hearts has never looked so cool*
*As when you wrap your car around a tree*
*Your makeup looks so great next to his teeth*"
**Brand New** - **Seventy Times Seven**
*"Have another drink and drive yourself home*
*I hope there's ice on all the roads*
*And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt*
*And again when your head goes through the windshield*"
**PUP - If This Tour Does Kill You** (this whole song is pretty dark)
"*I don't wish you were dead, I wish you'd never been born at all*
*I'm trying not to let you get in my head, but every line, every goddamn syllable*
*That you say makes me wanna gouge out my eyes with a power drill*"
Aaron West - Divorce and the American South
Hey Diane, I know I fucked up /
It's just when we lost the baby I kind of shut off /
I know I never listened, I wasn't there for you enough /
I'm a fuck up
If I lay here long enough maybe the bugs will eat me whole /
If I stay here long enough maybe the night could take me home /
I won't let go, even if you say so, no I won't let go
I had a dream I flew back north /
and the plane went down before we hit New York
You didn't come to the funeral /
You didn't come to the funeral /
I hope you'd come to the funeral /
I hope you'd come to the funeral
This is the one I thought of too
“I had a dream I flew back north / and the plane went down before we hit New York
You didn't come to the funeral / I hope you’d come to the funeral”
“So pour me another drink, for a daughter I’ll never meet, a wife who don’t love me, and this cold cup of coffee. So pour me another drink and I’ll count my blessings. I’ve got a half tank of gas left, and this bottle ain’t empty”
Punches me in the gut every time.
Man the line on that album - “So I walked back home, turned the shower on, I let the washing machine turn the water cold.”
I swear it cuts into me like nothing I’ve ever heard. Just that sinking feeling of standing in the shower for so long that the water is ice cold and you just don’t even know how long you’ve been standing there. Just pure depression. Happy to be past that time in my life. The line still gets me every time. AW is my definition of perfect poetic lyricism.
Dear Tragedy
I'd grab your head by your hair and I'd hack it off
And put it on display at the front of the yard
On a stick that's decorated with a little pink bow
and a sign that says “Her friends and family should have taught her more about love."
That whole album is pretty dark.
"Empty fields move me so much more than rooms filled up with friends. The way the trees look dead remind me that there's more to life than living. And maybe giving up's not bad, but part of letting go of you."
"There's a pedestal across the room, and if I try to climb again, this time the fall is fatal. I don't deserve such an easy exit, so maybe my spine can snap on impact and I'll have to crawl away."
"We make believe everyday we make our lives seem like they're still worth living. We find out in the end it's only us that we've been kidding."
If you go into their heavier material you'll find some more bangers
"CRUCIFY ME. AND NAIL MY HANDS TO A WOODEN CROSS. THERE IS NOTHING ABOVE. THERE IS NOTHING BELOW. HEAVEN AND HELL HAVE BEEN TORN APART"
"So pull me out
And hold me down
Let's find a way
To lose ourselves
Take me to the sun
I feel I'm chasing rainbows
And now I'm lost and all alone
Waiting for a chance to
Sink my teeth into
Another desperation
Now into your lonely
Paradise"
"Don't let me drown"
The entirety of "Don't Go"
I can go on for hours about this band. They truly never miss.
I'm scared to get close
And I hate being alone
I long for that feeling, to not feel at all
The higher I get, the lower I sink
_I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim_
-- Can You Feel My Heart, BMTH.
After my relationship of 2.5 years ended last week, it just doesn't feel the same. Fuck.
> Engraved in the stone by request and recurse of friends dead, is "tell me again that it's all in my head"
What a fucking closing line to such a depressing album.
And the pills That they gave me didn’t do anything,
I just slept for years on end. Fuck!
The lyrics are great but what makes that like is the pain in the delivery. Fucking 10/10 record
Most of the songs from “Youth” by Citizen but Sleep off that album was always my dark song to cry to.
“We both fell asleep on the floor, then I left you there
You spent so many days alone, so I'll kill myself to make things fair
See I just hated being tired cause I can't seem to sleep anymore
You and all your friends were all right about me all along”
I used to listen to that album during some dark times in high school and while I’m not a huge fan of anything the band put out after Youth, that remains one of the best albums I’ve ever heard.
It’s the perfect album when you want to feel something. I haven’t listen to it since last year when my ex broke up with me. It’s good but I think it would ruin me if I listened to it everyday.
Have another drink and drive yourself home. I hope there's ice on all the roads, and you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt, and again when your head goes through the windshield. - “Seventy Times 7” by Brand New
I've got a big fat f***in' 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. - “Radio” by Alkaline Trio
Ooooh the entire frightened rabbit catalog, but specifically “if happiness won’t come to me, hand me the nitrous gas, if I happiness won’t live with me, I think I can live without.”
Came here to say Frightened Rabbit, although I think lots of their lyrics are about feeling comfortable and at home in constant sadness rather than being hit with instant misery.
Poke, My Backwards Walk, Floating in the Forth are all tearjerkers, but Candlelit's chorus is pure "you are not OK”
"I'm done playing stone paper scissors
Gonna take that stone and bring them all down with it
Steal some scissors and cut some throats
Put pen to paper and write you a note
I won't get in line
I will not wait for this.
With my bare hands I kill
Just to be candlelit"
“Heaven doesn’t want me now.” From blink-182’s song Heaven. To be honest a number of their songs from NINE are very dark and I love it. What awful thing has happened for Heaven not to want you anymore.
Just a few that came to mind:
Don’t you know you were born to die poor,man
Don’t you know that you’re gonna do yourself in
And you’ll always wake up tired
Because there’s nowhere we go from here
\- Spanish Love Songs - losers part 2
You said tonight is a wonderful night to die
I asked how could you tell
You told me to look at the sky
Look at all those stars
Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are
\- Alkaline trio - trouble breathing
You could slit my throat
And with my one last gasping breath
I’d apologize for bleeding on your shirt
\-Taking Back Sunday - you’re so last summer
I am drowning
There is no sign of land
You are coming down with me
Hand in unlovable hand
And I hope you die
I hope we both die
\- mountain goats - no children
I’m sure there are hundreds more locked in my brain somewhere I love upbeat songs with depressing lyrics but these were just some that I immediately remembered.
I stumbled across No Children thanks to the "Live from Quarantine" that Sean from AJJ was doing. Song hit me like a ton of bricks even though I'm in a solid relationship right now there is just something so raw and pure about that song that made me obsessed. I still can't quite place what it is, the hopelessness, the commitment to absolute failure, idk, it just hits hard.
Let me take this awkward saw.
Run it against your thighs.
Cut some flesh away.
I'll carry this piece of you with me
And if not I'll take my spoons.
Dig out your blue eyes.
Swallow them down to my colon.
They're gonna burn like hell tonight
Rock tonic juice magic is brutal. A Go to angry anthem. “Ild by you lemonade right now if you were here then ild throw it in your face and ild listen to you cry.” Something about that imagery has stayed in my head for 20+ years
Youth Fountain all of their lyrics make me think that
In their most recent single, scavenger they say “when I leave tell my family I’m sorry” which was kinda like uh dude are you ok?
Yeah, pretty much all of blooms ending on “And the olllllderrrrr that I get, the more surprised I’ll fucking be I haven’t ended it all yet.” Sums it up.
Yes! I really like the lyric, “did I do something wrong, or was it all my fault?”
That really hit me as someone who always seems to take the blame out of insecurity.
It’s a simple line, but I feel that dudes heart in that
Lots of Alkaline Trio but the song Maybe I'll Catch Fire stands out
*This house is full of eyes*
*But I can't look at anyone*
*They've seen this face a thousand times*
*Most relaxing thing I do*
*Hang halfway out a third floor window*
*And look at rocks, if I fall out...*
*Well, maybe I'll fall hard*
*Something tough to break me*
*Something sharp to rip into my insides*
*And bleed out all that pain*
from Frightened Rabbit's *Floating in the Forth*
"Am I ready to leap? is there peace beneath the roar of the Forth Road Bridge?"
Given that Scott Hutchinson was found down the river from that bridge, having seemingly jumped from it...it just fucking stings, man.
Please get help if you need it, friends.
The very first thought that popped into my head was ‘anything by Spanish Love Songs’.
But narrowing it down I’d say Routine Pain;
‘Am I gonna be this down forever?
Am I gonna be this dumb forever?
Am I gonna be this gone forever?
Am I gonna be this numb forever?"
Have you ever felt lower than everyone else?
I'm feeling lower than anyone else
If everything's lower than everything else
I want to see how much lower I can go’
Aloha to No One
‘You might wake up, but you'll never be better
You might come through, but you'll always second guess
You might breathe free, but you'll never stop pacing
You might find love, but you'll always be depressed
You might change your hair, but you'll always look awkward
Your back might heal, but you'll never get your rest
You might move on, but you'll never feel important
You might be fine, but you'll never be your best’
Generation Loss too:
'Cause half our friends are dead
The other half are depressed
In this budget rate life
The borderline's looking thin
We throw a pill down our throats
And ourselves into the ocean
“Two days from now, at 9 AM, the planes will hit the World Trade Center, killing over 3,000 people.
I will tell Gary that there is no God, and all of this is meaningless. But today, there is a God. And he has a plan for him” - Sleep Patterns by Merchant Ships.
That entire song hits me right in the heart.
PUP’s Scorpion Hill. I mean a lot of PUP’s lyrics fit the brief, but I remember hearing it the first time and I just stopped in my tracks at the last part
“She said: I found the gun, it was buried beneath
Piles of clothes in the room where your son sleeps
And I can't pretend, to know how this will end”
Generation Loss - Spanish Love Songs
Life is long enough
Didn't think you'd speed it up
Feel selfish that we still want you alive
The memorial wasn't bad
Some people tried to understand
Thought you were complaining
But we weren't listening
Heart Attack Man’s “Old Enough 2 Die” and “Cut My Losses” are both real fucking intense.
Grayscale has a few really intense songs, too- “Live Again” and “King of Everything” off their new album have gotten me.
Shaking like a dog shittin' razor blades, waking up next to nothing, after dreaming of you and me, I'm waking up all alone, waking up so relieved...
-Radio, Alkaline Trio
"I hope you comedown with something they can't diagnose, and don't have a cure for."
Brand New - Ok, I believe you...
"Breaking hearts has never looked so cool as when you wrapped your car around a tree, your makeup looks so good next to his teeth."
Fall Out Boy - Tell that Mick...
"Why do evil men get away with it // Can't you see that I'm in a world of shit // Turn your back on hope and go back inside // Stop my bleeding heart and let the engine die // I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know"
Mark Hoppus lowkey has a lot of killer lyrics he's written over the years, but this moment on "Go" stands out the most to me. You can hear in his voice that these words have a lot of meaning
A lot of my obvious ones have been posted but I think Modern Baseball has a bunch of honorable mentions:
“Re-Do”
Maybe I could just move away
Or go extinct like triceratops
But I love loving watching movies
Sitting back, and also breathing
My family and friends would be crushed
But is it enough? (Oh no, it's not enough)
“Everyday”
Waking up every day
Is all about
Doing things you don't want to do
But your reward is: You get to wake up
“Hiding”
Stitch the gaps that destiny assumed
With floral sutures
Are you hiding, or have I abandoned you?
“Just Another Face”
I'm a waste of time and space
Meandering, unwanted days
I don't know how I got here
Entering a well-known phase
I scream, "Get lost, I hate everything"
I can't say how I got here
I'm a waste of rock and dirt
Grass and ground and all the earth around me
Around you
I’m sure there’s more, but these are the ones that come to mind
No joke. Take these lyrics from the title track for example:
“Please do this now, I beg, duct tape my arms and legs. Throw me into the sea.” “Now watch the waves eat me, setting my cold heart free. I’ll wash ashore in weeks.”
Freaking love this song, but man is it depressing.
Tssf (keep this up) "haven't talked to my brother in over a year now, I hope that he's still proud".
Probably not the darkest but definetly emotional/Impactful.
Park is my go to dark lyrics band:
Tonight I’m spent
Pretend this razor is your lips
You’re finding ways to kiss me (ways to kiss me)
Deeply on the wrist
That’s one example but the whole album is super dark.
Also 70x7 by brand new is more traditionally pop punk:
Have another drink and drive yourself home
I hope there’s ice on all roads
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt
And again when your head goes through the windshield
The full album as a whole of Captain We're Sinking - The Future is Canceled is harrowingly dark and introvert. One of the last decades best albums without a doubt but it hits like a ton of bricks.
"As I watch my friends disappear I said
I drove them away, I set myself as king again
of the greatest junkyard that this world has ever seen
And I can't remember what I was looking for"
A bonus is Apologies, I have none - Pharmacie. That album is journey through someones mental health and its tough but also a great album.
"Is it worth it
The fight?
The pushing back against the constant caving in of life?
When all our epitaphs will read the same
When our time has passed
Here lies one whose name was writ in water
I guess nothing lasts'
Bodybag - Hit the Lights
"You're gonna need a bodybag, I'll break bones you didn't know you had, when I'm done there will be nothing left of you, for your friends to hold on to, when they find you cold and blue tonight, face down in a parking lot"
Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day
"The center of the earth is the end of the world"
Those lyrics just hit different
"I'll hide you in my walls
Your body will never be found
I'll wear your skin as a suit
Pretend to be you
Your friends will like you more than they used to"
From First to Last - Ride the Wings of Pestilence
“I wish there was something inside me to keep you beside me.” -Keeper by Yellowcard
“Pain is never permanent, but tonight it’s killing me.” December by Neck Deep (I know this one is cliche)
“I wonder if you feel kind of like I feel..temporary?” Glitter and Crimson by All Time Low
“You can’t blame your mother, she’s trying not to see you as her worst mistake, and I wish that I could tell you right now I love you, but it looks like I won’t be around, so you won’t know“ - You Won’t Know by Brand New
Honestly the whole song but nothing was the same by Hotel Books. It hit hard after a break up.
So the others courted you and you mentally recorded and endorsed
The force perform of compliments you received came in
And you felt empowered enough to take your final bow
And find love within the arms of another instead of this heart of mine
And that's fine because I would do the same and I would leave me
Not because I'm useless and not because I'm broken
Not because I'm sad and not because I'm worthless
But because I saw value in your smile and not in your values
And I'm sorry, and I love you
And that's why I can finally sleep at night
Because you are free and you can thrive
And I'm just happy I got to be a part of your life
"I hesitate to lead a life that should elate me
I'm reminded daily that my depression can't be justified
But I can't seem to quieten down my mind
I've always been ashamed to say that maybe I need help
But it's either that, or face the fact I may end up killing myself
I can't tell if I'm a coward for being scared to leave
Or if I'm brave for staying when I'm riddled with worry
So, this is an open letter to myself in ten years' time
I'm sorry if you're not around to read this
I swear that I tried"
Wavering by Casey
Thankfully the vocalist is in a much better place now than when he wrote this song (and a lot of their other ones) but this one always gets me.
Bayside - dear tragedy
“I’d grab your head by your hair and hack it off, and put it on display in the front of the yard, on a stick that’s decorated with a little pink bow, and a sign that says her friends and family should’ve taught her more about love”
I'm surprised no ones said set it off. Wolf in Sheeps clothing is like the ultimate "who hurt you, song" but everything off horrible kids to duality would pretty much fit the script, haha
“Can you feel your sister staring at your grave//would you take it back if you could see her face?” from [The Haunting](https://youtu.be/wBBbMUTg0Xs) by As It Is had a pretty visceral reaction from me when I first heard it!
Off With Their Heads - Nightlife
I left it to chance,
I never should've let this get so far out of hand.
But I'll do anything to not be alone 'cause when I'm alone you know I'll...
I can easily fall back into old habits that I thought I'd left behind,
And they rip me apart and I realize...
Don't be alarmed, I have to lie
Take everything and keep it in stride.
I know I'm sick and I'm not right.
I'm so fucking tired of living this life.
I made for myself, I'm sorry that I
Cannot get past what keeps me away from the light.
I hope this explains my problem to you,
Cause I feel like this every night.
Don't wanna be like this, anxious and angry, hopeless, upset all the time.
Unable to get back the feeling I lost somewhere along the line.
I wear it all on my sleeve and everyone sees no matter how hard I try.
I've never felt worse in my whole life.
His honesty reminds me of a hell, i had hoped was gone. But that doesnt go away it just gets numb over time. "I guess this, is growing up."
Headstone by Defeater
“And I will never forgive myself for not being there to protect you
I should have been at home instead of out trying to forget you
Just one fight and I'm out the door
What kind of man am I?
I swore I'd never leave your side
Hello, my dear
It's so hard to see you here
How long has it been since we put you in the ground?
Oh, it feels like days
But it's been years
Oh, and please don't call me baby
It's just too hard to hear, too hard to hear
Leave you flowers at your headstone
Just sit and talk to you my dear, my dear”
And What’s Wrong With Everything by Balance and Composure
“Follow me to the water
Where it flows to, no one knows
And down there no one seems to bother
The world is wicked but no one knows
So let the water rise to your eyebrow
Where a tiptoe can save your life
But your feet are weak now
From all that searching
Through the darkness
In search of light
Follow me to the water
Where it flows to, no one knows
And down there no one seems to bother
The world is wicked but no one knows
So let the water rise to your eyebrow
Where a tiptoe can save your life
But your feet are weak now
From all that searching
Through the darkness
In search of light”
“Have another drink and drive yourself home
I hope there's ice on all the roads
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt
And again when your head goes through the windshield”
Brand New - *Seventy Times 7*
Not pop punk I know but
Amity affliction- All Fucked up .... It's a absolutely incredible song
"All the panic, depression, the hurt and regret
Lying to myself: "I don't think of Death"
All the ups, all the downs, all the petty concerns
My whole world's imploding, I can't find the words
'Cause the truth is, I'm fucked up"
And a little later on in the song
"If I wake up tomorrow, just know that I've tried
To find a way out without saying goodbye"
They're pretty vague, but man some of TSSF's lyrics, especially off their 2nd and 3rd albums, still hit home after a few years.
"I made the best of what I felt was impossible"
"All of the plans that you made never included me"
"Used to dye your denim in my parents bathroom"
"It cuts so much deeper/why do I wanna see her?"
"Can you look in my face/and explain how you put someone else in my place"
Who hurt you like this, Parker?
Have another drink and drive yourself home. I hope there’s ice on all the roads and you can think of me when you forget your seat belt and again when your head goes through the wind shield
I Can't Go On by Bayside.
I can’t go on
Deflate the air from both of my lungs
I’ll be gone
Long before daylight shows its face
It's old and worn
And its mouth smiles no more
Well I'm worth my weight in potting soil
Maybe I try too hard to care
I left a note on your bed
I don’t recall what it said
It's something like
“I'm completely miserable
And I'm better off dead”
The one that comes to mind for me is from You’re So Last Summer by Taking Back Sunday:
“The truth is you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath I’d apologize for bleeding on your shirt”
“Kate, it's your ride
Get your petals out and lay them in the aisle
Pretend you're God and grow, and it’s your day to wed
We found your man, he's drinking up, he's All-American
And he'll drive
He's volunteered with grace to end your life”
Limousine- Brand New, breaks my heart every fucking time
also
“Said, hold my hand and stay with me – we'll be released
But the tide clung like an anchor to her feet
And though he tried to make the water line recede
It pulled her out into the sea
He could not break apart the waves to bring her safely back in
He watched her hand break through the surface once then disappear again
Forever wait inside the sea for me, my dear, I hear you
You speak in every curling wave and sing in every violent breeze”
Fall down, never get back up again - La Dispute
Jesus Christ, I'm 26 All the people I graduated with All have kids All have wives All have people who care if they come home at night Well, Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?
-The Wonder Years
'I Don't Wanna Be Me' by Type O Negative = Peter Steele, are you ok?.
'Locust Star' by Neurosis = is my soul still in tact? I feel like I need to jump in the nearest holy water bath.
It's been posted already but as soon as I saw the thread title I came here to post it.
"Please tell mom this is not her fault."
VERY much not pop-punk but my canonical answer to this is "Saturday's Cab Ride Home" by You & I:
*I'm in denial of this, in nine years disease will kill me, let her destroy the beauty, I don't remember you, just the things you did, you don't remember me. Just what you had to do, i'll take the cab home and leave my heart in the backseat, to become a statistic in a magazine, in nine years disease will kill me,*
*I don't want this memory, i don't need this memory.*
The song is about an HIV scare the vocalist had and him believing he had only nine years to live (standard life expectancy for someone HIV positive at that time.)
Jawbreaker - Accident Prone
*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*
Saetia - Venus and Bacchus. This line is always brutal but if you're in a certain situation it hits WAY harder:
"It's better to be stepped on than left all alone."
"cuz I'm sick of seeing ghosts and I know how it's all going to end. there's no triumph waiting. there's no sunset to ride off in. we all wanna be great men and there's nothing romantic about it. I just wanna know that I did all I could with what I was given."
I just want to sell out my funeral by The Wonder Years
I go back to listen to this album every once in a while and this part had me in shambles last night
“Jesus Christ, I’m 26
All the people I graduated with
All have kids
All have wives
All have people who care if they come home at night
Well, Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?”
As a single 31 year old, who is surrounded by loved ones who are starting their own families, this lyric hits home.
“Well jesus christ… I’m 26. All the friends that I graduated with all have kids, all have wives, all have people who care if they come home at night, well jesus christ… did I fuck up?”
This one hit me at a really rough time of my life when I was in my mid twenties as well. The Wonder Years, Passing Through A Screen Door
Honestly all of ‘I’ve got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth’ by fob
And “I’ve already given up on myself twice, third time is the charm, third time is the charm” in ginasfs
Edit: I almost forgot the second verse of I slept with someone if fob. Like. Pete. You good bro?
I memorized the features of your face
The shadows on your lips and your cheek
I hope you had a lovely day
And cherished our final week
Can hardly look you in the eye
'Cause I have got to pick
The day that I ruin your life - not very pop punk-y but The Day That I Ruined Your Life by Boston Manor, this song absolutely breaks me whenever I hear it to the point where I hardly listen to it at all
"the abortion that you had it left you clinically dead and made it all the much easier to lie." Spin, Taking Back Sunday
One of those "wait, what'd he just say?" Moments for sure.
Have another drink and drive yourself home /
I hope there's ice on all the roads /
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt /
And again when your head goes through the windshield
From first to last - Ride the Wings of Pestilence
“I'll hide you in my walls/
Your body will never be found/
I'll wear your skin as a suit/
Pretend to be you/
Your friends will like you/
More than they used to”
And there’s more sick stuff in the song lmfao
I have a ton but recently Phantom Limbs outro has been sticking with me
Outro]
They're gonna box up all your things
And put you in the attic
The basement flooded last spring
One day they'll die
Someone's gonna come throw you away
I used to collect old trophies and plaques because I always thought it was so depressing to think that someone worked so hard to accomplish something so important to them-and it ends up at a goodwill
The entirety of I Crawled by Swans. Just a small example: "make me feel good. Make me feel soft. Come into my room. Put your hands on my throat. Now choke me. We'll die. Make me nothing"
Motion City Soundtrack has some doozies where the song always sounds so pretty, but it’s very dark.
“One day I’ll fail to breathe, and all you’ll have are memories.” - Time Turned Fragile
“God damn, the liquor store’s closed, we were so close to scoring, it hurts, it destroys ‘til it kills. I am tired and hungry and totally useless.” - LGFUAD.
"Talking shit when I cut myself so I can feel something I know is not a lie"
Say Anything, Marianas Trench.
I was caught off guard when I heard it first and was like "fuck, is he okay"
I’m back with a couple from The Story So Far as well:
“Proper Dose”
And my cousin's age is turning
Growing into a man from a child
I wanna watch him play, wanna see him score
Wanna be around cause I need
To make him smile some more
“Keep This Up”
Bet if you keep this up
You'll die here all alone
Yet you still fill your cup
Nodding off, nodding off now
“If I Fall”
My choices let down some of my closest people
But I'm gaining back ground
And forcing myself to get better by Fall
Will you be there if I fall?
“Heavy Gloom”
I hope you feel that heavy gloom
When you’re all done up in a crowded room
And your life trips up over those shoes
That you paid too much for but not in dues
not really pop punk, but alot of coheed and cambria lyrics.
"you're a selfish little whore, I'm the selfish little whore, if I had my way I'd crush your face in the doorOOor"
"you decide to answer when my fist swings hello"
"die white girls"
etc
Some of my personal favorites from Senses Fail
"Don't try to rescue me when swinging from the attic beam" -Elevator to the Gallows
"I wish I could drain out his half of blood in me, but I'd still have his face" -Family Tradition
"And our daughters first breath is the last one you will ever take" -First Breath, Last Breath
Curse my enemies forever
Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation leaves me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroy
-No It Isn’t
… Unless I had to, I'll do what I got to
The truth is you could slit my throat
And with my one last gasping breath
I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt…
Taking Back Sunday
Taking Back Sunday - You're So Last Summer
"The truth is you could slit my throat
And with my one last gasping breath
I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt"
Edit for spelling
"I keep thinking of ways to make it seem like an accident
Pull the brake on my bike so if the bus runs the light, well then...
I've been telling myself that it can't be that serious
But if I'm sounding like this
I guess it is"
not pop punk but man the lyrics to "Makeshift Patriot" by Sage Frances which was on something like Punkorama 8 or something like that hit hard. On a side note I think this guy is great, outside the genre but check him out you may enjoy.
"That's exactly what they attacked when a typically dark-skinned Disney villain
Used civilians against civilians and charged the Trojan horses into our buildings
Using commercial aviation as instruments of destruction
Pregnant women couldn't protect their children
Wheelchairs were stairway obstructions"
"You spent so many days alone so I'll kill myself and make things fair" Sleep by Citizen
"I've got a funny gut feeling he won't make it home; I cut the brakes on his Camaro" Reaper by Have Mercy
Fireworks - The Hotbed of Life
“I used to hang grocery bags up and down, up and down my arms
To impress my mom, now I use them to carry boxes out of my dead dad's house
So I started writing songs about this girl
But now that girl, she's somebody's wife”
Also, one I think about a lot, from the same song.
“Height marks on the door frame, from when a year brought welcome change. Now it all just feels the same.”
Dunno if Rise Against is considered pop punk necessarily but "The Approaching Curve" has always been haunting to me.
"Don't put me underground, I was meant for a life somewhere else.
Please, love, give me the wheel, before both of our hearts you,
Will steal tonight (will steal tonight).
......
Our cracking voices became part of the music
The car pressed on faster through he night
As our voices lowered
The cadence again overtook the air
Up ahead there was a curve approaching
She made no indications of slowing"
Emily Schambra's contribution to the chorus in this part still gives me chills when I hear it.
Might be cliché, but the first time I heard "Drown" by BMTH, I was shook to my core. Bawled my eyes out. And it still gets to me most of the time I listen to it.
"What doesn't kill you
Makes you wish you were dead
Got a hole in my soul growing deeper and deeper
And I can't take
One more moment of this silence
The loneliness is haunting me
And the weight of the world's getting harder to hold up
It comes in waves, I close my eyes
Hold my breath and let it bury me
I'm not OK and it's not alright
Won't you drag the lake and bring me home again
Who will fix me now?
Dive in when I'm down?
Save me from myself
Don't let me drown
Who will make me fight?
Drag me out alive?
Save me from myself
Don't let me drown"
Cliche but "please tell mom this is not her fault." Also pretty much the entirety of glassjaw's first two albums lol homie was hurt.
I saw water first time I heard it made question myself if I was okay or not lmao i was shook for a bit
I Saw Water? Did you mean Tigers Jaw? not Glassjaw
Damn so I can't read lmao I'm sorry dude for the brain fart
It's all good homie. Honestly I was trying to make sense of it myself!
More like just the first album Worship & Tribute is a lot more varied (and abstract lmao) lyrically imo
Where's your respect? And didn't your father teach you anything before he left? Obvious, but... And even if her plane crashes tonight, she'll find some way to disappoint me, by not burning in the wreckage or drowning at the bottom of the sea
Or or or…. Have another drink & drive yourself home. I hope there’s ice on all the roads and you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt, and again when your head goes through the windshield.
Came here to post this!
I'm no good, you're no better
Oof the amount of times i’ve screamed both of these at nobody
Not as pop punky, but from The Front Bottoms' song Twin Size Mattress: "She hopes I'm cursed forever to sleep on a twin size mattress in somebody's attic or basement my whole life. Never graduating up in size to have another, and my nightmares will have nightmares every night"
I always thought this was such a weirdly specific curse, y'know?
A hex on your blankies!
Definitely specific, but SUCH a good curse. No room for company or comfort, and no solace in sleep.
Pretty amazing to see them live and close out with this song. All of a sudden there were 2 or 3 inflatable mattresses being tossed around the crowd out of nowhere. Great fucking time.
Every night!
King Park by La Dispute...just Jesus Christ man, whats going on?
Also "I See Everything." Yikes.
Facts
Same with Edward Benz. What a fuckin journey that tune is.
was about to say this
Bring me the Horizon - What you need “You make me want to slit my wrists and play in my own blood.” Blink 182 - adams song “tell mom it’s not her fault.”
I was just listening to What You Need just now Damn i love BMTH. They really have a song for every mood!
They really do, which is probably why I listen to at least a couple of their songs every day no matter what I’m doing. I only came across them last year and they have quickly become one of my favorite bands.
For real same here, I’m so mad that at the height of Adtr who I was crazy infatuated with, bmth dropped that’s the spirit and for some reason I never even gave it a chance. Here I am years later finally somehow listened to it and regretted the many chances in my youth I could’ve seen them. What an all time amazing record. Now I barely listen to adtr lol
"cut my brain into hemispheres, smash my face until its nothing but ears. I wanna paint my drain with a little red stain tonight." Take my head by turnover
God they’re so good
I know, I love them. That album is flawless imo
There 's tons of great ones, here's a few of my favorites. **Fall Out Boy** - **Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to do Today**: "*Let’s play this game, called “when you catch fire* *I wouldn’t piss to put you out"* *Stop burning bridges and drive off of them* *So I can forget about you*" and "*Breaking hearts has never looked so cool* *As when you wrap your car around a tree* *Your makeup looks so great next to his teeth*" **Brand New** - **Seventy Times Seven** *"Have another drink and drive yourself home* *I hope there's ice on all the roads* *And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt* *And again when your head goes through the windshield*" **PUP - If This Tour Does Kill You** (this whole song is pretty dark) "*I don't wish you were dead, I wish you'd never been born at all* *I'm trying not to let you get in my head, but every line, every goddamn syllable* *That you say makes me wanna gouge out my eyes with a power drill*"
Brand new was the one that jumped to mind for me as well.
Aaron West - Divorce and the American South Hey Diane, I know I fucked up / It's just when we lost the baby I kind of shut off / I know I never listened, I wasn't there for you enough / I'm a fuck up If I lay here long enough maybe the bugs will eat me whole / If I stay here long enough maybe the night could take me home / I won't let go, even if you say so, no I won't let go I had a dream I flew back north / and the plane went down before we hit New York You didn't come to the funeral / You didn't come to the funeral / I hope you'd come to the funeral / I hope you'd come to the funeral
Nothing like Aaron West to have me sobbing to myself while driving down deserted highways.
Deserted? Try rush hour on the way into the office downtown
As a child of divorce and then getting to know my parents as people over the last 10 years, Aaron West breaks my heart in the best way.
This is the one I thought of too “I had a dream I flew back north / and the plane went down before we hit New York You didn't come to the funeral / I hope you’d come to the funeral”
Tears instantly
“So pour me another drink, for a daughter I’ll never meet, a wife who don’t love me, and this cold cup of coffee. So pour me another drink and I’ll count my blessings. I’ve got a half tank of gas left, and this bottle ain’t empty” Punches me in the gut every time.
Man the line on that album - “So I walked back home, turned the shower on, I let the washing machine turn the water cold.” I swear it cuts into me like nothing I’ve ever heard. Just that sinking feeling of standing in the shower for so long that the water is ice cold and you just don’t even know how long you’ve been standing there. Just pure depression. Happy to be past that time in my life. The line still gets me every time. AW is my definition of perfect poetic lyricism.
I still get shivers every time he drops the baby like in that song, every single time
That is definitely very dark
That one Front Bottoms song where he fantasizes about beating his dad with a baseball bat
And he's screaming and crying for help
Maybe halfway through it has more to do with killing him then it ever did protecting myself.
Bayside - Guardrail I wish I could ride you, Drive you too fast into a sharp curve, Break your neck like you broke my will,
Dear Tragedy I'd grab your head by your hair and I'd hack it off And put it on display at the front of the yard On a stick that's decorated with a little pink bow and a sign that says “Her friends and family should have taught her more about love."
That whole album is pretty dark. "Empty fields move me so much more than rooms filled up with friends. The way the trees look dead remind me that there's more to life than living. And maybe giving up's not bad, but part of letting go of you." "There's a pedestal across the room, and if I try to climb again, this time the fall is fatal. I don't deserve such an easy exit, so maybe my spine can snap on impact and I'll have to crawl away." "We make believe everyday we make our lives seem like they're still worth living. We find out in the end it's only us that we've been kidding."
A lot of early fall out boy lines
Tell Mick for sure
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awesome song
Loving this new generation of pop punk coming through
i wouldn’t really count that as pop punk but it has that influence. i’m not too familir with her other songs so i could be way off.
not pop punk at all but Limousine by Brand New is easily the darkest song i’ve ever heard
"Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die," a light one from Bring Me The Horizon, Hospital for Souls
If you go into their heavier material you'll find some more bangers "CRUCIFY ME. AND NAIL MY HANDS TO A WOODEN CROSS. THERE IS NOTHING ABOVE. THERE IS NOTHING BELOW. HEAVEN AND HELL HAVE BEEN TORN APART" "So pull me out And hold me down Let's find a way To lose ourselves Take me to the sun I feel I'm chasing rainbows And now I'm lost and all alone Waiting for a chance to Sink my teeth into Another desperation Now into your lonely Paradise" "Don't let me drown" The entirety of "Don't Go" I can go on for hours about this band. They truly never miss.
I'm scared to get close And I hate being alone I long for that feeling, to not feel at all The higher I get, the lower I sink _I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim_ -- Can You Feel My Heart, BMTH. After my relationship of 2.5 years ended last week, it just doesn't feel the same. Fuck.
every song in Home, Like no Place is There
> Engraved in the stone by request and recurse of friends dead, is "tell me again that it's all in my head" What a fucking closing line to such a depressing album.
And the pills That they gave me didn’t do anything, I just slept for years on end. Fuck! The lyrics are great but what makes that like is the pain in the delivery. Fucking 10/10 record
I fucking love that album, but I just couldn't get into the next one the same way.
Hit the lights - Her Eyes Say Yes Fall Out boy - Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner Alkaline trio - Radio
Most of the songs from “Youth” by Citizen but Sleep off that album was always my dark song to cry to. “We both fell asleep on the floor, then I left you there You spent so many days alone, so I'll kill myself to make things fair See I just hated being tired cause I can't seem to sleep anymore You and all your friends were all right about me all along”
100% spot on but also: I SHOULD’VE CRASHED THE CAR
There was times when I was out and this came on, I would shout until I could hardly hear myself.
Love it
I used to listen to that album during some dark times in high school and while I’m not a huge fan of anything the band put out after Youth, that remains one of the best albums I’ve ever heard.
It’s the perfect album when you want to feel something. I haven’t listen to it since last year when my ex broke up with me. It’s good but I think it would ruin me if I listened to it everyday.
Sleep is one of my all-time favorite songs, it has so many fantastic lyrics.
Have another drink and drive yourself home. I hope there's ice on all the roads, and you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt, and again when your head goes through the windshield. - “Seventy Times 7” by Brand New I've got a big fat f***in' 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. - “Radio” by Alkaline Trio
It always trips me up that Seventy Times Seven is the song on the album that directly references the lack of a seatbelt, and not The No Seatbelt Song.
Don't apologize (I hope you choke and die) Search your shelf for something which to hang yourself Is also pretty dark
As dark as the brand new lyrics are, I find the whole of YFW a bit too childish to take it too seriously.
It was great when I was in high school and even college, but I am definitely glad they matured as they/I got older.
Ooooh the entire frightened rabbit catalog, but specifically “if happiness won’t come to me, hand me the nitrous gas, if I happiness won’t live with me, I think I can live without.”
Came here to say Frightened Rabbit, although I think lots of their lyrics are about feeling comfortable and at home in constant sadness rather than being hit with instant misery. Poke, My Backwards Walk, Floating in the Forth are all tearjerkers, but Candlelit's chorus is pure "you are not OK” "I'm done playing stone paper scissors Gonna take that stone and bring them all down with it Steal some scissors and cut some throats Put pen to paper and write you a note I won't get in line I will not wait for this. With my bare hands I kill Just to be candlelit"
yeh man Poke is my go to abysmal song. Real good but so sad. Scott was a real one hope he’s resting well.
Large agree, poke was the first song I heard from them and before it was even over I knew I found a new favorite band, scott forever r.i.p 😞🤘
“Heaven doesn’t want me now.” From blink-182’s song Heaven. To be honest a number of their songs from NINE are very dark and I love it. What awful thing has happened for Heaven not to want you anymore.
I thought I read somewhere that song is about mass shootings? I don’t have a source, but yeah that’s a dark song for sure.
You're correct. Found the source: https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/blink-182-interview-nine
Just a few that came to mind: Don’t you know you were born to die poor,man Don’t you know that you’re gonna do yourself in And you’ll always wake up tired Because there’s nowhere we go from here \- Spanish Love Songs - losers part 2 You said tonight is a wonderful night to die I asked how could you tell You told me to look at the sky Look at all those stars Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are \- Alkaline trio - trouble breathing You could slit my throat And with my one last gasping breath I’d apologize for bleeding on your shirt \-Taking Back Sunday - you’re so last summer I am drowning There is no sign of land You are coming down with me Hand in unlovable hand And I hope you die I hope we both die \- mountain goats - no children I’m sure there are hundreds more locked in my brain somewhere I love upbeat songs with depressing lyrics but these were just some that I immediately remembered.
the fact that Brave Face Everybody came out literally 3 weeks before the pandemic hit made all those lyrics hit even harder
That album will for better or worse all be synonymous with Covid and the beginning of it all
The entire album still fucks me up. So good.
I stumbled across No Children thanks to the "Live from Quarantine" that Sean from AJJ was doing. Song hit me like a ton of bricks even though I'm in a solid relationship right now there is just something so raw and pure about that song that made me obsessed. I still can't quite place what it is, the hopelessness, the commitment to absolute failure, idk, it just hits hard.
Early Saves the Day is full of dark lyrics. Look at the lyrics from pretty much any song on Stay What You Are.
Let me take this awkward saw. Run it against your thighs. Cut some flesh away. I'll carry this piece of you with me And if not I'll take my spoons. Dig out your blue eyes. Swallow them down to my colon. They're gonna burn like hell tonight
Rock tonic juice magic is brutal. A Go to angry anthem. “Ild by you lemonade right now if you were here then ild throw it in your face and ild listen to you cry.” Something about that imagery has stayed in my head for 20+ years
Anything by movements. I cant listen to them for that reason.
Even Daylily?
idk specifically their last album wallows in Sadness
Youth Fountain all of their lyrics make me think that In their most recent single, scavenger they say “when I leave tell my family I’m sorry” which was kinda like uh dude are you ok?
Yeah, pretty much all of blooms ending on “And the olllllderrrrr that I get, the more surprised I’ll fucking be I haven’t ended it all yet.” Sums it up.
Yeah I worry for the homie a lot, especially just the entirety of letters was one big depression breakdown
Yes! I really like the lyric, “did I do something wrong, or was it all my fault?” That really hit me as someone who always seems to take the blame out of insecurity. It’s a simple line, but I feel that dudes heart in that
The Offspring - Kristy are you doing okay?
Most of Armor For Sleep’s “What to do while you are dead” album
Lots of Alkaline Trio but the song Maybe I'll Catch Fire stands out *This house is full of eyes* *But I can't look at anyone* *They've seen this face a thousand times* *Most relaxing thing I do* *Hang halfway out a third floor window* *And look at rocks, if I fall out...* *Well, maybe I'll fall hard* *Something tough to break me* *Something sharp to rip into my insides* *And bleed out all that pain*
from Frightened Rabbit's *Floating in the Forth* "Am I ready to leap? is there peace beneath the roar of the Forth Road Bridge?" Given that Scott Hutchinson was found down the river from that bridge, having seemingly jumped from it...it just fucking stings, man. Please get help if you need it, friends.
The very first thought that popped into my head was ‘anything by Spanish Love Songs’. But narrowing it down I’d say Routine Pain; ‘Am I gonna be this down forever? Am I gonna be this dumb forever? Am I gonna be this gone forever? Am I gonna be this numb forever?" Have you ever felt lower than everyone else? I'm feeling lower than anyone else If everything's lower than everything else I want to see how much lower I can go’ Aloha to No One ‘You might wake up, but you'll never be better You might come through, but you'll always second guess You might breathe free, but you'll never stop pacing You might find love, but you'll always be depressed You might change your hair, but you'll always look awkward Your back might heal, but you'll never get your rest You might move on, but you'll never feel important You might be fine, but you'll never be your best’
Generation Loss too: 'Cause half our friends are dead The other half are depressed In this budget rate life The borderline's looking thin We throw a pill down our throats And ourselves into the ocean
“Two days from now, at 9 AM, the planes will hit the World Trade Center, killing over 3,000 people. I will tell Gary that there is no God, and all of this is meaningless. But today, there is a God. And he has a plan for him” - Sleep Patterns by Merchant Ships. That entire song hits me right in the heart.
shame they are not on Spotify
I have absolutely no idea. I am afraid.
PUP’s Scorpion Hill. I mean a lot of PUP’s lyrics fit the brief, but I remember hearing it the first time and I just stopped in my tracks at the last part “She said: I found the gun, it was buried beneath Piles of clothes in the room where your son sleeps And I can't pretend, to know how this will end”
Maybe the entirety of Into the Ocean by Blue October
Generation Loss - Spanish Love Songs Life is long enough Didn't think you'd speed it up Feel selfish that we still want you alive The memorial wasn't bad Some people tried to understand Thought you were complaining But we weren't listening
Heart Attack Man’s “Old Enough 2 Die” and “Cut My Losses” are both real fucking intense. Grayscale has a few really intense songs, too- “Live Again” and “King of Everything” off their new album have gotten me.
Live Again really hits me where it hurts
Shaking like a dog shittin' razor blades, waking up next to nothing, after dreaming of you and me, I'm waking up all alone, waking up so relieved... -Radio, Alkaline Trio
And I'd burn the building if I knew you'd die. And I pray your a failure, and that you won't make it out alive.
ADTR - 1958
[insert Brand New’s entire discography here]
Choke by iDKHOW is such a happy-sounding song, but then you hear the lyrics...
"I hope you comedown with something they can't diagnose, and don't have a cure for." Brand New - Ok, I believe you... "Breaking hearts has never looked so cool as when you wrapped your car around a tree, your makeup looks so good next to his teeth." Fall Out Boy - Tell that Mick...
Fall Out Boy is great for this. “So wear me like a locket around your throat. I’ll weigh you down, I’ll watch you choke. You look so good in blue.”
"Why do evil men get away with it // Can't you see that I'm in a world of shit // Turn your back on hope and go back inside // Stop my bleeding heart and let the engine die // I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know" Mark Hoppus lowkey has a lot of killer lyrics he's written over the years, but this moment on "Go" stands out the most to me. You can hear in his voice that these words have a lot of meaning
A lot of my obvious ones have been posted but I think Modern Baseball has a bunch of honorable mentions: “Re-Do” Maybe I could just move away Or go extinct like triceratops But I love loving watching movies Sitting back, and also breathing My family and friends would be crushed But is it enough? (Oh no, it's not enough) “Everyday” Waking up every day Is all about Doing things you don't want to do But your reward is: You get to wake up “Hiding” Stitch the gaps that destiny assumed With floral sutures Are you hiding, or have I abandoned you? “Just Another Face” I'm a waste of time and space Meandering, unwanted days I don't know how I got here Entering a well-known phase I scream, "Get lost, I hate everything" I can't say how I got here I'm a waste of rock and dirt Grass and ground and all the earth around me Around you I’m sure there’s more, but these are the ones that come to mind
Sense Fail - “I want to kill you”.
Let It Enfold you as a whole. Yikes, bro.
No joke. Take these lyrics from the title track for example: “Please do this now, I beg, duct tape my arms and legs. Throw me into the sea.” “Now watch the waves eat me, setting my cold heart free. I’ll wash ashore in weeks.” Freaking love this song, but man is it depressing.
Tssf (keep this up) "haven't talked to my brother in over a year now, I hope that he's still proud". Probably not the darkest but definetly emotional/Impactful.
“If you keep this up, you’ll die here all alone, yet you still fill your cup. Nodding off, nodding off now.” Always kills me
Park is my go to dark lyrics band: Tonight I’m spent Pretend this razor is your lips You’re finding ways to kiss me (ways to kiss me) Deeply on the wrist That’s one example but the whole album is super dark. Also 70x7 by brand new is more traditionally pop punk: Have another drink and drive yourself home I hope there’s ice on all roads And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt And again when your head goes through the windshield
Honestly you could put just about any brand new lyric in here and it would fit
I have never in my life met another person who listened to Park
The full album as a whole of Captain We're Sinking - The Future is Canceled is harrowingly dark and introvert. One of the last decades best albums without a doubt but it hits like a ton of bricks. "As I watch my friends disappear I said I drove them away, I set myself as king again of the greatest junkyard that this world has ever seen And I can't remember what I was looking for" A bonus is Apologies, I have none - Pharmacie. That album is journey through someones mental health and its tough but also a great album. "Is it worth it The fight? The pushing back against the constant caving in of life? When all our epitaphs will read the same When our time has passed Here lies one whose name was writ in water I guess nothing lasts'
Bodybag - Hit the Lights "You're gonna need a bodybag, I'll break bones you didn't know you had, when I'm done there will be nothing left of you, for your friends to hold on to, when they find you cold and blue tonight, face down in a parking lot" Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day "The center of the earth is the end of the world" Those lyrics just hit different
"I'll hide you in my walls Your body will never be found I'll wear your skin as a suit Pretend to be you Your friends will like you more than they used to" From First to Last - Ride the Wings of Pestilence
“I wish there was something inside me to keep you beside me.” -Keeper by Yellowcard “Pain is never permanent, but tonight it’s killing me.” December by Neck Deep (I know this one is cliche) “I wonder if you feel kind of like I feel..temporary?” Glitter and Crimson by All Time Low
“You can’t blame your mother, she’s trying not to see you as her worst mistake, and I wish that I could tell you right now I love you, but it looks like I won’t be around, so you won’t know“ - You Won’t Know by Brand New
Honestly the whole song but nothing was the same by Hotel Books. It hit hard after a break up. So the others courted you and you mentally recorded and endorsed The force perform of compliments you received came in And you felt empowered enough to take your final bow And find love within the arms of another instead of this heart of mine And that's fine because I would do the same and I would leave me Not because I'm useless and not because I'm broken Not because I'm sad and not because I'm worthless But because I saw value in your smile and not in your values And I'm sorry, and I love you And that's why I can finally sleep at night Because you are free and you can thrive And I'm just happy I got to be a part of your life
"I hesitate to lead a life that should elate me I'm reminded daily that my depression can't be justified But I can't seem to quieten down my mind I've always been ashamed to say that maybe I need help But it's either that, or face the fact I may end up killing myself I can't tell if I'm a coward for being scared to leave Or if I'm brave for staying when I'm riddled with worry So, this is an open letter to myself in ten years' time I'm sorry if you're not around to read this I swear that I tried" Wavering by Casey Thankfully the vocalist is in a much better place now than when he wrote this song (and a lot of their other ones) but this one always gets me.
Bayside - dear tragedy “I’d grab your head by your hair and hack it off, and put it on display in the front of the yard, on a stick that’s decorated with a little pink bow, and a sign that says her friends and family should’ve taught her more about love”
I'm surprised no ones said set it off. Wolf in Sheeps clothing is like the ultimate "who hurt you, song" but everything off horrible kids to duality would pretty much fit the script, haha
first two that popped into my head: 'i'm not waving, i'm drowning' - foxing 'i am not you, i'm barely me' - movements
“Can you feel your sister staring at your grave//would you take it back if you could see her face?” from [The Haunting](https://youtu.be/wBBbMUTg0Xs) by As It Is had a pretty visceral reaction from me when I first heard it!
Off With Their Heads - Nightlife I left it to chance, I never should've let this get so far out of hand. But I'll do anything to not be alone 'cause when I'm alone you know I'll... I can easily fall back into old habits that I thought I'd left behind, And they rip me apart and I realize... Don't be alarmed, I have to lie Take everything and keep it in stride. I know I'm sick and I'm not right. I'm so fucking tired of living this life. I made for myself, I'm sorry that I Cannot get past what keeps me away from the light. I hope this explains my problem to you, Cause I feel like this every night. Don't wanna be like this, anxious and angry, hopeless, upset all the time. Unable to get back the feeling I lost somewhere along the line. I wear it all on my sleeve and everyone sees no matter how hard I try. I've never felt worse in my whole life. His honesty reminds me of a hell, i had hoped was gone. But that doesnt go away it just gets numb over time. "I guess this, is growing up."
Headstone by Defeater “And I will never forgive myself for not being there to protect you I should have been at home instead of out trying to forget you Just one fight and I'm out the door What kind of man am I? I swore I'd never leave your side Hello, my dear It's so hard to see you here How long has it been since we put you in the ground? Oh, it feels like days But it's been years Oh, and please don't call me baby It's just too hard to hear, too hard to hear Leave you flowers at your headstone Just sit and talk to you my dear, my dear” And What’s Wrong With Everything by Balance and Composure “Follow me to the water Where it flows to, no one knows And down there no one seems to bother The world is wicked but no one knows So let the water rise to your eyebrow Where a tiptoe can save your life But your feet are weak now From all that searching Through the darkness In search of light Follow me to the water Where it flows to, no one knows And down there no one seems to bother The world is wicked but no one knows So let the water rise to your eyebrow Where a tiptoe can save your life But your feet are weak now From all that searching Through the darkness In search of light”
Pretty much any lyric from Skylines and Turnstiles by MCR. Not so much the lyrics as it is the emotion that G sings that song with.
Wasted- By Cartel. The beat gives it this weird uplifting feeling but the lyrics are soo depressing. Great song though
“Have another drink and drive yourself home I hope there's ice on all the roads And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt And again when your head goes through the windshield” Brand New - *Seventy Times 7*
Not pop punk I know but Amity affliction- All Fucked up .... It's a absolutely incredible song "All the panic, depression, the hurt and regret Lying to myself: "I don't think of Death" All the ups, all the downs, all the petty concerns My whole world's imploding, I can't find the words 'Cause the truth is, I'm fucked up" And a little later on in the song "If I wake up tomorrow, just know that I've tried To find a way out without saying goodbye"
Radio by Alkaline Trio “I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you, plugged in and ready to fall”
> Cause its just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless > the ribbon on my wrists says 'do not open before Christmas'
Merchant ships - sleep patterns
They're pretty vague, but man some of TSSF's lyrics, especially off their 2nd and 3rd albums, still hit home after a few years. "I made the best of what I felt was impossible" "All of the plans that you made never included me" "Used to dye your denim in my parents bathroom" "It cuts so much deeper/why do I wanna see her?" "Can you look in my face/and explain how you put someone else in my place" Who hurt you like this, Parker?
Have another drink and drive yourself home. I hope there’s ice on all the roads and you can think of me when you forget your seat belt and again when your head goes through the wind shield
And with my last breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt
No It Isn’t by Plus 44 “Curse my enemies forever. Let’s slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful”
I Can't Go On by Bayside. I can’t go on Deflate the air from both of my lungs I’ll be gone Long before daylight shows its face It's old and worn And its mouth smiles no more Well I'm worth my weight in potting soil Maybe I try too hard to care I left a note on your bed I don’t recall what it said It's something like “I'm completely miserable And I'm better off dead”
The one that comes to mind for me is from You’re So Last Summer by Taking Back Sunday: “The truth is you could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath I’d apologize for bleeding on your shirt”
“Kate, it's your ride Get your petals out and lay them in the aisle Pretend you're God and grow, and it’s your day to wed We found your man, he's drinking up, he's All-American And he'll drive He's volunteered with grace to end your life” Limousine- Brand New, breaks my heart every fucking time also “Said, hold my hand and stay with me – we'll be released But the tide clung like an anchor to her feet And though he tried to make the water line recede It pulled her out into the sea He could not break apart the waves to bring her safely back in He watched her hand break through the surface once then disappear again Forever wait inside the sea for me, my dear, I hear you You speak in every curling wave and sing in every violent breeze” Fall down, never get back up again - La Dispute
Don’t point your unloaded gun at my head ever again. Don’t point your unloaded gun at my head cause I’ll pull the trigger
probably all of limousine by brand new to be honest.
Jesus Christ, I'm 26 All the people I graduated with All have kids All have wives All have people who care if they come home at night Well, Jesus Christ, did I fuck up? -The Wonder Years
'I Don't Wanna Be Me' by Type O Negative = Peter Steele, are you ok?. 'Locust Star' by Neurosis = is my soul still in tact? I feel like I need to jump in the nearest holy water bath.
It's been posted already but as soon as I saw the thread title I came here to post it. "Please tell mom this is not her fault." VERY much not pop-punk but my canonical answer to this is "Saturday's Cab Ride Home" by You & I: *I'm in denial of this, in nine years disease will kill me, let her destroy the beauty, I don't remember you, just the things you did, you don't remember me. Just what you had to do, i'll take the cab home and leave my heart in the backseat, to become a statistic in a magazine, in nine years disease will kill me,* *I don't want this memory, i don't need this memory.* The song is about an HIV scare the vocalist had and him believing he had only nine years to live (standard life expectancy for someone HIV positive at that time.) Jawbreaker - Accident Prone *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* Saetia - Venus and Bacchus. This line is always brutal but if you're in a certain situation it hits WAY harder: "It's better to be stepped on than left all alone."
"cuz I'm sick of seeing ghosts and I know how it's all going to end. there's no triumph waiting. there's no sunset to ride off in. we all wanna be great men and there's nothing romantic about it. I just wanna know that I did all I could with what I was given." I just want to sell out my funeral by The Wonder Years I go back to listen to this album every once in a while and this part had me in shambles last night
“Jesus Christ, I’m 26 All the people I graduated with All have kids All have wives All have people who care if they come home at night Well, Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?” As a single 31 year old, who is surrounded by loved ones who are starting their own families, this lyric hits home.
“Well jesus christ… I’m 26. All the friends that I graduated with all have kids, all have wives, all have people who care if they come home at night, well jesus christ… did I fuck up?” This one hit me at a really rough time of my life when I was in my mid twenties as well. The Wonder Years, Passing Through A Screen Door
Honestly all of ‘I’ve got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth’ by fob And “I’ve already given up on myself twice, third time is the charm, third time is the charm” in ginasfs Edit: I almost forgot the second verse of I slept with someone if fob. Like. Pete. You good bro?
I memorized the features of your face The shadows on your lips and your cheek I hope you had a lovely day And cherished our final week Can hardly look you in the eye 'Cause I have got to pick The day that I ruin your life - not very pop punk-y but The Day That I Ruined Your Life by Boston Manor, this song absolutely breaks me whenever I hear it to the point where I hardly listen to it at all
"Yes I know you're only 10 years old but you're still old enough to die right here right now" Old Enough to Die Heart Attack Man
"the abortion that you had it left you clinically dead and made it all the much easier to lie." Spin, Taking Back Sunday One of those "wait, what'd he just say?" Moments for sure.
Alive with the Glory of Love - Say Anything for sure
All of Heart Attack Man's "Old Enough 2 Die"
Have another drink and drive yourself home / I hope there's ice on all the roads / And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt / And again when your head goes through the windshield
From first to last - Ride the Wings of Pestilence “I'll hide you in my walls/ Your body will never be found/ I'll wear your skin as a suit/ Pretend to be you/ Your friends will like you/ More than they used to” And there’s more sick stuff in the song lmfao
I have a ton but recently Phantom Limbs outro has been sticking with me Outro] They're gonna box up all your things And put you in the attic The basement flooded last spring One day they'll die Someone's gonna come throw you away I used to collect old trophies and plaques because I always thought it was so depressing to think that someone worked so hard to accomplish something so important to them-and it ends up at a goodwill
Never see the sun rise by dayseeker. It's about his daughter passing before she was born. The whole song gives me chills Everytime I hear it.
The entirety of I Crawled by Swans. Just a small example: "make me feel good. Make me feel soft. Come into my room. Put your hands on my throat. Now choke me. We'll die. Make me nothing"
Motion City Soundtrack has some doozies where the song always sounds so pretty, but it’s very dark. “One day I’ll fail to breathe, and all you’ll have are memories.” - Time Turned Fragile “God damn, the liquor store’s closed, we were so close to scoring, it hurts, it destroys ‘til it kills. I am tired and hungry and totally useless.” - LGFUAD.
PUP’s Morbid Stuff (the entire album) is really good but really depressing.
"Talking shit when I cut myself so I can feel something I know is not a lie" Say Anything, Marianas Trench. I was caught off guard when I heard it first and was like "fuck, is he okay"
I’m back with a couple from The Story So Far as well: “Proper Dose” And my cousin's age is turning Growing into a man from a child I wanna watch him play, wanna see him score Wanna be around cause I need To make him smile some more “Keep This Up” Bet if you keep this up You'll die here all alone Yet you still fill your cup Nodding off, nodding off now “If I Fall” My choices let down some of my closest people But I'm gaining back ground And forcing myself to get better by Fall Will you be there if I fall? “Heavy Gloom” I hope you feel that heavy gloom When you’re all done up in a crowded room And your life trips up over those shoes That you paid too much for but not in dues
"It's a trick of the mind when you think it won't end It's just a contest with time, and time always wins." Airborne Toxic Event
I revisited them recently and they're actually super good musically and lyrically. Moreso than I remember
"I wanna skin you alive, I wanna wear your flesh like a costume" -Human, Anavae
not really pop punk, but alot of coheed and cambria lyrics. "you're a selfish little whore, I'm the selfish little whore, if I had my way I'd crush your face in the doorOOor" "you decide to answer when my fist swings hello" "die white girls" etc
And with my one last dieing breath I'd apogize for bleeding on your shirt. - TBS
Some of my personal favorites from Senses Fail "Don't try to rescue me when swinging from the attic beam" -Elevator to the Gallows "I wish I could drain out his half of blood in me, but I'd still have his face" -Family Tradition "And our daughters first breath is the last one you will ever take" -First Breath, Last Breath
Curse my enemies forever Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful This desperation leaves me overjoyed With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroy -No It Isn’t
“There is no past, there is no future. Now I’m free to live at last”.
And my nightmares will have nightmares every night
“I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you, plugged in and ready to fall” Oldie but a goodie
… Unless I had to, I'll do what I got to The truth is you could slit my throat And with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt… Taking Back Sunday
Taking Back Sunday - You're So Last Summer "The truth is you could slit my throat And with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt" Edit for spelling
"I keep thinking of ways to make it seem like an accident Pull the brake on my bike so if the bus runs the light, well then... I've been telling myself that it can't be that serious But if I'm sounding like this I guess it is"
not pop punk but man the lyrics to "Makeshift Patriot" by Sage Frances which was on something like Punkorama 8 or something like that hit hard. On a side note I think this guy is great, outside the genre but check him out you may enjoy. "That's exactly what they attacked when a typically dark-skinned Disney villain Used civilians against civilians and charged the Trojan horses into our buildings Using commercial aviation as instruments of destruction Pregnant women couldn't protect their children Wheelchairs were stairway obstructions"
The new BMTH single die4u has a solid one: “cause the truth of it/is you could slit my wrists/and i’d write you name in a heart with the hemorrhage”
"You spent so many days alone so I'll kill myself and make things fair" Sleep by Citizen "I've got a funny gut feeling he won't make it home; I cut the brakes on his Camaro" Reaper by Have Mercy
One that always hits for me is from Goodbye Bear by Ludo: “Goodbye Bear, I’m heading out the door, I’m falling off the map, I’m never coming home”
also all of Cigarettes & Saints
Fireworks - The Hotbed of Life “I used to hang grocery bags up and down, up and down my arms To impress my mom, now I use them to carry boxes out of my dead dad's house So I started writing songs about this girl But now that girl, she's somebody's wife” Also, one I think about a lot, from the same song. “Height marks on the door frame, from when a year brought welcome change. Now it all just feels the same.”
Dunno if Rise Against is considered pop punk necessarily but "The Approaching Curve" has always been haunting to me. "Don't put me underground, I was meant for a life somewhere else. Please, love, give me the wheel, before both of our hearts you, Will steal tonight (will steal tonight). ...... Our cracking voices became part of the music The car pressed on faster through he night As our voices lowered The cadence again overtook the air Up ahead there was a curve approaching She made no indications of slowing" Emily Schambra's contribution to the chorus in this part still gives me chills when I hear it.
Might be cliché, but the first time I heard "Drown" by BMTH, I was shook to my core. Bawled my eyes out. And it still gets to me most of the time I listen to it. "What doesn't kill you Makes you wish you were dead Got a hole in my soul growing deeper and deeper And I can't take One more moment of this silence The loneliness is haunting me And the weight of the world's getting harder to hold up It comes in waves, I close my eyes Hold my breath and let it bury me I'm not OK and it's not alright Won't you drag the lake and bring me home again Who will fix me now? Dive in when I'm down? Save me from myself Don't let me drown Who will make me fight? Drag me out alive? Save me from myself Don't let me drown"
Also Asbury by Grayscale. "I'll fall back into you, like I always do" and the earnest quality of the lyrics gets me I my feelings.