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What is a line from a song that has stuck with you recently?
What's a song lyric that has recently jumped out at you, caught your attention, resonated, or made you think?
This doesn't have to be a favorite/best of all time topic, though feel free to post those if they speak to you. I'm more interested in something you encountered recently that you really like, appreciate, or find interesting, for whatever reason.
From Paul Simon's "My Little Town":
I happened to hear this song twice in the past few days, and I was thinking how true that probably was, that kids don't know what the whole pledge thing is about. Might as well be pledging to the wall you're staring at.
From Regina Spektor's "Older and Taller"
The whole song is a meditation on aging, and this particular line sticks with me. I love the succinct complexity of it: lying to others to move forward, lying to ourselves about our pasts, becoming the lies we told, losing sight of our own truths. I find it quite compelling, and it makes me think about myself and my own aging.
From Bad Religion's Strange Denial
Two verses at different periods of my life. I used to listen to this album very often in the early 2000s when I was still grappling with my agnosticism in a catholic family.
These lines resonated at the time and still do although I feel like there is a lot more space for me to be irreligious than when I was growing up in post-9/11 America. I still view the institution of religion as a bane but I don't have to engage with it directly anymore.
This verse describes a similar dogma that I've recently begun to reject. Basically that the inevitability of the last two lines is justified by the intention of the first two. Consent and consensus can be manufactured, the future and present are products of the past, our acceptance of wealth inequality, violence, and instability is a choice.