/lit/ - Literature

>>12358281
That lyric is shit.

>>12358288
say that to my face you little shit

>>12358297
I can't, I don't know where you are.

Their biggest single hits the hardest for me
>Take me out tonight
>Where there's music and there's people and they're young and alive
hits so fucking hard

>>12358312
That's a pretty shit lyric too. In what universe does that have any emotional value?

>>12358312
>In the darkened underpass
>I thought 'Oh god, my chance has come at last'
>But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask

>>12358281
that's like a shitty shorter version of the line from Hamlet

>>12358317
anyone without a social life won't understand it

>>12358312
I hate that song so fucking much. Literally worse than Mr shankly

>>12358328
He's just saying a thing people do. It's not phrased interestingly, it isn't making any claims about the thing he's referring to, he just said "I want to party." What is there to understand?

>If you're so funny
>Then why are you on your own tonight ?
>And if you're so clever
>Then why are you on your own tonight ?
>If you're so very entertaining
>Then why are you on your own tonight ?
>If you're so very good-looking
>Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
>I know...
>'Cause tonight is just like any other night
>That's why you're on your own tonight

Best lyric

I didn't realize this board was full of teenage girls.

>>12358339
The way he sings it. I listen to it every time I'm going out.
>>12358338
I'll fucking throw you off a roof

>>12358281
Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?

You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.

And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.

A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!

There are fumes that I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?

If I could bleed, or sleep!
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!

Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.

But colorless. Colorless.

>>12358355
The Smiths is "failed normalfag almost an incel"-core

>>12358281
My girl's a liar
But I'll stand beside her
She's all I've got
And I don't wanna be alone
My girl don't see me
When she's with my friends
She's all I've got
And I don't wanna be alone

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>>12358318
This is embarrassing. What actual poets do you people like?

>>>/mu/
Off topic thread; not literature

>>12358386
It's how he sings it, maan

>>12358386
What's with these homies dissing my girl?
Why do they gotta front?

>>12358339
>He's just saying a thing people do. It's not phrased interestingly
Yes, you mongoloid, that's the point. It's a simple statement about something ordinary that he (I) missed out on.
It is a decimating realization that you have been barred from.even the mundane joys of life.

>>12358386
They're not poetry, anon. They're song lyrics.

>>12358414
>Yes, you mongoloid, that's the point. It's a simple statement about something ordinary that he (I) missed out on.
>It is a decimating realization that you have been barred from.even the mundane joys of life.
>decimating
Go to a bar dude, talk to your co-workers. This isn't poetic, it's dumb self-pitying garbage. If it were at least interesting or well-written that would be one thing.

>>12358426
>They're not poetry
I know, I can tell.
>song lyrics
>>>/mu/

>>12358435
oooo-weeee-oooooh i look just like buddy holly
oooh ooh and you're mary tyler moore


now this my friend is epic poetry

>>12358441
What's the punchline here?

>>12358386
Well
>>12358361 is Sylvia Plath

>>12358427
You are talking to someone who hasn't left the house since October of 2018, my friend. If I were to walk out to check the mail I would spend a good hour and a half imagining how such an event would go, whether any of the neighbors would be out and see me.
I don't think you understand how pathetic certain people are.

>>12358447
rivers cuomo is a walking punchline

>>12358281
NOT FOR SUCH AS YOU AND I

>>12358435
>song lyrics
>>>/mu/
You're not wrong.

>>12358451
>Sylvia Plath
No wonder. She was fucking shit.

>>12358356
>I listen to it every time I'm going out.
Found the NPC

>>12358461
explain

>>12358451
Yeah? What actual poets do you like? Plath is not a good poet at all.
>>12358453
Sounds like you should just stick your head in the oven my man.

>>12358281
I'm sure you can enjoy Rupi Kaur

>>12358426
>>12358435
What's that you're saying, fellas?

Albini was right that most lyrics written out on their own are just embarassing

>>12358768
albini is a skippy podesta tier pervert, though.

>>12358281

Morrissey is a real man.

>tfw Morrissey's lyrics are the only texts that ever give me tfw no gf
I can't listen to them. They hurt too much.

songs that hits me hardest is Im Throwing My Arms Around Paris
>I'm throwing my arms around, around Paris because
>only stone and steel accept my love

>>12358281
when you listen to that song in psychedelics it seems like the first note is giving you a warm hug

>What she asked of me at the end of the day, Caligula would have blushed.

>>12358281
Algernon, Villon, and Ezra Pound give me the same vibes as anything from the Smiths

>>12358281
>>12359209
by Algernon I mean Algernon Swinburne

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>>12358408
Never got why it's called buddy Holly.

posting a handful of short poems

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>>12360243
last one

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>>12360247
cringe and shitpilled

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>>12360235
tumblrcore

Lyrics and poety are different media. Obviously they're related, especially historically, but you can't judge them by the same standards when they're written for different contexts. Upvote if you agree.

>>12358327
What line?

>>12358378
What is this song about? A cuck?

>>12360838
The line from hamlet

You guys are all fucking plebs. Here's what actual poetry looks like:

>Whip it like a Nascar, I can see the time pass
>Feel like I'm in high school, fucking me in gym class
>Shawty, I remember that
>I know you remember that
>You was fucking with me way before I even wrote raps
>Now I'm seeing cash flow
>I could be an asshole
>Yeah, I know
>But it's all good cause I let her spend my money though
>Playboy bunny though, shawty look like a pornstar
>I know she love me cause she fuck me in her sports car
>I pull up on her, tell her that we finna go far
>Drop top, smoking thrax, looking at the stars
>Getting high, taking bars 'til we on Mars
>I could make the ground move like I'm Avatar
>Now I'm faded on my own in my bedroom
>Now I'm looking at my phone should I text you?
>I don't wanna sext you, I just wanna bless you
>Baby, I'm a priest in the underworld, guess who
>Lil Bo Peep with a brand new flow too
>Lookin at my teeth like you never seen a gold tooth
>Never in the streets, cause I never leave my home
>If you wanna live a dream I ain't coming bitch I told you

>>12359209
Post an excerpt, so I can see what you mean

>>12360867
RIP Peep

>>12360867
I unironically miss Lil Peep.

>>12358317
>In what universe does that have any emotional value?
The one where it's accompanied by music. That's almost always what people are actually talking about when they talk about their favourite lyrics.