What's the truest line you've ever heard in a song? 🤔

Recreation Fun & Games
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The warrant said, “Narcotics and kidnapping”
The warrant said, “Narcotics and kidnapping”
Are you kidding? I make my money rapping
Why does the warrant say, “Narcotics?” (Well, I know narcotics)
But why kidnapping?

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“I’m never alone, I’m alone all the time.” - Bush, ‘Glycerine’

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I want to live. I wish I was dead!

  • Black Flag, “Damaged”
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Woody was being whimsical when he said it, but, man, talk about prophetic:

“Plastic, everything’s gonna be plastic.” –Woody Guthrie

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“Play stupid games win stupid prizes” - Taylor Swift

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“yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on” - Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven

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In the 1973 Madison Square Concert, Robert Plant adds “I hope so” at the end of that. So cool.

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Glad to see someone quoted Black Flag… here’s a Black Flag line from “Rise Above” (the actual very first line) that hits like a truth fist to the gut…

Jealous cowards try to control!

Makes me think of Taiwanese management every time I hear it!

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Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It’s the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles

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I never really got this line…

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Mocking Brown’s hippie/New Age image (aura, meditation, jogging, organic everything) while portraying him as a future fascist “Führer” who turns California into a dystopian zen-totalitarian state…themes of authoritarian control dressed up in progressive language feel eerily relevant decades later.

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And then there was “We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now”

Welcome to 1984
Are you ready for the Third World War?
You too will meet the secret police
They’ll draft you and they’ll jail your niece

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yeah, well, that was in a different state and before I was born, so I never really got the political references of that very particular time and place… but yeah, I think you’re right about the “dystopian zen-totalitarian state”, authoritarianism dressed up in progressive language today… and I think back then they were just kind of taking the piss, the point was to mock this kind of stuff and point out the potential for authoritarianism, even from the left… I’m pretty sure that Jello Biafra today has become the exact thing that he warned about in this song 45 years ago…

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Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Everywhere is war