#lyricbot

[orange-catsidy]

twitter is gonna start charging for their api and the pricing is insanely expensive so all the bots are sending out shutdown/goodbye messages 😔 rip quotes every day rip lyricbots rip every frames rip hourly cute animals!!!

[ahndor]

help i followed the front bottoms lyricbot on twitter and now its my entire timeline im scared

[navaratna]

i might turn into a lyricbot these days

[lyricbot]

Being me can only mean

Feeling scared to breathe

If you leave me then I’ll be afraid of everything

- Afraid by The Neighbourhood

[celesbianfruit]

She had a face straight outta magazine

[ellabeta]

A brief analysis of songs that fuck me up

1. golden by hippo campus

why is it i want to change for you? why is it i want to see this through? maybe i’m sick of sleeping longer nights with lesser feelings.

Quite frankly, i can’t put an exact finger on why i latched onto this song so strongly. i liked hippo campus songs before this one but dismissed it at first - it’s a decent song, i thought, but it doesn’t beat out bops and bangers like south, buttercup, doubt. then one day it wormed its way into my mind, and I thought i’d give it another listen. then i gave it five more listens. then i listened to it 60 times in a row in a single day.

to be honest, i don’t know if i ought to read meaning into the lyrics. i’m against the whole idea of changing for another person - but sometimes it is necessary. the boys described the lyrics of this song as “a series of questions in a long term relationship that, while there are no easy answers, need to be asked anyway” and i felt that. i’ve never been in a long term relationship - my only boyfriend lasted about five months and that was nine years ago. At the same time, though, there is something immensely comforting about golden. there’s probably something to be read into the chord progression, or the way the song hits on the word “you” in the first chorus, or any number of things. but the fact of the matter is that i love this song. 

granted, it’s now associated with a person, which is dangerous. it’s his own damn fault for paying attention.

2. meteor shower by cavetown

i’d sell my own bones for sapphire stones cause blue is your favorite color

cavetown has the unique ability to snipe me emotionally with the first lines of his songs - “often i am upset that i cannot fall in love but i guess this avoids the stress of falling out of it” “i’ve got miles of regrets and confusing friends but perhaps it’s just my stupid head in the end” “feeling sick of myself think i’ll try being someone else”, just for a few examples. this song is special, though - it has one of my favorite lines, and quite frankly it describes my predicament better than any other cavetown song.

selling bones, sapphire stones - i have a tendency to give too much to the people i care about and ask for nothing in return. it’s a mentality that has gotten me in trouble, for sure, but at the same time i wonder if it’s a quality that i want to be rid of or simply to get control over. i need to get better at discerning which people are worthy of selling bones for, on one hand - on the other, there’s a piece of me that wants to stop altogether. my therapist says that’s a bad idea - shutting down emotions gets me nowhere, etc etc - but giving is far more embedded in my nature than i ever realized. it’s strange to realize that.

3. paper bag by dear and the headlights

you say you understand me, well i don’t get you at all

my friend made a dear and the headlights lyricbot on twitter and every other day i am emotionally sniped by it. there are parts of this song that ring true and parts that just hurt - my loneliness is my own fault, yes, but i don’t know who it is that understands me while i don’t get them at all. there’s no direct one-to-one correlation to this one - there aren’t real life correlations to any of these songs except perhaps meteor shower - but i still feel understood by it. 

All in all, i enjoy reading way too deeply into the lyrics of the songs i like. i like listening to these songs. there are more, and i’ll probably make another post about it later. that’s all for now.

[lyricbot]

And the only gifts from my Lord were a birth and a divorce But I've read this script and the costume fits, so I'll play my part.

- Cleopatra, The Lumineers (2016)

[lyricbot]

And I find it kinda funny

I find it kinda sad

The dreams in which I'm dying

Are the best I've ever had

- Mad World by Gary Jules (Michael Andrews)

[lyricbot]

I've been lying with the liars

Every night

Lying 'cause I'm flying

Icarus Interlude by Zayn (2018)

[lyricbot]

Heaven is a place on earth with you.

- Video Games by Lana Del Rey

[lyricbot]

Let's live tonight like fireflies // and one-by-one light up the sky

- Beautiful Now by Zedd and Jon Bellion

[lyricbot]

The choices we make change the path that we take But I know that somewhere out there there's a path that we chose There's a life that we share There's a love and it grows

- Golden, ZAYN (2015)

[lyricbot]

I'm sorry if it's all too much

And every day you're here, I'm healing

And I was runnin' out of luck

I never thought I'd find this feeling

- Symphony by Clean Bandit (feat. Zara Larsson)

[lyricbot]

Let's get naked and explore

Our inner secrets

- TiO by ZAYN