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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 77 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴

[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The unfortunate thing about this lyric is that people who have been asked to do nothing more than help keep our fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated, think this is for them.

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

not to mention that the context of standing up to unjust government policing was reinterpreted by 90s skateboard kids as "be a dick to your teachers and parents"

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And some of those that burn crosses, are the same that hold office.

From wikipedia:

Zack de la Rocha sometimes changed the lyrics in the second verse from "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" to "Some of those that burn crosses are the same that hold office" when playing live.

Saw him live. Can confirm.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (6 children)

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

You can just replace company store with whatever capitalist institution owns you. 🫠

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago

"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" Mad World, Tears for Fears.

Stuck with me from when I listenerd originally.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do
Di-ba-di-de-do
Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do
Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do
Di-ba-di-de-do
Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do.

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

The lyrics that come to mind are:

"Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom"

"Who Has To Know My Dirty Little Secret, Don't Tell Anyone Or You'll Be Just Another Regret"

And various parts of Dragostea Din Tei ( the Numa Numa song )

All of these thanks to my early days on the interwebs.

[–] mosspiglet@discuss.online 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)

And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun

-Pink Floyd

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming

I've been waiting for the next Vengabus since 1998. Our public transport infrastructure is a fucking joke.

[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Ask not for whom the Vengabus comes, for it comes for thee.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yes I know my enemies; They're the teachers who taught me to fight me. Compromise, Conformity, Assimilation, Submission, Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Brutality, The elite - All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 5 days ago

What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy!

[–] Felis_Rex@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

_"I'm so appalled, Spalding ball Balding, Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all"

So Appalled - Kanye West

[–] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Brass Monkey That funky Monkey Brass Monkey junkie That funky Monkey

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

  • Pink Floyd, Time
[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

The older I get the less I like that one

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

You can check out, but you can never leave.

[–] nixon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

β€œDespite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage”

&

β€œSo, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you could tell?
Did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here”

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 4 days ago

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! x14

[–] edg@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fuckin magnets, how do they work?

  • The bards Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope
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[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They call me the hiphoppopotamus

Flows that glow like phosphorus

Poppin' off the top o' this esophagus

Rockin' this metropolis

I'm not a large water dwelling mammal

Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?

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[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Some say the end is near Some say we'll see Armageddon soon Certainly hope will I sure could use a vacation from this Bull shit three ring sideshow circus of freaks

Learn to swim Learn to swim Learn to swim

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"i just wanna get really high, smoke weed until i die"

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

PARA BAILAR LA BAMBA
PARA BAILAR LA BAMBA SE NECESITA UN POQUITO DE GRACIA
UN POQUITO DE GRACIA PA'TI PA'MI ARRIBA Y ARRIBA
Y ARRIBA Y ARRIBA
POR TI SERÉ POR TI SERÉ

[–] Meeshall65@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

De-doo-doo-doo, de-daa-daa-daa

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Deine Gewalt ist nur ein stummer Schrei nach Liebe

Deine Springerstiefel sehnen sich nach ZΓ€rtlichkeit

Du hast nie gelernt, dich zu artikulieren

Und deine Eltern hatten niemals fΓΌr dich Zeit

Oh-ho-ho, Arschloch!

I only lived in Germany for a bit, but this one stuck in my head pretty hard. Schrei nach Liebe by Die Γ„rzte

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[–] Cherry@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

It's transcended time

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[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. - Freewill by Rush.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Working 9 to 5 What a way to make a livin'...

The complete lyrics hold up very well

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Abracadabra boom-shacka-dae

I'm Violent J and I'm back like a vertebrae

And I come with a hat full of tricks

Trunk full of Faygo, car full of fat chicks.

ICP. Hocus Pocus

[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost, Everybody knows the fight was fixed, The poor stay poor, the rich get rich, That's how it goes, Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking, Everybody knows the captain lied, Everybody got this broken feeling, Like their father or their dog just died, Everybody talking to their pockets, Everybody wants a box of chocolates, And a long-stem rose, Everybody knows...

[–] geomela@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life

I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky

But why, why, why can't it be, oh can't it be mine?

[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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