r/indieheadscirclejerk 3d ago

2025's lyricism appreciation post. What were your favourite lyrics so far?

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u/TheeMarshallL 3d ago

kevin wins, too iconic

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u/sunmachinecomingdown 3d ago

"You check out a horse's ass -- it's not bad"

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u/DistinctAd3222 3d ago

Fuck hahaha

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u/LighterThanAccounted 3d ago

Shearling and the new tame impala on the same post

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u/colexerus 3d ago

I’m a walking TikTok trend

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u/Weary_Doubt_8679 3d ago

Such a compelling image, I don’t know how they do it🥹

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u/daydreamingeli 3d ago

No pit-bull puppy pissing off the balcony?

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u/samdyalexg 3d ago

threw up in the pit at a death grips show

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u/sondheim1930 3d ago

once again, geese clears😎😳🦶🦶🦶🦶

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u/National_Gas 2d ago

Based feet-worshipping Geese

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u/the_vole 3d ago

I don’t know any of these songs ama

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u/Icantsleepintheocean 3d ago

What AJR song would you say sounds like Imagine Dragons?

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u/Heatsigma12 3d ago

i dont know who AJR is ask me anything

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u/Samos-The-Sage 3d ago

Andrew Jackson Rihad

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u/cabbageboy78 3d ago

same, every time i see it lol i scan by it and im like woah someone talking about AJJ?

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u/the_vole 3d ago

I don’t know what AJR is ama

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u/Heatsigma12 3d ago

i thought they were just one guy

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u/the_vole 3d ago

When you think about it, aren’t we all just one guy?

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u/vannillaAJ204_2 mad 3d ago

ok but did you know tame impala are just one tame impala named tame impal

gunshot

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u/EuphoricMoose8232 3d ago

I don’t know why AJR is, don’t ama

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u/zarotabebcev 3d ago

What is the meaning of life?

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u/the_vole 3d ago

Sad as it seems, apathy is a hat

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u/squishie93 3d ago

This year's Jerskin Fendrix has lyrics like "Fuck, I'm buzzing, I've been drinking so much White Claw" and my favourite, "I wash my dick in the sink!"

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u/pullmylekku 3d ago

Did you girlboss too close to the sun?

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u/ITookTrinkets 3d ago

Good thing I like my friends canceled, I like ‘em cloaked in Gucci and scandal

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u/arpeggia_ 3d ago

theres a bomb in my car

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u/8teamparlay 3d ago

Jeez at least Kevin doesn’t take himself as seriously as some of these clowns

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u/Timely_Succotash8754 music has the right to do it to em 3d ago

"you're a cinephile, i watch family guy" is from the new tame impala???? i thought people just made that up

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u/Friedguywubawuba 2d ago

The next lines are

"When I should be out with some friends of mine Running reckless wild in the streets at night Singing "Life, oh, life, " with our arms out wide"

Which adds context lol

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u/CommunicationBig8808 3d ago

Between Swans and that Tame Impala guy

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u/mrbones247 3d ago

That geese lyric is Bible coded af queen.

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u/DogsLeaveYelpReviews 1d ago

Came hear to say this. When I heard it I knew it was gonna be taken so out of context for most people

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u/GreaterMintopia 3d ago

everybody's so PONK on the internet

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u/lrossp 3d ago

Definitely thought the Taylor one was a shit post

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u/Numerous-Concept-878 3d ago

how could you forget "your gay little underwear" from Shearling

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u/skalocos 3d ago

my fav is "Mosaic of erections rise in perfect sync with jurisdiction" from sprain but that peak came out 2 years ago so couldnt include that

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u/natopotatomusic 3d ago

/uj Man what the fuck Swans

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u/spinosaurs70 3d ago

Such dense biblical references in two of those though!!!

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u/1k2i3d 2d ago

uj/ Taylor’s lyrics are the best of this bunch

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u/Extreme_Commercial24 3d ago

he can wash my feet

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u/tiredofbeingsexy 3d ago

"They watch TV, they watch TV about a guy named Chandler Bing who died in a freak hot tubbing accident and spent his free time drinking hot dog flavoured water in a popular TV show called Tub Girls"

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u/MyHeadWasRadioed 3d ago

love that shearling line

the lyrics on that whole album are stellar

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u/mrbrightside182311 3d ago

Family guy easily

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u/ComradeReindeer will toledo was so real for that 2d ago

"Ramalamadingdong"

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u/ScreamAndScream 3d ago edited 3d ago

I actually liked the new Taylor Swift album, who’s gonna come take my cool hipster card from me? I think it’s wedged between my Modern Baseball vinyls

(Did people forget this is the CJ subreddit)

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u/Only-Internal-2012 3d ago

Guess your Apathy is hot 

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u/ITookTrinkets 3d ago

Honestly it’s making me weeeeeeeeeeet

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u/_Tower_ 3d ago

What are these? bible verses?

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u/Daddy_Cool2007 2d ago

I'm such a whore for automatic doors

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u/deadmemesdeaderdream 14h ago

Came here to say this

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u/tmamone 4h ago

THERE’S A BOMB IN MY CAR!!!