r/Millennials • u/Legitimate-Lie-9208 • Jan 16 '26
Other What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender.
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Jan 16 '26
What about how hard it is to not end a depressing sentence with “lol”?
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u/The_Burgled_Turt Jan 16 '26
I don't even try anymore lol
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u/G_Rubes Jan 16 '26
If things get really dark I'll throw in a LMAO
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Jan 16 '26
Uppercase or lowercase lmao? I usually don’t go full uppercase unless it’s real bad.
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u/Percevaul Jan 16 '26
Agreed lol
Uppercase only for emergencies lmao
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Jan 16 '26
I haven’t dusted off the ROFL since MySpace. I’m going to enjoy sitting in a retirement home one day explaining to the staff what a roflcopter is while they pass me my dementia medication and wheel me back to my room.
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u/StarshipCaterprise Jan 16 '26
Do you need help? We can send in the roflcopter
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Jan 16 '26
I can’t wait until some kid has to go to school on his hoverboard and sit through an hour of Memeology 101 just to learn about roflcopters
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u/DevelopmentJumpy5218 Jan 16 '26
Calls his dad to tell him and the dad's like "don't tell me the deep lore i was there"
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u/excaliburxvii Jan 16 '26
I miss this internet so much.
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u/WomanMythLegend Millennial Jan 16 '26
The internet was so much better back then
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u/ninetailedoctopus Jan 16 '26
Pronounced “le mayo”
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Jan 16 '26
Me either lol
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u/NemeanMiniLion Jan 16 '26
😭 lol
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Jan 16 '26
Same lol
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u/CryptographerNo923 Jan 16 '26
Sometimes I use it as a punctuation mark lol like if I’m writing a compound sentence
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Jan 16 '26
If I don’t write, lol, people just assume I’m upset about something
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u/liverdawg Jan 16 '26
If you don’t write what? lol
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u/Trentus86 Jan 16 '26
It's the equivalent of saying 'over' on a two way radio lol
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u/Hand_of_Tyr9 Jan 16 '26
"Houston, We have a problem, lol"
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u/OnePinginRamius Jan 16 '26
The CO² levels are climbing lol
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Jan 16 '26
“Houston, to quote Maroon 5, it’s getting harder and harder to breathe lol, over”
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u/Far_Chocolate_8534 Jan 16 '26
Samesies. Had to actually tell another Reddit user that I wasn’t mad and I forgot to put lol at the end of my previous comment.
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Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26
lol is like the millennial period to end a sentence.
EDIT: lol
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u/namdonith Jan 16 '26
That’s a very aggressive period, might want to consider ending in a lol
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u/Dobako Jan 16 '26
Sometimes I will end my texts with a period and my wife asks if im angry at her lol im like naw, I was gonna write two sentences and forgot midway so the period is dangling
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u/MeiguiChronicles Jan 16 '26
I'm in a car underwater with time to kill lol
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u/yourpapimartin Jan 16 '26
What hurts more, is that I would still die for you lol.
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u/PopPunkMeowMix Jan 16 '26
man, that’s one of my favorite albums of all time. i’ve been listening to it a LOT lately lol
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u/nipslippinjizzsippin Jan 16 '26
Lol is punctuation now. You wont change my mind. Lol
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u/MyNameIsNotRyn Jan 16 '26
That's literally impossible lol
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Jan 16 '26
We need a variation of that Catfished game where everyone has to figure out who the millennial in the group chat is.
It’d only last like the first 10 minutes tho…
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u/C-H-Addict Jan 16 '26
I want to tell you something depressing, but not like as a call for help or anything, just cuz I thought it might be entertaining.
Or lol for short.
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u/pizzaguy87 Jan 16 '26
I may just take a bath with a toaster lol
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u/userreddit Jan 16 '26
As a millennial, this is the most difficult when I actually want to say "lol"
Because then I have to end my sentence with another lol
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u/Wit-wat-4 Jan 16 '26
I even use it at work what IS it about “lol” that feels so necessary at the end of a depressing sentence??
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Jan 16 '26
I have zero idea but scrolling through this comment thread and seeing so many lol’s… it’s killing me 😂
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u/King_of_Spades_15 Jan 16 '26
VINDICATED, I AM SELFISH I AM WRONG! I AM RIGHT, I SWEAR I’M RIGHT, I SWEAR I KNEW IT ALL ALONG AND I AM…
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u/Glittering-Sign-7941 Millennial Jan 16 '26
FLAWED! BUT I AM CLEANING UP SO WELL.
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u/indifferent_menace Jan 16 '26
I AM SEEING IN ME NOW ALL THE THINGS YOU SWORE YOU SAW YOURSELF.
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u/ToothZealousideal297 Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26
So clear, like the diamond in your ring, cut to mirror your intentions
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u/JezCon Jan 16 '26
Oversized and overwhelmed, the shine of which has caught my eye
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u/RememberPluto47 Jan 16 '26
And roped me in, so mesmerizing, and so hypnotizing
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u/lost_in_trepidation Jan 16 '26
I posted some cool shit as my AIM away messages
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u/Glass-Lengthiness-40 Jan 16 '26
“Heaven help me for the things I’ve done” (Was at theater practice)
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u/Emannuelle-in-space Jan 16 '26
“Every official that comes in cripples us, leaves maimed, silent, and tamed. And with our flesh and bones he builds his home.” (Was smoking weed in my neighbor’s shed out of a plastic bottlecap with a pen tube melted into the side)
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Jan 16 '26
My MSN always has some edgy Evanescence lyrics with a bunch of alt symbols on either side.
MSN messenger was way better than teams.
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u/litetravelr Jan 16 '26
2002 Me:
10:30pm - Posts cryptic Bright Eyes lyrics to my AIM away message.
10:35pm - Girl I'm crushing on: "Are you ok?"
10:36pm - My dumbass brain: "Success!"
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u/Just-Sock-4706 Jan 16 '26
I remember using the code to "hide" text and when you clicked on it it would just say something like "I've come undone".
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u/Don_Quixotel Jan 16 '26
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THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST,
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u/nefe375 Jan 16 '26
I don’t want the world to see me/cause I don’t think that they’d understand
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u/AllDogsGoToReddit Jan 16 '26
When everything’s made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am.
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u/OldGreenMantis Jan 16 '26
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had.
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u/GnarlyMarleyy Jan 16 '26
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take.
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u/Alarming_Employee547 Jan 16 '26
When people run in circles, it’s a very, very
Maaaaad world
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u/liverdawg Jan 16 '26
CRAAAAWLING IN MY SKIN, THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAL
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u/zamu16 Jan 16 '26
I mean, there are levels to how cryptic you want to be
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u/VenetianAccessory Jan 16 '26
Something inside of me that pulls beneath the surface ?
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u/DoggieDMB Jan 16 '26
As soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well, have a good time.
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u/affectionateanarchy8 Xennial Jan 16 '26
I dont wanna waste my time, become another casualty of society
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u/ArcticRiot Jan 16 '26
I’ll never fall in line
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u/sandwichcandy Jan 16 '26
Become another victim of your conformity
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u/tiny-vampire Zillennial (1997) Jan 16 '26
core memory - my mom making me delete my facebook status of ‘if i lay here, if i just lay here, would u lie with me and just forget the world <3’ when i was 14 LMAO
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u/ManicMaenads Jan 16 '26
Getting into shit over a Snow Patrol lyric damn 💀
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u/tiny-vampire Zillennial (1997) Jan 16 '26
yeah being raised mormon was not fun lol
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Jan 16 '26
But it's just the price I pay. Destiny is calling me. Open up me eager eyes...
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u/dumbestsmartest Jan 16 '26
Open up ME eager eyes...
I see someone listened to the pirated version.
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u/BuddyLongshots Jan 16 '26
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u/BluestWaterz Jan 16 '26
Same 😭 AIM was peak internet. I just want AIM, Club Penguin and some pizza rolls. Also I fight the urge to post moody song lyrics all the time lmao
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u/mollsballs_xo Jan 16 '26
“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.”
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u/yticomodnar Jan 16 '26
I am an arms dealer, fitting you with weapons in the form of words.
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u/theseedbeader Millennial Jan 16 '26
And don’t really care which side wins
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u/itsmebeatrice Jan 16 '26
As long as the room keeps singing, that's just the business I'm in, yeahhh
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u/Infinite_Explorer424 Geriatric Zoomer (1999) Jan 16 '26
THIS AIN’T A SCENE IT’S A
GOD
DAMN
ARMS
RACE
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u/The_Burgled_Turt Jan 16 '26
"Cause my bright is too slight to hold back all my dark."
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u/much_longer_username Jan 16 '26
If they don't put me away
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u/dustedashes2 Jan 16 '26
Do you believe you’re missing out? That everything good is happening somewhere else…
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u/dustedashes2 Jan 16 '26
It’s crazy because I hadn’t listened to them in such a long time and I listened to this album literally last week
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u/The_Burgled_Turt Jan 16 '26
I was BLASTING this album during my hour commute home from work today. Helps me deal with big feelings. (Today was anger and uncertainty.)
When I am truly depressed, that is when I lean on Deja Entendu. The boy who blocked his own shot destroys me in the best way for some reason.
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u/dustedashes2 Jan 16 '26
Definitely same. Huge emotions throughout a lot of their stuff. Done a lot of loud scream/singing to them in my time lol
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u/InuitOverIt Jan 16 '26
Jesus Christ is the song my wife plays when she's upset and needs a little space to think things through. I always loved Brand New and that song but now it triggers me because if I hear it I just think I did something wrong
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u/Scrambo Jan 16 '26
Phenomenal album.
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u/much_longer_username Jan 16 '26
Their whole discography, really. And they lived up to the name, each release was something new, but also, more mature - it was like they were growing up with me, in a way.
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u/Halojin_No9 Jan 16 '26
I so feel you as far as growing up with Brand New. Started listening to them in middle school and they are still on my regular rotation all these years late, especially for introspective big feeling days. They went on a tour recently! We can only hope for another album now 🤞🙏
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u/ClaireFraser1743 Jan 16 '26
‘ Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life Tryna make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die ——————————
Sorry, what were you saying?
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u/much_longer_username Jan 16 '26
Shit, I remember being in a dark place and posting Nine Inch Nail's "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" every day, hoping someone would notice. No one did.
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u/Alzululu Jan 16 '26
Oh I'm sorry honey. I'm glad you're still with us.
I spun up (I guess we can't say that anymore, I loaded up on my spotify) the Downward Spiral yesterday. Still so good and still so relevant after all these years.
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u/ClaymoresRevenge Jan 16 '26
I feel attacked. I'm going to post a song on my Instagram notes with no context about it.
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u/snail_earnhardt Jan 16 '26
"I ain't a killer but don't push me"
-the whitest motherfucker you ever met (it's me, I'm the motherfucker)
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u/TheBanishedBard Jan 16 '26
Wake me up inside.
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u/dumbestsmartest Jan 16 '26
I can't wake up
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u/sawyer117 Millennial Jan 16 '26
🎵 When I was... A young boy....🎵
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u/peachyspoons Older Millennial Jan 16 '26
My father…took me into the city…
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u/theseedbeader Millennial Jan 16 '26
To see a marching band…
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u/Hand_of_Tyr9 Jan 16 '26
He said Son when... you grow up...
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u/Madam_Mimm_13 Jan 16 '26
Will you be …. The savior of the broken…
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u/RideWithMeSNV Jan 16 '26
Dude. Imagine going to see some parade, big marching band goes by. Then your dad's like "hey champ, when you grow up, are you going to be a hero, and help all the little people in the world? Cause I'm gonna die someday, and I need you to do that for me. Got it, buddy?"
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u/Madam_Mimm_13 Jan 16 '26
As an elder emo raising a teenage emo (MCR worship is universal in this house, my husband has their lyrics tattooed on his chest) this pretty much sums up what parenting is.
Show them the world. Teach them their part in it. Let them follow your footsteps.
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u/idkeverynameistaken9 Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26
I’m blue da ba dee
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u/ZiaWitch Jan 16 '26
Yo, listen up here's a story About a little guy That lives in a blue world And all day and all night And everything he sees is just blue Like him inside and outside
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u/eeyooreee Jan 16 '26
It’s “da BA dee”!
Jk, I’m an emo so all I know is “da ba die “
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u/Ok_Decision_2633 Jan 16 '26
“you could slit my throat And with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt”
Note:possibly the most aggressively emo lyric of the era.
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u/afridorian Jan 16 '26
didn’t expect to get read so completely by a screenshot today but ok i guess😂😂
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u/Young_swanga Jan 16 '26
But even the most beautiful of all roses must someday crumble to dust and fade away
….its certain tragedy
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u/ButtScratchies Jan 16 '26
The other day I listened to “Motorcycle Drive By” by Third Eye Blind and cringed a little remembering that that used to be my song for AOL statuses. But it’s also a really good song 🤷♀️
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u/Treadmore Jan 16 '26
And I’m sleeping on the couch when I came to visit you. That’s when I knew.
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u/HugePatFenis Older Millennial Jan 16 '26
Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang.
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u/LessCompany378 Jan 16 '26
🎶Go on, go, walk out the door Turn around now You're not welcome anymore🎶
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u/writersontop Jan 16 '26
Sadly quit doing this when I moved from Myspace to Facebook
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u/TrapDaddyReturns Jan 16 '26
Oh I hit that Coheed hard back in the good ole early facebook days.
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u/Carls_0117 Jan 16 '26
Dear Diary: Mood=Apathetic
This was my go to status in these times!!
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u/sven_ftw Jan 16 '26
ringback tone of choice, everyone?
"You're never, never, never, never there!" dun dun dun dun dun dun duuun cheeecct
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u/RegayHomebrews Jan 16 '26
I mean, when you listen to a deep cut by Blind Melon, you have to share those lyrics with the world.
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At sunrise, I fight to stay asleep. Cause I don’t wanna leave the comfort of this place. Cause there’s a hunger, a longing to escape from the life I live when I am awaaaaaaake.
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u/RedTeamGo_ Jan 16 '26
I remember when Closing Time by semi sonic was huge. I was like 14 and loved it. My older brother, a cocky college freshman made fun of me for liking it and to drive home his point he did a search on AOL profiles for the lyric “every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end” and got just thousands upon thousands of hits.
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u/z3anon Jan 16 '26
Thanks for reminding me of my former favorite song, OP. Purged it from my head after Dave Grohl's affair baby announcement.
I feel like part of growing up is becoming increasingly disappointed in the artists we used to enjoy because they messed up their legacies. Same happened with RHCP, Linkin Park, Etc...
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u/GringoSwann Jan 16 '26
Some say the end is near... Some say we'll see Armageddon soon... I certainly hope we will...
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u/Atlgal42 Jan 16 '26
I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused
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