“Take my hand
Take my everything
If we only got a moment”
— Perfume Genius – “Slip Away”
“If you wanna leave,
you just have to say
you’re all caught up inside”
— Big Thief – “Mythological Beauty”
“My left stroke just went viral!”
— Kendrick Lamar – “HUMBLE.”
“Ain’t no way I’m gonna last
Hiding in the seams, I can’t move the past
Feel like I’m about to crash
Riding on the line, I keep keepin’ on, yeah”
— The War on Drugs – “Holding On”
“Where you’re the only motherfucker in the city
who can stand me”
— St. Vincent – “New York”
“Man this band that’s playing, is playing fuckin’ trash
Skunk and onion gravy, as my brain’s potato mash
***
He’s mashed, I’m mashed, we’re mashed”
— King Krule – “Dum Surfer”
“I might
empty my bank account
and buy that Boy With a Pipe”
— Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean & Migos – “Slide”
“Eventually the dying man takes his final breath
But first checks his news feed to see what he’s about to miss”
— Father John Misty – “Ballad of the Dying Man”
“I see both sides like Chanel
I see on both sides like Chanel”
— Frank Ocean – “Chanel”
“From el barrio to Arecibo, ¡Pa’lante!
From Marble Hill to the ghost of Emmett Till, ¡Pa’lante!”
— Hurray for the Riff Raff – “Pa’lante”
“So get up and stop your complaining
You know you’re the only one who’s been destroying all the fun
Look what happened when you were dreaming
Now punch yourself in the face”
— LCD Soundsystem – “American Dream”
“Say my name
They ain’t know how to spell it, so I put it on my chain”
— Rae Sremmurd – “Perplexing Pegasus”
“I am my mother’s child
I’ll love you ’til my breathing stops
I’ll love you ’til you call the cops on me”
— Lorde – “Writer in the Dark”
“Tell me somethin’
You motherfuckas can’t tell me nothin’
I’d rather die than to listen to you
My DNA not for imitation
Your DNA an abomination”
— Kendrick Lamar – “DNA”
“When real death enters the house,
all poetry is dumb”
— Mount Eerie – “Real Death”
Bitter Melodies 