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Offline adamack

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Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« on: October 29, 2014, 12:22:14 PM »
What are your favorite DT one-liner lyrics?

By one-liner, I mean a single line or quick phrase. Something short and concise, yet either manages to inflect a bold statement, something that is worded cleverly, or just something that stands out for any reason.

A few that come to my mind:

"Never come near me again, Do you really think I need you?" - Space Dye Vest

This lyric gives me goosebumps every time. The way James says it, paired with the dark tone of the song, is so powerful.

"Once I reached for love but now I reach for life."  - Learning To Live

I've always heard that LTL was about AIDS...was this officially clarified? If it is about AIDS, this line is particularly powerful. Someone dying of a disease, who used to strive to find love like any normal person would. But someone who now needs to switch their perspective away from human wants, and must focus on reaching for life....trying to stay alive amidst a life-threatening disease.

"Her ecstasy means so much to me..."

I mainly love this lyric because of how it sounds. It occurs during the brilliant chorus of Home, and the lyric has just always stuck in my head. Likely because of how it rhymes, and possibly because the word "ecstasy", especially back in 1999 when it came out, naturally drew attention because the drug ecstasy was all over the news and pop culture.


I'll add more when they come to me.

What are your favorites?
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2014, 12:25:06 PM »
"Through Nature's inflexable grace, I'm Learning To Live"
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2014, 12:29:14 PM »
Quote from: TAC on October 29, 2014, 12:25:06 PM
"Through Nature's inflexable grace, I'm Learning To Live"

Great one!

I have a feeling a lot of these will end up coming from I&W and Awake. Something particularly awesome about their way with words in the early years.
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2014, 12:45:17 PM »
"Does this voice the wounds of your soul?"

"And I don't need your sympathy (or mercy fuck) to get me through the day."

"God, give me the power to take breath from a breeze and call life from a cold, metal frame."

"Unbroken spirit, obscured and disquiet finds clearness this trial demands."

To name a few. But yeah, there's definitely more.
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2014, 12:49:02 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2014, 01:44:24 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2014, 01:46:10 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2014, 01:53:52 PM »
"Don't cross the crooked step"

"Victims on parade are stringing us along"

"For the fortune lies still in his hands"

"And she listens openly"

"Answer the call if you still hear it all 'cause nobody will if you won't"

"I bear all that I am made of now, attractive I don't care"
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2014, 02:39:56 PM »
I have a bunch, but for some reason "Let my life just waste away, selfish enough to make you wait for me. Driven blindly by our sins, misled so easily" stuck with me recently. 
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2014, 03:28:08 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2014, 03:38:32 PM »
This really isn't one of my favs, but it always made me laugh.

"So I hurt your feelings well I'm really sorry, but I don't give a shit..." - Burning My Soul

Why would you be really sorry if you don't give a shit?  :lol
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2014, 03:42:42 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2014, 04:04:06 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2014, 04:25:09 PM »
Quote from: Dublagent66 on October 29, 2014, 03:38:32 PM
This really isn't one of my favs, but it always made me laugh.

"So I hurt your feelings well I'm really sorry, but I don't give a shit..." - Burning My Soul

Why would you be really sorry if you don't give a shit?  :lol

He's sorry that he doesn't give a shit. It's like saying, "I'm sorry... Sorry you're such a jerk!" That kind of thing. Only in this case more like, "I'm sorry... Sorry that I don't give a shit!"
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2014, 04:37:06 PM »
Can't let them rape me again.

Not one line, but: Step after step, we try controlling our fate. When we finally start living, it has become too late.
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2014, 04:41:24 PM »
"She's losing control, What can I do, Her vacant eyes, Black holes, Am I losing you?"
Vacant

"Waiting, In the calm of desolation, wanting to break from this circle of confusion"
Misunderstood

But my favourite:

"A daily dose of eMpTyV Will flush your mind right down the drain" :biggrin:
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2014, 04:48:54 PM »
Quote from: TheGreatPretender on October 29, 2014, 12:45:17 PM

"And I don't need your sympathy (or mercy fuck) to get me through the day."

"God, give me the power to take breath from a breeze and call life from a cold, metal frame."


Love the first line, forgot about it!

And the way James says the second one is awesome. Something about breath and breeze
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2014, 04:49:49 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #20 on: October 29, 2014, 05:43:48 PM »
Quote from: hayasaki on October 29, 2014, 04:41:24 PM
"She's losing control, What can I do, Her vacant eyes, Black holes, Am I losing you?"
Vacant

"Waiting, In the calm of desolation, wanting to break from this circle of confusion"
Misunderstood

But my favourite:

"A daily dose of eMpTyV Will flush your mind right down the drain" :biggrin:

Ah, that reminds me:

"How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me?"

also

"Playing a lion being led to a cage, I turn surreal to seclusion, from love to disdain, from belief to delusion, from a thief to a beggar, from a god to God save me."

Misunderstood rules!
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #21 on: October 29, 2014, 05:49:40 PM »
Won't let them fill me with fatal lipstick lemonaid.

I've never understood that line, but I like it.
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #22 on: October 29, 2014, 05:54:13 PM »
Quote from: bosk1 on October 29, 2014, 05:49:40 PM
Won't let them fill me with fatal lipstick lemonaid.

I've never understood that line, but I like it.

Yeah, it's not all b-line like, "Death is the first dancing turtle."
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #23 on: October 29, 2014, 07:28:00 PM »
Oh come let us adore him. Abuse and then ignore him.
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #24 on: October 29, 2014, 10:59:10 PM »
Quote from: TheGreatPretender on October 29, 2014, 05:43:48 PM

Ah, that reminds me:

"How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me?"

also

"Playing a lion being led to a cage, I turn surreal to seclusion, from love to disdain, from belief to delusion, from a thief to a beggar, from a god to God save me."

Misunderstood rules!

Forgot about Misunderstood lines! Both of those lines are awesome. Especially the second one, since it crescendos up into the chorus.

I also really love "It challenges the essence of my soul" from the verse. Just a really cool line.

Quote from: TheCountOfNYC on October 29, 2014, 07:28:00 PM
Oh come let us adore him. Abuse and then ignore him.

Definitely one of my favorites.
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #25 on: October 29, 2014, 11:10:08 PM »
Quote from: adamack on October 29, 2014, 10:59:10 PM
Quote from: TheCountOfNYC on October 29, 2014, 07:28:00 PM
Oh come let us adore him. Abuse and then ignore him.

Definitely one of my favorites.

A line so nice, he says it twice!  ;D
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #26 on: October 30, 2014, 04:27:01 AM »
Oh man, there's so many moments that have stood out at different points in time. Sometimes it takes a while before you even understand a passage or have a way to interpret it, but all of these have been impactful one-liners for me at one point or another (and hopefully haven't been mentioned yet, a bunch of my favourite lines have already been mentioned and I'll probably end up thinking of more so here's a few off the top :lol):

"Living comes much easier, once we admit we're dying".

"Voices repeating me, feeling threatened we reflect your hopes and fears".

"The rivers current slowly turns the stone".

"Seven stars, the rising sun, a perfect world where new life has begun".

"Like reflections on the page, the world's what you create".

"Feed the illusion you dream about".

"I know it's easier, to walk away than look it in the eye".

"Responsible, unless you are incapable".

"You look but cannot see, Talk but never speak, You live but cannot breathe, See but don’t believe".

"I will not grow in the light until I pass through the darkest caverns of my heart"

"Cover my eyes and tell me, am I really blind?"
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #27 on: October 30, 2014, 10:59:49 AM »
"There's nothing to keep me sane, and it's all the same to you."

"A daily dose of eMpTyV will flush your mind right down the drain."

"I may have spent too long in darkness, in the warmth of my fears."

"I am not shattered. Out of the ashes I rise."
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #28 on: October 30, 2014, 11:05:31 AM »
Quote from: TheGreatPretender on October 29, 2014, 04:25:09 PM
Quote from: Dublagent66 on October 29, 2014, 03:38:32 PM
This really isn't one of my favs, but it always made me laugh.

"So I hurt your feelings well I'm really sorry, but I don't give a shit..." - Burning My Soul

Why would you be really sorry if you don't give a shit?  :lol

He's sorry that he doesn't give a shit. It's like saying, "I'm sorry... Sorry you're such a jerk!" That kind of thing. Only in this case more like, "I'm sorry... Sorry that I don't give a shit!"

How bout, "I don't give a shit that I'm sorry."  That actually makes more sense.
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #29 on: October 30, 2014, 11:15:02 AM »
"When someone says: 'My heart needs lifting' don't ask how come, ask how high."
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #30 on: October 30, 2014, 11:26:41 AM »
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #31 on: October 30, 2014, 11:47:28 AM »
Quote from: Rodni Demental on October 30, 2014, 04:27:01 AM

"Voices repeating me, feeling threatened we reflect your hopes and fears".

"Like reflections on the page, the world's what you create".

"Feed the illusion you dream about".

"I know it's easier, to walk away than look it in the eye".


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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #32 on: November 07, 2014, 11:25:57 AM »
Quote from: Dublagent66 on October 30, 2014, 11:05:31 AM
Quote from: TheGreatPretender on October 29, 2014, 04:25:09 PM
He's sorry that he doesn't give a shit. It's like saying, "I'm sorry... Sorry you're such a jerk!" That kind of thing. Only in this case more like, "I'm sorry... Sorry that I don't give a shit!"

How bout, "I don't give a shit that I'm sorry."  That actually makes more sense.

That makes less sense to me.  :lol

I don't know, but that's how I always interpreted it. "Sorry, but I don't give a shit."


Quote from: wasteland on October 30, 2014, 11:15:02 AM
"When someone says: 'My heart needs lifting' don't ask how come, ask how high."

Definitely one of my favorites.

Some more I like:

"Tell me once again, what's below the surface bleeding."

"Your Conscience - my ally, the guilt - your affliction, from preying on praise as you fed an attention addiction."
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Re: Your Favorite DT One-Liners?
« Reply #33 on: November 07, 2014, 11:54:48 AM »
When I saw the title, I thought this was about DT jokes.

Anyway, one of my favourite lyrics is: "We suffered far too long/We gather now, growing stronger"

I know it was written in the wake of the 2011 revolutions, but I think of it as well as an anthem for the fanbase. We all must stand strong and unite against the critics of DT.
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« Reply #34 on: November 07, 2014, 11:55:55 AM »
Quote from: RoeDent on November 07, 2014, 11:54:48 AM
When I saw the title, I thought this was about DT jokes.

We can only have so many threads about DT jokes, I think.
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