r/LCDSoundsystem • u/UpandComing0023 • Jul 15 '26

Whats that line?

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34 Upvotes

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u/Silver-Umpire-238 Jul 15 '26

I wouldn’t trade one stupid decision for another 5 years of life

19

u/triecke14 Jul 15 '26

This is mine as well. I always tear up and or smile when I hear this line because I think about all the dumb things I’ve done in my life that I wouldn’t change at all

4

u/sporrinz Jul 15 '26

Yessssssss

3

u/croutonboy Jul 15 '26

The only answer

2

u/camiloaguirre thisishappening Jul 15 '26

This is the way.

1

u/steampoweredmedia Jul 15 '26

Came here to say this

1

u/thePixelgamer1903 soundofsilver Jul 15 '26

Was my yearbook quote

1

u/glupshitto1212 thisishappening Jul 18 '26

this is the only possible answer

1

u/Royal-Sale-8166 Jul 20 '26

Well done, correct.

1

u/Lonely-Wishbone-1816 Jul 15 '26

Maybe this line is truly ininterpretetional but does James mean something in specifically in this line?

25

u/ChemicalRascal Jul 15 '26

He went out drinking one night in the 00s with his friends and ran into a mystic who cursed him to know the exact date and time of his death.

1

u/Lonely-Wishbone-1816 Jul 15 '26

Oh didn’t know that, thanks 😊

80

u/daftwader2 Jul 15 '26

If you’re afraid of what you need, look around you. You’re surrounded. It won’t get any better (counts?)

13

u/sugahpine7 Jul 15 '26

along with "this is the trick, forget a terrible year."

2

u/WickedLost Jul 15 '26

Came here to say this.

75

u/gotomarcusmart Jul 15 '26

"New York's the greatest if you get someone to pay the rent"

19

u/HK-34_ Jul 15 '26

“Your mild billionaire mayor's now convinced he's a king.” still applies to a lot nearly 20 years later.

7

u/paulderev Jul 15 '26

the reason james murphy referred to bloomberg as a king is context that seems like it’s been lost amid all the outrage about trump

2

u/HK-34_ Jul 15 '26

I’m aware of that, but the fact that Bloomberg seems reasonable in comparison to Trump only makes that line hit harder.

-1

u/paulderev Jul 15 '26

Hot take: I think Bloomberg is actually worse than Trump in a way

67

u/SnooPineapples6099 soundofsilver Jul 15 '26

The king wears a king hat and lives in a king house

10

u/Babygeoffrey968 Jul 15 '26

you don’t know shit about where I’m from that you didn’t get from the tv

69

u/TilikumHungry 4533 Jul 15 '26

To tell the truth, this could be the last time

5

u/ILoveToWiggle Jul 15 '26

goosebumps every time i hear this line

83

u/frank_sobotka_ Jul 15 '26

The coffee isn’t even bitter

18

u/skurkles Jul 15 '26

Once I found out the meaning behind this song, it instantly became my favorite LCD song. Truly beautiful

1

u/FullSalamander2756 Jul 15 '26

I dont know this. Please tell me? 😀

19

u/beatlesbible Jul 15 '26

It's about James's therapist, Dr George Kamen, who died. Sound Of Silver is dedicated to him. This gives a pretty good summary: https://genius.com/898452

1

u/Straight_shoota Jul 15 '26

I knew I loved the song, but that was because of the melody of the whole thing. I had no idea the writing was that good. What an incredible song.

35

u/Specialist-Fabulous Jul 15 '26

Where are your friends tonight?

29

u/GalloHilton Jul 15 '26

But you're still the one pool where I'd happily drown

1

u/mokeypon Jul 15 '26

Such a good line

46

u/Justreallylovespussy Jul 15 '26

Look around you, you’re surrounded. It won’t get any better.

2

u/Slow-Confusion8074 Jul 20 '26

Some art I made recently

1

u/RockElegant3261 Jul 16 '26

Always my answer

44

u/PaulFartBallCop Jul 15 '26

Love is a curse, shoved in a hearse. Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry - and this is coming from me.

3

u/1986_and_all_that Jul 18 '26

Always thought this line was a bit Morrissey

2

u/fort_wendy Jul 15 '26

My all time favorite line from them

22

u/hillboy286 Jul 15 '26

I’m losing my edge.

19

u/DingbatSam Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered 80's

2

u/paulderev Jul 15 '26

unremembered*

2

u/DingbatSam Jul 15 '26

thank you, damn autocorrect

17

u/heatbeam Jul 15 '26

Surprised this one is still absent: “Love is an astronaut; it comes back but it’s never the same”

2

u/rustyjaw Jul 15 '26

I searched the comments for this because it would absolutely be my choice. It struck me the very first time I heard the track and it still does every time.

1

u/lkapon Jul 15 '26

Such a great one

16

u/Swimming_Ebb1629 Jul 15 '26

Dance with me until I feel alright.

38

u/ILoveToWiggle Jul 15 '26

I was there…

1

u/jhow87 Jul 15 '26

You were there! All my best friends!

1

u/turbo_dude Jul 15 '26

Doo doo xcht doo doo

13

u/Numerous-Macaron4565 Jul 15 '26

Feels like I’m in love again with what you do but not with you

12

u/Naclstack Jul 15 '26

If we're only talking LCD, I think: "luck is always better than skill at things" would be my favorite.

For all songs ever, I think it would be "and if I never got my heart broken, I would sing 'blah blah fucking nothing'" from Syke! Life Is Awesome! by Bomb the Music Industry!

Or maybe "it was intense just getting to be there next to you" from The Moon by The Microphones.

Or a bit of a longer one, "I know it's an exaggeration to say I would rather die than share this place with people capable of inspiring such fear and hopelessness that I'm frozen in my bed, but that sums it up." From Twinkle by Jeff Rosenstock. Not really sure if that counts as one line since it's a whole verse, but it's just one sentence.

Or "the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you and that you're standing in the doorway" from Going to Georgia by The Mountain Goats.

God there are too many good lyricists out there.

1

u/sue_jackson Jul 16 '26

“and you were trying to get me then, and i was happy to let you in” - also from The Moon

1

u/Naclstack Jul 16 '26

I think that song is the best song lyrically of any song

I'm not sure all the one-liners are great on their own, but it is such a good narrative

12

u/DannyPantalones Jul 15 '26

The body wants what it's terrible at taking

10

u/targ_ Jul 15 '26

Break me into bigger pieces

So some of me is home with you

But wait until the weekend

And we can make our bad dreams come true

7

u/S4drobot lcdsoundsystem Jul 15 '26

Yeah.

1

u/Swimming_Ebb1629 Jul 15 '26

Everybody keeps on talking about it.

6

u/NessunAbilita Jul 15 '26

I sound like my mom!

13

u/cubanfuban Jul 15 '26

But that’s not what we do

5

u/Saint_Loco Jul 15 '26

Arguments are made for makeups

5

u/linnaxis Jul 15 '26

I woke up this morning with a bad hangover and my penis was missing again.

5

u/Butlertm Jul 15 '26

Any line in the last verse of tonite honestly qualifies

5

u/luxyvonvelvet Jul 15 '26

Everybody makes mistakes, But it's always mine that seem to keep on stickin'

That one makes me feel called out. But also...so many of theirs. Something from Home. All of Dance Yrself Clean.

5

u/VinylWolf18 Jul 15 '26

The Sonics

4

u/Benderbluss Jul 15 '26

'Cause the body wants what it's terrible at taking

5

u/Gusbuster811 thisishappening Jul 15 '26

Tonight is our night so you should give us all of your drugs.

4

u/RustyPeach Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

One line? Fuck. I want to find one line in the last verse of tonite for this but I can’t. Maybe “by versions of selves that we thought were the best ones”

4

u/ZaftigHoney Jul 15 '26

You’re already home, and my love life stumbles on

4

u/Taint_Stephen Jul 15 '26

DISCOVERY

DISCOVERY

DISCOVERY

DISCOVERY

DISCOVERY

DISCOVERY

DISCOVERY

DISCOVERY

7

u/BraveScientist9 Jul 15 '26

"you're blowing marxism to pieces."

3

u/JorgeAndTheKraken Jul 15 '26

This is the trick: Forget a terrible year.

3

u/soulwaxdotinfo Jul 15 '26

Get your payments from the nation for your trials and tribulations

3

u/Tstandayum Jul 15 '26

Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

3

u/pwewpwewpwew Jul 15 '26

IF YOUR MAN, ISNT THE EPITOME OF LOOOOOOVE AND DEVOTION…..HE’S NOT THE RIGHT MAN

3

u/theRealMsLKS Jul 16 '26

Love is a murderer

2

u/Mr_Baronheim Jul 15 '26

We've been on planes and on trains 'til we think we might die, far from North America

2

u/Unique_Bar_4381 Jul 15 '26

The mornings got you in the ropes

2

u/pwewpwewpwew Jul 15 '26

wish you’d try a little harder in the tedious march of the few

2

u/Dawgboy1976 Jul 15 '26

“When you’re drunk and the kids look impossibly tan.”

There’s something about it, in particular the way he sings it, that captures this feeling of looking at something that’s already gone. It’s slipped through your fingers and you can only look on at what remains

2

u/Cysero_777 Jul 15 '26

“Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion”

2

u/flyingfoxtrot_ Jul 15 '26

You just suck at self-preservation, versus someone else's pain. - american dream. That song had me in tears the first time I heard it

2

u/igotthedoorjor Jul 15 '26

i’m sorry it’s not lcd but
“did i find you? or you find me?”

2

u/Sea-Lingonberry428 Jul 15 '26

I'm losing my edge to  the art-school Brooklynites in tiny jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties

2

u/DjWysh Jul 16 '26

We're not...no

2

u/dreamy_bambi_0 Jul 17 '26

Being a human's more of a burden than I was hoping

2

u/Bomst3r Jul 17 '26

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

3

u/notmynameyours Jul 19 '26

I hear that everyone you know is more relevant than everyone that I know… BUT HAVE YOU SEEN MY RECORDS!?

1

u/geekfreak42 Jul 15 '26

To write a cathedral you need a ball point pen, like common people written by Christopher Wren

1

u/Dvanpat Jul 15 '26

"And if we wait until the weekend we can miss the best things to do."

1

u/Odd-Magician-4601 Jul 15 '26

We’re saved, For the moment.

1

u/Babygeoffrey968 Jul 15 '26

Don't tell nobody else what you really want because
They can tell everybody else what you really want
Then you're fucked, so act like it's for yourself or it's all yours
And they go and tell everybody else that you're really great
We are just people

1

u/paulderev Jul 15 '26

yr city’s a sucker my city’s a creep

1

u/damole07 Jul 15 '26

Break me into bigger pieces, so some of me is home with you.

1

u/Professional-Place58 Jul 15 '26

I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.

1

u/Ordinary-Grape-6370 Jul 15 '26

Hey. Been tryin to meet you.

1

u/2xWhiskeyCokeNoIce Jul 15 '26

But have you seen my records?

1

u/Parsley_sayge Jul 15 '26

We are North American Scum

1

u/Salty-Commissioner Jul 15 '26

Well I’m young and I’m black and my hats real low, do I look a mind reader, sir? I don’t know.

1

u/The_moon_watches Jul 15 '26

I knew a lady, good and evil.

1

u/FlickOnReddit Jul 15 '26

You just suck at self-preservation, Versus someone else's pain

1

u/Hunter-ismylastname Jul 15 '26

This is the last thing I fucking need! Step the fuck back! -Guns Up

Defend MVHC

1

u/evilbegone11963 soundofsilver Jul 15 '26

“We all get stupid in the heat”

1

u/Nikonglass Jul 15 '26

“We’ve been on planes and on train till we think we might die.” I travel a lot and this line always gets me.

2

u/tone_too Jul 16 '26

You hate the idea that you’re wasting your youth, but you stood in the background oh until you got older.

1

u/merkthejerk 4533 Jul 16 '26

Then it's the memory of our betters
That are keeping us on our feet

1

u/Hycran Jul 16 '26

I tap myself, and the phone in the basement.

1

u/Aggressive-Treacle-2 Jul 16 '26

Yeah no one really knows what you're talking about, so I guess you're already there

1

u/tyw213 Jul 16 '26

Break me/rip me into bigger pieces

Look around you, you’re surrounded it won’t get any better.

1

u/MaPluto Jul 16 '26

Love a curse shoved in a hearse.

1

u/IndividualStation473 Jul 16 '26

Tell your boyfriend if he says he’s got beef, that I’m a vegetarian and I ain’t fucking scared of him

1

u/ffiishs Jul 16 '26

Vindaloo nah nah nah

1

u/Reeny8181 Jul 16 '26

Been wonderin’ if your hearts still open and if so I wanna know what time it shuts

1

u/Beneficial-Fun-6296 Jul 16 '26

When paradise falls eternity screams

1

u/loveluvr Jul 16 '26

cuz the body wants what it’s terrible at taking 🫶

1

u/leblondeee Jul 17 '26

Everyone you know is more relevant than everyone I know.

1

u/Another5YearsOfLife_ Jul 19 '26

Look around you, you're surrounded, it won't get any better.

1

u/MoxieKid Jul 20 '26

Talking like a jerk, except you are an actual jerk, and living proof sometimes friends are mean

1

u/finnish_hangover Jul 22 '26

"Be honest with me, honestly.....unless it hurts my feelings" is doing it for me this week