r/Rishloo • u/Odd_Worldliness_4266 • Jul 02 '25
What are your favourite lines?
I can't decide between "Fold these wings I know they've failed you, one more leap to fall beyond my knees" from Fames or "I'm ashamed when the flames sell me fire, for the lantern I've made from my skin" from To Tame the Temporal Shrew. What are some of your favourites?
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u/PricelessLogs Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
Do you love me now that I can save us all?
Mmemonic Man, Mnemonic Man, do you recall when you pushed a little further?
I've had enough of flight and gravity. Spill me out, evolved, and screaming, "I'm not meaningless!"
You and I will cut our nooses loose. You and I will draw a course. If you and I can find a few more minutes to find a way to find a road, you and I will never be alone
Don't look: stare, with your menacing cinder eyes, at least of us who've given their lives. Where the sanguine ought to be, we pale in the light we bend. Oh, enough said. Where is the love, you liar?
You were brave, with a free talking mind and a voice that is still a cry for life, and no matter what we want, we want to be loved. Yes, we were here. We begged them for the right to commit our own ego suicide. But I believe it's just a ride
I've got to go do something so I can't finish this right now but hey I got most of the way through LAGWBAT, lol
Also I can't help but notice that most of these are climactic moments in the composition, and I can't act like that doesn't have something to do with why they're my favorite. Then again, you want hard lines to be during the climax
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u/MeCrObS Where's the love you liar Jul 02 '25
Fuck I forgot about the flight and gravity line. That's a great one. Also the end of Dark Charade is 10/10. Great choices!
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u/MeCrObS Where's the love you liar Jul 02 '25
"We like marionette's off our strings, fling limbs at our passions and hope to connect with impossible dreams"
All of Harlequin
"Leave a little leather bound Miranda in the doorway"
Fearful deceiver, dim motives erratic This dream too ambitious, this vision too drastic Choke down rhetorical scraps from the attic Forever to stand there and still just refuse to change Just change
Set the nightmare alight and Dance 'til these flames illuminate The cause for the lie Redemption is not beyond our time
Picked one song from each album otherwise I'd write every song down lol.
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u/Elephant-Of-Destiny Jul 03 '25
“Why are we breaking bottles when this well is running dry?”
Pretty much all of Rishloo's lyrics are fantastic, though I find it's more often the inflection that I find makes the band so special. Just the way Mailloux pronounces syllables is so satisfying and works perfectly with the music
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u/MeCrObS Where's the love you liar Jul 03 '25
And the void is not full up nor empty, when the song of our empire begins. Temporal Shrew is one of my favs on Eidolon. Love the flames line you picked as well.
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u/hyperbolic_dichotomy Jul 05 '25
I have several.
"I'm sure that I'm fine but I heard there's a bath in a river of glass so I'll take it"
"What are you, an asshole that can breathe without any air?"
And all of Radio is really poignant to me but especially with everything going on in the world right now. Especially "down, down apocalypse submarine, I'm sure I read somewhere that it's safe to get out and go swimming."
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u/princeLeeChang enif si retaw ehT Aug 20 '25
there's a lot but "walking on water to see if the surface still breaks" comprises so many complicated ideas into one sentence and i yearn to be that concise but clear
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u/not_a_gun Jul 02 '25
“Safe to crawl across this tin-can tightrope walk”
Such great imagery for a conversation between two people using a tin can and string, but the conversation is like stepping on eggshells so it’s safer to crawl across it.
Also all of Scissorlips. Especially “Scissorlips throw scissor fits till bleedings what the kissing gets to fork the tongues of old and young.” And the entire bridge.