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Lyrics of Our Generation

These lyrics echo the emotions of our generation's culture

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Lyrics of Our Generation

“What I would do to take away this fear of being loved, allegiance to the pain”

-Flume, Never Be Like You


“She just wants to be beautiful, she goes unnoticed she knows, no limits she craves attention, she praises an image. She prays to be sculpted by the sculptor”

-Alessia Cara, Scars to Your Beautiful


“No role models and I’m here right now, no role models to speak of. I’m searchin’ through my memory, my memory I couldn’t find one”

-J. Cole, No Role Models


“Don’t you ever tame your demons, but always keep ‘em on a leash”

-Hozier, Arsenic Lullaby


“We’re falling apart, still we hold together. We’ve passed the end, so we chase forever, cause this is all we know”

-Chainsmokers, All We Know


“Always keep your closest friends they can slip away, they keep you grounded, oh keep yourself surrounded with good advice”

-Alessia Cara, Seventeen


“I drink too much and that’s an issue but I’m okay”

-Chainsmokers, Closer


“I would give anything to change, this fickle minded heart, that loves fake shiny things”

-Flume, Never Be Like You


“Twist off, sip a little, pass it around. Dance in the dust turn the radio up. And that fireball whiskey whispers temptation in my ears”

-Florida Georgia Line, Round Here


“Cause baby we’re just reckless kids, trying to find an island in the flood”

-Max, Lights Down Low


“Sometimes I tend to lose myself when I’m out here on my own. I never seem to get it right, but I guess that’s how it goes”

-Al Night, The Vamps


“I should just walk away, but I can’t move my feet. The more that I know you, the more I want to, something inside me’s changed. I was so much younger yesterday”

-Hailee Steinfield, Starving


“Maybe we made her blind, so she tries to cover up her pain and cut her woes away cause cover girls don’t cry, after their face is made”

-Alessia Cara, Scars to Your Beautiful


“I wish words were like little toy guns, no sting no hurt no one, just a bang bang rolling off your tongue”

-Carrie Underwood, Toy Guns


“Wake me up when it’s all over. When I’m wiser and I’m older. All this time I was finding myself, and I didn’t know I was lost”

-Avicci, Wake Me Up

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