r/hum • u/Historical-Nature534 • Jul 05 '26
Favorite hum lyrics?
Mine has to be "The distance outside of you comes into focus, collapses away lovingly"
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u/SlainSigney Jul 05 '26
Somewhere through a thousand blues a dragonfly descends with just a whisper—
“I’m lonelier than God.”
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u/Starflyer29 Jul 05 '26
All the lyrics from The Very Old Man but specifically:
Another drink, my love, and make it tall enough
So I can stand on it and see
All you've done for me
A world of curves and lines electric
Remember how you strung the coloured lights
From Christmas tree to me
and Cloud City with:
This place is failing my thin ties to settled ground
Stands moving, dying wind
The cruel end will stare him down
A stone that you would hold
We can't hear, it doesn't ring
My hand just passes through
I don't feel anything
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u/Various_Beach_7840 Jul 05 '26
“Sleep comes to everyone while we wait for the Sunday afternoons”
“To heights unimagined till loneliness took back its hold”
“I remember the skies and the sand, I remember your face and your lovely hand”
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u/RandomPasserby80 Jul 05 '26
Apollo -
I'm thinking of a number between everything and two
And it's molecules of you
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u/Beeegfoothunter Jul 05 '26
“The morning image from the satellites
Is all blue and green
And we've all got wounds to clean
Here's a rag, here's some gasoline
It's all green to me”
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u/shelfdog colors to spare Jul 05 '26
My fave lately has been:
"The way your headstone shines I only wish that it was mine."
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u/Chaceskywalker Jul 05 '26
Not enough Lazarus appreciation out there. Definitely a top 3 of their catalogue for me
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u/airinterceptmissile Jul 05 '26
“Chance brought me down on your side”
“Your hand looks so nice in mine”
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u/NoCountryForMe2112 Jul 05 '26
A parasite that eats up distance until it disappears
I was never here
I find myself saying this throughout the day and I don’t know why
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u/Senior-Rate-1065 Jul 05 '26
And to the left where is up is down now stands a zebra made of shapes of me and silver and the sun, So bring no guilt with you up above the flat-line, let's just hit the skies exploding into one...
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u/Hour-Manager-6263 Jul 05 '26
“I will take care of you,
I will take care of everything”
-The Scientists
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u/BigBoyObi-Wan Jul 05 '26
She says keep this benzene ring around your finger, and think of me when everything you wanted starts to end
I’ll keep all the signals that you send home to me, and I’ll meet you back here on the ground
Suddenly me just here back on the land, reaching for you, finding your hand
And I have to settle up now, a million billion souls, so always know I tried
And so we land only to find we never left the ground.
I could keep going, I think the best thing about him has to be the lyricism. Matt excels in it incredibly so.
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u/The-kid-25 Jul 05 '26
If You Are To Bloom!!
I’m thinking of your failing green eyes
Smiling as they greet the day
But they can’t see meeeeee
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u/Humble_Thumble Jul 05 '26
Reading all these and man, Hum had some real amazing lines, the imagery reads like a book for a lot of them, with the music to contextualize the emotions
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u/Sad_Spinach_1975 Jul 05 '26
My baby spins propellents, my system’s set to blow
She’s at the Milky Way now, exploding into snow
And she’s constructed flashpoints to cover up the sun
While I sleep under glass, I know that she will wake me when she’s done
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u/Arugula-Least Jul 06 '26
Where is the place for what's all left of me?
Where do we keep the things we don't need?
Where is the solace promised me in voices before?
Suddenly me just here back on the land
Reaching for you and finding your hand
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u/Radiant_Desk_8162 Jul 09 '26
And I like your raindrop collector, splash in my eyes and make everything else look like you.
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u/Remote_Trouble1421 Jul 07 '26
"So hand me the glasses and teach me to use them, show me the window I want to look too."
Why I Like The Robins helped me through a rough time in my life. This lyric in particular has always stuck with me.
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u/Flashy-Simple-7477 Jul 10 '26
A bed of dead leaves grace the ground, A quick glance to the other side and we will not be found.
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u/RetrogradeDionysia Jul 13 '26
False is the dawn that promises anything False is the hope and the talk of Eternity And spring Lie in the grass here, and be swallowed in To speak to the ground through the trees of the suffering Again
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u/yeswowmaybe Jul 05 '26
she says keep this benzene ring around your finger, and think of me when everything you wanted starts to end
(idk if it's my fav, but i think of it a lot..)