Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
Time: 2:15
I wanna wash out my head with turpentine, cyanide
I decide this internal diatribe
When I try to catch you right, I hate seeing you crying

a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing
Heard in 17 songs (17M+ combined views) — most famously in "Pedestrian at Best" by Courtney Barnett.
Updated September 26, 2026
Time: 2:15
I wanna wash out my head with turpentine, cyanide
I decide this internal diatribe
When I try to catch you right, I hate seeing you crying

Time: 0:11
Honey, this club here is stuck up
Dinner and diatribes
I knew well from our first hookup

Time: 3:04
"Wow," said the patron with a smile
"That's the most interesting diatribe I've heard in a while
How you articulated the nature and put it all on trial

Time: 0:00
How could such potential go unrealized
The natives speak in tongues and tangled truths while chanting diatribes
Somewhere deep down in the subconscious wrapped in riddles lies

Time: 9:41
Of how it all goes down between me and them
Some ten verse chorus-less diatribe
Plays as they all jump ship, "I used to like this guy

Time: 3:00
Frights came wailing from the dark side
Haunting lipless mouths a fugue of arcane diatribes
Velvet, their voices coffined her in slumber

Time: 2:00
Unaware of pitfalls that you face when you come of age
With grandiose, lofty ideals and diatribes
They take God out your chest and place him in the sky

Time: 2:20
I'm selfish with the bars, in private life, I'm generous
I can't entertain y'all silly diatribes and rhetoric
The game's a motherfucker, we idolizing Oedipus

Time: 0:27
Again, I'm the one they all run from
Diatribes of clouded sun
Someone help me find the pause button

Time: 3:33
Is it 'cause we like to hear the sound of our voice?
Big-hearted diatribes, just like my dilemma.
Time to return compliments, shattering the passive dream?

Time: 1:08
Like Britney's larynx at the age of 99
Watch me try to justify my verbal diarrhoea diatribe
In a vain attempt to coincide with the beat

Time: 0:37
And he won't say Goodbye.
Diapers and diatribes,
Of her Daddy on the rum;

Time: 2:06
The carbon copies
The diatribes and lectures left unsaid
That's you and me

Time: 3:56
The holy host
A boast or diatribe
Long renditions

Time: 1:50
see how much they're fucking when their dead,
pornographic fuck-fest ride, A.I.D.S.-infested diatribes,
orgiastic atrophy all reduced to greed,

Time: 0:12
i got lost in the world
slow motion walking and diatribe talking
as bad as things be, i'm a natural survivor

Time: 1:03
I can't fuckin play along
Every song I write's a diatribe
Too much to say, it's a waste of time
