diatribe

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

Songs Featuring “diatribe”

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

Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best

Hozier - Dinner & Diatribes

Time: 0:11

Honey, this club here is stuck up

Dinner and diatribes

I knew well from our first hookup

Hozier - Dinner & Diatribes

Lupe Fiasco - MS. MURAL

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

Lupe Fiasco - MS. MURAL

Mushroomhead - The War Inside

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

Mushroomhead - The War Inside

Father John Misty - Leaving LA

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

Father John Misty - Leaving LA

Cradle of Filth - Desire in Violent Overture

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

Cradle of Filth - Desire in Violent Overture

Deca - Sailboats and Trains

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

Deca - Sailboats and Trains

Tech N9ne - It Goes Up Freestyle

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

Tech N9ne - It Goes Up Freestyle

Alanis Morissette - Tapes

Time: 0:27

Again, I'm the one they all run from

Diatribes of clouded sun

Someone help me find the pause button

Alanis Morissette - Tapes

Napalm Death - Diatribes

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?

Napalm Death - Diatribes

Regurgitator - I Like Repetitive Music

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

Regurgitator - I Like Repetitive Music

Great Big Sea - Hit The Ground And Run

Time: 0:37

And he won't say Goodbye.

Diapers and diatribes,

Of her Daddy on the rum;

Great Big Sea - Hit The Ground And Run

Daniel Rossen - I'll Wait For Your Visit

Time: 2:06

The carbon copies

The diatribes and lectures left unsaid

That's you and me

Daniel Rossen - I'll Wait For Your Visit

Guided by Voices - Slowly On The Wheel

Time: 3:56

The holy host

A boast or diatribe

Long renditions

Guided by Voices - Slowly On The Wheel

Dying Fetus - Fornication Terrorists

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,

Dying Fetus - Fornication Terrorists

Turin Brakes - Last Clown

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

Turin Brakes - Last Clown

Maniac - Failson

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

Maniac - Failson