platitude

It takes more to be convincing

Than platitudes 'cause your words are wearin' thin

I rush you stall

And is she up there out of view

On some higher platitude

I wish I knew

First day of the new job, and he was so nervous

The suit and the platitude, "Can I be of service?"

His boss made him clean all the cars

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How many platitudes can you say?

In the time that it takes for beauty to fade

Shoots down my sliding door

To the ocean of my platitudes

Longitudes, latitudes, it's so absurd

Without a reason or rhyme

(Since when) Was the platitude of honorable mention

(Since when) Only a dishonor to behold

So you can read aloud from your big tell-all

Anecdotes in platitudes

This world's mean getting meaner too

When it's my love that's gone

Now old platitudes

Like find somebody else

Toasting the latitudes

Old empty platitudes

Tossing, turning

Don't tell me just to breathe!

Take your pretty little platitudes and finally leave

Keep your toxic positivity away from me

I don't need an attitude

Rebellion is a platitude

I only hope the verse is good

The platitudes, they all dissolved

They got too deep, got too involved

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Tune out platitudes like these:

Money doesn't grow on trees

Or horror unleashed from across oceans

Assail me not with noble policy, for I care not at all for platitude

And surrender such tedious detail to greater minds than mine

You feel nobody's listening

You don't need another platitude

For a moment you forget

Suffocating lassitude

Drowning in my platitude

Trapped by insecurities

Bringin' us better days

I know you've heard all the platitudes

About attitude and positive thinking

Before I spill the things I mean to hide away

Or gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment

I'll drown the urge for permanence and certainty

Stated as an English sentence

Of course, this is just a banal platitude

But the fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence

And keep pouring them with gratitude

And all the other platitudes

They'll make you feel important when you go

Throw caution to the wind

And other platitudes that were written just for you

Take a shit in the swimming pool

No one's searching the earth for me

Platitudes and empty words

I can't tell you which one's worse

But God don't be confused

I've been living my life with my platitudes

Statuette on the console