American hardcore punk band Turnstile have been around for more than 15 years now, and over the last half of a decade, they’re really made a name for themselves.
In 2021, their third album, Glow On, won over audiences with songs “Holiday” and “Blackout,” leading to multiple Grammy nominations and widespread acclaim. This year, they released their critically lauded fourth album, NEVER ENOUGH, in June of last year, following by their big performance at Coachella in 2026. To celebrate their ongoing legacy, we’ve collected 58 of their most memorable and emotional lyrics of all time to use as your next Instagram caption.
For struggling to make peace with yourself:
“Running from yourself now, can’t hear what you’re told. Never let your guard down anywhere you go.”
-“NEVER ENOUGH”
For fumbling even with everything in your favor:
“In the right place at the right time, and still, you sink into the floor.”
-“NEVER ENOUGH”
For when love alone cannot sustain you:
“It’s never enough, love.”
-“NEVER ENOUGH”
For feeling like solitude is simpler:
“Sole. Steady as you float. You’re better off alone.”
-“SOLE”
For being fooled by bright, shiny things:
“Bright lights are never what they seem.”
-“SOLE”
For always doing more than is reasonable:
“I’m happy to give myself away. I’m happy to fix what I can’t change.”
-“I CARE”
For giving your all to prove a point:
“All because you know I care. All because you know I’m there.”
-“I CARE”
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For overthinking everything:
“When I get to dreaming, then I know everything I fear is so real.”
-“DREAMING”
For overcoming something:
“Never thought I’d be on my own, my own, but I survived.”
-“LIGHT DESIGN”
For wishing they’d get in touch:
“Deep in the night, I’m waiting for the call.”
-“DULL”
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For watching the time slip away from you:
“Days into years holding out, barely on the borderline.”
-“SUNSHOWER”
For weighing every option so you don’t have to act:
“Better late than never, so I’ll spend some time away circling the drain of every possibility.”
-“LOOK OUT FOR ME”
For being let down by love:
“Now my heart is hanging by a thread.”
-“LOOK OUT FOR ME”
For feeling the days growing shorter and shorter:
“24 hours ain’t the day it used to be.”
-“LOOK OUT FOR ME”
For being bewildered about someone’s attention:
“Something in the way that you’re staring into me has got me blinded.”
-“CEILING”
For things never going how you think:
“Try to make a plan, but it shatters in your hands all the pieces.”
-“CEILING”
For losing touch with someone:
“You know I’ve come to find it hard to know exactly where you are.”
-“SEEIN’ STARS”
For when it feels like the artist is speaking directly to your soul:
“I don’t know, but I believe I found a song playing just for me.”
-“BIRDS”
For finding your flock:
“Finally I can see it. These birds not meant to fly alonе.”
-“BIRDS”
For knowing the love has faded:
“Know I’m what you’re looking for, but you don’t see me anymorе.”
-“SLOWDIVE”
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For putting another week behind you:
“Time is happening, ever passing me.”
-“TIME IS HAPPENING”
For realizing you’re not fully in control:
“Wandering the world, but the world’s got a plan of its own.”
-“MAGIC MAN”
For when words do real damage:
“You got me paralyzed, you got me stunned. Words like bombs, I’m going numb.”
-“DON’T PLAY”
For feeling like you’re never the priority:
“Fallen by the wayside, never on the timeline.”
-“UNDERWATER BOI”
For catching a break from the real world:
“Now it’s a holiday.”
-“HOLIDAY”
For embracing aimlessness:
“And I can sail with no direction.”
-“HOLIDAY”
For feeling trapped in your situation:
“Ain’t nobody getting in. Ain’t nobody getting out. Ain’t no other way around. Now you’re in a lockdown.”
-“HUMANOID / SHAKE IT UP”
For not worrying if your love is doomed:
“Following a feeling in my heart, even if it all just falls apart.”
-“ENDLESS”
For missing someone:
“Still can’t fill the hole you left behind.”
-“FLY AGAIN”
For knowing you’re not alone:
“Can’t be the only one.”
-“ALIEN LOVE CALL”
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For finding a piece of your inner strength:
“Light inside of me, hard enough to see. What else could it mean? Love is in the heart.”
-“ALIEN LOVE CALL”
For when life gets completely unpredictable:
“Wild times, so easy to find in such a wild world.”
-“WILD WRLD”
For understanding the importance of self-expression:
“If we don’t let our feelings show, then it’s easy come, easy go.”
-“DANCE-OFF”
For feeling like your opinion changes nothing:
“And do I really have a say? Change is guaranteed to roll in like waves.”
-“NEW HEART DESIGN”
For pampering yourself:
“A little T.L.C. for me.”
-“T.L.C. (TURNSTILE LOVE CONNECTION)”
For the one who’s your mirror:
“I want to thank you for letting me see myself.”
-“T.L.C. (TURNSTILE LOVE CONNECTION)”
For clinging to your big feelings:
“Real thing I’m feeling. No eyes can see it. Part dream, part memory. Got to make myself believe.”
-“Real Thing”
For not wanting anyone’s approval:
“I don’t need your big smile, your green light.”
-“Big Smile”
For knowing they don’t need you:
“Without me, you’ll be moving along just fine.”
-“Generator”
For figuring it out on your own:
“And now I gotta make my own way.”
-“Generator”
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For ignoring the truth:
“When I close my eyes it’s fine.”
-“I Don’t Wanna Be Blind”
For knowing that if you don’t say what you need to you’ll burst:
“Oh and I keep holding back the words I want to hide, but it’s much too, much too, much too keep it all inside.”
-“High Pressure”
For when everything changes:
“Lost another piece of my world.”
-“(Lost Another) Piece of My World”
For when action keeps your thoughts at bay:
“Every time I slow down, fear comes moving in again.”
-“Can’t Get Away”
For the thoughts that won’t leave you alone:
“I can’t get away from myself.”
-“Can’t Get Away”
For hoping distance makes the heart grow fonder:
“We need time and space.”
-“Time & Space”
For practicing self-deception:
“Because I’ve been living a lie, something over my eyes.”
-“Gravity”
For staying focused on the present:
“Don’t need the future, don’t need the past.”
-“Drop”
For when a bad mood lingers for a while:
“I’ve been stuck in a real bad wave. Put my head in some real dark places.”
-“Bad Wave”
For feeling lonely in their presence:
“You don’t have to leave to make me feel alone.”
-“Blue by You”
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For when your head refuses to quiet down:
“Can’t find the switch to stop the thoughts.”
-“Stress”
For falling in love too easily:
“I’ve been there before, leaving my heart like an open door.”
-“Keep It Moving”
For becoming an outsider again:
“I thought that I belonged, man I’ll never understand what I’m doing so wrong.”
-“Pushing Me Away”
For when something thinks they know everything:
“You’ve been talking in my ear so long, but I don’t think you know what’s best for me.”
-“Figure It Out”
For not taking their advice:
“So who are you to try and tell me how to live my life?”
-“Figure It Out”
For feeling possessed and not loved:
“You want me to be eternally yours, but not, not my love.”
-“Death Grip”
For being nothing but yourself:
“I’m not your average. I’m not your ordinary.”
-“The Things You Do”
For seeking a sense of peace:
“Let me be alright now.”
-“Heavy Hand”
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