Awesome / The Hold Steady

• "We're gonna build something this summer."
  • "This summer!"
• The song "Knuckles" paints the month of December as a very dismal time period by use of a metaphor describing five live spiders trapped inside a web. This continues until the music drops out and comes back in at the revelation that Craig Finn lied about about the spiders dying, with an Epic Riff to boot.
  "The last guy didn't really die!
  I just lied!
  And the first four didn't really die!
  I just lied!"
• This lyric from "Most People Are DJs:"
  "A thousand kids will fall in love in all these clubs tonight
  a thousand other kids will end up gushing blood tonight
  two thousand kids won't get all that much sleep tonight
  two thousand kids— they still feel pretty sweet tonight!"
• "We had some massive nights..."
• A live example - Craig Finn guested on an electric performance of "This Year" by the Mountain Goats at the Bowery Ballroom. After the final lyric of "I am going to make it/ through this year/ if it kills me!" John Darnielle unexpectedly title-dropped Craig's recurring lyric - "And it almost killed me! It almost killed me!". And the crowd - and Craig Finn - go wild.