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Damien Rice - Rootless Tree is a pretty good one in this case, if you're pissed off at someone in particular. There's not much better than screaming:

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you

and all we've been through.

I said leave it, leave it, leave it,

There's nothing in you.

And if you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good

then you can let me out

let me out, let me out

of this hell when you're around.

Let me out, let me out, let me out.

Hell when you're around.

Let me out, let me out, let me out.

 

or, Bright Eye's Drunk Kids Catholics, just for this segment:

And every night I think I certaintly won't ever sleep sober or alone

And then suddenly it occurs to me

I've slept alone before you

And so I pour myself the stiffest drink my stomach can stand

And convince myself to lay back down again

 

oooorrr you could just put this line from iron & wine's evening on the ground on over and over again. trust me it works:

we were born to fuck each other

one way or another

but i'll only lie

down by the waterside at night

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How about Bob Dylans "Dirge" Thats gotta be right up there, great first verse lyrics, and a great "fuck you" song

 

 

I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed

You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road.

The stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel,

I hate myself for lovin' you and I'm glad the curtain fell.

 

I hate that foolish game we played and the need that was expressed

And the mercy that you showed to me, who ever would have guessed?

I went out on Lower Broadway and I felt that place within,

That hollow place where martyrs weep and angels play with sin.

 

Heard your songs of freedom and man forever stripped,

Acting out his folly while his back is being whipped.

Like a slave in orbit, he's beaten 'til he's tame,

All for a moment's glory and it's a dirty, rotten shame.

 

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them,

In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem.

The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet,

I've paid the price of solitude, but at least I'm out of debt.

 

Can't recall a useful thing you ever did for me

'Cept pat me on the back one time when I was on my knees.

We stared into each other's eyes 'til one of us would break,

No use to apologize, what diff'rence would it make?

 

So sing your praise of progress and of the Doom Machine,

The naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Lady Luck, who shines on me, will tell you where I'm at,

I hate myself for lovin' you, but I should get over that.

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Ween...Piss up a Rope

 

Nice. "Baby Bitch" is pretty brutal, too.

 

Dylan likes hisself a good musical middle finger. I'll add "4th Time Around" and its spectacular closing lyric "And I, I never took much / I never asked for your crutch / Now don't ask for mine"

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Good choices all around. Some other nominees:

 

"Yesterday's Papers" by the Stones.

 

"How Do You Sleep" by John Lennon.

 

"Stupid Girl" by Neil Young (or for that matter, "Stupid Girl" by the Stones).

 

"Mother's Little Helper" by the Stones.

 

"Amsterdam" by Guster.

 

"Oh No" by Frank Zappa.

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"Stupid Girl" by Neil Young (or for that matter, "Stupid Girl" by the Stones).

 

you beat me to it i was going to say stupid girl too.

 

I would also like to nominate again Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name

 

Tool's-Push it:

If, when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay,

You minimize my movement anyway,

Well, I must persuade you another way.

 

Pushing and Shoving and

Pushing and Shoving and

Pushing me.

 

There's no love in fear.

 

Staring down the hole again.

Hands are on my back again.

Survival is my only friend.

Terrified of what may come.

 

Remember I will always love you,

As I claw your fucking throat away.

It will end no other way.

It will end no other way.

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"Come Pick Me Up" by Ryan Adams always seem to get me into a real 'fuck you' mood.

 

2nd that...

 

and on a more literal note..... Public Enemy's "By The Time I Get To Arizona" is pretty "fuck you"

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Actually, speaking of Dylan, "Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)" is a good one.

 

Uh, OK...

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Rise Above -Black Flag*

Die, Die My Darling -Misfits

Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell -Stooges, could work

Shit List -L7, is tailor made

 

*Kudos to whoever it was that mentioned this first.

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