Man!
I just downloaded the RITES OF SPRING album. Rites of Spring were an early (perhaps the first) emo band from '85. They were one of my favourite bands when I was 16. I remember sitting in my room, in bed or on the floor, listening to the album and their 7" over and over again with the lyric sheet splayed out in front of me.

I related SO MUCH to their lyrics! And the wild chaotic music, the screaming, the excited rush! My god, I'm listening to "End on End" right now for the first time in years and years and it is everything I remember.

A lot of the songs deal with lonliness. Solitude. The unbridgeable gulf between you and I, in spite of our physical proximity. The danger and hurt of words. And so on! RAAAAAWWWWRRR!!!!

Some lyrics:

We are all trapped in prisons of the mind,
it's a hard sensibility
but we'll see it through in time
but when words come between us
Noiseless in the air
Believe me, I know it's so easy to despair.

but don't
Tonight i'm talking to myself
There's no one that I know as well
Thoughts collide without a sound
Frantic, fighting to be found

And I've found things in this life
that still are real
a remainder refusing to be concealed
And I've found the answer lies in a real emotion
Not the self-indulgence of a self-devotion

Too many situations
Left with too little to say
So we try, we try to feel our way
And if decisions cause divisions
Tell me who's to blame?
Pick a target for convenience
When there are other ways

So don't
Tonight i'm talking to myself
There's no one that I know as well
Thoughts collide without a sound
Frantic, fighting to be found

And I've found things in this life
that still are real
a remainder refusing to be concealed
I've found the answer lies in a real emotion
Not the self-indulgence of a self-devotion