Favorite Lyrics

TheCunningStunt · 12-12-2009, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by AwwSugar

There's a link for embedding on every YouTube page. It should be at the right side of the screen.
And then when you copy and paste it to here, highlight the link and press the button that says YouTube on it on the top right side of the "Go Advanced" post.
Click that.
And then post it.

I can do it, yay.

Thank you.

Arya Stark · 12-12-2009, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

I can do it, yay.

Thank you.

No problem.

I'm not sure if that was a good explanation.
Anyone feel free to correct me.

SATCHMO · 12-12-2009, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

Blur - No Distance Left To Run

This song contains some brilliant lyrics.

"I won't kill myself trying to stay in your life, I got no distance left to run."

Also, I wish I knew how to post Youtube clips so they come up like they do on Youtube.

Fixed. Hit edit on your OP to see what I did.

rochka57 · 12-13-2009, 12:36 PM

"Could it be any harder to live my life without you
Could it be any harder to watch you go, to face what's true
If I only had one more day.." Could It Be Any Harder by The Calling

And I love the lyrics to Give It All by Rise Against <3 Don't know why, but the songs just speaks to me.

RubiExpressTJ · 12-13-2009, 12:48 PM

"If i can't be my own, I'd feel better dead" Alice In Chains-Nutshell

ElephantSack · 12-14-2009, 11:44 PM

Another one I like is this.

"Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Like the blood on my door.
Wash me clean and I will run
until I reach the shore."

Bad Religion - Generator
I don't really know why. I'm not 100% on what he was getting at with this song, but that line in particular gets me with it's lyrics and singing style.

For some reason it just reminded me of these lyrics.

"I could either drown
or pull off my skin and swim to shore.
Now I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see."

Mad Season - River of Deceit
I guess the similar word is basically what reminded me of this song. They both have similar mental images when I think about the words and how painful they sound. Very passionate, very real. The kind of song that you can't smile and sing at the same time without sarcasm.

likuidcoka · 12-15-2009, 01:15 AM

FFDP- The Bleeding

Paint the mirrors black to forget you
I still picture your face and the way you used to taste
Roses in a glass, dead and wilted
To you this all was nothing
Everything to you is nothing

Well you're so filthy
I'm better off without you and you're better off without me
Well I'm so ugly
You're better off without me and I'm better off alone

The lying, the bleeding, the screaming
Was tearing me apart
The hatred, the beatings, disaster; it's over

As wicked as you are, you're beautiful to me
You're the darkest burning star, you're my perfect disease

Bulldog · 12-16-2009, 03:29 PM

Some more of MacGowan's finest...

I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the first time
I never think about the last

The Pogues - Rainy Night In Soho

WolfAtTheDoor · 12-16-2009, 07:17 PM

The entire last verse of Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis. Such a clever use of characterisation within a song.

"hey Charley
for chrissakes
do you want to know
the truth of it?
I don't have a husband
he don't play the trombone
and I need to borrow money
to pay this lawyer
and Charley, hey
I'll be eligible for parole
come valentines day."

This little gem from 'How To Disappear Completely' by Radiohead. A wonderfully clever way of verbalising the hopelessness of wanting to disassociate yourself from your own life. Anyone who has ever felt lost will connect with these lyrics.

"That there, that's not me, and I'm not here, this isn't happening"

And finally from 'Five Years' by David Bowie

"I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
drinking milkshakes, cold and long
smiling and waving and looking so fine
don't think you knew you were in this song"

CanwllCorfe · 12-16-2009, 08:44 PM

John Dowland - If My Complaints Could Passions Move

If my complaints could passions move,
Or make Love see wherein I suffer wrong:
My passions were enough to prove,
That my despairs had govern'd me too long.
O Love, I live and die in thee,
Thy grief in my deep sighs still speaks:
Thy wounds do freshly bleed in me,
My heart for thy unkindness breaks:
Yet thou dost hope when I despair,
And when I hope, thou mak'st me hope in vain.
Thou say'st thou canst my harms repair,
Yet for redress, thou let'st me still complain.
Can Love be rich, and yet I want?
Is Love my judge, and yet I am condemn'd?
Thou plenty hast, yet me dost scant:
Thou made a God, and yet thy power contemn'd.
That I do live, it is thy power:
That I desire it is thy worth:
If Love doth make men's lives too sour,
Let me not love, nor live henceforth.
Die shall my hopes, but not my faith,
That you that of my fall may hearers be
May here despair, which truly saith,
I was more true to Love than Love to me

12-14-2009, 11:44 PM	#196 (permalink)
ElephantSack Man vs. Wild Turkey Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: ATX Posts: 948	Another one I like is this. "Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like the blood on my door. Wash me clean and I will run until I reach the shore." Bad Religion - Generator I don't really know why. I'm not 100% on what he was getting at with this song, but that line in particular gets me with it's lyrics and singing style. For some reason it just reminded me of these lyrics. "I could either drown or pull off my skin and swim to shore. Now I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see." Mad Season - River of Deceit I guess the similar word is basically what reminded me of this song. They both have similar mental images when I think about the words and how painful they sound. Very passionate, very real. The kind of song that you can't smile and sing at the same time without sarcasm. __________________ OF THE SUN Last edited by ElephantSack; 12-14-2009 at 11:51 PM.

12-15-2009, 01:15 AM	#197 (permalink)
likuidcoka MOuthWIdeSHut Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hippocampus Posts: 85	FFDP- The Bleeding Paint the mirrors black to forget you I still picture your face and the way you used to taste Roses in a glass, dead and wilted To you this all was nothing Everything to you is nothing Well you're so filthy I'm better off without you and you're better off without me Well I'm so ugly You're better off without me and I'm better off alone The lying, the bleeding, the screaming Was tearing me apart The hatred, the beatings, disaster; it's over As wicked as you are, you're beautiful to me You're the darkest burning star, you're my perfect disease __________________

12-16-2009, 07:17 PM	#199 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	The entire last verse of Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis. Such a clever use of characterisation within a song. "hey Charley for chrissakes do you want to know the truth of it? I don't have a husband he don't play the trombone and I need to borrow money to pay this lawyer and Charley, hey I'll be eligible for parole come valentines day." This little gem from 'How To Disappear Completely' by Radiohead. A wonderfully clever way of verbalising the hopelessness of wanting to disassociate yourself from your own life. Anyone who has ever felt lost will connect with these lyrics. "That there, that's not me, and I'm not here, this isn't happening" And finally from 'Five Years' by David Bowie "I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour drinking milkshakes, cold and long smiling and waving and looking so fine don't think you knew you were in this song" __________________ *press your space face close to mine, love*

12-16-2009, 08:44 PM	#200 (permalink)
CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	John Dowland - If My Complaints Could Passions Move If my complaints could passions move, Or make Love see wherein I suffer wrong: My passions were enough to prove, That my despairs had govern'd me too long. O Love, I live and die in thee, Thy grief in my deep sighs still speaks: Thy wounds do freshly bleed in me, My heart for thy unkindness breaks: Yet thou dost hope when I despair, And when I hope, thou mak'st me hope in vain. Thou say'st thou canst my harms repair, Yet for redress, thou let'st me still complain. Can Love be rich, and yet I want? Is Love my judge, and yet I am condemn'd? Thou plenty hast, yet me dost scant: Thou made a God, and yet thy power contemn'd. That I do live, it is thy power: That I desire it is thy worth: If Love doth make men's lives too sour, Let me not love, nor live henceforth. Die shall my hopes, but not my faith, That you that of my fall may hearers be May here despair, which truly saith, I was more true to Love than Love to me __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.

12-13-2009, 12:36 PM	#194 (permalink)
rochka57 Groupie Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New York State Posts: 10	"Could it be any harder to live my life without you Could it be any harder to watch you go, to face what's true If I only had one more day.." Could It Be Any Harder by The Calling And I love the lyrics to Give It All by Rise Against <3 Don't know why, but the songs just speaks to me.

12-13-2009, 12:48 PM	#195 (permalink)
RubiExpressTJ Groupie Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 7	"If i can't be my own, I'd feel better dead" Alice In Chains-Nutshell

12-16-2009, 03:29 PM	#198 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	Some more of MacGowan's finest... I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the first time I never think about the last The Pogues - Rainy Night In Soho