Favorite Lyrics
 

Post your favorite Lyrics here, here's mine:


You can spoon my eyes out,
but I can still see through you
Slice my ears from my head,
but you can not shut out the sounds of truth
Lock off each hand at the wrist
so I can't raise my fist!

you can kill the protestor (can't kill)
you can't kill the protest
you can murder the rebel (murder)
you can't murder the rebellion

Sawed my feet at the ankles, but i wasnt going to run
Grabbed my face, sliced off my tongue
Lock off each hand at the wrist,
so I can't raise my fist!

you can kill the protestor (can't kill)
you can't kill the protest
you can murder the rebel (murder)
you can't murder the rebellion

LYING STILL NOW, NO WAY TO SPEAK. NOTHING TO FEAR, BULLETS CAN'T SILENCE IDEAS!


That is a song by anti-flag.

Cut my life into pieces
This is my last resort
Suffocation no breathing
Don't give a **** if I cut my arm bleeding

This is my last resort

Cut my life into pieces
I've reached my last resort
Suffocation no breathing
Don't give a **** if I cut my arm bleeding
Do you even care if I die pleading
Would it be wrong, would it be right
If I took my life tonight
Chances are that I might
Mudilation out of sight
And I'm contimplating suicide

'Cause I'm losing my sight, losing my mind
Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine
Losing my sight, losing my mind
Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine

I never realized I was spread too thin
Till it was too late and I was empty within
Hungry, feeding on my chaos and living in sin
Downward spiral, where do I begin
It all started when I lost my mother
No love for myself and no love for another
Searching to find a love upon a higher level
finding nothing but questions and devils

'Cause I'm losing my sight, losing my mind
Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine
Losing my sight, losing my mind
Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine

Nothing's alright, nothing is fine
I'm running and I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying, I'm crying, I'm crying

I can't go on living this way

Cut my life into pieces
This is my last resort
Suffocation no breathing
Don't give a **** if I cut my arm bleeding

Would it be wrong, would it be right
If I took my life tonight
Chances are that I might
Mudilation out of sight
And I'm contimplating suicide

'Cause I'm losing my sight, losing my mind
Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine
Losing my sight, losing my mind
Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine

Nothing's alright, nothing is fine
I'm running and I'm crying

I can't go on living this way

Can't go on living this way
Nothing's alright

Papa Roach Last resort!

Led Zepplin's Stairway to Heaven:

There is a lady, who is safe that everything, which sparkles is gold
And it buys a stairway to the sky.
If it receives there, it knows, if all memory is closed
For with a word it can receive, which came it.
Ooh, ooh and them buy a stairway to the sky.

There is an indication on the wall, but she would like to be safe
because sometimes you know, words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there is a singing bird, which sings,
Sometimes all are our thoughts misgiven.
Ooh, he educates me to miracle,
Ooh, he educates me to miracle.

There is a feeling, that, I, if I look to the west receive,
And my spirit walk for leaving.
In my thoughts I saw rings of the smoke by the trees,
And the voices of those those, which stand looking.
Ooh, he educates me to miracle,
Ooh, he really educates me to miracle.

And it whispered that soon if we all call the melody
Then leads piper us to conclude.
And a new day dawns for those, which long
And the forests resound with laughter against.

If a hasty bustle in their hedgerow, are alarms not now you gives,
It is a spring straight, which is clean for May queen.
There are two ways, which can pass you, but on a long-term basis
There is calm time to change the road which you are switched on.
And it educates me to miracle.

Their head hums and it does not go, if you do not know,
Pipers, which call you, in order to connect it,
If lady loves, can hear you through the wind burn and you knew
Their stairway is on whispering the wind.

And like we on down the road windings
Our shade more highly than our soul.
There goes a lady we, who all
Who shines white light and would like to represent
As everything turns still at gold.
And if you hear very strongly
The melody comes to you finally.
If all are, everything is one and one
Its a rock and do not roll.

And it buys a stairway to the sky.

I thought of another good one:
Tammy flunked a test yesterday and all she does is cry
if they kick her off the cheerleaders squad
she knows she's gonna die
she can't even go home at night because she is so afraid
that her parents might ground her
'cause she didn't make the grade
now her friends won't understand they might even laugh at her,
now she's feeling overwhelmed suc***bing to the pressure
so she wrote a little note and addressed it to her mom
she said i hope this brings you peace
pray for me until i'm gone.

Lately something's wrong with jane she's always late for school
she can't take another day of her girlfriends being cruel
she's great on all the football fields ringing out all the cheers
but in the halls of school she gets tormented by her peers
as long as she's a cheerleader everything's gonna be alright
but unlike all the othergirls she's home at friday nights
just to be excepted once, was her one and only wish
but she never was at all
she sliced her lovely wrists.

Marsha was a straight A girl on the cheerleadrs team
everyone thought she was stupid
always lost in a big dream
and they named her ****t was stinging cause of the way that she would talk
all the girls would laugh behind her back
and the boys stopped the ball to mock
and now she's feeling so bad she's refusing to speak
her parents are a bit worried
she hasn't spoken in a week
it's like she's crying out for help and it seems she lost all hope
her parents found her a day later hanging from a knotted rope.

Nancy's got the worst of it because she's prettiest
everyone thinks she's conceited she always looks her best
she goes out with all the football guys and every one thinks she
is much too popular not to have lost her virginity.
she has no one she can turn to when she's feeling really sad
and last night on her date some guy raped her really bad
all she wanted was to be loved but she always felt so cheap
so she stole some sleeping pills ate them all and when to sleep

Stupid reasons why (reasons why...)
they all had to die (suicide...)
Stupid reasons why (resons why)
they all had to die (suicide)
stupid reasons why (reasons why)
they all had to die (suicide)
stupid reasons why (resons why)
they all had to die
suicide... suicide.... suicide... suicide....


That is called 4 dead cheerleaders by the Dropkick Murphys

i dont have any full songs but just pieces of songs (most by thrice, dustin is a great song writer)

"Every time I play with passion I start breaking strings, and my voice cracks when i sing from my heart. Guess that's the price I've gotta pay to know that I'm alive, this melody is tearing me apart."

"ten thousand jaded tourists who've traded in their hearts and hands for disposable cameras, set to do***ent to decay set to capture just enough of life to catalogue the things we throw away"

"Take this blade a test of faith and strike me deep and true, i put all my trust in you!!"

"I wanna write the perfect song and play it just for you while you are tangled up in sleep... I need you more than I'll never knoe and until I stop breathing my lungs will take you for granted"

so much more but thats all i got for now

Me too, bits and pieces stand out and stick in my mind and/or heart forever.

"Sail on silvergirl/ sail on by/ your time has come to shine/ all your dreams are on their way/ see how they shine/ oh if you need a friend/ I'm sailing right behind" (Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water)

"Psychic changes are born in your heart, Entertain/ A nervous breakthrough that makes us the same/ Bless your heart girl/ Kill the pressure it's raining on/ Salty Cheeks/ When you hear the beloved song/ I am with you" (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Parallel Universe)

"That's it sir/ I'm leaving/ The crackle/ Of pigskin/ The dust and/ The screaming/ The yuppies networking/ The panic/ The vomit/ The panic/ The vomit/ God loves his children/ God loves his children yeah" (Radiohead, Paranoid Android)

"Something in the way she moves/ Attracts me like no other lover/ Something in the way she moves me/ I don't wanna leave her now/ You know I believe in how.../ You're asking me will my love grow/ I don't know I don't know/ Stick around now it may show/ I don't know I don't know"
(The Beatles, Something)

"And when she walks/ All the wind blows and the angels sing/ But she'll never notice me" (Bowling for Soup, Girl All the Bad Guys Want)

"Limitless undying love that shines around me like a million suns and calls me on and on across the universe" (The Beatles, Across the Universe)

"I am small but I am strong I'll get it on with you/ If you want me to/ What else can I do/ All the world will take a cue from anything you do/ If you want them to/ What else can they do/ I don't wanna fight I wanna get along with you" (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cabron)

"All in my head/ I'll play dead/ If you want me to/ If you want me" (James, Play Dead)

Every single word of (Eminem, Lose Yourself)
especially "Success is my only motherf*ckin option - failure's not"

Every single word of (Radiohead, Creep) especially
"You're just like an angel/ Your skin makes me cry.../ I wish I was special/ You're so f*ckin' special/ But I'm a creep/ I'm a weirdo/ What the hell'm I doin' here/ I don't belong here/ I don't care if it hurts/ I wanna have control/ I wanna perfect body/ I wanna perfect soul/ I want you to notice/ When I'm not around/ You're so f*ckin' special/ I wish I was special..." (Radiohead, Creep)

Every single word of (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Can't Stop) especially "Your image in the dictionary/ This life is more than ordinary/ Can I get you maybe even three a-these/ Comin' from a-space to teach you bout the Pleiades/ Can't stop the spirits when they need you/ This life is more than just a read-through"

OK, OK, pretty much every lyric ever by them then. I won't bore you with any more.

Those are the ones that have stuck so much I knew them by heart to write them here. (Sorry for any odd mistakes.)

woa that's weird, that's nothing like the stairway lyrics I know, where did you get them? here's the lyrics I have, and the ones that match with the song. amazing song though

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
There's a feeling i get
When i look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts i have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

Looking back at me I see
That I never really got it right
I never stopped to think of you
I'm always wrapped up in
Things I cannnot win
You are the antidote that gets me by
Something strong
Like a drug that gets me high

What I really meant to say
Is I'm sorry for the way I am
I never meant to be so cold to you

And I'm sorry about all the lies
Maybe in a different light
You could see me stand on my own again
Cause now i can see
You were the antidote that got me by
Something strong like a drug that got me high
I never meant to be so cold

I never really wanted you to see
The screwed up side of me that I keep
Locked inside of me so deep
It always seems to get to me
I never really wanted you to go
So many things you should have known
I guess for me theres just no hope
I never meant to be so cold

This song reminds me of all the times that my mother and I argue and no matter how wrong I really am. . . I say **** you!!! Mom, if you read this, I love ya!!!
Crossfade- Cold :(

random pieces of songs...

I wish...that you could share the love you'd shared with others, with me
this isn't love so forever let it go...forever will it burn
this isn't love there on the backend of forever I wish I would never hurt again
-backend of forever, Coheed and Cambria

I won't ask you to give up on the things that seem to keep you gone
but I could be gone too.
feel a little sorry sometimes, you're not here when I am writing
feels a little awkward sometimes, you won't talk but we're not fighting
you hold on to your secrets, and I'm not privy to whats on your mind
but I cannot help but feel tired, so tired, so tired
-anyone,anyone , dashboard

So, is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with.
Cause I've seen more spine on jellyfish.
I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids.
Have another drink and drive yourself home.
I hope there's ice on all the roads.
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt,
and again when your head goes through the windshield.
70X7 , brand new

Meet me in outer space.
I will hold you close, if you're afraid of heights.
I need you to see this place, it might be the only way
that I can show you how
it feels to be inside of you.
How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do.
How do you do it?
It's better than I ever knew.
-stellar, incubus

I haven't felt the way I feel today
In so long it's hard for me to specify
I'm beginning to notice how much this feels
Like a waking limb, pins and needles
Nice to know you, goodbye"
-nice to know you, incubus

You only see what you want to believe
When you creep from the back
You got tricks up my sleeve
24/7 the devils my best friend
Makes no difference it’s all the same in the end
-same in the end, sublime

The entire album "De-Loused In The Comatorium" by the Mars Volta just blows my mind for lyrics, but in particular, the song Cicatriz ESP. (its 12 and half minutes long, haha)

Cicatriz ESP

Read my signature!

Watch while I'm burned in salt
tell me now where's my fault
I'm torn in two, you pull me through
oh ignore my shout now scrape me out
Oh, nation murders me, me, me
suck me down your hose
pieces of my fingers and toes
use me to brew your lab rat stew
oh dissolve my voice for your woman's choice
my execution, it's your revolution
spill my blood on "civil" hands
and I pay to make you free
oh, nation murders me
yeah, with poiticians dreams
now silencing my screams, screams, screams
Execution by Grammatrain

I came home tonight
I felt like I'd die of loneliness
Strange you think, popularity
I'm looking for a simple life,
life ain't simple
I'm sick and tired, I don't wanna be alone
I go to a party, but I don't really want to
So now i'm sitting out here on my porch
writing in the dark air, listening to
my little black cat miau
I'm trying to vent some of the terrible passion
that's coursing through me
There's something about you
There's something about spending the afternoon
asleep in your arms
I hate you
F*cker
F*ucker by the Eels

Shaking like a dog sh*ttin' razorblades,
waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me
I'm waking up all alone, waking up so relieved
while you're taking your time with apologies,
I'm making my plans for revenge
Red eyes on orange horizons
If Columbus was wrong I'd drive straight off the edge
I'd drive straight off the edge

Taking your own life with boredom,
I'm taking my own life with wine -
it helps you to rule out the sorrow,
it helps me to empty my mind
Making the most of a bad time
I'm smoking the brains from my head
Leaving the coal calling the kettle black and orange and red
This kettle is seeing red

I've got a big fat f*ckin' bone to pick with you my darling
In case you haven't heard I'm sick and tired of trying
I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you,
plugged in and ready to fall

Shaking like a dog sh*ttin' razorblades,
waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me
Waking up all alone, waking up so relieved
while you're taking your time with apologies,
I'm planning out my revenge
Red eyes on orange horizons
If Columbus was wrong I'd drive straight off the edge
I'm seeing red

I've got a big fat f*ckin' bone to pick with you my darling
In case you haven't heard I'm sick and tired of trying
I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you,
plugged in and ready to fall

Plugged in and ready to fall
Plugged in and ready to fall

Plugged in and ready to fall
Radio by Alkaline Trio

A billion people died on the news tonight
But not so many cried at the terrible sight
Well mama said
It's just make believe
You can't believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight

Who's the one to decide that it would be alright
To put the music behind the news tonight
Well mama said
You can't believe everything you hear
The diagetic world is so unclear
So baby close your ears
On the news tonight
On the news tonight

The unobtrusive tones on the news tonight
And mama said
Mmm

Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die
At least they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eyes
Mama said
It's just make believe
You cant believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
The News by Jack Johnson

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land

Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold

The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest

The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...**** you

the end by the doors

American Justice is all a Lie- career soldiers a san diego punk band http://careersoldiers.com


There is no justice for all
If you don't have money, you're going to fall
Our president gets away with murder everyday
He F#cks over the lower class, but somehow that's just, that's ok

To the leaders of this world: F#CK YOU
Who abuse their power: F#CK YOU
And corporate greed: F#CK YOU
That exploits our needs: F#CK YOU

What the f#ck is this that surrounds me?
Democracy and justice is served by greed
Intolerance and bigotry at its high
American justice is all a lie
Blinded by a dream that you can't see
Democracy and justice is served by greed
Ignorance is bliss so you close your eyes
American Justice is all a lie

Businesses exploit us for billions
But never suffer any consequence
Where the f#ck is the justice
For cases like Brian Deneke who was innocent

Rich companies steal billions
Maximum one year in a white collar (minimal security) prison
Lower class man steals food so his family can survive
Left in prison till death, alone and deprived

Is this what you call freedom?
Where the **** is the justice?

unknown soldier- the casualties

oh. oh. oh.

joe is out of school, didnt f#cking ask for much
couldnt get a job, the marines his last hope
down at the frontline, with a gun not a toy
kill many men, not asking what for

oh. oh. oh.

joe is off to die, for another snseless war
no arms, no legs - his mother cries at home
joey wears the flag, so proud to fight for us
and for a government, that doesnt give a f#ck

oh. oh. oh.
oh. oh. oh.

joe is off to die, for another senseless war
no arms, no legs - his mother cries at home
joey wears the flag so proud to fight for us
and for a government, that doesnt give a f#ck

marching to the left, marching to the righ
marching on the frontline, what a f#cking sight
marching to the left, marching to the right
marching on the frontline, what a way to die

joey, joey, joey tell me what you see now
joey, joey, joey please come back home now

marching to the left, marching to the right
marching on the frontline, what a f#cking sight
marching to the left, marching to the right
marching on the frontline, what a way to die

Such A Tragedy - From First to Last

You used to be my angel,
but now you're more like the devil.
Keep on talking darling,
you're bound to kill yourself...
with another thousand words.
And tears my eyes right out;
i'd rather see you without them anyway.
Take me away.
I don't know you anymore.
After tomorrow,
things just won't ever be the same again.
Keep on running darling,
you're bound to kill yourself with another thousand miles.
And tear my eyes right out.
I'd rather see you without them anyway.
Take me away.
I don't know you anymore.
And I know you will never
(rip my heart out) listen to me again.
You will never
(rip my heart out and leave it beating on the floor) listen to me again.
Take me away.
I don't know you anymore.

Orchid- Tigers

I kiss the girls that speak Marcuse.
I kiss the boys that speak Foucault.
I love the kids that know Adorno,
and snub their noses at kids who don't.
I make love in theory and touch myself in practice.
What's good for posture is good for the pose.
Who let the tigers out to kill all the lovers?

Can you feel your heartbeat racing? Can you taste the fear of her sweat? You've done this wrong its too far gone these sheets tell of regret. And I admit that I'm, just a fool for you...I'm just a fool for you...Here is where we both go wrong! Tonight's your last chance to, do exactly what you want too. And this could be my night, this is what makes me feel alive, makes you feel alive! Here is where we both go wrong! So sign me up, and toss this key, for tonight! We're living!

- Underoath - Boy Brushed Red Living In Black And White (only part of the song but its the best part)

great song! I liked that song for a while


Stinkfist - Tool

Something has to change.
Un-deniable dilemma.
Boredom’s not a burden
Anyone should bear.

Constant over stimulation numbs me
But I wouldn’t want you
Any other way.

Just, not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said, I don’t want it.
I just need it.
To breathe, to feel, to know I’m alive.

Finger deep within the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Relax, turn around and take my hand.

I can help you change
Tired moments into pleasure.
Say the word and we’ll be
Well upon our way.

Blend and balance
Pain and comfort
Deep within you
Till you will not want me any other way.

But, it’s not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said, I don’t want it.
I just need it.
To breathe, to feel, to know I’m alive.

Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
This may hurt a little but it’s something you’ll get used to.
Relax. slip away.

Something kinda sad about
The way that things have come to be.
Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?

How can it mean anything to me
If I really don’t feel anything at all?

I’ll keep digging till,
I feel something.

Elbow deep inside the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Shoulder deep within the borderline.
Relax. turn around and take my hand.

Nice, I love Tool, and I like a bunch of songs, but I guess I'll put the lyrics to Oh, Canada by Five Iron Frenzy in here...

Welcome to Canada, it's the Maple Leaf State.
Canada, oh Canada it's great!
The people are nice and they speak French too.
If you don't like it, man, you sniff glue.
The Great White North, their kilts are plaid,
Hosers take off, it's not half bad.
I want to be where yaks can run free,
Where Royal Mounties can arrest me.
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today,
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait.
They've got trees, and mooses, and sled dogs,
Lots of lumber, and lumberjacks, and logs!
We all think that it's kind of a drag,
That you have to go there to get milk in a bag.
They say "eh?" instead of "what?" or "duh?"
That's the mighty power of Canada.
I want to be where lemmings run into the sea,
Where the marmosets can attack me.
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today,
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait.
Please, please, explain to me,
How this all has come to be,
We forgot to mention something here.
Did we say that William Shatner is a native citizen?
And Slurpees made from venison,
That's deer.
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today,
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait.
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today,
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait.

Alter Bridge - In Loving Memory

Thanks for all you’ve done
I’ve missed you for so long
I can’t believe you’re gone and
You still live in me
I feel you in the wind
You guide me constantly

I’ve never knew what it was
To be alone...no
Cause you were always
There for me
You were always home waiting
But now I come home
And I miss your face so
Smiling down on me
I close my eyes to see

(CHORUS)
And I know
You’re a part of me
And it’s your song
That sets me free
I sing it while
I feel I can’t hold on
I sing tonight
'Cause it comforts me

I carry the things
That remind me of you
In loving memory of
The one that was so true
Your were as kind as you could be
And even though you’re gone
You still mean the world to me

I’ve never knew what it was
To be alone...no
Cause you were always
There for me
You were always home waiting
But now I
Come home and it's not the same no
It feels empty and alone
I just can't believe you're gone

CHORUS

I’m glad he set you free from sorrow
But I’ll still love you more tomorrow
And you will be here
With me still

All you did you did with feeling
And you always found a meaning
And you always will
And you always will
And you always will

CHORUS


This song was written by Mark Tremonti in memory of his mother who dided last year.

Favorite Lyrics
 

This has probably been done before, but I figured we could have a thread for just posting some of your favorite lyrical snippets (not whole songs) from some of your favorite authors. Here's some of mine, off the top of my head:

"We are artists
We are mathematicians
Some of us hold extremely
High positions

But we are tired
We're hardly breathing
And we're free
Go tell the women that we’re leaving

We're sick and tired
Of all this self-serving grieving
All we wanted was a little consensual rape in the morning
And maybe a bit more in the evening

We are scientists
We do genetics
We leave religion
To the psychos and fanatics"

Grinderman - Go Tell The Women

"Unbind your mind
There is no time
To lick your stamps
And paste them in
DISCORPORATE
And we will begin . . .WAH WAH!
Flower power sucks!"

Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Absolutely Free

"All I need is one true friend
I want total peace of mind
To leave the hurting world behind
I'm not scared; I swear I'm free
It may collapse the fear
That burns to bring the worst from me
Much too smart to sound uptight
Not to cheat what I deserve
Nothing hidden and nothing wasted
So far from dead, frustrated
Too smart to ask for more
This is all I've waited for
Nothing hidden and nothing wasted
Nothing past the love I've tasted"

Sebadoh - Total Peace

"Like most babies smell like butter
His smell smelled like no other
He was born scentless and senseless
He was born a scentless apprentice

Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen
I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets
There are countless formulas for pressing flowers"

Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice

Both by Opeth:


1. Windowpane

Blank face in the windowpane
Made clear in seconds of light
Disappears and returns again
Counting hours, searching the night

Might be waiting for someone
Might be there for us to see
Might be in need of talking
Might be staring directly at me

Inside plays a lullaby
Slurred voice over children cries
On the inside

Haunting loneliness in the eye
Skin covering a secret scar
His hand is waving a goodbye
There's no response or action returned

There is deep prejudice in me
Outshines all reason inside
Given dreams all ridden with pain
And projected unto the last



2. In My Time Of Need

I can't see the meaning of this life I'm leading
I try to forget you as you forgot me
This time there is nothing left for you to take, this is goodbye

Summer is miles and miles away
And no one would ask me to stay

And I should contemplate this change
To ease the pain
And I should step out of the rain
Turn away

Close to ending it all, I am drifting through the stages
Of the rapture born within this loss
Thoughts of death inside, tear me apart from the core of my soul

Summer is miles and miles away
And no one would ask me to stay

And I should contemplate this change
To ease the pain
And I should step out of the rain
Turn away

At times the dark's fading slowly
But it never sustains
Would someone watch over me
In my time of need

The barons of the industry put inspiration on Hitler’s tongue
Then the century crashed hard with a loud sound like a starting gun
It’s a race for acquisition and to make more things that glow
I’ve got a knack for dodging bullets and flying zeroes
So I act like I am rich, try and make it my whole look
Because poor people don’t exist when times are good

Mozart’s foster parents put cigarettes out in his ears
When he got old enough to stutter, he said, “I don’t listen but I-I-I, I can hear”
The eloquence of traffic, yeah, the mill pond’s sad lament
It’s a requiem of moments, I keep living through them
But where is the monster in the closet? I can’t find the hangman inside his hood
I guess evil don’t exist when times are good

Doctor Oppenheimer winced when he felt the broken piece of his pacemaker
Unbuttoned his shirt on a subway platform, clutching his chest while his vision blurred
He saw the bane of his creation. The destroyer of the world
Yeah, truth can lead to solace or a lifelong bender
It’s like wading through a wasteland where a town you loved once stood
You just cry each time you think of when times were good

Napoleon’s tailor dressed him in a giant hat and funny platform shoes
He said, “Anyone can be a hero, you just got to force people to look up to you”
So when you’re talking on the hotline to a suicidal soul
Don’t let your voice sound like hot coffee, more like a scented pillow
And strive for understanding over being understood
Just don’t let yourself forget when the times get good
When times get good
When times get good

"Have you heard about this house?
Inside, a thousand voices talk
and that talk echoes around and around
The windows reverberate
The walls have ears
A thousand saxophone voices talk

You should hear how we syllogize
You should hear
about how Babel fell and still echoes away,
how we idolize,
theorize,
syllogize,
in the dark,
in the heart"

Pere Ubu, Dub Housing

Hawkwind-Utopia.

The lyrics repeated endlessly:

If You Want To Get Into It, You Gotta Get Out Of It...

Pure simplistic brilliance.

I believe that if stones could dream they'd dream of being laid side-by-side piece-by-piece and turned into a castle for some towering queen they're unable to know and when that queen's daughter came of age I think she'd be lovely and stubborn and brave and suitors would journey from kingdoms away just to make themselves known and I think that I know the bitter dismay of a lover who brought fresh bouquets every day when she turned him away to remember some knave who once gave just one rose, one day, years ago.

Oh father high in heaven -- smile down upon your son
whose busy with his money games -- his women and his gun.
Oh Jesus save me!
And the unsung Western hero killed an Indian or three
and made his name in Hollywood
to set the white man free.
Oh Jesus save me!
If Jesus saves -- well, He'd better save Himself
from the gory glory seekers who use His name in death.
Oh Jesus save me!
I saw him in the city and on the mountains of the moon --
His cross was rather bloody --
He could hardly roll His stone.
Oh Jesus save me!


Jethro Tull - Hymn 43

"The Curse Of Millhaven" - Nick Cave

I live in a town called Millhaven
And it's small and it's mean and it's cold
But if you come around just as the sun goes down
You can watch the whole town turn to gold
It's around about then that I used to go a-roaming
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all gotta die
My name is Loretta but I prefer Lottie
I'm closing in on my fifteenth year
And if you think you have seen a pair of eyes more green
Then you sure didn't see them around here
My hair is yellow and I'm always a-combing
La la la la La la la lie
Mama often told me we all got to die
You must have heard about The Curse Of Millhaven
How last Christmas Bill Blake's little boy didn't come home
They found him next week in One Mile Creek
His head bashed in and his pockets full of stones
Well, just imagine all the wailing and moaning
La la la la La la la lie
Even little Billy Blake's boy, he had to die
Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High
Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier
Then next day the old fool brought little Biko to school
And we all had to watch as he buried her
His eulogy to Biko had all the tears a-flowing
La la la la La la la lie
Even God's little creatures, they have to die
Our little town fell into a state of shock
A lot of people were saying things that made little sense
Then the next thing you know the head of Handyman Joe
Was found in the fountain of the Mayor's residence
Foul play can really get a small town going
La la la la La la la lie
Even God's children all have to die
Then, in a cruel twist of fate, old Mrs Colgate
Was stabbed but the job was not complete
The last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead
Was, "My killer is Loretta and she lives across the street!"
Twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning
La la la la La la la lie
The young ones, the old ones, they all gotta die
Yes, it is I, Lottie. The Curse Of Millhaven
I've struck horror in the heart of this town
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow
It's more like the other way around
I gotta pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming
La la la la La la la lie
Sooner or later we all gotta die
Since I was no bigger than a weavil they've been saying I was evil
That if "bad" was a boot that I'd fit it
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard lately
O **** it! I'm a monster! I admit it!
It makes me so mad my blood really starts a-going
La la la la La la la lie
Mama always told me that we all gotta die
Yeah, I drowned the Blakey kid, stabbed Mrs. Colgate, I admit
Did the handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed
But I never crucified little Biko, that was two junior high school psychos
Stinky Bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin-sized head
I'll sing to the lot, now you got me going
La la la la La la la lie
All God's children have all gotta die
There were all the others, all our sisters and brothers
You assumed were accidents, best forgotten
Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoo?
Everyone assumed the "Warning" signs had followed them to the bottom
Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of stowing
La la la la La la la lie
Even twenty little children, they had to die
And the fire of '91 that razed the Bella Vista slum
There was the biggest ****-fight this country's ever seen
Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued
All cause of wee girl with a can of gasoline
Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing
La la la la La la la lie
Rich man, poor man, all got to die
Well I confessed to all these crimes and they put me on trial
I was laughing when they took me away
Off to the asylum in an old black Mariah
It ain't home, but you know, it's ****ing better than jail
It ain't such bad old place to have a home in
La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all gotta die
Now I got shrinks that will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests
I keep telling them they're out to get me
They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, "Why of course!
There is so much more I could have done if they'd let me!"
So it's Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all have to die
La la la la La la la lie
I'm happy as a lark and everything is fine
Singing La la la la La la la lie
Yeah, everything is groovy and everything is fine
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they gotta die

i was just about to post a thread about how good bright eyes (connors) lyrics are. i would post a specific song, but why? i feel like all of his lyrics are unbelievable. like him or not you have to be slightly intrigued by his lyrics. very talented song writer.

I agree, except Cassadaga had alot of pretty mediocre lyrics. Have you heard his lyrics for Desaparecidos?

"I could sell just like water takes the shape of where it is held I’m overflowing with ambition but I got to keep in mind the bottom line is the dollar signs and big bright lights inequality franchised the next location is mine we’re gonna lower costs it’s a work of art our giant golden arch I’m gonna start a factory the size of a country I’m gonna teach them all to work for liberty."

Two Shaves and a Shine by Nurse With Wound

In little sunrise of goblin eyes,
I watch the coupling of the flies.
Under waving trees and bumble bees
I strain to amputate my knees.
With ****roach cutters made of mutton,
My eyes gleam green as moss jade buttons.
I will not wake from childish dreams –
I cannot bear to catch the screams.
I cannot bear to catch the screams
Of bugs impacting on windshield screens.
I shave my tab with turquoise sickle,
From its stub the fishes trickle.
My stunted fingers, piss-stained knuckles,
Clogged with blood, start to buckle.
Murdered turtles, mildew, moss,
Dead pets in gardens – I’m the boss!
My smile is wide in seas of cider,
Pull your teeth with geese and spiders,
Cup these jaws in my hand,
Make them jig in globs of sand.
I write these words to pass the time,
And stay alive – two shaves and shine
– And block out the sound of chickens’ wails,
Defeathering them on beds of nails.
Yeah.
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Baby let me bang your box - Daddy Cool

Well my baby had a party the other night
The party was gettin' dead
I spied a piano in the corner
Looked at my baby and said

Baby let me bang your box, baby let me bang your box
Baby let me play your eighty-eight
I'm gonna play 'til the whole house rocks

When I was young they called me Piano Bill
When I was young they called me Piano Bill
'Cause I played so fine I gave everybody a thrill

(Oh) baby let me bang your box, baby let me bang your box
Baby let me bang your box, (hey) baby let me bang your box
Baby let me play your eighty-eight
I'm gonna play 'til the whole house rocks

I've been bangin' since I was a kid of four
I've been bangin' since I was a kid of four
I'll be bangin' 'til I can't bang no more

Oh-oh baby let me bang your box, baby let me bang your box
Baby let me bang your box, hey baby let me bang your box
Well baby let me play your eighty-eight
I'm gonna bang 'til the whole house rocks

I've been playin' piano, large and small
But you've got the best piano of all
I banged everyone in the neighbourhood
Never banged one that sounds so good
I've got a shuffle, a back beat, a boogie woogie too
But when I play my jelly roll you won't know what to do

Baby let me bang your box, baby let me bang your box
Oh, baby let me play your eighty-eight
I'm gonna play 'til the whole house rocks

Bang, bang, bang Mister Bill, bang, bang, bang Mister Bill
Bang, oh-oh, bang Mister Bill, Gee but you give me a thrill
(Bang, bang, bang Mister Bill)
Bang, oh-oh, bang Mister Bill, Gee but you give me a thrill
(Bang, bang, bang Mister Bill)
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh


I know they're not that great, but I love 'em

here's an example....



[cl smooth]

You’re everything that I dream about, talk about
Walk around and brag about, cause I don’t give a damn about
What they say, what he say, or she say
I’m addicted like drugs to your loving, but hey
You got me strung like I’m young and it’s crazy
You’re making me nervous, I don’t deserve this, I’m swayze
I wish I could be but you really got a hold on me
With your sex appeal, I’m telling you how I feel, **** is real
Now I don’t really want to play myself so I say to myself:
Son get a grip and don’t slip
Cause I don’t want you to think I’m some clown from out of town
I get down, I’ve been around, I ain’t no hand-me-down
So you gotta show respect for me if you’re checking for me
And don’t sweat me cause I really don’t want no sweat on me
If you got it, good, flaunt it
You know what it takes and you know how I want it

Napalm Death-You Suffer.

Lyrics:

You suffer..but why?

I'm not being facetious, honestly! I think these lyrics are pretty good advice.

I think HIM has some of the most beautiful lyrics i've ever read. They're so deep and tragically beautiful...i love this line especially,"I play dead,to hide my heart til the world gone dark fades away".

The Offspring - I'll Be Waiting

Once I had a friend that I could count on
So I thought
Well so it seemed
But times of need are not enough
To prove your friendship to me now
Once I saw a face that I believed in
But a mask was all there was
So who wears the masks and who wears the faces
Well I guess I'll never know

But as I stand here alone in a room full of people
With nothing to say
Beer on their minds, and smoke in the air
Call them friends but they just don't care

Friend for life
Such shallow words for broken minds
Show me a friend for life
Cause I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day

Once I found a love I had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Cause when we're together we just can't get enough
Or is it we just can't get what we want
Once I saw a dream, I had to chase it
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Who's at fault in this game of yours and mine
Well I guess I'll never know

But as I sit here alone
Think of the girl who came softly inside me
The look in her eyes, the smell of her hair
Call her my own but is she really there?

Love for life
Such noble words for noble minds
Show me a love for life
Cause I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day

Once I had a friend that I could count on
Times of need are not enough
Once I found a love I had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Once I saw a dream I had to chase it
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Now let me close my eyes
Because I don't want to see anything anymore

Circle Takes the Square - "Non-Objective Portrait of Karma"

Light as a feather, stiff as a stone...
...ignorance is bliss no wise woman's failed to mention
and surely some koan suggests 'neglect leads to perfection'
but the more I turn my face from the crowd
the more I feel my backs' increasingly compelled
for the sake of escape, to turn a knife on itself,
a knife of relief, from all the petty insight
and finally I'll sleep, I'll sleep through the night.
Bored as fuck with this street corner-cover.
study of a face in a figure. surveying this language as a game
surveilence of this language as the plague.
the dimension of persistence condemns.
This portrait of karma, crafted in accident
text book seduction, minus the text in the language of ghosts
and so we ran, like the wolves were biting,
the inhibitions of their prey kept them from screaming
"scratch my back and I will stab you in yours"
so I chose to live this life alone, without the teeth marks
but I predict, I'll have to sink my fangs in someone else's heart to heal my own.
just a victim's split, one part for the wolves, one part for you.
but I'll grow weary soon, weary of this fractal code,
weary of this hallway lined with ghosts.
just a scratch upon the skin, a drop of blood to let them in
their words will cause the sweetest fracture from a stone's throw
just a scratch upon the skin, a drop of blood to welcome them
parasitic, viral critics, or lovers, like spirits mingling in the mist
that we crafted, a starving jury, let them eat shit from our trembling hands.
The heat for heat's sake, on this Barnard block of Congress
deductively speaking, the polar of progress
well maybe I put too much faith in the accident
entranced, we danced toward the ripest display of escape
let the starving ghosts feast from this flesh, from these bones,
let them all feast.
In this chess game of language, forced to sit so I play all alone, watch the bathos drift forth like the petals from a wild crafted rose.

Next up: Rocky Votolato - Death-Right

Rocky could be my favourite lyricist ever.

you'll die young if you live so carefully / there are risks you must take to pay this world / I know it would never be that easy / I have not yet earned the right to die / I want you to hear me screaming / I want you to notice what goes on / temptation and evil demons crawling the earth hiding in every corner
I've seen men crippled in anger / the sun burns alive in silence / I've seen men wallow in fear / inaction acts as a blade across the throat / I'll learn how to make decisions / I'll stick by my word - won't let you down / I swear by the grave that's calling / nothing will stop me from doing what must be done
something here is still innocent / It doesn't matter if you decide not to believe it / There are still places where the magic can breathe / I want to breathe it in / I want to lay down and never leave
we're stalking the ancient mariner / through waters he takes his lonely course / once powerful once beautiful / extinction lingering these things are no more / I love you I'll never leave you / though I may be gone for years on end / I will never be separate / lovers through the lives before and after
something here is still innocent / It doesn't matter if you decide not to believe it / There are still places where the magic can breathe / I want to breathe it in / I want to lay down and never leave

Tonight will be the last night of my record-breakingly successful run in the lead role of the greatest play of the century,
Unprecedentedly warm praise from critics and public alike has met my portrayal of a man at his desk who gives a damn
And I'd like to thank all my friends and fans for always pushing me to soldier on.
So one last time for the cameras, my greatest soliloquy
"Oh, oh, oh, if I could only see the clear blue sky from my office window.
Oh, oh, then it would only take a steel gray day and I'd take my bow."

To whom it may concern:
I'd like to nominate myself to receive and award.
As a small symbol of recognition for my body of work
A lifetime of selling my body to pay the bills
But my heart and my mind are mine
Mine, you will not win this war
This is just a battle
Oh, oh, oh, well, I've surrendered you
My physical attendance here
But no, no, no, you will not take my soul,
Lest we forget why I'm sitting here
My letter to the Human Resources Department says:
"You started a war so you'll get what you started"
I'm only working here because I need the fucking money
I'm only working here because I need the fucking money
I'm only working here because I need the fucking money
I'm only working here because I need the fucking money
I'm only working here because I need the fucking money
I'm only working here because I need the fucking money
I'm only working here because I need the fucking money
I'm only working here because I need the fucking money