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[Takyon]

~In an upstairs room in Blackpool~
~by the side of a northern sea~
~the army had my father~
~and my mother was having me~

Military Madness- Graham Nash

 

[Goldenroad]

~In an upstairs room in Blackpool~
~by the side of a northern sea~
~the army had my father~
~and my mother was having me~

Military Madness- Graham Nash

Great one.

I'll throw in a Grateful Dead classic:

Midnight on a carousel ride
Reaching for the gold ring down inside
Never could reach
It just slips away but I try

- "Crazy Fingers" - Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter

Full lyrics:

Your rain falls like crazy fingers
Peals of fragile thunder keeping time

Recall the days that still are to come
Some sing blue

Hang your heart on laughing willow
Stray down to the water
Deep Sea of Love

Beneath the sweet calm face of the sea
Swift undertow

Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know
See how it feels in the end
May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you
Soft, strong, sweet and true

Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow
Tapping at the window touch your hair

So swift and bright
Strange figures of light
Float in air

Who can stop what must arrive now?
Something new is waiting to be born

Dark as the night
You're still by my side
Shining side

Gone are the days we stopped to decide
Where we should go
We just ride

Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams
Gone - both dream and lie

Life may be sweeter for this I don't know
Feels like it might be alright
While Lady Lullaby sings plainly for you
Love still rings true

Midnight on a carousel ride
Reaching for the gold ring down inside

Never could reach
It just slips away but I try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR41TwJZPsw

 

[marrec]

Fiona Apple - Paper Bag

I was staring at the sky, just looking for a star
To pray on, or wish on, or something like that
I was having a sweet fix of a daydream of a boy
Whose reality I knew, was a hopeless to be had
But then the dove of hope began its downward slope
And I believed for a moment that my chances
Were approaching to be grabbed
But as it came down near, so did a weary tear
I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag

Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills
'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold
Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

 

[Dongs Macabre]

Do You Realize - The Flaming Lips

Do you realize
That everyone you know someday will die?

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River

And see how that light you love now just won't shine
There might just be another star that's high and far in some other sky
We sing, "Is that marionette real enough yet
To step off of that set to decide what her hands might be doing?
Ruining the play, to in the ensuing melee escape."

We packed up all of our bags
The ship's deck now sags from the weight of our tracks
As we pace beneath flags black and battered
Rattling our swords in service of some faded foreign lord

And we sail out on orders from him but we find
The maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlines
Where nothing we've actually seen has been mapped or outlined
And we don't recognize the names upon these signs

Fiction - The Lucksmiths

This was in another century
Somewhere near the summer's end
The fahrenheit was frightening
I was awake the whole weekend
Invited to a barbecue
I found refuge in the kitchen
Discussing post-war US literature
With a girl whose upper arm read "fiction"
Like it might have been typewritten

I asked her its significance
She said she sometimes took reminding
What she wanted to be doing
Whether reading it or writing
I admitted admiration
For both typeface and intent
And said more softly — sotto voce —
I knew too well what she meant
She just smiled
And in a while she went

 

[One Eyed Willy]

"She's got legs, she knows how to use them." - ZZ Top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDcTLaWJuo

 

[HvySky]

Talking to Myself - Watsky

One day you opened up your eyes inside of you
Inside a world inside a universe you didn’t get to choose
You didn’t get to pick the rules or pick the past or set the pace
Or cast the cast and crew you didn’t get to pick your starting place

And though it was a race you didn’t understand
You simply lined up on the blocks and when the pistol popped you ran
And when you tripped and dropped you picked yourself up off the ground
And picked your scabs you knew you had to pick a plan to end what you began

As you got older there were days of cold surrender
Days of shrugged whatevers folded in with days of shocking splendor
But as time advanced the lovely days were covered up from view
By an advancing melancholy haze that hovered near the dew

Yet there were moments
There were these pure arresting moments when you stepped outside your head
Outside your pain outside control, outside the bullshit, out of body, out of rage
Outside the need to get it, get it, you will never get it, that’s okay

 

[Drain You]

Big Sean: All Figured Out

Today I woke up and realized every day gets shorter
Every minute turns into the longest second, yet never ending
Age is nothing but a reminder and it doesn't tell you
How old or young minded someone is
Cause we all started at the same starting point of a woman's legs
But each have our own finish line
Understand it never ends, and the only way to be immortalized
Is to be remembered, hopefully from right than wrong
Better to be in the hall of fame than shame
Whether it exists for what you do or not
We create this world so we make what exists
It isn't about the award, it's about the award of being immortalized
And remembered for all the right reasons

Jason Mraz: Plane

By leaving your town again
But I'm over the quilt that you've been spinning
But I'm up in the air, said baby hell yeah
Oh honey I can see your house from here
If the plane goes down, damn
I'll remember where the love was found
If the plane goes down, damn

Electric Wizard: Electric Wizard

Higher and higher, through the cosmos we had tripped
Seeing stars turned inside out, we thought our minds had flipped
Colors swirling, sounds are drifting, thinking we were dead
The wizard turned and spoke to us and, this is what he said

Through the virgin universe, upon his back we played
Creating and destroying with the music we made
Undulate the cosmic rhythm, galaxies were born
Clouds of blue, fluorescent dunes, spreading out before
Yeah

Tried to give a little bit of variety and these were the first songs that came to mind. I also like I lot of older stuff but I'm sure those lyrics have been played to death.

Edit: Yo Dongs, good taste. Okkervil and Flaming Lips

 

[walking fiend]

Dark Rooms - I Get Overwhelmed




Heard this song on the "A Ghost Story" movie trailer. Looked up the full song and found the lyrics in the comment section. They really hit home.

What a great song!

 

[riotous]

Goodie Mobb - Black Ice, Andre 3000

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your eardrums
It was a beautiful day off in the neighborhood
Yellows and greens and blues and browns
And greys and hues that ooze beneath dilapidated wood
Ain't a thing could explain what pertains
To cocaine and sustaining reign
See summer rolls around, niggas holla bout change
Then they steady move them ki's like Bob James
'Cause old man winter's arrived, the temperature dives
November just died, December's alive
Thus it ain't no typical ride
Just individual's way to bring home
The bacon when bacon was all gone
Makin' it our own, takin' me all wrong
We've all indulged in the bulge of those no-no's
No, you ain't solo, there's even lower levels you can go
Take sun people, put 'em in a land of snow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIDKZSF6y8k#t=2m22s

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Em’s Verse in Renegade always comes to mind. Love both verses, but verse 2 is on point.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain

Buckets of rain, buckets of tears
Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears
Buckets of moonbeams in my hand
You got all the love, honey baby, I can stand

I've been meek and hard like an oak
I've seen pretty people disappear like smoke
Friends will arrive, friends will disappear
If you want me, honey baby, I'll be here

I like your smile and your fingertips
I like the way that you move your hips
I like the cool way you look at me
Everything about you is bringing me misery

Little red wagon, little red bike
I ain't no monkey but I know what I like
I like the way you love me strong and slow
I'm takin' you with me, honey baby, when I go

Life is sad, life is a bust
All you can do is do what you must
You do what you must do and you do it well
I'll do it for you, honey baby, can't you tell?

bolded is such a baller way to end the album

 

[Pyccko]

Pavement - Kentucky Cocktail

Thought I could walk
Through any door
Any door left unlocked
Turnstiles click, passengers leave
Clerks never think, feet never bleed

Over the stalls, pacers pace
Lasix's love can't be traced
I've got a system, I've got the line
I'm on the inside, right every time

Spoiler

SHNAKE

Pavement - Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)

Someone took
In these pants
Somebody painted over paint
Painted wood
And where he stood
No one stands
It's been said he's sitting now
In the churning land

Well I've seen saints, but remember
That I forgot
To flag 'em down
When they passed
And in the morning light
You hold that ashtray tight
You could put it out
But I can't put it out

My hands shook
Down and out
I've got the blisters of the world
World new
I name the book after you
So look up and watch the camera lens
When the risers fade

Slow it down
Song is sacred
And brother, you're a hunter
And you're right at home
And in the morning light
I'll hold my ashtray tight
I could take it down
And you can't take it down

most of Pavement's lyrics were pretty great

 

[-hal-]

Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne

The whole song paints a great picture. It's very sharp lyrically. But this part contains a phrase you just won't find anywhere else in the universe:

On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen-clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home

Fiona Apple - Limp

She's the Queen of Angry, but I love how she twists power to impotence:

And when I think of it, my fingers turn to fists
I never did anything to you, man
But no matter what I try, you'll beat me with your bitter lies
So call me crazy, hold me down
Make me cry; get off now, baby
It won't be long till you'll be lying limp in your own hands

 

[Escape Goat]

You a stupid ho, you a stupid ho.

 

[HiiiLife]

The entirety of the story of oj. Great song.

 

[The Wheel of Fortune]

What an amazing idea for a thread! Here's some of my favorites, off the top of my head (so some may not be 100% correct):

Feed the house to the fire to let out the light.
Consumed and inspired, burn magnesium white.
It spills from the heart.
Take the curtains, the carpet, to fuel the insatiable fire inside.
We'll set fire to a hill, so intense that it will be the brightest star on this side of the sky.

Take every memory ingrained in me.
Erase it from my thoughts so I can sleep.
I'd give anything to feel no pain,
Name your price and take the past away,
Take every memory ingrained in me!

You've been holding back for so long.
Time to grow up, come into your own.
Aim for the moon, no looking back.
Sing it!

I am strong, I am the decider,
I am all the reasons, an animal,
I am every season,
I am legend, all because of you.

And, if we move too slow,
Let it rot, decay, and decompose.
If we just let it flow,
The fairy dust could tap out.

'Cause I'm a rolling stone,
Never been tied down in one place too long.
King of the lonely road,
It's all I've ever known.

Make your move tonight.
Close your eyes, don't fight it anymore.
And when the sun comes up, we won't be wondering
What could have been, should have been.
Make your move tonight.

I'm down below where the floor is out of focus,
Picking away at the studs in the boards.
They're all too familiar; I've been here before.
The air is like lead, and I've swallowed what I've said.
I'm a broken machine, a match already burned,
And I'm quiet, despite the raging in my head,
Collapsed inside out until my strength can return.

I'm undone.
All I know is the weight of the world,
So empty and so uninspired.
Sorrow, sleep, and disbelief,
Caught up in the weight of the world.

Never walk alone outside or pull the strings when you are alive in a dying world.
It's a mesmerizing thing!

Can you forget all the promises? Is the truth too hard to take?
Now I know there must be time to forgive,
We will be one again!

How are you so sure that all of this was made with hands that sculpted you and laid your path? What an incandescent light to have fall into your lap.
What about the holes? They're swallowing the overmatched, plight cascades down circumstance.
I'll never see it through this mess.

We've one foot left on a balancing beam in a teetering scene too grand for our heads to collect.
Masses beneath engulf the canon into pits of desperate attempts to unearth the truth, the reasons not meant to comprehend.
And we're fooled to think that we are more than ignorant at best.
Are we to lay down and become paths for all the rest?
The only thing wrong here is believing that we are right.

I feel the weight of everyone. Of all the sorrow, all the people who were never loved.
And she asks me:
"Oh, how does it feel? Oh, how does it feel to know everything you thought to be true isn't real?"
And her voice is lovely as she sings: "Drink it in... Have you ever seen oh so many beautiful things destroyed in one piece? Ain't it grand? Breathe it in... Have you ever seen how we color everything? Well sometimes it's all black and white."
So why put up a fight?

My grandfather was a fire and brimstone preacher.
But there are things that the homilies and hymns won't teach ya.
My mother was a genius, my father commanded respect.
When they died they left no instructions, just a legacy to protect

Death doesn't discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints,
It takes, and it takes, and it takes,
And we keep living anyway.
We rise and we fall,
And we break, and we make our mistakes,
And if there's a reason I'm still alive,
When everyone who loves me has died,
I'm willing to wait for it.

I am the one thing in life I can control!
I am inimitable, I am an original.
I'm not falling behind or running late
I'm not standing still, I am lying in wait!

Not surprisingly, most of them are post-hardcore rock songs.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

I'm not a robot but I've got a mechanical hand
I can steal the stars and put them back again

Once upon a time I had a broken heart
Once upon a time I just had a heart
I limped when I was wounded
So I replaced my parts
Once upon a time I had a heart

I'm not a robot but I've got a mechanical hand
I can steal the stars and put them back again

If I am a machine
Because of my hand-made heart
Why do I dream I'm a dinosaur
Tearing sheep apart?

As brash and abrasive as Horse the Band may seem, Nathan Winneke's poetic lyrics combined with his cadence and tone strike a chord within me and I often find myself choking up upon listening to their songs more in depth. The harmony between guitar and synth help. This particular song equates the singer's younger self to Darth Vader/Anakin.

Quoted lyrics just after 1:40
https://youtu.be/kejuczU1iHg

 

[Attack You]

Steely Dan - "Reelin' In The Years"

I spend a lot of money
And I spent a lot of time
The trip we made in Hollywood
Is etched upon my mind
After all the things we've done and seen
You find another man
The things you think are useless
I can't understand

I love-hate these lyrics specifically because I actually spent a good chunk of change flying out to Los Angeles with my girlfriend of six years, only to end up breaking up with her less than a year later.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Another HORSE the Band song:

Doctor, doctor
What's my status?
Will I stand or will I fall?

I can stand here blankly,
I can hold my breath,
I can even not exist at all

Doctor, doctor
Can you read me?
You've said the signs and I've got them all

Radio, radio
Can you hear my swan song?
Radio, radio
Can you hear my swan song?

I'm at it again
I'm at it again

I took my feet off
I took my legs off

I ripped my guts out
I peeled my skin off

I ripped my throat out
I pulled my eyes out

I ripped my heart out
I took my face off

2:10 for these lyrics:
https://youtu.be/_QazEf_kPAg

The fact that this album came out after a self-funded world tour that physically and mentally destroyed them, this song speaks of their sacrifices to make end's meet and their end as a matter of fact. And despite a few mini tours here and there, they haven't released anything since '09. So swan song it is I guess... =[.

 

[Media]

Brand New with Jesse Lacey writing has the best lyrics I've ever encountered.

Such as Play Crack the Sky.

https://youtu.be/woN3GKx6HVA

 

[Mighty Chin]

Five Days in May - Blue Rodeo

Rain on the windshield heading south.



Other than that most Tragically Hip songs.

 

[Drain You]

Brand New with Jesse Lacey writing has the best lyrics I've ever encountered.

Such as Play Crack the Sky.

https://youtu.be/woN3GKx6HVA

Kinda late to the Brand New party as I only started listening to them in the past couple years but I'm really digging em. Saw em maybe a year ago and the just solidified it, they put on a great show. La Dispute is another band in the same vein that I'm also a big fan of.

Also a I feel like Brand New somehow made my musical interests turn towards some older punk which is also an unexpected surprise.

 

[marrec]

Brand New with Jesse Lacey writing has the best lyrics I've ever encountered.

Such as Play Crack the Sky.

https://youtu.be/woN3GKx6HVA

Jesse Lacey's lyrical prowess is unmatched in the genre.

 

[piratepwnsninja]

From what I feel is one of Billy Joel's most underrated songs, And So It Goes

In every heart there is a room
A sanctuary safe and strong
To heal the wounds from lovers past
Until a new one comes along

I spoke to you in cautious tones
You answered me with no pretense
And still I feel I said too much
My silence is my self defense

And every time I've held a rose
It seems I only felt the thorns
And so it goes, and so it goes
And so will you soon I suppose

But if my silence made you leave
Then that would be my worst mistake
So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break

And this is why my eyes are closed
It's just as well for all I've seen
And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows

So I would choose to be with you
That's if the choice were mine to make
But you can make decisions too
And you can have this heart to break

And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows

 

[Slick Butter]

Two Trucks - Lemon Demon

Two trucks holding hands
Two trucks holding hands
The passion, the passion
Is more than I can withstand

Two trucks holding hands
Two trucks holding hands
The passion, the passion
My big fat heart expands

 

[ohkay]

Jesse Lacey's lyrical prowess is unmatched in the genre.

The entirety of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is brilliant

 

[Media]

The entirety of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is brilliant

I almost chose Jesus Christ as my example, but went with Play Crack the Sky in the end. It's so hard to choose.

 

[marrec]

I almost chose Jesus Christ as my example, but went with Play Crack the Sky in the end. It's so hard to choose.

I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light might be the best from Deja Entendu tho:

I wrote more postcards than hooks.
I read more maps than books.
Feel like every chance to leave
is another chance I should have took.
Every minute is a mile.
I've never felt so hollow.
I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews
and empty aisles.
My secrets for a buck.
Watch me as I cut myself wide open
on this stage. Yes, I am paid
to spill my guts. I won't see home till spring.
Oh, I would kill for the Atlantic,
but I am paid to make girls panic
while I sing.

 

[Eylos]

I think this is the english version

The international

Arise ye pris’ners of starvation
Arise ye wretched of the earth
For justice thunders condemnation
A better world’s in birth!
No more tradition’s chains shall bind us
Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall;
The earth shall rise on new foundations
We have been naught we shall be all.

Refrain:
’Tis the final conflict
Let each stand in his place
The International Union
Shall be the human race.

We want no condescending saviors
To rule us from their judgement hall
We workers ask not for their favors
Let us consult for all.
To make the theif disgorge his booty
To free the spirit from its cell
We must ourselves decide our duty
We must decide and do it well.

The law oppresses us and tricks us,
The wage slave system drains our blood;
The rich are free from obligation,
The laws the poor delude.
Too long we’ve languished in subjection,
Equality has other laws;
"No rights", says she "without their duties,
No claims on equals without cause."

Behold them seated in their glory
The kings of mine and rail and soil!
What have you read in all their story,
But how they plundered toil?
Fruits of the workers’ toil are buried
In strongholds of the idle few
In working for their restitution
The men will only claim their due.

We toilers from all fields united
Join hand in hand with all who work;
The earth belongs to us, the workers,
No room here for the shirk.
How many on our flesh have fattened!
But if the norsome birds of prey
Shall vanish from the sky some morning
The blessed sunlight then will stay.

 

[Dr.Acula]

He Comes
De La Soul
Featuring Ghostface Killah

Tony 'Tana with big hammers for bad manners who got 'em
We kiss cannons for Scrangelous crew, and his whack dancers
Bitin is forbidden pah, pay that tax
And don't you ever look at us funny - boy, we'll bring rap back
And that'll hurt you like Superman, chased by a group of men
With dyna-mics, real hip-hop'll do you in
Floor you like Du Koo Kim, or Moo Loo Inn
Hula hoop all bitches crew full with brand new Keds
Cutmaster kill 'em, make sure we cut classics
Buck bastards in broad day and tuck caskets
Next to Uday and Qusay, how can the group shoot the PA
And just lay whooptay whooptay?
Use the ruse, sport beads and snatch a dude's toupee
Since tunin into T-La Rock'n AJ
Ghostface gats is freshed squeezed like a glass of OJ
Girls you can go cruisin in my OJ​

 

[Media]

I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light might be the best from Deja Entendu tho:

Every song on Deja Entendu is a work of art, but I like Play Crack the Sky the best. Great metaphors.

 

[TerminalDogma]

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist by Ramshackle Glory-

Dalia never showed me nothing but kindness
She would say: “I know how sad you get."
And some days, I still get that way
But it gets better
It gets better
It gets better
Sweetie, it gets better, I promise you
And she'd tell me

Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist
Keep on loving. Keep on fighting
And hold on, hold on
Hold on for your life

Ian built a cabin in the woods to live in
For years, terrifying noises kept him up at night
With a twelve gauge under his pillow
He’s living in Boston now, going to art school
I forgive him
I forgive him
Hell, I’ll admit it: I’m proud of him

Serena’s an architect and a carpenter
She’s such a feminist she says she isn’t one
Because 'Goddamn, my gender shouldn’t matter!'
And her motorcycle glides through the streets of Providence
Down to the warehouse district
The paint job is as stunning as
Her knowledge of medieval building techniques


Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist
Keep on loving. Keep on fighting
And hold on, and hold on
Hold on for your life

This one goes out to Georgios, he knows how to dance
Abby Banks, your book is beautiful
And fuck anyone who says otherwise
Scott, I love you and you make me glad to be alive
I promise that I’m gonna pay you back
You always know how funny everything is
Even when I’m so serious that it’s gonna be the death of me

Like the time that our friend Chuck came over to our house
He said he needed somebody to take care of his pets
Cause he was going out of town
I asked him “Where?” and he said “New Mexico.”
I asked if I could get a ride
He said: “No, you don’t want to follow me
Where it is I’m going.”
He pulled out of the drive way
That was the last time we saw him
Cause he drove straight to his parent’s cabin
And put a bullet in his head

Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist
Keep on loving. Keep on fighting
And hold on, and hold on
Hold on for your life

The bolded part is usually when I start to break into tears if I'm singing it myself. It's a song about your friends and how they affect your life. I'm closer to my friends than my own family, so this song really gets to me.

 

[JigglesBunny]

https://youtu.be/B9v8avnYuIs

Shy sonata for Mercury
The stars always sing so pretty
This picnic will soon depart
Real life, I'm sad to see you go
I'll miss you with all my heart
But I'd rather be alone
'Cause I couldn't live without
Sunsets that dazzle in the dusk
So I'll drag the anchor up
And rest assured, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust

I could probably write a series of novels about my love for everything Adam Young has ever done but this chunk from Dreams Don't Turn To Dust is so magical, dreamy and awe-inspiring that it always sticks in my head even in the rare moments when one of his other songs isn't already stuck there.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Well, I'm standin' in line in the rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck
Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind
He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about
But I'll see him in anything so I'll stand in line

Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl.

 

[JTripper]

"You got a sexy ass body and your ass look soft
Mind if i touch it? and see if its soft"

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Like a can of beer that's sweeter than honey
Like a millionaire that has no money
Like a rainy day that is not wet
Like a gambling fiend that does not bet
Like Dracula with out his fangs
Like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang
Like collard greens that don't taste good
Like a tree that's not made out of wood
Like going up and not coming down
Is just like the beat without the sound, no sound
To the beat beat, ya do the freak
Everybody just rock and dance to the beat
Have you ever went over a friend's house to eat
And the food just ain't no good
I mean the macaroni's soggy the peas are mushed
And the chicken tastes like wood
So you try to play it off like you think you can
By saying that you're full
And then your friend says "momma he's just being polite
He ain't finished uh-uh that's bull"
So your heart starts pumping and you think of a lie
And you say that you already ate
And your friend says "man there's plenty of food"
So you pile some more on your plate
While the stinky food's steaming your mind starts to dreaming
Of the moment that it's time to leave
And then you look at your plate and your chicken's slowly rotting
Into something that looks like cheese
Oh so you say that's it I got to leave this place
I don't care what these people think
I'm just sitting here making myself nauseous
With this ugly food that stinks
So you bust out the door while its still closed
Still sick from the food you ate
And then you run to the store for quick relief
From a bottle of kaopectate
And then you call your friend two weeks later
To see how he has been
And he says "I understand about the food
Baby but bubbah we're still friends"
With a hip hop the hippie, to the hippie
The hip hip a hop a you don't stop the rocking
To the bang bang boogie
Say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
I say "Hank can ya rock?
Can ya rock to the rhythm that just don't stop?
Can ya hip me to the shoobie doo"
I said "come on, make uh, make the people move"

Best rap verse ever.

 

[g11]

And still fucking with them freak hoes
Stank pussy smelling like Cool Ranch Doritos

- Danny Brown, Monopoly, XXX

Also any DMX radio edit.

 

[Deuce Deuce]

You a stupid ho, you a stupid ho.

Is this Floyd Mayweather?

 

[Ninja Dom]

Every Prodigy verse on Hell on Earth

Cap on Winter Warz

RZA on Pencil

RIP Prodigy.

 

[Brhoom]

Mariah Carey - The Roof

It wasn't raining yet
But it was definitely a little misty on
That warm November night
And my heart was pounding
My inner voice resounding
Begging me to turn away
But I just had to see your face
To feel alive
And then you casually walked in the room
And I was twisted in the web
Of my desire for you
(And I was twisted)
My apprehension blew away
I only wanted you
To taste my sadness
As you kissed me in the dark

Great video btw

https://youtu.be/qi5oxzttjgo

 

[moggio]

Frank Zappa generally but I love the lyrics to Brown Moses:

BROWN MOSES:
Oh-oh! Wait a minute! What?

What wickedness is dis?
De way you's carryin' on!
Dis pygmy I be clutchin'
Have been lef' out on de lawn!
De daddy were ne-glij-ible,
De mama were de-flate-able,
De trauma to de imfunt
Be mostly not ne-gate-able
Yo' urgin' to be exitin'
Because of dem fla-min-i-go's
Be thoroughly perplexin' him
Because of where yo' petuh goes
If only you been 'siderate
Erbout dis lil' illiterate
I wouldna been trudgin' cross de san'
Fum way down yonder in E-gyp-lan'
Dey callin' me BROWN MOSES,
Fo' dat is sho'ly what I am,
Ancient an' re-lij-er-mus
Solemn an' pres-tig-i-mus
Wisdom reekin' outa me
'Long wif summa dis baby pee
'Minds me of dem River Weeds
'N all dem ignint Bible deeds
Growed up in de Pharoah place,
Lef' de sucker in disgrace!
Some dem boys refuse to loin
Somthin' smokin', somthin' boin!
Somethin' borry, somethin' blue!
Best keeps a lil' paper in yo shoe!
Hear me when I's tellin' you:
Leavin' de midgit were wrong t'do!

It's a terr'ble thang
Done did to him
Left wit de crab-grass
Over his chin!
Sho'ly one day
He will grow,
'N put some shit
In yo' sack o' woe

MAMMY NUN ENSEMBLE:
OL' BROWN MOSES now have spoke!
Could ya lends me 'bout a dollar?
I's a tiny bit broke
I likes my wine, I loves my gin
'N fo a lil' collateral, I'll gives ya him!
A lil' collateral, I'll gives ya him!
A lil' collateral, I'll gives ya him!
I said a lil' collateral,
A lil' collateral,
A lil' collateral,
A lil' collateral,
A lil' collateral,
I'll gives ya him!
I'll gives ya him!
Take a pompadour, baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbCJkVsD7QM

 

[GeordieMark]

My two favourites lyrically are Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" and Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler".

 

[Lazy vs Crazy]

A couple of all-time greats from the 90's:

If you don't expect too much of me
You might not be let down

You're not the one that let me down
But thanks for offering

Just super simple words but for each song the two lines tell a whole story.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

Fiona Apple - Red Red Red

I don't understand about
The weather outside
Or the harmony in a tune
Or why somebody lied

There's solace a bit for submitting
To the fitfully cryptically true
What's happened has happened
What's coming is already on its way
With a role for me to play

I don't understand
I'll never understand
But I'll try to understand
There's nothing else I can do

Tool - Opiate

Choices always were a problem for you.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
what you need is someone strong to guide you..
like me, like me, like me, like me

If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me.
Now don't judge or question.
You are broken now, but faith can heal you.
Just do everything I tell you to do.

Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
Let me lay my holy hand upon you.

Black Motion feat. Xoli - Set Me Free (Ezel Remix)
whatever they are saying in this song as there's no transcribed lyrics to this and it's sometimes hard to hear what is said in the beginning of this song

 

[RytGear]

The whole song is great lyrically but this section in particular from Pink Floyd's Time gets to me.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

 

[Randy Monk]

semen stains the mountain tops
semen stains the mountain tops

 

[Lazy vs Crazy]

Pavement - Kentucky Cocktail



Pavement - Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)



most of Pavement's lyrics were pretty great

Stephen Malkmus is a national treasure. His music with he Jicks is great too.

Some great Malkmus lines from after Pavement:

Us

This attraction bleeds into a thirst
Like it always does

Freeze the Saints

You said, "Done is good"
But done well is so much fucking better
Share the wealth and cauterize the tears

If you want to know
Well you are, yes, you are so much like me
Freeze the saints
Such a subtle read
Exquisite pedigree
Just let yourself be and languish here
Help me languish here

 

[Alligatorjandro]

The grabbing hands grab all they can
All for themselves after all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts

 

[NastyBook]

Goodie Mobb - Black Ice, Andre 3000



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIDKZSF6y8k#t=2m22s

My favorite hip hop simile of all time is in there!

 

[Twio]

Banks - Someone New

Believe in you, believe in me
We're meant to be together
I told you, weren’t lyin'
I know you aren’t relying
And now I am supplying you the time and space to let you grow
Into the person that I know, that I know you could be
And I can be her too
And I'll come back to you when I am ready for you, baby
I ain't ready for you now
I'm not ready for you now
Please don't hate me

Everything I do, I'm gonna think of you
Don't know what else to do
You got me, you got me, baby
Everything I make, I only make for you
Baby, be patient for me
And please don't fall in love with someone new
I promise one day I'll come back for you
I promise baby one day I'll come back to you