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[The Scollard]

There is a criminal lack of Rush in this thread. Neil Peart is probably one of my favourite lyricists.

2112 - Discovery

What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It’s got wires that vibrate, and give music
What can this thing be that I found?

See how it sings like a sad heart
And joyously screams out its pain
Sounds that build high like a mountain
Or notes that fall gently, like rain.

I can’t wait to share this new wonder
The people will all see its light
Let them all make their own music
The Priests praise my name on this night.

Freewill

There are those who think that life
Has nothing left to chance
With a host of holy horrors
To direct our aimless dance

A planet of playthings
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
“The stars aren’t aligned –
Or the gods are malign”
Blame is better to give than receive

You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose free will.
There are those who think that
They were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren’t born in Lotus-Land.

All pre-ordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can’t pray for a place
In Heaven’s unearthly estate

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt
That’s far too fleet…

 

[Pancake Mix]

Iron Maiden - Still Life

Take a look in the pool and what do you see
In the dark depths their faces beckoning me
Can't you see them it's plain for all to see
They were there oh I know you don't believe me

....

All my life's blood is slowly draining away
And I feel that I'm weaker every day
Somehow I know I haven't long to go
Joining them at the bottom of the pool

Now it's clear and I know what I have to do
I must take you down there to look at them too
Hand in hand then we'll jump right into the pool
Can't you see not just me they want you too.

Oh.....we'll drown together
It.....will be forever.

 

[JABEE]

This makes me laugh every time.

Elenore by The Turtles

Elenore, gee, I think you're swell
And you really do me well
You're my pride and joy, et cetera

Elenore can I take the time
To ask you to speak your mind
Tell me that you love me better

 

[JABEE]

Also...

Here’s to the State of Mississippi by Phil Ochs

Here's to the state of Mississippi,
For Underheath her borders, the devil draws no lines,
If you drag her muddy river, nameless bodies you will find.
Whoa, the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand crimes,
The calendar is lyin' when it reads the present time.
Whoa, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of,
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of!

And here's to the people of Mississippi
Who say the folks up north, they just don't understand
And they tremble in their shadows at the thunder of the Klan
The sweating of their souls can't wash the blood from off their hands
They smile and shrug their shoulders at the murder of a man
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the schools of Mississippi
Where they're teaching all the children that they don't have to care
All the rudiments of hatred are present everywhere
And every single classroom is a factory of despair
There's nobody learning such a foreign word as fair
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the cops of Mississippi
They're chewing their tobacco as they lock the prison door
Their bellies bounce inside them when they knock you to the floor
No they don't like taking prisoners in their private little war
Behind their broken badges there are murderers and more
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of

And, here's to the judges of Mississippi
Who wear the robe of honor as they crawl into the court
They're guarding all the bastions of their phony legal fort
Oh, justice is a stranger when the prisoners report
When the black man stands accused the trial is always short
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the government of Mississippi
In the swamp of their bureaucracy they're always bogging down
And criminals are posing as the mayors of the towns
And they hope that no one sees the sights and no one hears the sounds
And the speeches of the governor are the ravings of a clown
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the laws of Mississippi
Congressmen will gather in a circus of delay
While the Constitution is drowning in an ocean of decay
Unwed mothers should be sterilized, I've even heard them say
Yes, corruption can be classic in the Mississippi way
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the churches of Mississippi
Where the cross, once made of silver, now is caked with rust
And the Sunday morning sermons pander to their lust
The fallen face of Jesus is choking in the dust
Heaven only knows in which God they can trust
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of

Doesn’t Lenny Live Here Anymore?

You laugh at the people who walk outside on the sidewalk
And you talk to yourself so much
When you see other people you can't talk
This time it's true

The charade is through
And you can't seem to run away from you
Away from you
And the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser

Stands rejectedly by the door
Doesn't Lenny live here anymore?
Are you sure?
You sit at the desk

To lose your life in a letter
But the words don't seem to come and you know that they're better
And it's all so strange
Pictures lose their frame

And I'll bet you never guessed
There was so much pain
So much pain
Until the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser

Stands rejectedly by the door
Doesn't Lenny live here anymore?
Are you sure?
The moon, she shines too soon and simply sadly

You loved your love so much that you'd strangle her madly
And it's all so slow
Time has ceased to flow
And the whistling whore knows something you don't know

And the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser
Stands rejectedly by the door
Doesn't Lenny live here anymore?
Are you sure?

You swore you'd store your love for one time only
Now you searched the books in vain for better word for lonely
And you're torn apart
No other love will start

And you, you'd like to steal a happy heart
A happy heart
Then the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser
Stands rejectedly by the door

Doesn't Lenny live here anymore?
Are you sure?
The fat official smiles at the pass on the border
And the hungry broom makes sure that the room is in order

You pull the shade
All the beds are made
As your lips caress the razor of the blade
Of the blade

And the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser
Stands rejectedly by the door
Doesn't Lenny live here anymore?
Are you sure?

The soul of the sun shines just outsde of the winter
The shoulders charged, the boards of the barricade is splintered
Now at last alone
The flashlight is shown

Hello inside is there anybody home?
Anybody home?
It's the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser
Standing rejectedly by the door

Doesn't Lenny live here anymore?
Are you sure?
Are you sure?
Are you sure?

 

[blame space]

this wasn't a good post but I didn't mean anything bad by it

 

[TissueBox]

"Pink Rabbits" (by The National)

You didn't see me I was falling apart
I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in the park
You didn't see me I was falling apart
I was a television version of a person with a broken heart
You didn't see me I was falling apart
I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in a park
You didn't see me I was falling apart
I was a television version of a person with a broken heart

And everybody was gone
You were standin' in the street
Cause you were trying not to crack up
Now I only think about Los Angeles when the sun kicks out
Now I only think about Los Angeles when the sun kicks out

"Yes I'm Changing" (by Tame Impala)

Life is moving, can't you see
There's no future left for you and me
I was holding and I was searching endlessly
But baby, now there's nothing left that I can do
So don't be blue
There is another future waiting there for you
I saw it different, I must admit
I caught a glimpse, I'm going after it
They say people never change, but that's bullshit, they do
Yes I'm changing, can't stop it now
And even if I wanted I wouldn't know how

"You Get What You Give" (by New Radicals)

Four A.M. we ran a miracle mile
We're flat broke but hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial

But when the night is falling
You cannot find a friend (friend)
You feel your tree is breaking
Just bend

You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give

"Surf's Up" (by The Beach Boys)

A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome mannered baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Columnated ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?

Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumpeter swan
Columnated ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?

"I Don't Wanna Grow Up" (by Tom Waits)

Well, when I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't want to grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't want to grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things?
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
Well, when I see the price that you pay
I don't want to grow up
I don't ever want to be that way
I don't want to grow up

Seems like folks turn into things they they'd never want
The only thing to live for is today

I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set
I don't want to grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't want to grow up
I don't want to have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't want to be filled with doubt
I don't want to be a good boy scout
I don't want to have to learn to count
I don't want to have the biggest amount
I don't want to grow up

Well, when I see my parents fight
I don't want to grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don't want to grow up
I'd rather say here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't want to live in a big old tomb on Grand Street, hoo

"Step" (by Vampire Weekend)

Wisdom's a gift, but you'd trade it for youth
Age is an honor, it's still not the truth

"You Never Know" (by Wilco)

Come on, children
You're acting like children
Every generation thinks
It's the end of the world

All you fat followers
Get fit fast
Every generation thinks it's the last
Thinks it's the end of the world

"Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" (by Nirvana)

It's so relieving
To know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid
It's so relaxing
To hear that you're asking wherever you get your way
It's so soothing
To know that you'll sue me, this is starting to sound the same

I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad

In her false witness, we hope you're still with us,
To see if they float or drown
Our favorite patient, a display of patience,
Disease-covered Puget Sound
She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars,
And leave a blanket of ash on the ground

 

[ForkNetwork]

Look up here, I'm in heaven
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be stolen
Everybody knows me now

Look up here, man, I'm in danger
I've got nothing left to lose
I'm so high, it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my cell phone down below
Ain't that just like me?

By the time I got to New York
I was living like a king
There I used up all my money
I was looking for your ass

This way or no way
You know I'll be free
Just like that bluebird
Now, ain't that just like me?

Oh, I'll be free
Just like that bluebird
Oh, I'll be free
Ain't that just like me?

Lazarus, David Bowie.

 

[The Wheel of Fortune]

There is a criminal lack of Rush in this thread. Neil Peart is probably one of my favourite lyricists.

He's quite good, but at least in my case, my favorite Rush songs are instrumental (YYZ and La Villa Strangiato).

I'm here to share one of my favorites, a little song called "Hand Over Mouth, Over And Over" by post-harcore band A Lot Like Birds:

I took you here to take you from yourself once, and you smiled at me.
You smiled shamelessly and often then, but it wasn't enough.
I read your thoughts like sifting through your cabinets while you were out of the room.
I stole every treasured thought that you had and left you gutted when I could find no more.
You had poems written on the roof of your mouth, and I had scraped them out with the tip of my tongue and spat them onto the floor, where they dried up and blew away.
And the butterflies in your stomach were all pinned to the skin on the inside.
And if didn't love you then, I love you now.
But it's easier to love something when there's pain in its eyes.

 

[highrider]

Definitely Beastie Boys Eggman.

Come Halloween you know I come strapped
I throw it at a sucka, k-pap!

 

[Rock And Roll]

Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain and the end is always near.

Roadhouse Blues - The Doors

 

[Allonym]

Lupe Fiasco

Put You On Game

Let me put you on game

Don't you know that I run this place
And I've begun this race
Must I rerun this pace
I'm the reason it's become this way
And their love for it is the reason I have become this praised
They love my darkness, I make them heartless
And in return they have become my martyrs
I've been in the poem of many a poet
And I reside in the art of many a artist
Some of your smartest have tried to articulate
My whole part in this
But they're fruitless in their harvest
The dro grows from my footsteps
I'm the one that they follow
I am the one that they march with
Through the back alleys and the black markets
The Oval offices, crack-houses, and apartments
Through the mazes of the queens
The pages of the sages and the chambers of the kings
Through the veinses of the fiends
A paper chaser's pager, yo, I'm famous on the scene
One of the oldest, most ancientest things
Speak every single language on the planet, y'kna mean?
I am the American dream
The rape of Africa, the undying machine
The overpriced medicine, the murderous regime
The tough guy's front and the one behind the scenes
I am the blood of this city
Its gas, water, and electricity
I'm its gym, and its math, and its history
The gunshots in the class
And you can't pass if you're missin', G
I taught them better than that
I taught them aim for the head and hope they never come back
I'm glad your daddy's gone, baby, hope he never comes back
I hope he's with your mother with my hustlers high in my trap
I hope you die in his trash
I can't help it all I hear when you're crying is laughs
I'm sure somebody find you tied up in this bag
Behind the hospital, little baby crack addicts had
Then maybe you can grow up to be a stripper
A welfare-receiving prostitute and gold digger
You can watch on TV how they should properly depict you
The rivers shall flow with liquor, quench your thirst on my elixirs
I am the safe haven for the rebel runaway and the resistor
The trusted misleader, the number one defender
And from a throne of their bones I rule
These fools are my fuel, so I make them cool
Baptize them in the water out of Scarface pool
And feed them from the table that held Corleone's food
If you die, tell them that you played my game
I hope your bullet holes become mouths that say my name
Cause I'm the

Lupe Fiasco

Thank You

I'm just a wolf inside a lion's suit
A shark shirt, a panther's pants, piranha hat and tiger shoes
I got a lion's den inside the booth
That right there is point blank
This here is from where the sniper shoot
Might take a long time to get it, by the time I hit it
I done ran Bubble Tape around them Chiclets, poof
I ain't the bomb, I'm the company that got the contract
to rebuild during the aftermath - have a blast
Going green only using half the gas
the calming comes through after disasters have
But this calm has the same fury that disasters have
I should have a class, I'm the son/sun of the South Pole plus Alaska's dad
Got niggas like "DAG!!", flow is like crazy gone mad
And villains gone bad, Punk ass niggas, don't be so Daft
Baby, why you hanging with them Busters like Babs?
They are such a drag, you should move them to the trash
Feel like I'm walking round upon Cassius calves
Quite a beautiful script, and such a gift of gab
A big bass, shout out to Mistah F.A.B
Young Frankenstein reporting live from the lab
I bought the bars out, put it on my tab
If you came here to box, you'll leave in a bag
I run the game, Bilderberg Group, in the lead with the flash
Usain Bolt ain't even leaving this fast
Why you take offense with your defensive ass?
Never Hussein-ing the hole/whole, not even in the half
Cause nigga I ain't hiding, I'm the whole world, nigga you're an island
And the sea's rising, if I keep shining
You going have to take submarines to the drive-in now

Drake

The Presentation
Couldn't really find the lyrics online that weren't butchered but it's my favorite song by him. I miss Comeback Season Drake, oh well.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Most of my favortie lyrics come from the hiphop side of things but a song I been listening to lately by The Real McKenzies, a song called "I do what I want" has a good line. Kinda depressing but I like it.

"Cold water is all around, is this what it feels like to drown? Aint nobody to pull me out and it feels like I'm going down"

 

[Screaming Meat]

The Stooges 'Search & Destroy' has the best opening line of any song ever:

"I'm a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm!"

 

[ResoRai]

12 Stones - World So Cold:
Well I love every part of the song, but yeah haha

It starts with pain
Followed by hate
Fueled by the endless questions no one can answer
A stain covers your heart
And tears you apart
Just like a sleeping cancer

Now i don't believe men are born to be killers
I don't believe the world can't be saved
How did you get here, and when did it start?
An innocent child with a thorn in his heart

What kind of world do we live in
Where love is divided by hate?
Losing control of our feeling
We all must be dreaming this life away
In a world so cold

https://youtu.be/B9v8avnYuIs

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.

Magical, yeah. I haven't listened to any songs by Owl City in a long time, but used to listen to Fireflies a lot, and this one has that same feel to it. Really like it.

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

Yeah both really good verses. Flow is perfect too.

 

[Username1198]

Opeth-the baying of the hounds

Drown in the deep mire,
past desires.
Beneath the mire,
Drown desire now with you

So perfect

 

[Godcannon]

The Decline by NOFX

Edit (5:50)

I wish I had a schilling
For every senseless killing
I'd buy a government
America's for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one


Link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qnFVMkTWaBw

The full lyrics are amazing, even better with the song of course.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nofx/thedecline.html

 

[BLOODED_hands]

Wax - Music and Liquor
The whole song is just.... Damn relatable.

I can't stop drinking, I can't stop smoking, I can't stop writing
I should be the can't stop spokesman
Addictive personality, ironically
I write my realest shit when I escape from reality
I drink to forget, then I write to remember
It's been like that since my high school tenure
I can't imagine if I never had this rappin' hobby
I'd rarely be happy probably
But I knew a lotta people when I lived back in Maryland
That had it way worse gettin' addicted to heroin
So I shouldn't be too pissed
I'm just gettin sick of writtin drunken self help to-do lists
That remain unchecked, cause I never follow through
And when you move old habits follow you
And I can't quite shake this ape from off my back
It seems it's safe strapped up tight
Eh y'all that's my life

 

[Puck Beaverton]

The Replacements - Here Comes A Regular. It's a good drinking song.

Well a person can work up a mean mean thirst
after a hard day of nothin' much at all
The summer's past, it's too late to cut the grass
There ain't much to rake anyway in the fall
And sometimes I just ain't in the mood
to take my place in the back with the loudmouths
You're like a picture on the fridge that's never stocked with food
I used to live at home, now I stay at the house

And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?

Well a drinkin' buddy that's bound to another town
Once the police made you go away
And even if you're in the arms of someone's baby now
I'll take a great big whiskey to ya anyway

Everybody wants to be someone's here
Someone's gonna show up, never fear
'cause here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one who feels ashamed?

Kneeling alongside old sad eyes
He says opportunity knocks once then the door slams shut
All I know is I'm sick of everything that my money can buy
The fool who wastes his life, God rest his guts

First the lights, then the collar goes up, and the wind begins to blow
Turn your back on a pay-you-back last call
First the glass, then the leaves that pass, then comes the snow
Ain't much to rake anyway in the fall

 

[March of the Crabs]

The Decline by NOFX

I wish I had a schilling
For every senseless killing
I'd buy a government
America's for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one


Link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qnFVMkTWaBw

The full lyrics are amazing, even better with the song of course.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nofx/thedecline.html

The Decline is a genuine masterpiece.

Here are my favourite lyrics ever. They really hit hard. Such a beautiful song.


Propagandhi - Without Love (link is to a live version as that is all that's on YouTube)

All in nature ends in tragedy and I was the first to finally fade away from my grandfather’s memories. How long ’til the day my memories of him finally fade away? Dissolving into gray.

Is breathing just the ticking of an unwinding clock? Just counting down the time it takes for you to comprehend the sheer magnitude of every single precious breath you’ve ever wasted?

I did everything I could. I bargained with the universe to take my life instead of hers. But no amount of money, drugs or tears could keep her here. What purpose did her suffering serve?

Is breathing just the ticking of an unwinding clock? Just counting down the time it takes for you to comprehend the sheer magnitude of every single precious breath you’ve ever wasted?

So much misery. So much indifference to so much suffering that we can become tempted by appeals to hatred. But this world ain’t nothing more than what we make of it.

Revenge ain’t no solution to the inevitable pain that every single one of us must face in losing the kindred spirits in our lives. Lives so brief, so disappointing, so confusing. As Cronie slipped away I held her in my arms, reduced to “Please don’t leave me. What will I do?” But this cosmic sadness is just here to remind you that without Love, breathing is just the ticking of…

 

[Chojin]

Every song from Jawbreaker's Dear You.

Here's some goodies:

Fireman

Dreamed I was a fireman
I just smoked and watched you burn
Dreamed I was an astronaut
I shot you down like a juggernaut
Dreamed we were still going out
Had that one a few times now
Woke up to find we were not
It's good to be awake.

Basilica

Angel tears, bask sweet.
Angel eyes on you.
They love all that they see.
Dewy palm, cemetery lawn.
Walk alone in gardens of loss.
You can't have a flower of stone.
Never let this soil come between us.
I'm asking you on a date for the rest of your life.

Unlisted Track

You can't sell me incense
My world smells good enough to eat
So let's not eat, just smell the good and longing
Not owning
We'll circle like insects
Incensing the grieve liquored herd
Have you heard an encouraging word from them
They pretend

To be so above it all
Or so they would have you think
I think, no one thinks at all

Also most of Alkaline Trio's songs, especially before Crimson. But I'll just put one up:
Keep Em Coming

14 hours ahead
A head that's heavier than lead
I've got toothpicks in my eyes
A smile more yellow than the sky

I've got a song stuck in my head
One that I miss more than my bed
It's a song sung from a fallen milkman
Who's drinking bleach instead

I'm much like him

14 hours unfed
I spent the last cents in my head
They're worth much less than pennies now
Food for one thought shared with a crowd

I've got a painting in my head
A deeper blue bled thicker red
More red than bloody marys coast to coast
I hate flying I said

That's what I said

Sad, sorry excuse
Just like everything that made her smile
And everything I use
I won't go back to the way it was
I'm now huffing gas and sniffing paint
To take away this buzz that I call you

What can I say, I love puns!

 

[blame space]

chojin I don't know if you knew this but we are soul mates.

 

[Qronicle]

Tool - Right in two

Not really deep, but very true

Angels on the sideline, puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused.

Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys,
Where there's one you're bound to divide it right in two.

Angels on the sideline, baffled and confused.
Father blessed them all with reason.
And this is what they choose.

Monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs, they forge a blade,
And where there's one they're bound to divide it right in two.

Monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs.
They make a club and beat their brother down.
How they survive so misguided is a mystery.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here.

Cut and divide it all right in two

Fight over the clouds, over wind, over sky
Fight over life, over blood, over prayer,
overhead and light
Fight over love, over sun,
over another, Fight for each other,
for the ones who are rising.

Angels on the sideline again.
Benched along with patience and reason.
Angels on the sideline again
Wondering when this tug of war will end.

Pearl Jam - Black

Perfectly describing every hard break-up

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds of what was everything.
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside, I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head, I'm spinning, oh,
I'm spinning, how quick the sun can drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... yeah...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
But why can't it be mine?

 

[Stinkles]

Anything by The Darkness but especially this:

You are drunk and you are surly
In Latino lover mode
We all know what's on your agenda
We've broken the code

I've got no right to lay claim to her frame
She's not my possession
You cunt.

Get your hands off my woman motherfucker
Get your hands off my woman motherfucker

Octoped, you've got six hands too many
And you can't keep them to yourself
You're too fat and too old to marry
So they left you on the shelf

I've got no right to lay claim to her frame
But you soiled my obsession
You cunt.

Get your hands off my woman motherfucker
Get your hands off my woman motherfucker
Get your hands off my woman motherfucker
Get your hands off my woman motherfucker
Ow!
Get your hands off my woman motherfucker
Get your hands off my woman motherfucker

 

[pablito]

Bedwetter (Lil Ugly Mane) - Man Wearing a Helmet

Crouched down by the tree at his neighbors
He liked the way the bark ripped off like paper
He pretended he was Superman, eyes had lasers
Every step he took turned earth into craters
Little brown jacket, Lee jeans with a cuff
Bowl cut, blue and yellow mismatched Chucks
He's a sitting duck, didn't hear the car pull up
Thought his arm broke when they shoved him in the trunk

Brake light, night light, choking on his tear snot
"Fear not" summarize the voice within an earshot
Muffled through the seats, stale smoke
He can hear Scott-Heron singing "Home Is Where the Hatred Is"
Home is where they took him from and he don't know who's taken him
Puffy eyes, pissed pants, sore throat, scream like a whisper
Fists beat the backseat every time he whimpers
He can see his own breath, it's the middle of the winter
X-Men hologram card that was in his coat
A single source of hope as they speedin' up the road
He traded comics for it, he got a sleeve for its protection
He's just glad he got it with him, it's his one possession
He miss his mom's affection
He miss the dinosaur blanket on the bed that he slept in
Miss throwing sticks so the dog would go fetch 'em
Missed makin' forts in the woods with his best friend


Car stops, door slams
Wonders who he is, he just doesn't understand
Chafed legs, denim tears, piss, vomit
Wishing he could change into his blue pajamas
Superman logo with a cape on it
Then maybe he'd escape into space like a comet
He hears an engine's sputter, fatigued from the travel
He listens as footsteps grind in the gravel
Maybe he can leave if he promise not to tattle
The trunk wasn't Eden but he knew he was the apple
Streetlights flooded as the trunk popped open
Hoping for a relief or a reason he was chosen
Lurking was a silhouette with unfamiliar hands
Now he's a shaking mess, carried 'cause he couldn't stand
Bluish glow of television flickers in a stairwell
Led into a lair, he got sick from how the air smells
He's with his parents in his brain, this is their hell
He felt the worry in his bones, he don't fare well
Against these monsters in this crypt, in this hidden jail
All this time passed, I'm still scared that I'm there still


All these fucking years I just don't remember
All this fucking time I just don't remember
Did I lose my mind? I just don't remember
Did I die, am I lying? I just don't remember
All these fucking years I just don't remember
All this fucking time I just don't remember
Did I lose my mind? I just don't remember
Did I die, am I lying? I just don't remember
All these fucking years I just don't remember
All this fucking time I just don't remember
Did I lose my mind? I just don't remember
Did I die, am I lying? I just don't remember


Was there a life before the one I know now?
Was I lost and just never ever found?
Was I found and then forced to forget
Just a secret that nobody can admit?
Was there a life before the one I know now?
Was I lost and just never ever found?
Was I found and then forced to forget
Just a secret that nobody can admit?


All these fucking years I just don't remember
All this fucking time I just don't remember
Did I lose my mind? I just don't remember
Did I die, am I lying? I just don't remember
All these fucking years I just don't remember
All this fucking time I just don't remember
Did I lose my mind? I just don't remember
Did I die, am I lying? I just don't remember
All these fucking years I just don't remember
All this fucking time I just don't remember
Did I lose my mind? I just don't remember
Did I die, am I lying? I just don't remember
All these fucking years I just don't remember

 

[SeaOfMadness]

Pretty much everything from Rush

A few of my favorites:

"Changes aren't permanent, but change is"

"... we're only immortal for a limited time"

"sadder still to watch it die than never to have loved it"

"ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand"

"each of us, a cell of awareness.. imperfect and incomplete.. genetic blends with uncertain ends on a fortune hunt that's far too fleet"

I could go on and on

 

[Timeaisis]

Standing on the hill in the mountain of dreams
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

 

[LouisaFerre]

You tell your stories as if you had no respect for anyone.
I sing my songs as if I were a prostitute.
You take a snap at me and stuff yourself on my welfare.
I feel like I'm clinging to a cloud.

 

[Iceman]

Right now it's:

Blood is fire, pulsing through our veins. We're either riders, or fools behind the reigns.

From Jon Foreman's Cure for Pain.

 

[kmag]

I'm on a psuedo religious lyrical kick at the moment so

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head?

Did I ask too much? More than a lot
You gave me nothing, now it's all I got
We're one, but we're not the same
Well, we hurt each other, then we do it again

U2 One

I hear stories from the chamber
How Christ was born into a manger
And like some ragged stranger
Died upon the cross
And might I say, it seems so fitting in its way
He was a carpenter by trade
Or at least that's what I'm told

Like my good hand
tattooed E.V.I.L. across it's brother's fist
That filthy five! They did nothing to challenge or resist.

In Heaven His throne is made of gold
The ark of his Testament is stowed
A throne from which I'm told
All history does unfold.
Down here it's made of wood and wire
And my body is on fire
And God is never far away.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Mercy Seat

But my favourite ever lyric is always There is a light that never goes out by the Smiths
It captures teen unrequited love perfectly

And in the darkened underpass
I thought, oh God, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldnt ask

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere
I dont care, I dont care, I dont care

Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I havent got one
I havent got one
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Although if mentioning U2. I always thought the best song Bono every wrote was She's a Mystery to me for Roy Orbison. It feels like it belongs with the great 50's and 60's Orbison tracks, almost out of time in a way. U2 have often done aching very good aching love songs, like All I want is you, One, So Cruel, the Unforgettable Fire, Stay, and With or Without You but She's a Mystery to Me is probably the least well known but the greatest of them all.

Darkness falls and she will take me by the hand
Take me to some twilight land
Where all but love is grey
Where I can't find my way
Without her as my guide

Night falls I'm cast beneath her spell
Daylight comes our heaven turns to hell
Am I left to burn and burn eternally

She's a mystery to me
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl

In the night of love words tangled in her hair
Words soon to disappear
A love so sharp it cut
Like a switchblade to my heart
Words tearing me apart

She tears again my bleeding heart
I want to run she's pulling me apart
Fallen angel cries and I just melt away

She's a mystery to me
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl

Haunted by her side is the darkness in her eyes
That so enslaves me
But if my love is blind
Then I don't want to see
She's a mystery to me

Night falls I'm cast beneath her spell
Daylight comes our heaven turns to hell
Am I left to burn and burn eternally

She's a mystery to me
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl

She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl

She's a mystery girl
She's a mystery girl

I've always loved Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen's individual abilities to tell evocative stories with lyrics. I'd probably add Shane McGowan in there too. One of my favourite examples is Ruby's arms by Tom Waits. It's such a simple but layered story with great but simple imagery. It feels like it could be written at any time in 20th century and still make sense.

I will leave behind all of my clothes I wore when I was with you
all I needs my railroad boots and my leather jacket
as I say goodbye to Ruby's arms although my heart is breaking
I will steal away out through your blinds for soon you will be waking

the morning light has washed your face and everything is turning blue now
hold on to your pillow case there's nothing I can do now
as I say goodbye to Ruby's arms you'll find another soldier
and I swear to god by Christmas time there'll be someone else to hold you

the only thing I'm taking is the scarf off of your clothesline
I'll hurry past your chest of drawers and your broken wind chimes
as I say goodbye I say goodbye I say goodbye to
Ruby's arms

I will feel my way down the darkened hall and out into the morning
the hobos at the freight yards have kept their fires burning
so Jesus Christ this goddamn rain will someone put me on a train
I'll never kiss your lips again or break your heart
As I say goodbye I say goodbye I say goodbye to
Ruby's arms

 

[wumster3000]

Big Boi - So Fresh, So Clean

Teddy Pendergrass, cooler than Freddie Jackson sippin a milkshake in a snowstorm
left her throat warm in the dorm room at the A.U we blew hay too, ath-letes might cake you
nut you must have me mistaken with them statements that you make cause...

Ain't nobody dope as me I'm dressed so fresh so clean

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

I really really really really really REALLY like you!

- carly rae jepsen

 

[Jarlaxle]

Queen - "'39"



A folk song about space exploration and time dilation. My all-time favourite track.

My favorite Queen song. Absolutely LOVE it.

For my life still ahead, pity me.

 

[MrS]

A pope is a fraud
A church is a lie
A queen is the same damn thing
You should pray to your fake god that she die
God really exists, I tell you, like this: it reside inside
And anybody tell you different, just selling you religion, tryin' to keep your ass in line

 

[uncelestial]

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn that he's not busy being born
Is busy dying
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you'd just be
One more person crying
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright ma, I'm only sighing
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright ma, I can make it
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing ma, to live up to
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Do what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say "God bless him"
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole that he's in
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright ma, if I can't please him
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright ma, it's life, and life only

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYajHZ4QUVM

 

[Mulligan]

"Pink Rabbits" (by The National)

Yo.

The saddest song ever written.

 

[Pancake Mix]

Faith No More - Falling to Pieces

Back and forth, I sway with the wind
Resolution slips away again
Right through my fingers, back into my heart
Where it's out of reach and it's in the dark
Sometimes I think I'm blind
Or I may be just paralyzed
Because the plot thickens every day
And the pieces of my puzzle keep crumblin' away
But I know, there's a picture beneath
Indecision clouds my vision
No one listens...
Because I'm somewhere in between
My love and my agony
You see, I'm somewhere in between
My life is falling to pieces
Somebody put me together
Layin' face down on the ground
My fingers in my ears to block the sound
My eyes shut tight to avoid the sight
Anticipating the end, losing the will to fight
Droplets of "yes" and "no"
In an ocean of "maybe"
From the bottom, it looks like a steep incline
From the top, another downhill slope of mine
But I know, the equilibrium's there
Indecision clouds my vision
No one listens
Because I'm somewhere in between
My love and my agony
You see, I'm somewhere in between
My life is falling to pieces
Somebody put me together