Favourite lyrics and why

[The Kind Cannibal]

Black Label - Lamb of God

Spoiler

The human condition is inherit claustrophobia.
Compression of my space made complete.
I would rip out my own entrails by hand just to be alone.
Inanity rolls total through this sphere.
Ostracized for clarity of vision.
A dream unrealized of solitude that I should descend into autonomy
And know the pain of fellowship no more. I feel nothing but a lack of space.
Paradox of socialization results in duress.
Rife with hostility, what has caused me so much hate?
Humanity. Exterminate with extreme prejudice.

Technically, the songs lyrics don't really exist, long story.

 

[Sun Flash]

"I'm not a business man, I'm a business, man." =D

I feel pimpin' when I hear it.

 

[Flying Dagger]

Ooh! almost forgot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPgHbt0ODr4
"i'm the dandy highwayman, who you're too scared to mention, i spend my cash on looking flash and grabbing your attention."
because it is the awesomes.
as is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoOCMa4eo04
which was awesome when i saw them live...

 

[Corpse XxX]

Eminem - Role Model

Tie a rope around your penis and jump from a tree, don't you wanna grow up to be just like me?

 

[yeah_so_no]

La Boheme, when Rodolfo is introducing himself to Mimi. I love it because it's so genuine and I love the way he says he lives by living.

Chi son? Sono un poeta.
Che cosa faccio? Scrivo.
E come vivo? Vivo!

Who am I? I'm a poet.
What do I do? I write.
And how do I live? I live!

"I Just Wanna Dance" from Jerry Springer, the Opera:

I'm tired of laughin', and I'm tired of cryin'
I'm tired of failin' and I'm tired of all this tryin'.
I wanna do some livin', 'cause I've done enough dyin'.
I just wanna dance, I just wanna fuckin' dance.

The dancing in question is stripping, by the way. It is the Jerry Springer Opera, after all. I like it because it's just such a heartfelt moment of wanting something more when life has gone wrong.

From JJ Lin's "Bu si zhi shen" ("Immortality," and just the translation):

The sun gave up at the last second
And let darkness engulf the world
Punishing men's pride
I suffered from the bitter cold
And from the roar of the north wind
Fighting against fate

This is an unavoidable disaster
No matter who you think you are
Anything, everything
Oh my love, don't be sad
As long as you hold on tightly to my hand

After the Earth has been destroyed
I will still love you with a love that knows no bounds
I'll create a new universe for you
Eternal life, undying gentleness

It's a song about literally struggling with the one person you love as the world is being destroyed, and is absolutely beautiful.

Alice in Chain's "Down in a Hole"

Down in a hole, losing my soul
Down in a hole, feeling so small
Down in a hole, losing my soul
Down in a hole, out of control
I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

I think they're just incredibly powerful, especially the "my wings have been so denied" part.

And Jay Chou's "Qi li xiang" (Common Orange Jasmine)

You are the only understanding I want

It's a simple little love song, and that line is so sweet and pure.

 

[Wadders]

The Pouges eh? I'll have to check them out.

They are amazing, if you like Irish folk with slight punk and jazz influences and vocalists that sound like they are drunk 24/7. They have funny songs, sad songs, thoughtful songs, angry songs, and anything in between. In short, they're awesome.

Yeah I'm liking most their stuff.

Good man

*feels happy at having introduced someone to a good band*

 

[CrashBang]

I have quite a few...
"And they burned up the diner where I always used to find her licking young boys' blood from her claws" - 'Great Expectations', The Gaslight Anthem
"Autumn's sweet, we call it fall, I'll make it to the moon if I have to crawl" - 'Scar Tissue', Red Hot Chili Peppers
"She got down on hands and knees, one ear against the ground, holding her breath to hear something, anything at all... The Dirt whispered 'Child, I'm coming home" - 'The Dirt Whispered', Rise Against

 

[Trivun]

Hmmm, anything that's Disney is just sheer brilliance. Old stuff and films though, including the latest stuff with Pixar, definitely not talking about the new TV stuff (HM and so on...).

Also, these:

Spoiler: Fall Out Boy - Coffee's for Closers

will never believe in anything again
I will never believe in anything again
Though change will come
Oh, change will come
I will never believe in anything again

We will never believe again
Kick drum beating in my chest again
We will never believe again
Preach electric to a microphone stand, oh

Spoiler: Fall Out Boy - 20 Dollar Nosebleed

It feels like fourteen carats but no clarity
When I look at the man who would be king
The man who would be king
Goes to the desert
The same war his dad rehearsed
Came back with flags on coffins and said
"We won, oh we won"

These are two songs from the album 'Folie a Deux'. Described by FOB themselves as their most political album to date. Doesn't take a genius to work out they're probably all Democrats.

In addition:

Spoiler: FFX - Otherworld

Go now if you want it.
Another world awaits you
Don't you give up on it.
You bite the hand that feeds you.

All alone cold fields you wander
Memories of it, cloud your sight
Fills your dreams, disturbs your slumber
Lost your way, a fallen knight

Hold now, aim is steady
Another world awaits you.
One thousand years--you ready?
The other world it takes you

Go into the sand and the dust in the sky
Go now, there's no better plan than to do or to die
Free me pray to the faith in the face of the light
Feed me fill me with sin now get ready to fight

You know, you will
You know, you will
You know it, you know it, you know it, you know that you will
You know, you know, you know, you know that you will
You know, you will

Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight

Hope dies and you wander
The other world it makes you
Dreams they rip asunder
The other world it hates you
Free now ride up on it
Up to the heights it takes you
Go on if you want it.
Another world awaits you

Spoiler: FFX - Hymn of the Fayth

Ieyui
Nobomeno
Renmiri
Yojuyogo
Hasatekanae
Kutamae

Spoiler: FFX - Suteki Da Ne

kaze ga yoseta kotoba ni
oyoida kokoro
kumo ga hakobu ashita ni
hazunda koe

tsuki ga yureru kagami ni
furueta kokoro
hoshi ga nagarekoboreta
yawarakai namida

suteki da ne
futari te wo toriaruketa nara
ikitai yo
KIMI no machi ie ude no naka

sono mune
karada azuke
yoi ni magire
yumemiru

kaze wa tomari kotoba wa
yasashii maboroshi
kumo wa yabure ashita wa
tooku no koe

tsuki ga nijimu kagami wo
nagareta kokoro
hoshi ga yurete koboreta
kakusenai namida

suteki da ne
futari te wo tooriaruketa nara
ikitai yo
KIMI no machi ie ude no naka

sono kao
sotto furete
asa ni tokeru
yumemiru

Spoiler: FFX-2 - 1000 Words

kimi no kotoba wa
yume no yasashisa kana
USO zenbu
oikakushite'ru
ZURUI yo ne

tabi datsu kimi ni
sameta senaka misete
kitte ita yo
hitori tatakau no
ZURUI yo ne

"kaete kuru kara"
oikoshite yuku kimi no koe
ijihatte tsuyoi furi
toki wo modoshite
sakebeba yokatta
ikanaide to namida ko wo shitara
ima wa dekiru donna koto mo

ienakatta sen(1000) no kotoba wo?
harukana kimi no senaka ni wo kuru yo
tsubasa ni kaete
ienakatta sen no kotoba wo?
kizutsuita kimi no senaka ni yorisoi
dakishimeru

yume no tsuzuki wa
kimi wo omoi nagara
ano hi no koto
wasureta furishite
ZURUI yo ne

"tegami wo kaku kara"
shisen sora shita kimi no koe
ijihatte tsuyoi furi toki wo modoshite
okoreba yo katta
matenai yo to kata wo otoshitara
ima wa dekiru donna koto mo

kikoete'ru sen no kotoba wo?
mienai kimi no senaka ni wo kuru yo
tsubasa ni kaete
kikoete'ru sen no kotoba wo?
tsutareta kimi no senaka ni yorisoi
dakishimeru

ienakatta sen no kotoba wo?
la la la la
kimi no senaka ni wo kuru yo
tsubasa ni kaete

kikoete'ru sen no kotoba wo?
la la la la
kimi no senaka ni yorisoi
la la la la la

All these, except for Otherworld, are favourites of mine because I love the beauty of the Japanese language. At my old school we had each year Japanese exchange students come, and each time they'd sing Japanese folk songs for us in a special assembly. Absolutely wonderful

As for Otherworld, I just feel it sums up Tidus's situation in the game perfectly.

 

[DuplicateValue]

I love this band so much.

Spoiler: Prelude Of Hearts - The Blaqk Year

Freezing time before the day breaks,
It's coldening outside, and all the leaves are fall downwards...
Two of a kind, if only time would,
Allow this mystery, were only growing further in love...

Pre-Chrorus:

So seize the day,
And all lost apathy, will come around.

Chorus:

(Its Not) Another chance
(No Not) Another calling.
(We are) Growing further apart now baby.
(I am) A little scared
(Not now), Just please save me.
We lie awake, in a cold, cold ocean.

Verse 2:

Winter trees and summer sunshine,
Come down upon your face, and all I'm left with are these feelings...
I've told you once before, this love will walk right out the door,
If all that's left, does not belong.

Pre-Chorus:

Seize the day,
And all lost apathy, will come around.

Chorus:

(Its Not) Another chance
(No Not) Another calling.
(We are) Growing further apart now baby.
(I am) A little scared
(Not now), Just please save me.
We lie awake, in a cold, cold ocean.
(Its Not) Another chance
(No Not) Another calling.
(We are) Growing further apart now baby...

 

[Kajt]

Seek and Destroy. It's so kick-ass

I'll have to agree with this guy.

 

[Inco]

'when you've loved and you've lost someone close to you, you know what it feels like to lose' - Rasmus, Not Like the Other Girls. dunno why i like it, i just do

Good band, just a bit too depressing at times for me. Sail away has pretty good lyrics to it.

But the main song that i associate to this thread is 'Mr Brightside' by the Killers because the term 'jealousy, turning saints into the sea' and 'but its the price i pay, destiny is calling me' Just seem to hit a chord with me. Probably because it shocked me how much jealousy can affect people, regardless of they are like.

 

[Spleeni]

Benny Benassi- Castaway

Spoiler

I?m wandering alone in an open space
Looking around for a human trace
Along the edge of this satellite
Losing the route in this empty sky
A prey of the ghosts of this galaxy
Losing myself in this ecstasy
No clock is turning to sign the time
Everything?s flowing through day and night
No noise is breaking my silent star
I?m on the run I can go so far
Flying in absence of gravity
Feeling the vibe of eternity

This is the lesson I had to learn
This is the treasure I had to earn
I am the owner of nowhere land
Queen of the castle that?s made of sand
Staring in front of the universe
Maybe someday I?ll be someone else
I?m sure I?ll do it, but till? that day
Here on my star I am just a castaway

I?m wandering alone in an open space
Looking around for a human trace
Along the edge of this satellite
Losing the route in this empty sky
A prey of the ghosts of the galaxy
Losing myself in this ecstasy
No clock is turning to sign the time
Everything?s flowing through day and night
No noise is breaking my silent star
I?m on the run I can go so far
Flying in absence of gravity
Feeling the vibe of eternity
This is the lesson I had to learn
This is the treasure I had to earn
I am the owner of nowhere land
Queen of the castle that?s made of sand
Staring in front of the universe
Maybe someday I?ll be someone else
I?m sure I?ll do it, but till? that day
Here on my star I am just a castaway

 

[Sh0ckFyre]

Listen to the song "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica and you'll see why it's one of my favorite songs, lyrically. James Hetfield is one tough guy and shows off how sensitive tough men can be when they write love songs.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Spoiler: k'naan - My Old Home

[Intro]
So yeah, basically
A lot of people ask me how life was then
So here it is...

[Verse 1]
My old home smelled of good birth
Boiled red beans, kernel iol and hand me down poetry
It's brick white-washed walls widowed by first paint
The tin roof top humming songs of promise while time is
Locked into demonic rythem with the leaves
The trees had to win
Hugging them, loving them a torturous love
Buggin' when
It was over and done
The round cemented pot kept the rain drops cool
Neighbors and dwellers spatter in the pool
Kids playin football with his hand and sock
We had what we got, and it wasn't a lot
No one knew they were poor
We were all innocent to greeze judgement
The country was combusting with life like a long hibrinating volcano
With a long tale of success like J-Lo
Farmers, fishers, fighters, even fools had a place in production
The costal line was the place of seduction
The coral reef make you daze in reflection
The women walked with grace and perfection
And we just knew we were worriors too
Nothing morbid, its true
We were glorious
BOOM!

Then one day it came
Spoiled up a ray like rain
Like oil in a flame, it pained
The heart attack sudden
Odder than eleven
Harder than a punch in the womb
Harder than the lunch you consume
For us, it had a cancerous fume, more lust
Men who made killing hoggies,
Selling prout fully like healthy livestock
It made tides rock with a dilegent mock
Confused are the people, infused in the evil
Professed to eject like Jews in the sequel, to win
It came in the morning, with a warning and without
The hurting was a burden, only certain was doubt
A mythical tale, no soul knows well
Liberty went to hell, freedom called for shells
Fierce was the blow, keep your ears to the show
It appears Orwell was right in '84
Had big brother kill Mother in her store
With all of us watching, we didn't lover her anymore
Peep my poem, Mother was my old home
Good winners looted -in my old home
Religion is burned down -in my old home
Kindness is shackled -in my old home
Justice has been raped -in my old home
Murderers hold post -in my old home
The land, bombers, ghosts -in my old home
We got pistols with eyes, corruption and lies
Trusting snakes, and death without breaks
Suspicious new borns live in our horn
Used to the pain, rack bodies not grain
Chopped limbs not trees
Spend lives not wealth
Seek vengance not truth, the carziest youth
Hoist pain not plans, nigga' fuck your parents
Bandits will beat us down -in my old home
Rumors are law now -in my old home
Sedatives of faith -in my old home
Rapists are praised -in my old home
Demonds dressed well -in my old home
Infants are nailed -in my old home
Spirits are jailed -in my old home
Grudges grow tails -in my old home
High roads of sea in electric haiden
Outward labor beneath stubborn faith
Our farms produce guilty grub and
Our kids depend on shifty luck, see
Our muse is life for death is old, so
Don't blame me for truth I told, say
Good winners looted -in my old home
Religion is burned down -in my old home
Kindness is shackled -in my old home
Justice has been raped -in my old home
Murderers hold post -in my old home
The land, bombers, ghosts -in my old home

Spoiler: Canibus - Levitibus

You want power...but you're not big enough
so you steal it piece by piece..
take it in spoils...and step by step you'll weaken and the power is gone"

Levitibus..

I harness The power of the chakra
with remote viewing in the darkness describin what I see in the process
stone statues surrounded by neolithic objects
ceoglyphs on the pompa
a dose of the palamine, make it feel like a dream
the dreamstate is the playground for the supreme
critics attempt to follow a trend
today they call me a charlatan but tomorrow I will be a God of men
to create a universe all I need
is 1000, trillion, trillion degrees
sodium 22, betatron and a cloud chamber
keep the noise down so I dont arouse my neighbors
got a message from the Falcom and the Snowman
another note in a Coca Cola can
showed the whole planet in coded program
enrypted by a pro-scan modem with a lowband
hold up, let me load it in

"Darling I am a scientist..(you're a person, you ought to think that)
You Clash with Cyanide gas and die fast'
None of this is (are you going to put a curse on me?)(there's no need)
Rythmical equivalent of solids, liquids and gas "

I was created by intelligent design
you are merely a descendant of the unmodified
you diss me out of pride
but when youre finished talkin bout money and bitches you're simply out of rhymes
even my worst album was sublime
if I dont slow down, i'll distort the timeline
back through the time, turned into a 100 bars again
a master like the honorable Earl of Cannaben
the grand architect
used to be a partisan to LeMarketson's theory but I lost the bet
no regrets, you live and you learn
I'm through givin advice, I just give concern
sterilize my hands to prevent catchin the germs
and try to rebuild all the bridges I've burned
I prefer modesty over controversy
but what am I to do when these jerks keep botherin me
jealous 'cos they cant rhyme like me
and they never had a scientific mind like me

"Darling I am a scientist..(you're a person, you ought to think that)
You Clash with Cyanide gas and die fast'
None of this is (are you going to put a curse on me?)(there's no need)
Rythmical equivalent of solids, liquids and gas "

I'm above average with verbal semantics
the aurora borealis in the form of a rap ballad
they look at me like "poor bastard
why cant you manipulate billboards with all your metaphor magic?"
no matter how hard I practiced
every microphone I saw I grabbed it
obviously thats the wrong tactic
I went through a long period of mourning and sadness when I wrote that Stan shit
but if you wanna see some hardcore Canibus just say so
and i'll come out the eggroll with seven death scrolls
if you can find a better flow?
then I can find a dinosaur on the Galapagos archipelago
hey you shouldnt fall for the naivette
lyrically I'm the illest when my beats is ok
food for thought, nutrition for the whole brain
keep your neurotransmitters warm on a cold day
I'm ahead of my time, or so they say
I guess thats why I already feel old and grey
okay, thats enough knowledge for today, I'm killin em
you best not forget it cuz this is Levitibus

"Darling I am a scientist..(you're a person, you ought to think that)
You Clash with Cyanide gas and die fast'
None of this is (are you going to put a curse on me?)(there's no need)
Rythmical equivalent of solids, liquids and gas "

Spoiler: Immortal Technique - Dominant Species

[Verse 1]
I'm stuck inside the future and life is chaotic
The government is psychotically racist and robotic
The matrix of entrapment is socio-economic
Erotic conspiracy theory becomes reality
Life is war, and every day's a battle to me
I'm on the brink of insanity, between extreme intelligence and split personalities
But I elevate to the point of reversing gravity
Revolutionary conceptuality spitting out of me
Even the dead people in my family tell me they proud of me
Stupidity's not allowed by me
Cuz I don't got time to play
I'm the black whole lyricist that'll take your shine away
Darkness at any time of day
I'm the Technique and your nobody so what you trying to say
Stellar density becomes your physical alignment
1.8 billion tons per square inch confinement

[Chorus]
Yo, yo, yo, I drop knowledge so heavy it leaves the world unbalanced
Exterminate the spiritual force of all that challenge
I'm the lyrical apocalypse that crumbles the granite
Replacing you as the dominant species on the planet

[Verse 2]
Yo, yo, lyrically I'm infinite like possibilities
But you don't have the capability like infertility
Cuz opening your mouth to question my validity
Is like trying to contradict the theory of relativity
When I spit is the epitome of heavy artillery
My enemies are obsessed with me like the ***** in Misery
But break out like father running form responsibility
Every time I step and abuse the mic with versatility
I balance humility, with brutal instinct
I'll make your whole cypher look like those crackers from N'Sync
And I don't care about your link, or your luxury car
I shed light with more magnitude than all of the stars
My breyon talk pick thick
So don't ever talk shit
And remember something nigga, while you rave and rant
A roach can live for nine days without its head but you can't

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
I'm explicit like video tapes of conjugal visits
Some niggaz are too stupid to understand it like astrophysics
Technique is exquisite
I'll make your thoughts a victory
Get pessimistic with the quickness
If you think that I will just become another statistic with anything but success
When I bless the mic as I spit this
Specifically prolific with coprocessor coma type sickness
My style is like a ten year old child with a slit wrist, too much reality
For the fucking hit list
I got a Black Panther mentality with a spick fist
So you can get dissed
Even if you're locally gold, vocally bold, or globally
Multi-platinum sold
I'm emotionally cold, disciplined, and ready to kill
Like spirits in the same room with you, I'm giving you chills
I drop knowledge while these mother fuckers clumsily spill
And I drop it so heavy, it leaves the world unbalanced
Exterminate the spiritual force of all that challenge
I'm the lyrically apocalypse that crumbles the granite
Replacing you as the dominant species on the planet

I just find the complex wordplay extremely entertaining and a lot of the times insightful. These weren't the ones I wanted to show but I can't find the ones I do, so they will do.

 

[Ace of Spades]

"I grew from monkey into man, then I crushed 15 million with a wave of my hand,
I grew drunk on water turned into wine, til I was slave and master at the same damn time."
-The Dave Matthews Band-
I just like the way that these sound.

 

[Captain Pancake]

in flames: scream

They scream (you scream) I scream, (we scream)
But no-one listens,
Abuse to feel superior, is it working for you?

also,

In flames: only for the weak

Sell me the infection,
It's only for the weak,
no need for your sympathy,
the misery that is me...

both lyrics speak oodles about my life, the first is about oppression, the second is about conformity.

 

[General Ken8]

Best lyrics ever?
Cigaro - System of a Down
Just read the lyrics of this sometime and you'll get it

Kiss Me I'm #!@'faced - Dropkick Murphys
It's about some guy who's totally slammed and is lying to some girl about all this great stuff he has, like a mansion on the hills

Topless - Breaking Benjamin
"I Love Your Face, Just Get Away" Really Breaking Benjamin? Is that the best you can come up with

 

[v3n0mat3]

My favorite song is More than a Feeling by Boston. I personally like that song. It feels like it's speaking to me personally (ever had that kind of feeling before?) and that is one kick ass solo.

Though I like most Korn songs. Twisted Transistor, Coming Undone, Freak on a Leash, Fagot, A.D.I.D.A.S, etc. Creepshow is a good Psychobilly band, along with Psycho Zombie, for their horror-themed music. Aquabats are always great for a laugh. Cradle of Filth is a great "poetry-meets-dark metal"-esque music. From a friend, I recently got into Demon Hunter. A kick-ass angry Christian Metal Band. Listen to their song Ribcage and Screams of the Undead.