Favourite lyrics at the moment?

[Outright Villainy]

(apologies if this has been done recently, I searched and the most relevant result was 2 years old surprisingly enough.)

So, I've been listening to a lot of old songs in my library whilst studying, and up pops "Ordinary story" by in flames, and I simply stop what I'm doing because god damn, those are some good lyrics...

Spoiler: The song in question

Egoism dictates human relations
A world where fashion outshines morality
It's written in blood-red colours
Designed by the thirst for power

Gather the faithful and propose a toast
To the epoch of indifference

So, my fellow Escapists, are there certain lyrics* for you that when you hear them, you just have to go "dang"?

(*In the abscense of suitable lyrics, guitar solos are also acceptable.)

Edit: I also just remembered Ghost of perdition by Opeth, which is poetry set to music.
And done in a gnarly death growl, woo!

Spoiler: clickety click

Ghost of Mother
Lingering death
Ghost on Mother's bed
Black strands on the pillow
Contour of her health
Twisted face upon the head

Ghost of perdition
Stuck in her chest
A warning no one read
Tragic friendship
Called inside the fog
Pouring venom brew deceiving

Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die young"

Holding her down
Channeling darkness
Hemlock for the Gods
Fading resistance
Draining the weakness
Penetrating inner light

Rode into the dark unaware
Winding ever higher

Darkness by her side
Spoke and passed her by
Dedicated hunter
Waits to pull us under
Rose up to its call
In his arms she'd fall
Mother light received
And a faithfull servant's free

In time the hissing of her sanity
Faded out her voice and soiled her name
And like marked pages in a diary
Everything seemed clean that is unstained
The incoherent talk of ordinary days
Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and what's within a haze
What you should take and what to give

Ghost of perdition
A saint's premonition's unclear
Keeper of holy hordes
Keeper of holy whores

To see a beloved son
In despair of what's to come

If one cut the source of the flow
And everything would change
Would conviction fall
In the shadow of the righteous
The phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
Defying the forgotten morals
Where the victim is the prey

 

[Karlaxx]

Take my heart and set it free
Carried forward by the waves
Nowhere left to run, navigtor's son,
chasing raindbows all my days

Where I go I do not know
I only know the place I've been
Dreams they come and go, ever shall be so
Nothing's real until you feel

"Ghost of the Navigator", by Iron Maiden. This chorus inspired me to write a play.

 

[Hollock]

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.

 

[Tuddle]

Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva

Across the Universe by The Beatles

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Spoiler: Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie

"Crawl on Me
Sink into Me
Die for Me

Living Dead Girl

Blood on her Skin
Dripping with Sin
Do it again

Living Dead Girl"

 

[PrimoThePro]

Propane Nightmares by Pendulum always strikes a cord with me.

Spoiler: A NIGHTMARE ABOUT PROPANE?!

Mind is willing,
soul remains.
This woman can
not be saved.
From the drawn
into the fire.

Mind is willing,
soul remains.
This woman can
not be saved.
From the drawn
into the fire
Any Danger,
Bring it on home.

 

[Wadders]

Pretty much anything by Bob Dylan, or Green Fields of France.

Spoiler

Well, how do you do, Private William McBride,
Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916,
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did the rifles fir o'er you as they lowered you down?
Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And, though you died back in 1916,
To that loyal heart are you forever 19?
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane,
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?

The sun's shining down on these green fields of France;
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned.

And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.

The reason being that some elderly gentleman in one of the pubs at uni was playing and singling many Dylan dongs, and Green Fields of France, and he was goddamn brilliant.

 

[zen5887]

The last half of Lazarus Phenomenon by Bike for Three

The girl was a clever mouse and the boy was an old cat.
Diamonds are forever, but they were never told that.
He'd lay there beside her, awake for safekeeping
While she'd ask questions to the river while she was sleeping.
And who by accident? The emptiness had grown quick.
She stood on his shoulders but for heaven he was homesick.
Long before the end came he already missed her.
She went slowly out of focus and he died without a whisper.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

My friends I stand before you
To tell a Truth most Dire
There lies a traitor in our midst
Who have invoked the Captian's Ire
__________________________________

Ha ha you're dead, and i'm so happy
In loving memory of your demise
When your ship is goin down
I'll go out and paint the town

Ha ha you're dead
Ha ha you're dead
Ha ha you're dead

These are 2 different songs. Feel free to guess which ones.

 

[Uberjoe19]

My current favorite is from Swim To The Moon by Between the Buried & Me:

Slide into the water,
Become one with the sea.
Life seems so much smaller.
Swim to the Moon.

 

[Aerodynamic]

THERE IS NO YOU
THER IS ONLY ME
THERE IS NO YOU
THERE IS ONLY ME
THERE IS NO FUCKING YOOU
THERE IS ONLY FUCKING ME

Oh man, I love NIN

And this.

 

[Neonbob]

Spoiler: Lyrics

I've got a book of matches
I've got a can of kerosene
I've got some bad ideas involving you and me
I don't blame you for walking away
I touched myself had thoughts of flames
I shat the bed and laid there in it
Thinking of you wide awake for days
Wide awake for days

And I found you tongue-tied in my twisted little brain
You couldn't crack a smile
I didn't catch your name
I don't blame you for walking away
I'd do the same if I saw me
I swear it's not contagious
In four short steps we can erase this

Step one -- slit my throat
Step two -- play in my blood
Step three -- cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house
Step four -- stop off at Edgebrook Creek and rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers, one by one

I'm like a broken record
I've got a needle scratching me
It injects the poison of alcohol I.V.
I don't blame you for walking away
I'd do the same if I saw me
I swear it's not contagious
I swear to God it's not contagious

Step one -- slit my throat
Step two -- play in my blood
Step three -- cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house
Step four -- stop at Lake Michigan and rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers, one by one

This could be love - love for fire
This could be love - love for fire
This could be love - love for fire
This could be love for fire forevermore

Step one -- slit my throat
Step two -- play in my blood
Step three -- cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house
Step four -- stop at Berkeley Marina and rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers, one by one
One by one

Spoiler: Song

I just love them for how wonderfully twisted they are.
They've been my favorite for a while, too.

 

[Slaanax]

If I could would you?

 

[SoftballchicK3]

ignorance-paramore



If I'm a bad person, you don't like me
Well, I guess I'll make my own way
It's a circle, a mean cycle
I can't excite you anymore

Where's your gavel? Your jury?
What's my offense this time?
You're not a judge but if you're gonna judge me
Well, sentence me to another life

Don't wanna hear your sad songs
I don't wanna feel your pain
When you swear it's all my fault
'Cause you know we're not the same
we're not the same, oh, we're not the same

We're the friends who stuck together
We wrote our names in blood
But I guess you can't accept that the change is good
It's good, it's good

Well, you treat me just like another stranger
Well, it's nice to meet you, sir
I guess I'll go, I best be on my way out

you treat me just like another stranger
Well, it's nice to meet you, sir
I guess I'll go, I best be on my way out

Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend

 

[NeutralDrow]

<url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcaej-i3QQo>Last train to awesome town
Come on everybody wont you party with me now
Last train to awesome town
Come on wont you party with me
Last train to awesome town
The roof is on fire gonna burn it to the ground yeah
Last train to awesome town
Come on wont you party with me

Dude!
Bro!
This party is sick
Dude Dude Dude Dude
This party has like 5 different kinds of nachos!
Whoa that's off the hook crazy!

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Well, you did say "at the moment."

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

roma roma ma
gaga ooh la la
roma roma ma
want that bad romance...

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

You don't know what it's like
You don't have a clue
If you did you'd find yourselves
Doin' the same thing, too!

 

[Thatsomebody]

This is our call to arms, will you stand beside me?
This is our time to fight, no more compromising
And this blackened heart will sing
For sad solidarity

Halo over my demise
Following a god so blind
Shallow in their sickening
Swallow not the shit they feed

This is our right to life, not religious rights
This is abortions knife, aiming at the womb of
The Christian conspiracy
So open thine eyes and see

The Halo over our demise
following a god so blind
sallow in their sickening
swallow not the shit they feed

Our time, Will come
Our time, Will come
Our time, Is now
Our time, Is now

Halo, Follow, Sallow, Swallow.

The Halo over our demise
following a god so blind
sallow in their sickening
swallow not the shit they feed

Set me free

Your words will never hold us down
Prayers won't be spared on you
Satisfaction Denied
'Til you're dead and gone
Gone
Dead and gone!
You're gone!

Halo by Machine Head

 

[WhoaItsBrett]

Hero of War - Rise Against.

He said, ?Son,
Have you see the world?
Well, what would you say
If I said that you could?
Just carry this gun and you?ll even get paid.?
I said, ?That sounds pretty good.?

Black leather boots
Spit-shined so bright
They cut off my hair but it looked alright
We marched and we sang
We all became friends
As we learned how to fight

A hero of war
Yeah that?s what I?ll be
And when I come home
They?ll be damn proud of me
I?ll carry this flag
To the grave if I must
Because it?s flag that I love
And a flag that I trust

I kicked in the door
I yelled my commands
The children, they cried
But I got my man
We took him away
A bag over his face
From his family and his friends

They took off his clothes
They pissed in his hands
I told them to stop
But then I joined in
We beat him with guns
And batons not just once
But again and again

A hero of war
Yeah that?s what I?ll be
And when I come home
They?ll be damn proud of me
I?ll carry this flag
To the grave if I must
Because it?s flag that I love
And a flag that I trust

She walked through bullets and haze
I asked her to stop
I begged her to stay
But she pressed on
So I lifted my gun
And I fired away

The shells jumped through the smoke
And into the sand
That the blood now had soaked
She collapsed with a flag in her hand
A flag white as snow

A hero of war
Is that what the see
Just medals and scars
So damn proud of me
And I brought home that flag
Now it gathers dust
But it?s a flag that I love
It?s the only flag I trust

He said, ?Son, have you seen the world? Well what would you say, if I said that you could??


That or the Chorus to Violet Skies by In this Moment.

"Imagine a place
Where dreams lead the way
And all of the colors fade of grey
Imagine the dream
Now close both your eyes
Fall into the violet skies "