Favourite Lyrics?

[userwhoquitthesite]

Are we talking best writing, or best delivery? Because one of my favorite lyrical experiences is Reptilia, which has a head-crushing rhythm.

But Im going to choose one song that has adequate phrasing AND important lrics.

hmm... hard choice...

Spoiler: Blind Melon: No Rain

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watching the puddles gather rain

And all I can do is just pour some tea for two
And speak my point of view
But it's not sane, it's not sane

I just want someone to say to me no, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake, yea-ah
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I'll have it made

And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape
Escape... escape... escape...

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
You don't like my point of view
You think that I'm insane
It's not sane, It's not sane

I just want someone to say to me no, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake, yea-ah
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I'll have it made

And I'll have it made
And I'll have it made, oh
Lord no no
You know I'm really gonna, really gonna have it made
You know I'll have it made

 

[patsburg]

Does any1 know the song about the boy who is in the old house and his sister saved him from being taken by some dudes

 

[Shock and Awe]

Most anything written by Lennon-McCartney or George Harrison, and some or Ring's Works is great as well.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

Spoiler: Passion Pit Sleepyhead

And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going

And you say it was like fire around the brim
Burning solid burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I dragged you back a sleepyhead

They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls against your rules against your skin
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead

Your head

Seriously, if you aren't familiar with Passion Pit get familiar

 

[SeaCalMaster]

Fire in the disco.
Fire in the Taco Bell.

 

[Devil Gamer]

Stu's Song from The Hangover

 

[Lucifron]

Spoiler: System of a Down: Tentative

Superstition taking all of us for a ride
Mines overtaken by the signs of the Right
The bombs are falling overhead with no sight
While you are talking all detached, so tell us

Where you going
To the bottom
Do you hear us
We are rotting

We're going down in a spiral to the ground

No one, no one's gonna save us now
Ceremonies have killed religions for they provide
The masked comforts to delusionals, they're all in fright
The true believer's head was bathed in sunlight
While you are walking all detached, so tell us

Where you going
To the bottom
Do you hear us
We are rotting

We're going down in a spiral to the ground
No one, no one's gonna save us now
Not even God, no one saved us
No one's gonna save us

Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?

Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?

Where do you expect them to go when the bombs fall?

Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?

Superstition taking all of us for a ride
Mines overtaken by the signs of the Right
The bombs are falling overhead with no sight
While you are talking all detached, detached, detached, detached, detached, detach.

Going down, in a spiral to the ground
No-one, no-one's gonna save us now (not even God)
No one saved us, no one saved us
No one saved us, no one's gonna save us now

Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?

Especially the last: (not even God). Holy Mountains also has excellent lyrics.

 

[TJF588]

Now wait a minute, man
That's not how it is
You must be confused
That isn't who I am
Please don't be afraid
I would never try to hurt you
This is how we live
Strange although it seems
Please try to forgive
- "The Count of Tuscany" by Dream Theater (namely the first two lines here)

Playing a lion being led to a cage
I turn from surreal to seclusion
From love to disdain
From belief to delusion
From a thief to a beggar
From a god to God save me
- "Misunderstood", again by Dream Theater

So many things from the album Act II: The Father of Death by the Protomen, esp. from "The Hounds", "The Good Doctor", and "Light Up the Night".

...for some examples I can remember.

 

[Ben Jamin]

Hilltop Hoods - Monsters Ball

"And when we sound the drums, I?ll see cowards hung,
When my hour comes I?d rather catch a beat down than run,

 

[Kajt]

Spoiler: Frank Sinatra - That's Life

That's life, that's what all the people say.
You're riding high in April,
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune,
When I'm back on top, back on top in June.

I said that's life, and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks,
Stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down,
'Cause this fine ol' world it keeps spinning around

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself, flat on my face,
I pick myself up and get back in the race.

That's life
I tell ya, I can't deny it,
I thought of quitting baby,
But my heart just ain't gonna buy it.
And if I didn't think it was worth one single try,
I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself laying flat on my face,
I just pick myself up and get back in the race

That's life
That's life and I can't deny it
Many times I thought of cutting out
But my heart won't buy it
But if there's nothing shakin' come this here july
I'm gonna roll myself up in a big ball and die
My, My​

 

[SnucklesMan]

I used to be love struck but now I'm just fucked up
Pull up my sleeves and see the pattern of my cuts

Black Dahlia - Hollywood Undead

 

[Queen Michael]

These lyrics from Rake at the gates of hell by The Pogues. Keep in mind that this is the most cheerful song I've heard, and the entire point is that these lyrics are sung as if it was a good old happy Irish folk song.

I'll be with them asleep and dreaming
I'll be there when they wake with screaming
At the hour of death then I will nurse them
To have a moment more to curse them

It goes on like that.

And now, the chorus
Mother's eyes are sparkling diamonds,
Still the moon shows no light
This rose is withered, may God deliver
The rake at the gates of hell tonight

 

[tomtom94]

Do you know the enemy

Life for you's been less than kind
So take a number stand in line
We've all been sorry we've all been hurt
But how we survive
Is what makes us who we are

Survive (Rise Against). An excellent song, but the lyrics in particular.

 

[DoctorNick]

Spoiler: Timothy by The Buoys

 

[Strid]

This section of Vermilion - Slipknot

She is everything and more
The solemn hypnotic
My Dahlia bathed in possession
She is home to me

I get nervous, perverse, when I see her it's worse
But the stress is astounding
It's now or never she's coming home
Forever

Oh (She's the only one that makes me sad)

Hard to say what caught my attention
Fixed and crazy, Aphid attraction
Carve my name in my face, to recognize
Such a pheromone cult to terrorize