On Lyrics

[MysteriousStranger]

Sitting watching Kerrang TV and found myself listening a lot closer to the lyrics of all the songs and some of them are pretty epic.

Got me wandering, what is your favourite lyrics/line from any song, any artist, any genre? Can be more than one. Quote the Band/Artist, song choice and lyric/line.

Linkin Park 'Bleed it Out'

"Yeah here we go for the hundred time
Hand grenade pins in every line
Throw 'em up and let something shine
Going out of my f***ing mind."

Linkin Park 'Shadow of the Day'

"And the shadow of the day,
Will embrace the world in grey.
And the sun will set for you."


My Chemical Romance 'Teenagers'

"Another COG in the Murder Machine."

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

What's the point of it all,
When you're building a wall,
And in front of your eyes,
It just disappears?

 

[Squarez]

I'm at the Pizza Hut,
I'm at the Taco Bell.
I'm at the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

 

[Metaik]

Either Enter Shikari, mainly just for the vol-au-vents;
"This is a crock of shit I refuse to be fed
So knuckle down and use your head
Can it sunshine bottle it up you ponce
Then knock me up a dish with some vol-au-vents"

or pretty much all Biffy Clyro lyrics.

EDIT: + The Boxer by Paul Simon

 

[Illesdan]

See the man of hungry mind
Never had a dream to call his own
His sin in form of thought
He lived to milk the minds of the blind
To rule the sea of imagination

And the sanity assassin
Is coming down to steal your mind
So he takes an innocent's vision
The blind lead the blind, they say
Meet the sanity assassin
A trick of mind or the devil's whim
On the way to tomorrow's dream
He's fading away

See the man with the empty soul
Never had a face or will of his own
So he took another's pride
And he made a mask of faults
Defensive anger and false emotion

And the sanity assassin
Is coming down in a stream of black
So he takes what he cannot live
The black leads the blind astray
Meet the sanity assassin
A trick of mind or the devil's whim
On the way to tomorrow's dream
He's fading away

Sing your sweet poison, stealer of dreams
Bleed your sweet anguish and the form of dreams are born

Don't be afraid to dream outside the lines
Don't be afraid of painting pictures within your mind
Don't be afraid, your path is not of sorrow
Don't be afraid, dreams are immortal

Rise in the coming tide
Wave after wave of sleep crushing down
Hopes of the weakened and knowing
Awash in the undertow, falling away

Listen as the tale begins to now unweave
The will of strong mind he'll never deceive
I speak the words to lay me down, I am ever strong
Against the all-knowing thief of imagination

Dreams are immortal

'The Sanity Assassin' by Nevermore

 

[Kasawd]

Ashes and promises share a bond
Through the winds of change
Words are blown away
When visions that should be
Are tattooed in your mind
The power to let go
Is sometimes hard to find

The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others
Or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories
We find ourselves confined

Claws so razor sharp
Ripping at the spirit

Promises a potential to hurt
Is anything real?
When forever is to be until
Deep inside, in the world of empty words...
No escaping from those haunting
empty words...

Do you ever feel it?
A craving that is so strong
To by thought rewind in order to find

Expectations that shined through the doubt
That soon would turn into the price
Of what a word will be worth
When tomorrow comes
To be and we are left
Standing on our own-
And seeing what is real...

The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others
Or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories
We find ourselves confined

Claws so razor sharp
Ripping at the spirit

-Empty Words by Death

 

[Catfood220]

"Every dream I've had wants me to stay, every night I try to find a way" - Hide Nowhere - Devin Townsend

 

[opeth1989]

Come into this night
Here we'll be gone
So far away
From our weak and crumbling lives
Come into this night
When days are done
Lost and astray
In what's vanished from your eyes

What came and distorted your sight
Saw you benighted by your fright

Come into this night
Your plight alone
Carry your weight
You are flawed as all of us
Come into this night
Your only home
It's never too late
To repent, suffer the loss

What came and distorted your sight
Saw you benighted by your fright

What came and distorted your sight
Saw you benighted by your fright

Come into this night
When you're able
To undo your deeds
And atone with your lonely soul
Once you're into this night
All minds are stable
Forget all your needs
Lose the grip of all control

Benighted - by Opeth

 

[Thistlehart]

Nickelback, S.E.X.

S is for the simple need,
E is for the ecstasy,
X is just to mark the spot,
'cause that's the one you really want!

Yes, sex is always the answer
it's never the question
'cause the answer's yes!
Oh the answer's yes!

Not just a suggestion
if you ask the question
then it's always yes!
Yeah!

Cage the Elephant, No Rest for the Wicked

There ain't no rest for the wicked.
Money don't grow on trees.
I got bills to pay.
I got mouths to feed.
There ain't nothin' in this world for free.

I can't slow down.
I can't hold back,
though you know I wish I could.
Naw, there ain't no rest for the wicked,
'till we close our eyes for good.

Foo Fighters, The Pretender

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

 

[vrbtny]

"And I'm thinking what's the harm,
In a bit rhetoric and charm?"

 

[unoleian]

And as the windshield melts
my tears evaporate
leaving only charcoal to defend
finally i understand
the feelings of the few
ashes and diamonds
foe and friend
we were all equal in the end

-Two Suns in the Sunset -- Roger Waters/Pink Floyd

Don't listen to too awful much music with lyrics, overall. Was a toughie to think of anything. I'll just go with that one. First one I thought of, so I must like it.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Death is not a hunter unbeknownst to it's pr-

Woops. That's not a song.

Those long days passing by from that door, like late summer they slowly fade away
Finding ways through the favorite tune, filling me with those sounds.

-Heaven, Persona 4 OST

 

[RagnarokHybrid]

This guy Despot uses some pretty artful alliteration and inner rhymes. Just listen to the beginning:

Everyone clap for the crap artist
a pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest
capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted
and the last ramblin' man standin' that laughs hardest
panhandlin' n' grand-standin' on red carpets
doin' the camera flash dance and new pants targets
tune in to catch a glance of a new fast start n'
they only listen, what you spittin', what the bad part is

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[Trololo Punk]

"Yeah! I am just an atom in an ectoplasmic sea
Without direction or a reason to exist.
The anechoic nebula rotating in my brain
Is persuading me, contritely, to persist."

"Around these parts a fly can live---
A fly can live a thousand years
but a man cannot die soon enough, true enough

A smiling drunk nursing a glass of milk
A girl with a face like prison bread
Over the kitchen noise I hear them howl at me"

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

I've had a segment of a song stuck in my head for a while now, not because it's catchy, but because it's perfect.

So they sleep in the same bed with guns to eachother's heads
Dead to romance, boiling the blood that painted roses red
Suffering from post-honeymoon's disease, leeched to his whole existence
She'll die if he decides to live
Addicted to the way she feels when they spend time together
Detouring the now in a childish attempt to find forever
Despite the fact they hold eachother heart-to-heart
You can't be that close to somebody without being so far apart

Spoiler

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[Dark Prophet]

Daft Punk "Something About Us"

It might not be the right time
I might not be the right one
But there's something about us I want to say
Cause there's something between us anyway

I might not be the right one
It might not be the right time
But there's something about us I've got to do
Some kind of secret I will share with you

I need you more than anything in my life
I want you more than anything in my life
I'll miss you more than anyone in my life
I love you more than anyone in my life

 

[Flamezdudes]

Radiohead's lyrics are just pure gold.

Radiohead - Videotape


When I'm at the pearly gates
This'll be on my videotape
My videotape
My videotape

When Mephistopheles is just beneath
And he's reaching up to grab me

This is one for the good days
And I have it all here
In red blue green
In red blue green

You are my center when I spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape [x6]

This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can't do it face to face
So I'm talking to you before it's too late

No matter what happens now
I shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.

All the songs, every single one... has brilliant lyrics.

 

[Byr0m]

It may be cynical, but it all seems wrong

Pendulum - The Fountain

It's a rather deep line for a drum and bass song and the song itself is pretty darn good

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Coheed and Cambria 'The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness'

"So I have a secret that no one should know
That I shouldn't tell
But of all the... but of all the worlds
This one won't feel...
This one just won't leave me well"

Coheed and Cambria 'In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3'

"In the seventh turning hour,
Will the victim's shadow fall?
Should the irony grow hungry?
With the victory and all they sought for,
We were one among the Fence.
One among the Fence"

Dream Theater 'Octavarium'

"We move in circles
Balanced all the while
On a gleaming razor's edge

A perfect sphere
Colliding with our fate
This story ends where it began"


Rush 'Bastille Day'

"Ooh, there's no bread, let 'em eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth "[/quote]

Rush 'The Necromancer'


"Brooding in the tower
Watching o'er his land
Holding ev'ry creature
Helplessly they stand"