favourite lyrics.

one-angry-dwarf

what the title says...

mine;
"Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you" - Territorial pissings by Nirvana

eggshapedfred

They Might Be Giants, "Self Called Nowhere"

"I'm standing in the spot where they tore down the garage to make room for the torndown garage"

Kali

Bjork - Come To Me or maybe Ride - Dreams Burn Down.

Capt'n Midnight

"Two men say the're Jesus, one of them must be wrong" Mark Knoffler

Then there was the record company that wanted to put a drum machine on a Black Box song that started off
"Deviate to contemplate this audio-visual opiate,"

ShriekingSheet

"Let me put you in the picture. Let me show you what I mean.

The Massiah is my sister, ain't no king man she's my queen.

I had a dream, Ive seen the light,

Don't put it out cos she's alright

yeah she's my sister"

STONE ROSES - LOVE SPREADS



"Is there a T-Shirt i can wear?
Cos Im so gay - LOOK AT ME!"

SNOW PATROL

Shred

'Branded In Pain, Marked Criminally Insane, Locked Away and Kept Restrained
Dissaprobation But What Have I Done, I Have Yet Only Just Begun - To Take Your F*ckin' Lives!!!'


'Criminally Insane' By Slayer:cool:

Okie

I know it's originally a Nine Inch Nails Song.

I know it's a recent song compared to past classics.

But Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is one of the most achingly beautiful songs I've heard.

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way


*Says it all really*

joseph brand

'Dancin at the disco, bumpa te bumpa,
Wait a minute, wheres me jumpa?'



Sorry had to get this tune off me chest:D

Drella118

'The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face'
Visions of Johanna

'In a world of steel-eyed and men who are fighting to be warm
Come in she said, I'll give ya shelter from the storm'
Shelter From the Storm

'Even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked'
Its Alright Ma (I'm only Bleedin')


All Bob Dylan lines

polarbelly

mahogany by snow patrol

'i'm not trying to find a way to get into your bed i'll just sing for you until you fall asleep then i will go'

beautiful song

check them out they've an excellent new album out

www.snowpatrol.net

ferdi

right now my favorite lyrics are:

Jamie, oh Jamie, I'm so glad you're mine
We'll be together a long time

Jamie, believe me, I won't let you down
Cause you are the best lawyer in town

Jamie by weezer (covered by Dashboard Confessional)

pyure

simple -

im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me
beck - loser

one-angry-dwarf

the eels - novocaine for the soul

"Life is hard and so am I. you better give me something. so I dont die...........Life is white and i am black, jesus and his lawyers, are coming back".

monument

Red Chord by The Frames

"And I'm pulling on the red chord
That pulls you back to me lord
It helps me out
When you're away

When I was in the army
And they called you back to say
And I was resting soft(ly)
In the arms of my woman

And I'm pulling on the red chord
That pulls you back to me lord
And I'm pulling on the red chord
So you're not so far away

And I was at the uni
At the university of
Blind love and black poetry
And it was there I found you
And you were happy like an angel
But for everything you learned
There is something you must let go of

And I'm pulling on the red chord
That pulls you back to me lord
And I'm pulling on the red chord
That pulls you back to me lord

Pulls you back to me lord
Yeah, Pulls you back to me lord
Pulls you back to me lord
Yeah, Pulls you back to me lord"

(lyrics from... http://www.irishmusiccentral.com/theframes/fr_lyrics_fitzcarraldo.html#Revelate)

Creamy Goodness

Originally posted by ferdi
right now my favorite lyrics are:

Jamie, oh Jamie, I'm so glad you're mine
We'll be together a long time

Jamie, believe me, I won't let you down
Cause you are the best lawyer in town

Jamie by weezer (covered by Dashboard Confessional)

wow ferdi great choice i was going to pick that aswell.

i'll pick why bother by weezer

I know I should get next to you
you got a look that makes me think you're cool
But it's just sexual attraction
Not somethin' real so I'd rather keep wackin'

Why bother?
it's gonna hurt me
It's gonna kill when you desert me
This happened to me twice before
It won't happen to me anymore

I've known a lot of girls before
What's the harm in knowin' one more?
Maybe we could even get together
Maybe you could break my heart next summer
It's a crying shame I'm all alone
Not with you, nor her, nor anyone
Won't you knock me on my head
Crack it open let me outta here.

smiaras

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mada999

I like the line in the coldplay tune - the scientist

it goes....

Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me.

I think it's a grear lyric.

or

Pearl Jam's cover of Last kiss. Listen to the lyrics it's very sad. Especially when the dude's bird is dying. Tragic!

tman

anything by Underworld, pearls girl & moaner especially
guarenteed to wreck your head:f33r:

tears for fears or gary jules - mad world...

Warren Zevon - werewolfs of London

Kali

Up-up, down-down, left-right, left-right, B-A, Start,
Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart...

Squinched up your face and did a dance,
Shook a little turd out of the bottom of your pants...

gwan the moldy peaches

Sauron

The Smashing Pumpkins
"Bodies"

the crumbled cities stand as known
of the sights you have been shown
of the hurts you call your own
love is suicide:f33r:

frood4t2

Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Well I've never prayed but tonight I'm on my knees
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me
I let the melody shine, I let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airwaves are clean and there's nobody singing into me now...

... the rest of the song too, really.

carbonkid

when you send me a pulse
feel a wave of new love
through me
im dressed in white noise
you know just what i want
so please

strict machine-goldfrapp

it was what i wanted to say to someone else and i didnt know how to word it and then i heard the song...that and it sounds wicked:D

Johnny_the_fox

Thin Lizzy - Angel from the Coast

Angel, she's a killer
Just flown in from the coast
Makes the hit, it's a winner
Leaves you dead as the post

LegacyUser

someone left the cake out in the rain, i don't think i can take it cause it took so long to bake it and i'll never have the recipe agaaaiiiin

steviem

Travis Tritt - "Tell me i was dreaming"

"Tell me I was dreaming
That you didn't leave me here to cry
You didn't say you don't love me anymore
And it was just my imagination telling lies
Tell me that you didn't say goodbye"


Bon Jovi

"I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for you"


I must be getting old.

robbie1876

"She turned my life into a living hell in those little tops and tight capris
I pretented to be reading the National Probe as I was watching her wax her skis"

- "Cousin Dupree" by Steely Dan - rest of the song here

mr_angry

Originally posted by robbie1876
- "Cousin Dupree" by Steely Dan

That song scared me - I was forced to listen to the album while working in a record store. *shivers*

"I f*cked it up
Shot my load
Spewed onto the motorway shoulder
Yes I could have been Special"

"Special / Blown It" - Mansun

Ah yes. Mansun brought us some great lyrics. It was a tough call between that and "The nature of uncarved blocks is how to inscribe what's hard to describe" from Shotgun. Indie craziness...

Zaph

"I was looking handsome
She was looking like an erotic vulture"

Subbacultcha by The Pixies

monument

Another set of lyrics I really like...

Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girlie so groovy
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am un chien Andalusia

I am un chien Andalusia (x3)

Wanna grow
Up to be
Be a debaser

Debaser (x5)

Got me a movie
Ha ha ha hoa
Slicing up eyeballs
Ha ha ha hoa
Girlie so groovie
Ha ha ha hoa
Don't know about you
But I am un chien Andalusia

I am un chien Andalusia (x3)

Debaser (x5)

Black Francis - The Pixies

They explan what it's about here.

Cheez

Tool - H

Without the skin,
Beneath the storm,
Under these tears
The walls came down.

And the snake is drowned and
As I look in his eyes,
My fear begins to fade
Recalling all of those times.

I could have cried then.
I should have cried then.

And as the walls come down and
As I look in your eyes
My fear begins to fade
Recalling all of the times
I have died
and will die.
It's all right.
I don't mind.

I am too connected to you to
Slip away, to fade away.
Days away I still feel you
Touching me, changing me,

And considerately killing me.

*****************************

Very touching,emotive song

Okie

A great song Sunday Morning Comin' Down by Kris Kristofferson with great lyrics

"Well I woke up Sunday morning,
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day."

daveg

Coldplay - Amsterdam. Class. That is all.

Stuck on the end of this ball and chain
And I'm on my way back down again
Stood on a bridge, tied to a noose
Sick to the stomach
You can say what you mean
But it won't change a thing
I'm sick of the secrets

Stood on the edge
Tied to a noose
You came along
And you cut me loose

You came along
And you cut me loose
You came along
And you cut me loose

Okie

Another great song Hedonism - Skunk Anansie

"I hope you’re feeling happy now
I see you feel no pain at all it seems
I wonder what you’re doin’ now
I wonder if you think of me at all
Do you still play the same moves now
Or are those special moods
For someone else
I hope you’re feeling happy now"

Bard

Not my favourite by any means, but still a classic...:

Therapy? - Knives

My girlfriend says
that I need help
my boyfriend says
I'd be better off dead

I'm gonna get drunk
come round and fuck you up
I'm gonna get drunk
come round and fuck you up

and you can't help my life
but you can hide
the knives

my girlfriend says that I'm comfused
my boyfriend says that I'm bad news
all people are shit
bad trip tattoed on my brain
all people are shit
bad trip tattoed on my brain

and you can't help my life
but you can hide
the knives

I wanna crawl up inside you and die
I wanna crawl up inside you and die
I wanna crawl up inside you and die
I wanna crawl up inside you and die

and you can't help my life
but you can hide the knives

and you can't help my life
but you can hide
the knives

Thanx 4 The Fish

Eponine:
Don’t you fret, M’sieur Marius,
I don’t feel any pain.
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now.
You’re here. That’s all I need to know.
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.
Marius:
But you will live ’Ponine—dear God above,
If I could close your wounds with words of love.
Eponine:
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me.
Marius:
You would live a hundred years
If I could show you how
I won’t desert you now…
Eponine:
The rain can’t hurt me now
This rain will wash away what’s past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close.
I’ll sleep in your embrace at last.
The rain that brings you here
Is heaven blessed.
The skies begin to clear
And I’m at rest.
A breath away from where you are
I’ve come home from so far. My favourite lines in any song.
So don’t you fret, M’sieur Marius
I don’t feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now.
That’s all I need to know.
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain
Will make the flowers…
Marius:
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine
You won’t feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now.
I’m here.
I will stay with you till you are sleeping
And rain
Will make the flowers
Grow.

superconor

a part in TNT by AC/DC that goes

lock up your daughter, lock up your wife
lock up your backdoor, run for your life


although most Black Sabbath songs have kick ass lyrics, my faveorite would probably be paranoid

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind
People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time

All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy,
Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify

Can you help me occupy my brain?
Oh yeah

I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find,
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind

Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness I can not feel and love to me is so unreal

And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state
I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could but (it's/I'm) too late



and
Rockin In The Free World - Neil Young
There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.






:f33r: excellent lyrics

tendofan

Divine Comedy - 'When the lights go out all over Europe'.

'When the lights go out all over Europe,
I forget about old MGM,
'Cos Paramount was never Universal &
Warners went out way back
When the lights go out all over Europe
I forget about old Hollywood,
'Cos Doris Day could never make me cheer up
Quite the way those French girls always could.'

Boo Hewerdine - 'Please don't ask me to dance'
just for the line 'Skin remembers what the heart forgets'

Elvis Costello's - 'Oliver's Army'
Clifford T. Ward - 'Home thoughts from abroad'

Tendofan

--Kaiser--

I wish that i coud sleep
But i can't lay on my back
Because theres a knife for everyday
That i've known you

The Speed of Pain - Marilyn Manson


I felt darkness
Closing in upon me
Chilling shadows
Surrounding me
I've had the poison leak into my skin
And it corroded my heart away

Timelessness - Fear Factory

Emboss

Where do you start with something like this......

just a few i can think of

Crowded House - It's only natural

It's easy when you don't try
Going on first impressions
Man in a cage has made his confession
You've seen me at my worst
And it won't be the last time I'm down there
I want you to know I feel completely at ease
Read me like a book
That's fallen down between your knees
Please let me have my way with you

U2 - Stay

Green light, Seven Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don't smoke, don't even want to
Hey now, check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
Your wheels are turning but you're upside down
You say when he hits you, you don't mind
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive

Dave Mattews Band - Crash Into Me

If I've gone overboard
Then I'm begging you
to forgive me
In my haste
When I'm holding you so girl ...
close to me
Oh and you come crash
into me, baby
And I come into you
Hike up your skirt a little more
and show the world to me
Hike up your skirt a little more

Auburn

Staind - Outside

And you
Bring me to my knees
Again
All the times
That I could beg you please
In vain
All the times
That I felt insecure
For you
And I leave
My burdens at the door

But I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
'Cause inside your ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you
....
link

da_deadman

U2 - One
"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?"

Nirvana - On a Plain
"The finest day that I ever had
Was when I learned to cry on command
I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong so what should I do?"

The Verve - Come On
"I must be feeling low
I talked to god in a phonebox on my way home
I told you my answer
I left you my dreams on your answering machine

I must be going insane
I called the doctor so he can relieve my pain
He's got a little pill for me
Just a little luxury
Help me through my day"

those 3 are fine examples of 3 of the best lyricists to write songs

scary

Blurings - Microdisney

Your Neck is cheap elastic,
beneath a brain of lead,
thanks for the lies and poison,
Nothing is true" you said,
the road to honest happines,
ploughs right through yellow scum like you.


The day I lost everything - The Fatima Mansions

you're lying in a heap at the bottom of the staircase
blood, bones, powder, that sort of thing
and you're wondering, how did i get here?
and then you look up and you see
it's a man in a cowl, it's a man in a cowl
he opens his face to you
it's jimmy [tarbuck]
he is saying, "kiss the ring! kiss the ring!"
and he says, "yes, there is a santa claus
and anybody who blasphemes against santa or any of his helpers
shall die"
what do you do?
what do you do?


North Atlantic Wind - The Fatima Mansions

In the all-night party at the chemical plant
Everybody’s feeling grand
The irish peasants haven’t had this much fun
Since their ancestors fled the land
A man with a hammer smashes down a wall
And everybody shouts, "hooray!"
And the virgins get taken in the shower stalls
Where the cyanide comes up the drains
Don’t call an ambulance if you can’t pay

Anything from Cathal Coughlan really

thefuturehead

tman wrote:

anything by Underworld, pearls girl & moaner especially
guarenteed to wreck your head:f33r:

tears for fears or gary jules - mad world...

Warren Zevon - werewolfs of London

whoa! that's tears for fears lyrics, whatever version you prefer....show some respect!

lordgoat

man there are some awful lyrics posted in this thread,

here are some of my favourites from, in my opinion, the greatest lyricist of my time.

'Future butterfly, gonna spend the day higher than high...'

'the imitation picks you up like a habit,
riding in the glow of the tv static,
takin out the trash to the man,
give the people somethin they understand
stickman flashin' a fine line smile,
junk bond trader tryin' to sell a sucker a style
rich man in a poos mans' clothes
the permanent installment of the daily dose'
Junk Bond Trader

' i waited for a bus to seperate the both of us and take me off far away from you
cos my feelings never change a bit...'
I didn't understand


All by Elliott Smith

Badabing

Bob Dylan Mr. Tamporine man

"Let me forget about today until tommorow"

MiCr0

Eve, The apple of my eye -Bell X1

"can't you see the grass is greener where it rains"

one line can say a lot

impr0v

Culture sucks down words
Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles
Organise your safe tribal war
Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto

Each day living out a lie
Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

Life lies a slow suicide
Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths
From feudal serf to spender
This wonderful world of purchase power

Just like lungs sucking on air
Survivals natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

Drive away and it's the same
Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim
Your joys are counterfeit
This happiness corrupt political ****

Living life like a comatose
Ego loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness everlasting nothingness

DerekD Goldfish

scary nice to see a fellow Coughlan on here
anyway

"Love will get you like a case on Anthrax
and thats something I dont want to catch"
Gang of Four - Anthrax

"how can you lie there and think of England
when yo diot even know whos in the team"
Billy Bragg - Grettings to new brunette

Le Rack

well they've got to kill what we found
well they've got to hate what they fear
well they've got to make it go away
well they've got to make it disappear

the farther i fall i'm beside you
as lost as i get i will find you
the deeper the wound i'm inside you
for ever and ever i am a part of

you and me
we're in this together now
none of them can stop us now
we will make it through somehow

thats from NIN We're In This TOgether Now
and I also adore
Disenchented Lullaby by the Foo Fighters



Disenchanted lullabies sing me yours I?ll sing you mine
sing with me now whats a boy to do whats a boy to do
sing along for yesterday sing along my soul to take
sing along another song for you whats a boy to do

I may be scattered
A little shattered
What does it matter
No one has a fit like I do
(x 2)
Im the only one who fits you

Whisper with me pass the time
Whisper for the days gone by
Whisper with the voice inside of you
With this ring you will be mine
With this ring I multiple
With this ring surrendering to you
Whats a boy to do

I may be scattered
A little shattered
What does it matter
No one has a fit like I do
(x 2)
Im the only one who fits you

I may be scattered
A little shattered
What does it matter
No one has a fit like I do
(x 2)
Im the only one who fits you

No one has a fit like I do
Im the only one who fits you

and we cant forget I'm Not Okay by My Chemical Romance

Well if you wanted honesty, that's all you had to say
I never want to let you down or have you go
It's better off this way
For all the dirty looks
For photographs your boyfriend took
Remember when you broke your foot
From jumping out the second floor

I'm not okay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
You wear me out

What will it take to show you that it's not the life it seems
(I'm not okay)
I told you time and time again
You sing the words but still don't know what they mean
To be a joke and look
Another line without a hook
I held you close as we both shook for the last time
Take a good hard look

I'm not okay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
You wear me out

Forget about the dirty looks
The photographs your boyfriend took
You said you read me like a book
But the pages are all torn and frayed

I'm okay
I'm okay
I'm okay, now
(I'm okay, now)

But you really need to listen to me
Because I'm telling you the truth
I mean this, I'm okay
(Trust me)

I'm not okay
I'm not okay
Well, I'm not okay
I'm not o-****ing-kay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
(Okay)