favourite lyric? (only 2 or 4 lines)

The Bollox

I'm just wondering, what's your favourite lyric(s) at the minute. I had a discuassion with a few friends about this last night and some of the answers were very interesting. For me it's Marilyn Manson's chorus in Lamb Of God:

"if you die when there's no-one's watching
if your ratings drop you're forgotten
but if you die on their TV
you're a martyr and the Lamb Of God"

I feel it's brilliantly put and very true. what would be yours and why?

hupyago

I,m liking the dave matthews bands lyrics at the moment. explosive stuff .If you pay attention to what hes singing which most people don't. I reckon he really bares his soul on record
stuff like
'here my friend I see your eyes are troubled care to share some time with me would you say your feeling low and so a good idea would be to get it off your mind' from 'best of whats around'. theres a real tension in their stuff in a good way.

GhostInTheRuins

I think my favorite lyrics are from The song 'When the Crowds are Gone' by Savatage. The song is about an old musician that's no longer famous, and as he walks onto the stage for the last time he thinks about his life how he wishes he had just one more night of fame and admiration now that the crowds are gone. I hope that makes sense

anyway heres some of the lyrics:



I never wanted to know
Never wanted to see
I've wasted my time
Till time wasted me
Never wanted to go
Always wanted to stay
'Cause the persons I am
Are the parts that I play
So I plot and I plan
Hope and I scheme
To the lure of a night
Filled with unfinished dreams
I'm holding on tight
To a world gone astray
As they charge me for years
I can no longer pay



You have to hear it to fully appreciate it I suppose, it's such an emotional song. Here's a link to the vid if anyones interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8WWiJ6TU4s

cornbb

F-Train, by Squarepusher:

the last stage of a send up of a gut feeling doubtful touch down to one
two forty fortran crowbars shouting in tkie cellar
but no maybe it's too much to wear yes considering the fear inside the ride
starting to die baby i don't want to cry anymore
yet anyway we escape quicker than mechanical deaths rejuvenated
for transparent transport subjected to interpolated states
sadly gated you weight against all sidechains fighting the
crush of silence of the right hand mantle cranium alleged even delayed
uranium burning fabric off our backs right till we can no longer
see plus plus the fact that no rights left meaning we're less than apparent
at a rate of complex numbers transpiring to retire rats racing
time stranded in a stretch predicted yet unfounded in polynomial
calculations set to have misled the walking dead yet on awakening
we may reflect death as a tool to give credibility
to reflectivity falling in slow motion cos we're pushed at the last step
axis discrepancy indicates hexagons beyond control anomaly
mutilation colony reflects no triangular energy
components one and two tubular reality systems in question
multiply senseless consent of inspection prior to combustion eternal
conduction experiments once supposed disfigured immortal beings
wander like stoked navigators pretend multi functioning externals
yes we brackets the menu sitting like forks point at the blue
corpse overlord splitting opportunities broken like back doors
ask why i don't reply while shoulders overlooked but retain guises
suitable for generating consent fooled we're none the wiser
baud rate increased as metallic apparitions manifest through
a thousand yard stares look sideways into infinite parallel ports
headlong into one another escaping velocity becomes a matter of time
compression thresholds as yet another tectonic secret unfolds
third degree burns hover one moment above a faraday cage
exploding in slow motion components rated electrolytic
capacity suffocated in ozone waveforms communicate a paralysed process
submerged calculus offers transient traces of illusion
axis discrepancy indicates hexagons beyond control anomaly
mutilation colony reflects no triangular energy
asynchronous matter avoided by a diagram invisibility
subtle methods symmetry uncovered a diagonal telemetry
catastrophes deep frozen remaining moments horizontal like a
stone endless slowing down till actions turn sidelong
still inverts to regressions lessons unlearnt inertia presides
over burnt modernist strides looking glass to stones thrown
fractions later, swan songs colliding unpopular finding incubated
micro command shells acoustic arguments no longer specified
yes this time freedom transpires wide open deserts yet access
denied sinking in like rotten requests from perished minds
affirmations become distant light sources pinpointing curved fragments
mysterious elements time stretched incubators illuminate strange tangents
electrocution integrated into life on stretcher beds conceived
by airborne sickness surrounded cold avenues of silence
getting to grips preparation for long falls staircases previously
seen only by the dead seem to persist in times of denied states
yet returning to errors like fools locking doors random disintegration
occurs as we await falling forwards forever
axis discrepancy indicates hexagons beyond control anomaly
mutilation colony reflects no triangular energy
asynchronous matter avoided by a diagram invisibility
subtle methods symmetry uncovered a diagonal telemetry

Yep, he's an insane genius.

Tar.Aldarion

Tool - Hooker with a Penis.


I met a boy wearing Vans, 501s, and a
Dope Beastie t, nipple rings, and
New tattoos that claimed that he
Was OGT,
From '92,
The first EP.

And in between
Sips of Coke
He told me that
He thought
We were sellin' out,
Layin' down,
Suckin' up
To the man.

Well now I've got some
A-dvice for you, little buddy.
Before you point the finger
You should know that
I'm the man,

And if I'm the man,

Then you're the man, and
He's the man as well so you can
Point that ****in' finger up your ass.

All you know about me is what I've sold you,
Dumb ****.
I sold out long before you ever heard my name.

I sold my soul to make a record,
Dip ****,
And you bought one.

So I've got some
Advice for you, little buddy.
Before you point your finger
You should know that
I'm the man,

If I'm the ****in' man
Then you're the ****in' man as well
So you can
Point that ****in' finger up your ass.

All you know about me is what I've sold you,
Dumb ****.
I sold out long before you ever heard my name.

I sold my soul to make a record,
Dip ****,
And you bought one.

All you read and
Wear or see and
Hear on TV
Is a product
Begging for your
Fatass dirty
Dollar

So...Shut up and

Buy my new record
Send more money
**** you, buddy.

hallelujah

You should change this to favourite lyric like 2-4 lines instead of an entire song. Its harder to pick one lyric. Anyways heres mine.

There's a club, if you'd like to go. You could meet somebody who really loves you. So you go, and you stand on your own. And you leave on your own
And you go home. And you cry. And you want to die.

-How soon is now.

luckat

The Michael McDowell song:

I came for you, for you, I came for you
But you did not need my urgency
I came for you, for you, I came for you
But your life was one long emergency

Amandy

...."So I'd like to know if, you got the notion....
Rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby,
Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over"

I almost cried with emotion when I heard those lyrics, so profound and so true...

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4

metallica - master of puppets

End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Faster

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Faster

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Master, Master, where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, Master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries
FIX ME
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending phase, tripped a numbered days
Now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

hallelujah

Denver Breezy Tournament wrote:

metallica - master of puppets

End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Faster

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Faster

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Master, Master, where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, Master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries
FIX ME
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending phase, tripped a numbered days
Now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

*sigh*

Tar.Aldarion

Indeed. Could not have at least picked fade to black or something, anything.

hallelujah

A mole
Digging in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, excavation.

best. band. ever.

lordgoat

I can't beat myself I can't beat myself and I don't wanna talk
I'm taking the cure so I can be quiet now whenever I walk
So leave me alone, you oughta be proud now i'm getting good markssssssss

Rigsby

I quite like this from "Steely Dan's" first album :


"Like a castle in it's corner in a medi-evil game,

I foresee terrible trouble and I stay here just the same".

Standard Toaster

The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

...
And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
(But then a strange fear gripped me and I
Just couldn't ask)
...




I like the lyric os U2's One Tree Hill too.

And in the world a heart of darkness
A fire zone
Where poets speak their heart
Then bleed for it
Jara sang - his song a weapon
In the hands of one
whose blood still cries
From the ground

Oink

'When I am king you will be first against the wall.'

hallelujah

Oink wrote:

'When I am king you will be first against the wall.'

I used to love this lyric in secondary school. This boy kept being hateful to me for no reason.

gucci

"You Make Me Come,
You Make Me Complete,
You Make Me Completely Miserable"
think its by some puffy punk band....but its still kinda funny

Heisenberg.

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Mr. Presentable

cornbb wrote:

SNIP.

WTF happened to "2 or 4 lines only?

Mr. Presentable

With my blackjack and jacket and hair slicked sweet
Silver star studs on my duds like a Harley in heat

Hard to be a Saint in the City - Bruce Springsteen

The Bollox

nipplenuts wrote:

WTF happened to "2 or 4 lines only?

the title used to read 'favourite lyrics', it wasn't until I was prompted to change the title that people started posting only 2 or 4 lines

Pighead

So come on now, lets sing a lament,
the world isn't round, its twisted and bent.

GO ON THE TRASH CANS!

homah_7ft

Blood runs thick and when it rains it pours down
On the family tree on the fields of war
I spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound
Yeah i haven't much need to look forward

Ruu_Old

All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts
And they're coming round the track to haunt me.
When she looks at me and laughs I remind her of the facts
I'm the king of rock'n roll completely

Prefab Sprout-The King of Rock n Roll.

Sofaspud

"There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones"

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

The Bollox

Sofaspud wrote:

"There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones"

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

I used to love that lyric. I quoted it in the LC while trying to put a point across about diversity in the world

Zaph

I was looking handsome
She was looking like an erotic vulture

Subbacultcha - Pixies

Creamy Goodness

Kill your bizarre mindset, ****head, soldered to a three-layered concrete brainwave castration

with aplomb - biffy clyro.

Executive Steve

set speed see, tyranny, sagely, wisely
as we keep the dial that moves from smooth to wild locked on to lively

Kevster

"Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back"

odonnell

"death makes angels of us all and
gives us wings where
we had shoulders smooth as
ravens claws"

[Jim Morrison - excerpt from 'An American Prayer']

and....

"with hunger at her heels
freedom in her eyes
she dances on her knees
pirate prince by her side...

staring

into

the Hollow Idols Eyes"

[from Wild Child, by The Doors]

Tha Gopher

"Ever since Xzibit could spit it, I been on some pimp sh1t,
Approach every woman like a, potential mistress
Timed right, make sure that x stay tight
Cos tonight I might meet my next ex wife" Xzibit

Laugh every time, classically misogynist

Waltons

"The skyline was beautiful on fire, all twisted metal stretching upwards;
Everything washed in a thin orange haze.

I said: 'kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days'"

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues

Pigman II

"Hate is everywhere, look inside your mother’s heart and you will find it there"

The Delgados - Hate

Ciaran B

Time slips away and leaves you nothing, Mister
'cept boring stories of your glory days.

Dark Artist

This monolith of everything that I have been is vacillated and aghast
The inexorable time has taught me once again that my features will change and macerate me

After Forever - Monolith of Doubt

padraig_f

"Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow
See the new Pyramids down in old Manhattan
From the roof of a friend, I watched an empire ending
Heard it loud and long, the river's song
Time marching on, to a mad man's drum."

- Bright Eyes, Cleanse Song

SligoBrewer

'Are teenage dreams so hard to beat
Everytime she walks down the street
Another girl in the neighbourhood
Wish she was mine, she looks so good

I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night'

- teenage kicks , the undertones

what a song

klaus flouride

"White man came across the sea,
he brought us pain and misery,
he killed our tribe,
he killed our creed,
he took our game for his own need,
we fought him hard,
we fought him well,
out in the plains we gave him hell,
but many died,
too much for cree,
oh will we ever be set free?..."

Reggae artist?, Black civil rights song?, Native american protest poem? -No!
Thats Iron Maiden's "Run to the hills"! heres another part of that song;

...Selling them whiskey and taking their gold,
enslaving the young and destroying the old...
...Murder for freedom - a stab in the back,
women and children are cowards; attack!"

Say what you want about their cheesiness- those lyrics are pure genius.

Doctor J

"and in many degrees of heat,
the fire looked at the meat
Said if I cook you the least you can do
Is lay there and be sweet"

Masters Of Reality - Kill The King

Photi

Two headed boy, put on sunday shoes
And dance round the room to accordion keys
With the needle that sings in your heart
Catching signals that sound in the dark

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy

Doctor J

klaus flouride wrote:

Say what you want about their cheesiness- those lyrics are pure genius.

There are so many badly interpreted version of those lyrics

http://www.elyrics.net/read/i/iron-maiden-lyrics/run-to-the-hills-lyrics.html

"he killed our creep"

and so many differ on this line too

"Women and children are cowards attack" "Women and children and cowards attack"

I always thought it was "Women and children, a cowards attack"

Killaqueen!!!

At the moment it has to be The killers - My List

"Don’t give the ghost up just clench your fist
You should have known by now you were on my list"

Also love Colin Hay's lyrics. Particularly this fantastic song (you might have heard it in scrubs) - Waiting for my real life to begin

"...When I awoke today, suddenly nothing happened
But in my dreams, I slew the dragon
And down this beaten path, and up this cobbled lane
I'm walking in my old footsteps, once again
And you say, just be here now
Forget about the past, your mask is wearing thin
Let me throw one more dice
I know that I can win
I'm waiting for my real life to begin"

Yazamalainia

''sleep my darling sleep, your cry for inspiration never reaches ears on distant stars...'':D

little death by +44

Driver 8

"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"
Bob Dylan-My Back Pages

"There's not even room enough to be anywhere, it's not dark yet...but it's getting there"
Bob Dylan-Not Dark Yet

"There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win"
Bruce Springsteen-Thunder Road (well all of that song, actually)

Dr.Slurm

My favourite lyrics come from the great American poet, and my favourite musician of all time, Bob Dylan, with this beautiful verse from his classic "Mr.Tambourine Man". Sorry, I know it's not 2-4 lines but I couldn't leave out part of the verse.:)

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Beautiful:cool:

m83

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

nick cave - into my arms