Best Lyrics

Trent Steele

What are the best lyrics you've heard?

Few lines from a song, verse or a chorus. Not necessarily the whole song, just a part that sticks out!

Panserborn

I am the highway by Audioslave

"I am not your rolling wheels, I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride, I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning
I am not your Autumn moon, I am the night"

Great song, great album, great band!

Le Rack

My Chemical Romance - The Ghost of Her
"I never siad I'd lie in wait forever, If I died we'd be together" and "At the top of my lungs in my arms she died, she died, at the end of the world, you're the last thing I see"

The Goo-Goo Dolls - Iris the whole song but especially "When everything feels like the movies, you bleed just to know your alive"

Cheez

Any Tool song, in fact any song lyrics by Maynard James Keenan

Pu**** for example

Saw that gap again today.
While you were begging me to stay.
Take care not to make me enter.
If I do we both may disappear.

Saw that gap again today.
While you were begging me to stay
Managed to push myself away
And you as well, my dear
And you, as well
Pushed you away my dear

I will choke until I swallow
Choke this infant here before me
What are you but my reflection?
Who am I to judge or strike you down?

But you're pushing me
And Im shoving you
And your pushing me
And Im shoving you

Rest your trigger on my finger,
Bang my head upon the fault line
You better take care not to make me enter
If I do we both may disappear

But you're pushing me
And Im shoving you
And your pushing me
And Im shoving you


You still love me

We're pushing and were shoving
And you're pushing and I'm shoving

You still love me

And were pushing and were shoving
And I'm pushing as your shoving


And Im slipping back into the gap again
I feel alive when you touch me...
I feel alive when you hold me...
...down

Slipping back into you

I am somewhere I dont wanna be, yeah
Put me somewhere I dont wanna be
Push me somewhere I dont wanna be
Seeing someplace I don't wanna see
Never wanna see that place again...

Saw that gap again today
While you were begging me to stay
Managed to push myself away,
And you as well, my dear

If, when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay,
You minimize my movement anyway,
I must persuade you another way

Pushing and Shoving and
Pushing and Shoving and
Pushing me

There's no love in fear.

Staring down the hole again.
Hands are on my back again.
Survival is my only friend.
Terrified of what may come.

Remember I will always love you,
As I claw your ****ing throat away.
It will end no other way.

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Peace

lordgoat

Bright Eyes and Wilco lyrics are top notch but Elliott Smith is just head and shoulders above everyone else:

here's a few random ones.

"The imitation picks you up like a habit..."

"Day breaks every mornin' when he wakes and thinks of you"

"Crooked spin can't come to rest, i'm damaged bad at best she'll decide what she wants.... They want you or they don't - Say Yes"

i could go on for hours...

garred

"My Ding-A-Ling My Ding-A-Ling won't you play with My Ding-A-Ling"

Chuck Berry

Heard the song once but it always sticks in my mind.

Red Soup

the beatles - a day in the life

I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.
I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book.
I’d love to turn you on
Woke up, got out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
I heard the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Not they know how many holes it takes
To fill the Albert Hall.
I’d love to turn you on.

cornbb

Radiohead - Talk Show Host

"You want me, well f**king well come and find me
I'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches"