favourite lyrics.

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)