Favourite Lyrics in Rock/Metal

ride-the-spiral

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Pain of Salvation do the best lyrics I've ever heard, this could easily be a poem

I love The Perfect Element lyrics.

I got chills listening to the second verse.

"Stealing meaning from this child
We took away his reason
His soul put under lock and key
His heart blackened from treason
But if you take from those you fear
Everything they value
You have bred the perfect beast
Drained enough to kill you"

rainbow kirby

Dream Theater - Metropolis

The smile of dawn
Arrived early May
She carried a gift from her
home
The night shed a tear
To tell her of fear
And of sorrow and pain
She'll never outgrow

Death is the first dance, eternal

There's no more freedom
The both of you will be
confined to this mind

I was told there's miracle for
each day that I try
I was told there's a new love
that's born for each one that
has died
I was told there'd be no one to
call on when I feel alone and
afraid
I was told if you dream of the
next world
You'll find yourself swimming
in a lake of fire

As a child, I thought I could
live without pain without
sorrow
As a man I've found it's all
caught up with me
I'm asleep yet I'm so afraid

Somewhere like a scene from a
memory
There's a picture worth a
thousand words
Eluding stares from faces
before me
It hides away and will never be
heard of again

Deceit is the second without end

The city's cold blood teaches us
to survive
Just keep my heart in your eyes
and we'll stay alive

The third arrives...

Before the leaves have fallen
Before we lock the doors
There must be the third and
last dance
This one will last forever
Metropolis watches and
thoughtfully smiles
She's taken you to your home

It can only take place
When the struggle between
our children has ended
Now the Miracle and the
Sleeper know that the third
is love

Love is the Dance of Eternity

Seth Brundle

Max Power1 wrote: »

Most deicide songs - eg Holy deception and the lords sedition.

Not a song but a direct quote from Mr. Benton that I will always remember was how he didn't like flying because it brought him closer to Heaven

GLaDOS

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

I love The Perfect Element lyrics.

I got chills listening to the second verse.

"Stealing meaning from this child
We took away his reason
His soul put under lock and key
His heart blackened from treason
But if you take from those you fear
Everything they value
You have bred the perfect beast
Drained enough to kill you"

My favourite line from that is just the line "Behind those eyes a world explodes"

ride-the-spiral

ScienceNerd wrote: »

My favourite line from that is just the line "Behind those eyes a world explodes"

I think Daniel Gildenlow should be studied as a poet.

Somnus

I had intended for people to have a bit of a chat about the lyrics they post and others. What do you like about them etc.

Another song I love the lyrics to is Dream Theatre's A Change of Seasons, one of my all time favourite songs.

I notice a pattern in that I tend to like anything to do with the passing of time and looknig back etc. They just evoke emotions in me. If you read these (It's a long song just to warn you :P) and my first post "Time" you'll see what I mean about similarities.

I remember a time
My frail, virgin mind
watched the crimson sunrise
Imagined what it might find
Life was filled with wonder
I felt the warm wind blow
I must explore the boundaries
Transcend the depth of winter's snow
Innocence caressing me
I never felt so young before
There was so much life in me
Still I longed to search for more
But those days are gone now
Changed like a leaf on a tree
Blown away forever
into the cool autumn breeze
The snow has now fallen
and my sun's not so bright
I struggle to hold on
with the last of my might
In my den of inequity
viciousness and subtlety
struggle to ease the pain
struggle to find the sane
Ignorance surrounding me
I've never been so filled with fear
All my life's been drained from me
The end is drawing near....

'Carpe diem, seize the day'
I'll always remember
The chill of November
The news of the fall
The sounds in the hall
The clock on the wall ticking away
'Seize the Day'
I heard him say
Life will not always be this way
Look around
Hear the sounds
Cherish your life while you're still around

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying."

We can learn from the past
But those days are gone
We can hope for the future
But there may not be one
The words stuck in my mind
alive from what I've learned
I have to seize the day
To home I returned
Preparing for her flight
I held with all my might
Fearing my deepest fright
She walked into the night
She turned for one last look
She looked me in the eye
I said, 'I Love You...Good-bye'

"It's the most awful thing you'll
ever hear."
"If you're lying to me..."
"Oh, you dearly love her."
"...just have to leave... all our lives."
"Seize the day!"
"Something happened.
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."
"She was killed."

So far or so it seems
All is lost with nothing fulfilled
Off the pages and a T.V. screen
Another world where nothing's true
Tripping through the life fantastic
Lose a step and never get up
Left alone with a cold blank stare
I feel like giving up
I was blinded by a paradise
Utopia high in the sky
A dream that only drowned me
Deep in sorrow, wondering why
Oh come let us adore him
Abuse and then ignore him
No matter what, don't let him be
Let's feed upon his misery
Then string him up for all the world to see
I'm sick of all you hypocrites
holding me at bay
And I don't need your sympathy
to get me through the day
Seasons change and so can I
Hold on boy, No time to cry
Untie these strings, I'm climbing down
I won't let them push me away
Oh come let us adore him
Abuse and then ignore him
No matter what, don't let him be
Let's feed upon his misery
Now it's time for them to deal with me

I'm much wiser now
A lifetime of memories
run through my head
They taught me how
for better or worse, alive or dead
I realize there's no turning back
Life goes on the offbeaten track
I sit down with my son
Set to see the Crimson Sunset
(Gather ye rosebuds while ye may)
Many years have come and gone
I've lived my life, but now must move on
(Gather ye rosebuds while ye may)
He is my only one
Now that my time has come
Now that my life is done
We look into the sun
'Seize the day and don't you cry,
Now it's time to say good-bye
Even though I'll be gone,
I will live on, live on.'

H1tmonlii

[sarcasm] Any Cannibal Corpse song!
So poetic.

Swollen with liquid
Ready to burst
A load of my lymph
Will quench this dead body's thirst
One month in the grave
twisted and half decayed
She turned a putrid yellow
I pissed in her maggot filled asshole

****ing the rotting
My semen is bleeding
The smell of decay
Seeps from her genital cavity

The smell was unbearable As I unburied her
I cum blood from my erection
I feel it run
down her throat, swallow

Eyes glassy and vacant
body dug up to play with
Skin greasy and naked
tounguing her rotted anus

I need a live woman
to fill with my fluid
A delicate girl, to mutilate, **** and kill
her body exceptional
she thought I was normal
but I wanted more

I came blood inside of her
chocking on the clot
gagging on the snot
gushing blood, from her mouth
bloody gel leaking out
Body buried in a shallow grave
Unmarked for none to find
The sickness I have left behind
Undetected go my crimes
The greatest thrill of my life

Violent, climax Serging serum
on my skin

Back from the dead
I am resurrected
to spew, putrefaction

How lovely

smoochie06

TeenageKicks wrote: »

They put me in an institution said it was the only solution

"To protect me from the enemy, myself." Suicidal Tendencies.

Have not heard that in a long time. Great song.

Angron

H1tmonlii wrote: »

[sarcasm] Any Cannibal Corpse song!
So poetic.


How lovely

Such raw emotion.

Though I do actually love Corpse.

One of my fav songs at the mo, with Lyrics that stick in my head is "The Arbiter" by Misery Index

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYM1ha44Iqc

Catari Jaguar

Tearjerker - KoRn

Indifference - Pearl Jam

To You I Bestow - Mundy

Snuff - Slipknot

Heart Shaped Box- Nirvana

Wish You Were Here- Incubus

Down in a Hole - Alice in Chains

Walk - Pantera


And most songs by Rage Against the Machine

Most tracks on RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magik album

gamgsam

A couple grains of powder,
A couple grams of lead.
A touch against the trigger,
A touch inside the head.
Take another drink, and
Raise the last bets.
Think about my last words,
They might be what I just said.

smoochie06

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Tearjerker - KoRn

Indifference - Pearl Jam

To You I Bestow - Mundy

Snuff - Slipknot

Heart Shaped Box- Nirvana

Wish You Were Here- Incubus

Down in a Hole - Alice in Chains

Walk - Pantera


And most songs by Rage Against the Machine

Most tracks on RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magik album

Its been years since i listened to Pantera. Absolutely brilliant. My favourite from Pantera would be Hollow from Vulgar Display.


What's left inside him?
Don't he remember us?
Can't he believe me?
We seemed like brothers
Talked for hours last month
About what we wanna be
I sit now with his hand in mine
But I know he can't feel...

No one knows
What's done is done
It's as if he were dead

I'm close with his mother
And she cries endlessly
Lord how we miss him
At least what's remembered
It's so important to make best friends in life
But it's hard when my friend sits with blank expression

No one knows
What's done is done
It's as if he were dead

He as hollow as I alone now x4

He as hollow as I alone
A shell of my friend
Just flesh and bone
There's no soul
He sees no love
I shake my fists at skies above
Mad at God...Mad...

He as hollow as I converse
I wish he'd waken from this curse
Hear my words before it's through
I want to come in after you
My best friend x2
Come back!

He as hollow as I alone...

slavetothegrind

" all men play on ten. Never gonna turn down again!" - Manowar.

Nuff said.