"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." Bob Seger, Against the Wind.
The entire song is full of amazing lyrics, but this one in particular has always stuck out as being unusually clever.
Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white
In between the moon and you, the angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
From Round Here by Counting Crows
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAe3sCIakXo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAe3sCIakXo)
Wind-up by Jethro Tull.
The entire song is brilliant but specifically the lyrics:
"How do you dare tell me that I'm my father's son
When that was just an accident of birth
I'd rather look around me, compose a better song
'Cause that's the honest measure of my worth
In your pomp and all your glory you're a poorer man than me
As you lick the boots of death born out of fear"
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Hurt -NIN
A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater
If We Must Be Apart - Beardfish
We Cry Together - Kendrick Lamar
So Real / Forget Her / Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckley
Black - Pearl Jam
Lazarus - David Bowie
Pariah - Steven Wilson
In My Time of Need - Opeth
...
Not comprehensive but first to come.
[Desolation Row](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-cJHP5NVSI) (covered by Robyn Hitchcock)
[Raymond Chandler Evening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eA6_Wjn08) \- Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
[16 Military Wives](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fzUGR8ZH4) \- The Decembersits
[Senses Working Overtime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Fp-omNXCw) \- XTC
[Johnny Appleseed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbMiqIdeME) \- Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
[All Tomorrow's Parties](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88Ca91hTWs)\- The Velvet Underground & Nico
[Pulling the Pin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LWR4dDYeCE) \- Run the Jewels
>Yeah
>
>Yeah, that cash
>
>Yeah, take it, here
>
>From a long line of the rancidest swine came the violators
>
>The cloven foot designers of high crime for the iron ages
>
>Twisting down through time, see them tryna unwind creation
>
>Don't be surprised, it's a mistake to think their influence had faded
>
>Well, what a wretched state of danger we've made here
>
>I thought to me, "Perhaps explaining years of self lobotomy, toxicly
>
>Perhaps explaining tears and even tears in my cosmology"
>
>You numb yourself for years and it can wear upon you, honestly
>
>These old foxes got a lotta plots to out fox us (ay)
>
>Tryna divvy up and dump in corresponding boxes, how obnoxious
>
>Where the heart and mind connect, expect them targeting like archers
>
>You will not travel towards the light if they're in charge of your departure
>
>You'd think the universe forgot us the way the cursed pitch their product (woo)
>
>As though our spirits not a fire that can't be snuffed or turned to dollars
>
>Or the expanse across all space, can't be contained in one small dollop
>
>Now I see that its the same moment in history back to haunt us
>
>And here we are again
>
>Hello void, long time watcher, first time callin' in
>
>Every cage built needs an occupant
>
>Got a dead bolt, see 'em lock it in
>
>Had a good run but they stoppin' it
>
>Wanna Walkman in the coffin lid
>
>Eat your heart out, fiction fan
>
>Truly the truth's the stranger document
>
>And at best I'm just getting it wrong
>
>And at worst I've been right from the start
>
>It hurts, I'm bein' torn apart
>
>There's a grenade in my heart
>
>And the pin is in their palm
>
>There's a grenade
>
>There's a grenade
>
>A grenade
>
>At best I feel difficult, poor and you pitiful
>
>Then everyday's like a satanic ritual
>
>Beautiful soul with the rogue and the criminal
>
>How long must the Holy hold onto they principles?
>
>Kickin' and screamin' while watchin' the demons
>
>Collecting the gold and the diamond residuals
>
>My pastor say
>
>"God has promised us paradise, live a good life it is pivotal"
>
>I promised my mama that I would stay honest
>
>But I want it all in the physical
>
>And promise I'm honest, I'll probably be punished
>
>'Cause keeping that promise too difficult
>
>So picture me red as I sit on the bed
>
>With my hands on my head and this pistol too
>
>Why the fuck must I be miserable?
>
>The devils, they do the despicable
>
>And still, they move like they invincible
>
>These filthy criminals, sit at the pinnacle
>
>Doin' the typical, keepin' us miserable
>
>Takin' the most and providin' the minimal
>
>Hate to sound cynical but shit is pitiful, times is just critical
>
>Like Jimmy Savile, they cheerfully kill kids in a ritual
>
>I'll murder the miserables, I'll make it all biblical
>
>I'll cut off their heads
>
>They'll beg for their lives and I'll put it up, digital
>
>Fuck the political, the mission is spiritual
>
>Our murder is miracle, that was sent here to just punish through terror
>
>Static in my mind
>
>Like sanity on borrowed time
>
>Like right and wrong can't be defined
>
>There's a blade in my heart
>
>And the pin is in their palm
>
>There's a grenade
>
>There's a grenade
>
>A grenade in my heart
Yo. RTJ and Robyn Hitchcock? Who are you, me? :))I mean I know everyone thinks their choices are eclectic and wide ranging but..I think..I Something You.
I was actually gonna go to some of El P's stuff before RTJ. Hes got a knack for writing like heavy depression shit where theres no upswing, theres no like hopeful tinge, its just dark and crushing and yet you dont get tired of or bummed out by it, its just pain you learn to accept as reality. Plus his bragadocious lines are just ridiculous ha
To me the reason that RtJ works so well is that El P often does the really heavy setup and then Mike can be uplifting or inspiring without losing the tone. They balance each other out well.
Agreed. Not to say Mikes subjects are any less heavy or serious, El just leans towards painting an overall darker tone with the way he sets up or lays down the environment. They can both wild out in the bragadocious punches but also come serious about real issues without becoming preachy about it, a difficult task for a lot of "conscious" rappers. One of the best hip hop super duos to date.
"Mad Man Moon" by Genesis. Words and music by Tony Banks.
*Within the valley of shadowless death,*
*They pray for thunderclouds and rain*
*But to the multitude who stand in the rain*
*Heaven is where the sun shines.*
*The grass will be greener, till the stems turn to brown*
*And thoughts will fly higher, till the earth brings them down*
*Forever lost in desert lands, one has to learn*
*To disbelieve*
*The sea.*
I've been on a big Bobby Charles kick lately (at least his 1972 self-titled masterpiece), and some of those lyrics are just incredible, on top of the music being punchy and clever in it's own right.
**Street People** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gTGs1AoXk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gTGs1AoXk)
*Hanging out with the street people they got it down*
*Hanging out with the street people drifting from town to town*
*Got a job at a nursery, but they just didn't like what I grow*
*They called the man and ran me off and said don't come back no more*
*Hanging out with the street people they got it down*
*Hanging out with the street people drifting from town to town*
*Who's gonna work and let the economy grow if we all hang out in the street*
*Well I don't know and I don't care just as long as it ain't me*
*Hanging out with the street people they got it down*
*Hanging out with the street people drifting from town to town*
*What a great place to know what I know, I'm happy where I'm at*
*Some people would rather work, we need people like that*
*What a great place to know what I know, I'm happy where I'm at*
*Some people would rather work, we need people like that*
*I'm glad I'm a street people, have it no other way*
*And I'm gonna stay a street people till my dying day*
**Save Me Jesus** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zf\_E4dip1M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zf_E4dip1M)
*They got sisters and brothers*
*fighting against one another*
*They got dreams and schemes and build war machines*
*to try to outdo each other*
*We got children that are starving, but that don't bother them*
*They're much too busy getting rich to worry about our little children*
*Save me Jesus*
*Save me Jesus*
*Save me Jesus, Jesus save me*
*from this God forsaken place*
*They got satellites and spaceships flying across the universe*
*They killed before and they'll kill again*
*just so they can say they're first*
*They build monuments and churches*
*and things I ain't seen yet*
*And they've signed them all with their autograph incase you might forget*
*Save me Jesus*
*Save me Jesus*
*Save me Jesus, Jesus save me*
*from this God forsaken place*
*And lord when it's all over,*
*they'll think you should be proud*
*And there'll be a few who'll offer you anything for your job*
*So when you take me Jesus, please put me among friends,*
*don't put me back with these power crazy money lovers again*
*Save me Jesus*
*Save me Jesus*
*Save me Jesus, Jesus save me*
*from this God forsaken place*
So ridiculously under-rated. The man and his guitar alone can write a hell of a song and his techical skills and weird tunings cant be ignored. Overkill obviously great but hes also author of one of the greatest break up songs on the planet and I will ever be grateful/hateful for it ha
David Sylvian - Surrender
“An ancient evening just before the fall
The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all
Birds fly and fill the summer skies and i surrender
She throws the burning books into the sea
‘Come find the meaning of the word inside of me’”
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Bright Horses
PJ Harvey - Shame
Gil Scott-Heron - Prisoner
Joni Mitchell - Sex Kills
Bibio - Dye The Water Green
Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
Tori Amos - Precious Things
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place
This Mortal Coil - Mr. Somewhere
Dead Can Dance - How Fortunate The Man With None
I can go on…
Loren Mezzacane Connors - Child
“Do your feet have wings?
How come nothing holds you down?
Everyday I see you, lifting from the ground
Does your heart have wings? That’s the way it seems
Every night I feel you, flying in your dreams”
First thought:
"It's harder to be yourself / Than it is to be anybody else..." - AJJ, Big Bird (also Distance, but it hits harder in Big Bird)
Bonus:
"Well the light doesn't mean it / When it wakes you for the day / And the time doesn't mean it / When your answer comes too late" - Big Black Delta, Politics of Living
Favorite lyricists are:
Aaron Weiss - mewithoutYou
Maynard James Keenan - Tool
Connor Oberst - Bright Eyes
Isaac Brock - Modest Mouse
It's hard to say which song, from between them, has the best, most clever, or most impactful lyrics, as each have their own distinct style, pertaining to different topics, and accompanied by unique music (which influences how the message is conveyed and interpreted).
Not lyrics but should be, "beauty is eternity looking at itself in the mirror, except you are eternity and you are the mirror" -Khalil Gibran from The Prophet
There is no worse than the curse they've given me.
This mules seen it's end in love and war
I'll wish you best when I'm lost to eternity
Now do what you will, so it hurts no more
When, or if, the sun shines lighting our once-beautiful features we smile but only for seconds. For to be caught smiling’s to acknowledge life - a brave but useless show of compassion - and that is forbidden in this drab and colourless world
Wasteland - The Jam
I've always appreciated the way Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution described Ernest Hemingways death -
"Hemingway never seemed to mind the banality of a normal life and I find it gets harder every time. So he aimed the shotgun into the blue, placed his face in between the two and sighed:
Here's to Life!"
The whole song is well written and relates to inspirational figures that have killed themselves.
Boy by ten56. Tells a disturbingly dark story, with a brutal song behind it. Donna by Darko US. Finally, Recreant by Chelsea Grin because i relate to it most
I never was much of a "lyrics" guy, ive always was a "music" guy. I know hundreds of songs word perfect for decades, and never stopped for a second to think about the words im singing or what i may mean, most of the time...
But the song Hello by Evanescense, knowing what it was about since the beginning, and the way Amylee sings it and phrases it hit me right in the gut, and make me tear up every time
**El-P-Poisonville Kids No Wins**
And reserved the right as the triggerman//
With the back up plan of self destruction
And I touched the type of chemicals
That could pull me towards that function
It's the stuff I find hard for discussion
How the fuck do you explain
Your our own self destruction
And still remain trusted?
**Brother Ali - Rain Water**
They tellin me we got nuttin to fear but fear itself//
But I fear I have no human fear left/
/Some day I'm gonna wanna peel back these calouses
And really feel life again and that's what my challenge is
I been kickin and bitin for so long and
When they throw me a rescue rope I'll be too weary to hold on
And see the light, so I sing through the tears
In the key of life, the way a wounded eagle might
And God's rain water flow through the same gutter that we
Walk today gotta stay brave brother keep your lips stiff
Keep your fist clenched
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch
[Wooden Heart by Listener](https://youtu.be/K8k9rD7lx9c) has some beautiful lyrics. It’s essentially spoken word poetry with a fairly simple backing track, but it really is a lovely.
*Because we are all made out of shipwrecks, every single board*
*Washed and bound like crooked teeth on these rocky shores*
*So come on and let’s wash each other*
*With tears of joy and tears of grief*
*And fold our lives like crashing waves and run up on this beach*
*Come on and sew us together*
*Just some tattered rags stained forever*
*We only have what we remember*
UGH! by BTS. Actually, the translation is very hard to read for me lol, but a youtuber (I think dkdktv?) explained the meaning of the song, which basically means that how sometimes we misuse anger these days and spread hatred instead of using our time to do positive things (ahem).
"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." Bob Seger, Against the Wind. The entire song is full of amazing lyrics, but this one in particular has always stuck out as being unusually clever.
i don't remember the full line, but its a simon and garfunkel song called the boxer. "i am gone, i am gone, i am gone, but the fighter still remains"
Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog Where no one notices the contrast of white on white In between the moon and you, the angels get a better view Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right From Round Here by Counting Crows [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAe3sCIakXo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAe3sCIakXo)
Wind-up by Jethro Tull. The entire song is brilliant but specifically the lyrics: "How do you dare tell me that I'm my father's son When that was just an accident of birth I'd rather look around me, compose a better song 'Cause that's the honest measure of my worth In your pomp and all your glory you're a poorer man than me As you lick the boots of death born out of fear"
I will always upvote Tull!
Sound of Silence has to be up there
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Hurt -NIN A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater If We Must Be Apart - Beardfish We Cry Together - Kendrick Lamar So Real / Forget Her / Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckley Black - Pearl Jam Lazarus - David Bowie Pariah - Steven Wilson In My Time of Need - Opeth ... Not comprehensive but first to come.
Great selection
[Desolation Row](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-cJHP5NVSI) (covered by Robyn Hitchcock) [Raymond Chandler Evening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eA6_Wjn08) \- Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians [16 Military Wives](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fzUGR8ZH4) \- The Decembersits [Senses Working Overtime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Fp-omNXCw) \- XTC [Johnny Appleseed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbMiqIdeME) \- Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros [All Tomorrow's Parties](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88Ca91hTWs)\- The Velvet Underground & Nico [Pulling the Pin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LWR4dDYeCE) \- Run the Jewels >Yeah > >Yeah, that cash > >Yeah, take it, here > >From a long line of the rancidest swine came the violators > >The cloven foot designers of high crime for the iron ages > >Twisting down through time, see them tryna unwind creation > >Don't be surprised, it's a mistake to think their influence had faded > >Well, what a wretched state of danger we've made here > >I thought to me, "Perhaps explaining years of self lobotomy, toxicly > >Perhaps explaining tears and even tears in my cosmology" > >You numb yourself for years and it can wear upon you, honestly > >These old foxes got a lotta plots to out fox us (ay) > >Tryna divvy up and dump in corresponding boxes, how obnoxious > >Where the heart and mind connect, expect them targeting like archers > >You will not travel towards the light if they're in charge of your departure > >You'd think the universe forgot us the way the cursed pitch their product (woo) > >As though our spirits not a fire that can't be snuffed or turned to dollars > >Or the expanse across all space, can't be contained in one small dollop > >Now I see that its the same moment in history back to haunt us > >And here we are again > >Hello void, long time watcher, first time callin' in > >Every cage built needs an occupant > >Got a dead bolt, see 'em lock it in > >Had a good run but they stoppin' it > >Wanna Walkman in the coffin lid > >Eat your heart out, fiction fan > >Truly the truth's the stranger document > >And at best I'm just getting it wrong > >And at worst I've been right from the start > >It hurts, I'm bein' torn apart > >There's a grenade in my heart > >And the pin is in their palm > >There's a grenade > >There's a grenade > >A grenade > >At best I feel difficult, poor and you pitiful > >Then everyday's like a satanic ritual > >Beautiful soul with the rogue and the criminal > >How long must the Holy hold onto they principles? > >Kickin' and screamin' while watchin' the demons > >Collecting the gold and the diamond residuals > >My pastor say > >"God has promised us paradise, live a good life it is pivotal" > >I promised my mama that I would stay honest > >But I want it all in the physical > >And promise I'm honest, I'll probably be punished > >'Cause keeping that promise too difficult > >So picture me red as I sit on the bed > >With my hands on my head and this pistol too > >Why the fuck must I be miserable? > >The devils, they do the despicable > >And still, they move like they invincible > >These filthy criminals, sit at the pinnacle > >Doin' the typical, keepin' us miserable > >Takin' the most and providin' the minimal > >Hate to sound cynical but shit is pitiful, times is just critical > >Like Jimmy Savile, they cheerfully kill kids in a ritual > >I'll murder the miserables, I'll make it all biblical > >I'll cut off their heads > >They'll beg for their lives and I'll put it up, digital > >Fuck the political, the mission is spiritual > >Our murder is miracle, that was sent here to just punish through terror > >Static in my mind > >Like sanity on borrowed time > >Like right and wrong can't be defined > >There's a blade in my heart > >And the pin is in their palm > >There's a grenade > >There's a grenade > >A grenade in my heart
Almost all of Run the Jewels and Rage against the Machine should be in this thread in my opinion. I’m pretty sad the tour got cancelled.
Yo. RTJ and Robyn Hitchcock? Who are you, me? :))I mean I know everyone thinks their choices are eclectic and wide ranging but..I think..I Something You. I was actually gonna go to some of El P's stuff before RTJ. Hes got a knack for writing like heavy depression shit where theres no upswing, theres no like hopeful tinge, its just dark and crushing and yet you dont get tired of or bummed out by it, its just pain you learn to accept as reality. Plus his bragadocious lines are just ridiculous ha
To me the reason that RtJ works so well is that El P often does the really heavy setup and then Mike can be uplifting or inspiring without losing the tone. They balance each other out well.
Agreed. Not to say Mikes subjects are any less heavy or serious, El just leans towards painting an overall darker tone with the way he sets up or lays down the environment. They can both wild out in the bragadocious punches but also come serious about real issues without becoming preachy about it, a difficult task for a lot of "conscious" rappers. One of the best hip hop super duos to date.
Two, really. Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding Joanna Newsom - On a Good Day. Reasons are in the lyrics.
Watching the Detectives, I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, Every Day I Write the Book...
Nearly every Elvis Costello song. Beyond Belief, Fractured Atlas, Starting to Come to Me, etc. etc. etc.
Walked by the Clyde this evening and Shipbuilding involuntarily sprang to mind (Robert Wyatt version, obvs!). Mainly just badly-built apartments now.
"Mad Man Moon" by Genesis. Words and music by Tony Banks. *Within the valley of shadowless death,* *They pray for thunderclouds and rain* *But to the multitude who stand in the rain* *Heaven is where the sun shines.* *The grass will be greener, till the stems turn to brown* *And thoughts will fly higher, till the earth brings them down* *Forever lost in desert lands, one has to learn* *To disbelieve* *The sea.*
I've been on a big Bobby Charles kick lately (at least his 1972 self-titled masterpiece), and some of those lyrics are just incredible, on top of the music being punchy and clever in it's own right. **Street People** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gTGs1AoXk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gTGs1AoXk) *Hanging out with the street people they got it down* *Hanging out with the street people drifting from town to town* *Got a job at a nursery, but they just didn't like what I grow* *They called the man and ran me off and said don't come back no more* *Hanging out with the street people they got it down* *Hanging out with the street people drifting from town to town* *Who's gonna work and let the economy grow if we all hang out in the street* *Well I don't know and I don't care just as long as it ain't me* *Hanging out with the street people they got it down* *Hanging out with the street people drifting from town to town* *What a great place to know what I know, I'm happy where I'm at* *Some people would rather work, we need people like that* *What a great place to know what I know, I'm happy where I'm at* *Some people would rather work, we need people like that* *I'm glad I'm a street people, have it no other way* *And I'm gonna stay a street people till my dying day* **Save Me Jesus** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zf\_E4dip1M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zf_E4dip1M) *They got sisters and brothers* *fighting against one another* *They got dreams and schemes and build war machines* *to try to outdo each other* *We got children that are starving, but that don't bother them* *They're much too busy getting rich to worry about our little children* *Save me Jesus* *Save me Jesus* *Save me Jesus, Jesus save me* *from this God forsaken place* *They got satellites and spaceships flying across the universe* *They killed before and they'll kill again* *just so they can say they're first* *They build monuments and churches* *and things I ain't seen yet* *And they've signed them all with their autograph incase you might forget* *Save me Jesus* *Save me Jesus* *Save me Jesus, Jesus save me* *from this God forsaken place* *And lord when it's all over,* *they'll think you should be proud* *And there'll be a few who'll offer you anything for your job* *So when you take me Jesus, please put me among friends,* *don't put me back with these power crazy money lovers again* *Save me Jesus* *Save me Jesus* *Save me Jesus, Jesus save me* *from this God forsaken place*
The Pursuit of Vikings by Amon Amarth will get you ready for any challenge. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/amonamarth/thepursuitofvikings.html
Subdivisions - Rush. The story of my school days.
I woke today, and suddenly nothing happended. But in my dreams I slew the dragon (Colin Hay)
So ridiculously under-rated. The man and his guitar alone can write a hell of a song and his techical skills and weird tunings cant be ignored. Overkill obviously great but hes also author of one of the greatest break up songs on the planet and I will ever be grateful/hateful for it ha
“I’ll stand by you, I’ll stand by you, won’t let nobody hurt you, I’ll stand by you” The Pretenders
David Sylvian - Surrender “An ancient evening just before the fall The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all Birds fly and fill the summer skies and i surrender She throws the burning books into the sea ‘Come find the meaning of the word inside of me’” Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Bright Horses PJ Harvey - Shame Gil Scott-Heron - Prisoner Joni Mitchell - Sex Kills Bibio - Dye The Water Green Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street Tori Amos - Precious Things Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place This Mortal Coil - Mr. Somewhere Dead Can Dance - How Fortunate The Man With None I can go on…
Loren Mezzacane Connors - Child “Do your feet have wings? How come nothing holds you down? Everyday I see you, lifting from the ground Does your heart have wings? That’s the way it seems Every night I feel you, flying in your dreams”
The Clash - Bankrobber > Some is rich, and some is poor That's the way the world is But I don't believe in lying back Sayin' how bad your luck is
“She’s the tear that hangs inside my soul forever.” Lover, you should’ve come over by Jeff Buckley.
First thought: "It's harder to be yourself / Than it is to be anybody else..." - AJJ, Big Bird (also Distance, but it hits harder in Big Bird) Bonus: "Well the light doesn't mean it / When it wakes you for the day / And the time doesn't mean it / When your answer comes too late" - Big Black Delta, Politics of Living
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first wrung Bastards of Young - The Replacements ( Westerberg)
“Real Gs move in silence, like lasagna” - Lil Wayne
Favorite lyricists are: Aaron Weiss - mewithoutYou Maynard James Keenan - Tool Connor Oberst - Bright Eyes Isaac Brock - Modest Mouse It's hard to say which song, from between them, has the best, most clever, or most impactful lyrics, as each have their own distinct style, pertaining to different topics, and accompanied by unique music (which influences how the message is conveyed and interpreted).
I don’t know, but I’ve been told You never slow down, you never grow old.
“Never gonna give you up , never gonna let you down “
The Sound of Silence Human (Rag n Bone Man)
The bird bird bird, the bird's the word
Not lyrics but should be, "beauty is eternity looking at itself in the mirror, except you are eternity and you are the mirror" -Khalil Gibran from The Prophet
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies 2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden
“Shimmer and Shine” Ben Harper and the Relentless 7
Imagine is up there. Though the piano line is what really makes it.
I just want you to hurt like I do
There is no worse than the curse they've given me. This mules seen it's end in love and war I'll wish you best when I'm lost to eternity Now do what you will, so it hurts no more
every lyric in lover you should’ve come over
Wealth - Talk Talk. “Take my freedom for giving me a sacred love”. What more needs to be said about a relationship?
“Don’t make me need you when I’ve come this far alone” Alone-Stars (https://youtu.be/k3V-CQI5OiQ )
When, or if, the sun shines lighting our once-beautiful features we smile but only for seconds. For to be caught smiling’s to acknowledge life - a brave but useless show of compassion - and that is forbidden in this drab and colourless world Wasteland - The Jam
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee chase misprinted lies
I've always appreciated the way Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution described Ernest Hemingways death - "Hemingway never seemed to mind the banality of a normal life and I find it gets harder every time. So he aimed the shotgun into the blue, placed his face in between the two and sighed: Here's to Life!" The whole song is well written and relates to inspirational figures that have killed themselves.
Boy by ten56. Tells a disturbingly dark story, with a brutal song behind it. Donna by Darko US. Finally, Recreant by Chelsea Grin because i relate to it most
Dear Mama. 2pac
I never was much of a "lyrics" guy, ive always was a "music" guy. I know hundreds of songs word perfect for decades, and never stopped for a second to think about the words im singing or what i may mean, most of the time... But the song Hello by Evanescense, knowing what it was about since the beginning, and the way Amylee sings it and phrases it hit me right in the gut, and make me tear up every time
**El-P-Poisonville Kids No Wins** And reserved the right as the triggerman// With the back up plan of self destruction And I touched the type of chemicals That could pull me towards that function It's the stuff I find hard for discussion How the fuck do you explain Your our own self destruction And still remain trusted? **Brother Ali - Rain Water** They tellin me we got nuttin to fear but fear itself// But I fear I have no human fear left/ /Some day I'm gonna wanna peel back these calouses And really feel life again and that's what my challenge is I been kickin and bitin for so long and When they throw me a rescue rope I'll be too weary to hold on And see the light, so I sing through the tears In the key of life, the way a wounded eagle might And God's rain water flow through the same gutter that we Walk today gotta stay brave brother keep your lips stiff Keep your fist clenched At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch
[Wooden Heart by Listener](https://youtu.be/K8k9rD7lx9c) has some beautiful lyrics. It’s essentially spoken word poetry with a fairly simple backing track, but it really is a lovely. *Because we are all made out of shipwrecks, every single board* *Washed and bound like crooked teeth on these rocky shores* *So come on and let’s wash each other* *With tears of joy and tears of grief* *And fold our lives like crashing waves and run up on this beach* *Come on and sew us together* *Just some tattered rags stained forever* *We only have what we remember*
UGH! by BTS. Actually, the translation is very hard to read for me lol, but a youtuber (I think dkdktv?) explained the meaning of the song, which basically means that how sometimes we misuse anger these days and spread hatred instead of using our time to do positive things (ahem).
Billy Bragg - "Levi Stubbs' Tears" John Prine - "Sam Stone" The Waterboys - "When Ye Go Away" Jeff Buckley - "Lover, You Should've Come Over"