Favorite Lyrics

[Skogs]

Anything by Nick Cave, but particularly this snippet from 'Abbatoir Blues'...

"I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed,
I woke up this morning with a frappacino in my hand..."

[Mythra]

The Hollow by A Perfect Circle

Run desire run
Sexual being
Run him like a blade
To and through the heart
No conscience
One Motive
Cater to the hollow

Screaming feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacify this hungering
So grow
Libido throw
Dominoes of indiscretions down
Falling all around
In cycles
In circles
Constantly consuming
Conquer and devour

Cause it's time to bring the fire down
Bridle all this indiscretion
Long enough to edify
And permanently fill this hollow

Screaming feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacifying

Feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacifying

[Project G]

MCR- You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

In the middle of a gun fight
In the center of a restaurant
They say, "Come with your arms raised high!"
Well, they're never gonna get me
Like a bullet through a flock of doves
To wage this war against your faith in me
Your life will never be the same
On your mother's eyes, say a prayer, say a prayer

[chorus]
Now, but I can't
And I don't know
How we're just two men, as God had made us
Well I can't, well I can
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
Pain in my heart for your dying wish
I kiss your lips again

They all cheat at cards and the checkers are lost
My cellmate's a killer, they make me do push-ups in drag
But nobody cares if you're losing yourself
Am I losing myself?
Well, I miss my mom
Will they give me the chair
Or lethal injection, or swing from a rope if you dare
Ah, nobody knows all the trouble I've seen

[chorus]

To your room
What they ask of you
Will make you want to say, 'So long'
Well, I don't remember
Why remember you

Do you have the keys to the hotel
Cause I'm gonna string this mother<img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif">er on fire (fire)

Life is but a dream for the dead
And well I, I won't go down by myself
But I'll go down with my friends
Now now now now...now now now...now now now!!

Trivium- A Gunshot to the head of trepidation

You starve your children on neglect
Then feed their bellies with fear
Concussion bat to the brain
Witness to a battered mother

(Chorus)
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger

Just look at the scars you make
Your terror makes your kids break
A broken home just as you were raised
With fist raised up to your children

(Chorus)

This battle is on all
You've made beautiful
Now hateful
You wretched life wrecker
Abuser
Now suffer

Open fire
On the desire of the man
Open fire
With strife we'll strike down the hand
(Open fire, build the pyre)
If I can't make you see the damage you've made
(Open fire, build the pyre)
I'll make you wish you'd never been alive x2

HIM- Join Me In Death

Baby, join me in death
(x3)

We are so young
Our lives have just begun
But already we are considering
Escape from this world

And we've waited for so long
For this moment to come
We're so anxious to be together
Together in death
Whoah, whoa...

Would you die tonight for love?
Baby, join me in death
Would you die?
Baby, join me in death
Would you die tonight for love?
Baby, join me in death

This world is a cruel place
And we're here only to lose
So before life tears us apart
Let death bless me with you

Would you die tonight for love?
Baby, join me in death
So when you die?
Baby, join me in death
Would you die tonight for love?
Baby, join me in death
Join me in death
Whoah whoa...

This life ain't worth living
This life, it ain't worth living
This life, it ain't worth living
Join me (x6)
This life ain't worth living

Would you die tonight for love?
Baby, join me in death
So would you die?
Baby, join me in death
Would you die tonight for love?
Baby, join me in death

Baby, join me in death

[crashNUMBERS]

That's my favorite MCR song...

[Chibi1309]

"A Thousand Words"

We stumble in a tangled web,
decaying friendships almost dead
And hide behind a mask of lies
We twist and turn and we avoid,
all hope of salvage now devoid
I see the truth inside your eyes
So take all this noise to your grave
send it back again
I'll bear the cost, shed my skin, call
you up and then...
I'll say the words out loud

[chorus:]
You could resurrect a thousand
words to deceive me more and more
A thousand words will give the
reasons why I don't need you
anymore

Time manipulates your heart,
preconceptions torn apart
Begin to doubt my state of mind
But I won't go down on what I said
I won't retract convictions read
I may perplex, but I'm not blind
So take all this noise to your grave
and send it back again
I'll bear the cost, shed my skin, call
you up and then...
I'll say the words out loud

[chorus ]

I'll say the words out loud. I'll say a
thousand words or more

Manipulation. Fabrication.
Conversation. Annihilation
I'll say a thousand words or more
Damnation. Frustration. Elevation.
Procreation
I'll say a thousand words or more

[repeat chorus]

Those are some of my fave lyrics ever...despite the fact that they're by Savage Garden...:rolleyes2

[Spammerman]

Video Games- KJ52

Keep it going now, keep it going now
Keep it going now, don't ever slow it down
We gonna hold it down anytime we throw it down.

I'll take ya back like galaga and atari
I was falling into junk like pitfall harry
My life was game over thats when christ saved me
So now its bonus round ever since then he changed me
It was scary how my life was run over like frogger
I was down to one life and didn't have another
But now I'm super like the mario brothers
Pulling stunts off like tony hawk pro skater
So here's the story ain't legend of zelda
Its about christ who was the space invader
Hit sin like arruken from street fighter
Came from heaven now just to die for ya fella
That's why he paid the price for ya sins
On top of that he just wants to run ya life like the sims
So this right here is my advice for ya friends
Just stop and think about ya life when it ends

Keep it going now, keep it going now
Keep it going now, keep it going now
Keep it going now, don't ever slow it down
We gonna hold it down anytime we throw it down.

No doubt see I was just down for the count
Knocked down and beat up like mike tyson's punch out
I flipped it up and went a whole different route
And now I lift it up cuz its what I'm all about
Then I throw it out like super tecmo bowl
So every word out of my mouth would just touch a soul
Even to the ones that bust guns like halo
Or to those thugs on the run like grand theft auto
I just gotta let them know
Just living life fast like grand turismo
May get ya rich just with a whole lotta dough
But in the end bro you just left out in the cold so
To the ones on the run like pac man
We came to slam it down like nba jam
And leave the spot blown up like missle command
Cuz thats how we do when the mics in the hand

Keep it going now, keep it going now
Keep it going now, keep it going now
Keep it going now, don't ever slow it down
We gonna hold it down anytime we throw it down.

So how I lay it just down for my people
Underground like dig dug old scholl like coleco
Thats the sound that I bump just to reach y'all
Sin got a clutch on us the resident evil
I gotta teach y'all what he did on the cross
Three days later go raid the tomb like lara croft
But all you gonna find is that my lord is gone
Took the sin of mine took death and just shook it off
I'm going off I can't help but start braggin
It just so happens he runs the game like john madden
They cut him up first like ninja gaiden
And beat him down worse than double dragon
If you saw the passion then you know what happened
He took a bashing just to take on man's sin
Thats me and you and even charles manson
So party people remember that when ya dancin'

Keep it going now, keep it going now
Keep it going now, keep it going now
Keep it going now, don't ever slow it down
We gonna hold it down anytime we throw it down.

[Slothy]

Oh, can't forget the rap on Roll the Bones...."gonna kick some gluteus max"...aaahh!!!!

It may be incredibly cheesy, but that's part of it's charm.

As for my favorite lyrics. I'd have to do some thinking to come up with my favorite of all time, but some off the top of my head would be:

Lateralus-Tool
Aenema-Tool
Judith-A Perfect Circle

[Traitorfish]

Transmission third world war third round
A decade of the weapon of sound above ground
No shelter if youre looking for shade
I lick shots at the brutal charade
As the polls close like a casket
On truth devoured
Silent play in the shadow of power
A spectacle monopolized
The cameras eyes on choice disguised
Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil?
Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?
Yes a spectacle monopolized
They hold the reins, stole your eyes
All the fistagons the bullets and bombs
Who stuff the banks
Who staff the party ranks
More for Gore or the son of a drug lord
None of the above f**k it cut the cord

Lights out guerilla Radio
Turn that s**t up

Contact I highjacked the frequencies
Blockin the beltway
Move on DC
Way past the days of bombin MCs
Sound off Mumia guan be free
Who gottem yo check the federal file
All you pen devils know the trial was vile
Army of pigs try to silence my style
Off em all out that box its my radio dial

Lights out guerilla Radio
Turn that s**t up

It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here
What better time than nowAll hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us nowAll hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now
All hell cant stop us now

[Daryl]

Hush now, don't you cry.
Wipe away the teadrop from your eye.
You're lying safe in bed.
It was all a bad dream spinning in your head.
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain of someone close to you leaving the game of life.
So here it is, another chance.
Wide awake you face the day.
Your dream is over... or has it just begun?

There's a place I like to hide.
A doorway that I run through in the night.
Relax child, you were there but only didn't realize it and you were scared.
It's a place where you will learn to face your fears,
retrace the years and ride the whims of your mind.
Commanding in another world.
Suddenly, you hear and see this magic new dimension.

I - will be watching over you
I - am gonna help you see it through.
I - will protect you in the night.
I - am smiling next to you...
... In Silent Lucidity

If you open your mind for me you won't rely on open eyes to see.
The walls you built within come tumbling down,
and a new world will begin.
Living twice at once you learn you're safe from pain in the dream domain.
A soul set free to fly, a round trip journey in your head.
Master of illusion,
can you realize your dream's alive,
you can be the guide but...

[crashNUMBERS]

Video Games- KJ52

Ya' gotta be smurfing kidding me...

[Jack]

The Smashing Pumpkins- The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning
Send a heartbeat to
The void that cries through you
Relive the pictures that have come to pass
For now we stand alone
The world is lost and blown
And we are flesh and blood disintegrate
With no more to hate

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you’re so strange
And in your darkest hour
I hold secrets flame
We can watch the world devoured in it’s pain

Delivered from the blast
The last of a line of lasts
The pale princess of a palace cracked
And now the kingdom comes
Crashing down undone
And I am a master of a nothing place
Of recoil and grace

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you’re so strange
And in your darkest hour
I hold secrets flame
We can watch the world devoured in it’s pain

Time has stopped before us
The sky cannot ignore us
No one can separate us
For we are all that is left
The echo bounces off me
The shadow lost beside me
There’s no more need to pretend
Cause now I can begin again

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you’re so strange
And in your darkest hour
I hold secrets flame
We can watch the world devoured in it’s pain
Strange
Strange
Strange

[crashNUMBERS]

I'll just post a link because it contains some words.

<A HREF="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/burymeag.html"><I>"Bury Me A G"</I> - Tupac</A>

Mods please don't destroy that link. If youd listen to the song youd see how non-crazy it is. It's actually a good song on him trying to gain money for family and such...

[Chzn8r]

By 'almost anything' I'm assuming that you're talking about Dog Years and Virtuality...wow do those songs make me cringe when I hear the lyrics! Oh, can't forget the rap on Roll the Bones...."gonna kick some gluteus max"...aaahh!!!! Other than that, pure genius.

As for my favorite lyrics, Daniel Gildenlow writes incredible songs for Pain of Salvation, but I can't narrow it down to one at the moment.

-And Countdown.
-Wow, I didn't mention Gildenlow because I didn't think more than 1 or two people here knew them, and assumed they might not even see the thread. But he's my true favorite lyricist.

Also, nice to see Queensryche mentioned in this thread But, Anybody Listening? is the best.

[Rydia of Mist]

Poses
Rufus Wainwright

The yellow walls are lined with portraits
And I've got my new red fetching leather jacket
All these poses, such beautiful poses
Makes any boy feel like picking up roses

There's never been such grave a matter
As comparing our new brand name black sunglasses
All these poses, such beautiful poses
Makes any boy feel as pretty as princes

The green autumnal parks conducting
And the city streets a wondrous chorus singing
All these poses, oh how can you blame me
Life is a game and true love is a trophy

And you said
Watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no no kidding

Reclined amongst these packs of reasons
For to smoke the days away into the evenings
All these poses of classical torture
Ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard
I did go from wanting to be someone, now
I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue

Once you've fallen from classical virtue
Won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you

In the green autumnal parks conducting
All the city streets a wondrous chorus
Singing all these poses now no longer boyish
Made me a man, ah, but who cares what that is

And you said watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no well you said
Watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no no kidding

[crashNUMBERS]

"Pieces" - Sum41


<I>
I tried to be perfect but nothing was worth it
I don't believe it makes me real
I thought it'd be easy but no one believes me
I meant all the things I said

if you believe it's in my soul
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own

this place is so empty
my thoughts are so tempting
I don't know how it got so bad
sometimes it's so crazy that nothing can save me
but it's the only thing that I have

if you believe it's in my soul
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own

I tried to be perfect it just wasn't worth it
nothing could ever be so wrong
it's hard to believe me
it never gets easy
I guess I knew that all along

if you believe it's in my soul
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own
</I>

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