Topic: Post up your favourite lyrics

[Dracoandy666]

Basically just put up lyrics that you like, or that are funny. Or even ones that relate to you or your situation. It can be a few words, a line or even a verse. No limit really ^^

[Milsap]

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

Sounds of Silence by Paul Simon. It can only be defined as pure genius

[The Macintosh Ninja: SOH CAH TOA]

Cuando te perdí
No me conforme
Con la realidad.

Un presentimiento
En mi pensamiento
Me dio la verdad.

La humilde casita
Que fue nuestro nido
Muy triste quedo.

Solo tu perfume
Quedo en el recuerdo
De aquel grande amor.

Tu procedimiento me hizo padecer
Dejando en mi pecho una herida cruel
Y al verte rendida por otra ilusión
De celos y angustia mataste mi amor.

Dicen que los hombres no deben llorar
Por una mujer que ha pagado mal
Pero yo no pude contener mi llanto
Cerrando los ojos me puse a llorar.

Pero yo no pude contener mi llanto
Cerrando los ojos me puse a llorar.

Dicen que los hombres no deben llorar
Por una mujer que ha pagado mal
Pero yo no pude contener mi llanto
Cerrando los ojos me puse a llorar.

Dicen que los hombres no deben llorar
Por una mujer que ha pagado mal
Pero yo no pude contener mi llanto
Cerrando los ojos me puse a llorar.

Dicen que los hombres no deben llorar
Por una mujer que ha pagado mal
Pero yo no pude contener mi llanto
Cerrando los ojos me puse a llorar.

A Spanish "love" song in the sense that it's the guy singing about how he misses the girl he loves.  The title, translated to English, is: "It's Said That Men Shouldn't Cry".

[CAPITAL BETA]

Trail amidst the snow-clad trees, winding is the way
Sunless is the path we roam, bitter is the air we breathe
Fell is the icy blast, coming from the hills
Blowing through my ailing heart, wailing in the emptiness inside

Vanished is the light we had, hidden deep in rimy soil
Bereft of us the one we cherished, lost for ever our love

Still at night I see her figure
Flickering on moonlit glades
But passing is the hope she's giving
Just a faintest breath of air and she's gone again

The clouds are moving heavily, across the livid sky
Yonder the hues are darkening, slowly turning grey to black
For the two who stray in dusk, all hope is long since gone
Cruel is the winter's reign, merciless the grasp of despair

For what mirth there is left in life for a motherless son
What solace in this world for a widower to find

Slender the shape in night, unbearable the beauty
Shining in the silvery light, watching me with wistful eyes
Evanescent this vision, unattainable this illusion
But an image in my troubled dreams, hewn out of yearning and rue

Daughter of the Moon, by Insomnium. Such amazing lyrics.

[sylar]

opps did you make this thread for me SORRY CAN'T HEAR YOU SAY 'NO' OVER ALL THE HIPSTER LYRICS HERE.................

it's a pill and you've got to take it
it's a pill that you've got to take
it's a pill and you've got to take it
i won't rest until you take it
it's a heart that you made
it's a heart and the both of you made it
it's a heart that you made
i won't rest until i break it

it's l'histoire de la famile
it's l'histoire de la FAM
it's l'histoire de la famile
i won't rest until i forget about it
i won't rest until i don't care
i won't rest until i forget about it
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

that's a razor and you'll make a threat
that's a razor make a million billion threats
that's a razor and you'll make a threat
and i won't rest because i've heard it all before
my behind is a beehive
there's a buzz in my backside
my behind is a beehive
and i won't rest while you break my will

j'taime the valley
j'taime the valley OH!
j'taime the valley
i am an orphan to the valley

and i won't rest until i forget about it
i won't rest until i don't care
i won't rest until i forget about it
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

xiu xiu - i luv the valley OH!
^{it just ~hits hard~ a bloo bloo bloo}

music won't save you
from anything but silence
not from heartbreak
not from violence

piano magic - [music won't save you from anything but] violence
^{this song is basically instrumental with these lyrics thrown in beginning and middle. it's beautiful. so beautiful.}

please, curtains in
start out slowly
you swing first, sorry
i don't know what i said
but you're crying now again
and that only makes it worse

please, please calm down
steady out, i'm terrified
sorry, i want us to ally
but you swing those little knives
they're only sharp on one side

let me do my job, let me do my job

sylvia, get your head out of the oven
go back to screaming and cursing
remind me again how everyone betrayed you
sylvia, get your head out of the covers
let me take your temperature
you can throw the thermometer right back at me
if that's what you want to do, okay?

sylvia, can't you see what you are doing?
can't you see i'm scared to speak?
and i hate my voice, because it only makes you angry
sylvia, i only talk when you are sleeping
that's when i tell you everything
and imagine that somehow you can hear me

the antlers - sylvia
^{favourite song on the Hospice album. well i can't really pick a favourite but... this one's in the top three. so ~powerful~ gdi.
there's an alternate version - originally written as Sylvia but changed to Epilogue
sylvia, you may think that i'm not listening
but i am, god damn, i am.}

i'm here, of course i am, yes
all i need is your hand to drag me out again
it wasn't me, i didn't dig this ditch
i was walking for weeks before i fell in
to the loneliness, oh the loneliness
and the scream to prove to everyone that i exist

frightened rabbit - the loneliness and the scream
^{another one that ~hits hard~ a BLOO BLOO BLOO}

my dad was sick, and my mom she cared for him
her love it nursed him back to life
and me, i ran, i couldn't even look at him
for fear i'd have to say goodbye
and as i start to leave
he grabbs me by the shoulder and he tells me

"what's left to lose? you've done enough
and if you fail, then you fail, but not to us
because these last three years, i know they've been hard
but it's time to get out of the desert and into the sun
even if it's alone."

the format - on your porch

i've been condemned by those i love
wishing me the worst as i try my best
she's the last real thing i've got
i'm cursed by all ambitious thoughts
is that all you've got?

close your eyes and cover your ears
for the end is near but the beginning is here
in with the outro and out with the old

i'm gonna tie all the loose ends i once pulled
preparing for faliure from what we've been told
with nothing to offer so nothings been sold
forgive me and give me one more chance to fold
there's nothing to lose when there's nothing to hold
one thing's for sure, we'll be together in the morning.

the format - career day



i have a few more but i cba typing or remembering them FFFFFFF

[Milsap]

Down in the town called Wolverhampton,
Where most of the fighting was done,
It was there where a young Saddlers supporter was stabbed by the Wolverhampton scum.
As he lay on the terraces dying, with the blood gushing out of his head
As he lay on the terraces dying dying dying, these were the last words he said....
Ooooooh scummy! scummy!
scummy, scummy, scummy, scummy, Wanderers!

Old Walsall chant. Most people have only ever heard the last two lines.

[rapidash king]

deathray deathray
deathray deathray
deathray deathray
deathray deathray
deathray deathray
deathray deathray
deathray deathray
deathray deathray
deathray deathray
deathray deathray

doe deer - crystal castles
doesn't get better than that

Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half sleep
I won't say anything that's worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly

What begins as an unguarded train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber of disconnection and the resonance
of memory that no longer has a shape
but keeps you numb through the hours till gone is another day

Be aware, my darling, these things I say I mean
are just traces of something I long to feel again
I see our time expand in the air almost forcibly
spreading thinner till it dissolves completely

half asleep - school of seven bells
the lyrics and the song are equally as pretty

[Matty Cahill]

I'll post some ones allowed on the forums as some of mine aren't =P

The plan was to drink until the pain's over
But what's worse? The pain or the hangover?

Those two lines resonate with me a lot which probably isn't a good thing but still!

Never was much of a romantic
I could never take the intimacy
And I know I did damage
Plus the look in your eyes is killing me
I guess you have an advantage
'Cause you could blame me for everything
And I don't know how I'd manage
If one day you just up and leave

Those lines after the Pusha T verse are just so powerful imo, especially when matched with the composition of the song

They can't comprehend
Or even come close to understanding him
I guess if I was boring they would love me more
I guess if I was simple in the mind
Everything would be fine
Maybe if I was jerk to girls
Instead of being nice and speaking kind words
Then maybe it would be okay to say then
I wasn't a good guy to begin with

Another line from this song as well is The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated; powerful stuff

(And people say rap is crap =/)

Also

That's a pretty big trunk on my Lincoln town car, ain't it?
Big enough to take these broken hearts and put them in it
Now I'm driving round on the boulevard, trunk bleeding
And everytime the cops pull me over, they don't ever see them
And I've got this black suit on
Roaming around like I'm ready for a funeral
Five more miles 'til the road runs out

I'm about to drive in the ocean
I'mma try to swim from something bigger than me
Kick off my shoes and swim good
Take off this suit and swim good

Got some pretty good beats on this 808s CD, yeah
Memory seats I'm sitting on stay heated
I would of put tints on my windows but what's the difference
If I feel like a Ghost, no Swayze, ever since I lost my baby
I've had this black suit on
Roaming around like I'm ready for a funeral
One more mile 'til the road runs out

I'm about to drive in the ocean
I'mma try to swim from something bigger than me
Kick off my shoes and swim good
Take off this suit and swim good

I'm going off, don't try stopping me
I'm going off, don't try saving
No flares, no vest, and no fear
Waves are washing me

I'm about to drive in the ocean
I'mma try to swim from something bigger than me
Kick off my shoes and swim good
Take off this suit and swim good

This song when I first heard it made me feel "wow"; absolutely brilliant. Strawberry Swing by Frank Ocean is also brilliant lyrically.

When we were kids, we handpainted strawberries on a swing
Every moment was so precious, then
I'm still kicking it, I'm daydreaming on a strawberry swing
The entire Earth is fighting, all the world is at its end
Just in case, an atom bomb, comes falling on my lawn
I should say and you should hear I've loved
I've loved the good times here, I've loved our good times here

Say hello, then say farewell to the places you know
We are all mortals, aren't we? Any moment this could go
Cry, cry, cry, even though that won't change a thing
But you should know, you should hear, that I have loved
I have loved the good times here, and I will miss our good times

Spaceships are lifting off of a dying world
And millions are left behind while the sky burns
There wasn't room for you and I, only you, goodbye

And last but certainly not least

I'm up in the woods
I'm down on my mind
I'm building a still
to slow down the time

First of the Bon Iver; so simple yet brilliant. When I heard it on Skins I was like "I need to find this song" xD

Don't you cherish me to sleep
Never keep your eyelids clipped
Hold me for the pops and clicks
I was only for the father's crib

Hair, old, long along
Your neck onto your shoulder blades
Always keep that message taped
Cross your breasts you won't erase
I was only for your very space

Hip, under nothing
Propped up by your other one, face 'way from the sun
Just have to keep a dialogue
Teach our bodies: haunt the cause
I was only trying to spell a loss

Joy, it's all founded
Pincher with the skin inside
You pinned me with your black sphere eyes
You know that all the rope's untied
I was only for to die beside

So itʼs storming on the lake
Little waves our bodies break

There's a fire going out,
But there's really nothing to the south

Swollen orange and light let through
Your one piece swimmer stuck to you

Sold, I'm Ever
Open ears and open eyes
Wake up to your starboard bride
Who goes in and then stays inside
Oh the demons come, they can subside

My favourite song right now; so powerful in lyrics =D

[Webby]

Goodbye
Should be sayin' that to you by now, shouldn't I?
Layin' down a law that I live by,
Well, maybe next time

I've got a thick tongue,
Brimming with the words that go unsung
I simmer then I burn for a someone,
The wrong one

And I tell myself to let the story end,
That my heart will rest in someone else's hand
But my 'why not me?' philosophy began,
And I said

Ooh, how am I gonna get over you?
I'll be alright, just not tonight, but someday,
Oh I wish you'd want me to stay
I'll be alright, just not tonight, but someday

Lyrics that are half relevant. Kinda.

when i push the sheets away from your face and watch you sleep all day here.
and when i push you away and say you simply can not stay here.

its all love, all love, it's all of my stupid love.

when i say you take away the most important parts of me with you,
and when i've had the greyest day, you add more grey, that's just your way, it's true.

it's all love, all love. oh.
it's all love, all love. oh.
it's all love, all love. oh
it's all of my stupid love.

I think these lyrics work really well with the song... just a case of "favourite song=favourite lyrics" I think.

They say you're really not somebody
Until somebody else loves you
Well I am waiting to make somebody somebody
Soon

Something about these lyrics just... depresses me. But they're pretty powerful. Being a nobody until you've loved/been loved.

There's a boy next to me and he never will be anything but a boy at the bar
And I think he's the tops, he's where everything stops
How I love to love him from afar

When he walks right past me then I finally see on this bar stool I can't stay
So I'm taking my frown to a far distant town
On an island in the blue bay.

Far away far away, I want to go far away
To a new life on a new shore line
Where the water is blue and the people are new
To another island, in another life

This song just makes me wish I could take myself away to another island in another life ^^'  just makes it sound so easy to live a new life where the boy at the bar can't get you down.

let's take a better look
beyond a story book
and learn our souls are all we own
before we turn to stone

let's go to sleep with clearer heads
and hearts too big to fit out beds
and maybe we won't feel so alone
before we turn to stone

and if you wait for someone else's hand
you will surely fall down
if you wait for someone else's hand
you'll fall, you'll fall

i know that i am nothing new
my words might not seem much to you
but brother how we must atone
before we turn to stone

I could quote Ingrid lyrics all day but I'll stop here ^^'  damnit Ingrid stop being so amazing :|   again, powerful lyrics about meeting your end... at least that's what I see.

You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can’t relate
And you’re still here

What I resist, persists, and speaks louder than I know
What I resist, you love, no matter how low or high I go

I'm the funniest woman you've ever known.
I am the dullest woman you've ever known.
I'm the most gorgeous woman you've ever known
And you've never met anyone as, as everything as I am sometimes.

I know everyone does songs about being everything, but... these lyrics actually do the theme justice and I just love them. <3

I'll probably end up spamming this thread more later, but... I can just say now that Alanis, Sara, Ingrid and Amanda Palmer are my favourite lyricists in the world. <3

[Milsap]

The moon was shining on the lake at night
The slayer T-shirt fit the scene just right
Through smeared mascara
I looked into your eyes and saw a light

You told me stories about your chickadees
They didn't like BB guns or stupid archery
You charmed the lifeguard
He let them use the pool all day for free

Then the conversation stopped
And I looked down at my feet
I was next to you and you were right there next to me
Then I said

Girl, if you're wondering if I want you to (I want you to)
I want you to
So make them move (make them move)
cause I ain't got all night

The rest of the summer was the best we've ever had
We watched titanic and it didn't make us sad
I took you to Best Buy
You took me home to meet your mom and dad

Your mom cooked meat loaf,even though I don't eat meat
I dug you so much,I took some for the team
Your dad was silent
His eyes were fixed to what was on TV

And the conversation stopped,and I looked down at the ring
Your folks were next to you
And you were right there next to me
And I said

Girl, if you're wondering if I want you to (I want you to)
I want you to (I want you to)
I swear it's true (swear it's true)
Without you my heart is blue
Girl,if you're wondering if I want you to (I want you to)
I want you to (I want you to)
So make the move (make the move)
cause I ain't got all night

So much pain may come our way
There may come a day when we have nothing left to say

When the conversation stops and we're facing our defeat
I'll be next to you and you'll be right there next to me
Then I'll say

Girl, if you're wondering if I want you to (I want you to)
I want you to (I want you to)
I swear it's true (swear it's true)
Without you my heart is blue,oh
Girl, if you're wondering if I want you to (I want you to)
I want you to (I want you to)
So make the move (make the move)
Cause I ain't got all night

A nice happy jumpy Weezer song

[CAPITAL BETA]

Brought back from the silence
As darkness whitened into a day
Tried to weave the pieces together
Force the past away

Mind weary of sorrow
Body tired from the way
Welcomed yet another morning
Of longing and dismay

What have I for you to offer
Besides this long haul
Wade across vast snowfields
Journey through endless moors

Death walked the earth today
Without a sound, motionless
Forced its way into my arms
Caressed me with the dark

Dragged again up to surface
From the bowels of the earth
To face yet another morning
Breath gasping black steam of death

These are our waking hours
In cold sunlight we pine away
Towards yet another morning
Till following hopeless day

Death Walked The Earth, by Insomnium. Yeah, I'm quite into this band right now.

[Milsap]

   
Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch.
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin',
Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.

There's a giant doing cartwheels, a statue wearin' high heels.
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
A dinosaur Victrola list'ning to Buck Owens.
Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.

Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Wond'rous apparition provided by magician.
Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.


Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.

Forward troubles Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.

CCR- Lookin' Out My Back Door

[Megiddo Flame]

Disturbed "The Animal" (I think it's about a werewolf transformation)

Now!

I can feel the animal inside
And my resolve is weakening
Pounding on the doors of my mind
It's nearly overpowering
I cannot begin to describe
The hunger that I feel again
Run if you intend to survive
For the beast is coming to life
Taking form in the glimmer
Of this tainted moonlight
Death approaches on this night

For the animal's soul is mine
We will be completed
Right before your eyes
I have no control this time
And now we both
Shall dine in hell tonight

I can hear it calling again
The primal need is filling me
Changes are about to begin
And now my blood is boiling
I can see the fear in your eyes
But you can't bring yourself to scream
Time to shed the mortal disguise
For the beast is coming to life
Taking form in the glimmer
Of this tainted moonlight
Death approaches on this night

For the animal's soul is mine
We will be completed
Right before your eyes
I have no control this time
And now we both
Shall dine in hell tonight

We begin the hunt and I
Feel the power course
As the creatures take flight
For the kill is close
And I will be satisfied
For the smell of fear tonight
Wakes an ancient lust
That will not be denied
You're mine

For the animal's soul is mine
We will be completed
Right before your eyes
I have no control this time
And now we both
Shall dine in hell tonight

For the animal's soul is mine
And the world around
Will never hear your cries
An unholy crime
And now we both
Shall dine in hell tonight

[Milsap]

Someone told me long ago, there's a calm before the storm.
I know, and it's been comin' for some time.
When it's over, so they say, it'll rain a sunny day.
I know, shinin' down like water.

I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
comin' down on a sunny day?

Yesterday, and days before, sun is cold and rain is hard.
I know, been that way for all my time.
'Til forever on it goes through the circle fast and slow,
I know, and it can't stop, I wonder.

I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
comin' down on a sunny day?

CCR- Have You Ever Seen The Rain? One of my favourite songs of all time.

[Dracoandy666]

Broken Wings by Passerby (Before later becoming Flyleaf)

Possibly my favourite song of all time....

Thank you for being such a friend to me
Oh, I pray a friend for life
And have I ever told you how much you mean to me
Oh, you mean so much to me
I'm thinking all the time how to tell you what I feel
I'm contemplating phrases
I'm gazing at eternity
I am floating in serenity

And I am so lost for words
And I am so overwhelmed

Please don't go just yet
Can you stay a moment please
We can dance together
We can dance forever

Under your stars tonight
We'll live and breathe this dream

So close your eyes
But don't dream too deep
And please pass me some memories
And when I fall you're underneath
A thousand broken hearts
Carried by a thousand broken wings
A thousand broken wings