Lyrics Thread

[Corrian]

Alright, this is another thread that has been on my mind for a while. Here is a thread for us to, say, discuss lyrics from songs. Or just post lyrics that we like. I think it shall be mostly for posting lyrical lines you like, or a songs lyrics you like as a whole more so than actual lyrics discussion, except for when people are posting various lyric lines they like and lyrics they like and whatnot.

Also, if anyone has a suggestion for a better title name, please tell. I couldn't think of anything creative so I just went boring.

I shall start with a simple lyrical line right now, and post full song lyrics at another time. Too tired to do anything major.

We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear~Lorde

Edit: Adding in a disclaimer since sometimes it is hard to remember. Please do make sure that your lyrics are appropriate for the PG-13 forum rules. Thanks

[Cadonica]

And now we'll just wait until this is moved to Forum 7. If this ends up as lyric spam with little to no discussion at all, that is. Meanwhile:

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Guns N' Roses - Civil War

[The REAL Glasers]

i'm in the living room
watching the watergate hearings
while my stepfather yells at my mother
launches a glass across the room
straight at her head
and i dash upstairs to take cover
lean in close to my little record player on the floor
so this is what the volume knob's for

"Dance Music" - The Mountain Goats

[Corrian]

And now we'll just wait until this is moved to Forum 7. If this ends up as lyric spam with little to no discussion at all, that is. Meanwhile:

The What Are You Listening To? thread is pretty much spam and somehow hasn't been moved.

I plan to actually go out of my way to read every lyrical section that gets posted in this thread, though, unlike what I usually do other places.

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Guns N' Roses - Civil War

I always like lyrics with this theme to them.

i'm in the living room
watching the watergate hearings
while my stepfather yells at my mother
launches a glass across the room
straight at her head
and i dash upstairs to take cover
lean in close to my little record player on the floor
so this is what the volume knob's for

"Dance Music" - The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats seem like they're interesting lyrically.

[The REAL Glasers]

That particular song is from The Sunset Tree and is the first detailed account John gives of the abuse he suffered at the hands of his step father growing up. It's also pretty much the only album that's meant to be almost entirely in first person, pretty much everything else he writes is through other characters and narrators. He's a really good writer, he's direct when he needs to be and he also makes use of really good analogies, some of my favorites are on this album because it kind of hits home for me. This line from "This Year" is another good one:

"There will be feasting
And dancing
In Jerusalem next year
Because I am going to make it
Through this year
If it kills me"

Kind of simple on the surface, but it's also a reference to a fairly common Jewish phrase "this time next year in Jerusalem" (something to that effect). It's a common phrase that people say and never really mean and it lends more power to the song. John's an expert at balancing hopelessness with relentless optimism because that's kind of what got him through life. His sort of mantra is that while some of his lyrics are really sad, he's up there singing them and made it through. He's my favorite artist and songwriter ever because no one else really hits me that close to home. When I was growing up I felt he was pretty much the only person on the planet that was able to put to words what I was feeling.

[Mayane]

I love lyrics, I think the way they are sang is very important as well.

For example:

That there, that's not me
I go where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here

In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah, it's gone

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here

Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here....

Obviously, How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead

[The Risen Jaguar Warriors]

And I was like...

Baby, baby, baby oooh
Like baby, baby, baby nooo
Like baby, baby, baby oooh
I thought you'd always be mine (mine)

Baby, baby, baby oooh
Like baby, baby, baby nooo
Like baby, baby, baby oooh
I thought you'd always be mine (mine)

- Exactly what it says on the can

I actually quite like this song: not many English-language pop songs with (relatively) clean lyrics...

[Mayane]

And I was like...

Baby, baby, baby oooh
Like baby, baby, baby nooo
Like baby, baby, baby oooh
I thought you'd always be mine (mine)

Baby, baby, baby oooh
Like baby, baby, baby nooo
Like baby, baby, baby oooh
I thought you'd always be mine (mine)

- Exactly what it says on the can

I actually quite like this song: not many English-language pop songs with (relatively) clean lyrics...

C'mon.. this is awful, the lyrics are useless

[Mirrodinia]

I love lyrics, I think the way they are sang is very important as well.

For example:

That there, that's not me
I go where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here

In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah, it's gone

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here

Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes

I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here....

Obviously, How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead

I love the way Thom sings these lyrics, as well as the lyrics themselves. It's just so real, and the first time I heard this song, I was astonished by the state of mind Thom must've been in to write this. Great post.

[Ancland]

君は王女　僕は召使
運命分かつ　哀れな双子
君を守る　その為ならば
僕は悪にだってなってやる


期待の中僕らは生まれた
祝福するは教会の鐘
大人たちの勝手な都合で
僕らの未来は二つに裂けた

たとえ世界の全てが
君の敵になろうとも
僕が君を守るから
君はそこで笑っていて

君は王女　僕は召使
運命分かつ　哀れな双子
君を守る　その為ならば
僕は悪にだってなってやる


隣の国へ出かけたときに
街で見かけた緑のあの娘
その優しげな声と笑顔に
一目で僕は恋に落ちました

だけど王女があの娘のこと
消してほしいと願うなら
僕はそれに応えよう

どうして？涙が止まらない

君は王女　僕は召使
運命分かつ　狂おしき双子
「今日のおやつはブリオッシュだよ」
君は笑う　無邪気に笑う


もうすぐこの国は終わるだろう
怒れる国民たちの手で
これが報いだというのならば
僕はあえて　それに逆らおう

「ほら僕の服を貸してあげる」
「これを着てすぐお逃げなさい」
「大丈夫僕らは双子だよ」
「きっとだれにもわからないさ」

僕は王女　君は逃亡者
運命分かつ　悲しき双子
君を悪だというのならば
僕だって同じ　血が流れてる


むかしむかしあるところに
悪逆非道の王国の
頂点に君臨してた
とても可愛い僕の姉弟

たとえ世界の全てが
君の敵になろうとも
僕が君を守るから
君はどこかで笑っていて

君は王女　僕は召使
運命分かつ　哀れな双子
君を守る　その為ならば
僕は悪にだってなってやる


もしも生まれ変われるならば
その時はまた遊んでね

-Aku no meshitsukai

[Eastern Equestria]

I am the stone that the builder refused
I am the visual, the inspiration
that made the lady sing the blues
I'm the spark that makes your idea bright
The same spark that light the dark so that you can know your left from your right.
I am the ballot in the box,
the bullet in your gun,
the inner glow that lets you know to call your brother son.
The story that's just begun,
The promise of what's to come,
And imma remain a soldier til' the war is won.

Asheru - Judo Flip

[Krajstali]

saleelul sawarim nasheedul ubah
wa darbul qitaly tariqul haya
fa baynaq tihamin yubidu tugha
wa kateem musawtim jamilun sadah

saleelul sawarim nasheedul ubah
wa darbul qitaly tariqul haya
fa baynaq tihamin yubidu tugha
wa kateem musawtim jamilun sadah

-Saleel Al-Sawarim AKA ISIS Nasheed
Tbh, this song is catchy af despite being ISIS. Same case goes for other things such as North Korea, obvious reasons to hate them but music is awesome and has that Communistic feeling to it such as "No Motherland without you"

[Evil Twin of Val Halla]

This is a shambles
Your cook is a heathen.
Your carpet is ugly
And your veg ain't in season.

-Slipshod, Enter Shikari.

[Greater Weselton]

The lyrics from "Let It Go" are quite leftist and occultist.

[Anollasia]

You think we look pretty good together
You think my shoes are made of leather

But I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young but I'm just backdated yeah

Substitute your lies for fact
I can see right through your plastic mac
I look all white but my dad was black
My fine looking suit is really made out of sack

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east and the east was facing south

And now you dare to look me in the eye
Crocodile tears are what you cry
If it's a genuine problem you won't try
To work it out at all you just pass it by pass it by

Substitute me for him
Substitute your coke for gin
Substitute you for my mom
At least I'll get my washing done

The Who - Substitute

One of my favourite Who songs lyrically.

[Ancient Magmia]

I'm fearless, now hear this, I'm earless
And I'm peerless, that means I'm eyeless
Which means I'm tearless, which means my iris
Resides where my ears is, which means I'm blinded
But I'mma find it, I can feel its nearness
But I'mma veer so I don't come near
Like a chicken or a deer, but I remember
I'm not a listener or a seer so my windshield smear
Here you steer, I really shouldn't be behind this
Clearly cause my blindness; the windshield is menstrual/minstrel
The whole grill is roadkill, so trill and so sincere
Yeah, I'm both them there
Took both pills, when a bloke in a trench coat
And the locs in the chair had approached him here
Made it clear as a ghost, so a biter of the throats in the mirror
The writer of the quotes for the ghosts
Who supplier of the notes to the living
Riveting as Rosie, pockets full of posies
Given to the mother of the deceased
Awake and at war 'til I'm resting in peace

Lupe Fiasco - "Dumb It Down" verse 1
One of the most lyrically complex songs I've ever heard.

-snip-

Asheru - Judo Flip

[Mavorpen]

Already woke, spared a joke, barely spoke, rarely smoke
Stared at folks when properly provoked, mirror broke
Here, share strawberry morning, gone an more important spawning
Torn in, poor men sworn in
Cornish hens switching positions, auditioning morticians
Saw it in a vision, ignoring prison
Ignoramuses enlist and sound dumb
Found 'em drowned in cow's dung, crowns flung
Rings a Tinkerbell, sing for things that's frail as a fingernail
Bring a scale, stale ginger lingers
Seven figures invigor
Nigga, fresh from out the jail, alpha male
Sickest ninja injury this century, enter plea
Lend sympathy to limper Simple Simon rhyming emcees
Trees is free, please leave a key
These meagre fleas, he's the breeze
And she's the bees knees for sheez
G's of G's
Seize property, shopper sprees, chop the cheese
Drop the grease to stop diseases, gee wiz pa!
DOOM rock grandma like the kumbaya
Mama was a ho hopper, papa was a Rolling Stone star like Obama
Pull a card like oh drama
Civil liberties
These little titties abilities riddle me, middle C
Give a MC a rectal hysterectomy
Lecture on removal of the bowels, foul technically
Don't expect to see the recipe
Until we receive the check as well as the collection fee
More wreck than section Z
What you expect to get for free?
Shit from me, history

"That's That" - MF DOOM

[Ancient Magmia]

-snip-

"That's That" - MF DOOM

...well damn...

[Mavorpen]

-snip-

"That's That" - MF DOOM

...well damn...

From a technical standpoint, MF Doom is one of the best lyricists I've ever come accross.

Baha, can you dig it like a spigot?
My guess is yes you can like can I kick it wicked
Liquor shot if you happy and you know it
As you clap your hands to the thick snot of a poet, flowin'
Grope a pen and I'm in cope hymen
Doper rhymin' more worther than the Hope diamond
Acquired off the black market
A wire tappin' couldn't target a jar of spit
The rapid-fire spark lit
Zzt, a rapper bug zapper
And it don't matter after if they's a thug or dapper
Plug your trap or it's maximum exposure
Beats got family members askin' him for closure
Aw, send 'em a gun and tell 'em clean it
Then go get the nun who said her son didn't mean it
She wore a filled-in thong of Billabong
That said "Nah fo'real-a, the Villain on a Gorilla jawn?"

"November Has Come" - Gorillaz and MF Doom

[Cadonica]

I always like lyrics with this theme to them.

Have more some:

Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand

Fools like me, who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?

A country that's divided
Surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand

Megadeth - Holy Wars...the Punishment Due

[Shaggtopia]

When they tightly strap me in
give me lethal injection
just a few moments to live
no remorse for what I did
was for the betterment of man
I gave the utmost sacrifice
before more damage could be done
I took his life
THERE WAS A SPLIT SECOND OF SILENCE
when the dart punctured the skin
beady eyes rolled back in head
body dropped from the poison
THEY COULD INCOMPACITATE ME
BUT COULD NOT ERASE MY SNEER
I heard a thousand people screaming
While three billion others cheered
He was gone
and I would soon beeeeeee
Executed by the state
all appeals would be in vein
I was not criminally insane
in fact, I was found to be
an otherwise caring and respectable
member of society
a minor threat, except for that one that I killed
AS THE SEDATIVES TAKE EFFECT
I just smile and close my eyes
there's a priest kneeled next to me
he asks me if I realize
I was going straight to hell
and he thought that I should know
that the man I killed's replacement
planned this whole scenario
and what I did
had no significaaaaance
at all

The Man I Killed, NOFX

[Evil Twin of Val Halla]

Xmas has been X'ed
No coloured light lights
No shopping sprees
No more presents
Under dead trees.
Saint Nick is dead
But we don't grieve
We celebrate
The last Christmas Eve

Xmas has been X'ed, NOFX

[Ancient Magmia]

Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide, when he dies
In his own iniquity, it's the
Master of the Mantis Rapture coming at ya
We have an APB on an MC Killer
Looks like the work of a master
Evidence indicates that his stature
Merciless like a terrorist hard to capture
The flow, changes like a chameleon
Plays like a friend, and stabs you like a dagger
This technique attacks the immune system
Disguised like a lie paralyzing the victim
You scream, as it enters your bloodstream
Erupts your brain from the pain these thoughts contain
Moving on a nigga with the speed of a centipede
And injure any motherfucking contender!

Wu-Tang Clan - Da Mystery Of Chessboxin' - Verse 6 by Masta Killa

[Scyobayrynn]

Oh father dear, I oft-times hear you speak of Erin's isle
Her lofty hills, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
They say she is a lovely land wherein a saint might dwell
So why did you abandon her, the reason to me tell.

Oh son, I loved my native land with energy and pride
Till a blight came o'er the praties; my sheep, my cattle died
My rent and taxes went unpaid, I could not them redeem
And that's the cruel reason why I left old Skibbereen.

Oh well do I remember that bleak December day
The landlord and the sheriff came to take us all away
They set my roof on fire with their cursed English spleen
I heaved a sigh and bade goodbye to dear old Skibbereen.

Your mother too, God rest her soul, fell on the stony ground
She fainted in her anguish seeing desolation 'round
She never rose but passed away from life to immortal dream
She found a quiet grave, me boy, in dear old Skibbereen.

And you were only two years old and feeble was your frame
I could not leave you with my friends for you bore your father's name
I wrapped you in my cóta mór in the dead of night unseen
I heaved a sigh and bade goodbye to dear old Skibbereen.

Oh father dear, the day will come when in answer to the call
All Irish men of freedom stern will rally one and all
I'll be the man to lead the band beneath the flag of green
And loud and high we'll raise the cry, Revenge for Skibbereen!

[Anollasia]

Moon River
Wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style
Someday

Oh dream maker
You heartbreaker
Wherever you're going
I'm going your way

Two drifters
Off to see the world
There's such a lot of world
To see

We're after the same rainbow's end
Waiting 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon River and me