[Echoes]

rock's not usually known for its lyrics, but what are your fave lyrics?

[Forgone Conclusion]

Pink Floyd's another brick in the wall has a few rousing lyrics

[where_i'm_calling_from]

misfits - last caress (i got something to say, i raped your mother today, it doesn't matter much to me, as long as she spread.)

anything by Brand New. best lyrical band ever. check out Me vs Maradonna vs Elvis for the best sex song ever.

[Lord Love Rocket]

I'd agree with FC there good lyrics in that song although it does go a bit up the wall at the end.

We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave those kids alone.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teachers, leave those kids alone.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

They are basic but effective. In general indie/alternative songs would have better lyrics and more interesting ones at least.

[Gabriel Synthesis]

Angra - Spread Your Fire

Woke up to life not long ago
You think your mind is in control?
God will take it back someday

It's not so hard to understand
They say the world has good and bad
Father Universe brings Love and Hate

Glorious - You'll lead the way
To free the world from these chains
Glorious - Your story now begins, Oh!
Fire!
Unleash the angel of the Light
Thank him for bringing us to life
Lucifer is just a name!

We are the only ones to blame
Just look around, I'm not insane!
Satan is a child of our God

Glorious - Don't be afraid
To lead the way with thy sword
Glorious - You are the chosen one. Go!

Spread your fire

Salve ara, salve victima
Spread your fire
De passionis gloria
Spread your fire
Qua vita mortem pertulit
Spread your fire
Et morte vitam reddidit

Glorious - Don't be afraid
To lead the way with thy sword
Glorious - You are the chosen one. Go!

Salve ara, salve victima
Spread your fire
De passionis gloria
Spread your fire
Qua vita mortem pertulit
Spread your fire
Et morte vitam reddidit

[crystal X]

Love in, love out, find a feelin
Scream in, scream out, time for healin
You feel the moments gone to soon
You're watchin clouds come over you
Torn in two, you close your eyes for someplace new
Torn in two...

(Chorus)
And I feel it's goin down, ten feet below the ground
I'm waitin for your healing hand
One touch could bring you round
I feel we're goin down, ten feet below the ground
It's just the way i'm feelin

Glow in, burn out, lost the feelin
Bruise in, bruise out, nurse the bleedin
Torn in two, each time we lose...




(Chorus)
And I feel its goin down, ten feet below the ground
I'm waitin for your healing hand
One touch could bring you round
And I feel we're goin down, ten feet below the ground
It's just the way i'm feelin
yeh yeh
It's just the way i'm feelin

Two different views, as words confuse
And break
I can't get out, theres no way out
Of here
I can't get clear

Love in, love out, find the feelin

I feel it's goin down, ten feet below the ground
I'm waitin for your healing hand
One touch could bring you round
I feel we're goin down, ten feet below the ground
It's just the way I'm feelin
yeh yeh
it's just the way I'm feelin
yeh yeh
It's just the way I'm feelin
yeh yeh
It's just the way I'm feelin
yeh yeh
It's just the way I'm feelin

(that was Just The Way Im Feelin by Feeder if nobody had guessed it!)

[TheDissident]

Behemoth have amazing lyrics, very different from anythinnng you've read before, full of meaning and culture. I'll leave you one here, it's from the song "Sculpting The Throne Ov Seth":

Come forth!
From the void beyond the stars
From the blackened shores Thee arrive
Thou art ov gods
Yet supreme above them all
Thou art mocked and blessed

Speak ov me not as one
Speak ov me not as none
Speak ov me not at all
For I am continual

Crowned and conquering child
Cast aside the prophets and false gods ov Thy ways
From the outer space
When TONUAL cross NAGUAL
Beyond becoming, Thou hast become...

Speak ov me not as one
Speak ov me not as none
Speak ov me not at all
For I am continual

Let me reign as a god among slaves!

Apirit clad in gold
Seraphs incarnate
Ahake loose the shackles ov a million years
Children ov Seth
Blast wide the portals
Unveil the raptures
Ov Thy kingdom

Speak ov me not as one
Speak ov me not as none
Speak ov me not at all
For I am continual

Let me reign as a god among slaves!

Io Khepesh!
Io Nubti!
Io Akhakh!
Io Simai!

[Eh! Steve]

NOFX - My Vagina

My vagina has two sets of lips,
but I don't get monthly blood drips
My vagina hardly even used
My vagina's got lots of extra skin
They took my outtie and made it an in
Changing Donnie to Marie Osmond

Operation, sex-cessful
But now I gotta pee
Through a miniature hole
Gotta remember to put the seat down
And when I wipe my ass
I go from front to back
Cause I don't want a bladder infection

I never thought I'd miss my vas deferans
I trade it in for a pair of used cans
Now I get to hang with lesbians

Operation, paid up front
Now I show all my friends
My new designer cunt
They think I'm kinda weird
But that's ok with me
Cause now I kick their ass
Played from the ladies team
There's nothing finer
Than having a vagina

Clearly a modern insight into the joys of transsexualism

[Droogie]

Cannibal Corpse - Fucked with a knife

No escape from your fate
Destined to be mine
Every night I wait to see
In the night, watching
Stalking your every move
I know when you're alone
All alone
Tied tight to the bed
legs spread open
Bruised flesh, lacerations
Skin stained with blood
I'm the only one you love
I feel her heart beating
My knife deep inside
Her crotch is bleeding
She liked the way it felt inside her
Fucking her, harder, harder
She liked the way it felt inside her
Fucking her, harder, harder
Stick it in
Rip the skin
Carve and twist
Torn flesh
From behind
I cut her crotch
In her ass
I stuck my cock
Killing as I cum

[Eh! Steve]

That's fucking foul, dude.

[Forgone Conclusion]

Because the vagina one was really tasteful

[Eh! Steve]

at least it didn't make me want to die

[where_i'm_calling_from]

i think cannibal corpse reached new heights of lyrical ingenuity with the rhyme 'i defile your child'

[The Phlegmy One!111]

Stinkfist

Something has to change.
Un-deniable dilemma.
Boredom's not a burden
Anyone should bear.

Constant over stimu-lation numbs me
and I wouldn't have
It any other way.

It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To feel, to breathe, to know I'm alive.

Finger deep within the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Relax, turn around and take my hand.

I can help you change
Tired moments into pleasure.
Say the word and we'll be
Well upon our way.

Blend and balance
Pain and comfort
Deep within you
Till you will not have me any other way.

It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To feel, to breathe, to know I'm alive.

Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
Relax. Slip away.

Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be.
Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?

How can it mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all?

I'll keep digging till
I feel something.

Elbow deep inside the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Shoulder deep within the borderline.
Relax. Turn around and take my hand.


The Grudge

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.

Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper.

Defining, confining, controlling, and we're sinking deeper.

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Let's you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.

Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone
To consume you till you choose to let this go.

Give away the stone.
Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor.
Give away the stone.
Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.
Let go.



Both by Tool.

Blame it on the Tetons

Blame it on the Tetons. Yeah, I need a scapegoat now.
No my dog won't bite you, though it had the right to.
You oughta give her credit cuz she knows I would've let it happen.

Blame it on the weekends. God I need a cola now.
Oh we mumble loudly, wear our shame so proudly.
Wore our blank expressions, trying to look interesting.
Blame it all on me cuz God I need a cold one now.

All them eager actors gladly taking credit
for the lines created by the people tucked away from sight
is just a window from the room we're bound to.
If you find a way out, oh would you just let me know how?
Would you just let me know how?

Blame it on the web but the spider's your problem now.
Language is for liquid that we're all dissolved in.
Great for solving problems, after it creates a problem.
Blame it on the Tetons. God, I need a scapegoat now.

Everyone's a building burning
with no one to put the fire out.
Standing at the window looking out,
waiting for time to burn us down.
Everyone's an ocean drowning
with no one really to show how.
They might get a little better air
if they turned themselves into a cloud.

Third Planet

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart, I've got
this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over
My boss just quit the job says he's goin' out to find blind
spots and he'll do it
The 3rd Planet is sure that they're being watched by an
eye in the sky that can't be stopped
When you get to the promise land your gonna shake that
eyes hand
Your heart felt good it was drippin' pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass to me
Outside naked, shiverin' looking blue, from the cold
sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels fly around you reminding you we used
to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end
A 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the
water, didn't know then was it a son was it a daughter
When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
around in the water in the oceans in our bodies and
another had been found another ocean on the planet
given that our blood is just like the Atlantic
And how
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth if you go
straight long enough you'll end up where you were

Black Cadillacs

And it's true we named our children
after towns that we've never been to.
And it's true that the clouds just hung around
like black Cadillacs outside a funeral.

And we were done, done, done
with all the f**k, f**k, f**kin' around.
You were so true to yourself.
You were true to no one else.
Well I should put you in the ground.

I've got the time, I got the hours,
I got the days, I got the weeks.
I could say to myself
I've got the words but I can't speak.
Well I was done, done, done
with all the circ, circ, circlin' round.

I didn't die and I ain't complainin'.
I ain't blamin' you.
I didn't know that the words you said to me
meant more to me than they ever could you?
I didn't lie and I ain't sayin'
I told the whole truth.
I didn't know that this game we were playin'
even had a set of rules.

We named our children after towns
that we've never been to.
And it's true that the clouds just hunger around
like black Cadillacs outside a funeral.
And we were laughing at the stars
while our feet clung tight to the ground.
So pleased with ourselves
for using so many verbs and nouns.

But we were all still just dumb, dumb, dumber
than the dirt, dirt, dirt on the ground.
Well wings on flames, kings with no names,
well this place just ain't got right air right now.
You were so all over town but still so Crayola brown.
Well you should run 'round yourself right now.
And we were done, done, done
with all the f**k, f**k, f**kin' around.
Circlin' round.


Modest Mouse ^

[lanki]

avalanche is sullen and too thin
she starves herself to rid herself of sin
and the kick is so divine when she sees bones beneath her skin
and she says:
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c'mon baby can you bleed like me

chrissie's all dressed up and acting coy
painted like a brand new christmas toy
he's trying to figure out if he's a girl or he's a boy
he says:
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c'mon baby can you bleed like me

doodle takes dad's scissors to her skin
and when she does relief comes setting in
while she hides the scars she's making underneath her pretty clothes
she sings:
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c'mon baby can you bleed like me

therapy is speedie's brand new drug
dancing with the devil's past has never been too fun
it's better off than trying to take a bullet from a gun
and she cries:
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c'mon baby can you bleed like me

it's gets all fucked up in some karaoke bar
after two drinks he's a loser after three drinks he's a star
getting all nostalgic as he sings 'I will survive'
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c'mon baby can you bleed like me

you should see my scars
you should see my scars
you should see my scars
you should see my scars
and try to comprehend that which you'll never comprehend

not the most cheery of lyrics but they keep me goin when things get difficult

[where_i'm_calling_from]

i dnt think its especially helpful to post a fuck load of song lyrics like this. i mean, whos actually gonna read them? maybe select a couple of lines you really like.

[Eh! Steve]

xedx, on Jun 8 2005, 07:20 PM, said:

i dnt think its especially helpful to post a fuck load of song lyrics like this. i mean, whos actually gonna read them? maybe select a couple of lines you really like.

Word. It has been decreed that this is what you should do from now on. Anything else will be deleted by my fair hand.

[zombie-eaters]

born to be wild
but carnt be bothered to type out all the lyrics

i will live out that song, its telling my dream but at the same time i want to be a roadie and im determind to make it happen.

[Echoes]

that last lot of lyrics, though i scanread, was really good. thumbs up

[Craobh_Rua]

I've posted a segment of this song as with Tool just a couple of lines wouldn't mean anything unless you know the context of the song. This one is about how much Maynard James Keenan hates LA and wants a tidal wave to wash it all away.


Aenima by Tool

It's a Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this

Silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.