Hello! Lyrically, which is your favorite song? Feel free to drop your favorite sentence(s) from that song too. For me, I got to say "When I'm Gone" by Em. The whole song's a masterpiece, especially the beginning, which's giving me chills every time: Have you ever loved someone so much, you'd give an arm for? Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for? The message gets even clearer since he has a tattoo of Hallie on his arm. Another must-mention is Sadistik's Absolution (sickest alliteration of all times): "Acquired conscious competence of all of my accomplishments And conquered constant comments that contradicted my confidence Common compliments were called upon to con me in Accosted consonant comments that condescended all my common sense" Feel free to share your favorites! (LP songs are welcomed as well)
I don't have one particular absolute favorite, but here's some good ones (just off of the top of my head). (I apologize for this very long post). Opeth - The Moor The sigh of summer upon my return Fifteen alike since I was here Bathed in deep fog, blurring my trail Snuffing the first morning rays Weary from what might have been ages Still calm with my mind at peace Would I prosper or fall, drain the past The lapse of the moment took it's turn I was foul and tainted, devoid of faith Wearing my death mask at birth The hands of God, decrepit and thin Cold caress and then nothing I was taken away from my plight A treason bestowed to the crowd Branded a Jonah with fevered blood Ungodly freak, defiler Pale touch, writhing in the embers Damp mud burning in my eyes All the faces turned away And all would sneer at my demise Outcast with dogmas forged below Seared and beaten, banished from where I was born No mercy would help me on my way In the pouring rain nothing is the same Vows in ashes I pledge myself to no one Seethed and spiteful All shudder at the call of my name If you'll bear with me, you'll fear of me There is no forgiveness in these eyes For any of you but one Dispel the mist for now Melinda is the reason why I've come She is water drops over the pyre A thistle in my hands Stained and torn, aged and brown Virtuous shell with kindred innocence I awoke from the miasma Passing swiftly through the moor This is here, waters stir And in the distance all that was lost If you'll bear with me You'll fear of me You'd never leave me to A fate with you The Beatles - Across the Universe Words are flowing out Like endless rain into a paper cup They slither while they pass They slip away across the universe Pools of sorrow waves of joy Are drifting through my open mind Possessing and caressing me Jai Guru Deva, om Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Images of broken light Which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind Inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way Across the universe Jai Guru Deva, om Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Sounds of laughter shades of life Are ringing through my opened ears Inciting and inviting me Limitless undying love Which shines around me like a million suns It calls me on and on across the universe Jai Guru Deva, om Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Jai Guru Deva Jai Guru Deva Jai Guru Deva Karnivool - Aeons I think there's a pulse, But I don't remember feeling Anything close to this, And I don't know if it's worthwhile. But I hope so, 'Cause I don't feel so well I don't feel so well I've got to keep a grip on this, Or the rising tide could still Pull us underneath And leave us to the ocean. Either way, I'm starting to feel there's something wrong With this poison 'Cause in my veins it's burning. And I hope you hold a place for us, Far enough away, From all the flames they like to tell us about. And I hope you hold a way for us, 'Cause I don't really know you I don't really know you Why the hell did I seek the truth? All I've seen [is? / in?] its reflection Still part of me regrets it. And I just wanted to see (the truth). Now it's clear, We're alone in this. It's your funeral; It's your dying day. So make amends, Before the end Will leave us nothing. It's your funeral; It's your dying day. So make amends, For one last stand, Then leave with nothing. Will I breathe again? Will my lungs fill with fire? When I breathe again, I hope it's okay. Will I see again? When the smoke clears, Who will still remain here? When I see again, I hope it's okay. Chemical fires will signal we're dead Chemical fires will signal we're dead Chemical fires will signal we're dead Chemical fires will signal we're dead Chemical fires will signal we're dead and gone Chemical fires will signal we're dead and gone Chemical fires will signal we're dead and gone Chemical fires will signal we're dead and gone Chemical fires will signal we're... Chemical fires will signal we're... Chemical fires will signal we're... Chemical fires will signal we're... Haken - Falling Back to Earth [Part I: Rise] Save me now Set me free "If you could only show me how" Show me how To live my dream "Living the dream I will die" Aiming high Shooting low "You won't be laughing when I'm" To raise the bar Or take the fall? "Climbing the mountain" Someone rescue me Help me, please! Against all odds I long to be free Will no one listen to my plea? The sky is falling in on me "Save me now, set me free, show me how, live a dream Aiming high, shooting low, raise the bar, take the fall Rescue me, help me please, how long to be free Intervene, I'll defeat, all those who stepped on me" Intervene I'll defeat All the people who Stepped on me You have been standing in my way You won't believe it when I'm Soaring through the sky Free from your burden Say your last goodbyes I won't be back again When my name becomes tomorrow's news On top of the mountain I cannot be moved I scale the summit like an unstoppable force With iron wings I will prove my worth to you all I will be dancing on your grave You won't be laughing when I'm Soaring through the sky Free from your burden Say your last goodbyes I won't be back again Too close to the flame Ambition has burned me With my wings ablaze I'm falling back to earth [Part II: Fall] Now that my feathers are broken Crestfallen my head is bowed Splashing down into the ocean Something seems different now The world I once knew has eroded Humanity's fossilised The beasts have become the new masters Is reality compromised? Advanced technological breakthroughs And superior firepower The frontiers of war and resistance Seem abstract and vacant now For countless years I have been longing To apologise, apologise A world without end is upon us But time is in short supply Soaring through the sky Free from your burden Say your last goodbyes I won't be back again Too close to the flame Ambition has burned me With my wings ablaze I'm falling back to earth
Placebo – "The Crawl" It takes the pain away But could not make you stay It's way too broke to fix No glue, no bag of tricks Lay me down The lie will unfurl Lay me down to crawl Your smile would make me sneeze When we were siamese Amazing grace in here I'd pay to have you near Lay me down The lie will unfurl Lay me down to crawl Don't go and lose your face At some stranger's place And don't forget to breathe And pay before you leave Lay me down The lie will unfurl Lay me down to crawl Lay me down The lie will unfurl Lay me down to crawl. [video=youtube;G66ZQJWP0JQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G66ZQJWP0JQ[/video]
It's hard to choose "one" quote from bands that write amazing lyrics all the time. These are just some of my favorites: Karnivool - Sky Machine You are the salt of the same blood running in our veins Few have the heart of the brave Now, will you run or stay? We hide away our vicious things Don't let them out Even the ones that we don't see Who are always there Rise Against - Anywhere but here So I dropped out of my own race, a race with no finish line, no first or last place. These faces all rush right past me. I turn and walk away, cause we finally know now what our time here's about, we were not meant to be another face in the crowd. We're a forest of lives, but we grow tall and wide. We'll never be cut down. Tool - Schism There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away. Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing. Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication. Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. Touché Amoré - Just Exist View attachment 7120
Rihanna - Birthday Cake Come and put cha name on it, put cha name on it Come and put cha name on it, ya name Don't chu wanna put ya name on it, put cha name on it Come and put cha name on it, bay-bay-bay-bay-UGH It's not even my birthday But he wanna to lick the icing off I know you want it in the worst way Can't wait to blow my candles out He want that... Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Oh, baby I like it It's so exciting Don't try to hide it I'm-a make you my bitch Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake I know you want to bite this It's so enticing Nothing else like this I'm-a make you my bitch And it's not even my birthday But you wanna put your name on it And it's not even my birthday And he's tryna put his name on it Oh, I wanna fuck you right now Just get up on my body, I'll do anything...
Pearl Jam - Black "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky..."
Guns N' Roses - Civil War Especially that part: By bloody hands time can't deny And are washed away by your genocide And history hides the lies of our civil wars And of course Don't Cry by Guns N' Roses.
Guns N' Roses - Civil War Especially that part: By bloody hands time can't deny And are washed away by your genocide And history hides the lies of our civil wars And of course Don't Cry by Guns N' Roses.
From ''Californication'' by Red Hot Chili Peppers: ''Destruction leads to a very rough road But it also breeds creation'' From ''Suicide Season'' by Bring Me The Horizon: ''If only sorrow could build a staircase, or tears could show the way. I would climb my way to heaven, and bring him home again.'' From ''Burning In The Skies'' by Linkin Park: ''And in the end we were made to be apart Like separate chambers of the human heart'' From ''Cha-Ching (Till We Grow Older)'' by Imagine Dragons: ''You've got to live your life, while your blood is boiling Those doors won't open, while you stand and watch them'' ...
Just a few: Pearl Jam - Black Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay Were laid spread out before me as her body once did. All of five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn Ooh, and all I taught her was everything Ooh, I know she gave me all she was And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds of what was everything. Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything... I take a walk outside, I'm surrounded by some kids at play I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear? Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head, I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning, how quick the sun can drop away And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything... All the love gone bad turned my world to black Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... yeah... I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine? Alice In Chains - Angry Chair Sitting on an angry chair Angry walls that steal the air Stomach hurts and I don't care What do I see across the way, hey See myself molded in clay, oh Stares at me, yeah I'm afraid, hey Changing the shape of his face, aw yeah Candles red I have a pair Shadows dancing everywhere Burning on the angry chair Little boy made a mistake, hey Pink cloud has now turned to gray, oh All that I want is to play, hey Get on your knees, time to pray, boy I don't mind, yeah I don't mind, I-I-I [2x] Lost my mind, yeah But I don't mind, I-I-I Can't find it anywhere I don't mind Corporate prison, we stay, hey I'm a dull boy, work all day, oh So I'm strung out anyway, hey Loneliness is not a phase Field of pain is where I graze Serenity is far away Saw my reflection and cried, hey So little hope that I died, oh Feed me your lies, open wide, hey Weight of my heart, not the size, oh I don't mind, yeah I don't mind, I-I-I [2x] Lost my mind, yeah But I don't mind, I-I-I Can't find it anywhere I don't mind, I-I-I Pink cloud has now turned to gray All that I want is to play Get on your knees time to pray, boy Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here: So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found The same old fears. Wish you were here.
^"Angry Chair" was written by vocalist Layne Staley and Cantrell (the primary songwriter) has expressed his enthusiasm for Staley "stepping up (...) and writing a masterpiece." ~ RazorEye
----- "Stop This Train" // John Mayer ----- No I'm not color blind I know the world is black and white Try to keep an open mind but... I just can't sleep on this tonight Stop this train I want to get off and go home again I can't take the speed it's moving in I know I can't But honestly won't someone stop this train Don't know how else to say it, don't want to see my parents go One generation's length away From fighting life out on my own Stop this train I want to get off and go home again I can't take the speed it's moving in I know I can't but honestly won't someone stop this train So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun Had a talk with my old man Said, "help me understand" He said, "turn 68, you'll renegotiate Don't stop this train Don't for a minute change the place you're in Don't think I couldn't ever understand I tried my hand John, honestly we'll never stop this train" See once in a while when it's good It'll feel like it should And they're all still around And you're still safe and sound And you don't miss a thing 'til you cry when you're driving away in the dark. Singing stop this train I want to get off and go home again I can't take this speed it's moving in I know I can't Cause now I see I'll never stop this train (think I got 'em now) ----- "Right Where It Belongs" // Nine Inch Nails ----- See the animal in his cage that you built Are you sure what side you're on? Better not look him too closely in the eye Are you sure what side of the glass you are on? See the safety of the life you have built Everything where it belongs Feel the hollowness inside of your heart And it's all Right where it belongs What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection Is it all you want it to be? What if you could look right through the cracks? Would you find yourself Find yourself afraid to see? What if all the world's inside of your head Just creations of your own? Your devils and your gods All the living and the dead And you're really all alone? You can live in this illusion You can choose to believe You keep looking but you can't find the woods While you're hiding in the trees ----- "Beneath The Surface" // Dream Theater ----- Is there ever really a right time You had led me to believe Someday you'd be there for me When the stars above aligned When you weren't so consumed I kept looking for the clues So I waited in the shadows of my heart And still the time was never right Until one day I stopped caring And began to forget why I longed to be so close And I disappeared into the darkness And the darkness turned to pain And never went away Until all that remained Was buried deep beneath the surface A shell of what things could have been Tired bones beneath a veil Of guarded secrets all too frail Sad to think I never knew You were searching for the words For the moment to emerge Yet the moment never came You couldn't risk my fragile frame Until one day you stopped caring And began to forget why you tried to be so close And you disappeared into the darkness And the darkness turned to pain And never went away Until all that remained Was buried deep beneath the surface I would scream just to be heard As if yelling at the stars I was bleeding just to feel You would never say a word Kept me reaching in the dark Always something to conceal Until one day I stopped caring And began to forget why I longed to be so close And I disappeared into the darkness And the darkness turned to pain And never went away Until all that remained Was buried deep beneath the surface
^Beneath the Surface eh? It's a good song, but I would have gone with The Spirit Carries On, or A Change of Seasons instead. Beneath the Surface has always come across as a bit cheesy to me, opinions are opinions I guess. The Live at Luna Park version is fucking great though.
"The Little Things Give You Away" and "Breaking the Habit" - Linkin Park No explanation needed for those songs. "Empty Reality" - Razor Red Noise Way in the distance, the haze of burning trees Belief is in short supply, not with the parallel But now you wonder how you'll find a peaceful existence Your source of solace gone, replaced with empty reality Lasting forever, going back and forth between Always coming back to haunt your waking hours A glimpse of light, of life how you thought it would be A line of thinking, constricting and unrelenting, never ending Remaining undefeated The parallel retreated This song's lyrics may seem simple on the surface, but this song closes the album The Parallel and reflects on the whole album and its meaning. This is how Alex describes the album's meaning: Conceptually, the lyrics of The Parallel were written around the idea of dreams: the positive and negative experiences we have through them, and their effects on our waking lives. The "parallel" is literally supposed to mean the distorted, alternate reality in which dreams take place. "Unforgivable Youth" and "Animal Pharm" - Lupe Fiasco Unforgivable Youth and Animal Pharm "A Modern Myth" - Thirty Seconds to Mars Did we create a modern myth? Did we imagine half of it? What happened then, a thought for now Save yourself, save yourself The secret is out The secret is out To buy the truth and sell a lie The last mistake before you die So don't forget to breathe tonight Tonight's the last, so say goodbye The secret is out [x4] Goodbye [x17] A Modern Myth is a simple song, yet its message is so dark I absolutely love it.
Nine Inch Nails- I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally As black as the night can get Everything is safer now There's always a way to forget Once you learn to find a way how In the blur of serenity Where did everything get lost? The flowers of naïveté Buried in a layer of frost The smell of sunshine I remember sometimes Thought he had it all before they called his bluff Found out that his skin just wasn't thick enough Wanted to go back to how it was before Thought he lost everything Then he lost a whole lot more A fool's devotion Swallowed up in empty space The tears of regret Frozen to the side of his face The smell of sunshine I remember sometimes I've done all I can do Could I please come with you? Sweet smell of sunshine I remember sometimes William Elliott Whitmore- Does Me No Good Can I forgive my past transgressions Can I forgive my own past sins That's not likely No I will never feel the same again Well, it does me no good to say I'm sorry Although I am, for what it's worth But you can't hear me for you're resting Six feet under the cold black dirt Oh, them daisies they sure look pretty Blooming down by your stone They remind me that life continues And I'll never be alone I'd give my body, I'd give my soul For one more chance to make amends But that's not possible for my means could not justify my end It does me no good to sit and think of All the things that I done wrong It took me forever to remember what I should have known all along Well if you can hear my last confession If you can hear my final plea Oh, although I never showed it Oh, you meant the world to me It does me no good to recollect on All that whiskey has done been spilt And my bow ain't gonna flow all the way down by them bricks of guilt