Smartest lyric you ever heard.

[ninja of love]

" I just hope he's happy when he does the things HE THINKS he has to do." from "He's on the Beach" by Kirsty MacColl.

[Kitty Phobes]

I cannot save you.

I can't even save myself.

 

(Stabbing Westward)

 

KP

[Welladjusted]

{censored}, I dunno.... klets go with something by Incubus

 

"if this is sight, I'd rather be blind"

[Guitar Centaur]

I was thinking about this just the other day.

 

I think my favorite is the chorus in "Helplessly Hoping" by CSN&Y.

 

They are one person

They are too alone

They are three together

They are for each other

[Brian Marshall]

the paper holds their folded faces to the floor

every day the paper bor brings more

 

pink floyd - brain dammage from dark side of the moon.

 

Funny, my wife, who did way more drugs than i did when she was a kid never knew what that line meant until I told her.

 

Brian

[jazzmaster]

I love all the Seven Deadly Sins.

I like to watch them smile on The Celebrity Smile Show.

That's the show where everybody wins -

a fabulous tour of the hell they already know.

 

Mark Eitzel - "Sleep"

[JD92]

I've always like Scritti Politti's "Lover to Fall" where each time the chorus goes:

 

I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true

I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you.

 

But, towards the end it goes:

 

I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby who cares

There's gonna be a day when the rich get theirs.

 

I find it amusing in an unrepentent pop love song.

[Metalcore4christ825]

"Love is Suicide"- Bodies by the Smashing Pumpkins

[Doc Wilson]

"So to my old headmaster, and to anyone who cares,

Before I'm through, I'd like to say my prayers:

I don't believe you, you had the whole damn thing all wrong.

He's not the kind of God you wind up on Sundays."

-- Ian Andersonl

[thelonius74]

 

Originally posted by ninja of love " I just hope he's happy when he does the things HE THINKS he has to do." from "He's on the Beach" by Kirsty MacColl.

 

 

Great song. I'm glad you got me into her!

 

Depends on what you mean by smart lyrics. When I think of 'smart' lyrics I tend to think of clever lyrics. And those are my favorite kind. I don't mean the cliched play on words that EVERY country artist was doing on EVERY song about 2 or 3 years ago (it's slacked off a bit..not much though)

 

I'd have to say 'Watching the Detectives' by Elvis Costello.

 

If I had to choose one line in the song

 

"she's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake"

[themightylloyd]

"so tell me do you like what you just heard,

and do you find the point i'm driving at absurd

No need to tell me how or tell me why

But you'll have to give me a reason not to try

'Cuz if you look around you just might feel like me

and realize no one was ever really free

and maybe we've just only earned the right to barely see

barely see..."

 

Onslaught by blues traveler

[onthefringe]

something has to change

undeniable dilemma

boredoms not a burden

anyone should bear

 

constant over stimulation

numbs me

and i wouldnt have it

any other way

 

not enough

i need more

nothing seems to satisfy

i dont want it

i just need it

to feel, to breathe, to know im 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 well be

well upon our way

 

blend and balance

pain and comfort

deep within you

till you will not have me any other way

 

its not enough

i need more

nothing seems to satisfy

i dont want it

i just need it

to feel, to breathe, to know im alive

 

knuckle deep inside the borderline

this may hurt a little but its something youll get used to

relax.. slip away

 

omething kinda sad about

the way that things have come to be

desensitized to everything

what became of subtlety?

 

but how can this mean anything to me

if i really dont feel anything at all?

 

ILL

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

 

tool - stinkfist

[Kitty Phobes]

Originally posted by onthefringe tool - stinkfist

 

Mmmm...Kitty likes Tool lyrics.

 

KP

[crazydave]

"shake you spear at shakespeare" ... system of a down

[cool cat]

there's holes up in the sky

and the devil punched down to the monkeys

and now we got drive through

and a video store where there used to be real live actors

used to ride around here

up on my high horse

with all the other good little butcher boys

a plagarist, of course

so roll over, sweet thing

like a nuclear reprisal, inbound from outer space

there's a comparison i'm trying to swing

 

god damn it's deafening

i wish you'd shut up about everything

the future is x-rated

 

there's holes up in the sky

and no one's seen your son in days

and things just keep getting weirder and weirder

and now christmas is for shopping

and the shopping god is everything

so roll over, and lose it

'cause power's just another one of those things, baby

it's pointless if you ain't gonna use it

 

god damn it's deafening

wish you'd shut up about everything

the future is x-rated

 

-matthew good

[Myth_Of_Invariance]

See below:

[Myth_Of_Invariance]

No--this instead:

 

This man he was a Mexican

Oh yea

Adopted into Norwegian

Oh Yea

Turned into American

Oh yea

But he felt a Mexican

Oh yea

Down Mexico way

Oh yea

 

He had to learn Spanish

Oh yea

He was a walking fish

Oh yea

He was feeling so brackish

Down Mexico way

Between Norwegian and English

 

He decided it was time to go

To find the people that he did not know

But the road to Mexico

Oh yea

They should go fast but they should go slow

Oh yea

It's a dangerous road

 

By now you know that he was {censored}ed

By now you know he had no luck

He was hit on the head by a giant truck

Down Mexico way

Oh yea

 

---Frank Black

[Kingnome]

"They do respect her but,

they love to watch her strut"

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

 

Originally posted by ninja of love " I just hope he's happy when he does the things HE THINKS he has to do." from "He's on the Beach" by Kirsty MacColl.

 

 

"So give you ID card to the border guard

Your alias says you're Captain John Luc Picard

Of the United Federation of Planets

Cause they won't speak English anyways"

 

The Refreshments - Banditos

[Kingnome]

"I could give you a star, you could give me one too, and that way we'd be even"

[braif]

(I couldn't find just one to quote...but the last stanza is my favorite)

 

Angry Young Man (by Billy Joel)

 

There's a place in the world for the angry young man

With his working class ties and his radical plans

He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl

He's always at home with his back to the wall

And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost

And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross

And he likes to be knowns as the angry young man

 

Give a moment or two to the angry young man

With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand

He's been stabbed in the back, he's been misunderstood

It's a comfort to know his intentions are good

And he sits in a room with a lock on the door

With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor

And he likes to be known as the angry young man

 

I believe I've passed the age

Of consciousness and righteous rage

I found that just surviving was a noble fight

I once believed in causes too

I had my pointless point of view

And life went on no matter who

Was wrong or right

 

And there's always a place for the angry young man

With his fist in the air and his head in the sand

And he's never been able to learn from mistakes

So he can't understand why his heart always breaks

But his honor is pure and his courage as well

And he's fair and he's true and he's boring as hell

And he'll go to the grave as an angry old man

[lyonsshare]

It seems I've imagined Him all of my life

As the wisest of all of mankind,

But if God's holy wisdom is foolish to man,

He must have seemed out of His mind!...

 

Even His family thought He was mad,

And the priests say a demon's to blame

But God in the form of this angry young man

Could not have seemed perfectly sane...

 

We in our foolisness thought we were wise.

He played the fool and opened our eyes

We in our weakness believed we were strong

He became helpless to show we were wrong....

 

 

Michael Card

"God's Own Fool"

Scandelon

[peer amid]

" with just enough time for the night to pass by without warning"

.

.

....Better off dead, elton john, lyrics by bernie taupin

[JimNdave]

ONE - Creed

 

Affirmative may be justified

Take from one give to another

The goal is to be unified

Take my hand be my brother

The payment silenced the masses

sanctified by oppression

Unity took a back seat

Sliding further in regression

One

The only way is one

I feel angry I feel helpless

Want to change the world

I feel violent I feel alone

Don't try and change my mind

Society blind by color

Why hold down one to raise another

Discrimination now on both sides

Seeds of hate blossom further

The world is heading for mutiny

When all we want is unity

We may rise and fall, but in the end

We meet our fate together

One

The only way is one

I feel angry I feel helpless

Want to change the world

I feel violent I feel alone

Don't try and change my mind

[bassesofalessergod]

CHORUS:

Slip slidin