Smartest lyric you ever heard.

[boy#152]

...Beautiful Boy

 

'life is what happens to you while you're busy makin other plans"

 

-j lennon

 

....BIrDS

 

"Lover, there will be another one

Who'll hover over you beneath the sun

Tomorrow see the things that never come

Today

 

When you see me

Fly away without you

Shadow on the things you know

Feathers fall around you

And show you the way to go

It's over, it's over.

 

Nestled in your wings my little one

This special morning brings another sun

Tomorrow see the things that never come

Today

 

When you see me

Fly away without you

Shadow on the things you know

Feathers fall around you

And show you the way to go

It's over, it's over."

 

-- n young

 

 

"I'd love to change the world...

but I dont know what to do...

so I'll leave it up to you...

alright?"

 

a lee

 

[zendog54]

*boy#152 shows his "sensitive" side*

[turnip]

Originally posted by Wes_Powell But, the best lyric of all comments on the sad state of modern music. I take the checks And face the facts That some producer With computers Fixes all my {censored}ty tracks - Ben Folds Five, Rockin the Suburbs -wp

 

Jeepers, Wes...

Ben Folds actually does write some incredible songs.

[turnip]

 

Originally posted by khameleon either "a vessel she, for violent i" by the smashing pumpkins, or this ani difranco lyric from a song called "adam and eve" where the narrator is compared to a temptress eve by the subject's adam- "i did not design this game i did not name the stakes i just happen to like apples and i am not afraid of snakes"

 

 

Ani Difranco is an absolutely incredible songwriter when she is on top of her game. Inspiring. And a hell of a guitarist, too.

 

That song, and Done Wrong off of the same album both give me chills. Brilliant.

[finchbeak]

"He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in."

-Billy Bragg

 

Billy Bragg's lyrics are routinely brilliant. He gets my vote for the best songwriter around. Here are a couple of others that come to mind:

 

"He hangs 'round like a fart in a russian space station."

 

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune,

but this is reality... gimme some room!"

 

"They make the laws to tame us well.

Their clergy dazzle us with heaven or they damn us into hell."

 

"Theirs is a land of hope and glory.

Mine is the greenfield and the factory floor.

Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers.

And mine is the peace we knew between the wars."

[finchbeak]

PJ Harvey deserves a mention.

 

"Fig fruit from myself inside out.

I'm happy and bleeding for you."

 

Gives me the chills.

She has many many others too.

[superpoo]

Straight outta Compton, another crazy ass nigga

More punks I smoke, yo, my rep gets bigger

I'm a bad mother{censored}er and you know this

But the {censored} ass niggaz don't show this

But I don't give a {censored}, I'ma make my snaps

If not from the records, from jackin the crops

Just like burglary, the definition is 'jackin'

And when illegally armed it's called 'packin'

Shoot a mother{censored}er in a minute

I find a good piece o' {censored}, I go up in it

So if you're at a show in the front row

I'm a call you a bitch or dirty-ass ho

You'll probably get mad like a bitch is supposed to

But that shows me, slut, you're composed to

a crazy mutha{censored}er from tha street

Attitude legit cause I'm tearin up {censored}

MC Ren controls the automatic

For any dumb mutha{censored}er that starts static

Not the right hand cause I'm the hand itself

every time I pull a AK off the shelf

The security is maximum and that's a law

R-E-N spells Ren but I'm raw

See, coz I'm the mother{censored}in villain

The definition is clear, you're the witness of a killin

that's takin place without a clue

And once you're on the scope, your ass is through

Look, you might take it as a trip

but a nigga like Ren is on a gangsta tip

Straight outta Compton...

 

 

 

 

MC Ren is a lyrical genius