Smartest lyric you ever heard.

[RckStr585]

Tool- The Grudge, or maybe Parabol/Parabola

[negative sleep]

you can do it, put your back into it, you can do it, put your ass into it.

[TheTripster]

Who needs hope when I have you

- John Fahr

[bballdrummer]

 

Originally posted by ScottWMF {censored}, I dunno.... klets go with something by Incubus "if this is sight, I'd rather be blind"

 

 

Nice one. What incubus song is that from?

 

I'll go with an incubus song also(off the top of my head its the best):

 

"To Resist is to piss in the wind" - Out From Under - incubus

[lupus242]

everything Maynard James Keenan has ever writen

He has got to be the greatest lyricist ever.

 

"{censored} your God"-A Perfect Circle judith

 

"Heaven, heaven is a place, where nothing, nothing ever happens" -The Talking Heads heaven

 

"God is dead and no one cares, if there is a hell i'll see you there"

NIN Hearsey

 

"God is empty just like me" Smashing Pumpkins zero

[WorshipMetallica]

"My recipe is now your epitaph

Be it fried, boiled or grilled...

 

I devour the pediculous corpse

 

The festering stench of rotting flesh

Makes me drool as I consume...

 

Rotten remains I eat

Purulent meat

What a funeral feast

 

Weeping tissue is stripped

Pus dribbles from my lips

 

Rotting corpses are my lunch

On bones I love to crunch

 

Shrivelled innards I lick

The corpse's head I kick"

 

These are a few lines from "Exhume to Consume" by Carcass

[LynGrey]

"you were.. nev..er understanding,

you took my love forgranted...."

 

"we try to hide our selve...Realize.... WE tryyyYYyyyYYy"

 

Darwins Waiting Room

[thisllub]

How did this get to 9 pages without Matt Johnson (The The)

 

This guy is by far the best lyricist ever.

 

 

On Sex with a stranger

 

Don't tell me what your name is--

I want your body, not your mind,

I want a feeling, worth paying for before I say goodbye

But as I was talking, I couldn't look her in the eyes,

I just kept wondering,--

How many men unleashed their frustration between her thighs?

 

There'll be no sleep until the morning

There'll be no lullabys--

'case the devil borrowed my clothes just for tonight--

....

 

Well I didn't wanna hurt your feelings, honey

but I couldn't suppress my own,

I had to pull myself outta this nosedive

by proving something to myself.

 

She was lying on her back

with her lips parted.

Squealing like a stuffed pig--

I was going through the motions

faking the emotions,

and wriggling around like lizard in a tin.

 

 

On AIDS

 

Take me by the hands and walk me to the end of the pier.

Run your fingers through my hair,

and tell me what I wanna hear--

Will lies become truths in this face of fading youth

from my scrotum to your womb, --your cradle to my tomb.

 

I can't give you up, till I've got more than enough.

So infect me with your love--

Nurse me into sickness. Nurse me back to health.

Endow me with the gifts--of the man made world.

Infected

 

 

On Love

 

Then you came back to me and I went down on one knee

With a glint in my eyes and a rose between my teeth

And I pushed out my tongue for you to see

That I'd been dying of a thirst for your company

Then you quenched my loneliness with your tears

And our clothes fell away as we rolled back the years

But we could't deny it because we could not admit it

If our love was too strong to die

Or we were just too weak to kill it

 

August & September

 

On Despair

 

 

You can't destroy your problems

By destroying yourself

Death is not the answer

For your soul may burn in hell

My memory my fond deceiver

Is turning all my past into pain

While I'm being raped by progress

Tomorrow's world is here to stay

They wouldn't have it any other way

 

I'm just a symptom of the moral decay

That's gnawing at the heart of the country.

 

 

 

On Time

 

Well... you didn't wake up this morning,

'cause you didn't go to bed.

You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red!

 

The calendar on your wall -- IS TICKING -- the days off.

 

This is the day

 

 

 

JUST Damn fine lyrics to a damn fine song

 

Peeling the skin back from my eyes, I felt surprised

that the time on the clock was the time I usually retired

to the place where I cleared my head of you;

but just for today, i think I'll lie here and dream of you.

 

I've got you under my skin where the rain can't get in,

but if the sweat pours out, just shout I'll try to SWIM AND pull you out.

 

A howling wind blows the litter as the rain flows,

as street lamps pour orange colored shapes through your windows,

a broken soul stares through a pair of watering eyes,

uncertain emotions force an uncertain smile...

 

Uncertain smile

 

 

On Religion

 

If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today

He'd be gunned down by the C.I.A.

Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass

Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart

But God didn't build himself that throne

God doesn't live in Israel or Rome

God belong to the yankee dollar

God doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah

God doesn't even go to church

And God won't send us down to Allah to burn

No, God will remind us what we already know

That the human race is about to reap what it's sown

 

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

Armageddon days are here again

[Neon-Frog]

Some of my personal favorites

 

Increase delete escape defeat

It's all that matters to you

Cotton case for an iron pill

Distorted eyes

when everything is clearly dying

 

--

 

E-motion sickness

To idle with an idol

Addict with no heroine

Good things will pass

It helps with excess access

Lessons learnt

 

--

 

I love the way you love

But I hate the way

I'm supposed to love you back

 

--

 

Hold yourself 'cause no-one will

I'll be there to take the spill

Cleanse your soul, change the tide

And ride the wave back to me

 

--

 

All the bridges in the world

Won't save you

If there is no other side

To cross to

 

--

 

Across the night

It was the moon that stole my slumber

 

 

Well i could go on for ever but these are a selection of lyrics from my favorite lyricist - Daniel Johns from silverchair, these lyrics were taken from the albums Neon Ballrom and Diorama

[soul_krusher]

a couple fave lines:

 

If you were me

You'd be in luck

But you're not

So you suck

- Superjoint Ritual

 

Rock stars on the road

Come on bitch

Swallow my load

- Mentors

 

Livin' fast an' dyin' young

Like-a endless poetry

My motor psycho nightmare

Freak out inside-a me

My soul salvation

Liberation on the drive

Power of the blaster move me faster

Nineteen-sixty... five yeah WOW!

"Thunderkiss '65" - White Zombie

[PCMankey]

"...so, I lit a fire isn't it good Norweigian wood?"

[403]

"She makes the sign of a teaspoon

He makes the sign of a wave"

 

 

Paul Simon

[leyoculta]

"to give you my life... I don't need to die".

Song: Eternamente

Artist: Coda

 

Translated from Spanish:

"Para darte mi vida, no necesito morir"

[descender]

I'm not really a big Pantera fan, but...

 

"I'd kill myself for you. I'd kill you for myself."

 

Okay, maybe not smart, but classic in an early 90's metal kinda way.

[Woocifer]

 

Originally posted by descender I'm not really a big Pantera fan, but... "I'd kill myself for you. I'd kill you for myself." Okay, maybe not smart, but classic in an early 90's metal kinda way.

 

 

Bastard you beat me to it! That lyric is awesome because it doesn't just take one perspective on the bull{censored} of love.

 

Personal favorites:

 

The day I tried to live

I wallowed in the blood and mud with

All the other pigs

 

And I learned that I was a liar

Just like you

-Soundgarden

 

Like the echoes of your childhood laughter, ever after

Like the first time love urged you to take it's guidance, in silence

Like your heartbeat when you realize you're dying, but you're trying

Like the way you cry for a happy ending, ending...

I know

-Faith No More

 

 

Humility take charge of me

Drown me in truth's modest waters

Loosen your grip identity

Free me from an ego's falter

 

Love too often is only a dream

If I am harsh and unkind to myself

So I share these attitudes with you

Must I try? How could I?

-Cynic

 

In the kinetic energy of a moving fist

lies a birth-machine for a paralell universe

-In Flames

 

Military Intelligence

Two words combined that can't make sense

-Megadeth

[qyq]

Danny and I

Spent anther late night over pancakes

Talkin' 'bout soccer

And how every man's just the same.

We made speculation

On the who's and the when's of our futures

And how everyone's lonely

But still we just couldn't complain.

 

And how we just hate being alone.

Could I have missed my only chance,

And now I'm just wasting my time

By lookin' around

 

But ya know I know better,

I'm not gonna worry 'bout nothin'.

Cause if the birds and the flowers survive,

Then I'll make it okay.

And given a chance and a rock;

see which one breaks a window.

And see which one keeps me up all night and into the day.

 

Because I'm so scared of being alone

That I forget what house i live in.

But it's not my job to wait by the phone

For her to call.

 

Well this day's been crazy

But everything's happened on schedule,

from the rain and the cold

To the drink that I spilled on my shirt.

'Cause You knew how You'd save me

before I fell dead in the garden,

And You knew this day

long before You made me out of dirt.

 

And You know the plans that You have for me

And You can't plan the end and not plan the means

And so I suppose I just need some peace,

Just to get me to sleep.

 

Table for Two - Derek Webb (Caedmon's Call)

[leyoculta]

 

Originally posted by Woocifer Military Intelligence Two words combined that can't make sense -Megadeth

 

 

I love that one too.

[Monkaton]

Originally posted by Nza (best yet, IMHO) more Tom Waits goodies: "...change your drawers, change your life, change your life! Gonna turn into a nine-year-old Hindu boy get rid of your wife! Step right up..."

 

"The piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking, not me."

 

"From the nape of her neck to her lipstick lips."

 

"And I'm gettin' harder than Chinese algebra."

 

"Small Change got rained on with his own .38."

 

Tom Waits for No One.

[Monkaton]

 

Originally posted by telemaster "Meet the new boss...same as the old boss"--The Who "We Don't Get Fooled Again"

 

 

Bingo!

[Monkaton]

From the Dan

 

"The things you think are precious, I can't understand."

"The thing you think are useless, I can't understand."

 

"Who is the Goucho amigo?

Why is he standing in his silver-spangled pancho

with the studs that match your eyes?"

 

"I'm way deep into nothing special."

 

"As he watches his bridges burn, from the point of no return."

 

"Like a Sunday in TJ

It's cheap, but it's not free

and I'm not what I used to be."

 

"I hear the monkey in your soul."

 

Are you with me Dr. Wu?

Are you merely just a shadow of the man that I once knew?

Are you crazy, are you high

Or just an ordinary guy?

Have you done all you can do?

Are you with me Doctor?"

[Monkaton]

"I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering,

Where it will go." Lennon-McCartney

 

"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream,

It is not dying, it is not dying." Lennon-McCartney

 

"Who needs money, when you're funny?" Randy Newman

 

"She wanted to borrow my car from me,

I said take it baby.

She took it down to Mexico,

ran over a man named Juan." Randy Newman

 

"Hey Rand, how would like to be the Boss for awhile?" R. Newman

 

"Look at me. Who am I supposed to be?

Who am I supposed to be.

Here I am, ooohh my love." J. Lennon

 

"They want you to think life's a tragedy,

But the knife in your back says it's comedy." T. Kniest

 

"It's good to be the King." Mel Brooks, not a song lyric, but a great line.

 

"It's good to be king." Tom Petty, a good song lyric, but not as great a line.

 

"Springtime for Hitler and Germany." Mel Brooks

[the wishmaster]

i will always have a deep resepect, and i mean that most scencerarly. The band is just fantastic, that is realy what i think.

Oh by the way, which one's pink?

 

 

that my fav lyric. the way the world works in 3 scentances. everyone these days seems to be of the opinion ~> hmm can i use you to make myself rich? yep i can, ok i guess we can be friends then.

[PCMankey]

 

Originally posted by the wishmaster i will always have a deep resepect, and i mean that most scencerarly. The band is just fantastic, that is realy what i think. Oh by the way, which one's pink? that my fav lyric. the way the world works in 3 scentances. everyone these days seems to be of the opinion ~> hmm can i use you to make myself rich? yep i can, ok i guess we can be friends then.

 

 

I agree--that is a brilliant lyric.

[squint]

Conor Oberst, 21 years old, of Bright Eyes, is quite brilliant for his age. Check these out. They're way better sung, but oh well. This isn't the whole song, just a tidbit.

 

from the album "Fevers and Mirrors"

 

Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh

 

[...]

 

I sing and sing of awful things

The pleasure that my sadness brings

As my fingers press unto the strings

Yet another clumsy chord

 

Haligh, haligh, an awful lie

This weight will now be satisfied

I'll give you only one reply: I KNOW NOT WHO I AM!

 

But I talk in the mirror to the stranger that appears

Our conversations are circles

Always one-sided

Nothing is clear

 

Except we keep coming back

To this meaning that I lack

He says, "The choices were given"

"Now you must live them"

"...or just not live"

"But do you want that?"

 

[...]

[tjs]

Stephen Lynch:

 

Lullaby

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Hush little girl, sweet sweet baby don't cry tonight

Daddy is here and he'll sing you a soft lullaby tonight

Why can't it all be like it was before?

How can I explain why mommy's not here anymore?...

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'Cause daddy likes porno and ten dollar whores

Daddy gets wasted and robs liquor stores

Daddy likes rubbing against little boys on the bus

I think that's why your mommy left us

 

Hush little girl, there is no reason to fret tonight

Don't mind the smoke, daddy just wants to forget...[cough]...tonight

Soon it will all be like it was before

Any minute she will walk through that front door

 

But daddy plays poker and drinks lots of beer

Then he wants sex that involves mommy's rear

Daddy has sores on his naughty parts oozing with puss

I think that's why your mommy left us

 

Please don't cry

I swear I'll try

To be here by your side...

 

Right after daddy gets home from the bar

Visits his bookie and steals a new car

He'll drive to the strip club

And if daddy plays his cards right,

He'll bring home your new mommy tonight