Post Favorite Lyrics (keep it short)

[Azure Flame]

Post some of your favorite lyrics of all time. Try to be considerate and keep them short. I'll start:

Velvet acid christ - Caught

run, run, you can't hide
run, run, you can't hide
i am the monster from your dreams
i am what you'd like to be

Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye

...fall asleep
you know
you have to let it go
don't go
so hard to say goodbye

Bliss - Wish you were here

like the air that i breathe
u'll always be there
the wings that i need
when i wanna fly

now i drift to you
i dream of a river
a water so blue
wish i could live there

wish you were here..

In Flames - Everlost Part 2

Through seven songs of rejoice
His name relives his solar voice

Falling into the unknown
Yet he shall feel no harm

Lights shine upon his face
Night exists no longer

In unknown colours they confront him
In soundless tounge they, they speak his name
Moonred - reaching for life through eternity
Starblack - the brooding silence, it frightens me
the brooding silence frightens me

One elderly custom in timeless guise
In ceremonies of old one, dove now flies
Fly through time

 

[Infinite Bubble]

Massive Attack - Pray for Rain

In deepest hollow of our minds
A system failure left behind
Dull residue of what once was
A shattered cloud of swirling doves
And their eyes changed
As they learned to see through flames
And their necks craned
As they prayed for rain

Tool - Lateralus

With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
Between the sounds and open wide to suck it in
I feel it move across my skin
I'm reaching up and reaching out
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been

Spiral out
Keep going, going

Radiohead - Lotus Flower

Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
I dance around the pit
The darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
Just to feed your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart

 

[Lux]

Neutral Milk Hotel - April 8th

There is no use in waiting
Offer up your steps so I can climb
Show me all your figure paintings
Etched in the middle of the night
Let me stretch upon your carpet
Let me hear the rain tap on your street
Knowing I am safe on the inside
Blankets wrapped and drifting off to sleep

Neutral Milk Hotel - Gardenhead

There are beads that wrap
Around your knees that crackle into the dark
Like a walk in the park like a hole in your head
Like the feeling you get when you realize you're dead
This time we ride roller coasters into the ocean
We feel no emotion as we spiral down to the world
And I guess it's worth your time
Because there's some lives you live
And some you leave behind

 

[Abbey]

Happiness ain't free, everybody fights just like me, I've given up the ability to retreat. Ruby by Foster the People

Where are my friends now? They're not around when I need them, I cannot pretend. I find myself against all the odds again. Chin Music for the Unsuspecting Hero by Foster the People

I’m polar she’s tropic. I’m a boy inside a man, Is it safe to come out and show myself to you just yet? What’re my chances? You don’t understand me. Polartropic (You Don't Understand Me) by Mark Foster

Any song by Foster the People/Mark Foster speaks my heart. Mark Foster is a genius.

 

[Pushbeat]

Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun.

George Harrison

 

[Lexicon]

I'm not one for terribly specific, static favorites, per se.. Different lyrics, melodies, within different contexts, I dunno. I love music in general too much to settle down on one or even a handful of specific lyrics.

That said, I'll toss a coin in the hat, anyway.
This ridiculousness always makes me happy.

The piano has been drinking
My necktie's asleep
The combo went back to New York, and left me all alone
The jukebox has to take a leak
Have you noticed that the carpet needs a haircut?
And the spotlight looks just like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes
As usual the balcony's on the make
And the piano has been drinking, heavily
The piano has been drinking
And he's on the hard stuff tonight

The piano has been drinking
And you can't find your waitress
Even with the Geiger counter
And I guarantee you that she will hate you
From the bottom of her glass
And all of your friends remind you
That you just can't get served without her
The piano has been drinking

The piano has been drinking
And the lightman's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid
And he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking
Without fear of contradiction I say
The piano has been drinking

Our Father who art in ?
Hallowed by thy glass
Thy kindom come, thy will be done
On Earth as it is in the lounges
Give us this day our daily splash
Forgive us our hangovers
As we forgive all those who continue to hangover against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver from evil and someone you must all ride home

Because the piano has been drinking
And he's your friend not mine
Because the piano has been drinking
And he's not my responsibility

The bouncer is this Sumo wrestler
Kinda cream puff casper milk toast
And the owner is just a mental midget
With the I.Q. of a fencepost
I'm going down, hang onto me, I'm going down
Watch me skate across an acre of linoleum
I know I can do it, I'm in total control
And the piano has been drinking
And he's embarassing me
The piano has been drinking, he raided his mini bar

The piano has been drinking
And the bar stools are all on fire
And all the newspapers were just fooling
And the ash-trays have retired
And I've got a feeling that the piano has been drinking
It's just a hunch
The piano has been drinking and he's going to lose his lunch
And the piano has been drinking
Not me, not me,
The piano has been drinking
not me

Oh, who the fuck am I kidding. Everything that haggard man writes is...

 

[1487610420]

I want to fuck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside

pardon if too long

 

[Daenera]

Muse: Stockholm syndrome
And I won't hold you back
Let your anger rise
And we'll fly
And we'll fall
And we'll burn
No one will recall
No one will recall

This is the last time I'll abandon you
And this is the last time I'll forget you
I wish I could

Look to the stars
Let hope grow in your eyes
And we'll love
And we'll hate
And we'll die
All to no avail
All to no avail

Darling Violetta: Smaller god

In the violent silence
Of a dream within a dream
You fill my soul with beauty
You're my shiny man machine
I'm sinking in the roses
Falling down to fade away
The velvet blade of apathy
Makes the crush so bittersweet

 

[Guy V. Malaxia]

"Teen Idle" - Marina and the Diamonds

I wanna be a bottle blonde
I don’t know why but I feel conned
I wanna be an idle teen
I wish I hadn’t been so clean

I wanna stay inside all day
I want the world to go away
I want blood, guts and chocolate cake
I wanna be a real fake

Yeah I wish I’d been a, wish I’d been a teen, teen idle
Wish I’d been a prom queen fighting for the title
Instead of being sixteen and burning up a bible
Feeling super, super (super!) suicidal
The wasted years, the wasted youth
The pretty lies, the ugly truth
And the day has come where I have died
Only to find I’ve come alive

I generally don't enjoy lyrics this melancholic, but something about the progression and overall arrangement is just too haunting to not be loved. And to some degree I do relate, as reluctant as I am to admit it.

Pretty much anything from Marina has my stamp of approval.

 

[Tabula]

Through the woods I run
Through the boggy mire
Straightaway down the road
Till I come to my heart's desire

If I was what I would be,
Then I'd be what I am not
Here I am where I must be
Where I would be, I can not

"Katie Cruel" - Karen Dalton

 

[Sinmara]

I loved you with a fire red, now it's turning blue
And you say sorry like the angel heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid it's too late to apologize

 

[Forever]

No.

I sit here clutching useless lists,
keys for doors that don't exist
I crack my teeth on pearls
I tear into the history
Show me what it means to me in this world
Yeah, in this world

'Cause I am due for a miracle
I'm waiting for a sign
I'll stare straight into the sun
And I won't close my eyes
Till I understand or go blind

I see the parts but not the whole
I study saints and scholars both
No perfect plan unfurls
Do I trust my heart or just my mind
Why is truth so hard to find in this world
Yeah in this world

'Cause I am due for a miracle
I'm waiting for a sign
I'll stare straight into the sun
And I won't close my eyes
Till I understand or go blind (till I understand or go blind)

I know that there's a point I've missed
A shrine or stone I haven't kissed
A scar that never graced my wrist
A mirror that hasn't met my fist
But I can't help feeling like I'm

Due for a miracle
I'm waiting for a sign (waiting for a sign)
I'll stare straight into the sun
And I won't close my eyes (and I won't close my eyes)

Due for a miracle
I'm waiting for a sign
I'll stare straight into the sun
And I won't close my eyes

 

[cosmic royal]

"When it started
All we wanted was a chance to live our lives
Now in darkness
Taking everything we want and we will rise
We'll rise
We'll rise"

 

[five sounds]

If something in the deli aisle makes you cry
Of course I'll wrap my arms around you and I'll walk you outside
Through the sliding door, why would I mind?

You're not a baby if you feel the world
All of the babies they can feel the world
That's why they cry.

 

[Tengri]

Try to realise it's all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you

We were talking about the love that's gone so cold
And the people who gain the world and lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see, are you one of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you