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Any good song lyrics you'd like to post?
Here's my personal favouritte:

Artist: Staind
Album: Break the Cycle,
Song: Open Your Eyes


As I walk along these streets
I see a man that walks alone
Distant echo of people's feet
He has no place to call his own
A shot rings out from a roof overhead
A crackhead asks for change nearby
An old man lies in an alleyway dead
A little girl lost just stands there and cries

*chorus*
What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything
For granted like you do


A boy just 13 on the corner for sale
Swallows his pride for another hit
Overpopulation there's no room in jail
But most of you don't give a shit
That your daughters are porno stars
And your sons sell death to kids
You're so lost in your little worlds
Your little worlds you'll never fix

*chorus*
What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything
For granted like you do

You turn away
As I walk along the streets
Soaking up the acid rain
Underneath the taxi cabs
I hear the streets cry out in vain


[This message has been edited by Vicsun (edited November 14, 2001).]

 

These are my all time favourite song lyrics, from Øystein Sundes jaktprat:

Det var en dag i august i fjor at bikkja fikk hetta og fulgte et spor og kom ikke igjen før dagen etter. Makaløst eksemplar av en engelsk setter, fillebikkje! Dårlig ører men ganske ålreit nese og når den lukter pannekaker kommern med en gang. Bra bikkje det gitt.

I probably broke some forum regulations with that one, and I should be reminded about the FAQ. Therefor I will try to translate this:

It was a day in August last year when the dog ran away and followed a track and didn't return until the day after. Uncomperable example of an english setter, ragdog! Bad ears but an allright nose and when it smells pancakes and stuff it comes right away. Nice dog indeed.

[This message has been edited by Mollusken (edited November 14, 2001).]

 

nine inch nails
burn

This world rejects me
This world threw me away
This world never gave me a chance
This world's gonna have to pay

I don't believe in your institutions
I did what you wanted me to
I'm like the cancer in your system
I've got a little suprise for you

Something inside of me has opened up its eyes
Why did you put it there
Did you not realize
Something inside of me it screams the loudest sound
Sometimes I think I could

Burn

I look down at where your standing
Flock of sheep out on displey
With all your lies bumped up around you
I can take it all away

Something inside of me has opened up its eyes
Why did you put it there
Did you not realize
This thing inside of me it screams the loudest sound
Sometimes I think I could

I'm gonna burn this whole world down

I never was a part of you
Burn

I am your soldier
(I never was a part of you)
Burn

I am corruption
(I never was a part of you)
Burn

I am the angel
(I never was a part of you)
Burn

Of your destruction
(I never was a part of you)
Burn

I am perversion
(I never was a part of you)
Burn

Sick with desire
(I never was a part of you)
Burn

I am your future
(I never was a part of you)
Burn
Swollowed up in fire

 

Twisted Sister - I am (I'm me)

Who are you to look down
at what I believe?
I'm on to your thinking
and how you decieve
Well you can't abuse me
I won't stand no more
Yes, I know the reason
Yes, I know the score

(*chorus*)
I am
And I'll be
I will
You'll see
I am
And I'll be
I am, I'm me

How I tried to please you
live the way you said
Do the things that you do
like the living dead
Then the truth it hit me
got me off my knees
It's my life I'm living;
I'll live as I please

(*repeat chorus*)

Now's the time to stand tall
start your life anew
Freedom lies in your heart
Now's the time for you

(*repeat chorus*)

 

shrouding all the ground around me
is this holy crow above me
black as holes within a memory
and blue as our new second sun
i stick my hand into his shadow
to pull the pieces from the sand
which i attempt to reassemble
to see just who i might have been
i do not recognise the vessel
but the eyes seem so familiar
like phosphorescent desert buttons
singing one familiar song

tool
"3rd eye"

 

Look at http://www.sorcerers.net/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000272.html for more of this!

Bat Out Of Hell

The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
Way down in the valley tonight
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
And a blade shining oh so bright
There's evil in the air and there's thunder in the sky
And a killer's on the bloodshot streets
Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising
Oh I swear I saw a young boy
Down in the gutter
He was starting to foam in the heat

Oh Baby, you're the only thing in this whole world that's pure
and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There's always gonna be some light
But I gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it's over you know
We'll both be so alone

Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
On a silver black phantom bike
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry
And we're all about to see the light
Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole
Everything is stunted and lost
And nothing really rocks
And nothing really rolls And nothing's ever worth the cost
And I know that I'm damned if I never get out
And maybe I'm damned if I do
But with every other beat I got left in my heart
You know I'd rather be damned with you
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Dancing through the night with you
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Dancing through the night
Dancing through the night
Dancing through the night with you

Oh Baby, you're the only thing in this whole world that's pure
and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There's always gonna be some light
But I gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it's over you know
We'll both be so alone

Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
I'll come crawling on back to you

I can see myself tearing up the road
Faster than any other boy has ever gone
And my skin is raw but my soul is ripe
No one's gonna stop me now
I gotta make my escape
But I can't stop thinking of you
And I never see the sudden curve until it's way too late
I never see the sudden curve till it's way too late

Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart
Still beating
Breaking out of my body
And flying away
Like a bat out of hell
Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart
Still beating
Still beating
Breaking out of my body and flying away
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell



[This message has been edited by BogiTheWaverer (edited November 15, 2001).]

 

Ah, we also had the same topic recently on Creativity Surge, for some more great lyrics, you can go here: http://www.sorcerers.net/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000061.html

Song: The Spirit Carries On
Artist: Dream Theater
Allbum: Scenes from a Memory

[Nicholas:]
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Where do we go when we die?
What lies beyond
And what lay before?
Is anything certain in life?

They say, "Life is too short,"
"The here and the now"
And "You're only given one shot"
But could there be more,
Have I lived before,
Or could this be all that we've got?

If I die tomorrow
I'd be all right
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on

I used to be frightened of dying
I used to think death was the end
But that was before
I'm not scared anymore
I know that my soul will transcend

I may never find all the answers
I may never understand why
I may never prove
What I know to be true
But I know that I still have to try

If I die tomorrow
I'd be allright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on

[Victoria:]
"Move on, be brave
Don't weep at my grave
Because I am no longer here
But please never let
Your memory of me disappear"

[Nicholas:]
Safe in the light that surrounds me
Free of the fear and the pain
My questioning mind
Has helped me to find
The meaning in my life again
Victoria's real
I finally feel
At peace with the girl in my dreams
And now that I'm here
It's perfectly clear
I found out what all of this means

If I die tomorrow
I'd be allright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on



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It's an oldie now - Ugggh! We used to sing this song in college. Usually drunk, at the Deer Park Tavern in Newark, Delaware...Ahhh, the good ole days!

The Pogues
The Body Of An American

The cadillac stood by the house
And the yanks they were within
And the tinker boys they hissed advice
'Hot-wire her with a pin'
We turned and shook as we had a look
In the room where the dead men lay
So big Jim Dwyer made his last trip
To the home where his father's laid

Fifteen minutes later
We had our first taste of whiskey
There was uncles giving lectures
On ancient Irish history
The men all started telling jokes
And the women they got frisky
At five o'clock in the evening
Every bastard there was piskey

Fare thee well going away
There's nothing left to say
Farewell to New York City boys
To Boston and PA
He took them out
With a well-aimed clout
He was often heard to say
I'm a free born man of the USA

He fought the champ in Pittsburgh
And he slashed him to the ground
He took on Tiny Tartanella
And it only went one round
He never had no time for reds
For drink or dice or whores
And he never threw a fight
Unless the fight was right
So they sent him to the war

Fare the well gone away
There's nothing left to say
With a slainte Joe and Erin go
My love's in Amerikay
The calling of the rosary
Spanish winde from far away
I'm a free born man of the USA

This morning on the harbour
When I said goodbye to you
I remember how I swore
That I'd come back to you one day
And as the sunset came to meet
The evening on the hill
I told you I'd always love
I always did and I always will

Fare thee well gone away
There's nothing left to say
'cept to say adieu
To your eyes as blue
As the water in the bay
And to big Jim Dwyer
The man of wire
Who was often heard to say
I'm a free born man of the USA

 

Ok my turn i have two songs here, both by Everlast. These are some heavy lyrics and make you really think.

Ends

Some people will rob their mother for the ends
Rats snitch on one another for the ends
Sometimes kids get murdered for the ends
so before we go any further I want my ends

I knew this cat named Darrell, he didn't have a dollar
He was Harvard material, Ivy League scholar
Had a Ph.D., had an M.B.A.
But now he's waiting tables cause it's rent to pay
Companies downsizing, inflation's rising
Can't find a job, he's feeling kind of stressed
Doesn't even feel the effects when he says
Forgot to count how many times I’ve been blessed
So he falls off track, starts smoking the crack
And once it hits his brain, starts a chain react
Sells the shirt off his back, shoes off his feet
He's losing all his teeth, now he's out in the street
And all of sudden he's like, Jesse James
Trying to stick up kids for their watches and chains
But he's from business school, and he's nervous with the tool
So he ends up on his back in a bloody pool

CHORUS

I knew this chick named Sally, she had a nice strut
And everywhere that I went, she was up in the cut
Swinging that butt, like place your ad here
Only rapped the benz and rocked the fly gear
Brand name wearing, champagne waving
Jewels around her neck, a lotta style she's craving
Ain't no saving, she's doing enough spending
If you do the lending, she'll do the bending
Straight machine vending, it's money for take
Shopping sprees get her on her knees
And if you hit her with keys of your crib, you acting funny
Come home one day, find her counting out your money
From the Wetlands, all the way to the Apollo
If you're broke she'll spit, and if you're rich she might swallow

CHORUS

I knew those two homeboys, who made a lot of noise
Making money on the block, kids was on they jock
They was tougher than leather like Reverend Run
DMC, they was toting guns
Holdin' weight, goin' out of state
Stackin' mad chips and pushin' phat whips
Fly jewels and golds and got no job
And then one disappeard and one got robbed

What its like.

We've all seen a man at the liquor store beggin' for your change
The hair on his face is dirty, dread-locked and full of mange
He asks a man for what he could spare, with shame in his eyes
"Get a job you f**king slob," is all he replies
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes
Cause then you really might know what it's like to sing the blues

CHORUS:
Then you really might know what it's like... (4x)

Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tom that said he was in love
He said, "Don't worry about a thing, baby doll, I'm the man you've been dreaming of."
But 3 months later he say he won't date her or return her calls
And she swear, "God damn, if I find that man I'm cuttin' off his balls."
And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walking through the door
They call her a killer and they call her a sinner and they call her a whore
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes
Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose

CHORUS

I've seen a rich man beg
I've seen a good man sin
I've seen a tough man cry
I've seen a loser win
And a sad man grin
I heard an honest man lie
I've seen the good side of bad
And the downside of up
And everything between
I licked the silver spoon
Drank from the golden cup
And smoked the finest green
I stroked daddiest dimes at least a couple of times
before I broke their heart
You know where it ends, yo, it usually depends on where you start

I knew this kid named Max
Who used to get fat stacks out on the corner with drugs
He liked to hang out late
He liked to get s**t faced and keep the pace with thugs
Until late one night there was a big gun fight and Max lost his head
He pulled out his chrome .45, talked some s**t, and wound up dead
Now his wife and his kids are caught in the midst of all of this pain
You know it comes that way
At least that's what they say when you play the game
God forbid you ever had to wake up to hear the news
Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose

Then you really might know what it's like... (3x)
To have to lose...


[This message has been edited by Kitiara (edited November 15, 2001).]

[This message has been edited by Kitiara (edited November 15, 2001).]

 

Bob Marley & the Wailers

Redemption Song

Old pirates Yes they Rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I from the
Bottom less pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly
All I ever had is songs of freedom
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had redemption songs,
redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book.

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs,
redemption songs,
redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Yes some say it's just part of it
We've got to fulfill the book.

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
All I ever had, redemption songs
These songs of freedom, songs of freedom.

 

I'm surprised that Herf hasn't posted a song here ... i mean, he does put alot of lryics down in the chatroom ... i.e. Slipknot etc. something is wrong here ...

 

Stand aside pathetic fools and witness the awesome lyrical power of THE VANDALS!!!

i don't wanna change my pants not gonna change my pants i'll never change...
i'm on fire tonight my pants are fitting right gonna rock & roll tonight, alright i don't wanna change my pants not gonna change my pants never change...
i'm back in brown again they are my trusted friend you said they looked good last week so i wore 'em again today i don't wanna change my pants not gonna change my pants never change...
you can change my shirt, you can change my mind, but don't fuck with my pants these pants represent a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom, yeah come on i'll show you how pants don't fail me now wanna make sweet love to you...
pants i don't wanna change my pants not gonna change my pants never change...
every guy grab a girl everywhere around the world don't change your pants, never change your pants it's saturday night i'm feelin' alright don't change your pants, never change your pants got a monkey on my back don't change your pants, never change your pants baby (x16) don't change your pants never change your pants throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't change your pants never change your pants all you sucker mc's don't change your pants never change your pants i love you i need you i want you but i'm not gonna change my pants i'll never change my pants you know i'm born to lose, 'cause gamblin's for fools don't change your pants walkin' down the street, everyone i meet don't change your pants, never change your pants etc.

 

Well, I've seen that Mollusken has put some lyrics in Norwegian, so don't mind if I put something that only the chosen will understand...

Okay, these are the lyrics from a Montenegro singer called Rambo Amadeus. His songs are very special, because he writes very funny lyrics and makes fun of the local Balcanic music genres. This song is called "Èovjek sam ženo" ( I am a man, woman ) and it is based on the brilliant Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix.

I don't know why the hell I'm writing this because there are only 1.5 people on these boards that might understand this. That 1.0 is for Extremist, because he's from Croatia, and the 0.5 is for Taluntain, because he is from Slovenia, and the 0.5 is there because but I'm not sure if he'll be able to understand this...
IMHO the lyrics are very funny and I wish there was a way is no way in translating this in so all of you could share some montenegro humor...

Èovjek sam ženo


Hej Džo, jesi šenuo
Kuda's to s pištoljom krenuo

Hej Džo, jes' popizdio
Il' si se to šljive rašljizdio - aman

Svake noæi kad idem po cigara
žena me s nekim hajvanom vara - aman

Jednom kupih pištolj i skinuh s njega cjenu, te napravih od njih ljubomornu scenu - aman

Uzeo sam devize i pravac prema jugu
da kupim za sebe jednu ženu drugu - aman

Sanela, Sanela
Zasto me nisi htela

Sanela, Sanela
Jel bolji direktor hotela



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Hmm, lots of prog rock and such it seems. Time for some despair and lost love, I think. Tindersticks - Another Night In.


Greed's all gone now, there's no question
And I can see you push your hair behind your ears
Regain your balance
Doesn't matter where she is tonight
Or with whoever she spends her time
If these arms were meant to hold her
They were never meant to hold her so tight
For the love of that girl
Greed's all gone now, the panic subsides
When I could run, pulling arms to love her
Try to put myself on on the inside

For the love of that girl
Tears swell, you don't know why
For the love of that girl
They never fall, they can never run dry
For the love of that girl

Promise is never over, never questioned it needed reply
But she could breathe deep into my neck
Let me know I'm just on the outside

(Chorus)

Greed's all gone now, there's no question
And I can see you push your hair behind your ears
Regain your balance
Doesn't matter where she is tonight
Or with whoever she spends her time
If these arms were meant to hold her
They were never meant to hold her so tight

(Chorus)

 

Well it was a hard choice what I should post here, because there are so many good songs and I have access to hundreds (maybe a thousand) lyrics, since my brother is a big music and lyrics fanatic (he actually collects them). Bogi simplified my choice a little by already posting the lyrics of one of my favorite songs.

The lyrics I decided to post are from a song that in my opinion didn't get it's fame from it's lyrics, but from it's great gitar play.


Deep Purple – Child In Time

Sweet child in time you’ll see the line
The line that’s drawn between the good and the bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying taking toll

If you’ve been bad, Lord I bet you have
And you’ve been hit by flying lead
You’d better close your eyes and bow your head
And wait for the ricochet




[This message has been edited by Silverblade (edited November 17, 2001).]

 

Nightwish - Know Why The Nightingale Sings

Know Why the Nightingale Sings?
What does the free fall feel like?
Asks the boy with a spark in his eye
Know why the nightingale sings
Is the answer to everything

Taking a step to the world unbound
Spinning my fantasies all around
Freed from the gravital leash
I swear the heaven's in my reach

Dancing with the spirit of the air
In this ocean so so open and fair
Making love to the gods above
On my maiden voyage so bold

Landing safely to the blue lagoon
Don't know if this is the earth or the moon
Joy of living is no more a mask
The Eden I found will forever last

Migrating with the geese
My soul has finally found peace
Doesn't matter that man has no wings
As long as I hear the nightingale sing...


Nightwish - Wishmaster

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th Seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the Wishmaster

Elbereth
Lorien

A dreamy-eyed child staring into night
On a journey to storyteller`s mind
Whispers a wish speaks with the stars the words are silent in him
Distant sigh from a lonely heart
"I`ll be with you soon, my Shalafi"
Grey Havens my destiny

Master!...

Silvara
Starbreeze

Sla-Mori the one known only by Him
To august realms, the sorcery within
If you hear the call of arcane lore,
Your world shall rest on Earth no more
A maiden elf calling with her cunning song
"Meet me at the Inn of Last Home"
Heartborne will find the way!

Wishmaster
Crusade for Your will
A child, dreamfinder
The Apprentice becoming...

 

Pretty much anything by a band called Pig Destroyer - i'll post a couple of songs (they are usually one verse, more like straight poetry than usual lyrical prose).

dark sattelites
rebellion impossible your cabal crushed in its infancy they watch you conspire from distances beyond your perception before revolt is feasible their ability to negate our strategems must be annulled we must blind the watchers
seven and thirteen
the trivial little things left in your wake are beloved terminally infected limbs it is not the firing squad but the blindfold that makes us tense loss of perfection leaves no cause to persist in searching leaving me longing for the day that finally smothers all hope
flag burner
quixotic concept of examining foreign cultures as oportunities for brotherhood and mutual cultivation instinctual xenophobia initiates conflict subjugation exploition and subsequently flawed assimilation our inbred star-bellied mentality cannot differentiate between dissimilar and inferior a self-imposed quarantine from diversity only serves to restrict our capacity to evolve nationalism is a malignant cancer which must be carved out by the blade of individualism
delusional supremacy
single file lemmings we prepare our mandate in effect simply a testement to our gullability with each pull of the lever we lend credibility to an institution which we can only repaint never reconstruct our percieved power of change so divided and spread so thin so as to be rendered ineffective if the collective voice cannot be heard then the collective wrath must be felt
martyr to the plague
why purchase respect when terror is on sale reverse nightstick buttf**k at some point protection and domination became synonymous and somewhere theres a bullet on its way to your face pig

 

After finally getting sick of annoying everyone in the chat, Septic has come back to torment the forums.

 

This topic needs a little steel. I offer Dark Avenger, by Manowar. Track 6 from Battle Hymns.

He broke the laws of the elders
So they plucked out his eyes
Took his land and fortune
left him to die

Bound on the shoreline
Left for the tide
Sees his lifeblood leaving
Circling lower, the vultures fly

These bones may be broken
But the spirit can't die
And the Gods see his anguish
And give him a sign
From the floor off the ocean
The ship of lost souls rise
And they take him
Where no one sleeps where the undead cry

And in the world above, the Elders sing
On his land they live
Let the death bells ring

(This part is narrated by Orson Welles)

He was met at the gates of Hades by the Guardian of the Lost Souls
The keeper of the unavenged
And he did say to him
Let ye not pass abaddon
Return to the world from whence ye came
And seek payment
Not only for thine own anguish, but vindicate the souls of the unavenged
And they placed in his hand a sword made for him called Vengeance
Forged in brimstone and tempered by the woeful tears of the unavenged
And to carry him upon his journey back to the Upper World, they brought forth their demon horse called Black Death
A grim steed so fearsome in might and black in color that he could stand as one with the darkness, save for his burning eyes of crimson fire

(back to the music)

And on that night
They rode up from hell
The pounding of his hooves
Did clap like thunder

Burning death destruction
Raping their daughters and wives
In blood I take my payment
In full with their lives

No one can escape me
On Black Death I ride
When kissed by the Sword of Vengeance
Your head lays their by your side
I take the lives of all that I once knew
They torn flesh of a slow death waits for you

I spare not land or servants
My wake is smoke and flame
I take their wives and daughters
They stand there watching
Hoping to gain their lives
But when I'm through
They know that they must pay

 

Ok, some more steel here! Another song of Rhapsody, this band fits well by this forums:

Echoes of terror in this old land
I see the result of their quest
Skulls of old heroes lie everywhere
in this mystical place
Dust in their eyes, dust on my pride
in this infinite journey to the ancient sword

I can hear their lament between these rocks
the whisper of an angry ghost
he speaks for them all trapped in this lost world
I am their very last hope
to ride from hell free once again
to break the chains from a bloody past for my victory

Eternal glory ride fast to me
pound in my heart for the Algalord kings
Eternal glory spread your wide wings
fly and forever lead my holy steel

I'll fight, I'll cry for your silence your name
You'll live through me I will end all your pain
for the swan in the lake the bird on the tree
the peace for my beloved lands
The black king is near and Algalord calls
so heroes of the lost valley raise all your voice

Eternal glory ride fast to me
pound in my heart for the Algalord kings
Eternal glory spread your wide wings
fly and forever lead my holy steel