The Random Lyric Thread

[Benji]

The rules are simple, post a random line or two of lyrics you appreciate/d, then leave, or discuss, whatever's good for you.

"Put my trust in God that day...

Not the man that taught his way..."

~ Devil In a Midnight Mass by Billy Talent

Love that line, stand alone it is wonderful, but when put into the context of the entire song it becomes quite a haunting thought of spiritual hope [/fagginess]

[New Damage]

"Nothing ever wrong, but nothing's ever right,

Such a cruel contradiction

I know I cross the line, it's not easy to define,

I'm born to indecision,

There's always something new, some path I'm supposed to choose,

With no particular rhyme or reason"

~

This comes in the middle-end of the song, and these lyrics belted out in Brent Smith's voice and in that rhythm just do it for me everytime.

[IAceI]

"Time together is just never quite enough

When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home

What will it take to make or break this hint of love?

We need time, only time

When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?

If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?

So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?

All the time, all the time"

"Saltwater Room" by Owl City

yes Benji, I may have out-fagged you

[K]

Even the nicest of guys has some nasty in him,

You don't have to be backlit to be the villain,

Whether it's greed, lust or just plain vindictiveness,

There's a level of malevolence inside all of us.

So you can paint yourself an image, and live in your own little dream,

But this ain't a dream it's one big silver screen,

And when you think you've found your happy ending, don't ever forget it,

It ain't over until you hear the sound of your end credits.

Scroobius Pip

[SRN]

"She was - the erected necrostomper!

Hammersmashing clit!"

~ The Erected Underwater Necro Clitstomper by Rompeprop

[Crazy In Mask]

"Nothing ever wrong, but nothing's ever right,

Such a cruel contradiction

I know I cross the line, it's not easy to define,

I'm born to indecision,

There's always something new, some path I'm supposed to choose,

With no particular rhyme or reason"

~

This comes in the middle-end of the song, and these lyrics belted out in Brent Smith's voice and in that rhythm just do it for me everytime.

God damn, you took my idea...

Have you ever felt lost inside

so unloved within that you almost died

Have you ever stepped out of the light and realized

there's a stranger inside

Shinedown-Stranger Inside

Pretty much my current situation...

[Turbo Yannis]

It's your place or mine

Just don't make me choose

You know I know you think you're saying what I want to hear

But I'm smart enough to recognise a bad idea

Your intentions are transparent, am I making myself clear?

We Are Scientists - Altered Beast

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

"Da da da"

--from the song Da Da Da by the band Trio.

[Mr Evil Guy]

"My humps, my humps my humps my humps

My lovely lady lumps

Check it out"

No, seriously:

'There was a flood, a world of water

the Mason's wife, swam for her daughter

1000 people did what they could

they found a steeple, tore up the wood

500 pieces means 500 float

1000 people means 500 don't

and it's Theresa that I love the best'

That and "All Fires have to burn alive" is the sickest shit ever.

EDIT: *This is All Fires by Swan Lake.

Edited September 5, 2008 by Mr. Evil Guy

[YI]

"ALL I EVER WANTED TO DO

IS PLAY CHESS WITH YOU!"

from "A Rook House For Bobby" by iLiKETRAiNS

[Farmer Reil]

"A darkness lies ahead, together we will ride,

Like thunder from the sky!

May your sword stay wet

Like a young girl in her prime,

Hold your hammers high!"

- Manowar - Hail and Kill

Nobody else could get away with that. Manowar.

"For beer I'm working,

For beer I'm fighting,

For beer I'll do whatever I have to,

When drunk I'm talking,

When drunk I'm joking,

When drunk I can be as I've always wanted to be"

Korpiklaani - Beer Beer

That whole song is my anthem ¬_¬

"A leg wants to dance,

Second wants to move,

Third one wants to push,

I am ready to be a man!"

Korpiklaani - Kirki (or at least, the translation thereof)

Uhh... right, meaningful lyrics...

"Living in a screenplay,

She had never read the end,

And no one else is to see it,

The pain of abrasions, covered with a smile,

No one to look underneath

In a lonesome night she ran away,

In quest for light she found the fire"

Edguy - Blessing In Disguise

"No one was born to be a servant or a slave,

Who can tell me the colour of the rain?

In the world that we live in, the things said and done,

They can well overrun the power of one"

Sonata Arctica - The Power Of One

Even better in context with the rest of the song.

"Dancing on the path and singing, now you got away.

You can reach the goals that you have set from now on, every day.

There is no way you would go back now, oh no, those days are passed.

Life's there for the ones who love to live and take it all, for it is free..."

Sonata Arctica - Victoria's Secret

Edited September 6, 2008 by Farmer Reil

[Bushmeister]

"In the gothic splendour of the chapel of Saint Menesclaus

A golden door with seven locks, seven keys within your hands

Ancient crown of Bohemia placed upon your head, sharpening your spears

The hangman's disciples, vomiting forth death

Murderous power, radiate hate

Harbinger of suffering

The malignance of malevolence

Rises now beyond benevolence

Smite your foes so they may die, scattering blood across the skies

The architects of genocide, in death taking pride

A thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a flaming sword

Spread your wings, let the killing begin, hunter becomes the hunted

Hangmen also die, morning-red, morning-red

Shines on us the soon to be dead, retaliating from beyond

Killing, bloodspilling,

Made through carnage

Seas of blood, seas of blood,

Morning-red, seas of blood"

Marduk's little ditty to the late SS commander Richard Heydrich, also known as "The Hangman Of Prague". Incidentally the title of the song as well. I enjoy the parables and alliteration drawn between Heydrich's life and religious themes, personally.

[Benji]

"The past is only the future with the lights on"

~ Baby Come On by +44

Love that line. Also, people posting entire songs and/or verses suck, you should highlight exceptional lines rather than being greedy

[YI]

"I know you are behind me and I press my shoulder to this wall, determined not to turn around.

I do and see you standing still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss, so beautiful you'll never move again."

from "Without Mythologies" by The Weakerthans

[apsham]

"I'm a boat on the ocean,

I'm just a ship lost at sea."

from "While We Were Hunting Rabbits" by Matthew Good

I'm getting that tattooed on me someday, my favorite lyric ever... go check out the song and the way it's sung on YouTube... awesome.

[YI]

Bah, one more, as I've just listened to it.....

"But boys will be boys, and girls have those eyes, that'll cut you to ribbon sometimes"

from "Here's Looking At You, Kid" by The Gaslight Anthem

[Liam]

'Collect some stars to shine for you

But start today, 'cos there are only a few'

In Flames 'Trigger'

I always go for other general lyrics, but its one of my favourite In Flames lyrics by a mile. Not sure why, but just works for me.

[Hobo]

The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife

Did it quick and split

Back home, fresh as a daisy to Maisy, oh Maisy

And the twelve-bore it stood in the corner

Quite operatic in it’s self disgust

It blew him all over the living room floor

Like parrot shit, parrot spit, parrot shit was shot

Now suppose it was someone familiar

Someone we all would know

Embarrasing denouement, ne c’est pas?

Familiar hyperbole

And there would go the secret plot

The piss had missed the hole in the pot

Like that ancient teenage dream

From soul to poison soul to poison soul

Guts, guts, got no guts

And stitches don’t help at all

Guts, guts, got no guts

Holes in the body, holes in the legs

Holes in the forehead, holes in the head

Holes in the body, holes in the legs

There should never be holes at all

There should never be holes at all

So: kill all you want or more

Make sure, do it right

Dead is dead, and door nails forget

And then you’ll notice

How the waster and the wasted

Get to look like one another

In the end, in the end

In the end, in the end

In the end, in the end

In the end, in the end

John Cale's "Guts", Kevin Ayers had sex with Cale's wife Cindy - the night before the June 1st 1974 concert. The song is so bile filled but not really an "angry" sounding song

[Vendetta]

We met as soul mates

On Parris Island

We left as inmates

From an asylum

And we were sharp

As sharp as knives

And we were so gung ho

To lay down our lives

Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel

Those opening lyrics give me goosebumps every fucking time.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Stars hang high above, the oceans roar

The moon is come to lead me to her door

There's crystal across the sand

And the waves, they take my hand

Soon I'm gonna see my sweet Kathleen

Kathleen - Townes Van Zandt