The Random Lyric Thread

[K]

We see asteroids and planets, stars galore

We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core

But even all that matter cannot explain

What holds all these stars together – something else remains

This dark matter interacts only through gravity

And how do you catch a particle there’s no way to see

Take it back to the conservation of energy

And the particles appear, clear as can be

LHC Rap

[MalaCloudy Black]

THE THINGS THAT IT DISCOVERS WILL ROCK YOU IN THE HEAD - LHC Rap

My name is Samuel, Samuel

My name is Samuel, Samuel

My name is Samuel, an' I'll see you all in hell

An' I'll see you all in hell

Damn your eyes

Johnny Cash singing Sam Hall

And the great day of wrath has come

And here's mud in your big red eye

The poker's in the fire

And the locusts take the sky

And the earth died screaming

While I lay dreaming of you

Tom Waits singing Earth Died Screaming

What keeps mankind alive?

The fact that millions are daily tortured

Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed

Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance

In keeping its humanity repressed

And for once you must try not to shriek the facts

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

Tom Waits singing What Keeps Mankind Alive?

Edited September 10, 2008 by Cloudy Kururugi

[YI]

"Higher and higher

We're gonna take it

Down to the wire

We're gonna make it

Out of the fire

Higher and higher"

from "Bling (Confessions Of A King)" by The Killers

In memory of Leeds Festival, where they didn't play it, but my mate and I instigated a group of 15 or so people to join in singing it on the way back to camp.

[DeeJam]

"Since I will not lose, they try to help him cheat

But I will not lose, for even in defeat

There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me"

Blueprint 2 - Jay-Z

Always reminds me that when failing helps you to make yourself stronger.

[Drake Smashem]

"Fuck you

I won't do what ya tell me"

Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine

[DMN in the House]

Have a seat and listen, please don't say a thing

In matters of the heart sometimes, the truth will have a sting

Just don't take it personally, this is no attack

But we will never last because I am white and you are...also white

- Stephen Lynch 'Vanilla Ice Cream'.

Its the new theme to my life.

[VerbalPuke]

Antidote's 15 in 77

Ramones and the Dead Boys

And External Menace

Sham 69 Jack and the Rippers

Cockney Rejects

The Damned and The Jam

The Boys and the Upstarts

And what about Menace

I wish I was 15 in 1977

The Users and the Killjoys

Slaughter and the Dogs

Johnny Moped and Panic

Unwanted and The X-ray Spex

The Psychos and the Sick Things

Sex fucking Pistols

The Spiders and The Tits

And what about The Kids

Basically, the song is about them wishing they were 15 years old in 1977, during punk's golden era. Many of us sympathize.

[YI]

"Monday morning, comes a crawling in

From another weekend choked with cigarettes and sin

I've been busy, so much lately

That every time I get some time to spend

I end up drunk or sleeping in"

from "St Christopher Is Coming Home" by Frank Turner

[Skummy]

"You told me again you preferred handsome men

but for me you would make an exception.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us

who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,

you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,

we are ugly but we have the music."

Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel No. 2

"9 8 7th avenue

Now I'm crossing Madison

Sobbing on Park Avenue

Feeling bad on Lexington

3 2 1st avenue

Going east with the wind

Cross the FDR to the east river

Throw myself in

Until the scum in the east river would Drown me

The phlegm and rotten rats would Surround me

The shattered cars at the bottom all Around me

Until I was just another scum in the East river

And when I become the scum it's my Job to drown

The pathetic hopes and failures of the Next unloved clown

Though maybe it would be a girl and We could become scum together

Decompose as the river flows

Become one scum together

Become one forever

One bloated rotten putrid scum forever."

Jeffrey Lewis - The East River

I was going to post Jeffrey Lewis' "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror", but it's fucking epic, and it only works to full effect as a whole, I couldn't choose just one snippet.

[TheRossWalker]

So as you walk out the door

Take care, and always be sure

That the ones in your life

Know that you love them tonight

Fate has one guarantee

And we all must agree

That the best laid plans

May all change by tomorrow

Dropkick Murphys - "God Willing"

[Benji]

"Around The World..."

~ "Around The World" by Daft Punk

Never has one song repeated for basically 6 minutes been so darned catchy and infectious and remained so for a decade <3

Edited September 16, 2008 by Benji Talent

[YI]

"You asked if I'd be anyone from history

Fact or fiction, dead or alive

I said I'd be Tony Cascarino

Circa 1995"

from "All Your Kayfabe Friends" by Los Campesinos!