Favourite song lyrics

[Liam]

Haven't done one of these for a little while, and had been tempted for a bit, so might as well.

The only girl I've ever loved

Was born with roses in her eyes

But then they buried her alive

Neutral Milk Hotel 'Holland, 1945'

We can play poker and we'll play for keeps

I only play angels lately and they never let me cheat

For a more recent one, Frank Turner 'Peggy Sang The Blues'

I'll come back with more later, probably when I haven't been drinking >_>

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I've been going out with a girl,

Her name is Julie

But last night she said to me,

When we were watching telly

(This is what she said)

She said listen John, I love you

But there's this bloke, I fancy

I don't want to two time you,

So it's the end for you and me

Who's this bloke I asked her

Goooooordon, she replied

Not THAT puff, I said dismayed

Yes but he's no puff she cried

(He's more of a man than you'll ever be)

Here we go, two three four

I was so upset that I cried,

All the way to the chip shop

When I came out there was Gordon,

Standing at the bus stop

(And guess who was with him? Yeah, Julie, and they were both laughing at me)

Oh, she is cruel and heartless

To pack me for Gordon

Just cos he's better looking than me

Just cos he's cool and trendy

But I know he's a moron, Gordon is a moron

Gordon is a moron, Gordon is a moron

Here we go, two three four

Oh she's a slag and he's a creep

She's a tart, he's very cheap

She is a slut, he thinks he's tough

She is a bitch, he is a puff

Yeah yeah, it's not fair

Yeah yeah, it's not fair

(I'm so upset)

I'm so upset, I'm so upset, yeah yeah

(I ought to smash his face in.)

(Yeah, but he's bigger than me. In't he?)

(I know, I'll get my mate Barry to hit him. He'd flatten him)

(Yeah but Barry's a mate of Gordon's in'e?)

(Oh well, I don't care)

I don't care

I don't care

Cause she's a slag and he's a creep

She's a tart, he's very cheap

She is a slut, he thinks he's tough......

[KONGO]

"They used guns while we angrily shot arrows."

- Ghostface Killah on GZA's "Investigative Reports"

"To all the crews that will be mashed and bruised: we don't doubt ya, it's just that we don't give a fuck about ya."

- M.O.P.'s Billy Danze on some song from To The Death (aka The Good M.O.P. album)

[Mick]

It's another lonely evening

And another lonely town

But I ain't too young to worry

And I ain't too old to cry

When a woman gets me down

Got another empty bottle

And another empty bed

Ain't too young to admit it

And I'm not too old to lie

I'm just another empty head

That's why I'm lonely

I'm so lonely

But I know what I'm gonna do -

I'm gonna ride on

Ride on

Ride on, standing on the edge of the road

Ride on, thumb in the air

Ride on, one of these days I'm gonna

Ride on, change my evil ways

Till then I'll just keep riding on

Broke another promise

And I broke another heart

But I ain't too young to realize

That I ain't too old to try

Try to get back to the start

And it's another red light nightmare

Another red light street

And I ain't too old to hurry

Cause I ain't too old to die

But I sure am hard to beat

But I'm lonely

Lord I'm lonely

What am I gonna do -

Ride on

Ride on, got myself a one-way ticket

Ride on

Ride on, going the wrong way

Ride on, gonna change my evil ways

Ride on, one of these days

One of these days

Ride on

Ride on

I'm gonna ride on

Ride on, looking for a truck

Ride on

Ride on, keep on riding

Riding on and on and on and on

Gonna have myself a good time

Ohhh yeah

Ride ride ride

One of these days

One of these days...

[MalaCloudy Black]

Oh, man, there's a bajillion.

On a Sunday morning sidewalk,

I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.

'Cause there's something in a Sunday

That makes a body feel alone.

And there's nothing short a' dying

That's half as lonesome as the sound

Of the sleeping city sidewalk

And Sunday morning coming down.

Johnny Cash's rendition of Kristofferson's "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"

If you're traveling in the north country fair

Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

Remember me to one who lives there

For she was once a true love of mine.

Bob Dylan's "Girl From The North Country"

Our friends say it's darkest befor the sun rises

We're pretty sure they're all wrong

I hope it stays dark forever

I hope the worst is'nt over

I hope you blink before I do and

I hope I never get sober

and I hope when you think of me years down the line

you can't find one good thing to say

and I hope that if I found the strength to walk out

You'd stay the hell out of my way

I am drowning

there is no sign of land

you are coming down with me

Hand in unloveable hand

The Mountain Goats' "No Children"

Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete

Ride, Johnny, ride

The Misfits' "Bullet"

You told me God was the answer

When I ask him for shit, I get no answer, so God is the cancer

I'm stuck in triangles, lookin' for my angel

Hodgy Beats on Tyler The Creator's "Sandwitches"

this ain’t no v tech shit or columbine

but after bowlin’, i went home to some damn adventure time

(what’d you do?) i slipped myself some pink xanies

and danced around the house in all-over print panties

my mom’s gone, that fuckin’ broad will never understand me

i’m not gay, i just wanna boogie to some marvin

(what you think of hayley williams?)

fuck her, wolf haley robbin’ ‘em

i’ll crash that fuckin’ airplane at that faggot nigga b.o.b is in

and stab bruno mars in his goddamn esophagus

and won’t stop until the cops come in

Tyler The Creator's "Yonkers"

I just want to know if my father would ever like me

But I don't give a fuck so he's probably just like me

also from "Yonkers"

[fr34k]

I am tired, I am weary

I could sleep for a thousand years

A thousand dreams, that would awake me

Different colors, made of tears

"Venus in Furs" by The Velvet Underground

Have you ever?

Have you ever been all messed up?

Have You ever?

You're the pincard

You're the lifeguard

You're the information guide

Things look much bigger on your knees

on your knees

"One with the Freaks" by The Notwist

I don't need anyone

Don't need no mom and dad

Don't need no pretty face

Don't need no human race

I got some news for you

Don't even need you too

"Sonic Reducer" by Dead Boys

And I be fishin on

That same star you be wishin on

Make your move, son you know the missions' on

So never question who I am, God knows

And I know God personally

In fact he lets me call him me

In fact he lets me call him me

So never question who I am, God knows

And I know God personally

In fact she lets me call her me

In fact she lets me call her me

"Wine" by Saul Williams (To be honest, I could jst post Saul Williams lyrics all the time and be done with it)

And for a more recent one:

Ignorant as fuck, defend people for the hell of it

Because I am the devil, fucker, get on my level

"Nightmare" by Tyler the Creator

[Plubby]

Love the opening to a song i've been listening to a lot lately (Damn you, Swanny's Ashes Diary):

Wheel about the steeple of my dreams,

Sweet sonnet in my head, never say what I mean.

You left your blood in the earth of Africa,

Your heart in Paris and your soul in a photograph.

[tristy]

Since fr34k mentioned Saul Williams, my favorite Saul verse, from probably my favorite intro track to an album ever:

Maybe you'll find the cycles end

Right back where you began, but come this time around

You'll have someone to hold your hand

Who prays for you who is there for you

Who sends you love and light, exposes you to parts of you

That you once tried to fight

And come this time around you choose to walk a different path

You'll embrace what you turned away and cry at what you laughed

Because that's the only way we're going to make it through this storm

Where ignorance is common sense and senseless is the norm

In fact, we're high above the truth and that you never touch

And stolen goods are overpriced and freedom costs too much

And no one seems to recognize the symbols come to life

The bitten apple on the screen and Jesus had a wife

And she was his messiah like that stranger may be yours

Who holds a subtle knife that carves through worlds like magic doors

[Quom]

One April Day

We'll go miles away

and I will turn to you and I'll say

I've always loved you in my way

I'll always love you in my way

"One April Day" Stephin Merritt

older brother, restless soul, lie down

lie for a while with your ear against the earth

and you'll hear your sister sleep talking

say "your hair is long but not long enough to reach

home to me

but your beard

someday might be"

and she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor

next to a family portrait drawn when you were four

and beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more

she'll lay aside

"Blood" The Middle East, about a boy laying with his head on his sister's grave.

[DFF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cfXN4qCt1I

I wasn't there when you needed me

You never let me in your life

I didn't say what bothered me

You sure said more than that

The silence that followed didn't do us any good

And it seems like you settled for me

Cause I was the best that you could get

But there wasn't enough

I know what you want and you're not the one for me

I've been leaving you since the day we met

And it feels like you have too

I remember when I met you

The day I saw your smile

And now it's time to let go

Oh, it's time to feel alive

The problems I had with you

Are the ones you have with me

Even though we're holding love

We both know we've drifted apart

I guess this is it, why bother when there's nothing left

When neither you or me are in

Growing bitter and uncomfortably numb

Losing what we had

At least we tried, but it wasn't meant to be

I've been leaving you since the day we met

And it feels like you have too

The reasons that I loved you are the ones that made me go

The reasons that I loved you, oh, I gotta let you know

I should have seen it coming

Should have known what to expect

I should have seen the signs

Should have known that it was wrong

I've been leaving you since the day that we met

And it feels like you have too

The reasons that I loved you are the ones that made me go

The reasons that I loved you, oh, I gotta let you know

I am sorry

That we got here

But I'm glad

Glad that we are done

I don't want to go back there

Cause the love I felt is gone

Cause the love I felt is gone, alright

[The Sandman]

I just love this song, shining moment in "Death Magnetic."

Metallica: The Day That Never Comes

Born to push you around

better just stay down

you pull away

he hits the flesh

you hit the ground

Mouth so full of lies

tend to black your eyes

just keep them closed

keep praying

just keep waiting

waiting for the one

the day that never comes

when you stand up and feel the warmth

but the son shine never comes

no, the son shine never comes

Push you cross that line,

Just stay down this time

Hide in yourself

Crawl in yourself

You'll have your time

God I'll make them pay

Take it back one day

I'll end this day

I'll splatter color on this gray

Edited August 10, 2011 by The Sandman

[New Damage]

The majority of Reube's "Racecar is Racecar Backwards", in particular...

The way that I think, it seldom makes sense.

The words don't come out, the way they were meant.

So if I'm quiet, please don't take offense

'Cause you don't know what it means to me...

from Horrorshow

Tourette's is a disease

It makes you tell the truth

I have contracted it

In the last days of my youth.

from Missing Fingers.

Edited August 10, 2011 by TheModernWay

[Matt]

Liam almost won the topic himself with the Frank Turner lyric, but he picked the wrong one from that album:

No cowering in the dark before some overbearing priest,

Not waiting until we die until we restitute the meek,

No blaming all our failings on imaginary beasts,

Because there never was no God.

No fighting over land your distant fathers told you of,

Not spilling blood for those who have never spread a drop of love,

No finger pointing justified by phantoms up above,

Because there never was no God.

Or just any of the lyrics from Glory Hallelujah, really :/

Some others I like:

So please don't come to me on my dying day, just let me go in peace,

With all the things I forgot to say, racing around my mind,

And don't you bury me 6 feet underground, just burn my body in a box,

And let my ashes blow with the wind, out in to the night sky,

We celebrate the lives of the dead, it's like a man's best party only happens when he dies,

We gather around to pay our respects while their souls are still searching for the light.

I wish I died instead of lived, a zombie hides my face,

A shell forgotten with its memories, diaries left with cryptic entries,

And you don't need to bother, I don't need to be, I'll keep slipping father,

But once I hold on, I won't let go 'til it bleeds

But guess what you're getting older now and it's cold when you're lonely,

And Nathan's growing up so quick, he's gonna know that you're phoney,

And Hailey's getting so big now, you should see her she's beautiful,

But you'll never see her, she won't even be at your funeral,

See what hurts me the most, is you won't admit you was wrong,

Bitch, do your song, keep telling yourself that you was a mom,

But how dare you try to take what you didn't help me to get,

You selfish bitch, I hope you burn in hell for this shit,

Remember when Ronnie died and you said you wished it was me,

Well guess what, I am dead, dead to you as can be.

One last thing before I quit,

I never wanted any more than I could fit into my head,

I still remember every single word and all the shit that somehow came along with it,

Still there's one thing that comforts me since I was always caged and now I'm free,

Don't wanna be your monkey wrench,

One more indecent accident,

I'd rather leave than suffer this,

I'll never your monkey wrench.

I don't mean to stare, we don't have to breed,

We can plant a house, we can build a tree,

I don't even care, we can have all three.

Hmmm most of those seem depressing, so here's a more fun one

She only likes me when I'm high,

She's always trying to get me stoned,

She wants to see me in the sky,

She has to have me there alone.

[MalaCloudy Black]

More!

Right before he pulled the trigger, and ended her life

he thought about the cocaine with the platinum and ice

and he felt strong standing along with his new brothers

cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover

but what he saw made him start to cringe and stutter

'cause he was staring into the eyes of his own mother

she looked back at him and cried, cause he had forsaken her

she cried more painfully, than when they were raping her

his whole world stopped, he couldn't even contemplate

his corruption had succesfully changed his fate

and he remembered how his mom used to come home late working hard for nothing,

cause now what was he worth

he turned away from the woman that had once given him birth

and crying out to the sky cause he was lonely and scared but only the devil responded, cause God wasn't there

and right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold and so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul

Immortal Technique's "Dance With The Devil", a narrative song about a kid who wants to be a gangster and, in his initiation into this crew, unwittingly rapes and murders his own mother.

I mean, you think your life's been bad,

And by no means am I belittling that,

cause I know the troubles you've had

But a teen finding out her sister chose death over life,

Finding out instead of turning to her with your problems, You turned to a knife

That's a whole lot of pain to deal with,

and a whole lot of damage

And the only role model she has is little more than words engraved in granite.

Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip's "Magicians Assistant". Really, the entire song is good.

[GoGo Yubari]

Here I go, deep-type flow

Jacques Cousteau could never get this low, AHHHH

Cherry-bombin' shit, BOOM!

That's warmin' up a little bit, VROOM VROOM

Rappenin' is what's happenin'

Keep the pockets stacked and then the hands clappin' and

At the party when I move my body

Gotta get up and beeeee somebody!

Grab the microphone put strength to the bone

DUH-DUH-DUH, enter the Wu-Tang zone

Sure enough when I rock that stuff

Guff puff? I'm gonna catch your bluff tuff

rough, kickin rhymes like Jim Kelly

or Alex Haley I'm a Mi-..Beetle Bailey rhymes

comin raw style, hardcore

Niggaz be comin to the hip-hop store

Comin to buy gro-cery from me

Tryin to be a hip-hop MC

The law, in order to enter the Wu-Tang

You must bring the Ol' Dirty Bastard-type slang

Represent the GZA, Abbott, RZA, Shaquan, Inspectah Deck

Dirty Hoe gettin low wit his flow

Introducin, the Ghost... face... Killaaaaaaaaah!!!

No one could get illa.

Ol' Dirty Bastard. Respect.

[fr34k]

Fuck it, let's do more.

Please

Take this

And run far away

Far away from me

I am

Tainted

The two of us

Were never meant to be

All these

Pieces

And promises and left behinds

If only I could see

In my

Nothing

You were everything

Everything to me

"And All That Could Have Been" by Nine Inch Nails

You start a conversation you can't even finish it.

You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything.

When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.

Say something once, why say it again?

"Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads

Take me out tonight

Because I want to see people

And I want to see life

Driving in your car

Oh please don't drop me home

Because it's not my home, it's their home

And I'm welcome no more

"There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths

[GRIFT]

Say hello, to all the apples on the ground

They were once in your eyes but you sneezed them out while sleeping.

-The Nurse Who Loved Me by Failure

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?

The River by Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band

Do you realize that everyone you know, someday, will die

and instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know

you realize life goes fast,

it is hard to make the good things last,

you realize the sun doesn't go down,

it is just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.

Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips

Don't leave me,

I'm bleeding,

all over this linoleum floor.

I'm still in disbelief.

I'm drowning,

between the clear and blackening.

From morning until night

I'm losing sight,

of all the beautiful things.

There's nothing here for me

without you right here beside me.

Why did you go,

did you leave

leave me here to rot inside this empty place?

I know that you are going far way.

From morning until night,

I'm losing sight,

of all the beautiful things.

A man sits naked in the middle of a room of a one bedroom apartment in new york city, and no one knows he's there and no ones left to care, whether or not the next drop comes out.

And the blood would be warm and the blood would hug him just like she used to before she left him in this fucking mess where only one sentence repeats itself.

And this is it,

it says I will never love again.

And on the fifth day he placed everything he owned in the centre of the room and he watched it burn as he recited all the beautiful words that had ever come out her mouth.

And these are the same words that mock him now and tell him that she is not coming back

that he is nothing

not worth a fuck

and only one sentence repeats itself.

I will never love again.

And for the first time in 25 years he cried rivers of black shitty oil that careered down his chest as the dam to his past broke, exploding, and its sinking all of his future now.

And that was then and this is now as the animals reach their fever pitch and the windows implode in silence out of respect for the dying out of respect for the dead.

I will never love again.

And before he can say stop he's running down the street to the beat of his feet and past all the faces.

Past all the places he's ever known, an past all the traces he's left of himself and into the sky and into the air past all the stars as he's calling out why.

Over the ocean in search of the only love that will ever have.

And I will never love again.

One Bedroom Apartment by Clann Zu

[New Damage]

Love you so much it makes me sick.

Nirvana, "Aneurysm".

[Jimmy]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder/Fondness makes the absence longer

'We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed' - Los Campesinos

[SRN]

The rain will come

the rain will always be

In things I am

are things that have to be

My friends have come

and I never bothered

Myself and I, there is no other

It's like death becomes musical

it's musical

'The Death of Music', Devin Townsend.

The car's on fire and there is no driver at the wheel

and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides

And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt

And we're on so many drugs

With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down

And the billboards are all leering

And the flags are dead at the top of their poles

It went like this

The buildings tumbled in on themselves

Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire

All twisted metal stretching upwards

Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful,

these are truly the last of days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it

Like a daydream or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down

For sure it's the valley of death

I open my wallet

And it's full of blood

'Dead Flag Blues', Godspeed You! Black Emperor

The last one got a bit lengthy but it is my favorite lyric of all time so yeah, though I'd share it with you guys.