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totally agree.. they are really poor
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Originally posted by Pafnutij Pafnutij wrote:

True, I'd say. Sometimes they're OK, but mostly quite terrible.

Could it be possible that yousimply don't understand the lyrics? Not the words, but the meaning behind them ... it happened before.
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I love 'em... Petrucci is one of my favorite lyricists. It's all a matter of opinion.
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Sometimes their lyrics can be cheesy, also

James Labrie’s voice can be very annoying

in some parts. The instrumentals make up

for these inconstancies though.
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I personally think Dream Theater writes incredible lyrics. Though some of them may be cheesy at times, what prog band hasn't ever written cheesy lyrics??? They all come across an element of cheese at some point, some ridiculous topics - but thats prog.

Dream Theater definately writes much better lyrics than 99% of most bands today.

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True, I'd say. Sometimes they're OK, but mostly quite terrible.
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Most of the lyrics to SDOIT (the song) are indeed embarassingly terrible, but other than that, I really don't have a problem with DT's lyrics most of the time.
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 23:21

Mmmm, not all that much. Sure some not too great, but I think they've gotten better over the years.
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Originally posted by The Ryan The Ryan wrote:

Originally posted by Man Overboard Man Overboard wrote:

I'm sure English is primary in Sweden -now-, but with Roine, the primary lyricist, approaching 50...  and the first 20 or so years of his music being exclusively Swedish...  I'd say that English is in fact his second language.  Oh snap? 

I don't see how having English as a second language excuses anything... Oh well, I like the Flower Kings lyrics a lot anyways, I also believe some people are just too 'incoherent' themselves to understand. At least the Flower Kings aren't strung out on negativity like the rest of the world, that gets awfully repetitive.

Totally agreed! Listening to something like the Flower Kings and Spock's Beard really gets me happy!

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Originally posted by Man Overboard Man Overboard wrote:

I'm sure English is primary in Sweden -now-, but with Roine, the primary lyricist, approaching 50...  and the first 20 or so years of his music being exclusively Swedish...  I'd say that English is in fact his second language.  Oh snap? 

I don't see how having English as a second language excuses anything... Oh well, I like the Flower Kings lyrics a lot anyways, I also believe some people are just too 'incoherent' themselves to understand. At least the Flower Kings aren't strung out on negativity like the rest of the world, that gets awfully repetitive.
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I always enjoyed Kevin Moore's lyrics though I think he improved when he left but the rest of the band are just bad:

"Curled up in the darkness
Searching for the light
The smell of sweat and sh*t
Steaming through the night

Random urine testing
Pills red, pink and blue
Counselling and therapy
Providing not a clue"
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I'm sure English is primary in Sweden -now-, but with Roine, the primary lyricist, approaching 50...  and the first 20 or so years of his music being exclusively Swedish...  I'd say that English is in fact his second language.  Oh snap? 
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Agree 100% on both The Flower Kings and Dream Theater lyric front.  Both of them have no excuse and write some of the silliest lyrics I've ever had the pleasure of listening to - regardless, I do like and am a fan of both bands.

(The Flower Kings by the way, if you investigate matters of education in Sweden, learn English as their first language, native subsequent - feel free to disagree as I'm pretty sure this is the case...)

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Read the lyrics to Scenes From a Memory... need I say more?
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I don't find them bad at all, except for some bad lyrics here and there, but that counts for every band.
And I can't find bad lyrics in Octavarium either (except i walk beside you).Panic atack and Sacrificed sons are good ones to name a few.

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Points: 16916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 19:56

Originally posted by Man Overboard Man Overboard wrote:

Yeah, screw you Lindsay.   TFK have brilliant lyrics, they're just...  filtered through not speaking English as a native language. 

Plus, its supposed to be like that!

Anyways, Dream Theater has better lyrics than about 95% of all Prog bands. Read some of Genesis' incoherent lyrics

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Some are pretty cheesy, mostly in Sfam. But Kevin Moore was a brilliant writer, John Myung was incredible. And Petrucc and Port are great as well.

 

They are deffinatly not as bad as other bands.
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Points: 3830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 18:52
Yeah, screw you Lindsay.   TFK have brilliant lyrics, they're just...  filtered through not speaking English as a native language. 
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Points: 3254 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 18:51

study flower kings lyrics before you go on about dt making bad lyrics

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Points: 21631 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2006 at 17:57
Originally posted by TheLamb TheLamb wrote:

Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Disagree!

Portnoy and Petrucci write great, deep and intelligent lyrics... Not as awesome as some other bands do, but still not terribly embarrassing. 2 bad LaBrie doesn't contribute much.... I really liked the lyrics for Sacrificed Sons...

What songs do you mean in particular, Lamb?

A Change of Seasons has good lyrics, in my opinion, the rest are just terrible. Train of Thought - Everything is bad, Octavarium - Almost everything is bad, Awake - Some nice parts but still mostly bad, Falling into infinity - everything is bad, Images - some slightly OK parts, but alot of crap.... it goes on and on for me. I just really don't pay much attention to lyrics ussualy but their lyrics is so annoying, it just caught my attention. Makes me regret I ever read the booklet :\

My advice to you: Grow up. Maybe someday you'll be able to participate in discussions for grown up people - or understand clever lyrics.



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