favorite lyrical lines
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Topic: favorite lyrical lines
Posted By: Guests
Subject: favorite lyrical lines
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 11:25
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what are some of your favorite lyrics in all of music that remain succinct enough to be said in just a few lines?give line, artist, and song please. some of my personal favorites(and examples of what i mean):
"the face in the mirror wont stop"-the doors(jim) when the music's over "i was blind all the time i was learning to see"-grateful dead- help on the way "we dont want the monsters takin over....tiptoe around and tie them down"-radiohead-go to sleep "and its too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around" pink floyd-dogs(i think, i know its from animals but those songs kinda run together lyrically) "the clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his f**king arm through...just to push you down...just to hold you down"-nine inch nails-the wretched |
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Posted By: Litl
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 11:44
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"And what touches our soul slowly moves as touch rebounds And to know that tempo will continue lost in a trance of dancers As is my want, I only reach to look in your eyes." Yes (of course) from Sound Chaser |
Posted By: XeRocks81
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 11:53
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I've just gotten into the music of Kevin Gilbert in hte last couple of months and his stuff is full of brillitant lyrics. From Goodness Gracious Goodness gracious, we came in at the end! No sex that isn't dangerous, no money left to spend We're the clean-up crew for parties, we were too young to attend
edit: sorry, did't read your post carefully. ------------- Sometimes I don't understand Why I was born at all - Neal Morse |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 11:55
| all well and good but i fear you may have overlooked the criteria of succinct XeRocks81 |
Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 12:06
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There are many brilliant lyrical lines I love, but I think of one at the moment: "... And the meek shall inherit the earth..." I bet you know it's from RUSH - "2112". ------------- Pablo P. |
Posted By: 46and2
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 12:08
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Lateralus By Tool ------------- 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 12:11
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"this ground is not the rock i....thought it to be"tool- flood
"thought i was high, thought i was free, thought i was there....thought i had DESTINY...i was wrong...this...changes everything"tool-flood |
Posted By: Litl
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 12:24
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FILL IN THE BLANK! Oh by the way |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 12:28
| isnt that veruca salt in willy wonka? |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 13:16
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"With glory and passion no longer in fashion" The Pinnacle by Kerry Livgren (KANSAS) A good decription for prog music!  And a few favorites by N. Peart (RUSH): "[...] So much style without substance So much stuff without style It's hard to recognize the real thing It comes along once in a while [...] Shapes and forms Against the norms - Against the run of the mill Swimming against the stream Life in two dimensions Is a mass production scheme So much poison in power The principles get left out Som much mind over matter The spirit gets forgotten about [...]" "More than just sutvival More than just a flash More than just a dotted line More than just a dash" "Mystic rhythms Capture my thoughts Carry them away Nature seems to spin A supernatural way Mystic rhythms Under city lights Or a canopy of stars We feel the push and pull of restless rhythms from afar" |
Posted By: XeRocks81
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 18:55
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Let's try this again An old favorite of mine as far as Fish is concerned, is this one. From Script for a jester's tear (the song) So I'll hold my peace forever, as you wear your bridal gown and the silence of my shame, the muse that sang the siren song Has gone solo, in the game
Someone once told me that this is actually quite similar to a Peter Hamill lyric on one of his solo albums. The one that's on the cover of Marillion's Fugazi, somewhere on the ground.
------------- Sometimes I don't understand Why I was born at all - Neal Morse |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 20:24
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Great choice by our Slovenian friend! ------------- 
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Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 20:25
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"Walking across the sitting room, I turn the television on..." - Peter Gabriel   "PING" (sound effect I know, I know) - Rick Wright "I've been mad for f**king years..." - Alan Stiles on "Dark Side" ------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
Posted By: BebieM
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 21:06
not again   |
Cluster One wrote:Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 21:31
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The day the Circus of Heaven came to town Local folks lined the streets in a Midwestern town Waiting anxiously for the parade to begin all round On the very last day A Unicorn headed the Mystical way Surrounded by what seemed a thousand golden angels at play Behind were Centaurs, elves, bright fairies all in colours of Jade On the very final day For what seemed only just a moment in time Seven solemn flying silvered regal horses rode by Seven golden chariots in tow, a wonder to behold The Seven Lords of the Mountains of time There then arose where nothing really stood there before A giant tent rising one thousand feet high from the floor Towns people flocked inside with their eyes all amazed To greet the Seventh Lord of the Seventh age A fanfare rang out in an incredible sound Bringing out the strangest visions perfect harmony round Any dreams he asked would they like to have seen From historical or mythical scenes Then there above their heads just as vivid as life Each vision transported in multitudes inventing light Grecian galleons, The Sack of Troy, to the Gardens of Babylon A play of millions roared along The gigantic dreams of Alexander the Great Civil wars where brothers fought and killed their friendship in hate All seen by Zeus performing scenes of the magical way The day the circus came to town Outside great animals as tame as the trees Angels high in starlight dancing streets Tuning their colours with indigo and gold Dropping violet, red and emerald snow As the circus finally changed its invisible course A new world to be found On the dreamy ground we walked upon I turned to my son and said "Was that something beautiful, amazing, wonderful, extraordinary beautiful?" "Oh! it was OK!! But there were no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears, candy-floss, toffee apples, no clowns." Yes - Tormato - Circus Of Heaven ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 22:07
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The best one: I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on my run And I feel just like Jesus' son And I guess that I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I have made the big decision I'm gonna try to nullify my life 'Cause when the blood begins to flow When it shoots up the dropper's neck When I'm closing in on death And you can't help me now, you guys And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk You can all go take a walk And I guess that I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I wish that I was born a thousand years ago I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship Going from this land here to that In a sailor's suit and cap Away from the big city Where a man can not be free Of all of the evils of this town And of himself, and those around Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Heroin, be the death of me Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life Because a mainer to my vein Leads to a center in my head And then I'm better off and dead Because when the smack begins to flow I really don't care anymore About all the Jim-Jim's in this town And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds And everybody puttin' everybody else down And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds 'Cause when the smack begins to flow Then I really don't care anymore Ah, when the heroin is in my blood And that blood is in my head Then thank God that I'm as good as dead Then thank your God that I'm not aware And thank God that I just don't care And I guess I just don't know And I guess I just don't know Velvet Underground - Heroin ------------- And above all, is punk 
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Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 03:41
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Sorry for non italian or spanish speakers, because they miss the greatness of Franco Battiato. 'La cura' is my all time favourite love poem. Also great, as it has been said before in this forum, is David Cousins from Strawbs: 'Here in the windchill years of our lives (Evergreen) Not to mention the great Ian Anderson: 'Your sperm's in the gutter, your love in the sink' |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 04:26
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Boston doesn't usually come to mind when the topic is lyric genius, but one line has stayed with me: I understand about indecision And then there's my all-time favorite pair of lyrics from the Dead... You who choose to lead must follow and Such a long long time to be gone http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/box.html#long - and finally, from Talk Talk: Create upon my flesh ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 05:35
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^ Spot on James with the Talk Talk lyric. I'd forgotten what a great wordsmith our Mr Hollis is.
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 08:36
| good lyrics everybody....the homework for tonight: everyone look up the word succinct and write the definition out 100 times! |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 10:20
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"The lunatics are in the hall... The lunatics are in my hall... The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paper boy brings more" |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 11:06
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I tried to keep it to a stanza at most, but "Wealth" just can't be chopped up. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 11:21
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I tried to give 100 excamples of a very good succinct lyrical line, all from the same song ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 12:48
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Dead Kennedys - Stars and Stripes of Corruption Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night I couldn't wait I headed straight for the Capitol Mall My heart began to pound Yahoo! It really exists The American International Pictures logo I looked up at the Capitol Building Couldn't help but wonder why I felt like saying "Hello, old friend" Walked up the hill to touch it Then I unzipped my pants And pissed on it when nobody was looking Like a great eternal Klansman With his two flashing red eyes Turn around he's always watching The Washington monument pricks the sky With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom The symbols of our heritage Lit up proudly in the night Somehow fits to see the homeless people Passed out on the lawn So this is where it happens The power games and bribes All lobbying for a piece of ass Of the stars and stripes of corruption Makes me feel so ashamed To be an American When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes Trying to start another Viet Nam Like fiddling while Rome burns at home The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese" "America's back", alright At the game it plays the worst Strip mining the world like a slave plantation No wonder others hate us And the Hitlers we handpick To bleed their people dry For our evil empire The drug we're fed To make us like it Is God and country with a band People we know who should know better Howl, "America rules. Let's go to war!" Business scams are what's worth dying for Are the Soviets our worst enemy? We're destroying ourselves instead Who cares about our civil rights As long as I get paid? The blind Me-Generation Doesn't care if life's a lie so easily used, so proud to enforce The stars and stripes of corruption Let's bring it all down! Tell me who's the real patriots The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags? Or the people with the guts to work For some real change Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves Our real test of strength is caring Not the toys of war we sell the world Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms Old glory for a blanket As you suck on your thumbs Real freedom scares you 'Cos it means responsibility So you chicken out and threaten me Saying, "Love it or leave it" I'll get beat up if I criticize it You say you'll fight to the death To save your worthless flag If you want a banana republic that bad Why don't you go move to one But what can just one of us do? Against all that money and power Trying to crush us into roaches? We don't destroy society in a day Until we change ourselves first From the inside out We can start by not lying so much And treating other people like dirt It's so easy not to base our lives On how much we can scam And you know It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs I'm thankful I live in a place Where I can say the things I do Without being taken out and shot So I'm guard against the goons Trying to take my rights away We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws Let kids learn communication Instead of schools pushing competition How about more art and theater instead of sports? People will always do drugs Let's legalize them Crime drops when the mob can't price them Budget's in the red? Let's tax religion No one will do it for us We'll just have to fix ourselves Honesty ain't all that hard Just put Rambo back inside your pants Causing trouble for the system is much more fun Thank you for the toilet paper But your flag is meaningless to me Look around, we're all people Who needs countries anyway? Our land I love it too I think I love it more than you I care enough to fight The stars and stripes of corruption Let's bring it all down! If we don't try If we just lie If we can't find A way to do it better than this Who will? ------------- And above all, is punk
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 21:55
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The enitre first verse of Dig Me by KC. As well as the last line (although i think you cound tell that) Talking Heads: "Got three passports, couple of visas, don;t even know my own name." ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: April 22 2005 at 01:01
The Clash - London Calling ------------- And above all, is punk
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: April 22 2005 at 01:23
ProzaKc Blues King CrimsonWell, I woke up this morning in a cloud of despair I ran my hand across my head, pulled out a pile of worried hair I went to my physician who was buried in his thoughts he said, "Son, you've been reading too much Elephant Talk" He said, "The thing about depression is, well you just can't let it get you down, you have to see the world for what it is: a circus full of freaks and clowns and you'll never please everybody, it's a well established fact", he said, "I recommend a fifth of Jack and a bottle of Prozac" What can you give a man who has everything can you give him back his edge, can you make him want to sing? No, you can only take from him, and there's nothing he can do I've got the driving me to drink and eat a bottle of Prozac blues Well, I woke up this morning and I shaved of my head by the time I realized what I had done I was already dead I went to see the gatekeeper standing by Heaven's door he said, "I hope you brought a good supply of... you know" ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: April 22 2005 at 13:26
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Lou Reed - The Blue Mask They tied his arms behind his back, to teach him how to swim They put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin They stood over the soldier, in the midst of the squalor There was war in his body and it caused his brain to holler Make the sacrifice, mutilate my face If you need someone to kill I'm a man without a will Wash the razor in the rain, let me luxuriate in pain Please don't set me free Death means a lot to me The pain was lean and it made him scream He knew he was alive He put a pin through the nipples on his chest He thought he was a saint I've made love to my mother, killed my father and brother What am I to do When a sin goes too far, it's like a runaway car And cannot be controlled Spit upon his face and scream: There is no Oedipus today This is no play you're thinking you are in What will you say Take the blue mask down from my face And look me in the eye I get a thrill from punishment, I've always been that way I loathe and despise repentance You are permanently stained Your weakness and indifference and indiscretion in the streets Dirty's what you are and clean is what you're not You deserve to be soundly beat Make the sacrifice, take it all the way There is no ' won't ' high enough To stop this desperate day Don't take death away, cut the finger at the joint Cut the stallion at his mount And stuff it in his mouth ------------- And above all, is punk
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Posted By: gleam
Date Posted: April 22 2005 at 14:19
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It's not prog but I have great memories of this... "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" by The Hollies.
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: April 22 2005 at 14:40
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Succinct, eh, hopelevre? "You left me a nut when I wanted a screw." From the track 'What Are You Doing To Me', GREENSLADE - "Greenslade".
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