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Title: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Cebot on May 03, 2008, 01:34:12 am
Well guys, the topic says it, post your favorite song lyrics here, include band name, song name, genre and source of the lyrics please.

My favorite one is VNV Nation - Chrome (lyrics found on www.sing365.com)
Reason why I love this song: Read the lyrics and you'll know. It makes me think, it makes me dream, it makes me realize....
For Neko's sake, here's a youtube link to the song :P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTL8NtqGdw4

A million faces, each a million lies
for each and all a chrome disguise
prompts for action, force reaction
embody promise in a sheen so pure.
Hurt, the measure of blind ambition,
the testament to your singular disease.
Against all wisdom you heed no warning,
your desires giving you away.

If I could change your mind,
I wouldn't save you from the path you wander.
In desperation dreams, any soul can set you free.
And I still hear you scream,
in every breath, in every single motion.
Burning innocence, the fire to set you free.

Your actions turn conquest to dust.
In portents of fate, you foolishly place trust.
Sense fear in your broken breathing.
Resort to shadows till your body expires.
All creation has the promise of heaven,
and still you travel the road to hell.
I'm saying nothing for the good of myself,
but I'm still talking and you're not listening.

If I could change your mind,
I wouldn't save you from the path you wander.
In desperation dreams, any soul can set you free.
And I still hear you scream,
in every breath, in every single motion.
Burning innocence, the fire to set you free.

As night descends upon the city,
the streets are cold, the lights go by.
And in the stories of the people,
a million faces, a million lies.
They'll never say they feel what you feel,
that they can see the world you see.
And in their faces, their expressions,
a million faces, a million lies.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: neko kyouran on May 03, 2008, 01:42:31 am
Did this type of thing for a poetry course i had to take in College....

Metallica,  "fade to Black"

link to performance of said song:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7C90sLh5Ok 

Life it seems will fade away
Drifting further everyday
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else

I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

Things aren't what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deadly loss this cant be real
Cannot stand this hell i feel

Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me but now, hes gone

No one but me can save myself, but its too late
Now i cant think, think why i should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye
Goodbye

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There was a point in my younger years that i could play most of the song on guitar......  :whistling:
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Mathy Stockington on May 03, 2008, 01:42:47 am
Carole King - So Far Away Lyrics

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Carole-King/So-Far-Away.html


So far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're just time away

Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
How I wish I could, but you're so far away

One more song about movin' along the highway
Can't say much of anything that's new
If I coild only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend in bein' close to you.

But you're so far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're so far away

Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Cebot on May 03, 2008, 02:11:03 am
Not my favorite song, but it animates me to think and dream too. Actually I have to say that it is more how the melody, the voice and the lyrics fit together. Taking only the lyrics, without having the melody in my mind won't make me dream at all. Thought I share that with you guys too.

Lyrics are taken from the same site as above, youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro
NOTE: It is a fan made video, but as the uploader commented it on youtube: Even if it`s not a oficial Version it looks like it belong together...

VNV Nation - Illusion

know it's hard to tell how mixed up you feel
Hoping what you need is behind every door
Each time you get hurt, I don't want you to change
Because everyone has hopes, you're human after all
The feeling sometimes, wishing you were someone else
Feeling as though you never belong
This feeling is not sadness, this feeling is not joy
I truly understand. Please, don't cry now

Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you please, please don't leave here
I don't want you to hate for all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion trying to change you
Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you please, please don't leave here
I don't want you to change for all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion always trying to change you

Being like you are
Well this is something else, who would comprehend?
But some they do, lay claim that
Divine purpose blesses them
That's not what i believe. It doesn't matter anyway.
A part of your soul ties you to the next world
Or maybe to the last, I'm still not sure
What i do know is, to us the world is different
As we are to the world but, i guess you would know that
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Anumesa on May 03, 2008, 06:15:47 am
Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now

Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons evrywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on evryone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its cloud illusions I recall
I really dont know clouds at all

Moons and junes and ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As evry fairy tale comes real
Ive looked at love that way

But now its just another show
You leave em laughing when you go
And if you care, dont let them know
Dont give yourself away

Ive looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
Its loves illusions I recall
I really dont know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
Ive looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say Ive changed
Well somethings lost, but somethings gained
In living evry day

Ive looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all
Ive looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all

One of my favorite artists! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg&feature=related  -old
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQSlH-LLTQ&feature=related -recent
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Raa on May 03, 2008, 07:11:44 am
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down
(I think it's modern rock... Lyrics found on www.lyricsmode.com.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmfasWzdyHs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmfasWzdyHs)


Hey girl you know you drive me crazy
One look puts the rhythm in my head.
Still I'll never understand why you hang around
I see what's going down.

Cover up with make up in the mirror
Tell yourself it's never gonna happen again
You cry alone and then he swears he loves you.

Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's bound to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
Every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wait around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down.

I see the way you go and say you're right again,
Say you're right again,
Heed my lecture.

Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's bound to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

Face down in the dirt
She said "This doesn't hurt"
She said "I finally had enough!"

Face down in the dirt
She said "This doesn't hurt"
She said "I finally had enough!"

(Screaming)
One day she will tell you that she had enough
It's coming round again

Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's bound to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's bound to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

Face down in the dirt
She said "This doesn't hurt"
She said "I finally had enough!"
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Prolix on May 03, 2008, 07:14:57 am
King Crimson "The Power To Believe" Progressive Rock (http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/The_Power_To_Believe_I:_A_Cappella)
Quote
She carries me through days of apathy
She washes over me
She saved my life in a manner of speaking
When she gave me back the power to believe

Concert version video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KshGqEkfqEs)
Sadly, still waiting to meet her.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Jekkar on May 03, 2008, 10:28:21 am
http://vaalnor.mine.nu/Dan%20Swan%f6%20-%20Moontower%20-%2006%20-%20The%20Big%20Sleep.mp3

Dan Swanö - The Big Sleep

I love my life and it's so hard to hear that one day all I am will disappear
I have seen grief and what it does to you
The day will come when I will lose what I was made of
I try to imagine what that would be like but the thought is so unreal so it is
filtered out
I'm so afraid that I won't have the chance to tell the ones I love how I
really feel inside
I hide my emotions for far too long
I'm so afraid to lose you all that's the essence of this song


Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Socius Rockus on May 03, 2008, 01:18:22 pm
Ahh, It's time to relax.. ^^
Offspring - Smash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh2vO_FTEJc)

Head over heels I've fit in before,
now, I don't want to do it no more.
I've held it all in with blood on my face,
built it up man so bad you can taste.

I don't slag no one,
I don't even judge.
Don't give a shit cause I'm not gonna budge.
I just want to be who I want to be,
Guess that's hard for others to see.

I'm not a trendy asshole.
I do what I want,
I do what I feel like.
I'm not a trendy asshole.
I don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you.
Cause I'm alive.

Smash is the way you feel all alone,
like an outcast you're out on your own.
Smash is the way you deal with your life,
like an outcast you're smashing your strife.

Head over heels I've fit in before,
now, I don't want to do it no more.
I just want to be who I want to be,
guess that's hard for the others to see.

I'm not a trendy asshole.
I do what I want,
I do what I feel like.
I'm not a trendy asshole.
I don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you.
'Cause I'm alive.

Head over heels I've fit in before,
now, I don't want to do it no more.
I just want to be who I want to be,
guess that's hard for the others to see.

I'm not a trendy asshole.
I do what I want,
I do what I feel like.
I'm not a trendy asshole.
I don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you.

I'm not a trendy asshole.
I do what I want,
I do what I feel like.
I'm not a trendy asshole.
I don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you,
'Cause I'm alive.
I am alive.
I am alive.
I am alive.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Eurac on May 03, 2008, 01:37:07 pm
He he!

The Mac Lads.

Beer, beer, we want more beer.
All the lads are cheering.
Get the ******** beers in.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Rayken on May 06, 2008, 07:25:03 am
This is a fun thread! :)
Thursday - For the Workforce, Drowning (http://youtube.com/watch?v=TCYBB8NkUFo)

Falling from the top floor your lungs
fill like parachutes
windows go rushing by.
people inside,
dressed for the funeral in black and white.
These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet,
found in the cubicle;
without a name, just numbers, on the resume stored in the mainframe, marked for delete.

please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
dont let me drown before the workday ends.

9 to 5! 9 to 5!

and we're up to our necks,
drowning in the seconds,
ingesting the morning commute
lost in a dead subway sleep
Now we lie wide awake in our parents beds,
tossing and turning.
tomorrow we'll get up
drive to work,
single file
with everyday
it's like the last.
waiting for the life to start, is it always just always ahead of the curve?

please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
dont let me drown before the workday ends.

just keep making copies
of copies
of copies
when will it end?

it'll never end,
'til it gets so bad
that the ink fills in our fingerprints
and the silouhette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war
and even in our dreams we're so afraid the weight will offset who we are
all those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs.
last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys
and all the monuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the sea.

save our ship
the anchor is part of the desk
we can't cut free,
the water is flooding the decks
the memo's sent through the currents
computers spark like flares
i can see them.
they don't touch me,
touch me.

please someone,
teach me how to swim.
please, don't let me drown,
please, don't let me drown.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Morla Phlint on May 06, 2008, 10:05:29 pm
It's in German so there's much lost in the translation but I still want to share it with you because for me it's a great song. Like Cebot said...

It makes me think, it makes me dream, it makes me realize....

it makes me sad, it makes me strong, it makes me cry, it goes right through me...

Rammstein - Nebel (Mist) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=2JOdaDMrzeQ) (only the song, no video)

German
English
Sie stehen eng umschlungen
ein Fleischgemisch so reich an Tagen
wo das Meer das Land berührt
will sie ihm die Wahrheit sagen

Doch ihre Worte frisst der Wind
wo das Meer zu Ende ist
hält sie zitternd seine Hand
und hat ihn auf die Stirn geküsst

sie trägt den Abend in der Brust
und weiß dass sie verleben muss
sie legt den Kopf in seinen Schoß
und bittet einen letzten Kuss

und dann hat er sie geküsst
wo das Meer zu Ende ist
ihre Lippen schwach und blass
und seine Augen werden nass

Der letzte Kuss ist so lang her
der letzte Kuss
er erinnert sich nicht mehr
They stand with their arms tightly around each other
a mixture of flesh, so rich in days
where the sea touches the land
she wants to tell him the truth

But the wind eats her words
where the sea ends
she holds his hand, trembling
and kissed him on the forehead

She carries the evening in her chest
and knows that she must wither away
she lays her head in his lap
and asks for a last kiss

and then he kissed her
where the sea ends
her lips, delicate and pale
and his eyes tear up

The last kiss was so long ago
the last kiss
he does not remember it anymore

lyrics source (http://herzeleid.com/en/lyrics/mutter#nebel)

EDIT: I must add this: I found wonderful songs in this thread. Thanks everybody for sharing and Cebot for giving the start  :love:.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: zorbels on May 07, 2008, 03:58:46 am
I am a save the world kinda girl so this song has been my fav for what seems like forever ....

Singer: Mariah Carey
Song: Theres got to be a way

Broken man without a home
Desperate and so alone
A victim of society
No one really wants to see
Some of us don't even wonder
Some of us don't even care
Couldn't we just help each other
Isn't there enough to share

Chorus:
There's got to be a way
To connect this world today
Come together to relieve the pain
There's got to be a way
To unite this human race
And together we'll bring on a change

In another land they still believe
Color grants supremacy
I don't understand
How there can be
Regulated bigotry
Some of us don't even wonder
Some of us don't even care
Couldn't we accept each other
Can't we make ourselves aware

Chorus

And maybe then the future will be a time
Without war, destitution and sorrow
And hungry children
Won't have to die
If we work together today
We'll save tomorrow
Some of us don't even wonder
Some of us don't even care
Couldn't we just love each other
Isn't there enough to share

Chorus

THis is another one o my fav's .... just something about the way it is sung ...

Band: Police
Song: Every Breath You Take

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Since youve gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but its you I cant replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby, please...

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every breath you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you...

Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Candy on May 07, 2008, 09:08:19 am
Stand by Jewel (http://www.lyrics007.com)

Sorry about the chatspeak; I'll come back and edit the original lyrics to not be an insult to the English language in the morning...

Candy flops onto her keyboard and promptly falls asleep right after hitting command+V


EDIT: Fixed the spelling. Also, Here's the music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDD2bdzOhkQ)

Walk in a corner shop
See a shoplifting cop
See the old lady with a gun
See the hero try to run
Nothing's what it seems, I mean
It's not all dirty, but it's not all clean
There's children paying bills
There's monks buying thrills
There's pride for sale in magazines
There's pills for rent to make you clean
Marvin Gaye, there's no brother, brother
Woody Guthrie's land can't feed Mother

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me, It might just complete me
And together we can make a stand

A waitress brings me lunch
We meet but do not touch
On TV, D.C. is selling lies
While in the corner, King's dream dies
Go to the counter, pay for me and my friend
A homeless man pulls out a roll, says it's on him
The mayor has no cash
He said he spent it on hookers and hash

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me It might just complete me
And together we can make a stand

You will love me, I will love you

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me It might just complete me
And together we can make a stand
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Zwenze on May 07, 2008, 11:49:34 am
Die Ärzte (The Physicians) - "Lasse Redn" (Let'em talk) - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7uyAl2rU7s (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7uyAl2rU7s)

Die Ärzte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Ärzte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Ärzte)) are a german punk rock band from Berlin, who sparked some controversies with their lyrics. I wasn't sure if i can post it here (PG13), but as the lyric passed the examination from the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien I think I can dare  ;D Hope my quickly done translation contains at least some of the humor of the german original.

Strophe 1
Hast du etwas getan was sonst keiner tut?
Hast du hohe Schuhe oder gar einen Hut?
Oder hast du etwa ein zu kurzes Kleid getragen,
ohne vorher deinen Nachbarn um Erlaubnis zu fragen?

Jetzt wirst du natürlich mit Verachtung gestraft,
bist eine Schande für die ganze Nachbarschaft.
Du weißt noch nicht einmal genau wie sie heißen,
während sie sich über dich schon ihre Mäuler zerreißen.

Chorus
Lass die Leute reden und hör ihnen nicht zu.
Die meisten Leute haben ja nichts Besseres zu tun.
Lass die Leute reden bei Tag und auch bei Nacht.
Lass die Leute reden, das haben die immer schon gemacht.

Strophe 2
Du hast doch sicherlich ‘ne Bank überfallen.
Wie könntest du sonst deine Miete bezahlen?
Und du darfst nie mehr in die Vereinigten Staaten,
denn du bist die Geliebte von Osama bin Laden.

Rasierst du täglich deinen Damenbart?
Oder hast du im Garten ein Paar Leichen verscharrt?
Die Nachbarn ham’ da sowas angedeutet,
also wunder dich nicht, wenn bald die Kripo bei dir läutet.

Chorus
Lass die Leute reden und hör einfach nicht hin,
die meisten Leute haben ja gar nichts Böses im Sinn.
Es ist ihr eintöniges Leben was sie quält
und der Tag wird interessanter, wenn man Märchen erzählt.

Bridge
Und wahrscheinlich ist ihnen das nicht mal peinlich.
Es fehlt ihnen jede Einsicht
und wiedermal zeigt sich sie sind kleinlich, unvermeindlich fremdenfeindlich

Strophe 3
Hast du gehört und sag mal wusstest du schon,
nämlich: Du verdienst dein Geld mit Prostitution.
Du sollst ja meistens vor dem Busbahnhof stehen,
der Kollege eines Schwagers hat dich neulich gesehen.

Chorus
Lass die Leute reden und lächle einfach mild,
Die meisten Leute haben ihre Bildung aus der Bild.
Und die besteht nun mal, wer wüsste das nicht,
aus: Angst, Hass, Titten und dem Wetterbericht!

Lass die Leute reden denn wie das immer ist,
solang’ die Leute reden, machen sie nichts Schlimmeres.
Und ein wenig Heuchelei kannst du dir durchaus leisten,
Bleib höflich und sag nichts.
Das ärgert sie am meisten.
Strophe 1
Have you done something noone else dares?
Do you have to high shoes or even a hat?
Or did you wear a to short dress
without asking your neightbours for permission?

Of course now you are punished with disdain,
you are a shame for the entire neighbourhoood.
You dont even know certainly their names,
while they already bad mouth you.

Chorus
Let the people talk and don't listen to them
The most people don't have something better to do.
Let the people talk at day and even at night.
Let the people talk, thats what they have allways done.

Strophe 2
You certainly robbed a bank,
how else could you pay your rent
And you mustn't travel into america,
because Osama bin Laden's mistress you are.

Do you shave your womens beard daily?
Or do you have some corpses buried in your garden?
Your neightbouts denoted something,
don't be surpised when the F.B.I. rings at yor door.

Chorus
Let the people talk and don't listen to them
The most people don't have soemthing evil in their mind
Its their monotous live that tourtures them,
and the day gets more intresting when you tell stories.

Bridge
And certainly its not embarrasing to them,
they miss insight,
and again it shows, they are nitpicking, ineviteable xenophobic

Strophe 3
Have you heard and do you know,
namely: you earn your money with prostitution
Its told you are standing in fron of the trainstation,
the coworker of a brother-in-law has seen you recently

Chorus
Let the people talk and smile mildly
Most people have their education from "Der Bild" [german newspaper]
And it consists of, who doesnt know,
Fear, hate, boobs and the wheater forecast

Let the people talk, then how ever it is,
as long as they talk they aren't doing worser things.
And you can afford some hypocrisy.
Stay ploite and say nothing.
Thats what annoys them most.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Mordraugion on May 07, 2008, 01:09:17 pm
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on

'Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: MustangMR on May 07, 2008, 10:56:16 pm
Well, since we're in off topic, this is something I wrote a few years back when I was heavily into Baldur's Gate fan fiction.  If you remember and played the game, this may mean something to you and might be a short trip down memory lane, otherwise, sorry, you won't get much of the dialog.  Thought I'd share it here anyway since I used one of my favorite Rush tunes to wrapper it all up.



Title:  Images: Available Light

The restless wind
Has seen all things
In every kind of light
Rising with the full moon
To go howling through the night

The sleepless wind
Has heard all things
Between the sea and sky
In the canyons of the city
You can hear the buildings cry

Oh the wind can carry
All the voices of the sea
Oh the wind can carry
All the echoes home to me


So many days since we first were captured by the shark men.  The petty squabble they entwined me in left me with no clear choice of good.  Was I to kill them all, take sides vs. one evil of lesser quantity than the other, or simply leave them to their fate?  So many voices in my head that lead to decisions of disgrace.  What would my decisions leave me with were they known by the men and women who travel the sea?  Would I secure passage again to any place if all knew I helped a sworn enemy of humanity to live once more?  Would the souls of those dragged beneath the waves cry to me for their vengeance?

Run with wind and weather
To the music of the sea
All four winds together
Can’t bring the world to me
Chase the wind around the world
I want to look at life
In the available light


And now we stand in darkness, where twilight has no meaning.  No seascape to look out over.  No sunrise to reflect off its waves.  No light at all, except the eerie twinkling of phosphorous that seeps from the many cracks and crevices of the caves.  And somewhere above and far away, is home.  Would that I could reach it now, and stand within its freshness. 

I see the images of home in my mind.  Even those of the bloodied halls of my beloved Candlekeep suffice.  Anywhere but here in the Underdark.  We must secure passage to the surface before I lose myself.  Jaheira complains of the stifling nature of this place, yes, even here in the bowls of her beloved earth.  We both are becoming someone else in this place, and it worries me.

Play of light
A photograph
The way I used to be
Some half-forgotten stranger
Doesn’t mean that much to me

Trick of light
Moving picture
Moments caught in flight
Make the shadows darker
Or the colors shine too bright

Oh the light can carry
All the visions of the sea
Oh the light can carry
All the images to me


The locket.  I hold it in my hand and look at the image it holds.  Jaheira’s beauty radiates throughout it and leaves me with feelings of strangeness.  I look at the blue neck the trinket now drapes upon and the way the gold plays against her skin.  Who is she?  Is Jaheira still in there?  Am I there anymore?  Who is this owner of these faces that look back at me?  Jaheira the half-eleven fighter I fell so strongly in love with, or Vusta, the drow that begs to be my master, as others of her imagined heritage have claimed.  I remember the actions of buying her the locket, yet now the image it holds only looks back at me hollowly. 

‘We shall not know who we are until we walk a mile in another man’s shoes.’  I heard those words once, but never knew I would fulfill them in such a way.  Shall I leave my old self behind for this new person?  Shall I embrace this new image, and see if it can fill the hole that claims more of me each day?

My hands are not my own.  My skin is not of my birthright.  My soul no longer travels with me, stolen by another even less worthy of it than myself.  Yet I find myself longing for destruction, to feel the power of this new identity.

Run to light from shadow
Sun gives me no rest
Promise offered in the east
Broken in the west
Chase the sun around the world
I want to look at life
In the available light

All four winds together
Can’t bring the world to me
Shadows hide the play of light
So much I want to see
Chase the light around the world
I want to look at life...

In the available light

Available Light
Neal Peart, Rush



Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Raa on May 09, 2008, 03:39:50 am
Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers
(Modern Rock... Dunno. Lyrics from www.lyricsmode.com (http://www.lyricsmode.com).)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADfPvO0HAzg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADfPvO0HAzg&feature=related)

Hey there
I know it's hard to feel like I don't care at all
Where you are and how you feel
With these lights off as these wheels
Keep rolling on and on
(And on and on and on)
Slow things down or speed them up
Not enough or way too much
(And on and on and on)
How are you when I'm gone?

And I can't make it on my own
(And I can't make it on my own)
Because my heart is in Ohio

So cut my wrists and black my eyes
(Cut my wrists and black my eyes)
So I can fall asleep tonight, and die
Because you kill me
You know you do, you kill me well
You like it too, and I can tell
You never stop until my final breath is gone

Spare me just three last words
"I love you" is all she heard
I'll wait for you, but I can't wait forever

Spare me just three last words
"I love you" is all she heard
I'll wait for you, but I can't wait forever

And I can't make it on my own
(And I can't make it on my own)
Because my heart is in Ohio

So cut my wrists and black my eyes
(Cut my wrists and black my eyes)
So I can fall asleep tonight, and die
Because you kill me
You know you do, you kill me well
You like it too, and I can tell
You never stop until my final breath is gone

You(you) know you do, you kill me well (kill)
You like it too, and I can tell (me)
You never stop until my (well)final breath is gone

So cut my wrists(you) and black my eyes (kill)
My final breath is gone(me)
So I can fall asleep tonight (well)
And I can't make it on my own
(And I can't make it on my own)
Because my heart is in Ohio

So cut my wrists and black my eyes (cut my wrists and black my eyes)
So I can fall asleep tonight, and die
Because you kill me
You know you do you kill me well
You like it to and I can tell
You never stop until my final breath is gone

You know you do you kill me well
You like it to and I can tell
You never stop until my final breath is gone
[x3]
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Rayken on May 10, 2008, 12:26:45 am
AFI - Death of Season

Of late, it's harder just to go outside
To leave this deadspace with hatred, so alive
Writhing with sickness, thrown into banality, I decay
Killed by the weakness, but forced to return, turn it off

I watch the stars as they fall from the sky
I held a fallen star and it wept for me, dying
I feel the fallen stars encircle me, now as they cry

Out there so quickly grows malignant tribes
Posthuman extinction excels unrecognized
Feeling surrounded, so bored with mortality, I decay
All of this hatred is [expletive deleted] real, turn it on... yeah

I watch the stars as they fall from the sky
I held a fallen star and it wept for me, dying
I feel the fallen stars encircle me, now as they cry

It won't be all right despite what they say
Just watch the stars tonight as they, as they disappear, disintegrate
And I disintegrate 'cause this hate is [expletive deleted] real
And I hope to shade the world as stars go out and I disintegrate
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Raa on May 11, 2008, 10:43:37 am
Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
(I have no clue what genre this is. One website said it was pop-punk, the other said rock, so to hell with it. <.< Lyrics from www.lyricsmode.com (http://www.lyricsmode.com).)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkbTNmg40c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkbTNmg40c)

Oh, well imagine, as I'm pacing the pews in a church corridor,
And I can't help but to hear, no I can't help but to hear an exchanging of words:
"What a beautiful wedding! What a beautiful wedding!" says a bridesmaid to a waiter.
"Oh yes, but what a shame, what a shame, the poor groom's bride is a whore."

I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.
I'd chime in, "Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of...

Well in fact, well I'll look at it this way, I mean technically our marriage is saved
Well this calls for a toast, so pour the champagne
Oh! Well in fact, well I'll look at it this way, I mean technically our marriage is saved
Well this calls for a toast, so pour the champagne, pour the champagne

I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.
I'd chime in, "Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.

Again...

I'd chime in, "Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.
I'd chime in, "Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.

Again...
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Akira321 on May 12, 2008, 12:09:41 am
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Draklar on May 14, 2008, 03:31:43 pm
Hard to choose the favorite ones... It'd have to be one of these :P

Turisas - Cursed Be Iron

Curses on thee, cruel iron
Curses on the steel thou givest
Curses on thee, tongue of evil
Cursed be thy life forever!

Once thou wert of little value
Having neither form nor beauty
Neither strength nor great importance
When in form of milk thou rested
When for ages thou wert hidden
In the breasts of God's three daughters
Hidden in their heaving bosoms
On the borders of the cloudlets
In the blue vault of the heavens

Thou wert once of little value
Having neither form nor beauty
Neither strength nor great importance
When like water thou wert resting
On the broad back of the marshes
On the steep declines of mountains
When thou wert but formless matter
Only dust of rusty color

Curses on thee, cruel iron
Curses on the steel thou givest
Curses on thee, tongue of evil
Cursed be thy life forever!

Surely thou wert void of greatness
Having neither strength nor beauty
When the moose was trampling on thee
When the roebuck trod on thee
And the bear-paws scratched thy body

Surely thou hadst little value
When the skilful Ilmarinen
First of all the iron-workers
Brought thee from the blackened swamp-lands
Took thee to his ancient smithy
Placed thee in his fiery furnace

Truly thou hadst little vigor
Little strength, and little danger
When thou in the fire wert hissing
Rolling forth like seething water
From the furnace of the smithy
When thou gavest oath the strongest

By the furnace, by the anvil
By the rongs, and by the hammer
By the dwelling of the blacksmith
By the fire within the furnace

Curses on thee, cruel iron
Curses on the steel thou givest
Curses on thee, tongue of evil

Now forsooth thou hast grown mighty
Thou canst rage in wildest fury
Thou hast broken all thy pledges
All thy solemn vows hast broken
Like the dogs thou shamest honor
Shamest both thyself and kindred
Tained all with breath of evil

Tell who drove thee to this mischief
Tell who taught thee all thy malice
Tell who gavest thee thine evil!
Tell me! Now tell me!

Did thy father, or thy mother
Did the eldest of thy brothers
Did the youngest of thy sisters
Did the worst of all thy kindred

Not thy father, nor thy mother
Not the eldest of thy brothers
Not the youngest of thy sisters
Not the worst of all thy kindred

But thyself hast done this mischief
Thou the cause of all our trouble
Come and view thine evil doings
And amend this flood of damage
Curses on thee, cruel iron
Curses on the steel thou givest
Curses on thee, tongue of evil
Cursed be thy life forever!


Vintersorg - Matrix Odyssey

"With whom shall I have this dialogue?
The mad, the noble, the wit?
The past lurks under layers of fog,
Evolution's hall is unlit

Thoughts and visions confuse,
Mental wounds start to grow
But the questions never reduce
About the anonymous cosmic shadow"

This demon keeps my conscious awake
From sleep, rest and the calm
Disillusioned I rinse my ache
In the ocean's whispering psalm

The ocean theory covers Earth,
But I seek what has entire control
What nature introduced the genesis birth?
Known Deities? I curse 'em all

I've set my sails for this odyssey
To locate its mystic exile
A crusade through the mind's liberty,
Not a journey in nautical miles

A voyage in science and fate
To disrobe the acceleration from zero
To dive into it and investigate,
Terrifies even the bravest hero

In the corridors of time we're sons,
Entrapped in lonely spaces
But star dusted electrons
Are my kinsmen, just with odd faces

Still fantasies unveil their sloids,
When patience turns to fear
To examine the darkest, coldest voids
For the hiding engineer

But our past is still our present
If we can't the knowledge rift over-span
An eternal transformation is what the matrix represents,
Like the child is father to the man


Creature Feature - A Gorey Demise

- Alright, everbody sit down, quiet down, listen up. I brought you all here to recite the anual obituaries. Like every year, We'll start with A and we'll end with Z. Alright, Is the band Ready?
- Ready
- Alright, Hit it boiles
- And a one, and a two...

A Is For Amber
Who Drowned In A Pool

B Is For Billy
Who Was Eaten By Ghouls

C Is For Curt
With Disease Of The Brain

D Is For Daniel
Derailed On A Train

E Is For Erik
Who Was Buried Alive

F Is For Frank
Who Was Stabbed Through The Eye

G Is For Greg
Who Died In The Womb

H Is For Heather
Who Was Sealed In A Tomb

One By One, We Bite The Dust
We Kick The Bucket And Begin To Rust
Give Up The Ghost When Your Number's Up
We All Fall Down

Ashes To Ashes, Bones To Paste
You'll Wither Away In Your Resting Place
Eternity In A Wooden Case
We All Fall Down

I Is For Issac
Who Lost His Front Brakes

J Is For Johnny
Who Was Bitten By Snakes

K Is For Kimmy
Who Was Shot In The Head

L Is For Larry
Who Bled And Bled

M Is For Marie
Who Burned To A Crisp

N Is For Nick
Who Was Pummled By Fists

O Is For Olive
Who Lived Life Too Fast

P Is For Pat
Who Swallowed Some Glass
laa laa laa laa laa laa laa laa la la la.laa laa laa laa laa laa laa laa la la la. laa laa laa laa laa laa laa laa la la la.

Alright lads, all together now

One By One, We Bite The Dust
We Kick The Bucket And Begin To Rust
Give Up The Ghost When Your Number's Up
We All Fall Down

Ashes To Ashes, Bones To Paste
You'll Wither Away In Your Resting Place
Eternity In A Wooden Case
We All Fall Down

Q Is For Quentin
Who Took The Wrong Trail

R Is For Reyna
Who Rotted In Jail

S Is For Steve
Who Was Shot With A Bow

T Is For Tori
Who Froze In The Snow

U Is For Urich
Who Trampled By Hooves

V Is or Vanessa
Who Fell Off A Roof

W Is For Willow
Who Was Hit By A Car

X Is For Xavier
Who Sunk In The Tar

Y Is For Yessy
Who Fell From A Plane

Z Is For Zack
Who Simply Went

Insane


Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Rayken on May 16, 2008, 01:18:12 am
From Autumn to Ashes - Pioneers  (http://youtube.com/watch?v=lww4zwKbjYA)
(warning--mildly disturbing video with implicit violence)

Dismiss the telegram
This is no exhibition
A pile of papers that are bound and tethered
We know the end of man will stem
From stale tradition
Relaying opinions
Changing like the weather

And this will never be and this will never be reversed
An installation
Sending an open invitation
To all the pioneers driven by suspicion
The old world is gone and
We keep wishing for a new frontier
To sink our teeth in and
Forget what you thought you believed in

The plans we execute are far between and few
But I'll go around the world just for something to do
Existence is fleeting
You spend your life dreaming
The shores are exhausted
The time is receding

And this will never be a
And this will never be reversed
An installation
Sending an open invitation
To all the pioneers driven by suspicion
The old world is gone
And we keep wishing for a new frontier
To sink our teeth in
And forget what you thought you believed in

And those who resisted
Were dragged out form their homes
This necklace was fashioned out of their teeth and bones
And those who resisted
Were dragged out from their homes
This necklace was fashioned out of their teeth and bones
Their teeth and bones

To all the pioneers driven by suspicion
The old world is gone and
We keep wishing for a new frontier
To sink our teeth in
And forget what we thought we believed in

Resistance is fleeting
Resistance is fleeting
Resistance is fleeting
Resistance is fleeting
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Ichaas on May 16, 2008, 09:53:38 am
Faveorite lyrics. It's been these for a while.

The Berzerker - Forever

Always living on the line of what you think is right or wrong,
there was a time when even i could not bear to be alone,
needing someone or something that is not mine to call my own,
to have and hold,
severing the only line of trust that you once thought you had,
now that i can see past you i can start to be a man,
death to me seems no mistake for i have yet to hate,
so can you see my pain, can you feel my pain, can you see my...
this, is my world,
and i see, what you don't,
forever, wanting more,
life breathes, from our soul,
looking into bloodshot eyes mesmerized they can't look back,
slowly turning in my mind is the visions of your death,
finding truth amongst my lies but not accepting now i grow,
and gain control,
opening to inner sanctums that you do not understand,
having no respect for life and taking it with my bare hands,
always searching with contempt for ways to rid my pounding head,
from this place,
This, is my world,
and i see, what you don't,
forever, wanting more,
life breathes, from our souls.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Rayken on May 30, 2008, 06:13:50 am
Pink Floyd - Sorrow (http://youtube.com/watch?v=QtyPvjj24bM)

The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking
He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
In his youth or a dream, he can't be precise
He's chained forever to a world that's departed
It's not enough, it's not enough
His blood has frozen & curdled with fright
His knees have trembled & given way in the night
His hand has weakened at the moment of truth
His step has faltered
One world, one soul
Time pass, the river rolls
And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication
And silent replies that swirl invitation
Flow dark and troubled to an oily sea
A grim intimation of what is to be
There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night
And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight
And silence that speaks so much louder that words,
Of promises broken
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: The Wandering Djinn on June 24, 2008, 03:09:42 pm
This song perhaps above all others has impressed me most since I first heard it soon after it was released. It has become the most listened to track in my collection especially after I read Dee Brown's book Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee ©1970. Fortunately for my vinyl copy, a CD version of this album was released in 1992.

Favorite song : The Song Of Crazy Horse
Album name : The Song Of Crazy Horse †
Artist name : J. D. Blackfoot ‡
Year : ℗1974
Label : Fantasy Records
Catalog № : F-9468
Genre : Folk-Rock
Source of the lyrics : lyric sheet included with original vinyl LP recording

YouTube link : http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Xh5GUkK0u4&feature=related


† This album was recorded in New Zealand with local musicians when J.D. Blackfoot visited here, and it won the New Zealand Album of the Year Award for 1974.
‡ His real name was Benjamin Franklin VanDervort, but in 1970, he legally changed his name to J.D. Blackfoot.


- Enjoy! :)


The Song Of Crazy Horse

You took his land and you ate his corn
On his grave your land was born

You took his pride and you fed him dirt
You wished him winter without a shirt
And you called this Red Man "Savage"

After you crushed him you helped him up
To let him drink from an empty cup

You gave him the Navy without the fleet
And made him lick your hands and kiss your feet
And you named this mad dog "Savage"

Well I found a book the other day
So I looked up Red and White to see what it'd say

One was a savage the other unlearned
Like a look in the mirror the tables were turned
For history has named you "Savage"

In the year of '65
When I was very young
We watched the dust clouds to the South
We knew that you had come
We saw you build your chain of forts
Along the Bozeman Road
But Red Cloud had his allies counted
Long before it snowed

And someday Great White Father you will know my name

In December of '66
You met me face to face
I decoyed your Captain Fetterman
And we never left a trace
Into our sacred homelands
Your bluecoat soldiers came
But we just taught you a heap big lesson
In the Battle of a Hundred Slain

And someday Great White Father you will know my name

In the June of '76
Our Nation joined its hands
We made our camps on the Little Big Horn
Not knowing of your plans
You sent your long-haired Custer
With the 7th Cavalry
To hunt and kill my children
For wanting to be free

And I think it's time Great White Father that you knew my name

It's Crazy Horse, it's Crazy Horse
And I wish you were here to see
'Cause I got Yellow Hair cornered at the Big Horn
And I'm about to set him free

Ride to the village to get my Oglalas'
The Sans Arc and the Minneconjous'
Get Sitting Bull with his band of Hunkpapas'
The Brules' and Blackfoots too

Ridin' home from battle came the Cheyenne ponies
With white blood drippin' from their feet
Their riders were lookin' and shoutin' up to Heaven
Here's to Chivington at Sand Creek

Hey there Mister Wagonmaster what do you have inside
Hidden underneath of that buffalo hide
Could it be you brought to me some food from the man back East
So my starving children could have a feast

Hey mother come look and see
what the bastard done brought to me
It's alcohol, tobacco and guns
Alcohol, tobacco and guns

Now I have seen the eagle soaring beautiful and free
I don't want no man to make less of me
Do you take me for a fool or as a little child
And do you really wonder what's made me wild

Hey paleface you better run
Because my men been havin' lots of fun
On your alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco and guns

I have waited patiently for you to pay your rent
But as yet I haven't seen that first red cent
I don't think that there's much chance of me evicting you
But watch out for the day that you get Sioux'd

A hundred years have seen the setting sun
But his sad country still is run
On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco, and guns

A hundred years have seen the setting sun
But his sad country still is run
On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco, and guns

Now you try to trick me
And lock me up in jail
Where would a stupid savage
Find the bondsman or the bail

I turn to run for I am scared
I want so to be free
I feel the ice-cold bayonet
As it sinks deep inside of me

But someday Great White Father you'll remember me

Sioux warriors teach your children
The white man's evil tongue
Make them know the name of Crazy Horse
And the battles he has won
So they will know the truth
When it's knowledge that they crave
Let them sing of the Land of the Free
And the Home of the Brave

And of the Great White Father that dug my grave

Brown rivers once were blue
Now the fish float upside-down
Ancestral burial grounds
That's where you've built your towns

The smokestacks from your factories
They pollute my skies
You slaughtered all my buffalo
And you left me here to die

And all of this you have done in the name of God

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see

I have dreamed the vision of the horse that dances wild
I have seen the land of the Great Beyond
I am one with this Earth as a little child
Let my eternal life shine on

(repeat)

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see

(repeat twice)

Milkweed illusion casts its die
And the horse that dances starts to fly
Rhythms of metamorphosis leave their stain
Memories of happiness kept in vain

The target tomorrow is one step beyond
For lilies of mercy lost on a pond
They cry out for freedom to the lighthouse above
They are angels of victory, peace and love

Visions of odin dark and oblique
Mind over matter which all men seek
A vague understanding with no recourse
And a fond remembrance .... of Crazy Horse

Just ride away
And travel right out through space and time
Try and find a way
Of leaving the illusion behind

And in this sleep your mind will be awakened
To the calling of a dream that lies within
You're just a child who has but to remember
That in yourself you just found your best friend

So ride away
And let your mind go through its metamorphosis
And try and find a way
To bring your sunken love back to the surface

Sail on silver clouds straight through the fire
Like a lily pad adrift on a windless sea
Clinging to the breast of Mother Nature
Together sailing beautiful and free

Ride away

It's said that Crazy Horse had the power to dream himself into the real world
And leave the illusion behind

So ride away
And don't recall the things that are best forgotten
And try and find a way
Of picking from the barrel the one that's rotten

The key to peace is sitting on your shoulders
So knock upon the door and you walk on in
You're just a child who has but to remember
That in yourself you just found your best friend

So ride away
Ride away
(repeat twice)

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee

The Song Of Crazy Horse

You took his land and you ate his corn
On his grave your land was born

You took his pride and you fed him dirt
You wished him winter without a shirt
And you called this Red Man "Savage"

After you crushed him you helped him up
To let him drink from an empty cup

You gave him the Navy without the fleet
And made him lick your hands and kiss your feet
And you named this mad dog "Savage"

Well I found a book the other day
So I looked up Red and White to see what it'd say

One was a savage the other unlearned
Like a look in the mirror the tables were turned
For history has named you "Savage"

In the year of '65
When I was very young
We watched the dust clouds to the South
We knew that you had come
We saw you build your chain of forts
Along the Bozeman Road
But Red Cloud had his allies counted
Long before it snowed

And someday Great White Father you will know my name

In December of '66
You met me face to face
I decoyed your Captain Fetterman
And we never left a trace
Into our sacred homelands
Your bluecoat soldiers came
But we just taught you a heap big lesson
In the Battle of a Hundred Slain

And someday Great White Father you will know my name

In the June of '76
Our Nation joined its hands
We made our camps on the Little Big Horn
Not knowing of your plans
You sent your long-haired Custer
With the 7th Cavalry
To hunt and kill my children
For wanting to be free

And I think it's time Great White Father that you knew my name

It's Crazy Horse, it's Crazy Horse
And I wish you were here to see
'Cause I got Yellow Hair cornered at the Big Horn
And I'm about to set him free

Ride to the village to get my Oglalas'
The Sans Arc and the Minneconjous'
Get Sitting Bull with his band of Hunkpapas'
The Brules' and Blackfoots too

Ridin' home from battle came the Cheyenne ponies
With white blood drippin' from their feet
Their riders were lookin' and shoutin' up to Heaven
Here's to Chivington at Sand Creek

Hey there Mister Wagonmaster what do you have inside
Hidden underneath of that buffalo hide
Could it be you brought to me some food from the man back East
So my starving children could have a feast

Hey mother come look and see
what the master done brought to me
It's alcohol, tobacco and guns
Alcohol, tobacco and guns

Now I have seen the eagle soaring beautiful and free
I don't want no man to make less of me
Do you take me for a fool or as a little child
And do you really wonder what's made me wild

Hey paleface you better run
Because my men been havin' lots of fun
On your alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco and guns

I have waited patiently for you to pay your rent
But as yet I haven't seen that first red cent
I don't think that there's much chance of me evicting you
But watch out for the day that you get Sioux'd

A hundred years have seen the setting sun
But his sad country still is run
On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco, and guns

A hundred years have seen the setting sun
But his sad country still is run
On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco, and guns

Now you try to trick me
And lock me up in jail
Where would a stupid savage
Find the bondsman or the bail

I turn to run for I am scared
I want so to be free
I feel the ice-cold bayonet
As it sinks deep inside of me

But someday Great White Father you'll remember me

Sioux warriors teach your children
The white man's evil tongue
Make them know the name of Crazy Horse
And the battles he has won
So they will know the truth
When it's knowledge that they crave
Let them sing of the Land of the Free
And the Home of the Brave

And of the Great White Father that dug my grave

Brown rivers once were blue
Now the fish float upside-down
Ancestral burial grounds
That's where you've built your towns

The smokestacks from your factories
They pollute my skies
You slaughtered all my buffalo
And you left me here to die

And all of this you have done in the name of God

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see

I have dreamed the vision of the horse that dances wild
I have seen the land of the Great Beyond
I am one with this Earth as a little child
Let my eternal life shine on

(repeat)

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see

(repeat twice)

Milkweed illusion casts its die
And the horse that dances starts to fly
Rhythms of metamorphosis leave their stain
Memories of happiness kept in vain

The target tomorrow is one step beyond
For lilies of mercy lost on a pond
They cry out for freedom to the lighthouse above
They are angels of victory, peace and love

Visions of odin dark and oblique
Mind over matter which all men seek
A vague understanding with no recourse
And a fond remembrance .... of Crazy Horse

Just ride away
And travel right out through space and time
Try and find a way
Of leaving the illusion behind

And in this sleep your mind will be awakened
To the calling of a dream that lies within
You're just a child who has but to remember
That in yourself you just found your best friend

So ride away
And let your mind go through its metamorphosis
And try and find a way
To bring your sunken love back to the surface

Sail on silver clouds straight through the fire
Like a lily pad adrift on a windless sea
Clinging to the breast of Mother Nature
Together sailing beautiful and free

Ride away

It's said that Crazy Horse had the power to dream himself into the real world
And leave the illusion behind

So ride away
And don't recall the things that are best forgotten
And try and find a way
Of picking from the barrel the one that's rotten

The key to peace is sitting on your shoulders
So knock upon the door and you walk on in
You're just a child who has but to remember
That in yourself you just found your best friend

So ride away
Ride away
(repeat twice)

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee

 The Song Of Crazy Horse

You took his land and you ate his corn
On his grave your land was born

You took his pride and you fed him dirt
You wished him winter without a shirt
And you called this Red Man "Savage"

After you crushed him you helped him up
To let him drink from an empty cup

You gave him the Navy without the fleet
And made him lick your hands and kiss your feet
And you named this mad dog "Savage"

Well I found a book the other day
So I looked up Red and White to see what it'd say

One was a savage the other unlearned
Like a look in the mirror the tables were turned
For history has named you "Savage"

In the year of '65
When I was very young
We watched the dust clouds to the South
We knew that you had come
We saw you build your chain of forts
Along the Bozeman Road
But Red Cloud had his allies counted
Long before it snowed

And someday Great White Father you will know my name

In December of '66
You met me face to face
I decoyed your Captain Fetterman
And we never left a trace
Into our sacred homelands
Your bluecoat soldiers came
But we just taught you a heap big lesson
In the Battle of a Hundred Slain

And someday Great White Father you will know my name

In the June of '76
Our Nation joined its hands
We made our camps on the Little Big Horn
Not knowing of your plans
You sent your long-haired Custer
With the 7th Cavalry
To hunt and kill my children
For wanting to be free

And I think it's time Great White Father that you knew my name

It's Crazy Horse, it's Crazy Horse
And I wish you were here to see
'Cause I got Yellow Hair cornered at the Big Horn
And I'm about to set him free

Ride to the village to get my Oglalas'
The Sans Arc and the Minneconjous'
Get Sitting Bull with his band of Hunkpapas'
The Brules' and Blackfoots too

Ridin' home from battle came the Cheyenne ponies
With white blood drippin' from their feet
Their riders were lookin' and shoutin' up to Heaven
Here's to Chivington at Sand Creek

Hey there Mister Wagonmaster what do you have inside
Hidden underneath of that buffalo hide
Could it be you brought to me some food from the man back East
So my starving children could have a feast

Hey mother come look and see
what the master done brought to me
It's alcohol, tobacco and guns
Alcohol, tobacco and guns

Now I have seen the eagle soaring beautiful and free
I don't want no man to make less of me
Do you take me for a fool or as a little child
And do you really wonder what's made me wild

Hey paleface you better run
Because my men been havin' lots of fun
On your alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco and guns

I have waited patiently for you to pay your rent
But as yet I haven't seen that first red cent
I don't think that there's much chance of me evicting you
But watch out for the day that you get Sioux'd

A hundred years have seen the setting sun
But his sad country still is run
On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco, and guns

A hundred years have seen the setting sun
But his sad country still is run
On his alcohol, tobacco, and guns
Alcohol, tobacco, and guns

Now you try to trick me
And lock me up in jail
Where would a stupid savage
Find the bondsman or the bail

I turn to run for I am scared
I want so to be free
I feel the ice-cold bayonet
As it sinks deep inside of me

But someday Great White Father you'll remember me

Sioux warriors teach your children
The white man's evil tongue
Make them know the name of Crazy Horse
And the battles he has won
So they will know the truth
When it's knowledge that they crave
Let them sing of the Land of the Free
And the Home of the Brave

And of the Great White Father that dug my grave

Brown rivers once were blue
Now the fish float upside-down
Ancestral burial grounds
That's where you've built your towns

The smokestacks from your factories
They pollute my skies
You slaughtered all my buffalo
And you left me here to die

And all of this you have done in the name of God

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see

I have dreamed the vision of the horse that dances wild
I have seen the land of the Great Beyond
I am one with this Earth as a little child
Let my eternal life shine on

(repeat)

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee
But there is more buried in his grave
Than the wisest men could see

(repeat twice)

Milkweed illusion casts its die
And the horse that dances starts to fly
Rhythms of metamorphosis leave their stain
Memories of happiness kept in vain

The target tomorrow is one step beyond
For lilies of mercy lost on a pond
They cry out for freedom to the lighthouse above
They are angels of victory, peace and love

Visions of odin dark and oblique
Mind over matter which all men seek
A vague understanding with no recourse
And a fond remembrance .... of Crazy Horse

Just ride away
And travel right out through space and time
Try and find a way
Of leaving the illusion behind

And in this sleep your mind will be awakened
To the calling of a dream that lies within
You're just a child who has but to remember
That in yourself you just found your best friend

So ride away
And let your mind go through its metamorphosis
And try and find a way
To bring your sunken love back to the surface

Sail on silver clouds straight through the fire
Like a lily pad adrift on a windless sea
Clinging to the breast of Mother Nature
Together sailing beautiful and free

Ride away

It's said that Crazy Horse had the power to dream himself into the real world
And leave the illusion behind

So ride away
And don't recall the things that are best forgotten
And try and find a way
Of picking from the barrel the one that's rotten

The key to peace is sitting on your shoulders
So knock upon the door and you walk on in
You're just a child who has but to remember
That in yourself you just found your best friend

So ride away
Ride away
(repeat twice)

Crazy Horse he was laid to rest
On a creek called Wounded Knee

- J. D. Blackfoot 1974

Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Xillix Queen of Fools on June 24, 2008, 05:14:30 pm
Favorite song : The Story of Isaac
Artist name : Leonard Cohen
Genre : Folk
Source of the lyrics : http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/leonard+cohen/story+of+isaac_20082852.html
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqO7cyCovBY  (begins around minute 4:30 there are two songs on the youtube)


The door it opened slowly,
My father he came in,was nine years old.
And he stood so tall above me,
His blue eyes they were shining
And his voice was very cold.
He said, Ive had a vision
And you know Im strong and holy,
I must do what Ive been told.
So he started up the mountain,
I was running, he was walking,
And his axe was made of gold.

Well, the trees they got much smaller,
The lake a ladys mirror,
We stopped to drink some wine.
Then he threw the bottle over.
Broke a minute later
And he put his hand on mine.
Thought I saw an eagle
But it might have been a vulture,
I never could decide.
Then my father built an altar,
He looked once behind his shoulder,
He knew I would not hide.

You who build these altars now
To sacrifice these children,
You must not do it anymore.
A scheme is not a vision
And you never have been tempted
By a demon or a god.
You who stand above them now,
Your hatchets blunt and bloody,
You were not there before,
When I lay upon a mountain
And my fathers hand was trembling
With the beauty of the word.

And if you call me brother now,
Forgive me if I inquire,
Just according to whose plan?
When it all comes down to dust
I will kill you if I must,
I will help you if I can.
When it all comes down to dust
I will help you if I must,
I will kill you if I can.
And mercy on our uniform,
Man of peace or man of war,
The peacock spreads his fan.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: StitchedChin on June 24, 2008, 07:21:20 pm
Time to get away from some of the depressing lyrics...
Written By:  Shel Silverstein
Performed by a story telling genius:  Johnny Cash
Title:  A Boy Named Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89c3hWx3RQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue

My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me Sue

Well, he must o' thought that is quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk
It seems I had to fight my whole life through
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head
I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean
My fist got hard and my wits got keen
I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame
But I made a vow to the moon and stars
That I'd search the honky-tonks and bars
And kill that man who gave me that awful name

Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July
And I just hit town and my throat was dry
I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew
At an old saloon on a street of mud
There at a table, dealing stud
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me Sue

Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had
And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye
He was big and bent and gray and old
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said, "My name is Sue, how do you do
Now you're gonna die"

Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he went down, but to my surprise
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear
But I busted a chair right across his teeth
And we crashed through the wall and into the street
Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer

I tell ya, I've fought tougher men
But I really can't remember when
He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile
I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss
He went for his gun and I pulled mine first
He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile

And he said, "Son, this world is rough
And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
And it's the name that helped to make you strong"

He said, "Now you just fought one hell of a fight
And I know you hate me, and you got the right
To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do
But ya ought to thank me, before I die
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
'Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you Sue"

I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
And I called him my paw, and he called me his son
And I came away with a different point of view
And I think about him, now and then
Every time I try and every time I win
And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him...
Bill or George! Anything but Sue!
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Rayken on June 25, 2008, 03:23:57 am
Atreyu - The Crimson (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_CkW0bZmuLk)

I feel it welling up inside and Robert Smith lied
Boys do cry and with blood tears in my eyes
I'm an Anne Rice novel come to life
I can't hide the monster anymore
One can only feel desolate for so long
Until one starts to change
Into something the mirror doesn't recognize
I metamorphasize
The darkness has been biding its time
To claim its latest victim
Fresh meat for carnal desires
To become what I became
I viewed the sun for the last time

[Chorus:]
Will you still hold me when you see what I have done?
Will you still kiss me the same when you taste my victim's blood?
So crimson and red, I feel it flowing from your lips (crimson and red)
My heart is dead and so are you

And it pulses through, the desire to change
The desire to deconstruct all of my past failings
But where to begin because when you live in sin
It's hard to look at saints without them
Reflecting youre jet black auras back on you
And all I have is hope, my inner burn's not fading
I'll wipe the blood from my cheek and get on with my day

[Chorus]

And all I have is hope, and all I need is time
To bury in pine under six feet of time
The lies I told me about myself
Claw my way out, pick the splinters from under my fingernails
I won't lose hope, I won't give in
Just live and breathe and try not to die again

[Chorus x2]
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Pizik on June 25, 2008, 12:34:22 pm
Cemetry Gates


A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people all those lives
Where are they now?

With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born and then they lived and then they died
Seems so unfair, I want to cry

You say: "ere thrice the sun hath done salutation to the dawn"
And you claim these words as your own
But I'm well-read, have heard them said
A hundred times, maybe less, maybe more

If you must write prose, poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loans"

There's alweays someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs when you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall

You say: "ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
You then produce the text from whence was ripped
Some dizzy whore, 1804

A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
Because Wilde is on mine


(Morrissey & Johnny Marr
The Smiths, "The Queen Is Dead" 1986)
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Akashani on June 25, 2008, 01:55:14 pm
Band: Rammstein
Favorite Song: Ohne Dich / Without you


German
English
Ich werde in die Tannen gehen
Dahin wo ich sie zuletzt gesehen
Doch der Abend wirft ein Tuch aufs Land
und auf die Wege hinterm Waldesrand
Und der Wald er steht so schwarz und leer
Weh mir, oh weh
Und die Vögel singen nicht mehr

Ohne dich kann ich nicht sein
Ohne dich
Mit dir bin ich auch allein
Ohne dich
Ohne dich zähl ich die Stunden ohne dich
Mit dir stehen die Sekunden
Lohnen nicht

Auf den Ästen in den Gräben
ist es nun still und ohne Leben
Und das Atmen fällt mir ach so schwer
Weh mir, oh weh
Und die Vögel singen nicht mehr

Ohne dich kann ich nicht sein
Ohne dich
Mit dir bin ich auch allein
Ohne dich
Ohne dich zähl ich die Stunden ohne dich
Mit dir stehen die Sekunden
Lohnen nicht ohne dich
I'm going to go into the fir trees
There where I last saw her
But the evening is throwing a cloth upon the land
and upon the ways behind the edge of the forest
And the forest it is so black and empty
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more

Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren't worth it

On the branches in the ditches
it's now silent and without life
And breathing becomes oh so hard for me
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more

Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren't worth it without you

Band: Sinead O' Connor
Song: Nothing compares 2 U

It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whom ever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues
'Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares To U

It's been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they only remind me of you
I went to the doctor and guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said "Girl you better try to have fun
No matter what you do"
But he's a fool
'Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to U

All the flowers that you planted, mama
In the backyard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to U
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to U
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to U :'(
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Morla Phlint on June 29, 2008, 11:20:07 pm
VNV Nation - Darkangel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-IPG-XnaU&)

In your dream you see me clear
I have no restraint, no fear
Powerless I watched from faces I'd assumed.
My purpose set. My will defined.
Caress the air.
Embrace the skies.
Escape the sorrow and restraint of mortal cities.

Give me time I will be clear.
Given time you'll understand
What possesses me to right what you have suffered.
I'm in this mood because of scorn.
I'm in a mood for total war.
To the darkened skies once more and ever onward.

So many years I stood among the thoughts and tears of those I served.
Among my own I was alone through my own doing.
All the years I walked unknown behind the faces I assumed.
Powerless to clear your mind of what you'd suffered.

They fall again.
They fall again.

Give me time I will be clear.
Given time you'll understand
What possesses me to right what you have suffered.
I'm in this mood because of scorn.
I'm in a mood for total war.
To the darkened skies once more and ever onward.
There is no faith in which to hide.
Even truth is filled with lies.
Doubting angels fall to walk among the living.
I'm in this mood because of scorn.
I'm in a mood for total war.
To the darkened skies once more and ever onward.

I'd only come here seeking peace.
I'd only come here seeking me.
It seems I came to leave.

Lyrics (http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=38576)
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: BrokenTheory337 on June 29, 2008, 11:42:58 pm
Artist: Creature Feature
Song: Buried Alive
Album: The Greatest Show Unearthed
Genre: ...I really don't know. They describe themselves as Halloween, so I'll just say that.
Source: http://www.lyrics007.com/Creature%20Feature%20Lyrics/Buried%20Alive%20Lyrics.html
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b704tlVZqs
*Fun fact* Just about every lyric is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe.

I Forever Dream Within A Dream
Of A Certain City In The Sea
As I Walk The Valley Of Unrest
Behind This Mask Of Crimson Death

I Long For A Loss Of Breath
And A Most Dire Predicament
Murders In The Rue Morgue
Silence And Shadow's What I Adore

I Cant Explain Jsut How It Feels
The Thought Of My Premature Burial
Inside This Oblong Box I Lie
With The Hopes I'll Be Buried Alive

The Oval Portrait Upon The Wall
Will Someday Cause This House To Fall
The Power Of Words Left Unsaid
As I Join The Spirits Of The Dead

I Can't Explain Just How It Feels
The Thought Of My Premature Burial
Inside This Oblong Box I Lie
With The Hopes I'll Be Buried Alive

Well, I'm The Man Who's Used Up
Washed Up
Bricked Up

Descent Into Maelstrom
Bedlam
Redrum

Bet The Devil My Head
Misled
Bloodshed

Heart Under The Floorboards
Beats For
Lenore
Nevermore

I Cant Explain Just How It Feels
The Thought Of My Premature Burial
Inside This Oblong Box I Lie
With The Hopes I'll Be Buried Alive
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: migueltherocker on June 30, 2008, 02:35:21 am
Ice Nine Kills-The Greatest Story Ever Told


How could this happen
Am I dreaming again
Her body’s not moving I’m assuming she’s dead
This isn’t a fucking game
There’s somebody’s life at stake
She’s covered in bruises
But the truth is that I never committed the crime
Cause I knew I could never hurt a fly
Then how’d she lose her life?
You're In denial
What you've implied has BURNED and stripped
The whites of my eyes
Then what went on that night
“Listen closely as I tell you I’m not who I seem
I’m gonna touch you cause I like it when you scream
I want to watch you when you’re sleeping and thinking of me”
And that’s what he told her when he killed her
That son of a bitch took away my girl
He’s gonna pay for it right now.

Cause you might think you're in love
And he might promise you the world
But don't believe what he says
He's not real
It's murder and this is it

Prepare for the day I find you
This is your last chance
Cause I'll be out in six months with his address and a shotgun
And a promise for justice that night
I’ll be standing at the crime
So they can throw me back in prison for my life
If it would bring you back to me
Last night I dreamed we had a future and you were alive
It was springtime on our wedding day
There were birds in the sky
The sun was glowing it was beautiful and everyone was there
I still can’t believe that your gone I’m so lost
I’m sorry don’t go
Oh please God no

I think that I've had enough but
He says, “Your too late
I’ve got a hole to dig
And you think that I’ve over-reacted
She was so cute?I couldn’t resist cause I’m a sucker for promiscuous action.

Cause you might think you're in love
And he might promise you the world
But don't believe what he says
He's not real he's a murderer
Cause I've been lying awake
Scared from this nightmare and I feel betrayed
Cause I'd give her my life
But you'd take it away

Am I Dead
Or am I Still Breathing
Cause you’ve stolen the one that i love
So you’ll be sleeping with the fishes tonight
Now listen
I’m not religious but I’ve learned to pray for her
I’m not a violent man but people can change
So when you’re sleeping
I’ll slit your throat and drain your blood
And mail it to your mother
So she’ll discover what a mess you become


lyrics at http://www.sweetslyrics.com/534125.Ice%20Nine%20Kills%20-%20The%20Greatest%20Story%20Ever%20Told.html
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: MaidenIndigo on July 01, 2008, 11:55:56 pm
Andrew Bird
Fake Palindromes (http://youtube.com/watch?v=QV-IDVdDx78)


My dewy-eyed bride what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde? monsters?
Whiskey-plied voices cried fratricide!
Jesus don’t you know that you coulda died with the monsters what talk
Monsters what walk the earth

She’s got red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes
Knee high socks what to cover a bruise
She’s got an old death kit she’s been meaning to use,
Blood in her eyes - in her eyes for you
She’s got blood in her eyes for you

Certain fads, stripes and plaids singles ads
Run you hot and cold like a rheostat i mean a thermostat
So you bite on a towel hope it won’t hurt too bad

She says i like long walks and sci-fi movies
You’re six foot tall and East coast bred
Some lonely night we can get together
And I’m gonna tie your wrists with leather
And drill a tiny hole into your head
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Gaian on July 04, 2008, 03:43:47 pm
This one is from Enya, but not one of her most famous songs... but it's relaxing, anyways.  :) The first one is in the original language, the second in English.

Title: Athair ar Neamh

Athair ar Neamh, Dia linn
Athair ar Neamh, Dia liom
M'anam, mo chroí, mo ghlóir,
moladh duit, a Dhia.

Fada an lá, go sámh
Fada an oích', gan ghruaim
Aoibhneas, áthas, grá,
moladh duit, a Dhia.

Móraim thú ó lá go lá.
Móraim thú ó oích' go hóich'.

Athair ar Neamh, Dia linn
Athair ar Neamh, Dia liom
An ghealach, an ghrian, an ghaoth,
moladh duit, a Dhia.

TRANSLATION:
   
title: Father in Heaven

Father in Heaven, God bless us
Father in Heaven, God bless me
My soul, my heart, my glory,
praise to you, God.

Long is the peaceful day
Long is the night without gloom
Delight, joy, love,
praise to you, God.

I glorify you day after day.
I glorify you night after night.

Father in Heaven, God bless us
Father in Heaven, God bless me
The moon, the sun, the wind,
praise to you, God.

Ah... I found the title writed "Athair ar Neamh" and "Athair ar Namh"... Does anybody know which one is right?  ???
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Ralleyon on July 04, 2008, 05:21:17 pm
I think "neamh" but not sure. I get more google hits with that than with "namh".
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Mindari on July 04, 2008, 07:28:34 pm
It's always darkest before it goes
Completely black
I'm older now so I should know
You never can look back

But the scars of childhood memories
Dominate my head
The inner pain I've vowed to keep
Until the day I'm dead

You can't see, the life I was forced to lead
What it's like to die daily
You can't feel, the thoughts I've learned to steal
Survival is my reality

When I was young I lived in fear
The hands of doom forever drawing near
I wonder how I learned to persevere
As time advanced deceit was my life's truth
Spurred on by the peace I never knew

Time does not heal
The scars that burned me in my youth
Time does not heal
The pain that carved in me the truth
Time does not heal
The torture struck upon my past
Time does not heal
The scars that were left and meant to last

Over the many years I've tried
To bury deep my past
Attempting to cope with what's inside
My wastelands of regret

But defeated before I began
To join the human race
Indelibly I've felt the brand
Of scars I can't erase

I was the fool, subversive and overrulled
Into my abyss I was pulled
The ways of hate, constantly agitate
The scars as they'd eviscerate

Inside my head desolation forms
Shadows grasping my mind through its storm
I couldn't see that I was being forewarned
That anguish was to take my life's controls
And rake it's wounds forever into my soul

Time does not heal
The scars that burned me in my youth
Time does not heal
The pain that carved in me the truth
Time does not heal
The torture struck upon my past
Time does not heal
The scars that were left and meant to last

I have learned to live alone, it's meant to be
Endless lies and emptiness fulfilling me
Life's there to decieve the truth you'll never see
Understand that I am dying to be free

Images have haunted me since I was young
Chilling were the arms of fear I was among
What were once just nightmares now have since become
Real atrocities which I can't escape from...

It's always darkest before it goes
Completely black
I've realized now that it's impossible
Surviving their attack

Through duress I'm borne, a past that's brought me scorn
And when I'm dead, will I be mourned?
The scars I've worn, the mental flesh I've shredded and torn

Time does not heal
The scars that burned me in my youth
Time does not heal
The pain that carved in me the truth
Time does not heal
The torture struck upon my past
Time does not heal
The scars that were left and meant to last
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Mathy Stockington on July 04, 2008, 07:41:48 pm
 http://www.lyricsdepot.com/harry-chapin/cats-in-the-cradle.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlHdjjHNEC8My child arrived just the other day


He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home dad?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

Well, he came home from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time
You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Parallo on July 04, 2008, 07:48:12 pm
Ah... I found the title writed "Athair ar Neamh" and "Athair ar Namh"... Does anybody know which one is right?  ???

The language is Irish and the word is neamh.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Odessa Wildfire on July 07, 2008, 08:52:37 pm
mind.in.a.box - Escape

I awakened in the city to utter darkness.
I was running for hours and hours
through deserted streets.
between all those towers,
there was only rain -- only the rain.

I went through doors, I scoured the alleys.
in the rain I climbed ridges.
I walked over bridges, but there was no one there.
I felt deaf, although my hearing was fair.

but there was only silence.
not even the rain...

there must be more.
I need you to quell my fears.
I've felt it before.
I need you to shed my tears.

the things I adore.
I need you to feel my pain.
I'm trapped like before.
I need you to stop the rain.

I've cast myself into a prison,
with bonds near impossible to break.
I thought my life is built on reason,
but now I know I've got to escape.

I've depraved myself of all I had,
and thought I need to for my own sake.
I didn't think I would be so sad,
but without you I cannot escape.
not even the rain...

deep in my heart,
I want you to pull me back.
I've kept us apart,
I want you to fix my wreck.

awake with a start,
I want you to enter my mind.
to re-cast my part,
I want you to follow me blind.

I've cast myself into a prison,
with bonds near impossible to break.
I thought my life is built on reason,
but now I know I've got to escape.

I've depraved myself of all I had,
and thought I need to for my own sake.
I didn't think I would be so sad,
but without you I cannot escape.

escape, it's not there!
not even the rain...




mind.in.a.box - Forever Gone

dialing
it's me.
listen, something is wrong.
the trace. it went dead. two hours ago.
...
I don't know,
everything was in place until then.
one second it was there,
and then he just disappeared.
...
don't blame me.
I told them not to use the cheap stuff!
...
no, we have no idea.
we've lost him completely.
later.

dialing
listen.
we found the hotel he was staying in.
somebody must have tipped him off.
he was already gone.
...
listen! we tore down the whole place.
there was an address on a slip of paper.
it was the address of a bar.
hello? you still there? h e l l o?

in this place you cannot reach me.
to save my mind, my flesh forever gone.
I feel the way so deep inside me.
so much to pay, but now I'm gone.

dialing
good.
so we went to this bar. he was in the back.
...
not really.
his body. it was sprawled on the floor.
...
I'm not sure.
his gear was still there, but he erased his data.
he must have used it only a minute before.
...
we're still working on it.
I think he found a way
to escape to the other side.
...
yes, impossible. but I think he did it.
...
we can't! not now!
...
alright... we'll tune in.

in this place you cannot reach me.
to save my mind, my flesh forever gone.
I feel the way so deep inside me.
so much to pay, but now I'm gone.

in this place you cannot reach me.
to save my mind, my flesh forever gone.
I feel the way so deep inside me.
so much to pay, but now I'm gone.

dialing
it's me.
we've failed. he has vanished.
either he is dead, or he has switched over.
...
alright. we'll abort immediately.
Title: Re: Your favorite lyrics
Post by: Mrokii on July 13, 2008, 01:20:22 pm
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours

Girl of sixteen, whole life ahead of her
Slashed her wrists, bored with life
Didnt succeed, thank the lord
For small mercies

Fighting back the tears, mother reads the note again
Sixteen candles burn in her mind
She takes the blame, its always the same
She goes down on her knees and prays

I dont want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that gods got a sick sense of humor
And when I die I expect to find him laughing

Girl of eighteen, fell in love with everything
Found new life in jesus christ
Hit by a car, ended up
On a life support machine

Summers day, as she passed away
Birds were singing in the summer sky
Then came the rain, and once again
A tear fell from her mothers eye

I dont want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that gods got a sick sense of humor
And when I die I expect to find him laughing