Songs with good lyrics

[dude]

Add Marlyn Manson to that.

and Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage.

 

[Nemesis77]

There are lots. Just to name few....

Simon & Garfunkel: Sound of Silence (IMO best lyrics there are)
Delerium: Fallen Icons
Delerium: Myth
Anything by Enigma
Anything by Nightwish

My current favourite song (by Nightwish):

Bless The Child

"I was born amidst the purple waterfalls.
I was weak, yet not unblessed.
Dead to the world. Alive for the journey.
One night I dreamt a white rose withering,
a newborn drowning a lifetime loneliness.
I dreamt all my future. Relived my past.
A witnessed the beauty of the beast"

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why has all the laughter ceased?

Why am I loved only when I'm gone?
Gone back in time to bless the child
Think of me long enough to make a memory
Come bless the child one more time

How can I ever feel again?
Given the chance would I return?

I've never felt so alone in my life
As I drank from a cup which was counting my time
There's a poison drop in this cup of Man
To drink it is to follow the left hand path

"Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is the deadliest sin - to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time,
soon to be freed from care, from human pain.
My tale is the most bitter truth:
Time pays us but with earth & dust, and a dark, silent grave.
Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron,
hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul's nothing but a name...

The Child bless thee & keep thee forever"

EDIT: there's LOTS of finnish music with great lyrics. But they are (you guessed it) in finnish

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: Scipionix
Bob Dylan back in the day.

werd

Masters of War

"
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
"


I was young when I left home
"
I was young when I left home
To when I been rambling round
And I never wrote a letter to my home
To my home, lord, to my home
5 And I never wrote a letter to my home

It was just the other day
I was drinking on my pay
When I met an old friend I used to know
Said, ?Your mother?s dead and gone
10 Baby sisters all gone wrong
And your daddy needs you home right away?

Not a shirt on my back
Not a penny on my name
Oh, I can?t go home this a-way
15 This a-way
Lawd, lawd, lawd
And I can?t go home this a-way

If you miss the train I?m on
Count the days I?m gone
20 You will hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
A hundred miles honey baby
Lawd, lawd, lawd
And you?ll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles

I?ve playing on the track
25 Ma will come and hold me back
On those trestles down by old Jim McKay?s
When I pay the debt I owe
To the commissary store
I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
30 Go home
Lawd, lawd, lawd
I will pawn the watch and chain and go home

Used to tell them all sometimes
When I see them riding blinds
35 Gonna make me a home out in the wind
In the wind
Lawd in the wind
Make me a home out in the wind
I don?t like it in the wind
40 I wanna go back home again
But I can?t go home this a-way

This a-way
Lawd, lawd, lawd
And I can?t go home this a-way

45 I was young when I left home
And I?ve been all rambling around
And I never wrote a letter to my home
To my home
Lawd, lawd, lawd
50 And I?ve never wrote a letter to my home.

"

 

[UglyCasanova]

Anything by Built to Spill.

 

[Martin]

Tool - Reflection

I have come curiously close to the end though
Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole
Defeated I, concede and move closer
I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness
How pitiful

It's calling me
It's calling me
It's calling me
It's calling me

And in my darkest moment, feeble and weeping
The moon tells me a secret, my confidant
As full and bright as I am
This light is not my own
Familiar light reflections pass over me
The source is bright and endless
She resecuitates the hopeless
Without her we are lifeless sattalites drifting
And as I pull my head out
I am without one doubt
You want to peer down here?
Survey my narcissicm I
must crucify the ego
before it's far too late
I pray the light lifts me out

Before I pine away
Before I pine away
Before I pine away
Before I pine away

So cruify the ego before it's far too late
And leave blind this place so negative, blind, and cynical
And will you come to find
That we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
And let the light touch you
To let the words spill through
And let them pass right through
Bringing out all hope and reason

Before we pine away(pine away)
Before we pine away(pine away)
Before we pine away(pine away)
Before we pine away

 

[polypterus]

Originally posted by: Conflict
Bad Religion - Parallel


Yea, BR is my favorite band

Mine too... all 190 of their songs have absolutely incredible lyrics. Here's one I picked randomly.

Against The Grain

three thousand miles of wilderness
overcome by the flow,
a lonely restitution of pavement,
pomp and show,
I seek a thousand answers,
I find but one or two,
I maintain no discomfiture,
my path again renewed,
against the grain,
that's where I'll stay,
swimming upstream,
I maintain against the grain

here labelled as lunatic,
sequestered and content,
there ignored and defeated
by the government,
there's an oriented public who's magnetic
force does pull,
but away from the potential of the individual,
against the grain.....

the flow is getting stronger
with smaller increments of time and eddies
of new ideas are increasingly hard to find,
you need all that the other has,
your right to seize the day
but in all your acquisitions you will soon
be swept away,
against the grain......
there's a common consensus
and an uncomfortable cheer,
a reverberating chorus that anyone can hear,
it sings "leave your cares behind you,
just grab tenaciously",
this lulling sense or purpose will
destroy us rapidly,
against the grain.....

 

[ravahbOi]

Anything by TOOL...just don't always take their lyrics literally and you'll be okay.

 

[SWirth86]

Our Lady Peace, Incubus, and System of a Down

System of a Down - Shimmy

Education, fornication, in you are, Go,
Education, subjugation, now you're out, Go,
Education, fornication, in you are, Go,
Don't be late for school again boy

I think me, I want life,
I think me, I want a house and a wife,
I want to shimmy- shimmy- shimmy through the break of dawn, yeah.

 

[slpaulson]

AFI is my favorite

AFI - The Despair Factor

Along the path where the stream is talking, I breathe the mist and continue walking. The wood it whispers in a language of it's own. As a sigh escaped my lips I feel the light caress of fingertips that steal away the breath and leave me on my own, waiting by the stairs. Waiting, I despair. Do I hear the hollow sound, footsteps resounding on this frozen ground, or the familiar disappointment of the echoes of my own? Somehow I ended up here in between, where there is always the comfort of knowing I'll never be seen when I fall. I wait for just one touch.and I fall. Weightless, Endless, Faithless, I'll adore you. A single touch before I fade. Painless let me pass through.

 

[Cyco]

"Kielbasa"-Tenacious D.

 

[Ladies Man]

Originally posted by: cyco5150
"Kielbasa"-Tenacious D.

damnit i wanted to say tenacious d

i was going to say double team though.....

Damn, a hard day's rockin'. Better slip off ma shoes.
Maybe give a little stretch, and a bend.
Dip m'toe to jacuzzi, baby. Slip out this book:
The Buttress of Windsor. Ho ho ho, who's this? How's it goin'?

That's the first thin' I say to you.
How's it goin'? Are you flowin'?
Listen honey,
Thinkin' 'bout a couple things to say to you,
Showin', growin',
Man I'd like to place my hand
upon your f#ckin' sexy ass and squeeze.
And squeeze!

Take off your blouse,
And your underpants,
Then take a look,
'Cause here me and KG come naked,
Out of the side-hatch,
With the oils and perfume and incense.
Now you're groovin',
Put on a cool '70s groove.
A funky groove to funk to.
A funky groove to funk to.

Me, me and KG,
It's all about sex supreme,
We likes to cream jeans. (sex)
Have you ever been worked on
By two guys who are hot for your snatch? (sex)
That's what I'm offerin' you.
You step into our room,
And then you smell the perfume,
You lay upon our roundish bed,
And then you feel a tickling on your head.
It's KG with the feather and the French tickler,
Look out baby he got the tools.
And then you feel sumpin' down by your feet.
It's me, it's JB, I'm suckin' upon your toes.

We don't mind sucking on toes!
Good luck finding a boyfriend who sucks toe, ow!
Havin' sex with me and KG,
Now you're talkin' double team supreme.

 

[DanFungus]

Toy Box (artist)
the songs:
Super-duper-man
Sailor Song
Best Friend
Prince of Arabia
hell, all of their songs are good with bueno lyrics

 

[kuk]

Even though I'm a DMB nut, lyricwise, I personally love this one:


Paul Simon - Slip Slidin' Away

Slip slidin? away
Slip slidin? away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you?re slip slidin? away

I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said Delores
I live in fear
My love for you?s so overpowering
I?m afraid that I will disappear

I know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses
To describe her life
She said a good day
Ain?t got no rain
She said a bad day?s when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been


And I know a father
Who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons
For the things he?d done
He came a long way
Just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again

God only knows
God makes his plan
The information?s unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we?re gliding down the highway
When in fact we?re slip slidin? away

 

[johneetrash]

a fall farewell - dead in my eyes
how foolish we can be
to think that your portrait became the epitome
an angel inside your heart
i still remember that day that you blinked three times
when three months were erased in three days and three nights
such a beautiful facade / the repetition ceases to amaze me
three weeks away could not bring perspective
for friendship once thought cherished
now just a candle falling victim to your cold breath
you say that angels can't die
i saw one hiding motionless beneath blood stained sheets
dead in my eyes

 

[Vic]

Bump this back up with Jackson Browne, "The Pretender," 1976

I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again
Amen
Say it again
Amen

I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening
I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
And when the morning light comes streaming in
You'll get up and do it again
Amen

Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender
Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
And the junk man pounds his fender
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait
For the ice cream vendor
Out into the cool of the evening
Strolls the Pretender
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there

Ah the laughter of the lovers
As they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others
But to choose off and fight
And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams
Sail out of sight

I'm going to find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams
And then we'll put our dark glasses on
And we'll make love until our strength is gone
And when the morning light comes streaming in
We'll get up and do it again
Get it up again

I'm going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Though true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender

 

[edjam]

Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Originally posted by: BlipBlop
Any song by the Smiths. Simply amazing.

bigmouth was good

 

[Parabol]

Tool - all of their stuff
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Pearl Jam - Sleight of hand
Radiohead - Pyramid song, In Limbo, How to disappear completely
Matthew Good Band - Prime time deliverance
Modest Mouse - Stars were projectors