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Post by themriron2 on Feb 15, 2021 13:22:51 GMT
No one lyric from this that I love more than anything else, but Eric Whitacre's "The Sacred Veil" is such an unbelievably beautiful work of music. He wrote the music and set it to poetry by his friend, who had lost his wife to cancer a few years prior, and Whitacre even inserted some of his friend's wife's old poetry as well as some words of his own. The idea of the "sacred veil" as an image of mortality is so unique and interesting, and the writing is very moving. If I had to quote one bit, it would be this one. Whitacre himself said that this idea is "all the poetry we could possibly wish for when someone else loves us". It compliments the music wonderfully: And on that golden, hopeful day
The boy was bold enough to say,
“Come, hold my deepest secrets here among the foam;
You are the world to me, and you... you feel like home.”The official programme scan is here if anyone is curious: ericwhitacre.com/wp-content/uploads/SIGCD630-Booklet.pdf |
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 31, 2021 16:13:39 GMT
"I wanna watch you suck his dick" Emmure
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Post by SailorBlue on Apr 29, 2021 20:36:58 GMT
"Like as a child I was so dissmissive of the baked potato 'till I tried that shit
Now the baked potato is my favorite kind potato" - Lil Dicky
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Post by Breakfast in D-sharp on Jun 24, 2021 23:43:29 GMT
I've been getting into The Magnetic Fields lately, largely due to my appreciation of Stephin Merritt's brilliantly quirky lyrics. A few examples... From "My Only Friend" Hey Lady Day, can you save my life this time?
Can you cry so beautifully you make my troubles rhyme?From "A Pretty Girl Is Like..." A pretty girl is like a violent crime
If you do it wrong you could do time
But if you do it right it is sublimeFrom "I Shatter" Should night not fall, you make things dark.{How Fucking Romantic (whole song - dont worry, its not very long)}
How fucking roman-tic
All the stars are out
Twinkling twinkling twin-kling
And fluttering about
What a tacky sun-set
What a vulgar moon
Play another char-ming
Rogers and Hart tune
How fucking roman-tic
Must we really waltz?
Drag another cli-ché
Howling from the vaults
Love you obvious-ly
Like you really care
Even though you treat me
Like a dancing bear
Toss your bear a gold-fish
As it cycles by
Don't forget to feed your
Bear or it'll die |
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Post by fallenalien on Nov 10, 2021 13:19:25 GMT
The trouble with your brother
He's always sleeping with your mother
Jarvis Cocker
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Post by Tetra on Dec 6, 2021 18:47:13 GMT
"Stop! 'Cause why'd you have to kill my cat?"
...interesting lyrics
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Post by Seb on Dec 15, 2021 23:50:00 GMT
Goddamn it Avril I had just tucked in my pillow cases, this is causing me a lot of stress
Anyhow, here's one of LL Cool J's most romantic bars:
"I love you more than a man who's 10 feet tall"
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Post by fallenalien on Dec 16, 2021 9:57:20 GMT
I guess these could be described as "Otherwise Questionable".
"So turn around, walk away
Before you confuse the way, we abuse each other
If your not afraid of getting hurt
Then I'm not afraid of how much I hurt you"
Marylin Manson in 2009
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Post by Seb on Dec 16, 2021 17:12:03 GMT
Listening in 2009: Damn, that's so wicked, dude! I wonder where he got the inspiration to say that
Listening in 2021: ...
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Post by fallenalien on Dec 28, 2021 0:47:18 GMT
"What's up little girl? I ain't got time to play"
Baby didn't say too much; she said, "Are you gay?"
Kinda took me by suprise, I didn't know what to do
I just looked her in her eyes and I said, "No, are you?"
Prince
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Post by Macca on Dec 29, 2021 0:04:31 GMT
dont forget the pitbull kodak lyric
Me not working hard?
Yeah, right, picture that with a Kodak
Or better yet, go to Times Square
Take a picture of me with a Kodak
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Post by clem on Jan 3, 2022 18:01:46 GMT
Iron Maiden is quite a mixed bag of stuff Whilst it's not exactly profound, the lyrics to "The Trooper" are very descriptive. In terms of conjuring up the image of the battlefield, they are quite fit for purpose. {The Trooper}The bugle sounds, the charge begins
But on this battlefield, no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses' breath
As I plunge on into certain death
The horse, he sweats with fear, we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall In general that's kind of what Bruce's voice suits best, lyrically; telling a good yarn. Even when it's very tongue-in-cheek nonsense like "Dance of Death", I can picture the scene quite vividly. {Dance of Death}Let me tell you a story to chill the bones
Out of thing that I saw
One night wandering in the everglades
I'd one drink but no more (officer I swear)
I was rambling, enjoying the bright moonlight
Gazing up at the stars
Not aware of a presence so near to me
Watching my every move
Feeling scared I fell to my knees
As something rushed me from the trees
Took me to an unholy place
That is where I fell from grace
Then they summoned me over to join in with them
At the dance of the dead
Into the circle of fire I followed them
Into the middle I was led
As if time had stopped still I was numb with fear
But still I wanted to go
And the blaze of the fire did no hurt upon me
As I steped onto the coals
And I felt that I was in a trance
And my spirit was lifted from me
And if only someone had the chance
To witness what happened to me
And I danced and I pranced and I sang with them
All had death in their eyes
Lifeless figures, they were undead all of them
They had ascended from hell "Empire of the Clouds" is quite possibly their best lyrical achievement, telling a more somber and poignant story this time. {Empire of the Clouds}She's the biggest vessel built by man
A giant of the skies
For all you unbelievers, the Titanic fits inside
Drum roll tight her canvas skin, silvered in the sun
Never tested with the fury, with the beating yet to come
The fury yet to come
In the gathering gloom
The storm rising in the west
The coxswain stared
Into the plunging weather glass
We must go now
We must take our chance with fate
We must go now
For a politician, he can't be late
The airship crew awake for thirty hours at full stretch
But the ship is in their backbone
Every sinew, every inch
She never flew at full speed, a trial never done
Her fragile outer cover her Achilles would become
An Achilles yet to come Then there was that one time Bruce dabbled in 80s metal S&M lyrics, and it really didn't suit him at all. A few points for referencing one of their older songs in "22 Acacia Avenue" (I like little self-referential things like that). But between the general crapiness of the lyrics, and Bruce leaning into that nasal snarly tone way too much on this track, "Hooks in You" remains one of my least-favourite Iron Maiden songs. {Hooks in You}I got the keys to view at number 22
Behind my green door there's nothing to see
Is that a feature, what kind of creature
Would hang around waiting for a guy like me?
Stone cold sober and sitting in silence
Laid back, looking for sympathy
I like a girl who knows where she's bound
I don't like girls who've been hanging around
No big deal, no big sin
Strung up on love, I got the hooks screwed in
Hooks in you, hooks in me
Hooks in the ceiling for that well hung feeling
No big deal, no big sin
Strung up on love, I got the hooks screwed in |
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Post by clem on Jun 27, 2022 17:47:12 GMT
Listening through some Sonata Arctica again, and rather than poke fun at how their English wasn't the best on the first album, or how Tony's metaphors are sometimes nonsensical, I'd rather give credit where it's due, and say: "White Pearl, Black Oceans" actually has a really good set of lyrics. It's a good story that drip feeds information to great effect, and I was quite engrossed reading the words, even without the music. In short: Lonely af lighthouse keeper hooks up with girl on New Year's Eve, which is her final night before she leaves town forever because she's not living her best life in her hometown. All goes well, but on the way back home, he gets seven shades knocked out of him by someone he can't see clearly because it's dark. When he finally regains consciousness, he realises he never made it back to the lighthouse in time. On returning to town, he learns that a ship of people died because he was not at his post. He also recognises the family name of a man (from his tattoo) who is for lynching him, and deduces he must be the girl's husband, and the one who beat him until he was unconscious. Anger issues husband just inadvertently killed his own wife, a bunch of other innocent people, and apparently his unborn child too, because he'd rather slap the head off a lighthouse keeper than actually sort his marriage out (he can't exactly be the best husband if his pregnant wife was for catching the first boat of the new year out of there). But they need someone to blame, and lighthouse boy runs for his life. He's found innocent by trial, because that was never going to stick. But nobody is going to look at him the same way, and the town will blame him forever. Lighthouse keeper forever alone, and that's a pretty good short story ngl. {White Pearl, Black Oceans lyrics}I was born and raised by the sea, shy yet proud,
Learned to stay away from the crowd
In my home, my lighthouse...
101 steps, round and dound
New Years Eve, one night in the town
Can change one life into eternity...
All I could see, her eyes,
We got caught in the moment, all of the night
Taken beyond all lines,
In silence leaving 'em all behind
She had found the sails, for the following night
The town, for her, was getting way too small
She promised to be mine
Forever, ... for that one night...
Moments, passion, small defeats
Concealed emotions, found in me
"You gave life to a brand new me..."
Crossing the wintry fields,
The first hour of morning light
Warmed by the flame inside,
The lasting memory of the ending night
I never had a chance to stop what hit me...
What broke my bones and mauled me...
After hours of deep, unwilling sleep... in a cold shelter
Fell back in the dark, and the hours of the day passed...
A nightmare awakes me, blinking light!
There's no guide, blind ships in the night
Oh blood red moon, eat away the night
Darkness covers my lonely soul,
No one to feed the dying light...
Good morn', oh dreadful day,
I prayed the moon had lit the sea instead of me...
For the sails of night,
"Please tell me everything's alright..."
My voice in the room broke the silence,
Everybody killed me with their eyes...
What I was to hear made the people cry,
Impossible for me to keep the tears inside
"All on board the White Pearl have died,
Coastal reef have tolled their lives
And you are the light of the night..."
One thing, I remember, before I fell on the ground...
Although I never saw the face,
A name was inked in his arm...
Love can be like poetry of demons, or maybe
God loves complex irony?
The family name stated I had seen before...
Written on her front door...
"Silence in the courthouse!"
A presence in the room, we both could feel
The father of her unborn child and me
All on board the White Pearl have died,
Coastal reef have tolled their lives
While I was the guide light...
Back in my tower, run, run, run
Light is out, I hope to see
Black oceans beneath rise and swallow me
One step will take me back inside, another sees my end
No one can love a man who guarded the light,
(Guarded the light, one faithful night)
Flaming eyes I must confront before I am stated free
Defining innocence is hell, after all that has past...
Building new walls inside my eternal night...
Although they took my heart and dried me up
Sometimes I still bleed...
Show me the way (show me the way)
The light will show me a way on the grisly reefs
Too many dead ends I see
No soul can save me
The respect I lost, the measure of a man...
10 000 steps down, round and round
One night at the town and I'm hell bound
Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
All on the board White Pearl had died,
Coastal reef come claim my life
Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
My little tower, seal my fate
Help me pay back, end their hate
Black oceans beneath come and swallow me
One direction, down, down, down
Pitch black night for my old town
Black oceans beneath shall now swallow me
"I hereby commit the body to the deep,
To be turned into corruption
Looking for the resurrection of the body,
When the Sea shall give up her dead
And the life of the world to come, through our Lord,
Amen." |
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Post by Osmosis on Jul 9, 2022 7:58:32 GMT
I think "Name" by the Goo Goo Dolls stands as one of the most complete set of lyrics I've ever heard in a song. There're are two lines that really stand out from it though.
Even though the moment passed me by
I still can't turn away
Scars are souvenirs you never lose
The past is never far
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2022 9:18:30 GMT
From Dream On by Aerosmith:
Sing with me, sing for a year
Sing for the laughter, and sing through the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
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