What is lyrically your favourite song?

[Cerpin Taxt]

Just post what your favourite song is lyrically, try to consider originality, artistic expression, emotion, wit, social consciousness and storytelling. Also post the lyrics of the song for other people to view.

For me, it has to be Time by Pink Floyd, although I'm too young to be able to relate to these lyrics I can really imagine how it must feel. Here are the lyrics, it'd be cool if someone read and commented on them, as I'm interested to read other peoples and basically to just hear opinions etc.

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run, you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell.

[Kanenite]

Never really thought about it. Time is Runnin' Out by Muse is pretty cool, so's Starlight. Both have some pretty funky lyrics.

[Cerpin Taxt]

kanenite said:

Never really thought about it. Time is Runnin' Out by Muse is pretty cool, so's Starlight. Both have some pretty funky lyrics.

What is your interpretation of Starlight?

I've never really thought about the meaning.

[Kanenite]

emerald said:

kanenite said:

Never really thought about it. Time is Runnin' Out by Muse is pretty cool, so's Starlight. Both have some pretty funky lyrics.

What is your interpretation of Starlight?

I've never really thought about the meaning.

Probably that he's being deported out of the country.

[V e l o c i t y]

I doubt anyone will read all of this but meh...I think my favourite bands for lyrics are... At The Drive-In/The Mars Volta, Brand New, Deftones, Pearl Jam and Tool. Note that these are just a small amount of songs I like.

With ATDI and The Mars Volta I like how sometimes you just can't figure some of the lyrics out and you just keep thinking and thinking about them. Cedric's vocal melody is amazing on this song... ATDI - One Armed Scissor

Yes this is the campaign
Slithered entrails
In the cargo bay
Neutered is the vastness
Hallow vacuum check the
Oxygen tanks
They hibernate
But have they kissed the ground
Pucker up and kiss the asphalt now
Tease this amputation
Splintered larynx
It has access now

Brand New are a great band and their lyrics are some of the best I've ever heard, they can be emotional but check these out... Brand New - Play Crack The Sky

I am the one who haunts your
Dreams of mountains sunk below the sea
(After the storm)
I spoke the words but never
Gave a thought to what they all could mean
(Wrecked in the deep)
I know that this is what you want
A funeral keeps both of us apart
(Washed up on the beach)
You know that you are not alone
I need you like water in my lungs
(This is the end)

I've always found Deftones a great influence to me, Chino bases his lyrics on the feel of the moment and sometimes they are very open to interpretation so you can make it your own. I love Chino's voice, it has an edge about it and just adds to the lyrics, no one else could sing a Deftone's song... Deftones - Digital Bath

You move like I want to
To see like your eyes do
We are downstairs where
No one can see
New life breakaway
Tonight I feel like more
Tonight I...

Pearl Jam I find sometimes have an epic sound, the music is just right and the lyrics that accompany just fits. I like how Pearl Jam can produce some of the most emotional songs I know of and yet also create some pretty rocking ones too. I know no one else really cares about Pearl Jam but I think they're very important. I find this song really powerful... Pearl Jam - Black

I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...
All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll ever be...yeah...

Finally with Tool... Maynard has a unique voice and I love the spirtual meanings behind the lyrics it really makes you think. I find with Tool it does push your mind some of the lyrics really are hard to figure out as they are very complex. Tool - Lateralus

Swing on the spiral of
Our divinity and
Still be a human

With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds
And open wide to suck it in, I feel it move across my skin
I'm reachin' up and reachin' out, I'm reachin' for the random or
Whatever will bewilder me, whatever will bewilder me
And following our will and wind, we may just go where no one's been
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been

Spiral out
Keep going
Spiral out
Keep going
Spiral out
Keep going
Spiral out!
Keep going

[Cerpin Taxt]

I read through all of that post Velocity, and I have to say the lyrics I liked most were the Brand New lyrics, followed by the ATDI lyrics, they created great mental imagery for me.

[Kanenite]

I've changed my mind, mine are Glasgow Kiss'.


LOL

[V e l o c i t y]

PUSH MY FINGERS INTO MY EYES!

Amazing...

[Kanenite]

[Angry]PUSHMYFINGERSOMGINTOMYEYESWTFBBQ!!! [/Angry]

[That Chick]

Linkin Park- Faint
Kelly Clarkson- beautiful Disaster
Michael jackson (omgwtfbbq) - man in the mirror
Swing Life Away- Rise against
Am I loud and clear or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer or we just getting more lost?
I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

Chorus]
We live on front porches and swing life away
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave 'til the end
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

I've been here so long I think that its time to move
The winter's so cold summer's over too soon
Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow
And I've got some friends some that I hardly know
But we've had some times I wouldn't trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

[Chorus]


I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

[Chorus]

[!BENNY!]

P Diddy - Every breath you take
Public Enemy - He Got Game (come on now people)
Muse - Starlight

[Ultimafanatic]

morpheus said:

Public Enemy - He Got Game (come on now people)

Damn fucking straight.

[!BENNY!]

Oh yeah!!!! That song is just "Good Times" in a bottle...well...song...

[Ultimafanatic]

"I don't freestyle much But I write em like such"

Chuck D sounds like hes preaching in that song.

[!BENNY!]

That's because he most probably is