Zerofuchs Posted June 5 I'm amazed there's no mention of Bohemian Rhapsody. Best is a bit hard to say for me, I'm often into songs as much for feel as for anything else. Hell I don't even need to understand the lyrics. In terms of lyrics that do stick... VNV Nation's Illusion is a fairly powerful song, but like a lot of VNV Nation tracks it's not going to leave you in a better mood after listening: Spoiler I 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 Being like you are Well this is something else, who would comprehend? But some that do, lay claim Divine purpose blesses them That's not what I believe, and it doesn't matter anyway A part of your soul ties you to the next world Or maybe to the last, but I'm still not sure But what I do know, is to us the world is different As we are to the world but I guess you would know that 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, oh please don't leave here I don't want you to change For all the hurt that you feel This world is just illusion, always 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 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, oh please don't leave here I don't want you to change For all the hurt that you feel This world is just illusion, always trying to change you Sesto Rodriguez also has some fairly heavy songs lyrically. Sugarman is the one most would know I think, but establishment blues is also pretty heartfelt in it's genuine anger. Spoiler The mayor hides the crime rate, council woman hesitates Public gets irate, but forgets the vote date Weatherman complaining, predicted sun, it's raining Everyone's protesting, boyfriend keeps suggesting You're not like all of the rest Garbage ain't collected, women ain't protected Politicians using people, they're abusing The mafia's getting bigger, like pollution in the river And you tell me that this is where it's at I woke up this morning with an ache in my head I splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed I opened the window to listen to the news But all I heard was the Establishment's Blues Gun sales are soaring, housewives find life boring Divorce the only answer, smoking causes cancer This system's gonna fall soon, to an angry young tune And that's a concrete cold fact The pope digs population, freedom from taxation Teeny Bops are up tight, drinking at a stoplight Miniskirt is flirting, I can't stop, so I'm hurting Spinster sells her hopeless chest Adultery plays the kitchen, bigot cops non-fiction The little man gets shafted, sons and monies drafted Living by a time piece, new war in the far east Can you pass the Rorschach test? It's a hassle, it's an educated guess Well, frankly I couldn't care less 1 Share this post Link to post
Austrian Oak Posted June 5 Take out the papers and the trash Or you don't get no spending cash If you don't scrub that kitchen floor You ain't gonna rock and roll no more Yakety yak Don't talk back 0 Share this post Link to post
whybmonotacrab Posted June 5 My fav song is probably Get out the Car by Aesop Rock. Gets me every time: Quote Been a bit since Mu died Been a lot more lost than awake I recall thinking someday someone's gonna say it's all from the same cause and effect And I just couldn't fathom Blaming a whole new page on a made-up chain reaction Each claim individual peaks and pockets Pains in a slew of unique nuances When you wake up eight years non responsive It's a lot to process Gone from a happier jack in a box To a package of clogged up chakras Oh shazbat Not the everafter we wanted from the once upon a time Dot-dot-dot Once upon a time he was so much more than a punchline for his own potshots Ah! Watch the Impossible Kid Everything that he touch turns promptly to shit If I zoom on out I can finally admit It's all been a blur since Mu got sick 0 Share this post Link to post
Jello Posted June 5 (edited) There's quite a few, but this lyrical beauty from Tom Waits on Heartattack and Vine always hits my idea of a perfect musical line just fine: "Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk" 2 Share this post Link to post
DoomGappy Posted June 5 (edited) Not ironically a lot of Ween's lyrics. My favorite being "If you could save yourself (you'd save us all)" which features the following verse: Quote The wheels fell off, the bottom dropped out The checks all bounced, I came in your mouth Your mother came calling but there was no one around The trash caught fire when the leaves turned brown The vultures were circling when the circus left town I left you a note but I wrote it in disappearing ink This "I came in your mouth" is delivered so bleakly that it doesn't register as offensive, or crude, or childish. And that's a great feat from a band with the type of humor Ween are believed to have. It just feels like a routine action a failing couple may be going through while trying to salvage the relationship, or another of those terrible situations that happen during life. Alternatively, my favorite brazilian song ever: Edited June 7 by DoomGappy 1 Share this post Link to post
Dubbag Posted June 5 (edited) "If you don't live for something, you die for nothing!" - Hatebreed "Live for This" Edited June 5 by Dubbag 0 Share this post Link to post
YouAreTheDemons Posted June 5 "I tell you now from within my dreams, I've seen the very demons he described And now the thing I fear the most, is where I’ll go when I die" - Space God Ritual "Mad Alhazred" 0 Share this post Link to post
The Royal We Posted June 5 (edited) I can't answer that. My whole life flashes back in my head with a question like that. I can only share this image: 0 Share this post Link to post
SirPootis Posted June 5 (edited) "Some are born to move the world To live their fantasies But most of us just dream about The things we'd like to be Sadder still to watch it die Than never to have known it For you, the blind who once could see The bell tolls for thee . The bell tolls for thee" -"Losing It", by Rush (the whole song is just so good. gives me that good ol' existential dread we all crave before suddenly busting out a cathartic string solo in 11/8 time) (also R.I.P. Neil Peart. One of the best to ever do it.) 1 Share this post Link to post
dial-up Posted June 7 On 6/5/2024 at 1:13 PM, DoomGappy said: his "I came in your mouth is delivered so bleakly that it doesn't register as offensice, or crude, or childish. Hell yeah, Ween. I always thought this line was well done. 1 Share this post Link to post
yakfak Posted June 8 (edited) i like: After this I saw multitudes Forced from the land Cleared away for the wool Dispossessed, refugees Who were told to be free Free to starve or to Slave Free to choose A or B As we offered to labour or die I saw cities explode with this freedom And covered my eyes... AHHHHHHHH i like: Now I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours but I think god's got a sick sense of humour and when I die, I'm sure to find him laughing lol i like the first two verses of Wish You Were Here i like: one day this chalk outline will circle this city and I also like: You got a run on your pharmaceuticals, you better change it 'fore the night grows old, prescription's filled now cut yr suit-and-tie cuticles, you cut your fingernails way too shorrrrrt i like: one you lock the target two you bait the line three you slowly spread the net and four you catch the man <3 edit: ooh hey I also like: The captain's free-hand is a cleaver Which he fashions his beard, and he rations his jerky! And carves his peg outta the finest mahogany! Or was it Ebony? Tallies up his loneliness, notch by notch ‘Cause the sea offers nothing to hold or touch Notch by notch, winter by winter Notch by notch, winter by winter Now his leg is whittled, right down to a splinter and I like: cube top, squared-off, eight corners, ninety degree angles, flat top, stares straight ahead, stock parts, blockhead! and I like: futuristic bow-wow! Edited June 8 by yakfak 1 Share this post Link to post
plums Posted June 8 2 minutes ago, yakfak said: i like: one you lock the target two you bait the line three you slowly spread the net and four you catch the man <3 Hah, I was listening to this track (and album) a lot a few months ago, like playing it every day. I showed it to @DoomGappy and apparently the intro got used in some really popular Brazilian funk party song. Front 242 even sued them over it. It's so bizarre. 3 Share this post Link to post
DoomGappy Posted June 8 22 minutes ago, plums said: Hah, I was listening to this track (and album) a lot a few months ago, like playing it every day. I showed it to @DoomGappy and apparently the intro got used in some really popular Brazilian funk party song. Front 242 even sued them over it. It's so bizarre. This is like the quintessential funk song, still plays a lot in parties here in Brazil. 1 Share this post Link to post
Naarok0fkor Posted June 8 Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Mit der ich sonst viele Zeit verdorben Sie hat so lange nichts von mir vernommen Sie mag wohl glauben, ich sei gestorben! Es ist mir auch gar nichts daran gelegen Ob sie mich für gestorben hält Ich kann auch gar nichts sagen dagegen Denn wirklich bin ich gestorben der Welt! Ich bin gestorben dem Weltgetümmel Und ruh' in einem stillen Gebiet! Ich leb' allein in meinem Himmel In meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied! 0 Share this post Link to post
The Royal We Posted June 8 6 hours ago, plums said: Hah, I was listening to this track (and album) a lot a few months ago, like playing it every day. I showed it to @DoomGappy and apparently the intro got used in some really popular Brazilian funk party song. Front 242 even sued them over it. It's so bizarre. NO GOD no god PLEASE no NO NO NOOOOOOO- (now it’s playing over and over inside my head) 1 Share this post Link to post
BeachThunder Posted July 17 Been listening to a bunch of Operation Ivy recently: Quote Saw a civilization where grabbing onto wealth Was the only guarantee of freedom, peace, and health Dollar sign value system upheld as the truth If you can't find a place, it's gonna find you Saw the paranoid response to all of the examples Of the ones who don't fit in this way of living getting trampled Success is obedience to a structured way of life Can't ignore the structure 'cause we're all within its sight Spoiler 0 Share this post Link to post
act Posted July 17 Hotel California. I call that song "The Furry Song" because it perfectly describes my experience with the local furry community; a six-month period of complete shit that ended in me getting banned from a furry convention for outing sex offenders. 1 Share this post Link to post
Votterbin Posted July 17 All these broken souls, they never make me whole They don't, they don't know my heart They don't know my heart All these broken souls, each one more beautiful They don't, they don't know my heart They don't know my heart I'll send out my soul to worlds more beautiful But they won't, they won't know my heart It's the darkest part Starset - Ricochet 0 Share this post Link to post
Redneckerz Posted July 17 On 6/5/2024 at 2:04 AM, Zerofuchs said: I'm amazed there's no mention of Bohemian Rhapsody. Best is a bit hard to say for me, I'm often into songs as much for feel as for anything else. Hell I don't even need to understand the lyrics. In terms of lyrics that do stick... VNV Nation's Illusion is a fairly powerful song, but like a lot of VNV Nation tracks it's not going to leave you in a better mood after listening: Reveal hidden contents I 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 Being like you are Well this is something else, who would comprehend? But some that do, lay claim Divine purpose blesses them That's not what I believe, and it doesn't matter anyway A part of your soul ties you to the next world Or maybe to the last, but I'm still not sure But what I do know, is to us the world is different As we are to the world but I guess you would know that 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, oh please don't leave here I don't want you to change For all the hurt that you feel This world is just illusion, always 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 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, oh please don't leave here I don't want you to change For all the hurt that you feel This world is just illusion, always trying to change you Reveal hidden contents The mayor hides the crime rate, council woman hesitates Public gets irate, but forgets the vote date Weatherman complaining, predicted sun, it's raining Everyone's protesting, boyfriend keeps suggesting You're not like all of the rest Garbage ain't collected, women ain't protected Politicians using people, they're abusing The mafia's getting bigger, like pollution in the river And you tell me that this is where it's at I woke up this morning with an ache in my head I splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed I opened the window to listen to the news But all I heard was the Establishment's Blues Gun sales are soaring, housewives find life boring Divorce the only answer, smoking causes cancer This system's gonna fall soon, to an angry young tune And that's a concrete cold fact The pope digs population, freedom from taxation Teeny Bops are up tight, drinking at a stoplight Miniskirt is flirting, I can't stop, so I'm hurting Spinster sells her hopeless chest Adultery plays the kitchen, bigot cops non-fiction The little man gets shafted, sons and monies drafted Living by a time piece, new war in the far east Can you pass the Rorschach test? It's a hassle, it's an educated guess Well, frankly I couldn't care less Love VNV Nation, Illusion is one of my all time faves. Endless Skies is also really goodThe world is just illusion, always trying to change you. 1 Share this post Link to post
libre-lettuce-pie Posted July 17 (edited) "E poi se ne vanno tutti, da qua se ne vanno tutti Non te ne accorgi, ma da-da-da qua se ne va-vanno tutti~" Probably tied with "They're opening in stride, And the sound begins to erupt, It sounds like a crowd Burning alive" Edited July 17 by Milkeno 0 Share this post Link to post
fart Posted August 6 ANYTHING will wood. that man sold his soul to write UTTER POETRY 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted August 6 This is not about good lyrics as such, but I do enjoy it when someone dissects bad lyrics. Such as this: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/stephen-sondheim-dissects-the-jardiance-jingle Yes, it is true that we are told about the little pill's big story, but never get to hear it. I recall that years ago someone did something similar with Spice Girls' lyrics. It might even have been a Doomworlder. 0 Share this post Link to post
