Song lyrics

[lola]

Some lyrics can be so powerful and meaningful that you can feel it in your bones, either for personal reasons or just because they strike a nerve. Anyone have any they would like to share? Here's some that speak to me right now:

Here Without You 3 Doors Down

100 days have made me older

Since the last time that I saw your pretty face

1000 lies have made colder

And I don't think I can look at this the same

But all the miles that separate

Disappear now when I'm dreaming of your face

Everything I know and anywhere I go

It gets hard but it won't take away my love

When the last one falls, when it's all said and done

It gets hard but it won't take

Away

My love

[cptx]

3 doors down has a bunch of amazing lyrics. Dude can write a song.

[lola]

3 doors down has a bunch of amazing lyrics. Dude can write a song.

Yeah. I love them. He gets me everytime.

[PhillyB]

there was a time when switchfoot's Nothing is Sound album did that for me. very existential and melded perfectly with everything swimming around in my soul during those days

 

music is powerful poo

[Jangler]

we used to have a thread for this...lost in the crash of '08.

"Wharf Rat"

Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city.

Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee.

I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story.

My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine.

More than my wine - more than my maker, though he's no friend of mine.

Everyone said, I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them.

Half of my life, I spent doin' time for some other f*cker's crime,

The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine.

But I'll get back on my feet again someday,

The good Lord willin', if He says I may.

I know that the life i'm livin's no good,

I'll get a new start, live the life I should.

I'll get up and fly away, I'll get up and fly away, fly away.

Pearly's been true, true to me, true to my dyin' day he said,

I said to him, I said to him, "I'm sure she's been."

I said to him, "I'm sure she's been tru to you."

Got up and wandered, wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just hang around.

I've got a girl, named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me.

I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me.

[Arroz con Panther]

The City by The Chariot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UO0YR-MBJI

 

The end of the song, both lyrically and musically, gives me chills (starting with Calm Rose: Violent Wind).  Be wary if you listen to it, the style isn't for everyone (read: of the hardcore genre and they're loud).

 

"This is only the start
You're only opening the book
You're only on the first line of what's going to take a little while
I hope you don't hold your breath because they revolt like a choir
They say the language is dead, well, then why do we speak
I hope you understand that my brain is fixed

Into the next town
This is only a revolt

Enough is enough because we cannot be late
Basically, you've been defined as "unworthy of love"
And I confess, I had placed in my heart the same address but I paint with my words
"You're free, don't fear, this is just a revolt"

Into the next town
This is only a revolt

Calm rose: violent wind
The only "surrender" tonight, shall not be our own
They cannot escape, one if by land, two if by sea
I saved my money, but it can't save me
And maybe there is blood from the past, but that is not from me
They can take away one man, and they can take away his mic
But they cannot take us all
No, they can't dig a hole the right size to fit all of our dreams
They can't bury me, they can't bury me
We can't hope that somebody else take our place
No, we can't hope that somebody else take our place

May the history book read of all of our names
Be it blood, be it ink, but at least we were free
This is only but a fraction of what I've got to say
It must be said, it must be sad
If I leave this earth tonight may it be said that I spoke my peace
I spoke with the wrath of his grace
Calm rose: come violent wind
Oh we stand hand in hand and we walk without fear
This is a revolution"

[cptx]

I'm seriously glad this thread wasn't here last night. I would have posted ten pages of 80's hair metal lyrics.

[pstall]

Sade can deliver some deep soulful lyrics.

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[woodboxer]

Blue October "Hate Me"

I have to block out thoughts of you, so I don't lose my head
They crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed
Dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I'm alone
Playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home
There's a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain
An ounce of peace is all I want for you, Will you never call again?
And will you never say that you loved me just to put it in my face
And will you never try to reach me, it is I that wanted space

Hate me today.
Hate me tomorrow.
Hate me for all the things i didn't do for you.
Hate me in ways, yeah ways hard to swallow.
Hate me so you can finaly see what's good for you.
 

[CatofWar]

PokerFace, I'd rather die. Google it. While you're at it, Google Ron Paul.

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[Anybodyhome]

Harry Nilsson, likely one of the greatest songwriters of our time, occasionally came up with a tune that wasn't too cerebral. He just kind of threw it in your face, like this little ditty:

 

[lightsout]

Hurt "Omission"
 

For crying out loud its girl next door
Lying there naked on the bathroom floor
Because of you she left the room

And how about parents in the nursery homes
Every third Sunday they get clean rooms
There’s no excuse to leave the room

There’s a bastard child in the parking lot
You could of told someone but you rather not
What’s the use
They’d just blame you

You did nothing wrong
You did nothing at all
No its not your fault
You did nothing at all

No you didn’t its been done before
The sun was shaking and your eyes were sore
The truth hurts you

Sisters tone on the phone was wrong
Her husband left and her kid got shot
There’s no excuse for all this room

I begged and pleaded for another chance
You didn’t want to hear me now the dead can dance
And you left me in ruin


And you did nothing wrong
You did nothing at all

How could it be your fault
You did nothing at all

No you did nothing wrong
You did nothing at all

You did nothing wrong
You did nothing at all

How could it be your fault
You did nothing at all

 

[lola]

All of me by John Legend

Cause all of me loves all of you

Love your curves and all your edges

All your perfect imperfections

Give your all to me

I'll give my all to you

You're my end and my beginning

Even when I lose I'm winning

You're my downfall

You're my muse

My worst distraction

My rhythm and blues

My head's under water

But I'm breathing fine

You're crazy and I'm out of my mind

[KSpan]

Not an entire song, but a favorite lyric from RA - 'Poor is the man that believes his own lie.'