What Are Your Favorite Song Lyrics?

[Debater Slayer]

What are some of your favorite song lyrics? They don't have to be complete songs; portions of songs would work too as long as you find something to be particularly appealing about the words.

To start things off, here are some of my favorite lyrics (from Pink Floyd's Time):

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
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, and 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

 

[Wherenextcolumbus]

Oak leaves shaking in a clearing, out of sight and hearing...
Kindling for a magic trick, it hastens from my lips, burning...
I fortify my lair; we take in castle air, drinking...
Cart wrights foul their hammers on their fragile digits, cursing...
Children pull their parents, hooves and tears on cobbles, neighing...
We laugh at peasant ingenuity, “They're so charming.”
The cathedral overhears and metal lupine jaws are snarling...

I have the heart of a bear!
The heart of a bear!

Fingers fashioned into stars, a clumsy constellation fanning
conflagrations in my chest, lungs and embers screaming...
Broken bits of man around the city walls are crumbling...
The visage of a soldier, stoic, growing colder, waiting...
Passion conquered fear, fate has brought us here, gazing
owl eyes in sunlit skies we hurry backwards, reeling...
The maiden pressed against the leaden glass gives me feeling...

I have the heart of a bear!
The heart of a bear!

Eyeteeth drawn against my tongue… the villagers have fun at hiding!
Then they swarm about me, fearing, wondering and clapping,
remembering the kings who used to use their hands when hunting...
The starka fills me up, I gnash at buttercups… she's watching!
Who am I and where? I cannot help but stare! I'm whirling!
I flail about and grimace, scream and shout and finish, kneeling!
Faces drown in ripples, underneath I frown; she's leaving...

I have the heart of a bear!
The heart of a bear!

 

[Infinitum]

Melancholy by CMX
English translation by me trying to capture the feeling of the original lyrics

How I hate speaking, words,
how I hate writing.
I only walk in circles in my empty house.
Thoughts mere delirium,
wishes a web in the morning.
A whole lifetime of ash and fog.

Those that whimper out of love, those that howl out of lust
circle the heart of the city craving blood.
In their gloomy castles behind the mighty walls
the covards hide to brood their ghosts.

(refrain)
(Is) the world a nightmare from you can't wake up?
(Is) life just a sigh between two voids?

Time goes on, the clocks are in gallop.
Many wretches snatched by their graves.
So take the bridge before the evening,
but beware of the men in the murderer's guild.
Beware of joining those
who believe in nothing anymore.

The will to perish may be a thread in the cloth of the soul,
another greed for power beyond the sphere of the known.
The battle last as long as the space between two words.
Yes or no, that is the question.

 

[Wherenextcolumbus]

Sadly one Sunday I waited and waited
With flowers in my arms for the dream I'd created
I waited 'til dreams, like my heart, were all broken
The flowers were all dead and the words were unspoken
The grief that I knew was beyond all consoling
The beat of my heart was a bell that was tolling

Saddest of Sundays

Then came a Sunday when you came to find me
They bore me to church and I left you behind me
My eyes could not see one I wanted to love me
The earth and the flowers are forever above me
The bell tolled for me and the wind whispered, "Never!"
But you I have loved and I bless you forever

Last of all Sundays

 

[Wherenextcolumbus]

I can make fire breath. I learned it as a lad. My master told me I had prowess no one ever had!

I could conduct the light… I’d look away to her… She’d match my spit with spite; I don’t know what her reasons were.

I fell in love with her. My tongue is purple-black. I lit a bluish rose… She carved a curse into my back!

I dance when beauty’s near. I hop to taunts and jeers. I sought out stony glens… Lovely ladies don’t come here.

I paint the rock with flame. I burn and bruise my feet. I spit, I’m naked, ever-hungry, I forget to eat.

I stamp out flowers and I fill my ears with mud. (That way the birdsong will not stir and agitate my blood.)

I stare at ugly things. I suffer cuts and stings. It’s been a happy, hopless, curseless ten-years hermitting!

But then I smell the air and see her shrivelled there… And though my blood begins to jump and boil, I don’t despair.

The curse is breathing flames that I could never name. I ask her, shaking, quaking, why the bloody hell she came!

She does not answer me. Her eyes are withering! The wind begins to bend her… Now my muscles start to sing!

I clasp her desperately, and we jump fifty feet! Am I the very toad that used to hop along her street?

I fell in love with her. My tongue is purple-black. I light a bluish rose and heap the flames upon our backs…

 

[Sand Dancer]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Well, sometimes my life
Just don't make sense at all
When the mountains look so big
And my faith just seems so small [/FONT]
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So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And I wake up in the night and feel the dark
It's so hot inside my soul
I swear there must be blisters on my heart
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight You for something
I don't really want
Than to take what You give that I need
And I've beat my head against so many walls
Now I'm falling down, I'm falling on my knees [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And this Salvation Army band
Is playing this hymn
And Your grace rings out so deep
It makes my resistance seem so thin[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace[/FONT]
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[Sha'irullah]

Despised Icon - Fractured Hand

I remember that brief moment when I shouted "end this day"
Mistakes and lessons have since gone my way

The same regrets lie noiselessly for now within these poor isolated walls
Something this sacred should not have been taken for granted
My vow of secrecy must be kept
Something this sacred should not have faded with time

I've failed you once again yet you still hold my hand

I desperately dig within to recover that sweet innocence that shined upon us
I loathe myself for every time I was moved by someone else's loveliness
All those precious moments we have shared have been violated by temptation's venomous kiss

If only I could look at you again with the same eyes that once cherished every single step you took

My heart aches whenever I think of that night you fervently whispered "je ne te connais plus"
This is the end of something beautiful

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[Wherenextcolumbus]

What is
is a game for scholars
So: it was sheer necessity
nothing but chance that
for reasons hidden to the world
has led the two souls here
Made them equal like dog and owner
annoyed but neutral spend the night
sharing the same bed they did slumber
beneath two blankets ...side by side (oh, please)

[2x]
It makes no difference to explain
How it all came to this
'cause what if is a game for scholars
approve and seal it with a kiss!

Quickly erasing your lust, all we inspire is disgust.
But then, of course, you can never be sure.
and that's the ghost that's haunting you !!!

(Let me tell you about love
It’s not expensive
Would you like to try?)

Familiar causes made me shiver
mainly with chill this foetus coiled
Apologies did only soothe his anger
but explanations could not avoid
him winding down the ancient form
the spell of insecurity
that liturgy which cruelly pointed out
the difference between him and me

I can't be bothered to explain
how it all comes to this
because all causes are "familiar"
accept and seal it with a kiss

The larch, and not the morning-****
beheld two spoons our cook had graced
and as our hero woke, he found
his left arm still around my waist
he rose, and I, the ugly child
born of the shadow sphere
allowed my thoughts to briefly travel
to a world... too far from here
where it's the **** that greets the morning
and piles have meanings unlike their faces here ... -

but what if is a game for scholars not, baby.
so try your best now to hide the tears

He said, as he walked to the bathroom:
"I am not at all like you !!!"

"Well I don't have the slightest idea
what you could possibly be referring to.
But rest assure, man, because whatever
this most dreadful thing might be
be sure that our difference is more than obvious
to the world outside ... and me!"

Quickly erasing your lust, all we inspire is disgust
But then, of course, you can never be sure
and that's the face that's frightening you !!!

I can't be bothered to explain, how it all comes to this,
'cause what if is a game for scholars
and it's called:
HELVETIA SEXUALIS

 

[Infinitum]

A Page From the Devil's Diary by CMX

The metallic blade scours out a cleft in the metallic plate
The wheels that turn aren't feeling any shame
Sleep runs out from those docked to the system
As the sonde sinks into the sun
Evil is like an element that you study until going mad
Goodness follows the electric voltage of the room
The face is a map that reflects the universe
and bends it until the weight collapses into a horizon

"hydrogen
helium
lithium
beryllium
boor
coal
nitrogen
oxygen
fluorine
neon
natrium
magnesium
aluminium
silicon
phosphor
sulphur"

(refrain)
You longed for
everything
You longed for
much
You took
You sought for
You demanded
You got
You looked
You found
more
You wanted
You hungered
deeper
current

Don't touch when you don't know, orientation or volume
the cold distance measured in light minutes
from here to there, where the heavenly forces hold camp
for millennia counted from the Earth
"Start the motors"

(refrain)

Once I remember knowing all about eternity
once having known all about the mechanic of the sky
Was I too afraid of all that power demands from you
Our forces are tired and victory so far
We want matter forever to go on
to expand, until darkness prevails
The enemy tampers the additional entropy

(refrain)

They curse that name even though I am matter itself

 

[Falvlun]

Redemption Song, by Bob Marley

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the 'and of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing
This songs of freedom
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.

Won't you help to sing
This songs of freedom-
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

 

[Falvlun]

And I've always had a special place in my heart for these lines from the Barenaked Ladies' Pinch Me:

On an evening such as this
It's hard to tell if I exist
Packed the car an' leave this town
Who'll notice that I'm not around?
I could hide out under there
I just made you say "Underwear"
I could leave but I'll just stay
All my stuff's here anyway

 

[Debater Slayer]

John Lennon wrote some outstanding lyrics.

Everybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism
Ragism, Tagism, this-ism, that-ism
Ism ism ism

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Everybody's talkin' 'bout ministers, sinisters
Banisters and canisters, bishops and fishops
Rabbis and pop eyes, bye bye, bye byes

All we are saying, is give peace a chance
All we are saying, is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now
Everybody's talking about, revolution
Evolution, masturbation, flagellation
Regulation, integrations, meditations
United Nations, congratulations

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

 

[DallasApple]

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Do Your Thing-C.Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - YouTube

 

[Revoltingest]

These aren't bad....
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Family Guy Church song - YouTube

 

[RaXz]

Pendragon - Paintbox

Painting pictures of a thousand different paths
We sketch an outline of a love that hopes to last
Casting a wand over imaginary hopes
And close our eyes so we don't fell the ebb and flow

And paintbox you are my only hope of covering the faded past and starting
Out once more
With a fortune in new colours new hopes to inspire
I paint the path I want to take and paint a life of fire

Marking out our lives full of different plans
Excitedly we hold the key to change our hearts and hands
We climb the hill to see if green fields lie beyond
Only to realise they've faded now and gone

And paintbox you are my only hope of covering the faded past and starting
Out once more
With a fortune in new colours new hopes to inspire
I paint the path I want to take and paint a life of fire

Painting pictures of a thousand different paths
We sketch an outline of a love that hopes to last
Casting a wand over imaginary hopes
And close our eyes so we don't fell the ebb and flow

And paintbox you are my only hope of covering the faded past and starting
Out once more
With a fortune in new colours new hopes to inspire
I paint the path I want to take and paint a life of fire

 

[NobodyYouKnow]

I have three and I cannot decide between them:

1. Ground - Assemblage 23

Ground - Assemblage 23

Be still
Though chaos rains around you now
Only so much rain can fall at once
Breathe in
And let the air envelope you
And slow but sure, serenity will come

Close your eyes
Try to breathe
Feel the ground beneath your feet
It's still there
The world still turns around

Stand up
Though circumstance has knocked you down
There is nothing gained by staying within it's reach
Take strength
In every failure you endure
Our mistakes have many lessons they can teach

Close your eyes
Try to breathe
Feel the ground beneath your feet
It's still there
The world still turns around

Destroy
These walls you've built around yourself
You can't take another step until they're gone
Move out
No use in dwelling in the past
Bid farewell to all your fears and carry on

Close your eyes
Try to breathe
Feel the ground beneath your feet
It's still there
The world still turns around

2. Inside Of You, In Spite Of You - ThouShaltNot

Inside Of You, In Spite Of You - ThouShaltNot

I am in the air now
I am in your lungs
I am written
I am spoken by a million flaming tongues
I'm the lens through which you see
I'm the process
I am the key
I am synapses firing bullets from a gun
I'm the world's mystique
I am the words you speak
I am language
I am hidden memories that you seek
I am the sun before you see me rise
I burn still when you close your eyes
I am the soul that never dies when flesh is weak

I am inside of you in spite of you
With strength and sacred grace
But for all you do
I'll carry you now
From this bitter place

I am in your future
I am in your past
I'm the echo of your footsteps
I'm your shadow cast
I'm the heat you radiate
I am the fury and the fate
I am each beat within your heart from first to last
I'm your action without thought
I am the instinct born inside you
I'm the bones from which you drape
I am protective skin to hide you
I'm the pull that the earth exerts
I am the rain that stings and the snow that blinds
I'm the architecture of your world and mind

I am the dawn of ages
I am the days seen through
I'm final entropy
I am inside of you
I am the clouds that cover
Your way into the blue
I kiss with life to give
All this in spite of you

3. Immortal - The Cruxshadows

Immortal - The Cruxshadows

I do not know the mind of God and I cannot guess his thoughts
But I have searched for you across the void when my sense of self was lost
The answer stands to brush my grasp in the darkness and the pain
And I saw myself for all I am, the decisions I have made

With hearts immortal, we stand before our lives
A soul against oblivion, forever asking why
This upside down symphony in a paradox called life
Our hearts immortal
What you give to love, will never die

And when my ashes scatter here with my memories to the wind
What endures beyond the silent edge is the essence found within
Have we forgotten truly who we are and what our living means
Our purpose lies in others eyes and the realities that we bring

With hearts immortal, we stand before our lives
A soul against oblivion, forever asking why
This upside down symphony in a paradox called life
Our hearts immortal
What you give to love, will never die

All that I am
And all that I dream
Lives somewhere beyond
Your image of me
And who I become
And what I will be
Is not yours to decide
It comes only from me

With hearts immortal, we stand before our lives
A soul against oblivion, forever asking why
This upside down symphony in a paradox called life
Our hearts immortal
What you give to love, will never die

 

[luthfox]

Celtic Woman - Awakening

Now when the world is shadowed and dark
Now when the sky is empty of stars
Now when the world is wrapped in sleep
In a quiet endless and deep
In the silence of the night

Far off in the distance
A fire comes to life
A flicker of a flame breaks through the dark
Burning soft and bright
Dancing with the light
Awakening the Heavens and the Earth

Far across the ocean
A flame is rising high
Breaking through the shadows and the dark
Shining in the night
Rising with the light
Here to wake the Heavens and the Earth

Now as the light starts to rise
Now as the day opens wide
Now as the dreams slips away
You wake to the day
You wake to the light

Here as your dream falls away
Feel as the dark turns to day
Leave the shadows behind
And the dream called in blind
Turn into the light

Far off in the distance
A fire comes to life
A flicker of a flame breaks through the dark
Burning soft and bright
Dancing with the light
Awakening the Heavens and the Earth

Far across the ocean
A flame is rising high
Breaking through the shadows and the dark
Shining in the night
Rising with the light
Here to wake the Heavens and the Earth

Far off in the distance
A fire comes to life
A flicker of a flame breaks through the dark
Burning soft and bright
Dancing with the light
Awakening the Heavens and the Earth

Far across the ocean
A flame is rising high
Breaking through the shadows and the dark
Shining in the night
Rising with the light
Here to wake the Heavens and the Earth

Here to wake the Heavens and the Earth
To light

 

[EnsignRo]

My first one is from Above and Beyond - A thing called love

"Thing Called Love"
(feat. Richard Bedford)

There was a time, there was a place
But there was fear inside
A witty line to save my face
A parachute of pride
To cross the line takes a tiny step
But will the spark cause the bridge to burn
My fear entwined with my regret
I beat a path for safe return

So here we are, we're just the same
And you will never know
My secret plan, how close we came
To share another road

And have I lost my only chance
To tell you how I feel inside?
Is it just me, I'd like to know
Or are we all just a little blind?

There's a thing called love that we all forget
And it's a wasted love that we all regret
You live your life just once
So don't forget, forget about a thing called LOVE

My second one is from Mumford and Sons
"Dust Bowl Dance"

The young man stands on the edge of his porch
The days were short and the father was gone
There was no one in the town and no one in the field
This dusty barren land had given all it could yield

I've been kicked off my land at the age of sixteen
And I have no idea where else my heart could have been
I placed all my trust at the foot of this hill
And now I am sure my heart can never be still

So collect your courage and collect your horse
And pray you never feel this same kind of remorse

Seal my heart and break my pride
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
Align my heart, my body, my mind
To face what I've done and do my time

Well you are my accuser, now look in my face
Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace
So one man has and another has not
How can you love what it is you have got

When you took it all from the weak hands of the poor?
Liars and thieves you know not what is in store
There will come a time I will look in your eye
You will pray to the God that you've always denied

Then I'll go out back and I'll get my gun
I'll say, "You haven't met me, I am the only son"

[x2]
Seal my heart and break my pride
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
Align my heart, my body, my mind
To face what I've done and do my time

Well, yes sir, yes sir, yes, it was me
I know what I've done, 'cause I know what I've seen
I went out back and I got my gun
I said, "You haven't met me, I am the only son"

 

[Debater Slayer]

From Dio's The Last in Line:

Two eyes from the east
It's the angel or the beast
And the answer lies between
The good and bad

We search for the truth
We could die upon the tooth
But the thrill of just the chase
Is worth the pain

We'll know for the first time
If we're evil or divine

 

[Debater Slayer]

From Dio's All the Fools Sailed Away:

There's perfect harmony
In the rising and the falling of the sea
And as we sail along
I never fail to be astounded by
The things we'll do for promises
And a song

We are the innocent
We are the damned
We were caught in the middle of the madness
Hunted by the lion and the lamb
Ooh - Ooh

We bring you fantasy
We bring you pain
It's your one great chance for a miracle
Or we will disappear
Never to be seen again

And all the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
Sailed away