The Lyrics Thread-Part VI

Collapse the light into Earth - Porcupine Tree

youtube.com/watch?v=xmjaV7UB … re=related

One of the most beautiful songs to me…

I won’t shiver in the cold
I won’t let the shadows take their toll
I won’t cover my head in the dark
And I won’t forget you when we part

Collapse the Light Into Earth

I won’t heal given time
I won’t try to change your mind
I won’t feel better in the cold light of day
But I wouldn’t stop you if you wanted to stay

Collapse the Light Into Earth

Half Light - Porcupine Tree

And just a song for when I am feeling a little sentimental… or is that semi-mental?
youtube.com/watch?v=A9MMEL0Apwo

Such a pale light
Such a long night
Pick up that key
Don’t drop your gaze in your coffee
Is it me?
Do I look beautiful in the half light?

It’s been so long
Years have gone
Since I belonged
Hold me please
Stay with me

And I will sleep

I will go now
But I will be with you
Hold my gaze
Hold me inside you

Dogs - Pink Floyd
Part I - Part II

You got to be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes and when you’re on the street
You got to be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking

And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You’ll get the chance to put the knife in

You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know, it’s going to get harder, and harder, and harder
As you get older
Yeah, and in the end you’ll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer

And when you lose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down all alone
Dragged down by the stone

Gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don’t stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze

Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone’s expendable, and no one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
Everything’s done under the sun
But you believe at heart everyone’s a killer

Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone
Who was dragged down by the stone

The Light -Mirah

What’s the use of holding out a work-sore hand
to catch some when it turns up empty-
all is dry and all you ever wanted some rain…

If heaven is the future why is it that you refuse to go there now?
With all you have you really should do more than just complain.

Such a rotten taste is left when you don’t think to say that,
It’s just such a sorry waste to take the easy way out of the pain.

When the end shines from the deep
and all the hate and all the hell
that history has released
will tremble before your valor
if you just get down on your knees
and promise to all your children true
that you will live in peace…

Where’s the light to shine on me?
Oh, send me something, send me please.
Cleanse my body, close my eyes,
all naked and prepared to die.

In the starry atmosphere
when all the questions disappear
and pressure with a salty taste
exalts the tears that soak your face.

If - Pink Floyd
Waters

If I were a swan, I’d be gone.
If I were a train, I’d be late.
And if I were a good man,
I’d talk with you
More often than I do.

If I were to sleep, I could dream.
If I were afraid, I could hide.
If I go insane, please don’t put
Your wires in my brain.

If I were the moon, I’d be cool.
If I were a rule , I would bend.
If I were a good man, I’d understand
The spaces between friends.

If I were alone, I would cry.
And if I were with you, I’d be home and dry.
And if I go insane,
Will you still let me join in with the game?

If I were a swan, I’d be gone.
If I were a train, I’d be late again.
If I were a good man,
I’d talk with you
More often than I do.

Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

[size=75]Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99
If I could offer you only one tip for the future,
sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen
have been proved by scientists
whereas the rest of my advice
has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering experience…
I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth;
oh nevermind;
you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth
until they have faded. But trust me,
in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself
and recall in a way you can’t grasp now
how much possibility lay before you
and how fabulous you really looked….
You’re not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future;
or worry, but know that worrying is
as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation
by chewing bubblegum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind;
the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you
Sing
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts,
don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don’t waste your time on jealousy;
sometimes you’re ahead,
sometimes you’re behind…
the race is long, and in the end,
it’s only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults;
if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters,
throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know
what you want to do with your life…
the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22
what they wanted to do with their lives,
some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees,
you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t,
maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t,
maybe you’ll divorce at 40,
maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…
what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much
or berate yourself either –
your choices are half chance,
so are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…
don’t be afraid of it,
or what other people think of it,
it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own…
Dance…
even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines,
they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents,
you never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings;
they are the best link to your past
and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,
but for the precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle
because the older you get,
the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard;
live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths,
prices will rise,
politicians will philander,
you too will get old, and when you do
you’ll fantasize that when you were young
prices were reasonable,
politicians were noble
and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse;
but you never know when either one might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair,
or by the time you’re 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy,
but, be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia,
dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal,
wiping it off,
painting over the ugly parts
and recycling it for more than it’s worth. [/size]
But trust me on the sunscreen…

“Sleeping With Ghosts” - Placebo

youtube.com/watch?v=DSxjest21sI&feature=fvw

The sea’s evaporating
Though it comes as no surprise
These clouds we’re seeing
They’re explosions in the sky
It seems it’s written
But we can’t read between the line

Hush
It’s okay
Dry your eye
Dry your eye
molebat dry your eye
Dry your eye
molebat dry your eye
Cause molebats never die

This one world vision
Turns us in to compromise
What good’s religion
When it’s each other we despise
Damn the government
Damn their killing
Damn their lies

Hush
It’s okay
Dry your eyes
Dry your eyes
molebat dry your eyes
Dry your eyes
molebat dry your eyes
Cause molebats never die

molebats never die
Never die
molebats never die
Never die…
molebats never die
molebats never die
molebats never die
molebats never die

:woo: :lol: :love: :hug: :hugs:

“Extreme Ways” by Moby

Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn’t know
I broke everything new again
Everything that I’d owned
I threw it out the windows, came along
Extreme ways I know move apart
The colors of my sea
Perfect color me

Extreme ways that help me
That help me out late at night
Extreme places I had gone
But never seen any light
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming through
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it then

I would stand in line for this
There’s always room in life for this

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does

Extreme songs that told me
They helped me down every night
I didn’t have much to say
I didn’t get above the light
I closed my eyes and closed myself
And closed my world and never opened
Up to anything
That could get me along

I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
Too many things to cover me
Too much can make me blind
I’ve seen so much in so many places
So many heartaches, so many faces
So many dirty things
You couldn’t even believe

I would stand in line for this
It’s always good in life for this

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does

I’ve had this one stuck in my head for a while.

“Epiphany” from Sweeney Todd :ebil:

There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit
And it’s filled with people who are filled with shit
And the vermin of the world inhabit it.
But not for long…

They all deserve to die.
Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why.
Because in all of the whole human race
Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two
There’s the one staying put in his proper place
And the one with his foot in the other one’s face
Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you.

No, we all deserve to die
Even you Mrs. Lovett, even I.
Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death will be a relief
We all deserve to die.

And I’ll never see Johanna
No I’ll never hug my girl to me - finished!
Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?
Come and visit your good friend Sweeney.
You sir, too sir? Welcome to the grave.

I will have vengenance.
I will have salvation.
Who sir, you sir?
No ones in the chair, Come on! Come on!
Sweeney’s. waiting. I want you bleeders.
You sir! Anybody!
Gentlemen now don’t be shy!

Not one man, no, nor ten men.
Nor a hundred can assuage me.
I will have you!
And I will get him back even as he gloats
In the meantime I’ll practice on less honorable throats.
And my Lucy lies in ashes
And I’ll never see my girl again.

But the work waits!
I’m alive at last!
And I’m full of joy!

Without Mythologies-The Weakerthans (One of my favorites)

A soft breeze with the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush, contrasting with the hoarfrost, clean and hung on a tunnel of silent shivering trees (the ones you said you’d like to be), and the birds that screamed at the sun now buried deep down below the ground, beneath the snow, I press my shoulder to this wall between us. I know you are behind me but I press my shoulder to this wall, determined not to turn around. I know I’ll see you standing, still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss, so beautiful you’ll never move again. Someplace far away, at some sad table littered with bad light, with chipped plates, in 48 frames from a movie on the cutting room floor, you said “True meaning would be dying with you”, and though I wanted to, I did not smile. But now I will give up on this wall that we have fought with, never uncover meaning behind our rich words. If I could I would make you a raging river, with angry rapids, supplied with rain, so you could always meander and forever be able to run away without contending with myths wrongly interpreted with pain. A harsh wind.

Plea From a Cat Named Virtue-The Weakerthans (For sake of adorable things)

Why don’t you ever want to play?
I’m tired of this piece of string
You sleep as much as I do now
And you don’t eat much of anything
I don’t know who you’re talking to
I made a search through every room
But all I found was dust that moved
In shadows of the afternoon

And listen, about those bitter songs you sing?
They’re not helping anything
They won’t make you strong

So, we should open up the house
Invite the tabby two doors down
You could ask your sister
If she doesn’t bring her basset hound
Ask the things you shouldn’t miss:
Tape-hiss and the Modern Man
The Cold War and card catalogues
To come and join us if they can

For girly drinks and parlor games
We’ll pass around the easy lie
Of absolutely no regrets
And later maybe you could try
To let your losses dangle off
The sharp edge of a century
And talk about the weather, or
How the weather used to be

And I’ll cater with all the birds that I can kill
Let their tiny feathers fill disappointment
Lie down; lick the sorrow from your skin
Scratch the terror and begin
To believe you’re strong

All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV
And frankly that thing doesn’t really interest me
I swear I’m going to bite you hard
And taste your tinny blood
If you don’t stop the self-defeating lies
You’ve been repeating since the day you brought me home
I know you’re strong

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bob Dylan

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin’ through
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
Your empty handed armies, are all going home
Your lover who just walked out the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who’s rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start a new
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.

Novocaine for the Soul
Eels — Watch: <https://youtu.be/V2yy141q8HQ>

Life is hard
And so am I
You’d better give me something
So I don’t die
Novocaine for the soul
Before I sputter out
Before I sputter out
Life is white
And I am black
Jesus and his lawyer
Are coming back
Oh my darling
Will you be here
Before I sputter out
Before I sputter out
Before I sputter out
Guess who’s living here wi th the great undead
This paint by numbers life is f—ing with my head, once again
Life is good
And I feel great
'cause mother says I was
A great mistake
Novocaine for the soul
You’d better give me something to fill the hole
Before I sputter out
Before I sputter out
Before I sputter out
Before I sputter out

The Doors
An American Prayer (1978)
An American Prayer/ Hour For Magic/ Freedom Exists/ A Feast Of Friends

Do you know the warm progress
under the stars?

Do you know we exist?

Have you forgotten the keys
to the kingdom

Have you been borne yet
& are you alive?

Let’s reinvent the gods, all teh myths
of the ages

Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests
[Have you forgotten the lessons
of the ancient war]

We need great golden copulations

The fathers are cackling in trees
of the forest

Our mother is dead in the sea

Do you know we are being led to
slaughters by placid admirals

& that fat slow generals are getting
obscene on young blood

Do you know we are ruled by T.V.

The moon is dry blood beast

Guerrilla bands are rolling numbers
in the next block of green vine

amassing for warfare on innocent
herdsman who are just dying

O great creator of being

grant us one more hour to
perform our art
& perfect our lives

The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying

We live, we die
& death not ends it

Journey we more into the
Nightmare
Cling to life
Our passion’d flower

Cling to Cunts & cocks
of despair

We got our final vision
by clap

Columbus groin got
filled w/green death

(I touched her thigh
& death smiled)

We have assembled inside this ancient
& insane theatre

To propagate our lust for life
& flee the swarming wisdom
of the streets

The barns are stormed

The windows kept

& only one of all the rest

To dance & save us

W/the divine mockery
of words

Music inflames temperament

(When the true King’s murderers
are allowed to roam free
a 1000 Magicians arise in the land)

Where are the feasts
we are promised

Where is the wine
The New Wine
(dying on the vine)
resident mockery
give us an hour for magic
We of the purple glove
We of the starling flight
& velvet hour
We of arabic pleasures’s breed
We of sundome & the night

Give us a creed

To believe

A nightr of lust
Give us trust in
The Night
Give of color
hundred hues
a rich mandala
for me & for you
& for your silky
pillowed house
a head, wisdom
& a bed
Troubled decree
Resident mockery
has claimed thee
We used to believe
in the good old days
We still receive
In little ways
The things of Kindness
& unsporting brow
Forget & allow

Did you know freedom exists
in school books

Did you know madmen are
running our prisons

w/in a jail, w/in a gaol
w/in a white free protestant
maelstrom

We’re perched headlong
on the edge of boredom

We’re reaching for death
on the end of a candle

We’re trying for something
that’s already found us

Wow, I’m sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain
south

Cruel bindings

The sevants have the power

dog-men & their mean women
pulling poor blankets over
our sailors

I’m sick of dour faces
Starong at me from the T.V.

Tower, I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?

Royal babies, rubies
must now replace aborted

Strangers in the mud

These mutants, blood-meal
for the plant that’s plowed
they are waiting to take us into
the severed garden

Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
comes death on a stranger hour
unannounced, unplanned for

like a scaring over-friendly guest you’ve
brought to bed

Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven’s
claws

No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
until its other jaw reveals incest
& loose obedience to a vegetable law

I will not go
Prefer a feast of friends
To the Giant family

I came across this for the first time by chance tonight and couldn’t resist posting it on here since I immediately thought of LDs when listening. :grin:

You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming
(Cliff Friend / Dave Franklin)

So sweet and lovely, but what an affair
Not even a kiss since we met
You just won’t love me, but I don’t care
For I will get you yet

You can stop me from kissing you
You can stop me from cuddling too
You can treat me mean, honey, that’s alright
But I’ll get even with you tonight
Because you can’t stop me from dreaming

You can stop me from holding hands
Make me listen to your commands
You can say, “No, No!” honey, that’s alright
But I’ll get even with you tonight
Because you can’t stop me from dreaming

From one o’clock till nine
I’ll dream you’re mine
I’ll steal a kiss
See what you’re gonna to miss

You can’t stop me romancing you
You’re the boss now, but we aren’t through
You can turn me down, honey, that’s alright
But I’ll get even with you tonight
Because you can’t stop me from dreaming

From one o’clock till nine
I’ll dream you’re mine
I’ll steal a kiss
See what you’re gonna miss
You can’t stop me romancing you
You’re the boss now, but we aren’t through
You can turn me down, honey, that’s alright
But I’ll get even with you tonight
Because you can’t stop me from dreaming

:lucid:

In the song “Question!” of system of a down the lyrics say “Are you dreaming the night? dreaming all right…Do we,do we know, when we fly, where we, where we go? Do we die?” Lucid dreamers know…!

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Helen Trevillion - A Elbereth Gilthoniel

Snow-white! Snow-white! O lady clear!
O Queen beyond the Western Seas!
O light to us that wander here
Amid the world of woven trees!

Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!
Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath!
Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee
In a far land beyond the sea

O stars that in the Sunless Year
With shining hand by her were sown
In windy fields now bright and clear
We see your silver blossom blown!

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees
Thy starlight on the Western seas

A Elbereth Gilthoniel
o menel palan-díriel
le nallon sí di’nguruthos
A tiro nin, fanuilos!

“Domino”
by Jessie J

I’m feeling sexy and free
Like glitter’s raining on me
You’re like a shot of pure gold
I think I’m 'bout to explode

I can taste the tension like a cloud of smoke in the air
Now I’m breathing like I’m running cause you’re taking me there
Don’t you know? You spin me out of control

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
We can do this all night
Damn this love is skin tight
Baby, come on
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Boom me like a bass drum
Sparkin’ up a rhythm
Baby, come on!
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Rock my world into the sunlight
Make this dream the best I’ve ever known
Dirty dancing in the moonlight
Take me down like I’m a domino

Every second is a highlight
When we touch don’t ever let me go
Dirty dancing in the moonlight
Take me down like I’m a domino

You got me losing my mind
My heart beats out of time
I’m seeing Hollywood stars
You strum me like a guitar

I can taste the tension like a cloud of smoke in the air
Now I’m breathing like I’m running cause you’re taking me there
Don’t you know? You spin me out of control

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
We can do this all night
Damn this love is skin tight
Baby, come on
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Boom me like a bass drum
Sparkin’ up a rhythm
Baby, come on!
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Rock my world into the sunlight
Make this dream the best I’ve ever known
Dirty dancing in the moonlight
Take me down like I’m a domino

Every second is a highlight
When we touch don’t ever let me go
Dirty dancing in the moonlight
Take me down like I’m a domino

Ooh, baby, baby, got me feeling so right
Ooh, baby, baby, dancing in the moonlight
Ooh, baby, baby, got me feeling so right
Ooh, baby, baby, dancing in the moonlight
Ooh, baby, baby, got me feeling so right
Ooh, baby, baby, dancing in the moonlight
Ooh, baby, baby, got me feeling so right
Ooh, baby, baby

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Rock my world into the sunlight
Make this dream the best I’ve ever known
Dirty dancing in the moonlight
Take me down like I’m a domino

Every second is a highlight
When we touch don’t ever let me go
Dirty dancing in the moonlight
Take me down like I’m a domino

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I miss this thread, so I’m going to revive it with my current favourite song.

Kimbra - Good Intent
You heard the crickets of the early eve
They lurk around the opening in two’s and three’s
Clementine told you not to move with the breeze
I’ll take you down to places where we dare not speak

The red light in the doorway says she’s armed
But boy go try your luck and you might get past
Step into the dwelling of the liger’s mouth
Peer into the panic for a kick and swell
You know you shouldn’t be there but it’s way past bed
There’s comfort in the fingers of your good intent
You know you shouldn’t be there but your money’s all spent
You’ve got your reputation and your good intent
Your good intent

Out to feed that habit when you’ve sowed that seed
Nothing made you feel out of the ordinary
But the air turns sombre and the night took lead
Took you on a waltz of hypocrisy

She broke your bones, now you’re lying in the dirt
The shadow of a hunter under your torn shirt
It’s not enough to say, it’s not what’s in your heart
You’ve tainted every moment till death do we part

I know you didn’t mean it, boy you meant so well
The pennies are cascading down your wishing well
I know you didn’t mean it when you counted to ten
You’re slipping through the fingers of your good intent

I know you didn’t mean it, boy, you meant so well
The pennies are cascading down your wishing well
I know you didn’t mean it when you counted to ten
You’ve got your reputation and your good intent
Such a good intent

It’s not enough to hope for the best
It’s not enough to lie there on her breast
The liger’s on the prowl now you’ve pulled at the string
One false move and soon you’re playing dice for a-

Genre: Black Metal
Band: Luror
Album: Cease To Live

I am…
Thinking of one moment in time,
When I felt myself as a part
Of something more than a lie
The tomorrow’s goldbrick,
The vertigo of man:
How to live tomorrow
When you’re already dead today?

My hope is fading in the sunset of man
Another field trial is coming to the end
My wings were broken and crippled since then
When I and my fellows fell down from the sky
And died…

We are dead angels, lost and forgotten
Without holy guidance
Or hope for salvation
Already dead but forced into life
Blessed by nothing but infinite strife

The day will come to return to heaven
To conquer divine ground
When the pentagram blazes up in the sky
We will remember how to fly