What are your Favorite Lyrics? I: Bring on the Emo!

[Davricle]

Since we have a thread for best written songs and the like, I figured we could get a feel for people's idea of amazing lyrics. Post however many you like, put the author and song title too!

Light a Roman Candle With Me- fun.

"If we were honest and both wrote a sonnet together
a sandwich with everything on it,
at least we would know that the sparks didn't glow
but we owe it to ourselves to try,
so we aim and ignite!
So often I call and I plead with you:
"Give me a chance!"
It's not often that I understand
the ins and the outs of what's wrong and what's right
So don't think of tomorrow tonight."

And I'll do one more for now:

If Work Permits - The Format

"Lord knows I could use a warm kiss instead of a cold goodbye."

[tyven]

those lyrics suck, let me find some good lyrics one sec

[tyven]

pretty ricky - on the hotline

I love it when i hear you moan
you got the sexy tone that make the dick long

[nicholai]

Jay-Z - Hate

"We balling, bitches,eating y'all food leaving dishes"

Really hits home!

[Avlon]

Any damsel that's in distress
Be out of that dress when she meet Jim West

Wild WIld West - Will Smith

Also it is just me, or is it really presumptuous to already have a 1 in the threads name like this is destined to become a "thing"?

[Davricle]

More of an homage to most of the popular threads on the site.

[Vandole]

Never gonna give you up.
Never gonna let you down.

[thestalkmore]

Evvvvvvvverrrrrrrry roseeeeeee has itssssss thornnnnnnnnnnnnn

[Killgannon]

I could put just about every lyric (especially those on The Lonesome Crowded West) Isaac Brock has ever written on here, but I'll settle for Trailer Trash:

"Eating snow flakes with plastic forks
And a paper plate of course, you think of everything
Short love with a long divorce
And a couple of kids of course
They don't mean anything
Live in trailers with no class
goddamn I hope I can pass high school means nothing
Taking heartache with hard work
Goddamn I am such a jerk, I can't do anything
And I shout that you're all fakes
And you should have seen the look on your face
And I guess that's what it takes
When comparing your bellyaches
And it's been a long time
Which agrees with this watch of mine
And I guess that I miss you, and I'm sorry
if I dissed you"

edit: also a part of "Bankrupt On Selling"

"well, i'll go to college and i'll learn some big words
and i'll talk real loud
goddamn right i'll be heard
you'll remember all the guys that said all those big words he must've
learned in college
and it took a long time
i came clean with myself
i come clean out of love with my lover
i still love her
loved her more when she used to be sober and i was kinder"

[Chun Liroy]

It's a catch 22, either you lose or you lose
that's the way the game's structured for real niggas to suffer.

Life is a beautiful struggle
some people usin the noodle some people usin their muscle
some people put it together like pieces of a puzzle

you can call these rappers a baby seal cuz they club ya to death.

Ey , when I think about all my time and all my struggle
Through all my grindin' and all my troubles
When I came out from nothin' , all I had was a hustle
With a blindfold tryin' to find pieces to the puzzle, no muzzle
I tell it like it is, that's that, right or wrong, I'mma call it how I see it
Don't forget that impossible is nothin', you're environments irrelevant(?)
Just don't let your emotions over power your intelligent
Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you
they don't dictate where you headin', they remind you
That time keeps tickin', let your mind keep clickin'
Never stop thinkin', be aware of your decision
Everywhere the collisions
And the potholes hidden in the road that you travel on your lifelong mission
Just listen everyday like a snap shot is taken, if you live you could learn to just be patient

[Mertron]

Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies.

Much better you than I.

Tool - Vicarious

[Qalbert]

I really like a lot of Rise Against lyrics, but this one stuck with me
Tip the Scales:

Promises we plan to break
Are made in whispered voices
Cause our despair knows many names

We make mistakes
But we apologize with roses
We never stop to smell on the way

[Davricle]

Say Anything - Where the Hurt Is

"Falling out of love, is like giving up a drug: I can't move on with my life. You have my heart, as fractured as it is, even if we have to say goodbye..."

[Xajii]

"Rotation of Crops" - The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers

I bent the earth
to see your form rise into the frame
Frail though it is to mention
more to the passng day

I broke the earth
to hide you beneath a greying sky
Clouds cover every corner
field's fallow season dies

"So Says I" - The Shins

We got rlules and maps
And guns in our backs
but we still can't just behave ourselves
Even if to save or own lives
So says I,
we are a brutal kind

And anything The Wrens write but here's some favorite snippets

"I was born too soon, that's how my grave will read
Lived to 35 but died at 17" (from Counted on Sweetness I thnk)

"Undo your buckle while you bite at my neck
I've waited no end / I've made enough friends" (I've Made Enough Friends)

and their best IMO Ex-girl collection

Spoiler: show

fourth floor room

each girl I’ve brought back home to bloom

all fold on close inspection

each one leaves a banner hanging from the eaves

marking the eve of election

ex-girl collection

why/ into why not

into what else you got?

it’s just how men mark time
ann slams in

another lightening round begins

this could get interesting

where’s ann been?

she pours herself a don’t-ask gin

no ice and light on the bitters

I’m done with quitters

‘why / charles, I found out

wipe that smile off your mouth

I think it’s tell-me time…’

britt hit hard

she found my box of beth’s best cards

hand cut and signed with ‘x’s

called at work

‘happy anniversary, jerk’

and I just laughed at the timing with you on hold line 2 still crying
‘why

play sex on the cuff?

does beth like it rough?

and learn your dirty lines?

and keep her hair cropped

(the other shoe dropped)

‘is this how men mark time in couples?’, she cursed

(this sounds too rehearsed)

as ann, hand on hip, accusing me to the rafters

the words turn and spit and scorch right through to the plaster

I’m called 10 kinds of a bastard

curses came faster

why / into why not?

into charles gone to pot

in hotter water

line up to lift up a toast

to the ones I hurt most

and how the well’s gone lime

with charles on the plow

I’m roger over and how

slower now men mark time

fine, why, what else you got?

[Vincento]

"If amazing was a young bitch, I'd be goin to jail cus I'm fuckin amazing."

It's Been A Pleasure - Drake

Not that it's a good song haha

[Jakson]

In West Philadelphia, born and raised

[Deband]

A New Decade
The radio plays the sounds we made
And everything seems to feel just right
Coming through your lonely mind

[Folant]

Jay Z

I spit that other shit
That's the nice motherfucker shit
Fed time follow me around, deep cover shit nigga
You beer money, I'm all year money
I'm popping, you ain't got to count it, it's all there money
I never change money 'cause niggas got strange money
Knocked up, marked up, fucked up in the game money
I got bail money, XXL money
You got flash now, one time we'll reveal money
I spit the hottest shit, you need it I got it shit
That down South Master P, Bout It Bout It shit
I got blood money, straight up thug money
That brown paper bag under your mattress drug money
You got show dough, little to no dough
Sell a bunch of records and you still owe dough
I got 900 and 96 plus 4 more dough
You crazy, you full gazy, and loco with dough papo

[richardd]

The Beats- Killer Tofu

[Eticket]

One of the best fuck you songs ever.

Mountain Goats - No Children


I hope that our few remaining friends
Give up on trying to save us
I hope we come up with a failsafe plot
To piss off the dumb few that forgave us
I hope the fences we mended
Fall down beneath their own weight
And I hope we hang on past the last exit
I hope it's already too late
And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here
Someday burns down
And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away
And I never come back to this town
Again in my life
I hope I lie
And tell everyone you were a good wife
And I hope you die
I hope we both die

I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow
I hope it bleeds all day long
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
We're pretty sure they're all wrong
I hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn't over
And I hope you blink before I do
Yeah I hope I never get sober
And I hope when you think of me years down the line
You can't find one good thing to say
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
You'd stay the hell out of my way
I am drowning
There is no sign of land
You are coming down with me
Hand in unlovable hand
And I hope you die
I hope we both die