Entertainment & Music Lyrical Brilliance

[ClarkeM]

Share some stanzas or verses you think are pure brilliant...

Hilltop Hoods - Fifty In Five

"Quakes in Iran, Japan and California,
Greenhouse gas turned the world into a sauna,
The trauma of mortars, martyrs, slaughters,
Of partners, mourners, fathers and daughters,
They chassed us, caught us, numbered us to sort us,
r*ped up, scorned us, to break us they bought us"

 

[lewigie]

Spend my days with a woman unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind, make a new start
Goin' to California with an achin' in my heart
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.

...

He was selling postcards from a paper stand
a whiskey bottle in his withered hand
he put a finger on a photo from an old magazine
and saw himself in the shadow of his dream
They found him with his head inside a tin-pot crown
told him his feet stank and took him downtown
called him agitator, spy and thief
shut him up in solitary third degree

He tried to appeal to the king of might
he said "I'm just excercising my sacred right"
the king he said "You ain't got no rights
you're a madman, a traitor, get outta my sight"

They put him aboard a well wound whirlwind
pulled out his teeth and told him to grin
he gave them a smile, pulled out a bottle of wine
and said "I never existed, you've been wasting your time"

 

[HSSB]

so appalled

 

[Bomber Bears]

Chorus: And they still build walls - to keep us in or out - I'm not sure

I am the sharp tip of the army's claw
Must look the part, must look the law
This uniform's a red rag to bombers
Knowing that my death would bring them honour
So f**k the scholars and their white collars
Your nerves aren't as ragged as this soldier's
It gets colder - feels like everyone's got a chip on their shoulder oh
What if today's the day my luck leaves me?
Everything is normally uneasy
No reason why it wouldn't be this evening
That's why every day I dream of leaving
Still they come - they queue
Clenched are the hands who are tightening screws
Control how their population moves
This is what the rebels are making us do
Alert and on edge
The tablets go straight to the head - I'm jumpy
They holding the scruff of the neck of the country
So much sun does the blood see
The checkpoint is teeth and guns
The bad apples make me numb with their cries with a request denied
I hate the f**kin look in their eye - but I don't wanna live like this
Let you in but not your wife and kids
Who may or may not aspire to by martyrs
But the state will clamp down hard regardless
Pre-emption as self defense and that might be severance for live rounds at residents
When even their children throw stones
That's why I can't wait to go home

Chorus

Nothing in my pocket but a work permit
Temporary, yes signed today - legit
This kid's making it too hard
The worst part - I clock on in five minutes
Are we at war with them or are we their Mexicans?
When testing them means resting in bed with a bump on your head for many days
Like my mother says 'we can't afford that anyway'
Which ever way you look at it
The lay of the land is crooked
Holy Lands mad shook with hatred
This road is ancient
And now the gatekeeper is 18
Which he's clearly hating
That doesn't change the fact he's still got me waiting
On land the UN states is mine
You can see how that frustrates the mind of a young man
Young man opposite - holding the gun
Telling him to stop - run - even just for fun
And if it gets too much
That other man runs
No such luck if a rocket struck tonight
We might be stuck for the night
Along with some tired men who might be up for a fight
Ain't seen enough of the light
Seems nothing is right
This kid's tired and it shows
But he's seen me enough times to know
Let me go - by the scruff
Am I Fatah? Hamas?
Tell me why you'd give a f**k
Either way you won't let me up out of this dust
I see you through a cloud of mistrust
This affirms it - burn shit
Kids around here learn quick
Chorus

The Herd - Kids Learn Quick

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Hey, Soulja Boy, can... Yahhh, Trick, Yahhh!
Yo, Arab, I really like... Yahhh, Trick, Yahhh!
Collipark ni... Aboorbah, Boogadah Barrr!
Hey man I was just wonderin, can I get... Yahhh, Yahhh, Trick!

Get out ma face
Get out ma face
Get out ma face
Get out ma face
Get out ma face
Get out ma face
Get out ma face
Get out ma face

 

[pezz]

good thread

And as we wind on down the road
our shadows taller than our soul
there walks a lady we all know
who shines white light and wants to show
how everything still turns to gold
and if you listen very hard
the tune will come to you at last
when all are one and one is all
to be a rock and not to roll.

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls,
And tenement halls,
And whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon "Sounds of Silence"

All you touch and all you see,
Is all your life will ever be.
Pink Floyd, "Breathe"

Because you're mine
I walk the line.
Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line"

Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
Grateful Dead "Casey Jones"

Every breath you take and every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I'll be watchin' you
Every single day and every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I'll be watchin' you
Sting, "Every Breath You Take"

I'm not scared of dyin' and I don't really care
if it's peace you find in dyin'
well then let the time be near.

And when I die
and when I'm gone
there'll be one child born
and a world to carry on.
Laura Nyro, "And When I Die"

 

[omit]

I know they Burried her body with others
Her sister and mother and 500 families
And will she remember me 50 years later
I wished I could save her in some kind of time machine

 

[Powerade 08]

Sweet communist
The communist daughter
Standing on the seaweed water
Semen stains the mountaintops
Semen stains the mountaintops

EDIT: LOL Omit = wizard.

 

[Tulip]

Take your mind back,
I don't know when,
Sometime when it all seemed to be just us and them,
Girls who wore pink, and boys who wore blue,
Boys who always grew up better men than me and you.

Winding your way down on Baker Street,
Light in your head and dead on your feet,
Well another crazy day, you're gonna drink the night away,
And forget about everything

 

[cancat]

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old **** on junk
Living there almost dead on a drip
In that bed

You scum bag
You maggot
You cheap lousy ******
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It's our last

 

[Bomber Bears]

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old **** on junk
Living there almost dead on a drip
In that bed

You scum bag
You maggot
You cheap lousy ******
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It's our last

 

[TheStinger]

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"
It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerised as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night
No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away?

 

[Bomber32]

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more

In My Life - The Beatles

 

[HarryTiger]

The other night I was strokin' my woman
And it got so good to her, you know what she told me
Let me tell you what she told me, she said:
'Stroke it Clarence Carter, but don't stroke so fast
If my stuff ain't tight enough, you can stick it up my...' WOO!

- Strokin', Clarence Carter

 

[TheStinger]

The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game

Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

 

[Bomber Bears]

Father wears his Sunday best
Mother's tired she needs a rest
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sister's sighing in her sleep
Brother's got a date to keep
He can't hang around

Madness - Our House

Lots of girls and lots of boys
Lots of smells and lots of noise
Playing football in the park
Kicking Pushbikes after dark
Baggy trousers, dirty shirt
Pulling hair and eating dirt
Teacher comes to break it up
Bang on the 'ead with a plastic cup.

Madness - Baggy Trousers

Love Madness lyrics, pretty simple but are really good at capturing the essence of the period of time they are describing

 

[pezz]

n the arms of an Angel far away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
In the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here

 

[TheBigT]

I'll continue the theme.

The only girl I've ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes
But then they buried her alive
One evening 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone
Now she's a little boy in Spain
Playing pianos filled with flames
On empty rings around the sun
All sing to say my dream has come

But now we must pack up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are

He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

But now we must pack up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And here's where your mother sleeps
And here is the room where your brothers were born
Indentions in the sheets
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
And it's so sad to see the world agree
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes

Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel

 

[HSSB]

One hand in the air if you don’t really care
two hands in the air if you don’t really care
it’s like that sometimes I mean ridiculous
it’s like that sometimes sh-t’s ridiculous
One hand in the air if you don’t really care
middle finger in the air if you don’t really care
it’s like that sometimes, man ridiculous
life can be sometimes ridiculous

I’m so appalled
Spalding balled,
Balled in and Donald Trump taking dollars from yall
Baby your fire and your girlfriend hired
And if you don’t mind, I’ma keep you on call
We above the law, we don’t give a f-ck by yall
I got dogs that chew a f-ckin’ hole through the wall
But since they all lovers
I need more rubbers
And if I don’t use rubbers, need more covers
House keeping, I mean gawd damn one time
Let it be a bad bitch sweeping
That know we get O’s like Cheerios
That know cuz they seen us in the videos
That know, the day that you play me
Will be the same day MTV play videos
that was a little joke, Voila!
Praises due to the most high, Allah
Praises due to the most fly, Prada
Baby Im magic, Tadah!
Address me as your highness
High as United, 30,000 feet up and you are not invited
N-ggas be writin’ bullsh-t like they gotta work
N-ggas going through real sh-t, man they outta work
That’s why I never gawd damn dance track, gotta hurt
That’s why I rather spit something that gotta perch
Champagne wishes, 30 white bitches
I mean the sh-t is, f-cking ridiculous
F-cking ridiculous, I mean the sh-t is
F-cking ridiculous

5 star dishes, different exotic fishes
man this sh-t is, f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous

How should I begin this
I’m just so offended
how am I even mentioned by all these f-cking beginners?
I’m so appalled I might buy the mall
just to show n-ggas how much more I have in stall
I’m fresher than you all
so I don’t have to pause
all of y’all can suck my balls through my draws
dark knight feeling, diary of hero
or live long enough to see yourself become a villain
I went from the favourite to the most hated
or would you rather be underpaid or over-rated
more victories is for minor league coaches
and ‘Ye already told you we made it you cockroaches
show me where the boats is, Ferrari testarossa’s
the hammer went broke so you know I’m more focused
I lost thirty mill so I spent another 30
cuz unlike hammer 30 mill can’t hurt me
f-cking insane, the f-ck am I sayin’
not only am I fly, I’m f-cking not playing
all these little b-tches too big for their britches
buring their little bridges
f-cking ridiculous

champagne wishes, thirty white b-tches
I mean the sh-t is f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous
I mean the sh-t is f-cking ridiculous

5 star dishes, different exotic fishes
man this sh-t is, f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous

Success is what you make it
take it how it comes
a half a mill in twenties is like a bill where I’m from
an arrogant drug dealer the legend I’ve become
CNN said I’d be dead by 21
black jack I just pulled an ace
you looking at the king in his face
everything I dream muthaf-ckers Im watching it take shape
while to you I’m just a young rich n-gga that lacks faith
Range Rove leather roof
love war f-ck a truce
still move a bird like I’m in bed with mother goose
them hoes come in a bakers dozen
claiming they was with me when they know they really wasn’t
I keep the city’s best never said she was the brightest
so if you had it too, it don’t affect me in the slightest
I never met a b-tch that didn’t need a little guidance
so I dismiss her past until she dissappoint your highness

I speak the gospel hostel
Tony doing time for what he did to nostrils
paranoid mind I’m still under the watchful
eye of the law, aspire for more
them kilo’s came we gave you bobby brown jaw
flaws aint flaws when it’s you that makes the call
flow similar to the legend of the falls
spillin’ I own you all, yeah

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champagne wishes, thirty white b-tches
I mean the sh-t is f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous
I mean the sh-t is f-cking ridiculous

5 star dishes, different exotic fishes
man this sh-t is, f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous

I am so outrageous,
I wear my pride on my sleeve like a bracelet
if God had an iPod, I’d be on his playlist
my phrases amazes the faces in places
the favourite, huh
my cup over runneth with hundreds
dummy, dammit, not like for me to waste it
the new commandment, thou shall not hate kid
my movement is like the civil rights I’m Ral Davis
(?) so call my lady Rosa Parks
I am nothing like them n-ggas baby those are marks
I met this girl on Valentines day f-cked her in May
she found out about April so she chose to March (<-dope line)
damn another broken heart
I keep b-tches by the two’s n-gga, Noah’s Ark
I got a seven on me, I call my dro the mark
plus a trojan in my pocket, Matt Liner
G-A-T in the pathfinder
cause you haters got PHD’s
y’all just some major haters and some math minors
Tiger Woods don’t make me grab iron

A yo champagne wishes and dirty white b-tches
you know the sh-t is f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous
you know the sh-t is f-cking ridiculous

cars for the missus and thirst for the mistress
you know that sh-t is F-CKING ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous
you know the sh-t is f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous
f-cking ridiculous

One hand in the air if you don’t really care
two hands in the air if you don’t really care
it’s like that sometimes I mean ridiculous
it’s like that sometimes sh-t’s ridiculous
One hand in the air if you don’t really care
middle finger in the air if you don’t really care
it’s like that sometimes, man ridiculous
life can be sometimes ridiculous

 

[Saint KFC]

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Livin' off borrowed time, the clock tick faster
That'd be the hour they knock the slick blaster
Dick Dastardly and Muttley with sick laughter
A gun fight and they come to cut the mixmaster
I-C-E cold, nice to be old
Y2G steed twice to threefold
He sold scrolls, lo and behold
Know who's the illest ever like the greatest story told
Keep your glory, gold and glitter
For have half of his ******'ll take him out the picture
The other half is rich and don't mean shit-ta
Villain a mixture between both with a twist of liquor
Chase it with more beer, taste it like truth or dare
When he have the mic it's like the place get like: 'Ah yeah!'
It's like they know what's 'bout to happen
Just keep ya eye out, like 'aye, aye captain'
Is he still a fly guy clappin' if nobody ain't hear it

And can they testify from inner spirit
In living, the true gods
Givin' y'all nothing but the lick like two broads
Got more lyrics than the church got 'Ooh Lords'
And he hold the mic and your attention like two swords
Or even one with two blades on it
Hey you, don't touch the mic like it's AIDS on it
It's like the end to the means
****ed type of message that sends to the fiends
That's why he brings his own needles
And get more cheese than Doritos, Cheetos or Fritos..
Slip like Freudian
Your first and last step to playin' yourself like accordion
(Humming)
When he had the mic you don't go next
Leaving pussy cats like wild hoes need Kotex
Exercise index won't need Boflex
And won't take the one with no skinny legs like Joe Tex



First that came to mind.

 

[Bomber Bears]

Had a scratch only you could itch
Underneath the Glebe Point Bridge
And now every boy in a knitted vest
Has got some precedent
So we took a personality pill
And something red to swill
And now every fire has gone out
in every heart that wanted to kill
Let's call it a day
Every thought that once had a sound
We'll have to hide 'til no one is around
'cause there ain't no room in the city today
For explanations that you just can't say
Found out what shame can mean
In purple sneakers and grey jeans
And every walked to a school that once made sense
Sure felt like an accident
Let's call it a day

Purple Sneakers - You Am I

Hardwired into everyone's head,
Is the person they're gonna be,
Growing up's not a matter of choice,
It's a matter of wait and see,

So kids, yeah you can do it,
You can be your best,
Girls can do anything,
You can past the test,

I'm OK, You're OK,
We're OK, We're fine,
I thought I heard a semi-trailer,
Greg! You missed the stop sign!

Greg! The Stop Sign - TISM

 

[TheStinger]

Remember days of yesterday
How it flew so fast
The two score and a year we had,
I thought it would always last
Those summer days and west coast dreams
I wished would never end
A young boy and his father,
Idol and best friend

I'll always remember
Those were the best of times
A lifetime together
I'll never forget

The morning shows on the radio
The case of the missing dog
Lying on the pillows at the old 812
Watching Harold and Maude
The record shops, the stickball fields
My home away from home
And when we weren't together
The hours on the phone

I'll always remember
Those were the best of times
I'll cherish them forever
The best of times

But then came the call
Our lives changed forever more
"You can pray for a change
But prepare for the end..."

The fleeting winds of time
Flying through each day
All the things I should've done
But time just slipped away
Remember seize the day
Life goes by in the blink of an eye
With so much left to say

These were the best of times
I'll miss these days
Your spirit lit my life each day

Thank you for the inspiration
Thank you for the smiles
All the unconditional love
That carried me for miles
It carried me for miles
But most of all thank you for my life

These were the best of times
I'll miss these days
Your spirit lit my life each day
My heart is bleeding bad
But I'll be OK
Your spirit guides my life each day


This song gets me every time. It was written by Dream Theater's now ex-drummer Mike Portnoy in memory of his father. Who knew a drummer could write such beautiful words........or write.

 

[BarneyBent]

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"Till Armageddon no shalam, no shalom
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
The wise man will bow down before the throne
And at His feet they'll cast their golden crowns
When the Man comes around

Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the Man comes around

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks"

The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash (the entire song is brilliant)


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"....In a colonial hotel we ****ed up the sun
And then we ****ed it down again
Well the sun comes up and the sun goes down
Going round and round to nowhere....

....Across clinical benches with nothing to talk
Breathing tea and biscuits and the Serenity Prayer
While the bones of our child crumble like chalk
O where do we go now but nowhere....

....If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home
From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air
Behind the locked gates an old donkey moans
O where do we go now but nowhere....

.....From the balcony we watched the carnival band
The crack of the drum a little child did scare
I can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my hand
O where do we go now but nowhere

If I could relive one day of my life
If I could relive just a single one
You on the balcony, my future wife
O who could have known, but no one

O wake up, my love, my lover make up
O wake up, my love, my lover make up"

Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? - Nick Cave (selected verses, they're all brilliant though)


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"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."

Anthem - Leonard Cohen


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"And with this betrayal an angel
Descended from on high
But this was not a manger
And as he came inside
To his fright
'Twas no angel hanging naked"

Snow Angel - Ron Sexsmith


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"Now sometimes we see each other on the street
Maybe at a hotel or some party
We say hello then we have to go
I can't believe we were married
That we were wed"

I Can't Believe We Were Married - Paul Kelly

That'll do for now.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

What's-a matter you, hey?
Gotta no respect?
Whadda you think you do?
Why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad
It's-a nice-a place
Ah, shaddup-a your face

 

[wce4premiership]

Tough luck when fellows are struck, families ****ed up
Could've caught your man, but didn't look when you bucked up
Mistakes happen, so take heed never bust up
At the crowd catch him solo, make the right man bleed
Shorty's laugh was cold blooded as he spoke so foul
Only twelve trying to tell me that he liked my style
Then I rose, wiping the blunts ash from my clothes
Then froze only to blow the herb smoke through my nose
And told my little man that I'm a go cyprose
There's some jewels in the skull that he can sell if he chose
Words of wisdom from Nas try to rise up above
Keep an eye out for Jake shorty what
One love