Striking Lines/Lyrics

[Naga]

Favorite lines? Lyrics? Anyone?

What lines/lyrics from a song have changed you?

[Bag]

I HATE

Got so much trouble
Hate this job
Tried to get out
Trapped like a dog
No I don't like pumpin gas
Do ya hate to wait?
Life's a game
Play your rules
Is the bottle half empty?
Or the bottle half full?
It does no good
No good to shout
But I scream, "I hate"
Say I'm hostile
Gotta relax
Better get a grip
Here's the facts
I hate being here...

I hate people who make me feel small
I hate having my back against the wall
You know I hate being talked down to
I hate your rules
I hate em all
Hate being marked to take the fall
Planets not big enough for me and you...

Got trouble over me
Surrounded by jerks
Can't ya see
Smile to my face
Know ya lie
Knife in my back, another game
Rules, rules, rules
Not for me
You fucking fool

So open your mouth
One more time
And my foots going down
In one ear
Out the other
A waste of time
Don't even bother
I hate being here...

I hate people who make me feel small
I hate having my back against the wall
You know I hate being talked down to
I hate your rules
I hate em all
Hate being marked to take the fall
Planets not big enough for me and you...

[DirtySanchez]

So many. But I love this from The Alkaline Trio Song "Mercy Me":


Oh mercy me
God bless catastrophe
There's no way in hell
We'll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today

[thebattle]

So many. But I love this from The Alkaline Trio Song "Mercy Me":


Oh mercy me
God bless catastrophe
There's no way in hell
We'll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today

I love alkaline trio "radio" is my fav song

Shaken like a dog shittin razor blades
waken up next to nothing after dreaming
of you and me waking up all alone waking
up so releaved while your taken time
with appologies im planning out my revenge
red eyes on orange horizens

just doing this off of memory haha

[joltinjeff]

Queensryche's "Is there anybody listening" that entire song to me anyway talks about being part of a band.

"I stepped out on the stage with the lights and staring eyes"
Great tune - great band

[Banned]

Crawl through the flames that eat your flesh
Drown in my waters that know you best
Step inside I've been waiting here for you

On your knees, for you shall crawl
Flying so high you'll never fall
Step inside we've been waiting here for you

Bow down you chose your maker
He never gives he's always the taker
The electric burns that fuel the fire
It's just your suicide messiah
Oh Yeah
Oh Yeah

Walk through the steets that know your name
All that's pure is now insane
Step inside I've been waiting here for you

Another trip another lie
Lifes hand of doom has you feeling fine
Step inside we've been waiting here for you

Bow down you chose your maker
He never gives he's always the taker
The electric burns that fuel the fire
It's just your suicide messiah

[orangekick]

Through times I thought of what we created
For greater causes that brought us down to this
The ground is shaking from all the people below
One thing I've learned from this is,
What you reap is what you sow

In elderly forms and surroundings
In the flesh of spirits incarnated
They are here for the hate forgotten
A rearview mirror to all lost souls
A slow burn shattered the field
Pain through body fire drained vein

Walk down to the watchtower
And with the right kind of eyes
See waves roll in and over
Never could you see the watermark

Man marches through the rust and dust
The burning fields will soon be ashes
Bodies woven in smoke and skin
And clouds descend to the sea
I see the bonds that tie belief
For this I choose to sink

Walk down to the watchtower
And with the obscure shapes
See smoke roll in and over
Never will we see the lights

[bassist_25]

Plantman by Gary Young

The Plantman knows that the plants will grow
The Plantman knows that the plants will grow
The Plantman knows that the plants will grow
The Plantman kno--oh--oows...

Plant man... (yee-ow-oo-wow-oo)
Plant man... (yee-ow-oo-wow-oo)
Plant man... (yee-ow-oo-wow-oo)
Plant man...

The Plantman knows where the plants will go
The Plantman knows that the plants will grow
The plants don´t know what the plants will go
The Plantman knows if the plants will grow

Plant man... (yee-ow-oo-wow-oo)
Plant man... (yee-ow-oo-wow-oo)
Huh-uh... (oooooooooowwwwl)
Plant man...

The Plantman knows if the plants will grow
The Plantman knows where the plants will grow
And the plants will know if the Plantman knows
The plants will know if the Plantman knows

He´s the Plant man...
He´s the Plant man... (look at him!)
He´s the Plantman...
Shirts.

Plant man...
Plant man...
Plant -uh -- man
Plant man...

The Plantman knows where the plants will grow
The Plantman knows if the plants will grow
The Plantman knows that the plants will grow
The Plantman kno--oh--oows...
Plant man...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQiSgWGAc24

[ToonaRockGuy]

"You can choose a ready guide, in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears, and kindness that can kill,
I will choose a path that's clear...
I will choose Freewill."

-Rush, "Freewill", lyrics by Neil Peart.

[shredder138]

Bring Out Your Dead

Strung Out


One brief recollection of all the
People in my life that have
Come and gone
One brief fleeting moment of
People I've loved and people that
I have wronged
Long lost are loved ones gone
But this bird cannot seem to
Mend it's broken wings so the
Lust for life dissipated and
A new greed rises for the
Needful things.
Don't wanna think about it,
I indulge myself
Distraction eases pain, bury my
Emotions to protect myself.
Till I can't feel a fucking thing
I've dared to dream I've tried to live
But I've played it safe again
Just another slave to my vices now
Bring out your dead
Voices wither and crack then die
Ringin' in my ear would sing me
Soft asleep
Deathly silence now is all I hear
Has inspiration finally eluded me
[Chorus]
My addiction, my illness, my only
Trusted friend
My addiction my illness my only
Childhood fiend.
Your twisted warm embrace
Engulfing all I tried to be
My body's breaking under
Arms that will not set me free
Locked in this cage that I've
Built myself
Constructed out of twisted cold
Reminders of a Life once lost
But I've found my way again.
Here among the wreckage and the vampires
I'll play it safe again, just another
Slave to my vices now.

[MeYatch]

Off the top of my head, I always thought this was a clever line from Eve 6:

I crack a window and feel the cool air cleanse my every pore
As I pour my poor heart out

[shredder138]

NOFX

The Decline

Where are all the stupid people from?
And how'd they get to be so dumb?
Bred on purple mountain range
Feed amber waves of grains
To lesser human beings, zero feelings

Blame it on
Human nature, mans destiny (mans destiny)
Blame it on the greediocracy (greediocracy)
Fear of God
The fear of change
The fear of truth

Add the Bill of Rights, subtract the wrongs
There's no answers
Memorize and sing star spangled songs
When the questions
Aren't ever asked
Is anybody learning from the past?
We're living in united stagnation

Father what have I done?
I took that 22
A gift to me from you
To bed with me each night
Kept it clean
Polished it well
Cherished every cartridge, every shell

Down, by the creek, under brush, under dirt
There's a carcass of my second kill
Down, by the park, under stone, under pine
There's a carcass of my brother William
Brother where, have you gone to?
I swear, I never thought I could
I see so many times
They told me to shoot straight
Don't pull the trigger, squeeze
That will insure a kill
A kill is what you want
A kill is why we breed

The Christians love their guns
The church and NRA
Pray for their salvations
Prey on the lower faiths

The story book's been read
And every line believed
Curriculum's been set
Logic is a threat
Reason searched and seized

Jerry spent some time in Michigan
A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime
A dime is worth a lot more in Detroit
A dime in California, a twenty dollar fine

Jerry only stayed a couple months
It's hard to enjoy yourself while bleeding out the ass
Asphyxiation is simple and fast
It beats seventeen fun years of being someones bitch

Don't think (Stay)
Drink your wine (Home)
Watch the fire burn (Be)
His problems not mine (Safe)
Just be that model citizen

I wish I had a schilling
(For each senseless killing)
For every senseless killing
I'd buy a government
America's for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
(A good deal on it)
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one

Serotonin's gone
She gave up, drifted away
Sara fled, thought process gone
She left her answering machine on
The greeting left spoken sincere
Messages no one will ever hear

Ten thousand messages a day
A million more transmissions lay
Victims of the laissez faire
Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns
A hundred decibels turns to one
One bullet, one empty head
Now with Serotonin gone

The man who used to speak
Performs a cute routine
Feel a little patronized
Don't feel bad
They found a way inside your head
And you feel a bit misled
It's not that they don't care, yeah

The television's put a thought inside your head
Llike a Barry Manilow, jingle
I'd like, to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
A symphonic blank stare, yeah
It doesn't make you care (make you care)
Not designed to make you care (make you care)
They're betting you won't care (you won't...)

Place a wager on your greed
A wager on your pride
Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?

We are the whore
Intellectually spayed
We are the queer
Dysfunctionally raised

One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
Living through conformity

One more prayer to keep me safe
One more prayer to keep us warm
One more prayer to keep us safe
There's gonna be a better place

Lost the battle, lost the war
Lost the things worth living for
Lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain

Na na na na na
La na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na

The going get tough, the tough get debt
Don't pay attention, pay the rent
Next of kins pay for your sins
A little faith should keep us safe

Save us
The human, existence
Is failing, resistance
Essential, the future
Written off, the odds are
Astronomically against us
Only moron and genius
Would fight a losing battle
Against the super ego
When giving in is so damn comforting

And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat, live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo, built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?

Fellow members
Club "We've Got Ours"
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his, and I've got mine
Meet the decline

We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
We are worker
We love our queen
We sacrifice
We're soilent green

We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war

[timemoney0]

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[timemoney0]

what can I say.........simlpe man, simple mind

[nickisrb]

Take Warning-Operation Ivy

Stand by your friends, wrong or right
Can't call that justice when it's just a stupid excuse to fight
Single out and attack the ones who got no defense
You call that a new way of thinking i call it regression to ignorance

Take warning
There’s a new generation coming
And we really gotta stand up to them

Nobody’s got a thing against you
Unless you’ve got something to prove
We don’t need no set of standards,
We don’t need a new set of rules
Heard all that shit before
About stomping out any difference
We say stand together!
(not to fight just to exist)

Take warning
Intimidation coming
And we really gotta say no to them

Enough is enough is enough
Why don’t you just ease up
I saw another beat down last night take warning
Who's the next to hit the ground tonight take warning

[CrossfireRadio]

I think this fits "quite a few" people in one way or another... and besides that, I like the song.. HA!

Godsmack - I Fucking Hate You

For everything you do
I'd like to swallow you
And everyday I'm gonna blame you
Even If you justify
Every fuckin bullshit lie
It only makes me want to break you

You pull be down
And you crucify my name
You make me insane
It's broken now
Don't ever look my way
Don't even think I'm playin
Cause I fuckin hate you
You're such a liar
I love to hate you
You're all the same to me

When you repeatedly
Take advantage of me
The only thought I get of you
Sickens me
Everybody knows your fake
You're everything I fuckin hate
And I'm everything you'll never be

You pull be down
And you crucify my name
You make me insane
It's broken now
Don't ever look my way
Don't even think I'm playin
Cause I fuckin hate you
You're such a liar
I love to hate you
You're all the same to me

I fuckin hate you
You're such a liar
I love to hate you
You're all the same to me

Fuck you
Fuck you
Fuck you
Fuck you

You pull be down
And you crucify my name
You make me insane
It's broken now
Don't ever look my way
Don't even think I'm playin
Cause I fuckin hate you
You're such a liar
I love to hate you
You're all the same to me

And I fuckin hate you
You're such a liar
I love to hate you
You're all the same to me

Fuck you
Fuck you
Fuck you
Fuck you

[witchhunt]

"You can choose a ready guide, in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears, and kindness that can kill,
I will choose a path that's clear...
I will choose Freewill."

-Rush, "Freewill", lyrics by Neil Peart.

I think I posted this before but on the inside album sleeve, line two reads...
If you choose not to decide, you cannot have made a choice.

[daveb]

I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer.

I listen to tons of music all the time. From all genres. To me, this line is still the essence of Rock n' Roll.

[bassist_25]

Off the top of my head, I always thought this was a clever line from Eve 6:

I crack a window and feel the cool air cleanse my every pore
As I pour my poor heart out

Every lyric Eve 6 has ever written is pretty much amazing. I'm still blown away by the depth of the lyrics on that first album when they were still high school kids writing that stuff.

[Naga]

Recently, I've listened to the Jewel Kilcher song Deep Water a little lately. It's about being caught in the bustle of life as an adult, satsifying every need but your own soul's need (distinctly love, but I take a little more out of it than that)...

"When you're standing in deep water
Bailing yourself out with a straw
When you're drowning in deep water
And making love to a wall
Well it's these little times
That help to remind
It's nothing without love"

I'll list more at some other point... There've been many influencing songs over the years of my life, based off the lines alone

[Bag]

"My girlfriend's a dick magnet"

[slackin@dabass]

Fuck yourself with a rubber hose
Stick it in your mouth and down your throat
Up your nose and in your heinie hole
I don't care where it goes
And it don't matter if you're straight or gay
You should fuck yourself anyway
Now, you don't have to listen to a word I say
But I know you, you'll be humpin' away
Fuck yourself with your neighbor's nose
If you can't use that, use a 10-foot pole
Stick it up your ass and go for a stroll
Everyone will know you've been to this show

If you can't take, eat my stool
Masturbate with some crazy glue
I don't care what you do
Fock yourself with a garden tool
Fuck yourself with politics
Ahh they're full of fuckin' fuckin' shit
I mean you know we've been lied to ever since we were born
It's amazing that we've been getting fucked that
long
Fuck yourself with the world wide web
Man you could ride that sucker right from your bed
You may even meet a Tom, Dick, Jane or Billy
Then grab onto your modem and fuck yourself silly

Fuck yourself with your heart and soul
Give it everything you got, hey I'm talkin' to you
If you can't even fuck yourself,
How ya gonna fuck somebody else?
Fuck yourself with my microphone
I'll give it to you later when we're all alone
We can turn it up loud
And see if you come, but
Don't get your jizz on my microphone
Fuck yourself with organized religion
Now that is some seriously sinnin' business
If the Lord sees their pathetic crimes
He'll be fuckin' them 'til the end of time

And can someone explain to me this racist crap
I know it isn't white, but it isn't black
And to all you people who only see things your way
Well, you can suck my dick and take all day
Fuck your nose with a pound of blow
Watch your money get up and go
but when you burnt your brain and you say
I don't know!
I hate to tell you but I told you so
Fuck yourself with this grunge rock noise
I mean, stuff those albums in your groin
They come down on me because I know how to play -
Hey... fuck you!
Fuck yourself with a copy of Rolling Stone
Or are they too holy for your holiest of holes
Now those people think they're holier than Moses
But aren't they just a bunch of fuckin' posers
Fuck yourself with your mother's jewelry
I won't tell, I ain't a stooly
If you pounce hard enough you'll cough up a ruby
Your blood will be rich and so will your doodie
Fuck yourself with the latest fashion
With your spikes and your hair and those cute
little buttons
And if you happen to have some leather and lace
Fuck yourself 'til you're blue in the face
Fuck yourself with your income tax
They're fucking you and that's a fact
Before you know it your money's all spent
And you've just been fucked by the government
Fuck yourself with your lawyer friend
You're the only one that's getting fucked in the end
I have been so fucked by legal bills
that my asshole is the size of Beverly Hills
Fuck yourself with your full-length sweater
With your minks and your diamonds and your Irish Setter
With your cash and your trash and your sinks and your drinks
Just fuck yourself 'til you can't even think

Those of you who enjoy this song
thank you thank you, I love you
Let's get it on
But for those of you who are totally outraged
Fuck yourself with your face


~ Frank Zappa

[J Michaels]

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ugh..... I was sick of this song BEFORE I moved down here.


Some of the best lyrics take an idea / situation / concept / etc. that is somewhat complex and boil it down to a simple statement that captures it perfectly - two from Pink Floyd:

Down and out
It cant be helped but there's a lot of it about.
With, without.
And who'll deny its what the fighting's all about?

And:

Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise its no surprise that they're
Giving none away.

[DirtySanchez]

Everybody's someone else's nigger
I know you are so am I
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers
I don't need to chose a side

[zman1200]

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