Awesome Lyric LinesMusic

[Sage]

Oh, this is easy. My favorite stanza ever, by a mile:

They Might Be Giants • Hopeless Bleak Despair

For years and years I wandered the earth
Until I died and went to hell
But my despair had ascended to heaven
That’s how I finally got rid of it



My favorite lyrics from an entire song:

XTC • Dear God

Dear God,
Hope you got the letter,
And I pray you can make it better down here.
I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer,
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet,
’Cause they don't get enough to eat
From God,
I can’t believe in you.

Dear God,
Sorry to disturb you,
But I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears,
And all the people that you made in your image,
See them fighting in the street,
’Cause they can't make opinions meet,
About God,
I can’t believe in you.

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!

Dear God,
Don’t know if you noticed,
But your name is on a lot of quotes in this book.
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
And all the people that you made in your image,
Still believing that junk is true.
Well I know it ain't and so do you,
Dear God,
I can’t believe in,
I don’t believe in,

I won’t believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners,
No Devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You’re always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it’s the same the whole world ’round.
The hurt I see helps to compound,
that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
Is just somebody’s unholy hoax,
And if you’re up there you'll perceive,
That my heart’s here upon my sleeve.
If there’s one thing I don’t believe in…

It’s you,
Dear God.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

A Man's Gotta Do
Stand back everyone, there's nothing here to see;
Just iminent danger, and in the middle of it, me!
Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze;
The day needs my saving expertise!

On the Rise
Any dolt with half a brain
Can see that humankind has gone insane
To the point where I don't know
If I'll upset the status quo
By putting poison in the watermain.

Brand New Day
And Penny will see the evil me;
Not a joke, not a dork, not a failure.
And she may cry, but her tears will dry
When I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia.

So They Say
This is so nice;
I just might sleep with the same girl twice
They say it's better for the second time;
You get to do the weird stuff
(We do the weird stuff!)

Everyone's a Hero
So I thank my girlfriend Penny;
Yeah, we totally had sex.
She showed me there so many
Different muscles I can flex.
There's the deltoids of compassion
And the abs of being kind.
It's not enough to bash in heads;
You've got to bash in minds!

Slipping
You people all need to learn
Your world is going to burn!
Burn!
(Yeah, it's 'Horrible' with two r's; H-o-r-r- yeah, that's it)
Burn!

 

[callum-o]

beastie boys - the new style

''girls with walkmans are the kinds i like,
i'll steal your honey like i stole your bike!''

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Here's some lyrics which I find quite humorous.

SNFU - Don't Have the Cow

You should have listened to your mother
And ate your veggies when you were younger
You should have listened to your parents
And doubled up on your peas and carrots

Even though I eat meat
I appreciate the irony
Now that the cows are going mad

The vegetarians are laughing at us now
Well this just make you want to hate them even more
But if you indulge in that
You're no smarter than the slab of beef you eat
The one that's now driving you mad

I hate to be an I told you so
but I ****ing told you so
Meat is murder and it's killing you
Now what the hell are you going to do?​

 

[Solid Lifters]

Here's some lyrics which I find quite humorous.

SNFU - Don't Have the Cow

You should have listened to your mother
And ate your veggies when you were younger
You should have listened to your parents
And doubled up on your peas and carrots

Even though I eat meat
I appreciate the irony
Now that the cows are going mad

The vegetarians are laughing at us now
Well this just make you want to hate them even more
But if you indulge in that
You're no smarter than the slab of beef you eat
The one that's now driving you mad

I hate to be an I told you so
but I ****ing told you so
Meat is murder and it's killing you
Now what the hell are you going to do?​

[answer]Shoot a game animal and eat that. No mad anything and no added chemicals or hormones. Just pure protein.[/answer[

 

[tabs]

"Don't Ask Me" by OK Go

Quit acting so friendly.
Don't nod don't laugh all nicely.
Don't think you'll up-end me.
Don't sigh, don't sip your iced-tea.
And don't say, "It's been a while..."
And don't flash that stupid smile.

Don't ask me how I've been.

Don't think I've forgotten,
you never liked that necklace.
So cordial, so rotten...
Kiss, kiss, let's meet for breakfast.
Don't show up so on-time
and don't act like you're so kind.

Don't ask me how I've been.

Don't sit there and play just
so frank, so straight, so candid,
so thoughtful, so gracious,
so sound, so even-handed.
Don't be so damn benign
and don't waste my ****ing time.

Don't ask me how I've been.


"You Can't Always Get What You Want" by The Rolling Stones

You can't always get what you want.
But if you try sometimes well you just might find..
You get what you need.


And EVERY Michael Bolton song, ever.​

 

[nk4e]

"One Mic" by Nas Stillmatic

.....
[gradually getting louder]
All I need is one blunt, one page, and one pen
One prayer - tell God forgive for one sin
Matter fact maybe more than one, look back
at all the hatred against me, **** alla them
Jesus died at age 33, there's thirty-three shots
from twin glocks there's sixteen apiece, that's thirty-two
Which means, one of my guns was holdin 17
Twenty-seven hit your crew, six went into you
Everybody gotta die sometime; hope your funeral
never gets shot up, bullets tear through the innocent
Nothin is fair, ***** roll up, shootin from wheelchairs
My heart is racin, tastin revenge in the air
I let the **** slide for too many years, too many times
Now I'm strapped with a couple of macs, too many nines
If y'all ****** really wit me get busy load up the semis
Do more than just hold it explode the clip until you empty
There's nothin in our way - they bust, we bust, they rust, we rust
Led flyin, feel it? I feel it in my gut
THAT WE TAKE THESE ******* TO WAR, LIE 'EM DOWN
CAUSE WE STRONGER NOW MY ***** THE TIME IS NOW!!
​

 

[tigermoth737]

Augie March - One Crowded Hour

"...But for one crowded hour, you were the only one in the room
And I sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom
I thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple June
But one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin..."

One of my favourite songs and probably one of the best to have come out of Australia in recent times.

 

[Danoff]

Live and Let Die: "But if this ever-changing world in which we live in..."

....oh wait... this is the awful lyrics thread right? I've got another one.

Nirvana - Lithium: "that's ok my will is good. Yeeeaa Yea.. Yeeaaa yeeeeeeeeea. Yeeaaa Yeea. Yeeea Yeeeeeaaa. Yeaa Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaa. Yeeeeea Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaa!!!!!!11!!!!1!!!!!!1 Yea"

(That's actually the correct number of yea's. Cobain was such a brilliant songwriter.)

 

[Sage]

Live and Let Die: "But if this ever-changing world in which we live in..."

Well, it’s actually worse than that – it’s “But in this ever changing world in which we live in”.

 

[Danoff]

Well, it’s actually worse than that – it’s “But in this ever changing world in which we live in”.

The first lyrics site I went to had this "But in this ever changing world in which we live in, Makes you give in and cry..."

But that makes no sense. It has to be "if" otherwise the following line doesn't work. If it is "in" as the lyrics site seems to suggest, not only is a redundantly redundant "in", it also doesn't work with the next line.

 

[Duke]

You know, I hated that line with a passion until I thought of this. Don't know if it's what Sir Paul wrote or not, but sing it this way for stress relief:

"But if this ever-changing world in which we're living
Makes you give in and cry..."

 

[Nicknamealguem]

"Can you feel this in your heart?
Can you take it to your soul?
I don't want you to pretend
I don't wanna be alone

I don't wanna be alone
Everyday
I'll live through this
Inside I've changed
Everyday
I don't wanna be alone"

COLD - Feel it in Your Heart

Really strong lyric line, even stronger if you read along with the music. It really has some meaning to me.

 

[Smallhorses]

Kid's music from They Might Be Giants - Here Come The ABCs album, and I really should ban myself for a horrible use of "txt speek" here , but they managed to write a semi-sensible (somewhat unusually for TMBG! ) song using only single letters!

I C U - They Might Be Giants:

U R N X
U R N X, N I, I M N X
I C TV
I C TV, N I C U
I C U, I C U, N U R OK
U R N X
U R N X, N I, I W
I C A DVD, I C A DVD, N I C U
I C U, I C U, N U R OK
I C U, I C U, N U R OK

Spoiler

Translation:

You are an ex,
You are an ex, and I, I am an ex
I see TV
I see TV, and I see you
I see you, I see you, and you are okay
You are an ex
You are an ex, and I, I double you
I see a DVD, I see a DVD, and I see you
I see you, I see you, and you are okay
I see you, I see you, and you are okay

 

[Sage]

Haha, that’s fabulous! Now I have to go buy The ABCs. I think out of their main studio albums, I’m only missing the children’s albums…

 

[Patrik]

Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night - "Her husband was a hard working man, just about a mile from here. His head was found in a driving wheel, but his body never was found."

 

[Nicksfix]

Nazareth

Hair of the Dog

Now your messin' with a , a son-of-a-b****

 

[Rykon Zero]

Please don't laugh. I really like J-pop, and some of these songs are freaking epic. To me.
Natsuko Kuwatani (Or Ryouko Asakura): COOL EDITION
(Translated)
If you were to see the world through my eyes/
You'd probably be paralyzed with fear

 

[Perfect Balance]

I was actually listening to Kayne West a few days ago, a line caught my attention.

Kanye West - Can't tell me nothing

""So if the Devil wears Prada, Adam Eve wears nada, I'm in between but way more fresher, with way less effort."

I thought it was kind of funny at least.

 

[DaddyVDUB]

Men at Work; "I met a strange Lady, she made me nervous then she took me in and gave me breakfast."

 

[Touring Mars]

I think you mean Men At Work... 💡 Oddly, I had this song stuck in my head this morning

 

[DaddyVDUB]

Thanks for catching my Boo Boo, guess thats why you get the BIG BUCKS.

 

[Alex.]

wanna leave but I just get stuck
A broken record runnin' low on luck
There's heavy metal coming from your truck
and I (broken record runnin' low on luck)

Never in the wrong time or wrong place
Desecration is the smile on my face

 

[Prosthetic]

"My heros are dead, they died in my head" - Slipknot - Diluted

and from the same song...

"God what the **** is wrong
You act like you knew it all along
Your timing sucks, your silence is a blessing

All I ever wanted out of you was
something you could never be
Now take a real good look at
What you've ****ing done to me"



"I play doctor for five minutes flat
Before I cut my heart open...and let the air out
Three bugs, a pound of dust
Some wind spilled before me
In the strangest manner that had
Broke away my tear spout

AS I LIE THERE
WITH MY TONGUE SPREAD WIDE OPEN
A BLACK WIDOW HAD OFFERED ME
A SWEETHEART TUBE
AS I INJECTED
THE CANDIED HEART THAT I SELECTED
She said don't hesitate
JUST DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO ME!.." - Slipknot - Scissors

I just wish their new album was even remotely close to how awesome this first album was.


EDIT:

Adding one more, because Dez Fafara is a beast.

"All my might
Is funeral flight
Tonight it glows for you
It's fueled with fire
A killing desire
For people you've screwed

So what you feel now
It's coming
And what you need now
It's coming
And what you feel now
It's coming
And what you need now
It's coming

Get it you want it
I've got it
I'm gonna get it good
Get it, I've got it, you want it
I'm gonna get it

What doesn't kill
It surely will
Make I stronger still
I'm fueled with fire
A Killing desire
For people you've
Screwed
Screwed

Get it you want it
I've got it
I'm gonna get it good
Get it, I've got it, you want it
I'm gonna get it

Get it

It just doesn't seem like
you're yourself anymore
Just the other day I
was saying to someone
I don't know what happened anymore
It's just not the same anymore

Get it you want it
I've got it
I'm gonna get it good
Get it, I've got it, you want it
I'm gonna get it

Get it"

Coal Chamber - Glow

 

[Tommi]

The Chorus from Lillian by +44, one of my favourites:

"Your heart is a grave to be perfectly honest
Your mouth's a smoking gun
And you smile while you're twisting the knife in my stomach
Until everything is gone
Take all you can from me
I've got weak constitution
I'm led so easily
So easily"

Muse - Knights of Cydonia
And how can we win
When fools can be kings
Don't waste your time
Or time will waste you

Muse are great for lyrics, my favourite set from K.O.C too:tup:

 

[Prosthetic]

Deciding to add some more stuff....

Hatebreed - Destroy Everything

"A new life begins
Destroy Everything
Obliterate what makes us weak
Destroy Everything
Decimate what threatens me

Cleanse this world with flame
End this, cleanse this
Rebuild and start again
Obliterate what makes us weak

End this and embrace the destruction
End this to embrace new life
NEW LIFE"



Tool - Wings for Marie Pt. 1

"You...
You believed ...
You believed in movements none could see.
You believed in me

A passionate spirit
Uncompromised
Boundless and open
A light in your eyes
Then immobilized.

Broken
Fell at the hands of those movements that I wouldn't see
Yet it was you who prayed for me.
So what have I done
To be a son to an angel?
What have I done
To be worthy?

Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescents
Difficult to see you in this light
Please forgive this selfish question, but
What am I to say to all these ghouls tonight?
"She never told a lie,
... well might have told a lie,
But never lived one.
Didn't have a life,
Didn't have a life,
But surely saved one."
See? I'm alright
Now it's time for us to let you go."

Tool - Schism

"I know the pieces fit cause I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering, fundamental differing,
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
We cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.

I know the pieces fit cause I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication"

Juxtaposed? Can't say that I've ever seen that in a song lyric. I love Maynards lyrics, easily my favorite song writers

 

[Hyst]

Brand New
'Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis

With one or two I get used to the room
We go slow when we first make our moves
By five or six bring you out to the car
Number nine with my head on the bar

And it's sad, but true
Out of cash and I.O.U's

I've got desperate desires and unadmirable plans
My tongue will taste of gin and malicious intent
Bring you back to the bar
Get you out of the cold
A sober, straight face gets you out of your clothes
And they're scared that we know
All the crimes they'll commit
Who they'll kiss before they get home

I will lie awake
Lie for fun and fake the way I hold you
Let you fall for every empty word I say

Barely conscious in the door where you stand
Your eyes are fighting sleep while your mouth makes its demands
You laugh at every word trying hard to be cute
I almost feel sorry for what I'm going to do
And your hair smells of smoke
Who will cast the first stone?
You can sin or spend the night all alone

Brass buttons on your coat hold the cold
In the shape of a heart that they cut out of stone
You're using all your looks that you've thrown from the start
If you let me have my way I swear I'll tear you apart
Cause it's all you can be
You're a drunk and you're scared
It's ladies night, all the girls drink for free

I will lie awake
And lie for fun and fake the way I hold you
Let you fall for every empty word I say

I will lie awake
And lie for fun and fake the way I hold you
Let you fall for every empty word I say

I will lie awake
And lie for fun and fake the way I hold you
Let you fall for every empty word I say

Just what immediately came to mind. Find some more later.

 

[Mazda Mazda]

Lemme join!

Postmortem-Slayer

My sinful glare at nothing holds thoughts of death behind it,
Skeletons in my mind commence tearing at my sanity,
Vessels in my brain carry death until my birth,
Come and die with me forever,
Share insanity.

Do you want to die?

The waves of blood are rushing near, pounding at the walls of lies,
Turning off my sanity, reaching back into my mind,
Non-rising body from the grave, showing new reality,
What I am, What I want, I'm only after death!

 

[senamic]

Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.

In fact, the whole song is great. And anyone saying "what is that song?" can go jump in a hole!

 

[Aldo]

All of these are in the Underworld song, "Dirty Epic"

Connector connector connector connector.
Youre a connector connector connector connector.

Im so dirty. and the light blinds my eyes.
Youre oh so dirty. and the light it blinds my eyes.
Here comes christ on crutches.

(Im loving the underlined bit )

Disappearing down the tube hole on farringdon street
With whiplash willy the motor psycho.

Underworld have some great lyrics 👍