What are the best lyrics in a song?

[some guy 10]

What are the best lyrics you've heard in songs?

 

Mine are:

 

Dyers eve - Metallica - "Dear mother, dear father, clipped my wings before I learned to fly. unspoiled. unspoken. I've outgrown that ******* lullaby, same thing I've always heard from you. Do as I say, not as I do!"

Edited February 7, 2010 by medusa
language!

[capstan 10]

I wish that for just on time you could stand inside my shoes,and just for that one moment l could be you.

Yes l wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes,you'd know what a drag it is to see you.

BOB DYLAN POSITIVELY 4th STREET

[chinaski 10]

Another Dylan song. These are simple but effective lyrics: "Master's of War".

 

Come you masters of war

You that build the big guns

You that build the death planes

You that build all the bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just don't want you to know

I can see through your masks

 

You that never done nothin'

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it's your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

 

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

 

You fasten all the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

While the death count gets higher

Then you hide in your mansion

While the young people's blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

 

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatening my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood

That runs in your veins

 

How much do I know

To talk out of turn

You might say that I'm young

You might say I'm unlearned

But there's one thing I know

Though I'm younger than you

Even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

 

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good

Will it buy you forgiveness

Do you think that it could

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

 

And I hope that you die

And your death'll come soon

I will follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I'll watch while you're lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I'll stand o'er your grave

'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[Sheff2006 10]

Ooh here is one of my favourite bit of lyrics ever...

 

You thought you were such a smartie but Terry knows about Karate.

 

The above is from 'Terry' by Tracey Ullman. Originally by Kirsty Maccoll but not as good as Tracey's version.

 

Sh2006.

Edited December 27, 2009 by Sheff2006

[Ray Bentos 10]

What about these from one of the most misinterpreted & underrated songwriters of our time. Some of the lyrics from NOTHING RHYMED by GILBERT O'SULLIVAN

 

If I give up the seat I've been saving

To some elderly lady or man

Am I being a good boy

Am I your pride and joy

Mother please if your pleased say I am

And if while in the course of my duty

I perform an unfortunate take

Would you punish me so, unbelievably so

Never again will I make that mistake

 

This feeling inside me could never deny me

The right to be wrong if I choose

And this pleasure I get

From say winning a bet

Is to lose

 

When I'm drinking my Bonaparte Shandy

Eating more than enough apple pies

Will I glance at my screen and see real human beings starve to death

Right in front of my eyes

 

Nothing old, nothing new, nothing ventured

Nothing gained, nothing still-born or lost,

Nothing further than proof nothing wilder than youth

Nothing older than time, nothing sweeter than wine

Nothing physically, recklessly, hopelessly blind

Nothing I couldn't say

Nothing why 'cos today

Nothing rhymed

[Guest]

You can kick their Ass because you're bigger than a bus!!

 

Fat Girl - Steel Panther

[shanes teeth 10]

Spending warm summer days indoors

Writing frightening verse

To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

 

 

The Smiths-Ask

[shanes teeth 10]

You think I'm psycho don't you mamma

Oh mamma,why don't you get up?

 

Psycho-Elvis Cosstello

[shanes teeth 10]

And as the sunset came to meet the evening on the hill

I told you I always loved you,I always did,I always will

 

 

The body of an American-The Pogues

[verona 10]

The screen door slams

Marys dress sways

Like a vision she dances across the porch

As the radio plays

Roy orbison singing for the lonely

Hey that's me and I want you only

Don't turn me home again

I just can't face myself alone again

Don't run back inside

Darling you know just what Im here for

So you're scared and you're thinking

That maybe we aint that young anymore

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night

You aint a beauty, but hey you're alright

Oh and that's alright with me

 

Thunder Road-Bruce Springsteen

[verona 10]

From the Monongahela valley

To the Mesabi iron range

To the coal mines of Appalachia

The story's always the same

Seven hundred tons of metal a day

Now sir you tell me the world's changed

Once I made you rich enough

Rich enough to forget my name

 

Taken from 'Youngstown-Bruce Springsteen

[mark1971 10]

Stay Free - The Clash

 

 

We met when we were in school

Never took no **** from no one, we weren't fools

The teacher says we're dumb

We're only having fun

We **** on everyone

In the classroom

 

When we got thrown out i left without much fuss

An' weekends we'd go dancing

Down streatham on the bus

You always made me laugh

 

Got me in bad fights

Play me pool all night

Smokin' menthol

 

I practised daily in my room

You were down the crown planning your next move

Go on a nicking spree

Hit the wrong guy

Each of you get three

Years in brixton

 

I did my very best to write

How was butlins?

Were the screws too tight?

When you lot get out

Were gonna hit the town

We'll burn it ****in' down

To a cinder

 

Cos years have passed and things have changed

And i move anyway i wanna go

I'll never forget the feeling i got

When i heard that you'd got home

An' i'll never forget the smile on my face

'cos i knew where you would be

An' if you're in the crown tonight

Have a drink on me

But go easy...step lightly...stay free

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G30pB2q8Ago