Best lyric ever

[Tastycles]

I had a look, coudn't see this for the past six months, so I thought I'd ask the question. For me, the more in your face lyrics of people like Bob Dylan aren't that impressive to me, I mean it's not as if I could write them myself, but I still get the feeling I could. I cherish the subtlety and wit and wordplay epoused by people like Morrissey

I dreamt about you last night
And I fell out of bed twice
You can pin and mount me like a butterfly
But "take me to the haven of your bed"
Was something that you never said
Two lumps, please
You're the bee's knees
But so am I

I don't know if that's my favourite overall lyric, but it is certainly up there. I also am a fan of getting a classy rhyme out of a difficult word, that rhymes and still makes sense, and although they aren't my favourites, they certainly bring a smile...

He's reading Balzac
and knocking back Prozac

Incedentally, I was going to put "best and worse" but then I remembered there is no contender for this.

I don't want to see a ghost,
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news

So, what are your favourites? Or are lyrics unimportant to you?

 

[Ty Burna]

Lyrics are a huge thing for me. Lyrics are the main reason why I got into hip hop in the first place, as I see lyrics being the most important part of hip hop. Music is used to talk to you whether you feeling good, or feeling real low. So for that reason, I see lyrics as very important to music as a message within the song. I got a couple favorites actually:

Krayzie Bone - Talk To Myself- It's so hard to believe that i'm still living, i'm alive
My clock is still ticking, guessing that God is still with me (with me)
Cuz I could have been gone so many times before
Murda Mo is chasing me i'm bearly escaping it
My instincts is tellin me that I might not live long in my life (my life)
My life is a jungle I really don't love it it's ready to crumble
I fight with these devils on daily basis
And I try to stay humble
Try not to fall, but what if I slip, trip?
Try to stay calm, but what if I flip?
Kill 'em all

This lyric explained how my life was going a few years ago, and it reminds me on a daily basis how I was able to escape from the dangerous lifestyle I was in. It was a rough time in my life, and I really didn't think I was going to make it long.

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - I'm Not That- I'm that n**** that eat that pussy with cool whip

Mostly because I think the lyric is fucking hilarious, I don't really have a reason otherwise. It had be bustin up laughin first time I heard it.

Krayzie Bone - Life! A Lesson To Learn- Everybody wanna live the rich life
Gamblin they souls, they so gone off of this life
Truely they don't know
Cause they so zoned from the big lights
And fancy cars, Big mansions, stars, no chance at alllll
And maybe lose a little bit integrity to gain-
The finer thangs, like shiny rings, and diamond chains
Wake up, wake up, wake up!
Get out that slave mentality, mayn!
If it's vain, he gots to be vein
They hear it on the radio (Radio-radio)
And then they see it in the video (Video-video)
Then they say "This must be the way to go! " (Go)
And then they always do the typical
Get caught up in the race, often chasin the devil
It usually is a waste, let me put you on the level; rebel
Against the world and it's crooked, wicked ways
Resist the world; only way you can be saved

I really dig these lyrics because Krayzie talks about how everyone is selling out in life to reach materialistic things that they really don't need. It's a real somber song in general, but this lyric hits home the hardest, because to me, money ain't everything, as long as you got happiness everything will be all good.

 

[Blade]

My favourite lyrics are from Radiohead's Subterranean Homesick Alien and Fury by Muse.

Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien

Up above
Aliens hover
Making home movies
For the folks back home

Of all these weird creatures
Who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves
And live for their secrets

I think those lyrics are so brilliantly clever. Basically how weird and moronic humans would look to aliens. I love it.

Muse - Fury

And we'll pray that there's no God...

Another brilliantly clever lyric. Kind of pointing out how out of touch supposedly religious people have become, as if they don't even know what praying means anymore because they use it out of context so much.

As for what Tastycles said about worst lyric, I've got something to rival Life.

U2 - Elevation

A mole
Digging in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, excavation

Not only is that the laziest rhyming I've ever heard, it doesn't even make sense as symbolism or otherwise.

 

[FromTheSouth]

Z-Ro - Speak On It

I'd rather be a slave in heaven
Then the most comfotable cat in hell
But I'm too good for one
Too bad for one
So in between the two, I gotta sell


This line encompasses what rap is supposed to be about. It copes with struggles of those in the hood. The first of the struggles is a moral struggle between what is right and what is wrong. The angel and devil, so to speak. The other is the struggle to do what is necessary to survive versus God's will.

 

[2012isbs]

MutherFucker of the year- Motley Crue
I'm the Mother Fucker of the year
I just love that lyric it describes the band almost perfectly and is the best chorus ever.

 

[My$terio_Fan]

Personally to me, lyrics are the last thing I care about in a song. The song could be about hating gays, but if it were to have a awesome beat, good production, and whoever was singing it had an interesting voice I'd still probably like it.

But as for some of my favorite lyrics(or lyrics I think are the best)...

Mariah Carey's "Obsessed" have some kick ass lyrics

You on your job
You hating hard
Ain't gon' feed you
I'm gonna let you starve
Gasping for air
I'm ventilation
You out of breath
Hope you ain't waiting
Telling the world how much you miss me
But we never were
So why you trippin'
You a mom and pop
I'm a corporation
I'm the press conference
And you a conversation

Another line from that song I like

Got you all fired up with your Napoleon complex
Seeing right through you like you're bathing in Windex

So maybe the lyrics are deep or meaningful and all that jazz, but for some reason they connect to me, and I love them. Maybe it's because I'm vain, or maybe it's because I don't take things too seriously

 

[Mr. TM]

I cannot leave here, I cannot stay,
Forever haunted, more than afraid,
Asphyxiate on words I would say,
I'm drawn to a blackened sky as I turn blue,

There are no flowers, no not this time,
There'll be no angels gracing the lines,
Just these stark words, I find,
I'd show a smile, but I'm too weak,
I'd share with you could I only speak,
Just how much this, hurts me.

The song that will be played at my funeral. I call it the saddest song ever for me. It is off of AFI's Sing The Sorrow, and it is the hidden track entitled "This Time Imperfect". You can find it right after "...but home is now where".

The lyrics are well written, and well sung. Everytime I hear this song, I get a little bit emotional. In fact, it is one of the songs I used to play for a girl I used to be smitten with. Great track for those of you who have not heard it yet.

 

[Grandmaster Sexy]

Sonata Arctica's Replica

Like, the entire song.

I'm home again, I won the war, and now I am behind
your door. I tried so hard to obey the law, and see the
meaning of this all. Remember me? Before the war.
I'm the man who lived next door. Long ago...

As you can see, when you look at me, I'm pieces of
what I used to be. It's easier when you don't see me
standing on my own two feet. I'm taller when I sit
here still, you ask are all my dreams fulfilled.
They made me a heart of steel, the kind them bullets
cannot see, yeah...

Nothing's what it seems to be,
I'm a replica, I'm a replica
Empty shell inside of me
I'm not myself, I'm a replica of me...

The light is green, my slate is clean, new life to fill
the hole in me. I had no name, last December, Christmas
Eve I can't remember. I was in a constant pain, I saw
your shadow in the rain. I painted all your pictures red,
I wish I had stayed home instead.yeah!!

Nothing's what it seems to be,
I'm a replica, I'm a replica
Empty shell inside of me
I'm not myself, I'm a replica of me...

Are you gonna leave me now, when it is all over
Are you gonna leave me, is my world now over...

Raising from the place I've been, and trying to keep
my home base clean. Now I'm here and won't go back believe.

I fall asleep and dream a dream, I'm floating in the
silent stream. No-one placing blame on me
But nothing's what it seems to be, yeah!!

Nothing's what it seems to be,
I'm a replica, I'm a replica
Empty shell inside of me
I'm not myself, I'm a replica

Nothing's what it seems to be,
I'm a replica.
Empty shell inside of me
I'm a replica. (repeat)

Nothing's what it seems to be,
I'm a replica
Empty shell inside of me
I'm a replica of me.....

I'm home again, I won the war, and now I am behind
the door. I tried so hard to obey the law, see the
meaning of this all. Remember me? Before the war.
I'm the man who lived...

Particularly that last line. Never fails to send chills down my spine.

 

[Richard]

This is hard for me to decide but I'd have to say, after much deliberation...

Escape the Fate - My Apocalypse

Theres a place that ive found as far as i can see
this place lies within the depths of my dreams
in a garden surrounded by fire and trees
through the smoke a silhouette, I can barely see
theres a man with an axe standing in the rain,
looked me straight my eyes this is what he had to say..

never fall asleep! you wont wake up
destroy the guillotine! before he does
i walk with shadows, you have to find a better way!
i walk with shadows, the questions i will never say!
hiding from the gallows, they keep me safe and sound!
so i walk with shadows, the ways of burning down this house!

I love the way it's sung with the singing and screaming it just sounds awesome and it gives you a clear image of what is happening in the song. This song would be awesome if it had a music video to go with it. It doesn't have any special meaning for me, I just think it sounds awesome when it's sung.

 

[Hacksaw Highway]

I might have to go with Killswitch Engage's Desperate Times

In these desperate times
This I plead
When all else fails
Remember me

It's a very sad song with a glimmer of hope, much like a lot of KsE's songs. It comes off better in the song, because of the way it is sung. The first time, it's clean vocals, the second time it's still clean but with screaming harmony, and the last time it's just Howard Jones roaring it in this monstrous voice. It's a really beautiful song.

 

[Dexter]

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain
can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
So you think you can tell.

Did they get you to trade
your heroes for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
hot air for a cool breeze
cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
we're just two lost souls living in a fish bowl
year after year
Running over the same old ground
what have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here.

Best song ever written, by the best band that ever lived. I couldn't figure out which part of that song to quote for you, so I quoted the whole thing, because it's just that fucking amazing. I've never heard another song in my life that could even compare to the level of raw emotion and sense of profound loss expressed in Wish You Were Here.

 

[Tastycles]

I've actually made my decision. It combines human condition, fitting the music and being witty, the three things that lyrics can endear themselves to me with. Billy Bragg is often talked about as being a political musician, and while true, his lov songs are infinitely better than his political ones.

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, oh how I wish you'd care

 

[Dave]

Song "Simple Man":
Forget your lust for the rich mans gold
All that you need is in your soul,
And you can do this if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.

I am in love with this song. I had never heard of it until about 2 months ago and it was posted on here by someone. I swear if I could find that person, I would love them forever. It was originally done by Lynyrd Skynyrd for those of you who don't know. However, I think the Shinedown cover is infinitely better. Please try and give both of them a listen and make up your own mind though.

The lyrics though are just exceptional. The first time I listened to the song the full way through, I had a little tear in my eye, it seems to remind me of what I have lost and gives some awesome advice for living. A great song with some of the best lyrics I have ever heard.

 

[kingdirrtysouth1]

I think Bun B is very under-appreciated in the rap game. Her one of my favorite lyricists & doesn't get the credit he deserves. UGK will always be one of my favorite groups. I could have chosen any verse, but I picked this one:

Bun B verse from Break 'Em Off Somethin-Master P. Ice Cream Man:

We coming down like a sail, in that goddamn rover
Just when you thought it was the beginning
You bitch, now its over
You can call on the Calvary, reinforcements, and your local P-D
They getting somewhere if they see me
My n###a that's how these G's be we three, me C and Master P
Sipping on Gin and Kiwi
Fuck popping in your CD, bitch we popping in them clips
And now we all up in your grill live in 3-D
With drama, disaster, and death when
you make me have to blast ya'
Y'all have to recognize you fucking with murder masters
Who plaster your ass and make your momma call a pastor
Dying faster than you thought, now that's your ass bro
It's the class of 9 scrilla on the for real'a
Direct from the villa of killas, now who thinkin' they trilla'
Watch me fill a wanna be cap pillla with them slugs
Probably for jaw jacking or jumping
Bitch don't make me break you off somethin' n###a

 

[Planty]

Always gotta love these lines from Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits:

"A lovestruck romeo sings a streetsus serenade
Laying everybody low with me a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it ? "

As for worst lyrics, I always thought Desree would win this. Haha. Classic. But seriously, the whole of Worst Day by Calvin Harris might win the worst (the worst lines in bold):

My first mistake was ltting you into my life (Yes it was)
My second mistake was allowing you into my bed (Laying in my bed)
My third mistake was loving you more than I should
Oh, I really should know better
My fourth mistake was sitting with you,
While you're telling me that you can't do this anymore

This must be the worst day of my life (x2)
And it's true 'cos all I wanna do is be by your side (My life)
This must be the worst day of my life (x2)
And it's true 'cos all I wanna do is be by your side (My life)

I'm walking home and listening to MP3s
Just how did I let you decide to destroy me?
I'm missing you, it crossed my mind that our heart will bleed
The love that I have left behind is gonna finish me
It's one of those days

This must be the worst day of my life (x2)
And it's true 'cos all I wanna do is be by your side (My life)
This must be the worst day of my life (x2)
And it's true 'cos all I wanna do is be by your side (My life)

See yesterday I called her back
The day before I called her flat
It ain't working, break my neck
Still it ain't cut me my cheque
A week ago I did my thang
Three o' clock, I missed my train
Tomorrow I thought we could chill
There won't be, yes, you won't, I will
The moral of the story like I told my cousin Corey
You see Cupid he wil stab you in the back like Jason Voorhees
So he's got smoking cigarettes and got me drinkin' 40s
And the doctor said take two, and he said call me in the morning
It's the worst day

This must be the worst day of my life (x2)
And it's true 'cos all I wanna do is be by your side (My life)
This must be the worst day of my life (x2)
And it's true 'cos all I wanna do is be by your side (My life)

This must be the worst day of my life (x2)
My life

 

[Uncle Phatso]

forgiveness is a six gun-devildriver

In cold blood, dressed in black
Tombstones and tumbleweeds
Left the dead behind, watched em falling
Let Smith and Wesson do the motherfucking talking

Dust in my eyes, dust in the street, shotguns and broken dreams
Now we left the dead behind, watched em falling
Let the Smith and Wesson do the motherfucking talking

I just fucking love these lyrics, it makes me feel like there singing about an old western movie. I can just see clint eastwood and the duke on a road with a group of people in the town looking out windows at them waiting for them to start shooting

 

[Mr. Steve]

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

That part specifically is just awesome in so many ways. Nothing wrong with Jim Morrison at all.

And maybe it's a little selfish
All I have is the memory
Yet I never stopped to wonder-ahhhhh
Was it possible you were hurtin worse than me
Still my hunger turns to greeeeed
Cause what about what I neeeeeed?!

Think what you will of Gnarls Barkley, but the song is good.

 

[TwistofRKO]

..and the motto was just a lie
It says home is where your heart is
but what a shame
Because everyone's heart doesn't beat the same...

Green Day- Jesus of Suburbia

I love the lyric, it's so very true.

Worst?

My hump x50
My lovely lady lumps

There are tons of crappy ones, this is just the first to pop into my head. Look at almost any sill soft/poppy song that tries to sound serious, or a Nickelback album to find some more, two gold mines.

 

[Rizza]

Sage Francis-I've lived so many lives each death has left my face scarred, Hid so many lies under my breath that I can't face God, Dig into my mind deep enough you'll find a graveyard, I get nervous bodies will resurface every time it rains hard

This whole song(Mourning Aftermath) is insanely good lyrics, and I have so many good parts to choose from, but I chose this part in particular just becuase of how well it rhymes and how air tight it sounds when he delivers it, also the whole song seems very deep, I am a firm believer of finding your own meaning in songs, instead of every song having a definite message(this goes to a extent though, of course), so to me this song is about the dealing with the skeltons in your closet, and dealing with problems with the opposite sex, something I feel everybody can relate to, and I think the lyrics I have posted, very much sum up the song quite perfectly.

 

[Cowboyfromhell]

I was born to love you
I was born to lick your face
I was born to rub you
But you were born to rub me first
- Chevy Chase singing in Caddyshack
The best 4 lines of song. Ever.
It's funny and great to sing wherever.
Chase's character Ty Webb sang this song to Lacey Underall about half way through the movie.

 

[Razor]

To me, the lyrics should carry something different depending on the type of music I'm listening to.

Rock, for instance, should be more symbolic in their choice of lyrics. I don't need an entire album from Nickelback crying because they're too famous. Okay. Your musics still blows. For the ultimate in lyrics from my beloved Alt Rock/Progressive Rock genre, we'll turn to Coheed and Cambria:

Raise your hands high, young brothers and sisters
There's a world's worth of work and a need for you
Oh, changes come in through these doors, now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow if we wait for today?

So march to the drumming
Show them you're coming
You've been their prey

Cut to the coming
Leave them to running
Let them take no more

You've been living off their power
Boy, now go and make your move
Curse us, this gods aren't faking

Have mercy on the cowards, boys
The brave to have it lose
Help us, this world's now breaking

That's about half of their song or so. It's the most powerful part, so I quoted it. Those lyrics, combined with the music, give you a song aimed to get you fighting for what you believe in...to fight for what you hold dear. Or to just keep fighting, no matter the consequences. Or to confront that next big test, that next hurdle, that next big conversation.

..And that's what makes a great song lyric. It can be extrapolated to apply to situations in everyday life. This song shouldn't just be taken as a final battle song for the Amory Wars, but rather it should be taken and applied to any situation in which you feel beat down and ready to quit.

 

[Барбоса]

While not one of the best ever, if I have had a crappy day or know that I am going to be hungover, I always think of the line

Due to lack of interest, tomorrow is cancelled

from 'Ruby' by The Kaiser Chiefs

 

[pyrusane]

Hmm...there are a few that I really dig

From The Answer, by Blue October

There's Prozac, Welbutrin,
There's Paxil thats proven
No side-effects
But the rest left unnamed
Cause they worked like a charm
On me
Makes me laugh every time I hear it.

I've also always like the first couple of lines from Dylan's "It's Hell Time, Man"

Round these streets the fools rule
There's no freedon or self respect
A knifes point, or a trip to the joint
Is about all that you can expect
They kill people here who stand up for their rights
This system's just too damned corrupt
It's always the same, the name of the game
Is who do you know higher up
Not one of his more well known songs, but it always spoke to me, and I highly recommend giving it a listen.

And, finally, my all time favorite. This was the lyric that originally got me interested in my all time favorite band, Savatage. From the great song, When The Crowds Are Gone...

I never wanted to know, never wanted to see
I wasted my time, til time wasted me
Never wanted to go, always wanted to stay
But the person I am is the parts that I play
So I plot and I plan, I hope and I scheme
To the lure of a night, filled with unfinished dreams
I'm holding on tight to a world gone astray
As they charge me for years I can no longer pay

Thats my take on it...

 

[Legendary_Undertaker]

As a rapper myself lyrics are an important part of everyday life so here are some of my favorite lyrics from people other than myself

Twista misunderstood

I'm bout to fuck shit up got me rippin through your body like a natural disaster
Move like a torpedo with the speed and vengeance of a killa if you lookin for a murderer
I'm the master motherfucker I'm bout to tear shit up with heat from a thermometer
Go get your mama to pay for the bury um… astonisher interplanetary to bury everything
From earth to ???? you feeling me cause I'm bout to fuck shit up like Freddy after Jason
With a affacination for elastration and congratulations for eradications because I know
Ain't no vaccinations for decapitations with the proper placing I'm bout to tear shit
Up because I take hits with that purple like I am a vican call me a lyrical loution
I roll with a mob of wolves like I am a lion some of the top some I am writtin
If you ain't strap aight we fightin can't rock by me through the middle of the field
With that white like I am a titan *****s never know what Twista be on
Don't these ***** fuck with a bitch from the hood I
Insist that I talk to a psycho psychiatrist because I'm misunderstood

next up is

Krayzie Bone Spit Yo Game

In the middle of the hour *****z bring
More drama then they baby mamas
***** wanna battle? Well, I'll bomb ya - One man
But attack like a pack of piranhas like Terra-Cotta
*****z always ready for the war (Them Bone Boys are back! Them Bone Boys are back!)
But they really don't wanna see a ***** though
We can do 'em in a minute, then we finish wit em
Hit 'em wit the feelin' of a ***** wit a suck ass flow
Doin' it wit Swizz - Oh No!
You *****z in sone tro-ou-ble
Somebody better call po-po
It's gonna be murder when I get to swevin 'em verbally {yeah!}
***** you hard of me, wig splitter
Killa ***** - word to me!
And I'm classic, like Bird & Magic
wit a tactic to snatch it
Strap back and stack some platinum
Double on the mag random
wit the bullets I brand em
Finna hold the game ransom
Runnin' up in your mansion
Catch the man and blas them cannons
*****z ain't ready for this one cause
I'm on a mission to get even, better believe it
I'm heavily heated, it's east yo see me
If you want to see me, let that be the reason

My all time favorite is

T.I. im serious

To play me, ba-by, hey he,
gone need a track from God featuring Jesus and Jay-Z

all these songs have something in common to me....They made me say damn!!!! and for that reason alone I think they are some of the best lyrics ever but heres one for the road

Forever

Drake

Last name ever, first name greatest
Like a sprained ankle boy, I ain't nothin to play wit
Started off local but thanks to all the haters
I know G-4 pilots on a first name basis
Any city faded off the brown, +Nino+
She insist she got more class, we know
Swimmin in the money, come and find me, +Nemo+
If I was at the club you know I ball, chemo


Kanye West

I stuck my dick inside this life until that bitch came
And went hard all fall like the ball teams
Just so I can make it rain, offspring
Y'all seen my story, my glory
Y'all had raped the game young, you can call it statutory
When a ***** blow up they gon build statues for me
Old money, Benjamin Button (what?) nothin man
Now super bad chicks givin me +McLovin+
You would think I ran the world like Michelle's husband

Eminem

There they go
Packin stadiums as Shady spits his flow
Nuts they go
Macadamian, they go so ballistic, whoa
He can make them look like bozo's
He's wonderin if he should spit this slow
FUCK NO, go for broke
This cup just runneth over, almost
He ain't had a reproach like this
Since the last time that he overdosed
They been waitin patiently for Pinnochio to poke his nose
Back into the game and they kno
Rap will never be same as before
Bashin in the brains of these hoes
And establishin the name as he goes
The passion in the flame is ignited
You can't put it out once we light it
This shit is exactly what the fuck
That im talkin about when we riot
You dealin wit a few true villains
Who stand inside of a booth, truth spillin
And spit true feelins until our truth feelins
Come flyin up outta our mouth, now rewind it
Pay back motherfucker for the way that you got at me, how's it taste?
When I slap the taste outta ya mouth
Wit the bass so loud that it shakes the place
I'm Hannibal Lector so just in case you're thinkin of saving face
You ain't gon have no face to save by the time I'm thru with this place, so Drake