Marillion has the best lyrics ever (or did when Fish was the lead singer).

I like this bit from a song about words:

"Listen as the syllables of slaughter cut with calm precision
patterned frost phrases rape your ears and sow the ice incision
adjectives of annihilation bury the point beyond redemption
venomous verbs of ruthless candor plagiarize assassin's fervor
apocalyptic alphabet casting spell, the creed of tempered diction"

Also nice is their intro to the album misplaced childhood:

"Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono wearing bracelets of smoke
Naked of understanding
Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears
Safe in my own words, learning from my own words
Cruel joke, cruel joke

Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono a morning mare rides
In the starless shutters of my eyes
The spirit of a misplaced childhood is rising to speak his mind
To this orphan of heartbreak, disillusioned and scarred
A refugee, refugee"

Or maybe this bit from the beginning of Fugazi:

"Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a blackheath cell
Extinguishing the fires in a private hell
Provoking the heartache to renew the licence
Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule
Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience
Wrapped in the christening shawl of a hangover
Baptised in the tears from the real
Tears from the real"

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"There ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk." - Tom Waits