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07-07-2008, 01:59 PM
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I'm sure everyone can list several songs that they believe have great lyrics, for one reason or another. However, if you had to nominate JUST one song as having the best lyrics ever, what song would you pick? Why? and of course, please post them.
Personally, I'm going to have to think about it for a while.  |
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07-07-2008, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by manifold  I'm sure everyone can list several songs that they believe have great lyrics, for one reason or another. However, if you had to nominate JUST one song as having the best lyrics ever, what song would you pick? Why? and of course, please post them.
Personally, I'm going to have to think about it for a while. |
for some reason dylan's "it's alright ma i'm only bleeding" comes to mind. 
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07-07-2008, 02:14 PM
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Rep Power: 64 | | | I love that album.
We had it on 8-track when I was a kid. Spent many, many hours listening to it in the car.
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07-07-2008, 02:20 PM
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Willie has been quite the lyrical master in his day. from Crazy to his gay cowboy song Willie is a lyrical genius.
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07-07-2008, 02:25 PM
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Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
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07-07-2008, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Shogun Willie Nelson's entire Red Headed Stranger album. | So which song is the best in your opinion? |
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07-07-2008, 04:24 PM
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Rep Power: 64 | | | Ok, I thought about it and decided "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" is the best album ever made.
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Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
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07-07-2008, 04:46 PM
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07-07-2008, 06:40 PM
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I could spew lyrics lodged in head from now till doomsday and as those words came to me I'd think each and every song had the best lyrics until the next one came stumbling out of the vaults.
I think this has poetic merit. the BEST? hardly, but it's lodged in my head, so hell, you deal with it, too. Quote:
The night sets softly
With the hush of falling leaves,
Casting shivering shadows
On the houses through the trees,
And the light from a street lamp
Paints a pattern on my wall,
Like the pieces of a puzzle
Or a child's uneven scrawl.
Up a narrow flight of stairs
In a narrow little room,
As I lie upon my bed
In the early evening gloom.
Impaled on my wall
My eyes can dimly see
The pattern of my life
And the puzzle that is me.
From the moment of my birth
To the instant of my death,
There are patterns I must follow
Just as I must breathe each breath.
Like a rat in a maze
The path before me lies,
And the pattern never alters
Until the rat dies.
And the pattern still remains
On the wall where darkness fell,
And it's fitting that it should,
For in darkness I must dwell.
Like the color of my skin,
Or the day that I grow old,
My life is made of patterns
That can scarcely be controlled.
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07-07-2008, 06:53 PM
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Rep Power: 28 | | | 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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07-07-2008, 07:03 PM
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It's about 17 minutes but well worth the listen.
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07-07-2008, 07:05 PM
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Tomorrow maybe I'll come up with what I think other's favorite lyrics are.
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