What's the best written song you know?
>>7531764
goodly music written is bad most of th time
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYajHZ4QUVM
random excerpt:
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred
>>7531764
Sale la nebbia sui prati bianchi
come un cipresso nei camposanti
un campanile che non sembra vero
segna il confine fra la terra e il cielo.
Ma tu che vai, ma tu rimani
vedrai la neve se ne andrà domani
rifioriranno le gioie passate
col vento caldo di un'altra estate.
Anche la luce sembra morire
nell'ombra incerta di un divenire
dove anche l'alba diventa sera
e i volti sembrano teschi di cera.
Ma tu che vai, ma tu rimani
anche la neve morirà domani
l'amore ancora ci passerà vicino
nella stagione del biancospino.
La terra stanca sotto la neve
dorme il silenzio di un sonno greve
l'inverno raccoglie la sua fatica
di mille secoli, da un'alba antica.
Ma tu che stai, perché rimani?
Un altro inverno tornerà domani
cadrà altra neve a consolare i campi
cadrà altra neve sui camposanti.
>>7531764
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed
Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear
Oh, oh.
Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain't no denyin'
I've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin'
All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been.
Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin' through Kashmir.
Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear
Ohh.
When I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down...
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, well I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oooh, my baby, let me take you there
Let me take you there. Let me take you there
>>7531764
Bloodhail
"Selective Memory" by Eels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtq6DvPzEck
"My Timing is Off", Eels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZNsoS0ujK0
I really think E has a knack at writing poetry that moves readers, listeners. Reminds me of what Hawthorne said of his work in Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
http://www.bartleby.com/39/36.html
>>7531867
>Hawthorne
I mean Wordsworth.
>>7531764
Regeton is severely under-appreciated as a post-modern literary form
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRp3-D3SMwI
>>7531764
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTzZ5BcHmQ
BBQ Pope
Lyrics:
I, Calypso.
I shot the barbecue pit
I shot the pope, yahoo
They shot the pope
They shot his ass
It's over now
That's what I said
I wet my bed last night
I woke up sad, whoo
They shot the pope
They shot the pope's ass
They shot the pope
And i said Good Night.
>>7531864
ARROWHEADS ARROWHEADS ARROWHEADS ARROWHEADS
>>7531901
I miss the times when people would ARROWHEADSpost a lot on /mu/
A couple from American Water, couldn't decide one in particular. That whole album has the best lyrics in rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymYjwsFz8iM
"Lost In A Crowd" by Fantastic Negrito
First one performed in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1-Pf29IECo&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arOmqnUIAvg&list=PLF01690BB8C1F824D&index=4
>tfw Neon Horse will never get the recognition it deserves
>>7532190
>my ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors and they help me see
>that everything in this room right now is a part of me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x8ykcvHs2g
>>7532296
Les classiques :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjELabiPItw
Les petits nouveaux :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRP9Ls5mxc
well it ain't no use to sit and wonder whyyyyyyy babe
if you don't know by now
Poetry: the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOzayDpWoI
>>7531855
i love Kashmir
take your pick of mid c19th art songs adapted from Schiller or Goethe viz Schubert and Schumann
>>7532341
Extrêmement propre MC Solaar! Hyacinthe j'aime moins par contre..
Fabe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3K1RZrB33k
Chiens de Paille:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laxy1bqqgJc
On va transformer ce thread en meilleurs sons de Rap FR ahaha
>>7532432
Excellent. Si on reste dans les classiques :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYdUZXfz9I
Je tente un autre jeunot :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQtbfmmCz4
I'm quite objective here, there's no better written song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Z99cGSfzs
Transient jet lag ecto mimed bison
This is the haunt of roulette dares
Ruse of metacarpi
Caveat emptor....to all that enter here
Open wrists talk back again
In the wounded of its skin
They'll pinprick the witness
In ritual contrition
The am trinity fell upon asphyxia-derailed
In the rattles of...
Made its way through the tracks
Of a snail slouching whisper
A half mass comute through umbilical blisters
Spector will lurk
Radar has gathered
Midnight nooses from boxcar cadavers
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
It's because this is
Cranial bleeding
Leaches train the living
Cursed are they who speak its name
Ruse of metacarpi
Caveat emptor to all that enter here
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
It's because this is
Ratteling the laughter
Hinges splintering inside
Bludgeoned to a saddle
Rang the cloister bell inside
inside
inside
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
it's because this is
In heaven, everything is fine
>>7532464
I love that song, and the Modest Mouse version
the stranger by leonard cohen
I don't believe that it's some of the #1 best lyricism in music, but does anyone else find the lyrics on tDaGARIM to be the peak of simplicity and very delicate symbolism well executed?
It feels almost like the level of classic poetry but with the straightforward and literal elements inspired by modern one.
>>7532455
those are the worst lyrics i've ever read
>>7531764
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYJO5fJgNSQ
I really enjoyed Kayo Dot's Hubardo lyrics lately. http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/kayodot/hubardo.html
>>7532519
Can't pick the best written song amongst these, maybe The Second Operation (Lunar Water).
>>7532488
Absolutely. It's my favorite record of all time and I get something new out of it every time I listen. It's a fucking journey thorough someone's faith being shaken at its core and it's terrifying and beautiful. Brand New is the best.
>>7532455
Might as well post an Aesop Rock song if you're going for surrealism that prioritizes the sound of words more than syntax
>>7532555
Beauty supreme, yeah you were right about me.
But can I get myself out from underneath this guilt that will crush me?
In the choir: I saw a sad messiah.
He was bored and tired of my laments.
It said, "I died for you one time but never again."
>>7531784
Good choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1HUsJJCzU
The best ever though.
>>7532230
No.7531898 here
Beautiful lyrics, didn't know that song (i'm ignorant in S&G, only listened to Bridge over Troubled Water)
>>7532454
Là par contre je valide les deux ! Merci pour la découverte !
Rocé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKQZeqfpltk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhkbhpvAxBA
>>7532647
>>>/GTFO/
No one cares about your filthy fucking foreign tongue.
If the Bible were rewritten in the 21st century, I'd nominate Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou for a book.
Maybe Song of Songs:
"Bullet To Binary"
Let us die, let us die
Dying we reply
"don't talk to us about suffering,
look in our eyes".
Let us be, let us be-
Our closeness is such that
wherever she rests her head
in the softness underneath,
she'll feel me - and you will feel me.
Je leverai les yeux a toi-
J'ai change cent foi de nom
Je leverai les yeux a toi-
Je n'ai pas d'spoir.
When you laugh you'll feel my breath there
filling up your lungs. And when you cry,
those aren't your tears but I'm there
falling down your cheek.
and when you say you love him, taste me
I'm like poison on your tongue-
But when you're tired, if you're quiet,
you'll hear me singing you to sleep.
Or some earlier Old Testament:
"In A Sweater Poorly Knit"
In a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile
Little moses drifts downstream in the Nile
A fumbling reply, an awkward rigid laugh
I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft
Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between
Sweet rhan any wine and bitter as mustard greens
Light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickel bread
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
As you plow some other field try and forget my name
See what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same
I planted rows of peas but by the first week of July
They should have come up to my knees
But they were maybe ankle high
Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns
And boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars
But now the books are overdueand the goats are underfed
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
You're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
You made a holy fool of me and I've thanked you ever since.
If she comes circling back we'll end where we'd begun
Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one
Or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken open seed
If I come without a thing, then I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head,
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
I do not exist only you exist
Or even the Quran:
"Allah, Allah, Allah"
In everywhere we look [x6]
Allah, Allah, Allah!
In everywhere we look
In everyone we meet [x6]
Allah, Allah, Allah!
In everyone we meet
In every blade of grass [x6]
Allah, Allah, Allah!
In every blade of grass
It doesn't matter what you done
It doesn't matter what you done
What effect is without a cause?
It doesn't matter what you done
Now lay your faithless head down
in necessity's Cotton Hand
There's a love that never changes
No matter what you done
If your old man did you wrong [x3]
Well maybe his old man did him wrong
If you care to sing forgiveness songs
Come down and join our band
And we'll cut you like sword
And sing forgiveness songs
Everywhere we look [x5]
It's all crazy
It's all false
It's all a dream
It's alright
Everywhere we look
Last Call - Kanye West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNYF_-mGGUI
has some really good lines:
Flow infectious, give me 10 seconds
I'll have a buzz bigger than insects in Texas
It's funny how wasn't nobody interested
'Til the night I almost killed myself in Lexus
I went to the malls and I balled too hard
"Oh my god, is that a black card?"
I turned around and replied, "Why yes
But I prefer the term African American Express"
Killin y'all niggas on that lyrical shit
Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips
>>7532662
kek
Nobody captures the essentially brutal truths of society like Michael Gira with Swans:
>Stay Here
Be strong
Be hard
Resist temptation
Stick your hand in your eye
Close your fist
Resist
Walk on this line
Look straight ahead
Flex your muscles [x4]
Be hard
Be strong
Be hard [x2]
Hard [x2]
Come back for more
Come back [x2]
Flex your muscles [x2]
Come back
Be hard [x2]
Flex your muscles [x2]
Come back
Flex your muscles [x2]
Be hard [x3]
Hard [x4]
Be hard [x4]
Flex your muscles [x4]
>Power For Power
Use sex for control
Use power for power
Use hate for freedom
Use money for cruelty [x2]
Take control and keep it [x2]
Don't let go [x2]
He was your friend
She was your friend
He was your friend
She was your friend
They were wrong, they were wrong [x2]
Turn against them [x2]
Sex
Power
Money
Hate
Take control and keep it [x2]
Don't let go [x2]
Power for power [x3]
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power [x3]
Power for power's sake
>Cop
The punishment fits the crime
Nothing beats humiliation
Humiliation's a disease
Nothing beats humiliation
Nothing beats them like a cop with a club
Nothing beats them like a cop in jail
Nobody beats your head in like a cop in a jail
Nobody hurts you like a cop with a club
Nobody rapes you like a cop with a club
Nobody beats your body like a cop in jail
Nobody burns their body like a cop
Nobody burns your skin off like a cop in jail
The heat hurts
Humiliation's a disease
if i take the musical part into account, SOAD - Know
I will never feed off the evergreen luster of your heart
All because we all live in the valley of the walls
When we speak we can peak from the windows of their mouths
To see the land the women chant as they fly up to the sun.
You never think you know why,
Know,
You never think you know why,
Know,
You never think you know why,
Know,
Ever think you know why,
Know.
Books all say different things while people flap their yellow wings
Trying to soar by being a whore of life and almost everything
The sheep that ran off from the herd may be dead but now's a bird
Able to fly able to die able to fuck your mother's earth (fuck your mother's earth)
You never think you know why,
Know,
You never think you know why,
Know,
You never think you know why,
Know,
Ever think you know why,
Know.
On the other side, on the other side, the other side,
Do you ever try to fly,
Do you ever try to fly?
Have you ever wanted to die, you ever wanted to die?
Don't ever try to fly, don't ever try to fly,
Don't ever try to fly, unless you leave your body on the other side,
Never try to die, you ever try to die.
Know,
You never think you know why,
Know,
You never think you know why,
Know,
You never think you know why,
Know,
Ever think you know why,
Know.
All lyrics are bad because song-form is absolute trash.
WAKE ME UP
The one i wrote in my head,
It goes like nana nana naaaa nana naaa
I dunno try asking fucking /mu/
>>7532841
rofl
>>7532837
hey jude
>>7532454
Bof bof Rufyo.
>>7532832
BEFORE YOU GO GO
Marrow by Yob
>>7532880
Lil Wayne in Juveniles' "Back That Azz Up"
>After you back it up, then stop
>Then wha-wha-what, drop drop it like it's hot
Wayne was just 16. A true prodigy and pioneer of language and rhyme.
>>7531848
>De André
Mio negro
>>7532745
that are not even lyrics just some guy shouting edgy gibberish
>>7532586
>>7531784
extremely based picks, hard to top. Gates of Eden off of BIABH is also incredibly well written.
I really enjoyed his songwriting on John Wesley Harding as well. It's quite simple, but very effective. Combined with the overall aesthetic of the album, I feel its some of his best writing. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine is a really great one.
>>7531764
Almost certainly not the best ever written, but it tops everything in this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9Ro9pP2gc
The cause is Ozymandian.
The map of Sapokanikan
is sanded and beveled,
the land lone and leveled
by some unrecorded and powerful hand
which plays along the monument,
and drums, upon a plastic bag,
The Brave Men and Women, So Dear to God
and Famous To All of the Ages rag.
(Sing: Do you love me?
Will you remember?
The snow falls above me.
The Renderer, renders.
The Event is in the hand of God.)
Beneath a Patch of Grass,
her bones the old Dutch master hid,
while, elsewhere, Tobias and the Angel disguised
what the scholars surmised was a mother and kid
(interred with other daughters, in dirt, in other potter's fields).
Above them,
parades mark the passing of days
through parks where pale colonnades arch
in marble and steel,
where all of the Twenty Thousand attending your foot fall
(and the Cause that they died for)
are lost in the idling birdcalls,
and the records they left are cryptic at best,
lost in obsolescence:
the text will not yield
(nor X-ray reveal, with any fluorescence)
where the Hand of the Master begins and ends.
I fell.
I tried to do well, but I won't be.
Will you tell the one that I loved
to remember, and hold me?
I call and call for the doctor,
but the snow swallows me whole,
with old Florry Walker.
The event lives only in print.
***
He said,
"It's alright, and it's all over now," and boarded the plane,
his belt unfastened,
(The boy was known to show unusual daring—
and called a 'boy', this alderman
confounding Tammany Hall, in whose employ
King Tamanend himself preceded John’s fall!)
So we all raise a standard
to which the wise and honest soul may repair;
to which a hunter,
a hundred years from now,
may look, and despair, and see with wonder
the tributes we have left to rust in the park:
swearing that our hair stood on end,
to see John Purroy Mitchel depart for the Western Front,
where work might count.
All exeunt! All go out!
Await the hunter, to decipher the stone
(and what lies under, now).
The city is gone.
Look, and despair.
Look, and despair.
"Stargazer" - Rainbow
High noon, oh I'd sell my soul for water
Nine years worth of breakin' my back
There's no sun in the shadow of the wizard
See how he glides, why he's lighter than air
Oh I see his face!
Where is your star?
Is it far, is it far, is it far?
When do we leave?
I believe, yes, I believe
In the heat and the rain
With whips and chains
To see him fly
So many die
We build a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
Just to see him fly
But don't know why
Now where do we go?
Hot wind, moving fast across the desert
We feel that our time has arrived
The world spins, while we put his dream together
A tower of stone to take him straight to the sky
Oh I see his face!
Where is your star?
Is it far, is it far, is it far?
When do we leave?
Hey, I believe, I believe
All eyes see the figure of the wizard
As he climbs to the top of the world
No sound, as he falls instead of rising
Time standing still, then there's blood on the sand
Oh I see his face!
Where was your star?
Was it far, was it far
When did we leave?
We believed, we believed, we believed
In heat and rain
With the whips and chains
To see him fly
So many died
We built a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
To see him fly
But why
In all the rain
With all the chains
Did so many die
Just to see him fly
Look at my flesh and bone
Now, look, look, look, look,
Look at his tower of stone
I see a rainbow rising
Look there, on the horizon
And I'm coming home, I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Time is standing still
He gave back my will
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Going home
I'm going home
My eyes are bleeding
And my heart is leaving here
But it's not home
But it's not home
Ooh
Take me back
He gave me back my will
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Going home
I'm going home
Nothing even comes close.
I'm the Scatman
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
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(I'm the Scatman)
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Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you
As a matter of fact, I don't let nothin' hold you back
If the Scatman can do it, so can you
Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings
But what you don't know I'm gonna tell you right now
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing to you
I'm the Scatman
Where's the Scatman?
I'm the Scatman
Why should we be pleasin' in the politician heathens
Who would try to change the seasons if they could?
The state of the condition insults my intuitions
And it only makes me crazy and a heart like wood
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you
As a matter of fact, don't let nothin' hold you back
If the Scatman can do it, brother, so can you
I'm the Scatman
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Yeah, I'm the Scatman
Where's the Scatman?
>>7533843
I'm the Scatman, repeat after me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie, scoobie doobie melody
I'm the Scatman, sing along with me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie, scoobie doobie melody
Yeah, I'm the Scatman
Bop ba bodda bope
Be bop ba bodda bope
Bop ba bodda
I'm the Scatman
Bop ba bodda bope
Be bop ba bodda bope
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you
As a matter of fact, I don't let nothin' hold you back
If the Scatman can do it, so can you
I hear you all ask 'bout the meaning of scat
Well, I'm the professor and all I can tell you is
While you're still sleepin', the saints are still weepin' 'cause
Things you call dead haven't had the chance to be born
I'm the Scatman
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Be bop ba bodda bope
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Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
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Yeah, I'm the Scatman!
Where's the Scatman?
I'm the Scatman, repeat after me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie, scoobie doobie melody
I'm the Scatman, sing along with me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie, scoobie doobie melody
Yeah!
I'm the Scatman!
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
(I'm the Scatman)
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(Yeah, I'm the Scatman)
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(Sing along with me)
Bop ba bodda bope
(It's a scoobie oobie doobie, scoobie doobie melody)
Be bop ba bodda bope
From the dusty May sun
Her looming shadow grows
Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote
She twines her spines up slowly
Towards the boiling sun
And when i touched her skin
My fingers ran with blood
In the hushing dusk under a swollen silver moon
I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom
And strange hands halted me, the looming shadows danced
I fell down to the thorny brush and felt the trembling hands
When the last light warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones
And rise with me forever
Across the silent sand
And the stars will be your eyes
And the wind will be my hands
>>7533793
My negro. I prefer Gates of Babylon tho.
>>7531764
Any Townes Van Zandt, but this is my favorite:
https://youtu.be/MhVHE5V49oA
>>7534793
I was just going to post Zandt. Lungs or Big Country Blues, or Waiting around to die. Lyrics aren't complex but you feel them every time.
I've always liked the lyrics to Woody Guthrie's "Remember the Mountain Bed".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4_zjpdSFKE
Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves:
Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds:
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves, face, breast, hips and thighs.
You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes.
Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled woodvines twine
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me.
Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky.
As your fingers played with grassy moss, and limber you did lie:
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
Your feet played games with mountain roots, as you lay thinking there.
Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away:
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go.
There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned.
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life’s reason why
The People laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die.
The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown,
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees were singing seeds are sown
Your shape and form is dim, but plain, there on our mountain bed
I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head…
I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams,
To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands.
I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears,
I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here:
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.
All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
My loneliness healed my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again.
oh my god, lit really doesn't know any good music
Mozart - La' Ci Darem la Mano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YLLanQL2ZE
Don Giovanni
L ci darem la mano,
L mi dirai di s.
Vedi, non lontano;
Partiam, ben mio, da qui.
Zerlina
(Vorrei e non vorrei,
Mi trema un poco il cor.
Felice, ver, sarei,
Ma pu burlarmi ancor.)
Don Giovanni
Vieni, mio bel diletto!
Zerlina
(Mi fa piet Masetto.)
Don Giovanni
Io cangier tua sorte.
Zerlina
Presto... non son pi forte.
Don Giovanni
Andiam!
Zerlina
Andiam!
A due
Andiam, andiam, mio bene.
a ristorar le pene
D'un innocente amor.
Read more: Luciano Pavarotti - La'Â Ci Darem La Mano Lyrics | MetroLyrics
>>7531764
JUMPMAN JUMPMAN JUMPMANJUMPMAN JUMPMAN JUMPMANJUMPMAN JUMPMAN JUMPMANJUMPMAN JUMPMAN JUMPMANJUMPMAN JUMPMAN JUMPMAN
>>7535170
YEEZY YEEZY YEEZY JUST JUMPED OVER JUMPMAN
jacques brel - ne me quitte pas
Hypnotically gasses by organised Konfusion
>>7531764
Up on the white veranda
She wears a necktie and a Panama hat
Her passport shows a face
From another time and place
She looks nothing like that
And all the remnants of her recent past
Are scattered in the wild wind
She walks across the marble floor
Where a voice from the gambling room is callin' her to come on in
She smiles, walks the other way
As the last ship sails and the moon fades away
From Black Diamond Bay
As the morning light breaks open, the Greek comes down
And he asks for a rope and a pen that will write
Pardon, monsieur, the desk clerk says
Carefully removes his fez
Am I hearing you right
And as the yellow fog is lifting
The Greek is quickly heading for the second floor
She passes him on the spiral staircase
Thinking he's the Soviet Ambassador
She starts to speak, but he walks away
As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway
On Black Diamond Bay
A soldier sits beneath the fan
Doing business with a tiny man who sells him a ring
Lightning strikes, the lights blow out
The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout
Can you see anything
Then the Greek appears on the second floor
In his bare feet with a rope around his neck
While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle
Says, open up another deck
But the dealer says, attendez-vous, s'il vous plait
As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away
From Black Diamond Bay
The desk clerk heard the woman laugh
As he looked around the aftermath and the soldier got tough
He tried to grab the woman's hand
Said, here's a ring, it cost a grand
She said, that ain't enough
Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags
While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb
She passed the door that the Greek had locked
Where a handwritten sign read, do not disturb
She knocked upon it anyway
As the sun went down and the music did play
On Black Diamond Bay
I've got to talk to someone quick
But the Greek said, go away, and he kicked the chair to the floor
He hung there from the chandelier
She cried, help, there's danger near
Please open up the door
Then the volcano erupted
And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above
The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner
Thinking of forbidden love
But the desk clerk said, it happens every day
As the stars fell down and the fields burned away
On Black Diamond Bay
As the island slowly sank
The loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room
The dealer said, it's too late now
You can take your money, but I don't know how
You'll spend it in the tomb
The tiny man bit the soldier's ear
As the floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew
While she's out on the balcony, where a stranger tells her
My darling, je vous aime beaucoup
She sheds a tear and then begins to pray
As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away
From Black Diamond Bay
(1/2)
I was sitting home alone one night in L.A.
Watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news
It seems there was an earthquake that
Left nothing but a Panama hat
And a pair of old Greek shoes
Didn't seem like much was happening
So I turned it off and went to grab another beer
Seems like every time you turn around
There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear
And there's really nothing anyone can say
And I never did plan to go anyway
To Black Diamond Bay
(2/2)
Find a musician with better taste in literature.
http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/patti-smiths-list-of-favorite-books.html
>>7532230
>not his most poetic effort
>not pic related
Surf's Up
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome mannered baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?
Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumpeter swan
Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?
Dove nested towers the hour was
Strike the street quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-Step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne
The glass was raised, the fired-roast
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port adieu or die
A choke of grief heart hardened I
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry
Surf's Up
Aboard a tidal wave
Come about hard and join
The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children's song
Child, child, child, child, child
A child is the father of the man
Child, child, child, child, child
A child is the father of the man
A children's song
Have you listened as they played
Their song is love
And the children know the way
That's why the child is the father to the man
Child, child, child, child, child
Child, child, child, child, child
Na na na na na na na na
Child, child, child, child, child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ2OKoLpNBM
>>7531764
Phil Ochs, The Crucifixion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIwbeEGXj5E
And the night comes again to the circle studded sky
The stars settle slowly, in loneliness they lie
'Till the universe explodes as a falling star is raised
Planets are paralyzed, mountains are amazed
But they all glow brighter from the brilliance of the blaze
With the speed of insanity, then he dies.
In the green fields a turnin', a baby is born
His cries crease the wind and mingle with the morn
An assault upon the order, the changing of the guard
Chosen for a challenge that is hopelessly hard
And the only single sound is the sighing of the stars
But to the silence of distance they are sworn
So dance dance dance
Teach us to be true
Come dance dance dance
'Cause we love you
Images of innocence charge him go on
But the decadence of destiny is looking for a pawn
To a nightmare of knowledge he opens up the gate
And a blinding revelation is laid upon his plate
That beneath the greatest love is a hurricane of hate
And God help the critic of the dawn.
So he stands on the sea and shouts to the shore,
But the louder that he screams the longer he's ignored
For the wine of oblivion is drunk to the dregs
And the merchants of the masses almost have to be begged
'Till the giant is aware, someone's pulling at his leg,
And someone is tapping at the door.
To dance dance dance
Teach us to be true
Come dance dance dance
'Cause we love you
Then his message gathers meaning and it spreads across the land
The rewarding of his pain is the following of the man
But ignorance is everywhere and people have their way
Success is an enemy to the losers of the day
In the shadows of the churches, who knows what they pray
For blood is the language of the band.
The Spanish bulls are beaten; the crowd is soon beguiled,
The matador is beautiful, a symphony of style
Excitement is estatic, passion places bets
Gracefully he bows to ovations that he gets
But the hands that are applauding are slippery with sweat
And saliva is falling from their smiles
So dance dance dance
Teach us to be true
Come dance dance dance
'Cause we love you
Then this overflow of life is crushed into a liar
The gentle soul is ripped apart and tossed into the fire.
First a smile of rejection at the nearness of the night
Truth becomes a tragedy limping from the light
All the (canons|heavens) are horrified, they stagger from the sight
As the cross is trembling with desire.
They say they can't believe it, it's a sacreligious shame
Now, who would want to hurt such a hero of the game?
But you know I predicted it; I knew he had to fall
How did it happen? I hope his suffering was small.
Tell me every detail, for I've got to know it all,
And do you have a picture of the pain?
So dance dance dance
Teach us to be true
Come dance dance dance
'Cause we love you
>>7531764
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRkP-rplNjs
>>7535658
Good choice. And I would add The Scorpion Depart But Never Returns by Ochs as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaNxA-V3_E
But no one gives an answer not even one goodbye
Oh, the silence of their sinking is all that they reply
Some have chosen to decay and other chose to die
But I'm not dying, no I'm not dying
Tell me I'm not dying
>>7534775
The rythm of GoB is better and catchier, but the lyrics of Stargazer surpass it by far.
Fairport Convention - Matty Groves
Suzanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3B0iJQcXmk
>>7532822
So do you discard all villanelles? Idiot
>>7535383
Just another New York hipster. Ugly too.
>>7535755
Great lyrics
The original is better though
Also, great dutch version: http://youtu.be/qGosNeAME84
It starts with one thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme to explain in due time
(All I know)
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
(It's so unreal)
Didn't look out below, watched the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to remind myself how
(I tried so hard)
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so [far]
Things aren’t the way they were before
You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a
Memory of a time when I (tried so hard)
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There’s only one thing you should know
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter
Anything by Soul Coughing really, more due to spoken word then anything else.
https://youtu.be/mR9WJSX9pnU
Not necessarily a lyracist but James Murphy is essentially /lit/ and /mu/ hybrid.
https://youtu.be/yYCz06bS380
Doggy -Animal Collective
Always got a feel from this album that reminded me of the nostalgic sections from Portrait of the Artist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYERdjstR0I
Dog of height in the trees
Won't you come down doggy
Such a sweet doggy
I brought you your dinner
My doggy i miss you kissing from my
I remember when i first got you doggy
But you lay there so still doggy
You lay there
So still
Dog who fell to the ground
Twisted your neck doggy
Don't look right doggy
The vet came with sutures
He said, Dave,
Hey, the doctor cannot save your dog
But I remember when I first got you, dog
You lay there so still, dog
You lay there so still
Dog of depth in the dirt
They buried you deep, doggy
You’re the best doggy
My friend has a doggy
She's a real nice dog
I wish you could chase her round my yard
I remember when I first got you, dog
But you lay there so still doggy
You lay there so still
Frederick Schiller's lyrics put to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
>>7532659
Came in here to post about Aaron. Dylan will always reign, but Aaron is unmatched among our generation of lyricists.
Red Cow
Before the Red Sea flood beneath a cornhusk dawn
we bid the Elkhorn run to a locomotive psalm
until the pale horse comes along a rail withdrawn
clanging loudward on. clanging loudward on.
We bid the Elkhorn run until the red cow comes
I was a steadfast son, with thoughts and hooves divided
and on the arid ground of thirsty Zion’s hill
cold waters tumbled down where the staff of Moses fell
what Pharaoh spell, what picture holds us now?
Behold the snake of brass, the wind was blowing backwards
Behold a golden calf, blighted leaves of Law
O for the land we knew before the frogs withdrew
in the fragrant pomegranate blooms where the tender locust flew
Behind the milk-white tombs, behind the milk-tank cars,
we passed the North Platte yard on silver tracks unguarded,
out past the sambar herds, out to the outcast birds
in the rust of open wagons, Lo! the Blessed Virgin’s likeness
We watched the green figs fall from the Nebraska sky
How much were even passive things responsive to our watchful eye!
And let there be no doubt: so many figs and pictures hold us
in the wells of livestock vans with shells and sidewalk sands
iron mixed with oxygen as per the laws of chemistry and chance
a shape was roughly human, it was only roughly human
apparition eyes apparition eyes Knock Apparition Knock eyes apparition eyes
Was he a violent man? Well, he had his genocidal moments...
Or penned by fiction’s hand? To whom could that phrase not apply?
How much are even lifeless sounds responsive to our listening ear!
what Pharoah now or Jew or picture holds us here?
It's funny, I know Joan Baez only as aunt of the theoretical physicist John Baez.
The Old Black Hen
Old Black Hen is that you again
singing the Bad Luck Lullaby
Come right on in , it's midnight again
Time for the Bad Luck Lullaby
You know the one it's the same one you sung
when you wrote down the Revelations
Now sing it over the cradle of the child who's born next
Leave all the truth in so they know what comes next
leave in the true love that they'll never find
Show how we're looking for it all of our lives
When I saw the Banner hanging over my door
I already knew who the party was for
All of my pain found a partner in that room
and the devil's tail swayed with the tune
Make that Black Record
Roll the tapes all night long
Make that Black Record
And we'll all sing along
Look down the long street
and see who's that crying
Tell them that every day I lived
I was trying to sing the Blues
the way I find them
>>7531764
WAKE ME UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
CAN'T WAKE UP
>>7531764
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_2K4ddG7g
Pinhead
Gabba gabba we accept you, we accept you one of us!
Gabba gabba we accept you, we accept you one of us!
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more. I just met a nurse that I could go for.
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more. I just met a nurse that I could go for.
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more. I just met a nurse that I could go for.
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more. I just met a nurse that I could go for.
D-U-M-B
Everyone's accusing me!
D-U-M-B
Everyone's accusing me!
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more. I just met a nurse that I could go for.
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more. I just met a nurse that I could go for.
Gabba gabba hey! ( x ∞)
Dewalt was lost,
The Tree designed,
I was not cucked,
I'll cross the line,
I was not cucked,
Though Manny drives,
I live among you,
Weld the skies.
Penitentiary chances, the devil dances
And eventually answers to the call of Autumn
All of them fallin’ for the love of ballin’
Got caught with 30 rocks, the cop look like Alec Baldwin
Inter century anthems based off inner city tantrums
Based off the way we was branded
Face it, Jerome get more time than Brandon
And at the airport they check all through my bag
And tell me that it’s random
But we stay winning, this week has been a bad massage
I need a happy ending and a new beginning
And a new fitted, and some job opportunities that's lucrative
This the real world, homie, school finished
They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it
I treat the cash the way the government treats AIDS
I won’t be satisfied til all my niggas get it, get it?
Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion?
The soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing
This is more than just my road to redemption
Malcolm West had the whole nation standing at attention
As long as I’m in Polo smiling, they think they got me
But they would try to crack me if they ever see a black me
I thought I chose a field where they couldn’t sack me
If a nigga ain't shootin' a jump shot, running a track meet
But this pimp is, at the top of Mount Olympus
Ready for the World’s game, this is my Olympics
We make ‘em say ho cause the game is so pimpish
Choke a South Park writer with a fishstick
I insisted to get up offa this dick
And these drugs, niggas can't resist it
Remind me of when they tried to have Ali enlisted
If I ever wasn't the greatest nigga, I must have missed it!
I need more drinks and less lights
And that American Apparel girl in just tights
She told the director she tryna get in a school
He said “take them glasses off and get in the pool”
It’s been a while since I watched the tube
Cause like a Crip said, I got way too many blues for any more bad news
I was looking at my resume feeling real fresh today
They rewrite history, I don’t believe in yesterday
And what’s a black Beatle anyway, a fucking roach?
I guess that's why they got me sitting in fucking coach
My guy said I need a different approach
Cause people is looking at me like I’m sniffing coke
It's not funny anymore, try different jokes
Tell ‘em hug and kiss my ass, x and o
Kiss the ring while they at it, do my thing while I got it
Play strings for the dramatic ending of that wack shit
Act like I ain't had a belt in two classes
I ain't got it I’m coming after whoever who has it
I’m coming after whoever. Who has it?
You blowin' up, that’s good, fantastic
That y’all, it's like that y'all
I don’t really give a fuck about it at all
Cause the same people that tried to black ball me
Forgot about two things, my black balls
>>7533722
great song
from John Purroy Mitchell's story onwards is GOAT
>>7531764
WAKE ME UP
BEFORE YOU GO GO
DONT LEAVE ME HANGING
JUST LIKE A NIGGER
boots of spanish leather
Beef rapp by MF DOOM
Beef rap could lead to gettin teeth capped
Or even a wreath for mom dukes on some grief crap
I suggest you change your diet
It can lead to high blood pressure if you fry it
Or even a stroke, heart attack, heart disease
It ain't no startin back once arteries start to squeeze
Take the easy way out, phony, until then they know
They wouldn't be talkin that bologna in the bullpen
So disgustin, pardon self as I discuss this
They talk a wealth of shit and they ain't never seen the justice
Bust this like a cold milk from out the toilet
Two batteries some Brillo and some foil, he'll boil it
He be better off on PC glued
And it's a feud so don't be in no TV mood
Every week it's mystery meat, seaweed stewed
He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh
A rather ugly brother with flows that's gorgeous
Drop dead joints hit the whips like bird shit
They need it like a hole in they head or a third tit
Her bra smell, his card say, aw, hell
Barred from all bars and kicked out the Carvel
Keep a cooker where the jar fell
And keep a cheap hooker that's off the hook like Ma Bell
Top bleeding, maybe fellow took the loaded rod gears
Stop feeding babies colored, sugar coated lard squares
The odd pairs swears and God fears
Even when it's rotten, we've gotten through the hard years
I wrote this note around New Year's
Off a couple a shots and a few beers, but who cares
Enough about me, it's about the beats
Not about the streets and who food he about to eat
A rhymin cannibal who's dressed to kill, it's cynical
Whether is it animal, vegetable or mineral
It's a miracle how he get so lyrical
And proceed to move the crowd like a old negro spiritual
For a mil' do a commercial for Mello Yello
Tell 'em devil's hell, no, sell y'all own Jello
We hollow krills, she swallow pills
He follow flea collar, three dollar bills
And squeal for halal veal, in y'all appeal
Dig the real, it's how the big ballers deal
Twirl a L after every meal
Word up to all rappers, shut up with ya shuttin up
And keep your shirt on, at least a button up
Yuck, is they rhymers or strippin males?
Outta work jerks since they shut down Chippendales
They chippin nails, doom, chippin scales
Let alone the pre-orders that's counted off shippin sales
This one goes out to all my peoples skippin bail
Dippin jail, whippin tail and sippin ale
Light the doobie til it glow like a ruby
After which they couldn't find the villain like Scooby
He's in the lab on some old Buddha Monk shit
Overproof drunk shit and who'da thunk it
Punk, try and ask why ours be better
It could be the iron mask or the Cosby sweater
Yes, you, who's screwed by the dude on the CD nude
Archers of Loaf - Web in Front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZkEob55qso
Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
Lost your friction and you slid for a mile.
Overdone, overdrive, overlive, override.
You're not the one who let me down,
But thanks for offering.
It's not a voice and I'm not around.
But thanks for picking it...
Up, on the radio.
Sampled your rust from a faucet, I know.
I've got a magnet in my head,
A magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way it was wasted.
And there's a chance that things'll get weird.
Yeah, that's a possibility.
Although I didn't do anything,
No, I didn't do anything.
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
(repeat)
And a mouth kept shut and a tongue twist tie.
You're the web in front, you're the favorite lie. (? )
You're a buck my lip, you're a lash my lie. (? )
You're the web in front of a favorite lie.
Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
I've got a magnet in my head, a magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way it was wasted... wasted.
Maybe not THE best, but it's the most recent song I've listened to that's left an impression on me lyrically.
"I Am Colossus"-Meshuggah
I'm the great Leviathan, insatiable colossus
Titanic engulfer of lives, I reward you, absorb you
I'm the monstrous mouth that hungers for your awe
Immense construction of lies. I own you, disown you
I am life. I'm death. You empower me
I'm a mammoth king evoked, conjured by your dreams
Summoned by your fears. You need me, you feed me
I'm the imposing giant. Infallible dictator
My rules apply to all. You'll heed me, bleed for me
I am life. I'm death. I decide your fate
You empower me. You'd even kill for me
Guzzling down your dreams - the tears of unheard pleas I drink,
Imbibe with such delight the fear that floods your temporal shell
Raging red rivers and streams - the kingdom of my shadow
Where dread of man in endless night revives my every cell
To those who doubt - your wounds will never heal
To those who question my creation - I'm not real
I am pain. I am grief. I'm the things you fear
I'm the lie whispered into your ear
I'm the great Leviathan. I'm dominance and greed
You imagined me, so I was conceived
I am life. I'm death. You belong to me
Call me what I am. I am colossus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-xV5xYX1M
It's been so long since you've heard from me.
Got a wife and kid that I never see,
and I'm nowhere near where I dreamed I'd be.
I can't believe what life's done to me
Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down byt the Schoolyard
The State That I Am In by Belle and Sebastian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPT1YIYoYE
The Mars Volta - Tetragrammaton
>>7538456
That's That is also good by MF DOOM
>>7531764
Why do you listen to music?
I listen to metal music in order to feel powerful, i don't really listen to the lyrics but i guess music is used to sway emotions.
This is gonna sound real hippy but I bought a guitar and took off the strings so I can imagine where all the sounds are, then i just played my feelings and it really helped
I know most of you probably hate rap, but I Gave You Power by Nas features some of the most powerful storytelling I have ever seen in a song.
http://genius.com/Nas-i-gave-you-power-lyrics
Notice how the first verse represents childhood, how the second verse represents adolescence and how the third verse represents adulthood.
