Song Lyrics Thread

[Dajistano]

This kind of thread usually does well.

Post lyrics of your favorite songs, explain what sets the song apart for you from others, etc. etc.

I'll start.

Ich Will, Rammstein

Ich will

Ich will dass ihr mir vertraut
Ich will dass ihr mir glaubt
Ich will eure Blicke sp?ren
Ich will jeden Herzschlag kontrollieren

Ich will eure Stimmen h?ren
Ich will die Ruhe st?ren
Ich will dass ihr mich gut seht
Ich will dass ihr mich versteht

Ich will eure Phantasie
Ich will eure Energie
Ich will eure H?nde sehen
Ich will in Beifall untergehen

Seht ihr mich?
Versteht ihr mich?
F?hlt ihr mich?
H?rt ihr mich?
K?nnt ihr mich h?ren?
Wir h?ren dich
K?nnt ihr mich sehen?
Wir sehen dich
K?nnt ihr mich f?hlen?
Wir f?hlen dich
Ich versteh euch nicht

Ich will

Wir wollen dass ihr uns vertraut
Wir wollen dass ihr uns alles glaubt
Wir wollen eure H?nde sehen
Wir wollen in Beifall untergehen - ja

K?nnt ihr mich h?ren?
Wir h?ren dich
K?nnt ihr mich sehen?
Wir sehen dich
K?nnt ihr mich f?hlen?
Wir f?hlen dich
Ich versteh euch nicht

K?nnt ihr uns h?ren?
Wir h?ren euch
K?nnt ihr uns sehen?
Wir sehen euch
K?nnt ihr uns f?hlen?
Wir f?hlen euch
Wir verstehen euch nicht

German is a coarse, ugly language, even without the accent. Great! [img]biggrin.gif[/img] And the excellent music video that accompanies this song helps a lot, as well.

[madadman]

March Of Mephisto by Kamelot
First track on the album: "The Black Halo"

ASPIRAT PRIMO FORTUNA LABORI
ME DUCE TUTUS ERIS
VOX POPULI VOX DEI
AD MAIOREM GLORIAM...
AD INFINITUM

You know just who I am
don't be so distant
cause when you're lost
I am solely there to share your grief

Wailing your sorrow
is only my way to comfort you
reminders of innocent youth
waiting for morrow you're lonely
I name your solitude
I speaketh the truth

Now tell me all about you pain
down to the detail
don't say it's love
your fragile heart
your fragile heart feeds my contempt

Wailing your sorrow
is only my way to comfort you
reminders of innocent youth
waiting for morrow you're lonely
I name your solitude
I speaketh the truth

Chase the heathen call
We belong... you and I
Unison in all you deny

I am the thorn in youir side
that seeks accomplishment
reminding the mortal of death
I am the spore of your pride
An angel heavensent
The master of all
I am the urge of the flesh

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Arguably the best song they've ever recorded. I've never heard anything like it and can't go a day without listening to it. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

Link to video

[Street Worm]

Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
-Tom Waits

hey charlie i'm pregnant
and living on the 9th street
right above a dirty bookstore
off euclid avenue

and i stopped takin dope
and i quit drinkin whiskey
and my old man plays the trombone
and works out at the track
and he says that he loves me
even though its not his baby
and he says that he'll raise him up
like he would his own son
and he gave me a ring
that was worn by his mother
and he takes me out dancin
every saturday night.

and hey charlie i think about you
everytime i pass a fillin station
on account of all the grease
you used to wear in your hair
and i still have that record
of little anthony & the imperials
but someone stole my record player
now how do you like that?

hey charlie i almost went crazy
after mario got busted
so i went back to omaha to
live with my folks
but everyone i used to know
was either dead or in prison
so i came back to minneapolis
this time i think i'm gonna stay.

hey charlie i think i'm happy
for the first time since my accident
and i wish i had all the money
that we used to spend on dope
i'd buy me a used car lot
and i wouldn't sell any of em
i'd just drive a different car
every day, dependin on how
i feel

hey charlie for chrissakes
do you want to know the
truth of it?
i don't have a husband
he don't play the trombone
and i need to borrow money
to pay this lawyer
and charlie, hey
i'll be eligible for parole
come valentines day

[Street Worm]

I am the heaven
I am the water
I am the dirt beneath your rollers
I am your secret smut & lost metal money
down your cracks

I am your cracks & crannies

I am the clouds
I am embroidered
a am the author of all tucks & damask piping
I am the Chrome Dinette
I am the Chrome Dinette
I am the eggs of all persuasion
I am all days & nights
I am all days & nights
I am all days & nights
I am all days & nights
I am here
And you are my sofa
I am here
And you are my sofa
I am here
And you are my sofa

[madadman]

And, of course, one of my all time favorite romanitc balads...

"Dear Penis" by Rodney Carrington

Dear Penis, I don't think I like you anymore.
You used to watch me shave,
Now all you do is stare at the floor.
Oh dear Penis, I don't like you anymore.

It used to be you and me, a paper towel and a dirty magazine.
That's all we needed to get by.
Now it seems things have changed, and I think that you're the one to blame.
Dear Penis, I don't like you anymore

(He sings)

Dear Rodney, I don't think I like you anymore.
'Cause when you get to drinkin',
You put me places I've never been before.
Dear Rodney, I don't like you anymore.

Why can't we just get a grip
On our man-to-hand relationship
And come to terms with truly how we feel?

If we put our heads together,
We'd just stay home forever.
Dear Penis, I think I like you afterall.
Oh and Rodney, while you're shaving, shave my balls.

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[Peter Peeker]

"Nobody's Driving" by Amebix,
off of 1987's "Monolith" album.

I awoke in a sweat from the American Dream
They were loading the bomb bay of the iron bird
Giving their blood to the Doomsday Machine
I screamed into the wind my goodbye to the world

It was dark in the desert so we walked through the night
The vessel was waiting where we had been led
An awesome machine to tear through the sky
The last exodus from the land of the dead

[Chorus:]
We are swimming in the lunar sea
Drowning in insanity
Look to the shore you will see
Your leaders were lying
Nobody's driving!

Upon the horizon is the earth I once knew
Now a red ball of light suspended in space
So we erected a stone on the shore of the sea
As a grim epitaph to the lost human race

[Repeat first verse]

[Chorus:]
We are swimming in the lunar sea
Drowning in insanity
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Our world is dying
And nobody's driving!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">also, "Coming Home", same group, same LP.

I just buried a friend
He had come to the end
But I can't help feeling that it needn't have been
Caught in the flak
There was no turning back
So he gave up his life for some psychopath's dream

So we're leaving the front
Having taken the brunt
Now we're tired of the slaughter in some foreign land
So the leaders of the war
They fight alone on the shore
Our mutiny over they are left on the sand

We stand as one
We are an army now of many thousand strong
They stand alone
To fight for ravaged land to gain their worthless throne

[Chorus:]
The boys are coming home

[Voiceover:]
I see within my mind
A vast and lonely plain
Great armies meet in no man's land
To clench their hands in friendship
For the first time
The dark tide is ebbing
A mass of tired humanity drifting toward the dawn

We are coming home

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[macabeee]

Beer :30 by the Reverend Horton Heat
The songs mostly instrumental, but the few words are very meaningful


Yeeee Haaaa!!!!!

Party!
Get naked!
Buy us beer!

Throw furniture!
Gin 'n Tonic!
Get naked!

[Dajistano]

Originally posted by macabeee:
Beer :30 by the Reverend Horton Heat
The songs mostly instrumental, but the few words are very meaningful


Yeeee Haaaa!!!!!

Party!
Get naked!
Buy us beer!

Throw furniture!
Gin 'n Tonic!
Get naked!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The ultimate birthday song. [img]wink.gif[/img]

[Shypappette]

Hallelujah

Well I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this :
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
And she tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

(Yeah but) Baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor, (You know)
I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do ya
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Hallelujah...

[Instrumental]

Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelu...
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelu...
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Hallellllluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujjjaahhhh...Hal lelllluuuuuujjaaaaaaaaaahhhh