Like the title says, what are your favorite lyrics?
I just heard one of my favorite verses today:
“In a seedy karaoke bar by the banks of the mighty Bosporus Is a Japanese man in a business suit singing “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” And the muscular cyborg German dudes dance with sexy French Canadians While the overweight Americans wear their patriotic jumpsuits”
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave“Just like a drunk ballerina, stuck on a tilt-a-whirl.” - the dwarves, everybody’s girl
“Bo peep erotica, my sweet demonica” - the dwarves, demonica
love the phrase “she came in through the bathroom window” and most of the lyrics in that song.
I try all the time, in this institution And I pray, oh my god do I pray! I pray every single day For revolution
4 non blondes - what’s up
“I fell in love with my depression The only thing that was consistent I hated how empty I felt But at least it kept me distant” VCTMS - Carefully//Caged
“Mother used to say, if you’ll walk you’ll find a way, but Mother never danced through fireshowers”
“Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety? And how can this mean anything to me if I really don’t feel anything at all?
Tool - Stinkfist
“Maybe I will always haunt you. Mark the somnolence with truth. Better hang your dead palace. Than have a living home to lose. In the River Ganges, God damns my name.”
The Mars Volta - Vicarious Atonement
Two from Marian Call (god I love Marian Call)
Oh if ever love astounds you You have to let it, have to let it Oh if ever joy surrounds you You have to let it, have to let it
-Ina Flew the Coop
We scored the limestone just like so To map the stars’ ascent To prove we understood the moon We left circles where she went
The triangle unlocked for us, To Babel up our towers And then we wrangled fire And rocketeered our sticks back to the stars
-Standing Stones
Pretty.much anything by Mars Volta, Tool, Pink Floyd, and Muse. Have yet to find something by these bands that wasn’t lyrically full of awesome shit.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHOHHHHAHHHH”
- Pink Floyd, The Great Gig In The Sky
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I’m not as stubborn as I seem, said my knuckles to the concrete
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“I’m at a crossroads, where you choose You either fight, or you lose I refuse to let my life be reduced to rubble When the shit starts piling up, get a shovel”
Pretty Low - Expire
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“Don’t write in starlight, 'cause the words may come out real”
Dio - “Don’t Talk to Strangers”
