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[october_midnight]

This thread sort of derailed in the last ETS so perhaps we'll try to keep it simple. Post the lyrics and then a YouTube or other link to the song immediately after and that's it?

One of my favorite songwriters ever ever ever. One of the most honest and sincere men I've ever met as well.

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'Non Populus' - Matthew Good

Well it says: let it be unto you
They all say: let it be unto you
A mistake of the heart
Let it be unto you
Going to rip you apart
But let it be unto you

What you escape
Let it be done to you
What you take away
Let it be done to you
For what you war
Let it be done to you
What you ignore
Let it be done to you

Might have rubbed you the wrong way
But that's all over now
You know we could have stayed
Instead of crawling off into the wilderness
Hurled lighning down from the building
Done something different

[Pemulis]

Probably my favorite song:

Have A Nice Life - Hunter

Hunter, I'm laid out on the forest floor
arrows in my back and sides
down among the leaves and stones
you can wear my skin as armor
you can eat my flesh and bones
leave nothing that is needed
all I have is yours
And I'll give myself up to your sharpened edges
I no longer cling to my life
yes, I'm finally giving in
Teeth and hate end our relationship
of course it's sad, but that's the way it is
your violence always wins the day
yes,
your violence wins
And I'll give myself up to your sharpened edges
I no longer cling to my life
yes, I'm finally giving in
Oh, and you watch as the animals
lay themselves
down at your feet
a thousand bared teeth
a thousand bowed heads
yes, they're begging you for
death
The Hunter does us all a great service
and we've done so much to deserve it.

[botley]

Calling Sister Midnight: "You've got me reaching for the moon."
Calling Sister Midnight: "You've got me playing the fool."
Calling Sister Midnight.

Calling Sister Midnight: "Can you hear me call?
"Can you hear me well? Can you hear it at all?"

Calling Sister Midnight: "Well, I'm an Idiot for you"
Calling Sister Midnight: "I'm a breakage inside."
Calling Sister Midnight.

Calling Sister Midnight: "You know, I had a dream last night.
"Mother was in my bed... and I made love to her.
"Father, he gunned for me, hunted me with his six gun!"
Calling Sister Midnight: "What can I do about my dreams?"

Listen to me, Sister Midnight. You've got me walking in rags.
Listen to me, Sister Midnight. You put a beggar in my heart.

Hey, where are you, Sister Midnight?
Can you hear me call? Can you hear me well?
Can you hear me at all?

[sheepdean]

Queen - Save Me

It started off so well
They said we made the perfect pair
I clothed myself in your glory and your love
How I loved you
How I cried
The years of care and loyalty
Were nothing but a sham it seems
The years belie we lived the lie
"I love you 'til I die"


Save me Save me Save me
I can't face this life alone
Save me Save me Save me
I'm naked and I'm far from home


The slate will soon be clean
I'll erase the memories
To start again with somebody new
Was it all wasted
All that love ?
I hang my head and I advertise
A soul for sale or rent
I have no heart, I'm cold inside
I have no real intent


Save me Save me Save me
I can't face this life alone
Save me Save me
Oh I'm naked and I'm far from home


Each night I cry and still believe the lie
I love you 'til I die

[Jon]

This song will always have a special place in my heart. Not really a fan of Sleeping At Last but Ryan O'Neal is a super-cool dude from Illinois.

SLEEPING AT LAST - UMBRELLAS


I'll make you mine if you would have me.
With a silver ring that will hug you tight,
Our life begins.
Our life begins with this.

I'll prove my love if you would let me.
Over and over and over again.

We'll bring a child into this world
And we'll say the one thing
Everyone should hear:

"You were meant for amazing things"

Give me your hand, it's time.
It's time to show new eyes their home.
When fences divide our land,
I would catch bullets with my bare hands

Because you were meant for amazing things.

[xmd 5a]

I was recently bitten by the Unwound bug and have been listening to very little else since.
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UNWOUND - "Dragnalus"

This song
That song
The song
The song you're so bored with
My life
Your life
This life
Our lives you're so bored with
Everything
Anything
Anywhere
Nowhere
Your
Bored

I don't feel strange
I don't feel anything

Yeah
My town
Your town
This town
The town you're so bored with
T.V.
Radio
Video
I know
Bored
My life
Your life
This life
Our lives
Your
Bored

I don't feel strange
I don't feel anything
Don't know you
And I don't think I ever will
This product really sucks
We are another sitting


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Simple yet effective lyrics that perfectly match the *sound*.

[october_midnight]

My friend Jeremy's (sadly now defunct) band CircleSquare.

"Fight Sounds Part One"

Tell your good friends
You're gonna leave them
Our bloodshot eyes white
More proof the books lied

No need to think when
This crowd gets moving
Bass beats and ball bats
Heart beats and hand claps

And your bad friends
Are more important
Don't turn those lights down
Cause these are fight sounds

[Aaron]

I guess the last time I was struck by the lyrics of a song was when I was listening to "I Started A Joke" by the Bee Gees. It's a very beautifully written and sad song. Its meaning is, as so many great songs are, up to interpretation. But the precise meaning isn't so important, after all, because the emotion can't be denied.



I started a joke, which started the whole world crying,
but I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no.

I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing,
oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said.

Til I finally died, which started the whole world living,
oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said.

'Til I finally died, which started the whole world living,
oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was one me.

[Harry Seaward]

It's hard to choose, but I've always liked these.

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I have come curiously close to the end, down
Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole,
Defeated, I concede and
Move closer.
I may find comfort here,
I may find peace within the emptiness.
How pitiful.

It's calling me.

And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping,
The moon tells me a secret - my confidant.
As full and bright as I am,
This light is not my own and,
A million light reflections pass over me.

Its source is bright and endless.
She resuscitates the hopeless.
Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting.

And as I pull my head out, I am without one doubt
Don't wanna be down here, feeding my narcissism. I
Must crucify the ego before it's far too late.
I pray the light lifts me out,
Before I pine away.

So crucify the ego, before it's far too late,
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical.
And you will come to find that we are all one mind,
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.
Just let the light touch you,
And let the words spill through,
And let them pass right through,
Bringing out our hope and reason.
Before we pine away.

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[Pemulis]

People hate on Connor Oberst but the guy has had some moments of real lyrical brilliance in my opinion.

Death, data entry, ant hill law
Encoded arc, our common cause
Drink liquid clocks until I see God
Crystal display, can't turn it off

How people don't recognize Time Code as his best song his beyond me.

[october_midnight]

Personally can't stand the guy's music, but those lyrics are pretty great.

[Pemulis]

Personally can't stand the guy's music, but those lyrics are pretty great.

You might like that particular song if you've never heard it. It's not really like anything else he's ever done, and I still hold out hope he'll start creating music more like it now that Bright Eyes is done.

[Kid Charlemagne]

Never got into Bright Eyes until I saw them last year and they put on a good show, I looked into their back catalog and liked a great deal of what I heard. Really dig how blunt and awesome "The Calender Hung Itself" is:

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head?
And does he sing to you incessantly from the space between your bed and wall?
Does he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes?
Looking down every few steps to pretend he walks with you.
Oh, does he know that place below your neck that is your favorite to be touched
and does he cry through broken sentences like I love you far too much?

Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
Worried you smoke too many cigarettes.
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
For every speck of tile there's a thousand more
you won't ever see but most hold inside yourself eternally

Well, I drug your ghost across the country and we plotted out my death.
In every city, memories would whisper: "Here is where you rest."
I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees
and I settled for a telephone and sang into your machine.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

And I kissed a girl with a broken jaw that her father gave to her.
She had eyes bright enough to burn me. They reminded me of yours.
And in a story told she was a little girl in a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
and there were rows of ripe tomatoes where a secret was concealed.
And it rose like thunder, clapped under our hands.
And it stretched for centuries to a diary entry's end where I wrote,
You make me happy oh!! when skies are gray
You make me happy oh!! when skies are gray and gray and gray.

Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest with hands
stretched towards the calendar hanging itself
but I will not weep for those dying days.
For all the ones who've left there's a few that stayed.
And they found me here and pulled me from the grass where I was laid.

[Pemulis]

Another fine example.

And yeah, Bright Eyes was amazing when I saw them last year. I felt so out of place at the show though, because I was surrounded by teenage girls. Sad really, a decent band kind of ruined by hype and an annoying fanbase.

[nin5in]

And she's a killer
And she's a keeper ...

[verse 1]
Am i blurry
In your vision

Was i just
A poor decision

Cut me open
With precision

& we'll finger
The incision

Tell me what have i done
(quid pro quo)

To watch you lose
Control

[tunnel]

I will give you sanctuary
In these hymns of Thanatos ...

I will give you sanctuary!

[verse 2]
You want to
See me burn
I am living fire!

You want to
See me burn
I am LIVING FIRE!

You will know me
By the scars i bare

You will know me
By the hate i swear

You will know me
By the scars i bare

Shapeless vengeance!

[tunnel]

We are the 1000 children of death.

We're in-between, on the fence
Non-descript antagonists

I'm in-between, on the fence
Non-descript antagonist!

I'll split you open
& climb inside
Lose myself
Eaten alive

We are the 1000 children of death!

From seraphim!
To nephilim!
To exodus!

[v3]
She's picking ghostflowers
From her soul

She's clipping the wings
Of fallen angels!

She's picking ghostflowers
From her soul

She's tonguing splinters
Of broken halos!

You will know me
By the scars i bare.

You will know me
By the hate i swear.

You will know me
By the scars i bare.

YOU WILL KNOW ME!

[bridge]

From gelatin
To specimen
To emptiness

I WILL BE AVENGED.
I WILL BE AVENGED.

These are the secrets
That kill. that kill.
That kill. that kill.
That kill. that kill.
That kill. that kill.

We are the 1000 children of death

[nin5in]

Lyrics:
And it sounds like...armageddon
Sounds like...armageddon
Sounds like...come and drink with me....
Come and drink with me
And I remember him fucking me,
And I remember liking it,
I didn't know any better...
And I remember the smell, and the pain, and the shame...
And I remember being afraid and thinking everyday,
Every single day.. that it was my fault...
Oh, but what happened to that little girl?
Who used to dream of one day ruling the world,
Who used to draw pretty pictures in my room---beneath the moon
Destroying to create
Softly praying to "God"
What do I do now?
What do I do now?
As I secretely masturbate...
But then I'd hear his hooves coming down the floor
With a Bible in his hand...
Softly opening my door and he'd say...
DAUGHTER! The day of your attonement is due!
Well there's 3 million sinners out there...
and that includes you!
No daddy, don't... no daddy, don't...
LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE!
NO, I DON'T WANT TO BE FREE! NO, I DON'T WANT TO BE FREE!
SO TAKE YOUR DICK OUT OF ME!
YOUR DICK OUT OF ME!
I'm bleeding, it's not fair...
You see, there's this little place I like to go...
I like to run and hide--deep inside,
Where all the nightmares are real, and all the monsters come alive,
Oh, but the things I've seen in soft, soft visions and terrifying prophecies,
Like serpents on the take and gods coming in all sizes and shapes
Nothing seems fulfilling anymore..
Well your temples are swollen in deceit and the body of your missionary,
He's rotting... rotting in defeat mama?
MAMA!
Are the aliens coming to take us away? (mama?)
Is armageddon gonna happen again today?
LOOK WHAT HE DID TO ME! WHY DID YOU DO IT TO ME?!
HOW COULD YOU DO IT TO ME! WHY DID YOU DO IT TO ME?!
I will not cry... I will not cry...
I--PREFER--TO--DIE! than live--this life--of LIES!
KILL WHAT YOU CAN ---- CHALLENGE EVERYTHING
Vengeance is mine...
Hey, I'm sorry baby...
please come back inside...we can laugh a little... and live and die,
no wait. see, eye got this hot pot of jonestown tea
And it's been brewing for you and me,
Oh, it only takes one sip,
Come one baby,
Surrender your lips,
I can take you someplace nice...
I can take you...someplace NICE!
Breed my disease, be my disease...
Breed my disease, be my disease...
and vengeance will be mine
It's closer than u think...
So I entered his room at 32 past noon
With my little ritual knife...
I cut out his tounge
Liberated his wife
She loved me for it other world woman,
Well, thats what she called me (Destroyer),
the one who sets you free, (come and drink with me)
We all die like cartoons, surrender your children,
kids who like to kill, lies...

[Pemulis]

Are you two fucking kidding me with this shit?

[Ryan]

Favorite song of all time, The Seed of a Lie by Gary Numan (note: this is the extended mix)

I'm a ghost in the dark and I'm yours
I belong in the past and I'm yours
Like a song you forget, and I'm yours
Like a dream in the night, and I'm yours


The wrong place?
The wrong time?
I don't know
The wrong face?
Yours or mine?
I don't know


Like a tear when you sleep, I'll be yours
Like a scar that won't fade, I'll be yours
Like a pain in the cold, I'll be yours
Like a fear in the heart, I'll be yours


The wrong word when you cry
I will be
Like the seed of a lie
I will be
Like the germ of disease
I will be
Like the last one who cared
I will be


Like your shadow
I will haunt you
Do you remember?
I said to you
"Love is a mountain
But harder to climb
It should be forever
But love is unkind
To me
Don't let me down"


And you let me down

[cashpiles]

I've searched the holy books
I tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour
I've read the poets and the analysts
Searched through the books on human behaviour
I travelled this world around
For an answer that refused to be found
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now

I loved her then and I guess I love her still
Hers is the face I see when a certain mood moves in
She lives in my blood and skin
Her wild feral stare, her dark hair
Her winter lips as cold as stone
Yeah, I was her man
But there are some things love won't allow
I held her hand but I don't hold it now
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now

This is her dress that I loved best
With the blue quilted violets across the breast
And these are my many letters
Torn to pieces by her long-fingered hand
I was her cruel-hearted man
And though I've tried to lay her ghost down
She's moving through me, even now
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now
She's nobody's baby now
Nobody's baby now
She's nobody's baby now

"Nobody's Baby Now", by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

[Pillfred]

XTC- Dear God

Dear god, hope you get the letter and...
I pray you can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image
See them starving in the street
'Cause they don't get enough to eat from god
I can't believe in you

Dear god, sorry to disturb you but...
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image
See them fighting in the street
'Cause they can't make opinions meet about god
I can't believe in you

Did you make disease and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!

Dear god don't know if you noticed but...
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain't, and so do you
Dear god
I can't believe in
I don't believe

I won't believe in heaven or hell
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
No pearly gates, no thorny crown
You're always letting us humans down
The wars you bring, the babes you drown
Those lost at sea and never found
And it's the same the whole world 'round
The hurt I see helps to compound
That father, son and holy ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
And if you're up there you'll perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve
If there's one thing I don't believe in

It's you
Dear god

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

Nice thread!

Chevelle - The Meddler


You had that nighttime confidence / Yet again
Like when you tear us all to bits / Yet again
If you really want advice here / You're too much like a wall
If you're gonna light those fires / We're all up in arms again

Well I don't belong here / Don't fit your style
Felt your left foot / Now meet my right
See now over this, you meddler / Feed off all the rest, you meddler
Talking so close, you bring to mind / It's no fun to be behaving
But you really lit a fire / All up in arms again
Why don't you feed off all the rest

Well, I don't belong here / Don't fit your style
Felt your left foot / Now meet my right
It's now or never / More difficult
Those midnight answers / And stray arrows

Never, never / Lean on you
Clever, clever / One on two
You're mine / Finite / Imagine this
It's sad / To say / It's simple / When still we want to watch

Well, I don't belong here / Don't fit your style
Felt your left foot / Now meet my right
It's now or never / More difficult
Those midnight answers / And stray arrows
I don't belong...


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