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Favorite lyricists?
Storm Rider:
Well, if we're talking about secondary writers for Iron Maiden, I still like Adrian Smith if only for 2 Minutes to Midnight.
--- Quote from: Adrian Smith ---
The bodybags and little rags
of children torn in two
and the jellied brains
of those who remain
they put the finger right on you
As the madmen play on words
and make us all dance to their song
to the tune of starving millions
to make a better kind of gun!
--- End quote ---
JLM:
Dalek
Hrishkish Hirway
Duncan Sumpner
Michael Franti
All are great lyricists. But a wise writer once told me that bad poetry usually makes great songs (and sometimes vice versa). I don't find too much influence for my writing in music, or rather I'm not influenced often by lyricists. The actual music may inspire me to compose a thought or a sketch based on the sound and image created by the song, but rarely do the lyrics, taken on their own, hold any type of value for me.
mysteriousbriefcase:
i'm gonna have to say jello biafra. his lyrics weren't anything too poetic, but they were to the point and powerful for what they were meant. his spoken word stuff is pretty good too, in my opinion better than alot of his music.
lbarbs:
Jeffery Lewis.
If you haven't heard him, do so now. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A6999853
(for moondog)
SensoryOssuary:
Captain Beefheart is a very under-appreciated lyricist, in my opinion.
--- Quote ---Human bark,
beautiless hide from beauty.
Bow your eyes and heads to the duty of the dead,
suck the ground;
breathe life into the dead dinosaurs.
Let the past demons rear up and belch fire into the air of now.
The rug's wearing out that we walk on
soon it will fray and we'll drop
dead into yesterday
Must the breathing pay for those who breathe in and don't
breathe out?
There'd be no gain, brothers, if no one would play
and for your games count me and all that can see,
breathe in and out hungry today and eat hearty tomorrow,
or eat away and be eaten some day.
No seed shall sow in salt water.
If the dinosaur cries with blood in his eyes,
and eats our babies for our lies,
belches fire into our skies.
Maybe I'll die but he'll be rumbling through
your petrified forest.
--- End quote ---
Here's another of his I particularly enjoy: http://beefheart.com/walker/lyrics/tmr/billscorpse.htm
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