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Scytale

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« Reply #100 on: 12 Sep 2006, 02:55 »

I can't help myself I'm going to have to go with Daemon from Limbonic Art, words cannot express how much I love this band. The Lyrics are really good, if a little dark and perculiaur at first.

From "Moon in the Scorpio"

A mirror blank, the ocean above in decoy
Superior forces that hurt or destroy
Take me astray into the moonlight above
Through twilight eyes as a spectre's shadow

From "Under Burdens of Life's Holocaust"

Deep in the heart of despair
Sentenced to walk among the living
In the face of the enemy
I drown in tormenting oppression

Like a lonely candle burning
I blaze as the darkness is emerging
And I yearn for the art to bleed

When the moon is drained by all its light
And the stars they shine like serpent eyes
I`m feeling death's desire for me

From "The Black Hearts Nirvana"

Hallowed be the darkness that coronates my soul
Deep within its shelter I seek my highest goals
I shall release what is conquered
From that which I now posses
All lifeforce is abandoned
Into the arms of death

From "The Supreme Sacrifice"

Thoughts are tyrants
That always return
To rape and torment the heart
As darkness sweeps
The face of Earth
I enter the chambers
Of bleeding art

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They probably seem abit cheesy written down like that but they fit the music perfectly and credit has to be given to some of the rhyming schemes me uses. How's this for nifty.

"In the dark caves of oblivion
Bad blood rises from
The Mega Therion
From vast stalactite halls
So undivine
Through the misty
Corridors of time
As one lives one shall die"

Rhyming 'Oblivion' with 'Mega Therion' genius...
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« Reply #101 on: 12 Sep 2006, 03:15 »

Hope no ones said this one yet but what about Wesley Willis?
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« Reply #102 on: 12 Sep 2006, 07:24 »

My tastes are all for the Darnielle, Vanderslice, Cave and Murdoch school of writing. I like the scene to be set such that I can taste it.
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« Reply #103 on: 12 Sep 2006, 07:46 »

Travis Morrison of the Dismemberment Plan has been my favorite for a while now.

Oh and David Byrne, goes without saying.
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« Reply #104 on: 12 Sep 2006, 20:34 »

Neutral Milk Hotel, or, whoever is in charge of their writing.

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The only girl I ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes
And then they buried her alive
One evening 1945
With just her sister by her side
Only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone
Now she's a little boy in Spain
Playing pianos filled with flames
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« Reply #105 on: 14 Sep 2006, 09:54 »

Neil Fallon, singer of Clutch

The writer stands above his page
And thinks it strange that at his age
He cannot find the proper words
To describe his only world

One would think that in a life
Where no two snowflakes are alike
One would have a brilliant rhyme
For each and every bit of time


He's right u know
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« Reply #106 on: 14 Sep 2006, 14:00 »

Andrew Wood (R.I.P.)

I been talkin' to my altar
Life is what you make it
And if you make it death well then rest
your soul away
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« Reply #107 on: 14 Sep 2006, 20:11 »

Tom Waits
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Davenports and kettle drums
And swallow tail coats
Table cloths and patent leather shoes
Bathing suits and bowling balls
And clarinets and rings
And all this radio really
Needs is a fuse
A tinker, a tailor
A soldier's things
His rifle, his boots full of rocks
And this one is for bravery
And this one is for me
And everything's a dollar
In this box

Cuff links and hub caps
Trophies and paperbacks
It's good transportation
But the brakes aren't so hot
Neck tie and boxing gloves
This jackknife is rusted
You can pound that dent out
On the hood
A tinker, a tailor
A soldier's things
His rifle, his boots full of rocks
Oh and this one is for bravery
And this one is for me
And everything's a dollar
In this box


Arlo Guthrie
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And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints.  And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.".  And walk out.  You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him.  And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization.  And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out.  And friends they may thinks it's a movement.


Bob Geldof
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The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold.
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world.
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl.
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while.
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die.
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.


Cat Stevens
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It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, i am old, but i'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and i know that it's not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

How can i try to explain, when i do he turns away again.
It's always been the same, same old story.
From the moment i could talk i was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and i know that i have to go away.
I know i have to go.


It's not time to make a change,
Just sit down, take it slowly.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to go through.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, i am old, but i'm happy.
(son-- away away away, i know i have to
Make this decision alone - no)

All the times that i cried, keeping all the things i knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, i'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way and i know that i have to go away.
I know i have to go.


Paul Simon
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When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, i will dry them all;
I'm on your side. when times get rough
And friends just can't be found,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.

When you're down and out,
When you're on the street,
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you.
I'll take your part.
When darkness comes
And pains is all around,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.

Sail on silvergirl,
Sail on by.
Your time has come to shine.
All your dreams are on their way.
See how they shine.
If you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.
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« Reply #108 on: 16 Sep 2006, 00:35 »

Paul Simon
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Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself
How it's strange that some rooms are like cages
Sonny's yearbook from high school
Is down from the shelf
And he idly thumbs through the pages
Some have died
Some have fled from themselves
Or struggled from here to get there
Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair

Well I'm accustomed to a smoother ride
Maybe I'm a dog that's lost his bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep the night
Some people say a lie is just a lie
But I say the cross is in the ballpark
Why deny the obvious child?


Andrew Bird (uneven sometimes--in his weaker moments he relies too much on gimmicky and rather empty wordplay, but if you ask me his best songs completely make up for that)
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Friends, Greenland is a place where souls go to dry out
It is a vast and terrifying place of ice fields and tundra
Bereft of fire and in the horror of its imposing irrelevance
There is a peace
The peace of pain
The peace of nothing
Well friends, I'm going there
Fear is lying dying in the sands
And it's breathing from the gills of my Greenland


very close behind is a whole group whose lyrics I really enjoy but I don't know if I could pick just a few to list...um, right now at least, Stuart Murdoch, The Ditty Bops (Abby and Amanda claim, at least, to co-write every song. I don't know who is more responsible for lyrics), and Colin Meloy. The top tier rotate a lot.
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« Reply #109 on: 17 Sep 2006, 13:51 »

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Travis Morrison of the Dismemberment Plan has been my favorite for a while now.

Oh and David Byrne, goes without saying.


He was for me also, but then I gave a close listen to Change and his solo stuff. At least the former's music is rad; the latter just sucks in general. It's as if he began a decline after E&I.
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« Reply #110 on: 17 Sep 2006, 16:06 »

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Aaron Weiss from mewithoutYou...


definitely my favourite. guys a true poet.
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« Reply #111 on: 17 Sep 2006, 16:57 »

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Travis Morrison of the Dismemberment Plan has been my favorite for a while now.

Oh and David Byrne, goes without saying.


He was for me also, but then I gave a close listen to Change and his solo stuff. At least the former's music is rad; the latter just sucks in general. It's as if he began a decline after E&I.


I absolutley LOVE the lyrical work on Change, I do agree Travistan was lame as hell though.
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« Reply #112 on: 17 Sep 2006, 17:05 »

Some of Change was great (Automatic, The Other Side) but the rest gets pretty iffy. When I hear him say "It's not like we were married/it was three or four months" or "it's my life and its gonna be good", I cringe.
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The Eyeball Kid

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« Reply #113 on: 20 Sep 2006, 23:32 »

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Neutral Milk Hotel, or, whoever is in charge of their writing.



That'd be Jeff Mangum. I have tossed off bedroom bootleg ramblings of his that I consider genius

'My dream girl don't exist
At the age of 5 she slit her wrists
She didn't know i'd be coming around
So they buried her in the ground'

its the way he sings it... my god.
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« Reply #114 on: 01 Oct 2006, 13:38 »

Jeff Magnum (as just said), Elliott Smith, Jeff Tweedy.


Magnum is so...fucking.......brilliant.
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« Reply #115 on: 01 Oct 2006, 16:06 »

It's mangum, not magnum. And I'll admit he's pretty good. I like the unusual concepts, for example In the Aeroplane Over the Sea all being about having a crush on Anne Frank. Very similiar ideas to a lot of neo-folk sometimes. Which reminds me to post more awesome Dave Tibet lyrics:

Current 93 - The Carnival is Dead and Gone

Dear Sir, Dear Lady
This carnival is dead and gone
And never, anyway-alas, this party never yet began
The chairs and tables dust of dust
Yes verydust of veryrust of verymust and farewelltrust
(I thought I saw You in the crowd, dearheart
You turned away from me and dissolved into light)
The broken lights and faded buntings
Call to us all: The Inmost Light
And don't glarewide Your eyes in wonder
They will flick back inside Your mind
And on the bonescreen of Your skull
They watch no musichall salutes
(So thoroughly modern now we are)
But the last reel of all time
The Inmost Night
(Its frames are glared and slow and out of focus
Valentino, Vallee, Moss-all dead!
The Inmost Night)
And the little bells go tinkle
And Your eyes begin to twinkle
And the joints and sinews crack
It's the expansion of Your mind Death
Death
Death
Death
(The Inmost Night)
The cat's face glares from shiny card
The deadcat from my past
You tumble, You froth and fun forever:
An orchestra from another time
Another world all dead
(The churchbells silent; the rainstainedglass of GOD is smashed)
And You take Your choice,You sup with the devil,
You choke on Your pride for ever and ever)
My memory of my Inmost Light
It tumbles, froth and fun forever
Vulvaicmemories imagined of my wouldbelife
Well that won't be
And that won't be
And that won't be
And for my troubles and my pain
And for the losses and the Wains
I get a picture in my mind
The slyly smily smiling kiss
Of Your sweet Heart and Face
And Your legs in some final benediction
Your inmostwarmheart says ta-ra
The Inmost Light
And I wished to die inside of You
And push up into Your heart so violently that
Facetoface with matrix creatrix am
The Inmost Light
The Inmost Night



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« Reply #116 on: 02 Oct 2006, 00:06 »

Ehh... to single any one (or any handfull) out seems a bit wrong. Right now, I'm really digging Matt Skiba again

"I wish you would take my radio
to bathe with you...
Plugged in and ready to fall"
from Radio, by Alkaline Trio

fun stuff!
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« Reply #117 on: 06 Oct 2006, 18:29 »

Psssst...

Tim Kasher anyone?
More so in The Good Life than Cursive...
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« Reply #118 on: 06 Oct 2006, 18:37 »

Jeff Magnum (as just said), Elliott Smith, Jeff Tweedy.


Magnum is so...fucking.......brilliant.


The bassist for the Dead Boys? I don't think he wrote any of their lyrics, but I could be wrong.
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« Reply #119 on: 06 Oct 2006, 22:12 »

Glen Richards from Augie March:

"We will adjust to this new condition of living like a man with his entrails now out him not in,
after certain techniques of torture accustoms himself to a new condition of living...train.
Thoughtful godless men find god in them at the age of twenty-five
but in a year death gains favor and they think themselves the more alive,
You'll find them in the loose caboose where the pills are kept and the stupid juice,
This one has a sleeping wheel, this one has a willing noose
- Onward and on to the ends of love, pricked vanity, habit and ruse.
Onward and on to a premature silence where death finds too much use. "

Bit dense, but he's really really good and something about his voice... yeah.

Owen Ashworth from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone:

Woke up with fingers crossed
In a boy's bed with your pants off.
After polite declines of coffee and toast,
walked home itching in last night's clothes.

Past the Phone Booth and the Beauty Bar,
the broken windows of your neighbors' cars.
Through the backdoor to a message from Sis,
asking, "Who was your New Year's kiss?"

Took the afternoon to piece it all,
plus a half a dozen phone calls.
Crashed a party with Larissa and Chris
in pursuit of a New Year's kiss.

Not the way that you'd imagined it.
On a balcony with champagne lips.
But in a pantry against the pancake mix,
you had your New Year's kiss.
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« Reply #120 on: 18 Oct 2006, 14:59 »

Where's the love for Stephen Malkmus here? I must say he writes some good lyrics. Other great mentions hmm. David Berman, Lou Reed, Robert Pollard, Colin Meloy, Craig Finn, Roger Waters, Jeff Mangum, Black Francis, Thom Yorke, and quite possibly Stephin Merritt.
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« Reply #121 on: 18 Oct 2006, 21:14 »

Warren Zevon.  Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner is, for some reason, one of the most haunting songs I've ever heard; however, he's also got deadpan humor to spare.  Example:


FUCK YES.

i love Nick Cave's lyrics, but the rub is I'm not really a fan of the music. In fact I find it pretty much unlistenable  :lol:

Maynard James Keenan
Krystoffer Rygg (Ulver)
Donald Fagen (Steely Dan)
Devin Townsend (check out his solo stuff)
Neil Peart (Rush)
Peter Gabriel
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
Cedric Bixler Zavala (The Mars Volta)- yes, really.
Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls)
Daniel Gildenlow (Pain Of Salvation)

EDIT: To say +1 for Darnielle and Folds and mention my favouritr hip-hop lyricists:
Eyedea
Atmosphere
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (especially on 3030)
MCA from the Beastie Boys
Pretty much all of J5
Sage Francis
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« Reply #122 on: 18 Oct 2006, 21:33 »

My favorites are the obvious Jeff Mangum and John Darnielle.

Jeff
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Now she's a little boy in Spain/ playing pianos filled with flames
Those two lines, for whatever reason, immediately slay me. I think it's the way the words sound and feel when said, more than the imagery.

John
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The most remarkable thing about seeing you standing in the doorway is that it is you, and you are standing in the doorway
Um.

Also Will Sheff of Okkervil River because his songs make me cry.
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« Reply #123 on: 18 Oct 2006, 21:38 »

Nick Cave is definitely my fave lyricist!

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I live in a town called Millhaven
And it's small and it's mean and it's cold
But if you come around just as the sun goes down
You can watch the whole town turn to gold
It's around about then that I used to go a-roaming
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all gotta die

My name is Loretta but I prefer Lottie
I'm closing in on my fifteenth year
And if you think you have seen a pair of eyes more green
Then you sure didn't see them around here
My hair is yellow and I'm always a-combing
La la la la La la la lie
Mama often told me we all got to die

You must have heard about The Curse Of Millhaven
How last Christmas Bill Blake's little boy didn't come home
They found him next week in One Mile Creek
His head bashed in and his pockets full of stones
Well, just imagine all the wailing and moaning
La la la la La la la lie
Even little Billy Blake's boy, he had to die

Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High
Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier
Then next day the old fool brought little Biko to school
And we all had to watch as he buried her
His eulogy to Biko had all the tears a-flowing
La la la la La la la lie
Even God's little creatures, they have to die

Our little town fell into a state of shock
A lot of people were saying things that made little sense
Then the next thing you know the head of Handyman Joe
Was found in the fountain of the Mayor's residence
Foul play can really get a small town going
La la la la La la la lie
Even God's children all have to die

Then, in a cruel twist of fate, old Mrs Colgate
Was stabbed but the job was not complete
The last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead
Was, "My killer is Loretta and she lives across the street!"
Twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning
La la la la La la la lie
The young ones, the old ones, they all gotta die

Yes, it is I, Lottie. The Curse Of Millhaven
I've struck horror in the heart of this town
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow
It's more like the other way around
I gotta pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming
La la la la La la la lie
Sooner or later we all gotta die

Since I was no bigger than a weavil they've been saying I was evil
That if "bad" was a boot that I'd fit it
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard lately
O fuck it! I'm a monster! I admit it!
It makes me so mad my blood really starts a-going
La la la la La la la lie
Mama always told me that we all gotta die

Yeah, I drowned the Blakey kid, stabbed Mrs. Colgate, I admit
Did the handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed
But I never crucified little Biko, that was two junior high school psychos
Stinky Bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin-sized head
I'll sing to the lot, now you got me going
La la la la La la la lie
All God's children have all gotta die

There were all the others, all our sisters and brothers
You assumed were accidents, best forgotten
Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoo?
Everyone assumed the "Warning" signs had followed them to the bottom
Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of stowing
La la la la La la la lie
Even twenty little children, they had to die

And the fire of '91 that razed the Bella Vista slum
There was the biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen
Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued
All cause of wee girl with a can of gasoline
Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing
La la la la La la la lie
Rich man, poor man, all got to die

Well I confessed to all these crimes and they put me on trial
I was laughing when they took me away
Off to the asylum in an old black Mariah
It ain't home, but you know, it's fucking better than jail
It ain't such bad old place to have a home in
La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all gotta die

Now I got shrinks that will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests
I keep telling them they're out to get me
They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, "Why of course!
There is so much more I could have done if they'd let me!"
So it's Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all have to die
La la la la La la la lie
I'm happy as a lark and everything is fine
Singing La la la la La la la lie
Yeah, everything is groovy and everything is fine
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they gotta die

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« Reply #124 on: 18 Oct 2006, 22:29 »

Sage Francis is amazing...both what he's done solo, and with non-Prophets.
One of my favorites of his:

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They've said it every year but this times it seems like
The end is near and i'm in line to see the light
How far does this black tunnel go
I got a car but the gas is running low
And as long as i've known the bumps and creeks of this house
It's starting to make the types of sounds that only comes from people's mouths
You cant tell me it's still settling
Built on an indian burial ground killing everything
The childhood scar on my chin is back again
That old jump over my own leg dance move has to end
I've seen better days in my night terrors
I was a bike messenger without a bike and i would write letters
Ask directions to your whereabouts
Before the slow walk the rest of the show-offs were pealing out
To many hares only one tortise
Thats why I left this city, too fast paced for this HO-HUM TAURUS
By the time i developed the pictures
They're as blurry as my memory of constant life fixtures
If distance is a girl's best friend
Tell them bitches in the rough who think that love comes with DIAMONDS
Slave labor, you made me work for what I couldnt have
Diamonds cut, but coal burns and nothing lasts forever
Dont know why I bothered saving any of your letters,they're just aged paper
Crumbling
Slave labor, you made me work for what I couldnt have
Diamonds cut, the cold burns and nothing lasts
Wonder why I saved your urn of ashes
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Re: Favorite lyricists?
« Reply #125 on: 18 Oct 2006, 22:34 »

My favorites are the obvious Jeff Mangum and John Darnielle.

Jeff
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Now she's a little boy in Spain/ playing pianos filled with flames
Those two lines, for whatever reason, immediately slay me. I think it's the way the words sound and feel when said, more than the imagery.

John
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The most remarkable thing about seeing you standing in the doorway is that it is you, and you are standing in the doorway
Um.

Also Will Sheff of Okkervil River because his songs make me cry.

I heard that Mangum might come back if he gets to tour with the Mountain Goats.
I don't believe it, but it would be awesome.
Those are two of my fave lyrics
Atom and his Package cover that second song (Going to Georgia). Its... odd. And maybe a bit wrong
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Re: Favorite lyricists?
« Reply #126 on: 18 Oct 2006, 22:49 »

I heard that Mangum might come back if he gets to tour with the Mountain Goats.

You win for the most exciting rumor of the day. I will have to search for that Atom and his Package song... but I reallllly don't like them at all. But Going to Georgia is just so good!
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Re: Favorite lyricists?
« Reply #127 on: 17 Nov 2006, 00:31 »

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Re: Favorite lyricists?
« Reply #128 on: 17 Nov 2006, 01:44 »

I'm going to add Henry Rollins to my previous list, for the entirety of 'TV Party' and for this part of 'Six Pack:'

My Girlfriend asks me which one I like better
(Six Pack) I hope the answer don't upset her...
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Re: Favorite lyricists?
« Reply #129 on: 17 Nov 2006, 23:27 »



Jeff Mangum

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Two headed boy
With pulleys and weights
Creating a radio played just for two
In the parlor with a moon across her face
And through the music he sweetly displays
Silver speakers that sparkle all day
Made for his lover who's floating and choking with her hands across her face
And in the dark we will take off our clothes
And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
And when all is breaking everything that you could keep inside
Now your eyes ain't moving now
They just lay there in their climb


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Well I've got a hand
So I've got a fist
So I've got a plan
It's the best that I can do
And I'll save, using god's hands
But god doesn't always have the best god damn plans does he?

I second these. Mangum is just brilliant and wolf parade, but even moreso frog eyes, have fantastic lyrics as well.
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Re: Favorite lyricists?
« Reply #130 on: 18 Nov 2006, 00:24 »

Shaun Ryder, Dean Ween, John Linnell, Chuck D, Rennie Sparks, Brian Eno, bladdiddy blah
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