Best Song Lyrics

[somnambulist]

I don't pay attention to which album they're on, it's all on my computer. I've just deleted a large amount from their early albums. I'm not pretending to know that much about their discographical history. ;)

 

Great lyrics from the Cure:

 

Love Song

 

"Whenever I'm alone with you

You make me feel like I am home again

Whenever I'm alone with you

You make me feel like I am whole again

 

Whenever I'm alone with you

You make me feel like I am young again

Whenever I'm alone with you

You make me feel like I am fun again

 

However far away

I will always love you

However long I stay

I will always love you

Whatever words I say

I will always love you

I will always love you

 

Whenever I'm alone with you

You make me feel like I am free again

Whenever I'm alone with you

You make me feel like I am clean again

 

However far away

I will always love you

However long I stay

I will always love you

Whatever words I say

I will always love you

I will always love you"

 

Simple but beautiful.

[Crusader]

The Cure

[somnambulist]

I like the 311 version too.

[Shiri]

Yeah, you can't go wrong with The Cure. Or The Smiths.

[Prometheon]

Their earlier albums are much better than the crap they put out nowadays. There're good lyrics in Dizzy Up The Girl, A Boy Named Goo and Superstar Car Wash. Those are the only albums I like by them.

You nailed it. Those 3 CDs are truly great, and Gutterflower was....ok. But their earlier stuff (when they were a punk band) and their newest CD are pretty bad.

[Shortcut To Moncton]

Their earlier albums are much better than the crap they put out nowadays. There're good lyrics in Dizzy Up The Girl, A Boy Named Goo and Superstar Car Wash. Those are the only albums I like by them.

You nailed it. Those 3 CDs are truly great, and Gutterflower was....ok. But their earlier stuff (when they were a punk band) and their newest CD are pretty bad.

The Goo Goo Dolls used to be a Replacements-wannabe band. Not sure what the hell they are trying to prove this decade.

[Shiri]

It's so funny that they used to be a punk band. With the hair and everything. And look at them now, with their stylish highlights in their hair.

[somnambulist]

Yeah, you can't go wrong with The Cure. Or The Smiths.

I dislike that singer guy for the Smiths...what's his name again? He's an egotistical prick. But they have some good songs.

[Shiri]

Morrisey. And I don't care for musician's characters, as long as they make good music, they can be pricks. If they make bad music and they're pricks, now that's a different story!

[Guest apsham]

I really like the lyrics from a Silverstein song called My Heroine, especially the bolded parts.:

 

The drugs begin to peak

A smile of joy arrives in me

But sedation changes to panic and nausea

And breath starts to shorten

And heartbeats pass softer

 

You won't try to save me

You just want to break me, and leave me desperate

 

You taught my heart a sense I never knew I had

I can't forget the times that I was lost and depressed from the awful truth

How do you do it?

You're my heroine

 

You won't leave me alone

Chisel my heart out of stone

I give in everytime.

 

You taught my heart a sense I never knew I had

I can't forget the times that I was lost and depressed from the awful truth

How do you do it?

You're my heroine

 

I bet you laugh at the thought of me thinking for myself

I bet you believe that I'm better off with you than someone else

 

Your face arrives again, all hope I had becomes surreal

But under your cover's more torture than pleasure

And just past your lips, there's mores anger than laughter

Not now or forever will I ever change you

I know that to go on, I'll break you my habit

 

You taught my heart a sense I never knew I had

I can't forget the times that I was lost and depressed from the awful truth

How do you do it?

You're my heroine

 

I will save myself

Edited August 10, 2006 by Apple Shampoo

[Audio of Being]

I am really into the lyrics of The Masterplan by Oasis, as of late, I feel that to date, they are some of the best lyrics Noel has ever written. If not one of the best Oasis songs of all time.

 

Take the time to make some sense

Of what you want to say

And cast your words away upon the waves

Sail them home with acquiesce

On a ship of hope today

And as they land upon the shore

Tell them not to fear no more

Say it loud and sing it proud

Today...

 

And then dance if you want to dance

Please brother take a chance

You know they're gonna go

Which way they wanna go

All we know is that we don't know --

How it's gonna be

Please brother let it be

Life on the other hand won't let us understand

We're all part of the masterplan

 

I'm not saying right is wrong

It's up to us to make

The best of all the things that come our way

Coz everything that's been has past

The answer's in the looking glass

There's four and twenty million doors

On life's endless corridor

Say it loud and sing it proud

And they...

 

Will dance if they want to dance

Please brother take a chance

You know they're gonna go

Which way they wanna go

All we know is that we don't know --

How it's gonna be

Please brother let it be

Life on the other hand won't let you understand

Why we're all part of the masterplan

 

EDIT: There was few minor typos in the lyrics, just fixed them.

Edited August 10, 2006 by Audio of Being

[yakasushii]

Goo Goo Dolls - Name

 

Such a sad, beautiful song... I wish I had someone who'd hide beside me, and that so many moments hadn't passed me by.

 

"And even though the moment passed me by

I still can't turn away

Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose

Got tossed along the way

And letters that you never meant to send

Get lost or thrown away

 

And now we're grown up orphans

That never knew their names

We don't belong to no one

That's a shame

But if you could hide beside me

Maybe for a while

And I won't tell no one your name

 

And I won't tell em your name

 

Scars are souvenirs you never lose

The past is never far

Did you lose yourself somewhere out there

Did you get to be a star

And don't it make you sad to know that life

Is more than who we are

 

You grew up way too fast

And now there's nothing to believe

And reruns all become our history

A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio

And I won't tell no one your name

And I won't tell em your name

 

I think about you all the time

But I don't need the same

It's lonely where you are come back down

And I won't tell em your name"

oh man, that's a great song.

[bishopx]

These are some really great songs, I have two to add...

 

A Night Like This - By The Cure(It's just a valuable piece of my growing up)

 

Say goodbye on a night

like this

If it's the last thing we ever do

You never looked as lost as this

Sometimes it doesn't even look like you

It goes dark

It goes darker still

Please stay

But I watch you like I'm made of stone

As you walk away

I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night

A witch hunt for another girl

For always and ever is always for you

Your trust

The most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world

 

Say hello on a day like today

Say it everytime you move

The way that you look at me now

Makes me wish I was you

It goes deep

It goes deeper still

This touch

And the smile and the shake of your head

 

I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night

Can't stand here like this anymore

For always and ever is always for you

I want it to be perfect

Like before

I want to change it all

 

I want to change

 

 

and

 

"Tai Shan" - By Rush (This is the song that I feel flow through me when I meditate, it reminds of the first time I looked down on the world from the top of a mountain when I was kid...)

 

High on the sacred mountain

Up the seven thousand stairs

In the golden light of autumn

There was magic in the air

 

Clouds surrounded the summit

The wind blew strong and cold

Among the silent temples

And the writing carved in gold

Somewhere in my instincts

The primitive took hold...

 

I stood at the top of the mountain

And China sang to me

In the peaceful haze of harvest time

A song of eternity-

 

If you raise your hands to heaven

You will live a hundred years

I stood there like a mystic

Lost in the atmosphere

 

The clouds were suddenly parted

For a moment I could see

The patterns of the landscape

Reaching to the eastern sea

I looked upon a presence

Spanning forty centuries...

 

I thought of time and distance

The hardships of history

I heard the hope and the hunger

When China sang to me...