What is your favorite verse from a song?

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:47 pm

There are lot of great tunes, but I think "Nothing else matters" from Metallica is one of the coolest.

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

never cared for what they say
never cared for games they play
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
and I know

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:24 pm

No one writes better lyrics than Bad Religion Wink

Hey scientist please save us from our rainy days
Because your counterpart in the magic art is manufacturing judgment day
There's a fell wind blowing out of the east
Bringing famine drought and plague
Well now at least that's what they say

Rain fell like judgment
Across my windowpane
Said it fell like judgment
But it was only rain

Well I know what's wrong and I know what's right
And I know that evil exists sure as day turns into night
When a man gets down on his knees to pray you know he'll find what he is able
But chances are he'll find it either way

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:45 pm

These are some my Grandad taught me.

Old mother Riley she got drunk
sat on a fire and burnt her bonnet
now she has no hairs upon it,
she has to wear a wig

For those who use this marble hall
Please use the paper and not the wall

nan, nan,dirty old nan,
washes her face with a frying pan,
combs her hair with a leg of a chair
nan,nan , dirty old nan.

Missing me Pops xx

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:48 pm

It's a line rather than a verse...
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
Off the album Rush 2112

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:18 am

imouse wrote:

It's a line rather than a verse...
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
Off the album Rush 2112

Actually from the Album Permanent Waves, The song is The Spirit of Radio

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:35 am

No more turning away from the weak and the weary,
no more turning away from the coldness inside.
just a world that we all can share,
it's not enough just to stand and stare,
is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:43 pm

cbilljones wrote:

imouse wrote:

It's a line rather than a verse...
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
Off the album Rush 2112

Actually from the Album Permanent Waves, The song is The Spirit of Radio

I stand corrected, Thanks for song title, been doing my head in all day. Now to go download it Smile

Another one is from Madness:
In the morning i awake
My arms my legs my body aches
The sky outside is wet and grey
So begins another weary day

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:11 pm

imouse wrote:

cbilljones wrote:

imouse wrote:

It's a line rather than a verse...
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
Off the album Rush 2112

Actually from the Album Permanent Waves, The song is The Spirit of Radio

I stand corrected, Thanks for song title, been doing my head in all day. Now to go download it Smile

Another one is from Madness:
In the morning i awake
My arms my legs my body aches
The sky outside is wet and grey
So begins another weary day

I love all that old RUSH stuff, up till moving pictures there were no bad songs imo, so thats 8 albums i think without a dud Shocked

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:56 pm

Tool Lyrics
"4 Degrees"

Get up
Get up now
Get up
Get up now
Get up
Get up now
Get up
Get up now

Free yourself
From yourself
Free yourself
From yourself

Locked up inside you
Like the calm beneath castles
A cavern of treasures
No one has been to

Let's go digging
Let's go digging
Bring it out and
Take it back in

You won't do what you'd like to do
Lay back and let me show you another way

I'll kill what you want me to
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Life's just too short to push it away

Take it all
Take it all in

All the way in
All the way in
Let it go in
Let it go in

You won't feel what you'd like to feel
Lay back and let me show you another way

I'll kill what you want me to
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Life's just too short to

Knock me down
I'll just come back running
Knock you down
It won't be long now

All the way in
All the way in
All the way in
All the way in
Way in

I'll kill what you want me to
Take what's left and eat it
I'll take all or nothing
Life's just too short to push it away

Take it all
Take it all higher
Four degrees now
Four degrees warmer

Give in now
Give in now
Let me in

You'll like this
This brings us higher
You'll like this

It brings us closer than
Dying and
Cancer and
Crying

Let's take it
Take it
Take it
Take it
Take it

Take it
Take it

Take it
Take it
Take it

Take it
Take it
Take it

Take it
Take it

Take it
Take it
Take it

Take it
Take it

I'll kill what you want me to
Take what's left and eat it
Take all or nothing
Life's just too short to lose it

Just like that
Just like that
Just like...

One of my favourite Tool songs. Maynard said it was about seducing a young man. I've also heard it said that the anal cavity is 4 degrees warmer than the interior of a vagina and that's why the song is called 4 degrees. Check it out if you haven't listened to it. This song makes me feel really good. I also like Comfortably Numb too, I absolutely love Pink Floyd.

Freeing yourself, from yourself is so important. We are often the biggest hinderances in our own development. I feel there are treasures in all our hearts waiting to be discovered.

Let's go digging

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:55 am

I looked all 17 pages of this thread & didn't find the Pink Floyd's Another brick in the wall part 2 (I like the chorus sung by the children)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U

or

Ben E. King - Stand By Me (So Darling Darling, stand stand stand by me by me)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZNL7QVJjE

I know both the songs rn't of same genre but dey r legendary \m/

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:42 am

imouse wrote:

cbilljones wrote:

imouse wrote:

It's a line rather than a verse...
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
Off the album Rush 2112

Actually from the Album Permanent Waves, The song is The Spirit of Radio

I stand corrected, Thanks for song title, been doing my head in all day. Now to go download it Smile

Actually that line was borrowed from The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon.

Rush:

Quote:

For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sound of salesmen
Of salesmen, of salesmen

Paul Simon:

Quote:

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

This line always made me wonder why Neil Peart lifted it. The two songs don't have much else in common lyrically. Sounds like he was doing a parody version of The Sound of Silence.

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:34 pm

I didnt even realise he got the quote wrong, but it does indeed say studio walls. The song is about maintaining artistic integrity while appealing to the masses.

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 10:03 am

Its got to be "Brothers In Arms" it moves me on a personal note and its difficult to pick out my favourite lyric as they all have a hitting affect!
but if i had to choose,

And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
Crying or Very sad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Wu4oy1IRTh8

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 10:52 am

FIGHT - the Cure. ........... How I feel at physio !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzelrQYi_uE&feature=related

Sometimes there's nothing to feel
Sometimes there's nothing to hold
Sometimes there's no time to run away
Sometimes you just feel so old

The times it hurts when you cry
The times it hurts just to breathe
And then it all seems like there's no-one left
And all you want is to sleep

Fight fight fight
Just push it away
Fight fight fight
Just push until it breaks
Fight fight fight
Don't cry at the pain
Fight fight fight
Or watch yourself burn again
Fight fight fight
Don't howl like a dog
Fight fight
Just fill up the sky
Fight fight fight
Fight til you drop
Fight fight fight
And never never
Never stop

Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight

So when the hurting starts
And when the nightmares begin
Remember you can fill up the sky
You don't have to give in
You don't have to give in

Never give in
Never give in
Never give in

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 4:44 am

You came to rape me of my intellect
I give you pieces of my pride
lay down naked and play with you
posing quietly looks a lot like me

Your f**kin pistols not so dangerous
point it any place you please
rip me open cause your dead inside
what you thought you'd see looks a lot like me

And you believe
that i'll believe
all she said one little trick she said
but it was lost on me
machine punch through

Another schoolboy goes to hell for it
believing everything he reads
sell my soul out one nickel at a time
turn the last page down i;m not far behind

Your cigarettes become a torch for me
burning deep inside my arm
watch the welts rise come blistering through
what you thought you'd see it looks a lot like you

Half of Machine Punch Through by Moist
a really underated lyricist if ever i seen one