ITT A Favorite Verse from a Song

[Otohiko]

Except it's not prog, but close enough. Certainly in terms of lyrical relevance, there's only a couple that approach them

(won't bother with the Russian text, don't think anyone's picking out rhymes here...)

DDT - I Received This Role

Sweetness nurtured the body
But soon the term had run out
He blindly approached the line
where everything's torn in an instant

And in the still eyes,
Turned to the beginning of roads
Hardened and eternally remained
The unborn scream

[Flint the Dwarf]

Alright, just one more for now, I promise. >.>

Pain of Salvation - "Beyond the Pale"

And love was there in vain, profound and deep but traced with pain - too early for a child of ten
Loving the pure and sane he sought the goddess unstained - watching them turn to flesh again
hungry for both the purity and sin
Life seemed to him merely like a gallery of how to be
And he was always much more human than he wished to be
But there is a logic to his world, if they could only see

[Otohiko]

Come on, it's a lyrics duel for crying out loud

But one more from me:

DDT - Patzany ('Guys')

The boys died, terribly
The boys died, simply
And not each of them was outwardly handsome
And not all of them were of tall stature

But when they looked at me, these dusty men's eyes
Not like eyes of birds or sheep, they warmed me in a human way
And I sang them rock'n'roll songs, told them that everything will be OK
I yelled to them that we're all together -
But it just sounded awfully
Banal...

[Kalium]

I'm fond of this:

Shall we dance the dance in sunlight?
Shall we drink the wine of peace?
Shall our tears be of joy?
Shall we keep at bay the beast?

Iron Maiden - Como Estais Amigo

[Otohiko]

(this thread is turning out to be more more fun than I thought. I'll be the first to admit that I may not digest overly-long lyrics posts too well - but the bite-sized versions are actually kinda nice)

Alright, and I'll switch my grammophone to...





David Sylvian - The Blinding Light of Heaven

I count the tables, she counts the trees
I tell her stories, she speaks of everything she sees
I'm in the shade, she's in the blinding light of heaven

[CerebralAssamite]

Eaten - BloodBath (caution, nasty lyrics below)

Carve me up, slice me apart
Suck my guts, lick my heart
Chop me up I like to be hurt
Drink my marrow and blood for dessert
EATEN... My one desire, my only wish is to be--
EATEN... The longer I live the more I'm dying to feel the pain
EATEN... I would do anything to be--
EATEN... My one desire, my only wish is to be--
EATEN...

[TaranT]

Did you ever think, when you eat Chinese
It ain’t pork or chicken but a fat Siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you don’t complain.
But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork
But Garfield’s on my fork.
He’s purrin’ here on my fork.
...
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eatin’ there at noon.
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork
But it’s purrin’ there on my fork.
There’s a hair-ball on my fork.

(Tune from Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle)

[Lyrs]

It's a small world

It's a world of laughter
A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all

[downwithpants]

(instrumental)

[Otohiko]

(instrumental)

By who?

Reminds me of...

King Crimson - Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With

And when I have some words
This is the way I'll sing
Through a distortion box
To make the menacing -
YEEEAAAH!!!

And then I'll have to write a chorus
I guess we're gonna need a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it 'til I'm blue in the face

\m/