Best lyrics ever written?

miller8966miller8966 Posts: 1,452
edited January 2006 in Other Music
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
America...the greatest Country in the world.
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Comments

  • I like "Chimes Of Freedom" better
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • BUENABUENA Posts: 165
    The vanishing spies
    Just something I read
    A couple of eyes
    From out of the head
    And all that was said
    Was that’s just how some things don’t materialize

    Could be they broke
    And swam like a bird
    Fear of spooking the folk
    With talk of the third
    Or maybe the third
    Played a joke

    Give me a blip
    And I’ll totally flip
    Say it’s nothing but sky
    And I’ll be a lonely guy

    The vanishing spies
    Just something I read
    Now there were two eyes
    Sent out from the head
    And all that was said
    Was that is just how some things do not materialize

    Give me one little blip
    And I’ll totally flip
    Say it’s nothing but sky
    And I will be one lonely guy
    "It's the American Dream I am disbelieving... When the gas in my tank feels like money in the bank... I’m gonna blow it all this time, take me one last ride..." - Gone (vedder)
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,292
    I can't pick a favorite lyric, so here's one I love. The way they flow throughout the song is just perfection.


    Pink Floyd - Echoes

    Overhead the albatross
    Hangs motionless upon the air
    And deep beneath the rolling waves
    In labyrinths of coral caves
    An echo of a distant time
    Comes willowing across the sand
    And everything is green and submarine.

    And no one called us to the land
    And no one knows the where's or why's.
    Something stirs and something tries
    Starts to climb toward the light.

    Strangers passing in the street
    By chance two separate glances meet
    And I am you and what I see is me.
    And do I take you by the hand
    And lead you through the land
    And help me understand
    The best I can.

    And no one called us to the land
    And no one crosses there alive.
    No one speaks and no one tries
    No one flies around the sun....

    Almost everyday you fall
    Upon my waking eyes,
    Inviting and inciting me
    To rise.
    And through the window in the wall
    Come streaming in on sunlight wings
    A million bright ambassadors of morning.

    And no one sings me lullabyes
    And no one makes me close my eyes
    So I throw the windows wide
    And call to you across the sky....
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
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