What song has the best lyrics?

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  • Evvo
    Evvo Posts: 195
    Black simply for the Benaroya version. I still get shivers.
    i like man of the hour, off he goes, nothing as it seems and probably my personal favourite, Better Man
  • GetALife
    GetALife Posts: 563
    Inside Job
    Love Boat Captain
    2000: Hamburg
    2006: Berlin
    2007: Munich * Düsseldorf
    2009: Berlin * Manchester * London
    2010: Dublin * Belfast * Berlin
    2012: Amsterdam I & II * Berlin I & II * Stockholm * Oslo * Copenhagen
    EV 2012: Amsterdam I & II
    2014: Amsterdam I & II * Milan * Trieste * Vienna * Berlin
    EV 2017: Berlin
    2018: Amsterdam I & II * Prague * Krakow * Berlin
    2022: Berlin- Vienna - Prague - Amsterdam I - Amsterdam II #
    2024: Berlin I & II

    ~~~

    “It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”
    ― David Benatar - Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence


  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    I wish i was the peddle brake that you depended on
    I wish i was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down

    As for a whole song, probably Present Tense.
  • Them-Bones
    Them-Bones Posts: 518
    I Got Shit
    "If my thoughts, dreams, could be seen, they'd probably put my head, in a guillotine, but it's alright ma, it's life and life only."
  • MarylandTeacher
    MarylandTeacher Posts: 233
    Black...but everyone knows that I am biased. :rolleyes:

    Matthew
    Dalai Lama—To say that humility is an essential ingredient in our pursuit of spiritual transformation may seem to be at odds with what I have said about the need for confidence. But there is clearly a distinction to be made between valid confidence or self-esteem, and conceit - which we can describe as an inflated sense of importance, grounded in a false image of self.
  • nmm18
    nmm18 Posts: 13
    I'm gonna have to agree with the OP...
    but so many to choose from
  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    Corduroy - cuz I can relate
    I got shit -same reason ^
    Footsteps
    Foxy mop? Ive never heard it all the way through though lol
    Pirates had democracy too.

    "Its a secret to everybody."
  • Ensamvargen
    Ensamvargen Posts: 1
    Save me

    "Alone in the dark
    why am I here

    why won´t they listen to me
    I´m invissible to the world

    would anyone care
    would they take notice

    would someone please Save me
    save me from myself
    save me from the world
    save the world from me

    I want to take control
    I wan´t to live my life

    why won´t they let me
    why do they ceep pushing me down



    would someone please Save me
    save me from myself
    save me from the world
    save the world from me

    Now I´m in control
    Why are you not laughing

    This day is mine
    Now I will be rememberd



    would someone please Save me
    save me from myself
    save me from the world
    save the world from me"

    In other terms... Alive will rule the world and I have the tatu to prove it

    Never met my Dad ever... Alive has left a neverfading imprint in my life

    Jesper/Sweden
  • pearljamgirl07
    pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    Black (of course my fav song ever)
    Footsteps
    Gone
    Jeremy
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"
  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    Black. You can feel exactly how the person feels in the song. I personally like In My Tree and Come Back, but Black is better.
  • mak.
    mak. Posts: 56
    I Got Shit
    Tremor Christ
    I Am Mine
    Thumbing My Way
    Long Road

    Dirty Frank (????)

    "Where's Mike McCready? My god he's been ate!"...
    roll them high...
    throw them again...
  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    share wrote:
    i love sleight of hand and in my tree

    present tense is like that great story you read

    :)

    Agreed, I would also like to throw in there Of the Girl. The lyrics are short and sweet, but beautiful none the less.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • rvp
    rvp Posts: 779
    Other than Black (will not be matched... ever IMO)
    I would say, lately, Last Exit... but I very much like I Got Shit, Bee Girl, In my tree, Nothingman...
    Actually... I think almost every PJ song has great lyrics...or at least 2 out of 3...
    .
    fuera de este mundo
  • deadnote
    deadnote Posts: 1,678
    my favorite has to be gimme some truth
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    You know I got a dozen Pj's on my mp3 at the moment, all belters,...ID,Long Road, Black (unplugged version),Smile, and others. But you know the one I keep coming back to is Corduroy, it's a stunning piece of work both musically and lyrically. It's a classic, and it's allready like 13 year sold or something. Simply wonderful words.
    So I go for Corduroy.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • smile05
    smile05 Posts: 600
    they can buy but cant put on my clothes

    ANGRY ED

    SO SIMPLE BUT SAYS SO MUCH
    1:Black 2:Corduroy 3:All Those Yesterdays 4:I Got ID 5:Smile

    They can buy but cant put on my clothes
    Throw down my ace in the hole~~~~~~

    Let's go for three in a row, no sorry i can't think of anything thats not funny. - Paul Merton

    London96,Manchester00,Berlin06,London07
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    smile05 wrote:
    they can buy but cant put on my clothes

    ANGRY ED

    SO SIMPLE BUT SAYS SO MUCH


    You're correct, it's a great line.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • Flannel Shirt
    Flannel Shirt Posts: 1,021
    I go back and forth with favorite songs, but this one always has an effect on me. Especially the one with Nusrat. I fucking love that version.

    Long Road

    And I wished for so long. Cannot stay.
    All the precious moments. Cannot stay.
    It's not like wings have fallen. Cannot stay.
    But still something's missing. I cannot say, yeah.

    Holding hands are daughters and sons.
    And their faiths are falling down, down, down, down.
    I have wished for so long. How I wish for you today.

    Will I walk the long road? (the long road)
    Cannot stay.(the long road)
    There's no need to say goodbye. (to say goodbye)

    All the friends and family.
    All the memories going round, round, round, round.
    I have wished for so long. How I wish for you today.

    And the wind keeps roaring. And the sky keeps turning grey.
    And the sun is set. The sun will rise another day.

    I...I have wished for so long. How I wish for you today.
    I have wished for so long. How I wish for you today.

    Will I walk the long road? We all walk the long road.
    Will I walk the long road? We all walk the long road.
    Will I walk the long road?
    Will I walk the long road? We all walk the long road.
    Will I walk the long road? We all walk the long road.
    Will I walk the long road?
    All that's sacred, comes from youth....dedications, naive and true.
  • Otherside
    Otherside Posts: 5
    First time posting. In fact... this thread made me finally get up and register. As you can see by my username... "Otherside", in my opinion, has, without a doubt, the best lyrics of any PJ song.
  • smile05
    smile05 Posts: 600
    Corduroy - cuz I can relate
    I got shit -same reason ^


    why,have you become famous overnight???

    Ive actually picked lines from each of these

    they can buy put cant put on my clothes

    take my hand,not my picture


    so i will lie alone and wait for the dream,where im not ugly and your looking at me

    if once i could feel love stare back at me

    empty cup

    and so on from i got id
    1:Black 2:Corduroy 3:All Those Yesterdays 4:I Got ID 5:Smile

    They can buy but cant put on my clothes
    Throw down my ace in the hole~~~~~~

    Let's go for three in a row, no sorry i can't think of anything thats not funny. - Paul Merton

    London96,Manchester00,Berlin06,London07

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