Greatest Ever Lyric

krystaljenna
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I know how you all like to keep it purely PJ around here but I was wondering what you think the greatest lyric ever writen is?
My vote goes to Nine Inch Nails "Hurt":
"EVERYONE I KNOW GOES AWAY IN THE END"
It pretty much sums up the harsh reality of life.
My vote goes to Nine Inch Nails "Hurt":
"EVERYONE I KNOW GOES AWAY IN THE END"
It pretty much sums up the harsh reality of life.
i sUGGEST yOU sTEP oUT oN yOUR pORCH......rUN aWAY mY sON (aND dAUGHTER) sEE iT aLL, gO sEE tHE wORLD.
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Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
"A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL" BOB DYLAN
Just pick any line from that song and you'll have the greatest lyric ever"I'm a thief, and I dig it"0 -
krystaljenna wrote:
My vote goes to Nine Inch Nails "Hurt":
"EVERYONE I KNOW GOES AWAY IN THE END"
It pretty much sums up the harsh reality of life.
most of what Trent's written is pretty damn deep, but "Hurt" is pretty much the epitomy. Amazing stuff. Also, the newer "Right Where it Belongs" strikes a similar chord.I've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.
Some die just to live.0 -
Another can of worms
Another stomach turns
Yeh yr ghetto burns
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
You got a stupid man
You got a Ku Klux Klan
Yr fuckin' battle plan
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
A sieg heil-in' squirt
You're an impotent jerk
Yeh a fascist twerp
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
Black robe and swill
I believe Anita Hill
Judge will rot in hell
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
Yeah a cross on fire
By a christian liar
A black attack on fire
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
Yeah the president sucks
He's a war pig fuck
His shit is out of luck
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
Another nazi attack
A skinhead is cracked
My blood is black
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
We're banging pots and pans
To make you understand
We gonna bury you man
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
I'm a human wreck
A redneck in check
I killed the teacher's pet
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate"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)0 -
it may sound selfish and undeep but these are great:
so i'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
where i'm not ugly and your lookin' at me
and i stare you back
oh blue eyes, i've seen it
if just once i could feel love
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"Time to take her home
Her dizzy head is conscious laden..."The only people we should try to get even with...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.0 -
Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill? (2x)
When out tiger hunting with his elephantine gun
In case of accidents he always took his mom
He's the all American bullet-headed saxon mother's son.
All the children sing
Hey Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill? (2x)
Deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies
Bill and his elephants were taken by surprise
So Captain Marvel zapped him right between the eyes
All the children sing
Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill? (2x)
The children asked him if to kill was not a sin
But when he looked so fierce, his mummy butted in
If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him
All the children sing
Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill? (8x) (fade out0 -
[Jadakiss]
Why would niggaz push pounds and powder
Why did bush knock down the towers
Why you around them cowards
Why Aaliyah have to take that flight
Why my nigga D ain't pull out his Ferrari
Why he take that bike
Why they gotta open your package and read your mail
Why they stop lettin' niggaz get degreez in jail
Why you gotta do eighty-five percent of your time
And why do niggaz lie in eighty-five percent of they rhymes
Why a nigga always want what he can't have
Why I can't come through in the pecan Jag
Why did crack have to hit so hard
Even though it's almost over
Why niggaz can't get no jobs
Why they come up wit the witness protection
Why they let the terminator win the election
Come on people, pay attention
Why sell in the stores what you can sell in the streets
Why I say the hottest shit but we sellin' the leastI will make the world a better place...with my own, two hands.0 -
Here is my choice...Uncle Neil
He's a perfect stranger,
Like a cross
of himself and a fox.
He's a feeling arranger
And a changer
of the ways he talks.
He's the unforeseen danger
The keeper of
the key to the locks.
Know when you see him,
Nothing can free him.
Step aside, open wide,
It's the loner.
If you see him in the subway,
He'll be down
at the end of the car.
Watching you move
Until he knows
he knows who you are.
When you get off
at your station alone,
He'll know that you are.
Know when you see him,
Nothing can free him.
Step aside, open wide,
It's the loner.
There was a woman he knew
About a year or so ago.
She had something
that he needed
And he pleaded
with her not to go.
On the day that she left,
He died,
but it did not show.
Know when you see him,
Nothing can free him.
Step aside, open wide,
It's the loner.Makes much more sense to live....in the present tense
I know I was born and I'll know that I'll die
The inbetween is mine, I am mine
Why go home??
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Desolation Row - Bob DylanNorth is to South what the clock is to time0
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put it in your heart for everyonethanks to everyone who can read what i write without having to say something mean0
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september 9,1999 in texas somewhere a band played this one song and the lines are angelic
"we will run we will fly we will be together
we will laugh we will cry we will be together"
anyone interested in a cassette recording of this private message methanks to everyone who can read what i write without having to say something mean0 -
cartoonnightmare wrote:it may sound selfish and undeep but these are great:
so i'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
where i'm not ugly and your lookin' at me
and i stare you back
oh blue eyes, i've seen it
if just once i could feel love
oh stare back at me, yeah..it's easy to confuse a great design with life's ripercussions
i'd rather die than give you control0 -
If you hate something don't you do it too!0
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Do I have to tell the story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet0 -
You look so pretty in it, honey, can I jump on it sometime
I just want to see if it's really the expensive kind
You know it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
Your brand new leapord-skin-pill-box hat"I'm a thief, and I dig it"0 -
know1 wrote:"Time to take her home
Her dizzy head is conscious laden..."
I lovvveee that song
Great line:
"if you hate something dont you do it too"`~.:.~`.History doesn't make something right`~.:.~`0 -
somewhere a queen is weeping...and somewhere a king has no wife...
wind cries mary Jimi HendrixToronto '96
Barrie '98
Toronto '00
Toronto '03
Hamiltion '05
Toronto '05
Toronto 05/09/06
Toronto 05/10/060 -
Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong
But tonight you're on my mind so you never know
When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it
Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it
Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run
Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
And much too blind to see the damage he's done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one
So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return
Oh will I ever learn
Oh lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late
Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in
Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come
It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever
Well maybe i'm just too young
To keep good love from going wrong
Oh... lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late
Well I feel too young to hold on
And i'm much too old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done
Sweet lover, you should've come over
Oh, love well i'm waiting for you
Lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late
JEFF BUCKLEY-LOVER, YOU SHOULD'VE COME OVERI wonder 'bout his insides...It's like his thoughts are too big for his size...He's been taken...where, I don't know? Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope...
There he goes...0 -
sorry, I'm a dork, but it's a Pearl Jam lyric for me. For some reason "all the rusted signs/ we ignore throughout our lives/ choosing the shiney ones instead" really sticks with me. I like it.========================================
I still can't believe PEARL JAM in Newfoundland
I love you I love you I FUCKING love you0 -
"up here so high, the sky i scrape" always moved me...it conveys this ultimate feeling of elation to me, which is nice and sorta rare to hear in pj's musicI've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.
Some die just to live.0
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