Amazing Lyricists

icarus' wings:

t.A.T.u.

They don't actually write their own songs.

John Lennon is pretty good.

BabyDollGoneWrong:

Pete Wentz:

Last night I saw a movie
and I thought about many movies I've seen at your house
excuse me if I'm rude
but I'd rather that we just strike from the record ones I'd see again without you
leaning on my shoulder
distracting me from the plotline

Where can I go when I want you around
but I can't stand to be around you "Go home"
I'll walk myself to you
I'll walk myself away from here

I'm pretty sure Patrick wrote that, actually. :shifty

Conor Oberst:

This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go

Nikki Sixx.
Rat-tailed Jimmy is a second hand hood
Deals out in Hollywood
Got a '65 Chevy, primered flames
Traded for some powdered goods
Jigsaw Jimmy he's the one in the game
But I hear he's doin' o.k.
Got a cozy little job selling the Mexican mob
Packages the candycaine

He's the one they call Dr. Feel good
He's the one that makes ya feel all right
He's the one they call Dr. Feel good

Cops on the corner always ignore
Somebody's getting paid
Jimmy's got it wired, law's for hire
Got it made in the shade
Got a little hideaway, does business all day
But at night he'll always be found
Sellin' sugar to the sweet
People on the street
Call this Jimmy's town

He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's the one that makes ya feel all right
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's gonna be your Frankenstein
I've got one thing you'll understand
(Dr. Feelgood)
he's not what you'd call a glamorous man
(Dr. Feelgood)
Got one thing that's easily understood
(Dr. Feelgood)
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
Oh yeah

Ashlee Simpson:

Conor Oberst:

This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go

I love him.

I'll be here by the ocean just waiting for the proof that there's sunsets and silhouette dreams
And my sandcastles fall like the ashes of cigarettes. and every wave drags me to sea
I could stand here for hours just to ask God the question, "Is everyone here make believe?"
With a tear in his voice, he said, "Son, that's the question. Does this deafening silence mean nothing to no one but me?"

--Mayday Parade

Tom Smith from Editors:

I swear to God, I heard the Earth inhale,
moments before it spat its rain down on me.
I swear to God, in this light and on this evening,
London's become, the most beautiful thing I've seen.
I swear to God, I heard the Earth inhale,
moments before it spat its rain down on me.
I swear to God, in this light and on this evening,
London's become, the most beautiful thing I've seen.
I swear to God, I heard the Earth inhale,
moments before it spat its rain down on me.
I swear to God, in this light and on this evening,
London's become, the most beautiful thing I've seen.
I swear to God...
I swear to God...

--

Matthew Bellamy of Muse:

Repress and restrain
Steal the pressure and the pain
Wash the blood off your hands
This time she won't understand
Change in the air
They'll hide everywhere
No one knows who's in control
You're working so hard
And you're never in charge
Your death creates success
Rebuild and suppress
Change in the air
And they'll hide everywhere
And no one knows who's in control
Change in the air
And they'll hide everywhere
No one knows who's in control

And also, the three-part symphony's lyrics were perfection.

#1 - Overture:

Aping my soul,
You stole my overture,
Trapped in God’s program,
Oh I can’t escape
Who are we?
Where are we?
When are we?
Why are we?
Who are we?
Where are we?
Why, why, why?
I can’t forgive you,
And I can’t forget
Who are we?
Where are we?
When are we?
Why are we in here?

#2 - Cross-Pollination

Rise above the crowds
and wade through toxic clouds
Breach the outer sphere
The edge of all our fears
Rest with you
We are counting on you
Its up to you
Spread, our codes to the stars
You must rescue us all
Spread our codes to the stars
You must rescue us all
Tell us, tell us your final wish?
Now we know you can never return
Tell us, tell us your final wish?
We will tell it to the world.

#3 - Redemption

Let's start over again
Why can't we start it over again
Just let us start it over again
And we'll be good
This time we'll get it, get it right
It's our last chance to forgive ourselves.

. .

I also love the line "It kicks like a sleep twitch" from Editors' song Papillon, because now I know what I can call that thing where you're lying in bed and you randomly jerk your leg. . Thank you, Tom Smith.

I think that Kimya Dawson is unfuckingbelievably lovely at projecting messed little fragments in her head, as lyrics.

from Kimya Dawson's Anthrax

the air is filled with computers and carpets
skin and bones and telephones and file cabinets
coke machines, firemen, landing gear, and cement
they say that it's okay but i say don't breathe that shit in

an angel named gabriel is watching over you
he was a friend mistreated now he's dead so say you're sorry to him
when you say your prayers tonight if you make amends
the gates to heaven here on earth will open up again

George Thorogood.
Bob Dylan.
Axl Rose.

Eminem.

I adore the lyrics in this song by Kill Paradise. (Beautiful colors.)

"I'll go pack my bags, take the train
leave with nothing but my own hopes and dreams, that's me.
I know it's true, but i gotta do what my heart's supposed to do
and what I was born to do.

Grab my hand now and feel my insides, this is where I should be
All that dreamin' and theres with reason, its extra-ordinary

and I just need, need this moment
to watch the sky breathe the air
and I can see, see the ocean and your eyes standing there
and a prayer"

Also, Rise Against. "Hero of War."

"A hero of war is that what they see?
Just medals and scars, so damn proud of me
And I brought home that flag, now it gathers dust
But it's a flag that I love, it's the only flag I trust.

He said, "Son, have you seen the world?
and what would you say, if I said that you could?"

McFly. Especially "She falls alseep."

"She falls alseep and all she thinks about is you,
She falls alseep and all she dreams about is you,
When she's asleep the air she's breathing is for you
Oh, why she wants to live?
She's not got that much more to give

Please save me, I've been waiting
Been aching far to long."

Jesse Lacey, Brand New.... Deja Entendu and Devil and God are beautiful.

This story's old but it goes on and on until we disappear,
Calm me and let me taste the salt you breathed while you were underneath,
I am the one who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea,
I spoke the words but never gave a thought to what they all could mean,
I know that this is what you want, a funeral keeps both of us apart.
You know that you are not alone, I need you like water in my lungs.

This is the end.

Also lyrics to limosine are so touching, when you read the story behind the lyrics.

Another favourite lyricist is Kevin Devine:

So I turn and I see Uncle Sam inside a wardrobe ready for the shoot
So I walk right up and talk to him, I tell him that I'm scared and I'm confused
While they test those cameras out and get the lighting right, catering fills coffee cups and carves up apple pie
And while the stylists trim his beard and straighten those lapels
I ask his empire eyes what made him drive us straight to hell
And as my daydream ends he stands ashamed, a shocked and shattered shell
But there's never any answers for my starving tongue to tell
'Cause the director's shouting action, I'm thrown off set, it's just
as well

Snow Patrol

Open Your Eyes
Get up, get out, get away from these liars
'Cause they don't get your soul or your fire
Take my hand, knot your fingers through mine
And we'll walk from this dark room for the last time

Every minute from this minute now
We can do what we like anywhere
I want so much to open your eyes
'Cause I need you to look into mine

Jesse Lacey & Vinnie Accardi of Brand New

Their lyrics never fail to impress me. No matter how much their style changes, their lyrics are always beyond amazing.

I don't think this has been said yet, but a lot of them have been repeated anyway so oh well.

Jonathan Larson. Seriously, go buy Rent. The movie or the soundtrack, whichever. You might get a little confused as to what's going on without the visual though.

Bert McCracken
Brandon Flowers
Conor Oberst
Gerard Way
Ryan Hunter

"If only sorrow could build a staircase, or tears could show the way
We would climb our way to Heaven, and bring him home again
If only sorrow could build a staircase, or tears could show the way
We would climb our way to Heaven, and bring him home again

If only sorrow could build a staircase, or tears could show the way
We would climb our way to Heaven, and bring him home again
We would do anything to bring him back to you
We would do anything to end what you're going through

If only sorrow could build a staircase, or tears could show the way
I would climb my way to Heaven, and bring him home again
I would do anything to bring him back to you
Because if you got him back, I would get back the friend that I once knew"

--Suicide Season. Bring Me The Horizon. More specifically, Oli Sykes.

Jimmy Pop from the Bloodhound Gang.

Tim Minchin.
'Nuff said.