Amazing Lyricists

Teddy Picker.:

Tim Minchin.
'Nuff said.

Matt Bellamy of Muse

You and me fall in line
To be punished for unproven crimes.
And we know that there is no one we can trust,
Our ancient heroes, they are turning to dust.

And these wars, they can't be won.
Does anyone know or care how they begun?
They just promise to go on, and on, and on,
But soon we will see there can be only one!

-United States of Eurasia

Jesse Lacey and Vinnie Accardi of Brand New

Time to get the seeds into the cold ground,
Takes a while to grow anything
Before it's coming to an end, yeah.

Before you put my body in the cold ground,
Take some time and warm it with your hands
Before it's coming to an end.

Do you miss the blend
Of colors she left in your black and white field?
Do you feel condemned
Just being there?

-Sowing Season (Yeah)

Sun-Lashes.:

Conor Oberst. Just... period.

And Laura’s asleep in my bed.
As I’m leaving she wakes up and says:
“I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave.
Baby don’t go away, come here.”

And there’s kids playing guns in the street.
And ones pointing his tree branch at me.
So I put my hands up I say “enough is enough,
If you walk away, I’ll walk away.”
And he shot me dead.

.

And there's Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh; Ouija Board; When the Curious Girl Realized She is Under Glass; A Perfect Sonnet; Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to be Loved)...the list goes on and on.

I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree
and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high.
Yeah, next time, neither will I.
...
Well I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well.
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.
With all these wishes I make,
I should buy something real, at least a telephone call home.

I would post the entire song, but it's like, eight minutes and that would look obnoxious .

Adam Young of Owl City.

Risk it all,
Cos I'll catch you if you fall,
Wherever you go,
If my heart was a house,
You'd be home.

Dustin Kensrue.

Roy Oribison.
Gerard Way.
Billy Corgan.

radio with guts.:

Regina Spektor!

'This is how it works, you look inside yourself
You take the things you like, and try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made and stick it into someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood"

AND!

"Miss Mary Ann began to think real hard about her future,
Miss Mary Ann began to have some thoughts of murder,
She killed him rather quickly, that woman was truly sickly
But lord, not any quicker than according to plan,
Like a solder with one foot in front of the other..."

How could I forget about Regina?
Genius Next Door, Carbon Monoxide, Braille, Lady, Ghost of Corporate Future, Raindrops, Samson, Somedays, The Call, Summer in the City...all of her songs just hold this pure truth that separates her from everybody else.

David Cook (My Favorite Highway).
Song: Bigger than Love

We've all got scars as big as ours
A token for the pain we hide inside of us
Everyone's scared that somebody knows
You push it aside, that's how it goes
If you've ever heard a beating heart,
A rhythmn for the songs we're too afraid to sing
Nobody here is perfectly fine,
A delicate frame, a fragile design...
...Somebody said that life isn't fair
When somebody else was saying a prayer

And, of course, Freddy Mercury. But I can't choose between his songs. It's just way too hard.

Chris Martin:

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.

Not sure if I posted this before, but I'd like to add -

Chris Martin of Coldplay:

Stuck on the end of this ball and chain
And I'm on my way back down again
Stood on a bridge tied to a noose
Sick to the stomach
You can say what you mean
But it won't change a thing
I'm sick of our secrets
Stood on the edge, tied to the noose
You came along and you cut me loose

- Amsterdam

the Beatles:

See any song, really. Specifically Here Comes the Sun.

& the Wombats (not sure who actually writes thier lyrics, though I believe it's Matthew Murphy):

Carrots help us see much better in the dark
Don't talk to girls; they'll break your heart
And this is my head and this is my spout
They work together; they can't figure anything out

So with the angst of a teenage band
Here's another song about a gender I'll never understand.

-Kill the Director

underrated Guy Garvey of Elbow :love:

"Sit with me a while
And let me listen to you talk about
your dreams and your obsessions
I'll be quiet and confessional
The violets explode inside me
when I meet your eyes
Then I'm spinning and I'm diving
Like a cloud of starlings

Darling is this love? "

Aaron Pauley of Jamies Elsewhere.

Now enter our beloved, Juliet.
Forging our mistakes across the stage,
We play it out
Even though we know the ending.
We've been acting this scene out,
Again and again.
Til the lights have outshined
The star you used to be.

As you cry yourself to sleep again,
Before you drift away,
You pray for love,
'Cause love is the only thing
You've never had.

You call it love,
We call it a lie,
We're both right this time.

Emilie Autumn.
From her song 'Ever':

I've been racing for you honey
But you take your love
From under my feet
The very moment I arrive
I hold the invitation in my hand
You smile and I don't understand
When you tell me the writing ain't yours
You were the one thing I could count on
Even if your apathy was what I expected
Oh darling I waited and waited to feel your footsteps
And to hear your breath
But maybe I just wanted someone to wait for

CHORUS
You were ever in my mind
You were behind my soul each time
I held it to the flame
You were ever in my precious thoughts
I'd leave a room of angels
Just to be alone
If only to say your name
I never told you I needed you darling
Like a rose needs the rain
How could you possibly know how much
So I reach for your love
Like the moon and the stars
Ever in my sight
Ever out of touch

Steven (singer of LostAlone)

Chris Corner (singer of IAMX)

Thom Yorke (singer of Radiohead)

Jeff Buckley
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
From - Lover, You Should've Come Over

Patrick Wolf and Yoav are awesome too.

Richey James Edwards.

You didn't hear it
You didn't see it.
You won't say nothing to no one
ever in your life.
You never heard it
Oh how absurd it
All seems without any proof.
You didn't hear it
You didn't see it
You never heard it not a word of it.
You won't say nothing to no one
Never tell a soul
What you know is the Truth.
Nuff said.

Whoever wrote the 'Girl, you're poppin' like a toaster' line in My Name by Anoop Desai.

^

Alex Gaskarth, with the old All Time Low music.

Nothing Personal isn't bad, but just not as good. :]

I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE BUT SRSLY OMFG BILLY CORGAN.
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans never fails to amaze me.

As far as you take me, that's where I believe
The realm of soft delusions, floating on the leaves
On a distant shoreline, she waves her arms to me
as all the thought police are closing in for sleep

The dilly dally of my bright lit stay,
the steam of my misfortunes
has given me the power to be afraid

...

Porcelina, she waits for me there,
with seashells hissing lullabies
and whispers fathomed deep inside my own

...

Holy cow This is a great forum! Where do I begin? My tops would have to be: Billie Joe Armstrong, Justin Pierre, Gerard Way,Rivers Cuomo, and Jim Steinman. I may post examples/more lyricists later when they come to me.