Amazing Lyricists

^YES! Dani Filth!

I only realised that the chorus from 'Temptation' was taken from another song on Sunday when I was watching Trainspotting. :tehe:

Anyway, Ville Valo I think is the greatest lyricist of all time. I'm not going to list any because I'd cry over having to pick just ten when they're all incredible.

Also, Billie Joe Armstrong and to an extent, wiL Francis.

Vinnie Fiorello.

I can't choose any lyrics to post, because they're all so amazing to me...

I'll add Andrew Volpe to that.

Tom Conrad.
He's the lyricist for Empires.
He's amazing.


Hope is a dangerous hole
Would you join me?
Jump,
There's a world of war
Will you join me?

I'll say it again but Andrew McMahon. Aka the genius behind Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin.

Tonight I watch the lights go out in your house
Wondering how I could get so deep
And you could still get sleep
In vain I blame my trembling on the cold air
And I can't hide that I've relied on you
Like yellow does on blue

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And these nights I get high just from breathing
When I lie here with you I'm sure that I'm real
like that firework over the freeway
I could stay here all day but that's not how you feel

Billy Corgan, but that's no real surprise.

Whoever writes the lyrics for Augie March. I'm not a big fan so I don't know, but One Crowded Hour is amazing lyrically.

And Jack White.

Tuomas from Nightwish

Oilver Sykes/ Bring Me The Horizon

I should have known.
Not to look into her eyes.
I'm cast to stone, I'm cast to stone.
Her glare was my demise. (Medusa)

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Silverchair- Tomorrow All members born in 1979, the song came out in 1994 you do the math,

It's twelve o'clock and it's a wonderful day
I know you hate me but I'll ask anyway
Won't you come with me to a place in a little town
The only way to get there's to go straight down
There's no bathroom, and there is no sink
The water out of the tap is very hard to drink
Very hard to drink

For The Rest Of The Song

I didn't want to break the 10 lines rule XD

megalolz:

Tuomas from Nightwish

He's brilliant :mrgreen:

Sensual Violation:

^YES! Dani Filth!

I only realised that the chorus from 'Temptation' was taken from another song on Sunday when I was watching Trainspotting. :tehe:

Anyway, Ville Valo I think is the greatest lyricist of all time. I'm not going to list any because I'd cry over having to pick just ten when they're all incredible.

Also, Billie Joe Armstrong and to an extent, wiL Francis.

Ville Valo's lyrics are just beyond amazing.

Gerard Way :D

Desert Song -
We hold in our hearts the sword and the faith
Swelled up from the rain clouds, move like a wraith
Well after all, we'll lie another day
And through it all
We'll find some other way
To carry on through cartilage and fluid
And did you come to stare, or wash away the blood?

(A little over the 10 lines :tehe:)
Cancer-
Turn away,
If you could get me a drink,
Of water cause my lips are chapped and faded.
Call my Aunt Marie.
Help her gather all my things,
And bury me in all my favorite colors.
My sisters and my brothers still,
I will not kiss you.

'Cause the hardest part of this,
Is leaving you.

Now turn away,
Cause I'm awful just to see.
Cause all my hair's abandoned all my body,
Oh, my agony.
Know that I will never marry.
Baby, I'm just soggy from the chemo,
But counting down the days to go.
It just ain't living.
And I just hope you know,
That if you say goodbye today,
I'd ask you to be true.

'Cause the hardest part of this,
Is leaving you.

'Cause the hardest part of this,
Is leaving you.

Thats my favorite song of theres =]

My way home is through you-
Come on angel don't you cry

Ok i'm done now

Another addition-Simon Neil.

Which of the witches do you belong?
The one with the eye patch or the one who's highly strung
I know you can't trust anyone
How do you capture a photograph?
Put it to sleep pretend you're having a laugh
I know you thought you'd have the last.

Billie Joe Armstrong
Open the past and present now and we are there
Story to tell and I am listening
Open the past and present and the future too
It's all I've got and I'm giving it to you

Ryan Key
Called me out, you stay inside
one you love, is where you hide
shot me down, as i flew by
crash and burn i think sometimes
you forget where the heart is

Jarret Reddick
She slammed the door and she gave me the finger
and we fell so fast i still can't remember
you can read it yourself it's all in the letter
man i don't even know how we could let this happen

Casey Crescenzo.

villain.:

Edit; How could I forget Adam Lazzara? Um, I'm not all too sure if he writes the lyrics, but like, I'll just assume that he does :XD

It's too bad it's not my style
If you need me
I'm out and on the parkway,
patient and waiting for headlights,
dressed in a fashion that's fitting to the
inconsistencies of my moods

sad small sweet so delicate
you used to be this dying breed
(i've got abad feeling about this)
you kept still until the long drive home
you slept safe and close to the window

not the best example, but gah he's incredible.

I love Matt Wrights lyrics (the Getaway Plan)
if you want this to be special then you better keep it to yourself and i will take away your breath just to turn me on, like, they are the smallest most insignificant examples ever but hes also ahmaayzing.

uhhhh and yeah :shifty

William.

Oh Doctor, Doctor, I must have gotten this sick somehow.
I'm going to ask you a series of questions,
And I want them answered on the spot, right now.
Is it serious?
I'm afraid it is.
Am I gonna die?
Well son, death is gonna catch up to all one day,
But yours is coming quicker than ours, than ours.

make it big!:

William.

Oh Doctor, Doctor, I must have gotten this sick somehow.
I'm going to ask you a series of questions,
And I want them answered on the spot, right now.
Is it serious?
I'm afraid it is.
Am I gonna die?
Well son, death is gonna catch up to all one day,
But yours is coming quicker than ours, than ours.

Whoah you actually gave him credit for something

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inside a box cut out the top to let some light shine in.
to be exposed where no one goes where no ones been
when it all comes crashing... !

Damn, Bjorn "Speed" Strid and Anders Friden are two of my favourite songwriters ever. Both Soilwork and In Flames have such amazing songs, I can't believe no-one's mentioned them.

Soilwork - Rejection Role

...
I will be there looking for something
Coming straight out of nothing, just killing time
Facing those walls so black, so vile
I really am waiting for nothing
Coming straight out of something, just killing time
Facing those walls so black, so vile

Now put your trust in a solid machine
Filled with words that have never been seen
A plague to insatiable souls left to die
Charged with mankind's raw energy
I rumble, I stumble
My memory starts to crumble
I can't refuse what's haunting my dreams
Have I stumbled?
On my way to a created perfection
I penetrate the gates of rejection

In Flames - Only For The Weak

...
Am I forced to have any regret
I've become the lie, beautiful and free
In my righteous own mind
I adore and preach the insanity you gave to me

Oh, sell me the infection, it is only for the weak
No need for a sympathy, the misery that is me

I've lost the ability to paint the clouds
Cause it's me you're draining (you're draining me)
I'm stuck in this slow-motion dark tale
Cause everytime you run, I fall.. behind(behind)
I fall behind

And so I hear my voice again
The tale of the bitter man there I am
Shake the silence and hear what it says
The tranquil pride that become the lie
...

Matt again.

Not the BEST lyrics but still good.

'Cause baby I think you've had enough,
The hardest part of sleeping is waking up
You know I care for you so much
I'd never let this happen if you were in my arms.

James Michael and Nikki Sixx.
You can't quit until you've tried.
You can't live until you've died.
You can't learn to tell the truth until you've learned to lie.
You can't breathe until you choke.
You gotta laugh when you're the joke.
There's nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive.

Just open your eyes, just open your eyes and see that life is beautiful.


And, of course: Max Bemis, Gerard Way and Ray Toro and the ever-lovely Bert McCracken.
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