Amazing Lyricists

Emilie Autumn is so amazing and sarcastic in all of her songs. She just makes you laugh and go "oh yeah. I feel like that too!" simultaneously.
One of my favourite songs of hers is Opheliac (lyrics-wise)
Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don’t think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything is gonna be alright
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in-between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she’s me.
I LOVE that song.

Shawn Harris

She got nicotine-basted lungs, wasted thumbs
and one of them asphalt tastin' tongues.
She wakes up to alarm, her make-up is still on,
and she can't remember why she set the damn thing.
Her heart is a machine, art is meant to be seen
not felt, not heard, it's just paint, they're just words.
And fingers are for feeling, fists are for beating
scabs are for healing, and blood is for bleeding
that's just how I used to be, but I'm not even good at being me
anymore.

--

Geoff Rickly

There is blood on the tracks tonight
And rust inside our veins
Will it ache every time I hear the storm
running behind me?
There were some younger kids
Who followed the tracks that day
It was a passing afternoon
that came and took them away.
So we forgot our names
Lying in the tall grass
underneath the billboard dreams.
Oh, I will be with you, running from the rain

Gerard Way :
And we'll love again, we'll laugh again
We'll cry again and we'll dance again
And it's better off this way
So much better off this way
I can't clean the blood off the sheets in my bed
And never again, and never again
They gave us two shots to the back of the head
And we're all dead now.

------

Ryan Ross:

I don’t love you I'm just passing the time
You could love me if I knew how to lie
But who could love me?
I am out of my mind
Throwing a line out to sea
To see if I can catch a dream.

William.
About a Girl.

Can't breathe when I'm around her
I wait here everyday
In case she'll scratch the surface
She'll never know it

I don't know if anyone else agree's but I ADORE Missy Higgins!

Give me my dream and give me a scene where you have a past of which you
are clean.
Oh, give me a lie.
Tell me you fell 'cos of my grace and not to help you erase her face.
And oh, make it your best lie.
'Cos I'm holding up a crystal glass dove in my hands and if it does
fall, if you do fall, it's my fault

--

Like a freeze-dried rose, you will never be,
what you were, what you were to me in memory.
But if I listen to the dark,
you'll embrace me like a star,
envelop me, envelop me...
If things get real for me down here,
promise to take me to before you went away -
if only for a day.
If things get real for me down here,
promise to take me back to the tune
we played before you went away.

And my fav.

And so I'll run,
but not to far,
incase you chase me ohhh

I'm really enjoying Kerli right now:
She's got a little creepy cat
And a little creepy bat
Little rocking chair
And an old blue hat
That little creepy girl - oh how she loves to sing
She has a little gift - an amazing thing
With her little funny eyes of hazel
With her little funny old blue hat
She will go and set the world on fire
No one ever thought she could do that

I also love Green Day, FOB, Panic, and Paramore. They're all amazing with their lyrics.

Eurythmics.

Everybody's looking for something.
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.

Emilie Autumn - Shallot

She's locked up with a spinning wheel
She can't recall what it was like to feel
She says, "This room's gonna be my grave
And there's no one who can save me,"
She sits down to her colored thread
She knows lovers waking up in their beds
She says, "How long can I live this way
Is there someone I can pay to let me go
'Cause I'm half sick of shadows
I want to see the sky
Everyone else can watch as the sun goes down
So why can't I

Betty Curse - God this hurts

You were a fool to break my heart
caught with your hands in her cookie jar
didn't have to lie, didn't need to cheat
Should have come to me for something to eat
wasn't i sweet enough?
All of your friends think you're so tough
But guess what?
You're Not!
Don't you see?
You're a loser cause you lost me!

Darren Cordeux from Kisschasy
Laying in the dust
Feeling the cold
Take me if you must
But not for too long
Cos' I feel so safe hiding my face
Like ugly birds in a beautiful cage
A bad actress in a wonderful play
An ugly bird in a beautiful cage
And I will stay the same

And Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets
About as subtle as an earthquake, I know
My mistakes were made for you
And in the back room of a bad dream, she came
And whisked me away, enthused
And it's solid as a rock rolling down a hill
The fact is that it probably will hit something
On the hazardous terrain
And were just following the flock, round
And the inbetween, before we smash to smithereens
Like they were, and we scrambled from the grain
And its the fame that put words in her mouth
She couldnt help, but spit em out
Innocence and arrogance intwined
In the filthiest of minds

Which was more than ten but that song is amazing, especially lyrically.

Leonard Cohen :shock:

Everybody Knows;

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows

Hallelujah;

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

ryan ross, conor oberst, pete doherty and regina spektor give me butterflies (L)

If all our life is but a dream
Fantastic posing greed
Then we should feed our jewelry to the sea ~ Northern Downpour - Panic at the Disco

You talk, you talk a good game
Wish i could talk the same
Writing songs' is just a game Im getting good at cheating at ~You Talk - Babyshambles

It's just like the movies, i eat from the trees
If i do not open the curtains then i cannot see
All the people run by...

My heart eats beats...
My heart eats love...

You are mistaken cause i do not bite
Over the williamsburg bridge on a bike
And if he loves me then why does he leave...

Don't say goodbye like you're burying him
Cause the world is round and he might return... ~Just Like the Movies - Regina Spektor

I can't stop listening to Untitled from Hoboken by My Chem

and would you stay, right here,
when i tell you,
someone out there lvoes you after all?

megalolz:

Tuomas from Nightwish

Higher Than Hope
Red Sun rising
Drown without inhaling
Within, the dark holds hard
Red Sun rising
Curtain falling
Higher than hope my cure lies

Swanheart
A wintry eve
Once upon a tale
An Ugly Duckling
Lost in a verse
Of a sparrow's carol
Dreaming the stars

Be my heart a well of love
Flowing free so far above

In my world
Love is for poets
Never the famous balcony scene
Just a dying faith
On a heaven's gate

Ville Valo, Ryan Ross and Tom Waits.

Ville Valo, The Funeral Of Hearts

Love's the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom

The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you

Ryan Ross, Northern Downpour

The ink is running towards the page,
It's chasing off the days,
Look back at boat feet,
And and that winding knee,
I missed your skin when you were east,
You clicked your heels and wished for me,
Through playful lips made of yarn,
That fragile Capricorn,
Unraveled words like moths upon old scarves,
I know the world's a broken bone,
But melt your headaches, call it home

Tom Waits, Alice

It's dreamy weather we're on
You waved your crooked wand
Along an icy pond with a frozen moon
A murder of silhouette crows I saw
And the tears on my face
And the skates on the pond
They spell Alice
I disappear in your name
But you must wait for me
Somewhere across the sea
There's a wreck of a ship
Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
Baby all I can think of is Alice

Shotgun Opera:

Darren Cordeux from Kisschasy
Laying in the dust
Feeling the cold
Take me if you must
But not for too long
Cos' I feel so safe hiding my face
Like ugly birds in a beautiful cage
A bad actress in a wonderful play
An ugly bird in a beautiful cage
And I will stay the same

Darren is just, oh my god.
Black Dress is an amazing song.
I love Ghost.

there was a ghost in the boys bedroom
wearing the boys mothers perfume

o wow.

Adam Lazarra
-Timberwolves At New Jersey
Stop it, come on
you know I can’t help it
I got the mic
and you got the mosh pit
What will it take
to make you admit that you were wrong?
"so was his demise carefully constructed?"
"well, let's just say I got what I wanted."

-Bike Scene
Cause I could be your best bet
Let alone your worst ex
i know he didn't write it, it says in the booklet. :XD

Andrew Morrison
-Four Letter Lie
So for what it's worth
I don't know why
And it's times like this
(times like this)

So for what it's worth
The ups and downs
And all these lies
And it's times like this
I needed you the most
And I don't know why
I don't know why
And I don't know why I try
Baby all you are is a four letter lie
You're a four letter lie

-Honey, you're as fake (as these three walls)
Honey, you're as fake as I can see
Open up your heart and let your love go
Let your blood flow

These years have passed
Don't say this to me
You took his life right from the start
And will he get to see
See these better days
Will he ever see
See another way


Gerard Way
-Skylines and Turnstiles
You're not in this alone
Let me break this awkward silence
Let me go, go on record
Be the first to say I'm sorry

Hello Angel, tell me where are you
Tell me where we go from here

That's if you've still got one that's left
inside that cave you call a chest
And after seeing what we saw,
can we still reclaim our innocence
And if the world needs something better,
let's give them one more reason now

-Cemetery Drive
When will I miss you, when will I miss you so far
And the collision of your kiss that made it so hard
Made it so hard

-Thank You For The Venom
So give me all your poison
And give me all your pills
And give me all your hopeless hearts
And make me ill
You're running after something
That you'll never kill
If this is what you want
Then fire at will

Preach all you want but who's gonna save me?
I keep a gun on the book you gave me, hallelujah, lock and load
Black is the kiss, the touch of the serpent son
It ain't the mark or the scar that makes you one,

-Famous Last Words
Now I know
That I can't make you stay
But where's your heart?
But where's your heart?
But where's your...

And I know
There's nothing I can say
To change that part
To change that part
To change...

So many
Bright lights, they cast a shadow
But can I speak?
Well is it hard understanding
I'm incomplete
A life that's so demanding
I get so weak
A love that's so demanding
I can't speak

I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
Honey if you stay, I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home

Can you see
My eyes are shining bright
'Cause I'm out here
On the other side
Of a jet black hotel mirror
And I'm so weak
Is it hard understanding
I'm incomplete
A love that's so demanding
I get weak

I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
Honey if you stay, I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home

I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
Honey if you stay, I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home

These bright lights have always blinded me
These bright lights have always blinded me
I say

I see you lying next to me
With words I thought I'd never speak
Awake and unafraid
Asleep or dead

(How can I see, I see you lying) 'Cause I see you lying next to me
(How can I see, I see you lying) With words I thought I'd never speak
(How can I see, I see you lying) Awake and unafraid
(How can I see, I see you lying) Asleep or dead

'Cause I see you lying next to me
With words I thought I'd never speak
Awake and unafraid
Asleep or dead

'Cause I see you lying next to me
With words I thought I'd never speak
Awake and unafraid
Asleep or dead

I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
(Or dead)
Honey if you stay, I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home
(Or dead)
I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
(Or dead)
Honey if you stay, I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home
(Or dead)
I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
(Or dead)
Honey if you stay, I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home

Cat Stevens
-Wild World
You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you a sad girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware

David Bowie
-Life On Mars?
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seats with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen,
But the film is sadd'ning bore
For she's lived it ten times or more.
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors
Fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there life on Mars?

:shock: I shun my post.

Bert McCracken for sure.

Keep the mask aligned
Get it up in time
There's a space between valleys
and try and catch a vibe
Make a circle square, a rectangle curve
Use a smile as a noun and I think like a verb
Run quick switch sides
Spill the filled up canister

And Matt Skiba!

So run for cover as fast as you can
Where fighters are lovers, enemies are friends
And pens and knives apologize for leaving you

Run for cover and you'll find us there
To take on the anguish, make it disappear
When hand grenades and napalm flames are leaving you tonight

I absolutely love all of Ville Valo's lyrics. I could never choose his best line written, or my favorite even.

Oh my baby, how beautiful you are
Oh my darling, completely torn apart
You're gone with the sin, my baby
And beautiful you are
You're gone with the sin, my darling.
- Gone With The Sin.

From lashes to ashes
And from lust to dust
In your sweetest torment
I'm lost
And no heaven can help us
Ready, willing and able
To lose it all
For a kiss so fatal
And so worn.
- Heartache Every Moment.

Carden.:

I agree with Conor Obert and Jesse Lacey.
They may not be my favourite artists, but their lyrical ability is fucking incredible.

So, is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with.
Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish.
I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids.
Have another drink and drive yourself home.
I hope there's ice on all the roads.
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt,
and again when your head goes through the windshield.

And is that what you call tact?
You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back.
So let's end this call, and end this conversation.
and is that what you call a getaway?
well tell me what you got away with.
cause you left the frays from the ties you severed
when you say best friends means friends forever

Amazing.

Wow. Those are amazing! :shock:

up the bracket.:

Leonard Cohen :shock:

Everybody Knows;

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows

Hallelujah;

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

He's really good, too!