[Norma J]

Tap Dancing On the Titanic

Your own belief system
Gets turn upon it's head
Upon these cold decks
Because strength can be weakness
When you're so dry that you're dead
When you believe in truth

Don't catch me tapdancing on the Titanic again
Someone will still love you
No matter the fiend you are
If you caught me dancing

Would you feel attraction or repulsion
For that sickness in my soul?
Could you find a golden core?
You can x-ray my heart
Burn it dry till there's nothing left
Does that satisfaction
Really come without this truth?
I was talking to a friend
Who came so close to the end
That he found himself scaling the ship
And climbing back on board
He said he got sick up on those decks
Where the wind got to his head
So he dived into the sea
Said you'll never ever catch me
Tapdancing on the Titanic again
Tapdancing on the Titanic
(I'd rather take my chances with the cold grey sea)

Bluebottle Kiss.

[Norma J]

Boredom You're Breaking My Heart

Boredom you are breaking my heart once again
If I could I would disown you - pretend that I did not know you
You're not my friend - more like my evil twin
Can we arrange some better time to appoint to pull this tooth end the chagrin?

Every morning wake up clutching at the sky
A flash of blue across the horizon
And these clouds seem to be sizing
Up our dreams, like some divine comedy
I love the sea, cause nobody
Can feel nothing else but small
Do you believe, like I do
That when your sleep possesses you
That somnambulism's holy
Undevoted scribe of nothingness it seems
If you keep slaving for these dreams
When you lose your mind, can you ever think
Anybody could, possibly think like you ?
Yes I do, and yes you do
Seems like a storm inside a teacup
Just stupid dreams, just whitewashed schemes
I throw this up, all over you
In the end, is that the truth

Bluebottle Kiss.

[RIPfrey05]

The lyrics of "home" by Pavement

[acousticrock87]

This is probably one of the best songs (lyrically) I've ever heard. Notice the name Jim used at the beginning and the end:

i had one friend in high school recently hung himself with string
his note said if living is the problem, well that's just baffling
and after the wake i waited around to see my ex-first love
and i barely recognized her
but i knew exactly what she was thinking of
we sat quietly in the corner whispering close about loss
and i remembered why i loved her
and i asked her why i drove her off

she said "the slow fade of love
its soft edge might cut you
and our poor friend jim,
well he just lived within
the slow fade of love"

a woman calls my house once a week
she's always selling things
some charity, a phone plan, a subscription to a magazine
and as i turned her down (i always do)
there's something trembling in her voice
i said "hey what troubles you?"
she said "i'm surprised you noticed...
well my husband, he's leaving, and i can't convince him to stay
and he'll take our daughter with him
she wants to go with him anyway
i'm sorry i'm hard to live with,
living is the problem for me
i'm selling people things they don't want
when i don't know what you need"

he said "the slow fate of love
and its mist might choke you
it's my gradual descent into a life i never meant
it's the slow fade of love"

i was driving south of Melrose
as i happened upon my old lover's house
i found myself staring at the closed up door
like the day she threw me out
diana, diana, diana, i would die for you
i'm in love with you completely, i'm afraid that's all i can do
she said "you can sleep upon my doorstep,
you can promise me indifference, jim.
but my mind is made up, and i'll never let you in again"

for the slow fade of love
it might hit you from below
it's your gradual descent into a life you never meant
it's the slow fade of love

[TheDom]

I got a job making money for the man
throwing chicken in the bucket with the
soda pop can
puke green uniform on my back
I had to set it on fire in a vat of chicken fat
I leaped on the counter like a bird with no hair
running through the mini mall in my underwear

I got lost downtown couldn't find a ride home
sun went down I got frozen to the bone
'til a hooker let me share her fake fur coat
as I took a little nap the cops picked up us both
I tried to explain I was only trying to get warm
I knew I never ever should have burnt my uniform
he said 'too bad, better bite the bullet hard son'
I didn't have no teeth so I stole his gun
and I crawled out the window with my shadow on a spoon
dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon

get busy, get busy, you know it

I ain't gonna work for no soul suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin jack
I ain't gonna work for no soul suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin jack

standing right here with a beer in my hand
and my mouth is full of sand and I don't understand
fourteen days I been sleeping in a barn
better get a paycheck tattooed on my arm
whistlin dixie with the dixie cup filled
with the barbecue sauce and the dental floss chill
big fat fingers pointing into my face
telling me to get busy cleaning up this place
I got bent like a wet cigarette
and she's coming after me with a butterfly net
ridin on a bloodhound ringing the bell
black cat wrapped in the road map to hell

pencil on my leg and I'm trying not to beg
taking turns bakin worms with the bacon and eggs
well they got me in a bird cage flappin my jaw
like a pretzel in the stars just waitin to fall
so give me what I got to get so I can go
cause I ain't washin dishes in the ditch no more

and I ain't gonna work for no soul suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin jack
and I ain't gonna work for no soul suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin jack

[kingcoffee]

Originally Posted by EMMAh

What band do you think has the best lyrics?

In my opinion Aus-Rotten does, I'm yet to hear better lyrics.

 

Sexist Appeal

Saturated with sex stereotypes gender roles reinforce inferiority
Exploiting anatomy, exploiting sexuality, preying on insecurities
Force fed proper mannerisms, treated different from the date of birth
Raised as men's servants who should never question their own sense of worth

Conditioning children with anorexic plastic of 'perfect' feminine traits
Learning how to hide any blemishes, meeting standards men create
Painting flesh like painting a picture that subliminally suggests
To equally conditioned men that women are just there for sex
Striving to achieve the super model image the media project
Spending countless hours enhancing a look instead of self respect
Eating disorders insuring beauty and endangering health
When living life behind a mask you cant expect to know yourself
When women are taught one way to act and men are taught another
The ability to accept and tolerate is absent from each other
Without understanding or communication the result too often is
Bigotry by ignorance unintended prejudice
Any man that would treat a woman as property you keep
is nothing but an ignorant bigot that can only see skin deep
having a relationship of inequality, treating a woman as a possession
taking advantage of devotion using emotions as a weapon
violating another's personal rights as if they never mattered
every day that begins with this conditioning ends with another woman battered
taught how to act, taught how to think
taught how to feel, told by another gender
sexist appeal dehumanizes women molding an image
making the body more important then what the person is
taught to pretend, taught to please
taught to conceal, told that you must surrender
sexist appeal demoralizes men, distorting their view
making the body the most important part to pursue
initiating a chase that relies on deception
hoping persistent efforts will overcome rejection
conditioned by images lusting for sex
haunting men's thoughts of who they'll bed next
taught how to act, taught how to think
taught how to feel, told by another gender
sexist appeal dehumanizes women by abusing sexuality
another person's body shouldn't be viewed as a trophy
taught to pretend, taught to please
taught how to feel, told that you must surrender
sexist appeal demoralizes men, encouraging rape
another persons body is never for anyone else to take
treating a fellow person without any respect
condemning behavior as if the woman asked for it
society's distorted our judgement with what they suggest
why take no for an answer when no really means yes

we've heard it all so many times before
stop treating women like some trashy cheap whore
or a virgin that must lead to a sterile life
a surrogate mother under the disguise of the word wife
they make the rules but yet they don't play fair
forcing sexual stereotypes that make us all aware
of every single one of our failures in the eyes of society
telling me that I'm not quite what I'm supposed to be
I'm not married with two children or single with a career
I'm not drowning in some mortgage or living in financial fear
I don't cower as I walk home all alone throughout the streets
I refuse to be treated like a piece of trumped up meat
I turn away from the billboards that extol the latest fad
Of looking like a junkie in the Calvin Klein ad
Now its time to get beyond all of our rage and pointing fingers
To see through the lies no matter how much it lingers

As long as I can remember Ive been a victim of mans lies
And in turn Ive victimized women through ignorant naive eyes
When overlooking personality in the person im seeing
Then my attraction becomes the exploitation of another human being
In my heart I know equality but conditioning affects my brain
So without complete understanding oppression will remain
For as enlightened as I may consider myself I still have much to learn
And since actually achieving equality still is a concern
I must open my mind to the opinions that women would suggest
Because they're the ones who understand sexual oppression best
As a man im part of the problem that's something I must accept
Unless through education I can evolve towards a mutual respect
Everyone of us should realize how our struggle now relates
And how as equals we can destroy what society dictates
We can hopefully find a way to respectfully co-exist
And then eliminate the biggest prejudice that exists

because this is not about man vs. woman or woman vs. man
but human to human as we struggle to understand
were living life suspiciously believing there's no one we can trust
they're dividing the population the system is destroying us
profiting from this division and the line of thinking that's been bought
if equality is ever to exist we have to unlearn what we've been taught
bigotry by ignorance unintended prejudice

Yeah, some of those lyrics are wrong but I'm too lazy to fix them.

Goddamn, this is a long-ass song! Great lyrics though. Very insightful.

[DemonBox]

I really like Elliott Smith's lyrics. Christian Brothers are just amazing. I also enjoy Joni Mitchell and Lou Reed's lyrics.

[jon boy]

i know you laughed when i left but you really only hurt yourself. when you see your curtians move in the wind, you can bet i'm betting against you again.

coz i'm a man who has a wife who has a mother, who married one when she loved another.

basically david berman is an almost bottomless well of amazing lyrics.

[drrrtyboots]

Unwound's lyrics throughout all of their albums.

[nomadicfollower]

I go to college / That makes me so cool / I live in a dorm / And show off by the pool / I join the right clubs / Just to build an impression / I block out thinking / It won’t get me ahead / My ambition is life / Is to look good on paper / All I want is a slot / In some big corporation / John Belushi’s my hero / I lampoon and I ape him / My news of the world / Comes from Sports Illustrated / I’m proud of my trophies / Like my empty beer cans / Stacked in rows up the wall / To impress all my friends / No, I’m not here to learn / I just want to get drunk / And major in business / And be taught how to fuck / Win! Win! / I always play to win / Wanna fit in like a cog / In the faceless machine / Chorus: I’m a terminal terminal terminal preppie / terminal terminal terminal preppie / terminal terminal terminal terminal / terminal terminal terminal terminal / I want a wife with tits / Who just smiles all the time / In my centerfold world / Filled with Springsteen and wine / Some day I’ll have power / Some day I’ll have boats / A tract in some suburb / With Thanksgivings to host /



Pretty much anything be Biafra.

[Onani Nic]

Andrew WK- Party HArd

You,
You work all night (all night)
And when you work you don't feel all right
And we,
When things stop feeling all right (all right)
And everything is all right

'Cos we will never listen to your rules (no)
We will never do what others do
(no)
Know what we want and we get it from you
Do what we like and we like what we do

So let's get a party going (let's get a party going)
Now it's time to party and we'll party hard (party hard)
Let's get a party going (let's get a party going)
When it's time to party we will always party hard
Party hard (party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard...)

All right
You,
You fight that fight
And when you're fightin' you feel all right
But when,
When things stop feeling all right (all right)
And everything is all right

'Cos we will never listen to your rules (no)
We will never do what others do
(no)
Know what we want and we get it from you
We do what we like and we like what we do

So let's get a party going (let's get a party going)
Now it's time to party and we'll party hard (party hard)
Let's get a party going (let's get a party going)
When it's time to party we will always party hard
Party hard (party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard...)

[dietzer123]

for the most part i'm really quite sick of that whiney ass tear stained poetry lyrics that seems so prevalent today but i love the king of them, bright eyes. they might be giants are lyrical gods that don't get the fucking credit they deserve. give it up for tmbg motherufuckers!

[contort:myself]

She dashed by me in painted on jeans
And all heads turned 'cause she was the dream
In the blink of an eye I knew her number and her name yeah
Ah she said I was the tiger she wanted to tame
CHORUS:
Caribbean queen
Now we're sharing the same dream
And our hearts they beat as one
No more love on the run
I lose my cool when she steps in the room
And I get so excited just from her perfume
Electric eyes that you can't ignore
And passion burns you like never before
I was in search of a good time
Just running my game
Love was the furthest
Furthest from my mind
REPEAT CHORUS (3x)