Lyrics that impress you everytime you hear them?

U2 - one

You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl, and I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt
 
Bit of a different one here, but one of my favourite bits of the song.

Rihanna And TI Live Your Life

'I’m the opposite of moderate, immaculately polished with the spirit of a hustler and the swagger of a college kid.'
 
you and me by lifehouse :O

Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you


There's something about you now
I can't quite figure out
Everything she does is beautiful
Everything she does is right
 
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I open up the paper
There's a story of an actor

Who had died while he was drinking
It was no one I had heard of

And I'm turning to the horoscope
And looking for the funnies

When I'm feeling someone watching me
And so I raise my head

There's a woman on the outside
Looking inside. Does she see me?

No she does not really see me
Cause she sees her own reflection

And I'm trying not to notice
That she's hitching Up her skirt

And while she's straightening her stockings
Her hair has gotten wet
 
Metallica - Astronomy (Original by The Oyster Cult)

I never really thought about getting Garage Inc until quite a few months back but the covers on it are fantastic!

Astronomy & Turn the page are stunning covers.
 
Aesop Rock - Bring Back Pluto

"and miscreants will rubberneck jalopy euthanasia which will later be regretted
when itʼs your turn for cremation, and i walk like early man, freak a little witch hunt, gathering the carnies and exploiting every stigma, the malformed oddities among sovereigntyʼs normal, shall abuse every vice you can imagine right before you. all i thought of was the cloven-hooved, and how they clip clip-clop over the woven roofs, with a nose for commotion and stolen goods, now tell me what the **** am i supposed to do?"
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When you listen to him say it it works so utterly beautifully.

Cursive - The Rhyme Scheme

Words have no feeling without loaded meanings
Words take too long to come across
Meanings are meant for defining defintions
We load them for efect, it's cheap but it's working

....

But it's the best I've got to get your attention
I could never get your attention
I could never please you
Words so sympathetic -- symphonic, yet pathetic -- are tossed on to the song
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Cursive - The Martyr

Sweet baby, don't cry...
Your tears are only alibis
To prove you still feel --
You only feel sorry for yourself
Well, get on that cross
That's all you're good for...

And thusly it ends
Depression seeps in on a lonely messiah
Now he drinks with the lepers
Losing a limb, his better half
A glass once half full
A head hung half-mast
He claims he's the victim
Strangled by the nine-to-five
And a pattern of stillness
That haunted this still life

Your tears are only alibis
To prove you still feel
You only feel sorry for yourself
And that's how you thrive
Your sorrow's your goldmine
So write some sad song about me
Screaming your agonies, playing the saint
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I completely forgot, Joanna Newsom - Emily

In fact, pretty much all her songs have great lyrics, the imagery she creates is amazing.
 
"Tomorrow shines through, but I'm missing yesterday"

Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon

Also, Radiohead - Nude

"You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking"

Great part, that is.
 
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A lyric that gives them a certain smile everytime they hear it...
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That's everything by The Macc Lads then.

One classic example -

She said I was good looking
And I looked a bit like George Michael,
But she didn't want a *******
she were on her menstrual cycle

And another -

She wore big knickers and she worked at the sewage farm.
Got my hands down her jeans and I nearly lost half my arm.

More -

http://www.macclads.co.uk/hectic_house/lyrics/w_ind.html
 
Motion Picture Soundtrack

Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get back where I belong

I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe

Stop sending letters
Letters always get burned
It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies

I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe

I will see you in the next life



I love it, apart from the last line.
 
there are a lot of songs lyrics that I like for various reasons, but a particularly clever one is Ian Brown - F.E.A.R, not that the lyrics really mean much to me but clever none the less :D
 
Tool - Aenima (I think I got all the swearies out)

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bull**** three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless ******* hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any ******* time. Any ******* day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bull**** three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless ******* hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any ******* time. Any ******* day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip****s.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this

Silly ****, stupid ****...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

**** L Ron Hubbard and
**** all his clones.
**** all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

**** retro anything.
**** your tattoos.
**** all you junkies and
**** your short memory.

Learn to swim.

**** smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
**** these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

Tool is one of those bands that you have to have the music playing as well or it just doesn't seem as cool :P Very powerful song though!
 
If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight?
If you're so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight?
I know ... 'Cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
 
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