Most Evocative Lyrics

[egg-roger]

Hopelessly drift
In the eyes of the ghost again
Down on my knees
And my hands in the air again
Pushing my face in the memory of you again
But I never know if it's real
Never know how I wanted to feel
Never quite said what I wanted to say to you
Never quite managed the words to explain to you
Never quite knew how to make them believable
And now the time has gone
Another time undone
Hopelessly fighting the devil
Futility
Feeling the monster
Climb deeper inside of me
Feeling him gnawing my heart away
Hungrily
I'll never lose this pain
Never dream of you again


Like BMG, I have had some experience with depression.

[design_femme]

A house somewhere on foreign soil,
Where aging lovers call,
Is this your goal, your final needs,
Where dogs and vultures eat,
Committed still I turn to go.
I put my trust in you.
I put my trust in you...

- "A Means To An End" by Joy Division. A great "fuck you" song to whomever betrayed you in your life.



Ship sails out to sea, away from me
I just stand and stare
Assassin clears his hands, I know that,
and I wasn't even there

- "Mesh" by New Order



Why does it stand so still?
Why has it turned an ancient grey
Maybe it's been pondering the ashes
And now it's waiting to be razed.

Just for old time's sake I beat the door
And run up imagined stairs
Where every winter I would land
No matter who was living there.

- "At Arms Length" by Area

[Frau_Blucher]

Oh god, I just remembered another killer one...

"Stab a sorry heart
With your favourite finger
Paint the whole world blue
And stop your tears from stinging"
- Echo & the Bunnymen, Seven Seas

And from the same album...

"All hands on deck at dawn
Sailing to sadder shores
Your port in my heavy storms
Harbours the blackest thoughts"
- Ocean Rain

And I'm realizing more and more that British Sea Power's lyrics have a lot of structual and thematic commonality with both Echo and Joy Division besides just the music itself...

"Oh, the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality"
- BSP, Carrion

"Turgid calls the winter charge
True adventures of awaking hearts
Nights are overwhelmed by gloom
We will see foxes in the moon"
- BSP, True Adventures

[i_like_lectric_motors]

While she's deceiving me it cuts my security.
Has she got control of me? - I turn to her and say:
Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades
oh no.
Don't masquerade with the guy in shades
oh no
I can't believe it!
You got it made with the guy in shades
oh no.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]
<br>While she's deceiving me it cuts my security.
Has she got control of me?
[/quote]
You didn't say what Corey was emotive of. Bowel movements? [:o)][:D][:0]

[MARV]

Oh birdmadgirl, don't be depressed hon. Everything's gonna be all right. Like you, I could quote Robert Smith's lyrics on and on:

"For how much longerr can I howl into this wind?
For how m uch longer can I cry like this?
A thousand hours just thrown away
Just to feel my heart for a second."
- A Thousand Hours

"You want to know why I hate you?
Well I'll try and explain...
You remember that day in Paris
When we wandered through the rain
And promised to each other
That we'd always think the same
And dreamed that dream
To be two souls as one"
- How Beautiful You Are

"But this isn't truth, this isn't right
This isn't love, this isn't life
this isn't real, this is a lie"
- This Is A Lie

[MARV]

Great lyrics everybody! And one hell of a good topic BTW, Blir [^]

[Bitter Almonds]

A lot of Death In June songs are like that for me. "Runes And Men" and "But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?" strike me as memorable because of how the lyrics seemed to be so opportune at the particular time I happened to be listening to them. Very healing, actually.

[hexicon]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Oh god, I just remembered another killer one...

"Stab a sorry heart
With your favourite finger
Paint the whole world blue
And stop your tears from stinging"
- Echo & the Bunnymen, Seven Seas

And from the same album...

"All hands on deck at dawn
Sailing to sadder shores
Your port in my heavy storms
Harbours the blackest thoughts"
- Ocean Rain

And I'm realizing more and more that British Sea Power's lyrics have a lot of structual and thematic commonality with both Echo and Joy Division besides just the music itself...

"Oh, the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality"
- BSP, Carrion

"Turgid calls the winter charge
True adventures of awaking hearts
Nights are overwhelmed by gloom
We will see foxes in the moon"
- BSP, True Adventures
[/quote]

I remember that Ocean Rain came out at a time when I really wanted to be mopey and I was pissed that it was so damn HAPPY. Great lyrics. And you're right about BSP. Have you heard my local favorite Mono in VCF? Also similar. (Some day I will get on the hub)

[mabas9395]

"I don't ever want to play the part,
of a statistic on a government chart"
-Invisible Sun, The Police

Really hit me hard right after high school when I had to make some important decisions about my future. It stimulated feelings of not wanting an average life but make something more of myself.

[design_femme]

[quote][i]Originally posted by XXX[/i]
<br>A lot of Death In June songs are like that for me. "Runes And Men" and "But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?" strike me as memorable because of how the lyrics seemed to be so opportune at the particular time I happened to be listening to them. Very healing, actually.




[/quote]

I actuallly thought about quoting from "But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?":

Don't you know god is disabled
Is disabled
Clouds may gather all around you
But he's disabled

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by hexicon[/i]
<br>I remember that Ocean Rain came out at a time when I really wanted to be mopey and I was pissed that it was so damn HAPPY. Great lyrics. And you're right about BSP. Have you heard my local favorite Mono in VCF? Also similar. (Some day I will get on the hub)
[/quote]
Yeah! I did indeed check them out awhile back when you first mentioned them and liked them a lot. I'm glad you reminded me though...I kinda put them out of mind and want to revisit.

[hubcity]

"If I was a secret, would you want to keep me?"

Seedling, "Put Your Hand Under My Shirt"

(More next-wave than new wave, but a great lyric nonetheless...)

-Sean
<a href="http://www.altrokradio.com/">Altrok Radio</a>

[mjlauf]

Ever remained in love with someone who didn't love you anymore? Me too.

Here are some lyrics from the new Clientele song, Since K got Over Me, one of the most haunting things I've heard in ages:

"I don’t think I’ll be happy anyway
Just scratching out my name
And everything’s so lucid and so creepy
Since K got over me...

And when the evening paints the streets
It’s like walking on a trampoline

I don’t think I’ll be happy anyway
Just scratching out my name
But everything’s so bitter and so creepy
Since K got over me

There’s a hole inside my skull with warm air blowing in
Standing on the sidewalk where July begins

I don’t think I’ll be happy anymore
I guess I’ve closed that door
But every night a strange geometry
Since K got over me"

The new album doesn't come out in the US until October, but the song is available for free download:

http://www.myspace.com/theclienteleofficial

Kills me everytime.

[Panorama]

[quote][i]Originally posted by mjlauf[/i]
<br>Ever remained in love with someone who didn't love you anymore? Me too.

the new Clientele song, Since K got Over Me, one of the most haunting things I've heard in ages:[/quote]
...well, that's obviously K's Choice, cause K's Not an Addict. <img src="http://www.cooganphoto.com/invboard/html/emoticons/mellow.gif">


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