Incredible Lyricists...

Your alright dude...

REMEMBER ITS THE SILENT ONES TO WORRY ABOUT, BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.

anyway back to business, HERE'S A FEW OFF THE BACK OF MY CORNEA


NIKKI SIXX
KLIMINSTER
WAYNE
LEE DORIAN- EARLY NAPALM DEATH
OZZ OSBOURNE
MARK REALE
GUYS FROM FATES WARNING MY HERO'S
ANY POWER/PROGRESSIVE METAL ACT IN 21ST CENTURY
GEDDY LEE
DAVID LEE ROTH, HEEHEH
PHIL LYNOTT
RONNIE JAMES DIO
WHATS HIS FACE..WAZZA DANE, IN SANTUARY
JAZ COLEMAN, KILLING JOKE CHECK OUTTHE LYRICS, THEY ARE PHD STUDEENTS OF CROWLEY



GUY BETTER THAN DANE AND KING OF ALL KINGS,Karl Groom , REMEMBER THE NAME, THEY WILL HIT YOU HARD. HERE'S A BIT, WARREL FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT, TASTE THE LIPS. HERE WE GO...


Turn on tune in

when i speak to you it's in the language of the 20th century people
the ones who are the stars of stage and screen
everything i say has been taught to me by my favourite tv programme
the one that i watch each and every week

turn on tune in drop out

if i concentrate i can break through the wash but only for a moment
my lucid thoughts are lost and out of reach
i would rather fall back into my familiar comfortable persona
the one that my tv was bought to teach

turn on tune in drop out

i can be the hero who can fly around the sun
i can scare you shitless i saw how on channel one
i think that i'm impressing you with funny anecdotes
i got them from my kid's tv and he's too young to vote

we're living in a fantasy but that's ok with me
you believe the whole thing too we're all on mtv
buy into the merchandise and then it becomes real
palpable and plastic packaged neatly on the reel

don't even go outside you will be destroyed
best to stay inside take the networked ride

when i sing to you it's through the haze of mild and modern schizophrenia
the one where i am not the man i am DD
if i glimpse the real then i am scared into the rampant paranoia
the one where i am still a tv fan

turn on tune in strung out



Days Of Dearth

modern man has turned his back on old philosophies
lost the spiritual universe and gained reality
worship money, scientists and grim normality
what use are logic, power and wealth with no society

scan the mind stand by earth, give it time your rebirth

when forests become desert and the seas are filled with slime
rivers wash the soil away we still ignore the signs
we must rely on instincts we've left buried in our heads
will rich men eat their money when they've killed the world stone dead?

stand behind the boy king's curse, now we find days of dearth




Sanity's End

he's just another victim of the system's bloody knife
a problem evader an escapee of life
a temporary soma not yet prescribed
has stripped him of ego with each lungful imbibed

get your mind-set altered here i will provide you with some fantastic gear
up down sideways forward and back our children submit to lysergic attack

hiding in tantric mesmerized trances
as the warehouse lightshow flickers and dances
synapses snap as his madness advances
leaving him open to paranoid fancies

lost in the garden of fantastic mind
I'm leaving my ego and body behind
trails of false images hang in the air
the smell of strange colours are heard everywhere
over the rainbow and into the light
i'm orbiting slowly, I'm high as a kite
can't remember my name anymore
everything's changed since i opened the door

get out demons get out controlling my brain
freak out healing freak out going insane
hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
reach out reeling reach out calling my name

for twenty-four hours time has no meaning
but several days later kicking and screaming
with delusions of grandeur and one o'clock fit
a family signed section has caught me in the net
can't seem to regain control of my fears
the world's receding and leaving me here

get out demons get out controlling my brain
freak out healing freak out going insane
hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
reach out reeling reach out calling my name

a shot of the hard stuff makes him tranquil and straight
no danger to public, himself or the state
under sedation he won't shed no tears
inwardly tortured by demonic fears

can't remember my name anymore
everything's changed since i opened the door

get out demons get out controlling my brain
freak out healing freak out going insane
hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
reach out reeling reach out calling my name

ravers, gyrators heaving with sweat
have you tried any good ecstasy yet?
if you don't wind up sleeping in gardens of stone
you'll be a new person if you ever get home

for the sake of your sanity, family and friends
leave subconscious travelling to gurus and men
who're prepared for the journey with no beginning or end
cuz a mind that is broken is a hard thing to mend




Paradox

he makes big generators chewing up the atmosphere
he learns the secrets of nature then destroys her without fear

see him burning the fruits of his labours
and with joy in his heart digs the graves of those
that he's trying to save oh, self destruction's his aim
see the soil turn to dust see the steel turn to rust
killing all those he loves thanking god up above

the paradox of man the paradox of man
he has colossal power but he's helpless as a lamb
he's a mass of contradiction the paradox of man

and he envies the power of his neighbours
and he still fails to see he's become his own
worst enemy oh, will he ever learn?
see the truth turn to lies see the greed in his eyes
wasting all that remains his soul trapped in chains

the paradox of man the paradox of man
he makes big generators chewing up the atmosphere
he learns the secrets of nature then destroys her without fear

soil turn to dust, can his power ever last?
the chains of his gain, reveal secrets of his past
bitter is his greed, but man will never pay
oh lead me through, lead me through, the faults of his rage

he has colossal power but he's helpless as a lamb
he's a mass of contradiction the paradox of man




Surface To Air

i am me i am real free to take part, in the game
but i don't qualify i never helped to write the rules
and if you see me acting strange please don't hurt me with your scorn
i will not comply it's been the same since i was born

the wisdom of the mystics is the devil's own disguise
his fingers flick the tarot deck keep weak ones mesmerized
what twisted minds would hide behind the cult of living death
man and nature so defiled white dove with hawkish head

what a true man feels defines the world's disease
after centuries his blindness can't be healed

the disappearing sands of time are leaving us no trace
what deity would best describe the mighty human race
has vanity dressed up our god in likenesses of man?
when selfishness and greed and lust are all we understand

what a true man feels defines the world's disease
after centuries his blindness can't be healed

i can't philosophize with you when you don't see the things i do
you don't think beyond the fringe of this tiny world you're in
see me dancing on clouds hear me thinking out loud
true believers, jesus freakers, heaven in your hand
self relying, sanctifying, help me understand
eye of the needle, free the people in the desert land
meek inherit, they won't share it, rulers of the sand




Mother Earth

between the tumbling of the mountains and the vastness of the sky
lurks a power that we all dream of none of us knows why
she flies into a temper every time she comes awake
lead us not into destruction with the mess that we now make

oh mother earth don't seal our fate
i'm still standing in the light of day

she's the great benign she-wolf who gives breath to every life
she's a builder and destroyer but she will not be sacrificed
she flies into a temper when thunder rapes the skies
our mother and protector through the interstices of time

oh mother earth don't seal our fate
i'm still drowning in ultraviolet rays

but in the temples, where the children play
they've split the atom, turning night-time into day

oh mother earth don't seal our fate
i'm still standing in the light of day




Siege Of Baghdad

burning the sands alight way into the air
dark black clouds obscure the sky a twilight of despair
and babylon is overrun by armies of the lord
who cleanse their souls in holy wars and sing in praise of sword

the mighty cross of jerusalem the crescent moon of troy
saracens and noblemen a sport they all enjoy

churning black, the seas awash environmental doom
oil wells are set alight obscure a darkling moon
euphrates valleys overrun by armies of the west
sent by god to claim their prize a black gold treasure chest

the mighty cross of jerusalem the crescent moon of troy
saracens and noblemen a sport they all enjoy

from the cradle of civilisation springs the mother of all wars
a u.n. team of investigation the breaking of all human laws

we will never finish what we started and break the tyrants rule
just like all those old time crusaders we're the only fools

evil takes what evil needs and there ain't no middle way
just like all those christian martyrs we're the ones who'll pay
join the new crusade




Keep It With Mine

how can you worry, we've got so much time
the world will keep on spinning and the sun will always shine
if you walk around with both your eyes open
don't let them know your heart is broken
just keep it with mine, just keep it with mine

you may be tired, but you're not so very old
we can make changes to the course of this road
if your keeping your heart and mind open
and never stop wishing and hoping
our children depend on us all
lets teach them to answer the call
time is running fast but we're learning at last
let your heart always shine and keep it with mine




Intervention

I was driving through the fens in a peaceful English scene
Paid for by my grandfather the original gunners dream
I was taking life for granted though I was born to die
It's been a long time since a bomb dropped from the expansive Norfolk sky

I was listening to the radio and the talk was all of war
Freed themselves from Tito settling old scores

I was far from Sarejevo it seemed irrelevant to me
If it was U.N. troops or diplomats that had to intervene
We are impotent in our power do we dare to fight again
Must we always kill for freedom what will intervention gain?

It's a symptom of repression and a people held at bay
No freedom of expression waiting for this day
If we impose our standards on a people newly freed
We will be the opressors and the curse of war will breed on

Don't let it breed on
Don't let it breed on

But her cries went right through me
Gripped my heart till I thought that I would die
That little child on the operating table
I had to stop to wipe the tears from my eyes

They had no drugs to comfort her to dull away the pain
As they removed the bloody legacy a cruel shrapnel rain
That had destroyed the lives of the ones she loved
That would shake your faith in the Lord above

And the eyes of the world they are turning away
She had no natural resources to protect her in her play
And the backstreets of her home town
they are burning down in flames
She is part of a new crystal nacht an ethnic cleansing day

We are ignorant we are partisan
We are ignorant we are partisan
 
PHIL LYNOTT

...: The boys are back in town, The boys are back in town, The boys are back in town, The boys are back in town, The boys are back in town, The boys are back in town, The boys are back in town, The boys are back in town....
 
Dane, Mustaine, Tate, Anselmo, Niklas Sundin..... I cant think of any others right now.

J

Oh yeah, ME!
 
Originally posted by J the TyranT
Dane, Mustaine, Tate, Anselmo, Niklas Sundin.....

Anselmo is good. But my favorite is Wayne Sarantopolous from Eternal Suffering.. this song is called "The Warmth in Her Torment."



last breath denied

in crimson dreams i lose myself
murdered by your smile
forever scarred by your vicious touch
why is it i you defile?

engulf me in your womb of blood, bleeding as a whore
embracing the false love you bring
it never hurt before

you provoke my self-inflicted wounds

raped on a bed of dead roses and my bitterness remains
the warmth in her torment melts the ice inside my veins

the depths in which you'll sink
i cannot bring myself to think
our love and hate merged as one
now i'm forced to view what you've become

my innocent emotions stripped away
and because of this you i'll repay
washing out forever's stains
and dying in the darkest plains

your heartless grin, it burns like fire
torn apart by your desire
staring off at my last sunset
now my body starts to bloodlet

and today blends into tomorrow
still i'm left drowning in sorrow, my pains are everlasting

dissected by your passion
char me with your morbid sense
i'm at one with decadence, to isolation i am thrown
i feel wounded and alone

a shallow grave is all you deserve
the tragedies seem endless and all that i feel is pain
the tragedies seem endless and nothing shall make them wane
 
Warrel Dane
Dave Mustaine
Mikael Stanne
Niklas Sundin
Dax Riggs (Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, awesome stuff)
Anders Friden
Chuck Schuldner (Human and on)
Steve Harris
 
Originally posted by Trapped
Anders Friden.

I must say that I'm surprised that Friden got left out of the discussion for so long. I mean, his lyrics haven't really touched on any subject that is particularly new or creative, but his lyrics have an awesome style to them. He gets thrown in with Niklas Sundin from Dark Tranquillity, since they did do a lot of work together.

BTW, is it just me or has In Flames (my ex-favorite band) maybe, sorta, just a little bit...sold out? I mean, have you heard Clayman? Specifically "World of Promises"?
 
Yeah. Clayman is terrible.

Whoracle is a great album, one of the best albums around. But Colony and Clayman are terrible.
 
Something I'd like to point out on the topic about lyricists. One of my favorites is Niklas Sundin from Dark Tranquility. Reading a few album credits you'll notice that Sundin translated to english the lyrics for Whoracle and I think the Jester Race. Most of Colony and all of Clayman were done by Friden himself. Notably, Whoracle was awesome and the rest just got worse.
 
I AM THE GREATEST WRITER IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO


Roses Are Red
Violets are Blue
Most Poems Rhyme
HOLY SHIT LOOK! THAT DUDE JUST TOOK A NOSE DIVE INTO A WOOD CHIPPER.


-fin