lyrical quotes that have had a profound effect on you.

[crumbling mirth]

give some sort of justification for your response

the line

"you just kinda wasted my precious time
but don't think twice, it's alright"

from don't think twice, it's alright by bob dylan really hits home since it echoes exactly how i feel after just about any one of the relationships i've been involved in has fallen apart.

 

[Satori]

From Genesis' Fifth of Firth:

"The sands of time were eroded by
The river of constant change."

The reason is cuz this line has such reverence to an idea that both me and Peter Gabriel hold dear (impermanance).

Satori

 

[_Transparent_]

Rick Joyce

you took my heart, broke in 2
crucified my life/love (cant quite remember which) with you
make me feel a part of you
apart from you
who
never died that day
never died that day
hey
never died that day...

i suppose it sounds better when played

but maybe my fav is from nightmares by the sea

stay with me under these waves tonight
be free for once in your life...tonight

im so stupid i didnt realise the irony till a while after when i mentioned how much i loved the song. (the irony being Jeff Buckly died by drowning on holiday )

 

[Hannu Mutanen]

I have always been impressed by the lyrics by Dani Filth, and quotes would be futile to mention as the lyrics to each song are logical in their entirety. (Do I hear some people laughing...?) The same goes very much for what Geezer Butler did in the 1970's for Black Sabbath. The profundity of the effect of these blokes' lyrics has not however been as much on the spiritual side as the emotional and analytical (as in examining the lyrics in the context they are put in) side of myself - for instance, I can remember having "Dusk and her embrace" in my hand when I was fourteen and reading through the lyrics in awe, as at that time I could not believe metal to have such great lyrics.
One of the best things I have ever read in the form of lyrics must be Solefald's "Pills against the ageless ills". For example, let's take "Pornographer Cain":

"My apartment works fine
No need for locations
It's spacious enough for a camera and some Asians
At the moment I am working on the Eastern Block
I bet my ladies would love some Serbo cock
Before shooting the sessions we chill out with a joint
Pump the girls with drugs to make them see the point
in bonking lousy guys in my stinking cellar
Baby close your eyes if you want your $"

or perhaps "The USA don't exist":

"Out of the seven classic arts
Rhetoric rises to boom the charts
The master of agony invites you to the Forum
Louder than Romanum's decadent decorum
The bell booms GO! The centurion rhymes
Heroically racing for blood-hungry times
Close to the edge he resists their push
Pure strength saves him from the greedy rush
The race has a goal though very few know where
Mostly officers on the ground and satellites in the air
The star-spangled racers speed into house and home
Today the Americans try to recreate Rome"

Yet still I think my own lyrics have always had the most profound effect on me, as they have sprung from within me, speaking volumes of what happens within me and divulging things that even I have not possibly known to actually exist. An example, the song being "The light at the end of the rope":

"The only constant is change
Creation & uncreation in reverse

What has been shall come again
and what is now has once been the future
The day on which our souls
shall be lowered into their graves

The second coming of Christ has come again
And the day of resurrection is upon us once more
For nothing can remain dead forever"

OK, time has passed since I wrote that and my style of writing has evolved, but that piece still shows what I think. And writing that enlightened me even more of what my thoughts actually are. It is a constant interaction between writing and self-improvement.

Oh yeah, and Satori, that indeed is a great line, from a great song.

--

N/P: Emperor - Prometheus..

 

[Sadistik]

All of Benighted
"Have you ever seen the dying
touched the fading one
The last time I saw the Queen of nostalgia
she was basically already gone"-Dan Swano

and every other opeth song ever

 

[Wolff]

Originally posted by Hannu Mutanen
I have always been impressed by the lyrics by Dani Filth, and quotes would be futile to mention as the lyrics to each song are logical in their entirety.

"Out of the seven classic arts
Rhetoric rises to boom the charts
The master of agony invites you to the Forum
Louder than Romanum's decadent decorum
The bell booms GO! The centurion rhymes
Heroically racing for blood-hungry times
Close to the edge he resists their push
Pure strength saves him from the greedy rush
The race has a goal though very few know where
Mostly officers on the ground and satellites in the air
The star-spangled racers speed into house and home
Today the Americans try to recreate Rome"

What the fuck does this mean? Sounds like garbage to me.

 

[Ihsahn]

Arcturus - Aspera Heims Symfonia - To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night

Here is so desolate;
Times, they are dark
Words ceas' - to end as echoes rolling afar

Empathy arises
whilst thou drapest this world in black;
The only colour that can paint my soul

Clad in the shades of night
Thou reflects the pure of heart

Amidst all the grief this winter unfoldeth
The thorn in my side - thou retainst

Thy breeze maketh me shiver
Maimeth me with its frozen malice
Thou minglest with the dense night
I hearken to the voice of thy winds
They are the saddest of all sounds of thine
Never will I take leave from thy haunt

Hast thou ever desired me?
I recieve no answer, thou letst it pass in silence...



Dark romance, middle english, wintery nights...
Mabey not a profound effect. And of course Opeth as a whole has had a momentous effect on how I think and feel.

 

[Bacchus]

I could go on all night... and the justification would take 25 years...

MEGADETH: Family Tree
When you hear them say "trust me"
Don't wait to see what's next
Thrown to the wolves, forever trusting
Raised in a form of living hell
Sing a one note song of rage
Live and die within your heart...

MEGADETH: Addicted to Chaos
Only yesterday
They told me you were gone
All these normal people
Will I find another one?
Monkey on my back
Aching in my bones
I forgot you said
"One day you'll walk alone"
I said "I need you"
Does that make me wrong?
Am I a weak man?
Are you feeling strong?
My heart was blackened
It's bloody red
A hole in my heart, a hole in my head?

In a dream I cannot see
Tangled, abstract fallacy
Random turmoil builds in me
I'm addicted to chaos

Light shined on my path
Turned bad days into good
Turned breakdowns into blocks
I smashed them because I could
My breath was labored
My head would spin
Don't let me down
Don't give up
Don't give in
The rain comes down
Cold wind blows
And the plans we made
Are back upon the road
I turn up my collar
Welcome the unknown
Remember that you said
"One day you'll walk alone..."

MEGADETH: In My Darkest Hour
In my hour of need
No, you're not there
And though I reached out for you
Wouldn't lend a hand
Through the darkest hour
Grace did not shine on me
Feels so cold, very cold
No one cares for me...

Time has a way of taking time
Loneliness is not only felt by fools
Alone I call to ease the pain
Yearning to be held by you
Alone, so alone i'm lost
Consumed by the pain
The pain, the pain, the pain
Won't you hold me again?
You just laughed "Ha! Ha!"
You bitch...

ANATHEMA: Lovelorn Rhapsody
Love has left me, fleed from me
Flagrant lust waits besides and dies
Like flowers that wilt without refreshment
In midday sun I sit and bide time

Adorning me, a lovelorn rhapsody

MY DYING BRIDE: The Cry of Mankind
I will make them all lie down
Down where hope lies dying
With lust you're kicking mankind to death
We live and die without hope
You tramp us down in a river of death
As I stand here now my heart is black
I don't want to die a lonely man
This is a weary hour...
This is a weary hour...

MY DYING BRIDE: Turn Loose The Swans
So little of what we observe is the girl herself...

You are sweet and fine to listen to
Long tresses about your neck
Yet much is false
This mighty evening, I've seen no face
This is crushing me
My quill it aches

Turn loose the swans
That drew my poet's craft
I'll dwell in desolate cities
You burnt my wings
I leave this ode
Splendid victorious through the carnage
I wanted to touch them all
I wanted to touch them all

DARK TRANQUILLITY: Alone
"Let me die", I cried as the curtain fell
And I stared in woe at the world before me
My weeping eyes could not bear to tell
Of the shattered kingdom in ruins before me

What became of the lands that were?
A pearl in the nest of memories

Forever gone... departed by the minds of man
Scavengers, feeding on your mother's blood
Parasites of life, with my heart I condemn
Your ignorant ways

Like the leaves of the high trees
I wither and fall,
Borne by autumnal winds
To my funeral hall

I'm all alone in the grip of the silent sadness

I have been told to honour life
And what therein I'll find
But if all I see is darkness,
Let me die and wake up blind
As the gleaming blade before me
Singing lullabies of loss
Whispering "Death is your redeemer
To the paradise you've lost"

Mankind, evoker of inferno
Let me burn your honoured Crown of Creation
And dethrone you to ashes for aeons to come

Why should I stay here where I do not belong
For weakness burns me within... An empty shell

I've lost the way to the sanctity I need

I'll greet the dawn that brings no life,
No frail beams of sun to cleanse the black night
My mournful roam has ended

I hide in the shadows while biding my time,
Sheltered from this world which disorderly rhyme
With the fury of damnation

Once I held in my hand the starlight of Eden
And the white sky lay open in a soul that was free
(But the years flew so fast as the shadows were cast
And I woke up one morning with no reason to be)

I'm all alone in the shade of the nameless sorrow
I'm all alone within a shadowfire of fear

Take me home to whence I cam
Where I'll find light to feed my flame of life

Or my heart will die without a whisper of hope...

 

[crumbling mirth]

nice responses

 

[Onan]

Originally posted by Bacchus
MY DYING BRIDE: Turn Loose The Swans
So little of what we observe is the girl herself...

You are sweet and fine to listen to
Long tresses about your neck
Yet much is false
This mighty evening, I've seen no face
This is crushing me
My quill it aches

Turn loose the swans
That drew my poet's craft
I'll dwell in desolate cities
You burnt my wings
I leave this ode
Splendid victorious through the carnage
I wanted to touch them all
I wanted to touch them all

little known fact (that i made up myself): that song is actually about paedophilia, just read the lyrics!

 

[Alucard]

Originally posted by Wolff


What the fuck does this mean? Sounds like garbage to me.

Yeah, too bad they can't write intelligent stuff like System of Down, huh Wolf.

 

[warsofwinter]

A Perfect Circle - Judith
you're such an inspiration for ways that i will never ever choose to be
oh so many ways for me to show you how your savior has abandoned you
fuck your god your lord your christ, he did this took all you had and left you this way
still you pray never stray never taste of the fruit never thought to question why
it's not like you killed someone it's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed he did it all for you
oh so many ways for me to show you how your dogma has abandoned you
pray to your christ to your god never taste of the fruit never stray never break never choke on a lie
even though he's the one who did this to you never thought to question why
it's not like you killed someone it's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
talk to jesus christ as if he knows the reasons why
he did it all for you he did it all for you



well I like this because it's the way I feel towards people who make religion there life's

 

[BillowOfZeal]

to make a long story short......Anathema
jAY

 

[Wolff]

Originally posted by Alucard


Yeah, too bad they can't write intelligent stuff like System of Down, huh Wolf.

No kidding dumbass.

 

[Obyeybyeogone]

Funny, this poser kid I know that is very Christian listens to A Perfect Circle because he thinks it makes him cool, and i'm telling him "Don't you know what Judith is about? It's blatantly anti-Christian" He just said "no it's not"

 

[Wolff]

Originally posted by leadfoot256
to make a long story short......Anathema
jAY

In addition:
My Dying Bride, Dark Tranquillity, Danzig, Mustaine.

 

[Wolff]

Originally posted by Bacchus
I could go on all night... and the justification would take 25 years...

I reccomend fucking.

 

[Clayman]

Originally posted by warsofwinter
A Perfect Circle - Judith
you're such an inspiration for ways that i will never ever choose to be
oh so many ways for me to show you how your savior has abandoned you
fuck your god your lord your christ, he did this took all you had and left you this way
still you pray never stray never taste of the fruit never thought to question why
it's not like you killed someone it's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed he did it all for you
oh so many ways for me to show you how your dogma has abandoned you
pray to your christ to your god never taste of the fruit never stray never break never choke on a lie
even though he's the one who did this to you never thought to question why
it's not like you killed someone it's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
talk to jesus christ as if he knows the reasons why
he did it all for you he did it all for you



well I like this because it's the way I feel towards people who make religion there life's

I love that song its so true.

 

[BillowOfZeal]

Originally posted by Wolff


I reccomend fucking.

i actually laughed outloud for while on that one......thanks..
jAY

 

[Hannu Mutanen]

What the fuck does this mean? Sounds like garbage to me.

I can see what you mean. Many people find Solefald's lyrics often impossible to decipher, even though there is always a certain logic to all the lyricist, Cornelius writes. In the case of "The USA don't exist" he juxtaposes the ever-growing influence of America over the world with the growth of the Roman empire, and puts the movement of popular culture really well within that context. What Cornelius personally said is: (here you should know that "Pills against the ageless ills" is an album that tells the stories of two brothers; Philosopher Fuck and Pornographer Cain) "A collage of scraps of rock and rap lyrics, film punchlines, newspaper clips, conversations in the subway and occasional intrapersonal thoughts, compiled by Fuck on one of his brighter days."

I personally find their lyrics hilarious and thought-provoking and bringing a bit of freshness to extreme metal.