Opinions: Worst and best lyricists.
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lmaolmao those lyrics are a big fucking clichéfest, Swanö just goes using a bunch of depressive simple phrases together without any real purpose or sense of realism. Pure mexican soap opera.
Holocaust on the Moon
Temples of Syrinx
metal_wrath
I dip my forefinger...
Nightingale is not supposed to be a uberserious band with ubercomplex lyrics. Some of their lyrics are just alright, some of their best songs have great lyrics though. Swano has some awesome lyrics especially for someone who speaks english as a secondary language.
The Big Sleep
Sometimes when I think about it it doesn't make any sense
I mean I'm alive and plan to be for yet another seventy years
Time waits tor noone
Not even tor god
We're only immortal for a limited time **
Someone said we were only born to die
Someone said there is a meaning with it all
I love the world and I barely believe that I will leave it for good one day
Someone said my religion is the way
Someone said don't try to say that you are not afraid
No
I refuse to let the angels take me away
I have already learned what heaven and hell is about
The big sleep is the only thing that is for sure and we're all gonna face it
Ifs something we have to endure
Dreamers say that time will come with a way to stay alive
They mean science will finally reach its goal and offer everlasting life
I love my life and it's so hard to hear that one day all I am will disappear
I have seen grief and what it does to you
The day will come when I will lose what I was made of
I try to imagine what that would be like but the thought is so unreal so it is
filtered out
I'm so afraid that I won't have the chance to tell the ones I love how I
really feel inside
I hide my emotions for far too long
I'm so afraid too lose you all that's the essence of this song
Am I the only one to think that hell is to be left alone
To live without that special someone
To feel like the king that lost his throne
Have you ever seen the dying
Touched the fading one
The last time I saw the Queen of nostalgia she was basically already gone
Time waits for noone
Not even for heroes
Life will have its way and we have to follow
Someone said it might be true what they say
Someone said I will be able to freeze the frame of what you are today
I have no wish to be young forever
I just don't wanna die
Someone said our souls will live again
I say the only one that I wanna be is mine
The Big Sleep
Sometimes when I think about it it doesn't make any sense
I mean I'm alive and plan to be for yet another seventy years
Time waits tor noone
Not even tor god
We're only immortal for a limited time **
Someone said we were only born to die
Someone said there is a meaning with it all
I love the world and I barely believe that I will leave it for good one day
Someone said my religion is the way
Someone said don't try to say that you are not afraid
No
I refuse to let the angels take me away
I have already learned what heaven and hell is about
The big sleep is the only thing that is for sure and we're all gonna face it
Ifs something we have to endure
Dreamers say that time will come with a way to stay alive
They mean science will finally reach its goal and offer everlasting life
I love my life and it's so hard to hear that one day all I am will disappear
I have seen grief and what it does to you
The day will come when I will lose what I was made of
I try to imagine what that would be like but the thought is so unreal so it is
filtered out
I'm so afraid that I won't have the chance to tell the ones I love how I
really feel inside
I hide my emotions for far too long
I'm so afraid too lose you all that's the essence of this song
Am I the only one to think that hell is to be left alone
To live without that special someone
To feel like the king that lost his throne
Have you ever seen the dying
Touched the fading one
The last time I saw the Queen of nostalgia she was basically already gone
Time waits for noone
Not even for heroes
Life will have its way and we have to follow
Someone said it might be true what they say
Someone said I will be able to freeze the frame of what you are today
I have no wish to be young forever
I just don't wanna die
Someone said our souls will live again
I say the only one that I wanna be is mine
Space Butler
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uke:
Khayman666
Lord of the tomb
Best:
Bruce Dickinson
Blixa Bargeld (Einsturzende Neubauten)
Marilyn Manson (say what you will, but first refer to Mechanical Animals. Some amazing lines in that album!)
Brian Molko
David Bowie
Peter Gabriel
Carl McCoy (Fields of the Nephilim)
Worst:
Jonas Renkse and Anders Nystrom: Brilliant with melodies, but I swear they write their lyrics in Swedish and use google translator...
Ville Laihiala: Too much of Poisonblack's lyrics seriously make me cringe
Pretty much every Death and Black Metal lyricist ever: From Satan and Tolkien to poking dead things with a stick. Or worse.
Devin Townsend: It sounds great, and I'm sure it makes sense to him...
Gene Simmons
That's just off the top of my head though. There are loads more of both.
Bruce Dickinson
Blixa Bargeld (Einsturzende Neubauten)
Marilyn Manson (say what you will, but first refer to Mechanical Animals. Some amazing lines in that album!)
Brian Molko
David Bowie
Peter Gabriel
Carl McCoy (Fields of the Nephilim)
Worst:
Jonas Renkse and Anders Nystrom: Brilliant with melodies, but I swear they write their lyrics in Swedish and use google translator...
Ville Laihiala: Too much of Poisonblack's lyrics seriously make me cringe
Pretty much every Death and Black Metal lyricist ever: From Satan and Tolkien to poking dead things with a stick. Or worse.
Devin Townsend: It sounds great, and I'm sure it makes sense to him...
Gene Simmons
That's just off the top of my head though. There are loads more of both.
No way dude! Those lyrics are awesome.
He himself admitted that he's "written tons of stupid shit in my lyrics" though...
The Wintersun's first album actually has some really good lyrics I think. Especially the song Beautiful Death.
Other songs leave room for improvement, but they are usually the one's that were written when Jari Mäenpää was 19 years old or so.
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ice cold winters freeze my body when the moon dances on the snow of finland and snow and ice and then its icy and frosty forest and grim noooooo
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god I hope it doesn't have to do with katatonia, pleaseee..
lol, i was joking with wintersun lyrics. i know theyre not that horrible but if ure not paying attention thats basically all you hear.
pretty sure mikko aspa, hasjari, chuck schuldiner, arioch, luc lemay, whoever wrote the lyrics in carcass, etc would disagree with you dude. sorry.
Khayman666
Lord of the tomb
Didn't Steer write the majority?
Anyway, sorry, I didn't know "pretty much" now meant literally each and every one inclusive to the genre. Even with six mentioned, how many DM/BM lyricists does that leave?
Though Chuck's lyrics definitely matured over the years, his earlier stuff left a lot to be desired:
"Revengeful corpse out to kill
Smell the stench, your guts will spill
Vomit for a mind, maggots for a cock
With his axe the corpse will chop
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
Drink from the goblet, the goblet of gore..."
Lol but every one of these mentioned "bests" comes from a genre that is bound to be full of shit like every musical genre, so you can't really make an argument like that. Plus shitty clean lyrics are infinitely worse than shitty growled lyrics so metal is at an advantage.
Khayman666
Lord of the tomb
Of course it is. Don't get me wrong, I love DM, but when looking for lyrical depth or fluid, well constructed use of the English language in Death and Black Metal, you'd be pretty hard pressed to find an example.
Many Non-english speakers lyricist incur in a serious mistake when they attempt to translate their lyrics into English, looking for a better acceptance.
If your English is not good enough as to make yourself clear enough without loosing the grip of eloquence and sensitivity, I'd tell you to better stick to your language and let the reader translate the lyrics into their vernacular language on his/her own.
If your English is not good enough as to make yourself clear enough without loosing the grip of eloquence and sensitivity, I'd tell you to better stick to your language and let the reader translate the lyrics into their vernacular language on his/her own.
Just fyi, on James Hetfield, the lyrics to For Whom the Bell Tolls are gold as far as that kinda metal is concerned.
yeah, cause he inspired himself after reading Hemingway's book...
....didn't he?
...he did.....right?
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