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Best lyrics in a song in recent time?

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Iced Earth - Watching Over Me

I had a freind many years ago
one tragic night he died
the saddest time of my life
for weeks and weeks i cried
through the anger through the tears
i've felt his spirit through the years
i'd swear, hes watching me
guiding me through hard times

(Chorus)
i feel it once again
its overwhelming me
his spirits like the wind
the angel guarding me
oh, i know, oh, i know
hes watching over me
oh, i know, oh, i know
hes watching over me

We shared dreams like all best freinds
blood brothers at the age of ten
we lived reckless, he paid the price
but why? why did he have to die?
it still hurts me to this gay
am i selfish for feeling this way
i know hes an angel now
together well be someday

i feel it once again
its overwhelming me
his spirits like the wind
the angel guarding me
oh, i know, oh, i know
hes watching over me
oh, i know, oh i know
hes watching over me



ICSVortex
 
Outside by Aaron Lewis with Fred Durst
P-u-s-h-i-t by Tool (edited because of the idiotic swear filter)
Stinkfist by Tool
The Hollow by A Perfect Circle
Orestes by A Perfect Circle
The War is Over/Omissions of the Omen by Matthew Good Band
Suburbia by Matthew Good Band
 


<< The lyrics very much question the role of Jesus >>



Like I said, Maynard, who keep in mind wrote the lyrics, stated very clearly this song isn't about that, but if that's what it means to you, then ultimately that's all that matters from your perspective.

dm
 
BUT will you enlighten us on what exactly he did mean, then. You say his girlfriend and their relationship, but what about it?

David
 
How recent do you mean? I think for all time Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise wins my vote but most recently I'd have to say A Perfect Circle - Magdalena is my fav.

SP - Mayonaise
fool enough to almost be it
cool enough to not quite see it
doomed
pick your pockets full of sorrow
and run away with me tomorrow
june

we'll try and ease the pain
but somehow we'll feel the same
well, no one knows
where our secrets go

i send a heart to all my dearies
when your life is so, so dreary
dream
i'm rumored to the straight and narrow
while the harlots of my perils
scream

and i fail
but when i can, i will
try to understand
that when i can, i will

mother weep the years i'm missing
all our time can't be given
back
shut my mouth and strike the demons
that cursed you and your reasons
out of hand and out of season
out of love and out of feeling
so bad

when i can, i will
words defy the plans
when i can, i will

fool enough to almost be it
and cool enough to not quite see it
and old enough to always feel this
always old, i'll always feel this

no more promise no more sorrow
no longer will i follow
can anybody hear me
i just want to be me
when i can, i will
try to understand
that when i can, i will
 
Bad Religion - Punk Rock Song

have you been to the desert?
have you walked with the dead?
there's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread
and the figures don't lie they speak of human disease
but we do what we want and we think what we please

have you lived the experience?
have you witnessed the plague?
people making babies sometimes just to escape
in this land of competition the compassion is gone
yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on
we keep pushing on

this is just a punk rock song
written for the people who can see something's wrong
like ants in a colony we do our share
but there's so many other frickin' insects out there
and this is just a punk rock song
(like workers in a company we do our share
but there's so many other frickin' robots out there)

have you visited the quagmire?
have you swam in the sh|t?
the party conventions and the real politik
the faces always different, the rhetoric the same
but we swallow it, and we see nothing change
nothing has changed...

10 million dollars on a losing campaign
20 million starving and writhing in pain
big strong people unwilling to give
small in vision and perspective
one in five kids below the poverty line
one population runnin' out of time
 
Might I add the best song ever written? 🙂

Before you came
I had lost my way
Oh I stayed home every day
Then one night, I saw your face
My heart began to race

Everywhere I go
Everything I do
All I want
Is to be with you
You are my everything
You have all I need to live

Now you've left me
All alone again
Baby can't you see
You were my only friend
I dream of you
Every night and day
All we've been through
Makes me want to say

Everywhere I go
Everything I do
All I want
Is to be with you
You are my everything
You have all I need to live

Everywhere I go
Everything I do
All I want
Is to be with you
You are my everything
You have all I need to live

Geez, I'd love to meet the guy that wrote that song. He must be like a musical god or something 🙂
 
Cynical Fvck- Extreme


today don't look so bad
compared to tomorrow
if time is all we have
then we're living on borrowed
yesterday's for fools
who try to remember
the good ol' days
weren't always that
much better

cynical fvck
well i ain't nothing but a
cynical fvck
it don't take much to be a
cynical, all you need is love
all you need is what to be a

and whatever you do
someone's done it first
though it's sad but true
this us just another verse
if you can't take it with you
then what's the use
i never saw a u-haul
being pulled behind a hearse

chorus

looks like my brighter side
has gotten a bit darker
i must have stepped over
my four leaf clover
'cause someone drank my
half-filled cup of water

amish

 
Goo Goo Dolls have some really great lyrics, but this one is one of my favorites.

Name

And even though the moment passed me by I still can't turn away
I saw the dreams you never thought you'd lose tossed along the way
Letters that you never meant to send lost or thrown away
And now we're grown up orphans that never knew their names
Don't belong to no one that's a shame
You could hide beside me maybe for a while
and I won't tell no one your name
I won't tell em' your name
Scars are souvenirs you never lose , the past is never far
Did you lose yourself somewhere out there , did you get to be a star
Don't it make you sad to know that life is more that who we are
You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe
And reruns all become our history
A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio
and I won't tell no one your name
I won't tell em' your name
I think about you all the time
But I don't need the same It's lonely where you are come back down,
and I won't tell em your name


 
I'm ahead, the man
I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I'm at peace with my lust
I can kill 'cause in God I trust, yeah
It's evolution, baby


I'm a beast, I'm the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash
On the loose, I'm a truck
All the rolling hills I'll flatten them out, yeah
It's heard behavior, uh huh
It's evolution, baby


Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, here's my clone
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
I'll do what I want but i do irresponsibly
It's evolution, baby


I'm a thief, I'm a liar
Here's my church, and I sing in the choir:
Hallelujah, halleujah


Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, admire my clothes
An appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant Indians got nothin' on me
Nothin', why?
Because, it's evolution, baby!


I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the earth, but now I'm hot
I tried to chill yah, but you turned to fire
It's evolution, baby {2X}
Do the evolution
Come on, come on, come on

Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
 
I write lyrics for a local band, so I'm a little biased towards my own 😛

Here's a work in progress

You burn bright in the summer sky, Lighting up the night
In a flash you?re there and gone, no hellos no goodbyes
With such a fleeting chance at life
I wonder why you try

Such a long trip for such a brief visit
You look down on me as I look up
Why can?t you stay a little longer
And brighten my life for a bit

Shooting star, shed some light down on me
Stay the night, dance the sky till morning
There?s no need to go anytime soon
Without you the night seems so boring

Come dance for me, tell me where you?ve been
Light up the night with me for just a while
Tell me story of the stars that shine so bright
Sing me the melody of the moon

The night?s lonesome, but we?re lonesome together
I may be down here and you up there
Miles apart, but holding hands

Starlight, Starbright
The shooting star I see tonight
I wish you may I wish you might
Stay with me
 
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