Favourite Lyrics

[dongonz]

Hey Folks, here comes a question, which might not be as easy to answer as the one about your favourite MP album. There are so many songs with great lyrics. I have two questions in mind.

I must say, I definitely have to think about this before answering

1. Which is your favourite line or passage of MP Lyrics?

2. Do you think, that every album has on exceptional line or passage which stands out? If so, which one is it in your opinion for which album?

[supernaut]

No The Tower in my listings because I haven't got the album yet. Browsed some of its lyrics in here, though, and I get why some already mentioned they're up with if not the best of them.

So…

Question 1)

ah,the elloquence of trash

the persuasiveness of cash

rings true like the whispered lies

of half-forgotten lullabyes;

designed to please ,

designed to soothe

designed to shift a million units or two

designed to mean nothing at all

for anyone

but thats OK

it doesn’t matter anyway

it’s still those with the least to say

that will be heard

From The Nerve Tattoo. For me this sums up the madness and spiritual disorder of our world.

Question 2)

I do think each album has a stand out lyric, be it a whole song or a verse or one line.

BEHIND THE SUN

This one off The Promise I like for similar reasons like The Nerve Tattoo:

But there is something outside of this

valley of consumer bliss

something too prechious, too great to miss,

to throw away

… a promise

… a promise

… a promise

… a golden promise

Hell 4-6 spoke to me on a personal level right at the time of release. That was weird but welcome.

THE DEATH DEFYING UNICORN

The opening lines for The Hollow Lands gets me for its choice of words:

They nabbed me poaching last spring

said I could choose to sail or swing

I don't know how english sailors talked back then, but I feel the vocabulary on the album is so well chosen to set the proper moods.

LITTLE LUCID MOMENTS

The whole lyric for A Hoof to the Head is just brilliant. As an excerpt:

I'm the whirlwind that you reap

Having sown the wind I'll wake you from your sleep

I am chaos I combust

To leave your pure enlightened mind fucked in the dust

I love how one being/force/idea rips every elaborated scheme to shreds not leaving shambles but presenting the simple and clear truth.

TRUST US

The lyrics to Taifun might not be sooooo spectacular by themselves but I think that's exactly the point in this highly dramatic song. Calm words before the storm.

BLACK HOLE BLACK CANVAS

Another "what's wrong with you people?" lyric in Kill Devil Hills. It's not that I like these per se. On the contrary, I find most of social commentary songlyrics dumb and generic. But Bent and Snah seem to think those extra miles when they approach such themes. Anyways I can't really quote one or two lines out of this one. The whole song is a effing great statement.

more to follow, maybe, that's a thinker 8O

[sTARhAMMER]

"You make me like What you see when you look at me" un chien d'espace

[mefisto]

I'm not a lyrics freak, but Fool's Gold's lyrics are great.

[Be]

"I'm still wearing your smell" has a really romantic meaning to me. I don't know, if the song has this in mind.

[supernaut]

THE TOWER

The Cuckoo

Keep holding the mirrors up, Narcissus is holding court

Hope isn't the only thing we might lose today

Invincible empire, with pride comes the fall

Grace isn't the only thing we might lose today

[Kid A]

There’s this one highly dramatic part of Kill Some Day, that got me as a teenager. Its not only the lyrics but the music in this part as well

…but if I tried I could make you come back

And de-rail that train from its dead-end track

I'd do anything to be rid of that smile tonight,

Tonight…

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