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What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read?
#14385540 - 05/01/11 10:08 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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For me, these have to be the absolute pinnacle of any piece of literature ever written by any musician or artist that I have ever come across. I can read this band's lyrics all day long, and they've become my #1 inspiration for writing, and not just lyrics.
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Deathspell Omega - The Repellent Scars of Abandon and Election
The feeling of destroying the capacity for inward peace, an insane dance with the angels of innocence admist thorns and in frenzy, the warmth of a divine blessing, a daringness which prevailed over any imaginable fear hovering on the brink of a voluntary act of contrition; but soon all pales besides the cry this shattering truth wrests from all fellow men, there is more to it than suffering and sounds of suffering, it is a process that only the extinction of a divine soul could terminate. The eye can outstare neither the sun, nor death... if I sought God it was in delirium and in the delight of temptation.
The idea of Salvation comes, I believe, from the one whom suffering breaks apart. He who masters it, on the contrary, needs to be broken, to proceed on the path towards the rupture.
Nothing of what man can know, to this end, could be evaded without degradation, without sin, - is it no burden to bear the repellent scars of abandon, of election? - it leaves but a state of supplication and deserted expanses, an absorption into despair. The existence of things cannot enclose the death which it brings to me; the existence is itself projected into my death, and it is my death which encloses it. Am I deranged? Over and above quietism! Nurtured by the multitude of man's misfortunes, a thousand halos like torches in the night of the spirit, a thousand traps, pitfalls of brimstone and the empty sky, prostrated face against the earth in frantic laughter...
I was beyond withstanding my own ignominy. I invoked it and blessed it. I progressed even further into vileness and degradation. Am I resurging, intact, out of infamy?
Complete sophistication and mastery of language, and the concepts conveyed are excellent and right up my alley (considering it deals with the metaphysical relationship between Man, God and Satan).
How about you guys? Post up some truly jaw-dropping, mindblowing lyrics you've ever come across in your lives.
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: sunset_mission]
#14385552 - 05/01/11 10:10 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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so you're not gonna mention where it came from?
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: sunset_mission]
#14385570 - 05/01/11 10:11 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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i cant think of any specific examples to post off the top of my head, but one of the things i find intriguing about music is that heavy metal tends to use "fancier words" and has deeper meaning than most of the other music out there.
a lot of people think its just shit though because they have weak ears and cant understand what is being said.
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
#14385685 - 05/01/11 10:23 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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islanduniverse said: so you're not gonna mention where it came from?
Deathspell Omega, "The Repellent Scars of Abandon and Election". I've posted the song in question many times on this forum, so one more time can't hurt 
Considering the subject of the lyrics the music is the absolute most fitting it can be. I will warn you now that while the first 2 minutes are very mellow and chill, it proceeds rather quickly and without warning into full-blown chaos.
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SamuelLJackson said: i cant think of any specific examples to post off the top of my head, but one of the things i find intriguing about music is that heavy metal tends to use "fancier words" and has deeper meaning than most of the other music out there.
a lot of people think its just shit though because they have weak ears and cant understand what is being said.
Yeah I hate these faggots who say 'OMG ITS JUST GROWLIN TOILET COOKIE MONSTER STATUS'. The vocals are an instrument as well, and for the music being made it is perfect. Black Metal and Death Metal, while being highly inaccessible and more an 'acquired taste' has some truly innovative thangs going on. I can't picture Lady Gaga or Snoop Dogg or some random -core band pulling off lyrics the way these guys do. I've come across the most profound lyrics out of any genre in extreme metal alone. They touch upon some heavy subject matter.
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: sunset_mission]
#14385710 - 05/01/11 10:26 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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[Nas] Here we are... Here we are...
[Chorus] Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye Ni kêra môgô Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni Ni kêra môgô
[Verse 1] Some of the smartest dummies Can't read the language of Egyptian mummies An' a fly go a moon And can't find food for the starving tummies Pay no mind to the youths Cause it's not like the future depends on it But save the animals in the zoo Cause the chimpanzee dem a make big money This is how the media pillages On the TV the picture is Savages in villages And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids, huh Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids Stereotyping the image of the images And this is what the image is You buy a khaki pants And all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones An' a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones Some of the worst paparazzis I've ever seen and I ever known Put the worst on display so the world can see And that's all they will ever show So the ones in the west Will never move east And feel like they could be at home Dem get tricked by the beast But a where dem ago flee when the monster is fully grown? Solomonic linage whe dem still can't defeat and them coulda never clone My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever Own Lord
[Chorus] Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye Ni kêra môgô Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni Ni kêra môgô
[Verse 2] Huh, we born not knowing, are we born knowing all? We growing wiser, are we just growing tall? Can you read thoughts? can you read palms?
Huh, can you predict the future? can you see storms, coming? The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wed mud Can you read signs? can you read stars? Can you make peace? can you fight war? Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? huh Can you survive, Against All Odds, Now?
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: sunset_mission]
#14385713 - 05/01/11 10:26 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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The mutha fuggin beatles
"When you've seen beyond yourself-then you may find, peace of mind Is waiting there- And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you."
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
#14385716 - 05/01/11 10:27 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I_was_the_walrus said: The mutha fuggin beatles
"When you've seen beyond yourself-then you may find, peace of mind Is waiting there- And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you."
I like, alot.
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
#14385723 - 05/01/11 10:28 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well Being lyrics
[background] And now the voice in your head IS yours
[Eyedea] Take a deep breath there's nothing to be afraid of What you just did was fall to the depths of existence The place the mind keeps you away from by it's own process of building models for understanding This is not insanity, this is in fact the ultimate reality The union you've acheived is only possible in thoughts no more You never fall if you never fight
[background] You never fall if you never fight
[x2] You found yourself falling into madness so you dove The best thing you ever did was let go
[x2] I found myself falling into madness so I dove The best thing I ever did was let go
[Eyedea] See life is a play that we are always acting out without ever seeing it from the writers or audiences point of view When we reach infinity we become the writer the actors and the audience at the exact same time
So here you are, and now you understand You always were here, that's why you always ran But you can only run away for so long Before you catch up with yourself and become part of the song I'd like to welcome you, to the heaven you've created I tell the truth, this is the wisdom of the ancients Holding onto something contradicts or being, so fly free [x4] Maybe I had to go crazy to get where I am I felt myself slipping away and I let myself fall Gotta lose your mind before you find it And when you finally find it you'll find out you never lost it at all There's a natural flow, that's attached to the soul It don't ask you to go, it just gradually pulls It's always now and your never not you So follow yourself because if nothing else your existence is true
[Chorus] have you ever felt yourself slipping away? I am, I mean, I was slipping away but no matter what I am I'm me, and I know me so I'm ok have you ever felt yourself slipping away? you are, I mean, you were, slipping away but no matter what you are you you, and you know you so your ok
[Eyedea] I'm not a poet or a communist, a comet or a star You're not a genius or a prophet, you just are I'm not insane cause I have no need for my sanity It's just another chain that keeps me from reality Reality is mine to play with and mold the best thing I ever did was let go So let go of the models transend the physical mind and peacefully become part of the whole The walls came tumbling down, but this town it was for creeps I've been runnin around, lookin for my feet And now a part of the ground, and if the ground complete Live in the now and forever be at peace Live in the now don't stray away from the cycle I'm one with the universe, one with the life flow When you know that that which is below is above the fear you once had will become love (feel the love)
[Chorus]
[Eyedea] It starts out with a question. how much of it is real? Now all is irrelevant, outside of this ordeal Don't worry about explainin it there ain't no human language that can actually describe exactly how you feel Now I see clear, through external distractions Piece by piece it comes together, so I laugh and I smile In the beginning it was deranged But I guess all things come to pass, after awhile If madness could have a picture face how would it look? like step one to becoming the contents of your own book? Right where you are right now is where your gonna stay And as long as you're always moving with yourself you'll, never slip
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: Greenvalley]
#14385731 - 05/01/11 10:29 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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off the top of my head, NIN the hand that feeds.
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: sunset_mission]
#14385831 - 05/01/11 10:42 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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sunset_mission said:
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I_was_the_walrus said: The mutha fuggin beatles
"When you've seen beyond yourself-then you may find, peace of mind Is waiting there- And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you."
I like, alot. 
I posted this earlier tonight in the insignifcant thread.
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: 28064212]
#14385862 - 05/01/11 10:47 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Imagine by John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: sunset_mission] 1
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: Coaster]
#14386087 - 05/01/11 11:34 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thank you for existing.
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: sunset_mission]
#14386173 - 05/01/11 11:54 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Neurosis-Falling Unknown With the wind at your back and the light in your eyes, the freeze of your blindness will show.
Under the cloud cover, the flares signal change. Will you ever know?
The fields they are burning, the smoke chokes your breath. Will you stand or run?
You dream of a mountain, the peaks rise to the sky. Will you answer its call?
Is your heart still beating? Can you feel this at all? This landslide will bury us all.
With the storm on your mind and the clouds in your eyes, will you survive?
Lie in wait, I will lie awake. Falling through a world unknown.
Acid Bath-God Machine The God machine is hungry For individualism and ripe brains The skull farmers do their rain dance And pray the machine falls to sleep She holds me close And whispers wet "there are cannibals among us." Mad in love with dry dead boys In the backs of Abandoned cars Smoking the bones of children Plotting the murder of love
Strapped into the chair The needle now descends As they lick their cracking lips Their twitching never ends Blood beneath their finger nails, Swallow all my pain Dirty needles break the skin Suck hard as I drain Drain me Drain me Sunken eyes, a twisted spine A whiter shade of pale Rockabilly man come to pound the coffin nails Inject my stomach full of Cockroach eggs Their machine is coming carried on a million legs Waking in the sleep of reason Winter is the forever season Lick thy mother''s bleeding lips From this glass of hate we sip Fuck the glass we pump the keg Kill conception at the egg Her chin is wet with someone''s hate Love, disfigure, amputate Amputate Amputate Can you remember how it felt to be alive? Your god machine is cold And dead your eyes they cannot cry Fuck your deities of dying love We have shot them down from the skies above Screaming convulsing My eyes are bleeding Be silent now and take your beating I wonder how long you would live With a bullet in your gut I wonder how much shit you''d talk If your throat was cut I wonder what you''d sound like begging me To let you breathe I wonder how much pain it would take To make you all believe Believe, believe, believe, believe In me I''m your god machine Fuck your god
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: sunset_mission]
#14386731 - 05/02/11 02:50 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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for me, just about any old black sabbath song. shit really got in my head
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: imachavel]
#14387500 - 05/02/11 09:01 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Where was Jesus in the Bible for seventeen years? He was in Tibet and India and they were his peers He also lived in the Himalayas and Kashmir He survived the crucifixion and lived for mad years They like the idea of war between Arab and Jew They like the idea of slaughter and massacre too Knowledge is infinite, it's something you have to pursue I pray to God on the Shabbat for a pacifist coup.
Ill Bill & Vinnie Paz - Impaled Nazarene
Shit is so esoterically cash.
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14387615 - 05/02/11 09:44 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Moody Blues has always hit me as some of the greatest artists when it comes to lyrics and music. One song isn't justice, most albums really flow together as a single piece.
The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
02 - The Story in your eyes
"I've been thinking about our fortune And I've decided that we're really not to blame For the love that's deep inside us now Is still the same. And the sound we make together Is the music to the story in your eyes It's been shining down upon me now I realise.
Listen to the tide slowly turning, Wash all our heartaches away. We're part of the fire that is burning And from the ashes we can build for another day
But I'm frightened for your children And the life that we are living is in vain And the sunshine we've been waiting for Will turn to rain.
When the final line is over And it's certain that the curtain's gonna fall I can hide inside your sweet innocent love For evermore
Listen to the tide slowly turning, Wash all our heartaches away. We're part of the fire that is burning And from the ashes we can build for another day
But I'm frightened for your children And the life that we are living is in vain And the sunshine we've been waiting for Will turn to rain. "
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: Protoman]
#14387632 - 05/02/11 09:51 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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"I was born with a dick in my brain, yea, fucked in the head." -Eminem
hahahahha
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: PreparationH]
#14387737 - 05/02/11 10:17 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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What what, in the butt I said what what, in the butt D'you wanna do it in my butt? In my butt D'you wanna do it im my butt? In my butt Let's do it in the butt Ookaay
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Re: What are the most intelligent, thought-provoking, badass lyrics you have ever read? [Re: mongo lloyd]
#14388049 - 05/02/11 11:24 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Oh yeah
Well I said Fishfuck baby I'm Gonna fuck you with a fish I said Fishfuck baby I'm Gonna fuck you with a fish
Gonna take a rivercarp and ram it up your butt You slut You whore
Why are you my Mom?(x4) Fishfuck!
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