Lyrics that haunt you?

[shatteredtheframe]

Are there any lyrics that always stick with you, and just seem to haunt you? Just any really meaningful or powerful lyrics you can never forget? I love hearing what touches people in songwriting.

[alexa]

all of wicker chair... i think that one's my favorite lyrically.

[sovietkitsch]

Does it have to be a kol-song? 'Cause these lyrics always give me shivers.

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

I think it's originally from NIN, but I like Johnny Cash's version better.

[jaredismygod]

i agree the johnny cashe version is much better

i love the whole of that song lyrically. brilliant

'what have i become, my sweetest friend? everyone i know goes away in the end.
And you can have it all , my empire of dirt, i will let you down, i will make you hurt'

not really haunting, just emotive lyrics:

'i should be out there, claiming whats mine
because any day i could die
just like i was born
and this bit in the middle
is what im here for
and i just want to fill it all with joy.'
guillemots-blue would still be blue

also from that song
'and this is no palace, this place where i live, and i am no king, but i've got things to give'

i love a lot of the maccabees lyrics too.

[rainbow82]

My brother downloaded this to my ituens the other day and i didn't know it.
It's One Bullet Left by Six Feet Under.

For some reason you motherfuckers think this is
Some kind of motherfuckin game
You ain't gonna realize until I got some fucking
Steel pointed at your faggot-ass face and blow your
motherfuckin dome off your goddamn shoulders
You motherfuckin critic-ass bitch motherfuckers
Catch you comin out your motherfuckin house
Bleed!

[alexa]

ooh i didn't know this was to be applied to allllll music.
i know you all probably think bright eyes is lame and emo, but the song Lua is one of my favorites ever:

I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxis; they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actor’s west side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening; by the morning they’ll be gone.

When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
I get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit.

And I know you have a heavy heart; I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I’m not a gamble you can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning won’t exist.

You’re looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
You just keep going to the bathroom always say you’ll be right back
Well it takes one to know one, kid, I think you’ve got it bad
But what’s so easy in the evening, by the morning is such a drag.

I’ve got a flask inside my pocket we can share it on the train
If you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening, by the morning seems insane.

And I’m not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
The reasons all have run away but the feeling never did
It’s not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is
What’s so simple in the moonlight, now is so complicated
What’s so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight

[lauralimonada]

alexaaa said:

ooh i didn't know this was to be applied to allllll music.
i know you all probably think bright eyes is lame and emo, but the song Lua is one of my favorites ever:

I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxis; they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actor’s west side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening; by the morning they’ll be gone.

When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
I get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit.

And I know you have a heavy heart; I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I’m not a gamble you can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning won’t exist.

You’re looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
You just keep going to the bathroom always say you’ll be right back
Well it takes one to know one, kid, I think you’ve got it bad
But what’s so easy in the evening, by the morning is such a drag.

I’ve got a flask inside my pocket we can share it on the train
If you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening, by the morning seems insane.

And I’m not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
The reasons all have run away but the feeling never did
It’s not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is
What’s so simple in the moonlight, now is so complicated
What’s so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight

i love bright eyes, no shame!

[lauralimonada]

i know theres many lyrics that just hit me deep but right now all i can think of is KOL "California Waiting:"

"By giving in, what am i giving up
Am I losing way too much?"

it has really made me consider the possibilities when i face big decisons.

and modest mouse's "The View"

"as life gets longer, awful feels softer, well it feels pretty soft to me.
and if it takes shit to make bliss, then i feel pretty blissfully."

[razzz]

lauralimonada said:

alexaaa said:

ooh i didn't know this was to be applied to allllll music.
i know you all probably think bright eyes is lame and emo, but the song Lua is one of my favorites ever:

I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxis; they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actor’s west side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening; by the morning they’ll be gone.

When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
I get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit.

And I know you have a heavy heart; I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I’m not a gamble you can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning won’t exist.

You’re looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
You just keep going to the bathroom always say you’ll be right back
Well it takes one to know one, kid, I think you’ve got it bad
But what’s so easy in the evening, by the morning is such a drag.

I’ve got a flask inside my pocket we can share it on the train
If you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening, by the morning seems insane.

And I’m not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
The reasons all have run away but the feeling never did
It’s not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is
What’s so simple in the moonlight, now is so complicated
What’s so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight

i love bright eyes, no shame!

Ohh, I LOVE Bright Eyes! I like 'We Are Nowhere and It's Now' :]

[youtometoyou]

In a Sweater Poorly knit by Mewithoutyou:

in a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile
little moses drifts downstream in the Nile
a fumbling reply, an awkward rigid laugh
I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft
your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between
sweet rhan any wine and bitter as mustard greens
light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickel bread
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!

as you plow some other field try and forget my name
see what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same
I planted rows of peas but by the first week of July
they should have come up to my knees
but they were maybe ankle high
take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns
and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars
but now the books are overdueand the goats are underfed
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!

you're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
you made a holy fool of me and I've thanked you ever since.
if she comes circling back we'll end where we'd begun
like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one
or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken open seed
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need
no boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head,
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!

I do not exist only YOU exist

I also LOVE the lyrics to Brand New's Limousine:

"K, here's your ride.
Get your petals out and lay them in the aisle
Pretend you are God, and grow,
And that it's your own day to wed
We have found your man.
He is drinking up.
He's all-American, and he'll drive
He has volunteered with grace to end your life.
We'll tidy up
It's sad to hold, but leave your shell to us
You explode, you firefly, you tiny boat with oars,
Feather oars
The world tilts back and pours and pours
And so, you satellite, you tidal wave,
You’re a big surprise
And I have one more night to be your mother"

Her signal was interrupted.
My baby's frequency not strong enough
Her head in my hands and smiling.

K, we will miss you but in time you'll get set up,
And we will write"

(Curtain)

Hey, you beauty supreme.
Yeah, you were right about me.
But can I get myself out from underneath
This guilt that will crush me
In the choir, I saw our sad Messiah.
He was bored and tired of my laments.
He said, "I died for you one time, but never again"

Well I love you so much, but do me a favor baby and don’t reply.
Cause I can dish it out, but I can't take it.


Sorry for such a long post

[shatteredtheframe]

lauralimonada said:

i know theres many lyrics that just hit me deep but right now all i can think of is KOL "California Waiting:"

"By giving in, what am i giving up
Am I losing way too much?"

it has really made me consider the possibilities when i face big decisons.

and modest mouse's "The View"

"as life gets longer, awful feels softer, well it feels pretty soft to me.
and if it takes shit to make bliss, then i feel pretty blissfully."

I love Modest Mouse, and The View's got really good lyrics actually.
"If life's not beautiful without the pain, well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again. "
That's from The View aswell.
And I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and, they both tell me that we're better than this."
"That's what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for aren't I?"
"I've been beating my heart's record for speeding"

And I looove Ocean Breathes Salty. Probably my favourite MM song.

[nickdavies7]

I think Tool (Maynard) write some of the deepest lyrics going around. Most of their stuff is quite spirtual and you never knwo what they're goin on about. and most of it just anger at society's way of life. One of my favourites is from the song Pushit:

Pushing, shoving, pushing, shoving, me
There's no loving there

Staring down the hole again
Hands are on my back again
Survival is my only friend
Terrified of what may come

Remember i will always love you
As i claw your fucking throat away
It will end no other way
It will end no other way

Quite deep ey?

[amycakes]

my "most haunting" lyrics aren't necessarily like a personal emotional thing. they're from "gallow's pole" by odetta. think lynching and you're pretty much there:

hangman hangman slack your rope
slack it for a while
think i see my momma comin
riding many a mile

...

momma did you bring me silver?
momma did you bring me gold?
did you come to see me hangin by the gallow's pole?

...

i didn't bring no silver
i didn't bring no gold
i come to see you hanging by the gallow's pole

maybe it's not your thing but i think the subject matter is pretty frightening.

[underawaterfall]

I can quote way to many random snippets of songs because I use them to help me if I have writers block, so here are of a few random selections for what I consider my haunting:

*Hurt - seems like everyone agrees on that one

*"Mother, I tried, please believe me
I'm doing the best that I can
I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through
I'm ashamed of the person I am

Isolation, Isolation, Isolation

But if you could just see the beauty
These things I could never describe
These pleasures a wayward distraction
This is my one broken prize"
- Isolation, Joy Divison

*"so please forgive what I have done
no you can't stay mad at the setting sun
cause we all get tired I mean eventually
and there's nothing left to do but sleep

but spring came bearing sunlight
those persuasive rays
so I gave myself a few more days
my salvation it came, quite suddenly
when Justin spoke very plainly
he said "Of course it's your decision,
but just so you know,
if you decide to leave,
soon I will follow"
- No Lies Just Love, Bright Eyes

*"Everybody cares, everybody understands
Yes everybody cares about you
Yeah, and whether or not you want them to
It's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head
To a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally
And a quiet lie that makes you want to scream and shout

So here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun
Raining its guiding light upon everyone

For a moment's rest you can lean against the banister
After running upstairs again and again
From wherever they came to fix you in, but
Always fair city's finest follow right behind
You've got a pretty vision in your head
A pencil full of poison lead
And a sickened smile illegal in every town

So here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun
Raining its guiding light upon everyone
Here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun
Raining its guiding light upon everyone

You say you mean well, you don't know what you mean
Fucking oughta stay the hell away from things you know nothing about"
- Everybody Cares Everybody Understands, Elliott Smith (well any Elliott Smith song really...)

Hmm looking back, all pretty dark subject matters...

[Soho]

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Oh ...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
See, the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me ?
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(Though she needs you
More than she loves you)
And I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Over and over and over and over
Over and over, la ...
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me, and said :
"If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
I know ...
'Cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms
While they're in each other's arms..."
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Over, over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Over, over
Love is Natural and Real
But not for you, my love
Not tonight, my love
Love is Natural and Real
But not for such as you and I, my love
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

i liked the jeff buckley verion better than the smiths

xx

[amycakes]

some nice joy division/smithage going on there.

[Soho]

hasha

xx

[niko]

soho said:

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Oh ...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
See, the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me ?
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(Though she needs you
More than she loves you)
And I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Over and over and over and over
Over and over, la ...
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me, and said :
"If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
I know ...
'Cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms
While they're in each other's arms..."
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Over, over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Over, over
Love is Natural and Real
But not for you, my love
Not tonight, my love
Love is Natural and Real
But not for such as you and I, my love
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

i liked the jeff buckley verion better than the smiths

xx

Oh I love Jeff's version of that too. The way he sings 'Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head' gives me the shivers.

Gonna go listen to it now!

[talkdownthegirl]

All of Wicker Chair & The Runner.

I actually sent the Wicker Chair lyrics to my biological father during his first stay in rehab & told him that was how I felt about him.

Other than KOL, Led Zeppelin's "Going to California"

[Soho]

i love led zeppeling babe im gonna leave you.

and niko, jeff's verion is soo much more deep and meanlingful than the original

xx