littlemissattitude

Yeah, but it's better than this song in the same vein, as recorded by Joe Diffie:

Although, I have to say that the video is pretty funny.

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McMurphy

The following has always been one of my favorite Ani DiFranco songs:

"Serpertine"
Ani DiFranco
Album: Evolve

"Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the phone
so I play and I sing and I just let it ring,
all day when I'm at home

a defacto choice of
macro-microcosmic melancholy
but baby any way you slice it,
I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone

yeah the goons have gone global
and the CEO's are shredding files
and the democrans and the republicrats
are flashing their toothy smiles

and Uncle Tom is posing for a photo-op with the oval office klan
and Uncle Sam is riggin' cockfights in the promised land
and that knife you stuck in my back is still there
it pinches a little when I sigh and moan
and these days I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone

cause all the wrong people have the power of suggestion
and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks the question
I mean causation by definition is such a complex compilation of factors
that to even try to say why is to oversimplify
that's a far cry, isn't it dear, from acting like you're the only one there
unrepentantly self-centered and unfair

enter all suckers scrambling for the truth
exit mr. eye-contact who took his flirt and flew the coup
but whatever, no matter, no fishin trips, no fishin
cause momma's officially out of commission

and did I mention in there somewhere
did I mention somewhere in there
that I traded Babe Ruth,
yes I traded the only player
that was bigger than the game
and I can't even tell you why,
cause you'd think I'm insane.
and that's the truth

and the music industry mafia is pimping girl power
sniping off sharp-shooter singles from their styrofoam towers,
and hip-hop is tied up in the back room with a logo stuffed in its mouth
cause the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

but then, I'm getting away from myself
as I get closer and closer home
and the difference between you and me baby
is I get ****** up when I'm alone

and I must admit today
that my inner pessimist seems to have gotten the best of me
we start out sugared up on kool aid and manifest destiny
and then we memorize all the presidents names like little trained monkeys
and we spit into the world so many spinny-eyed TV junkies

incapable of unraveling the military-industrial mystery
pre-emptively passified with history book history
and I've been around the world now and I can see this about America

the mind control is deep here, man
the myopia is steep here, man

and behold those who try to expose the reality
really try to realize democracy
are shot with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets
while the global power brokers are kept clean and discreet
behind a wall
behind a moat
and that is all
that's all
that's all she wrote

and my heart beats an s-s-s o-o-o s-s-s
cause folks just really couldn't care-care-care less-less-less
as long as every day is superbowl sunday
and larger than life women in lingerie are pouting at us from every bus stop
she loves me, she loves me not
she loves me, she loves me not
she loves me, she loves me not

and "big government should not stand between a man and his money"
i mean, "what's good for business is good for the country"
our children still take that lie like communion,
the same old line the Confederacy used on the Union

conjugate liberty into libertarian
and medicated associated with deregulation privitization
we won't even know we're slaves on a corporate plantation

somebody say hallelujah,
somebody say damnation,
cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance
and the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked
makes it serpentine
capitalism is the devil's wet dream

so just give me my Judy garland drugs and let me get back to work
cause the empire state building is the tallest building in New York
and I have always got the feeling
you just like to hear it fall off your tongue

but I remember my name in your mouth
and I don't think I was done hearing it close to my ear
on a whisper's way to a moan

Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the phone
so I play and I sing and just let it ring,
all day when I'm at home

a defacto choice of
macro-microcosmic melancholy
but baby any way you slice it,
I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone."

Hypes

boiled_elephant

One particularly nice rhyming couplet I saw quoted on a forum once was this:

"Heaven isn't a place you go to when you die,
It's a moment in life when you really feel alive."

But if you want really GOOD lyrics, complete with emotion & pseudo-poeticism, I'd have to recommend Silence by Sarah MacLachlan:

Give me release
witness me
I am outside
give me peace

Heaven holds a sense of wonder
and I wanted to believe
that I'd get caught up
when the rage in me subsides

In this white wave
I am sinking
in this silence
in this white wave
in this silence
I believe

Passion chokes the flower
'til she cries no more
possessing all the beauty
hungry still for more

Heaven holds a sense of wonder...

I can't help this longing
comfort me
I can't hold it all in
if you won't let me

Heaven holds a sense of wonder...

In this white wave
I am sinking
in this silence
in this white wave
in this silence
I believe

I have seen you
in this white wave
you are silent
you are breathing
in this white wave
I am free

Needless to say, it's much more effective in song. She's a very good singer and lyricist, so it's a shame so many spell-casting wannabe-witches wickens worship her. Almost makes me embarrassed to like her music, which is just silly.
I'd recommend downloading that song.

Thadlerian

Best lyrics? Midnight Oil has got tons and tons of great lyrics. But it would take me an eternity to dig forth the best ones, so I'll give you a beautiful Norwegian song instead, "Sommerfuggel i Vinterland" (Butterfly in Winterland) by Halvdan Sivertsen.

Of course, I will give a translation.

Original text first (can you see the scandinavian letters?):

Ãâ€* sÃ¥ dæ i gÃ¥r pÃ¥ gata, da byen lÃ¥ kald og stor
Ãâ€* sÃ¥ du va ny i livet, æ sÃ¥ du va ny i nord
Og mora di bar en koffert, med alt det ho eide i
Og du gikk og bar på hennes drøm, om engang å få bli fri

Og du ga mæ et smil, Sommerfuggel i Vinterland
Ingen får ta fra dæ,
Fargan du viste mæ
Å, må drømmen du bær bli sann,
Sommerfuggel i Vinterland

Og mora di bær på minna, om alt det ho har forlatt
Ho vet ikke om ho ser igjen, han som de tok ei natt
Nu hold ho dæ fast i handa, så gjør ho dæ varm og go
Ho håpa du e velkommen hit, så såran engang ska gro

Og du ga mæ et smil...

Ãâ€* hÃ¥pe vi tar imot dæ, æ hÃ¥pe du slepp Ã¥ frys
Ãâ€* vet du kan gi oss farge, og latter og liv og lys
Ãâ€* sÃ¥ dæ i gÃ¥r pÃ¥ gata, da byen lÃ¥ kald og stor
Ãâ€* sÃ¥ du va ny i livet, og æ sÃ¥ du va ny i nord

Og du ga mæ et smil...

And then the translation, rather quick:

I saw you on the street yesterday, the city loomed cold and vast
I saw you were new in life, I saw you were new here in the North
And your mother was carrying a suitcase, with all her possessions
And you were carrying her dream, to be free someday

And you gave me a smile, Butterfly in Winterland
No-one can deprive you of
The colors you showed me
Oh, may the dream you carry come true
Butterfly in Winterland

And your mother was carrying the memories, of everything she has left behind
She doesn't know whether she will see again, him whom they took one night
Now she's holding your hand tightly, she's making you warm and good
She's hoping you'll be welcome here, so that the wounds someday may heal

And you gave me a smile...

I hope we will recieve you, I hope you shall not feel cold
I know you can show us colour, and laughter and life and light
I saw you on the street yesterday, the city loomed cold and vast
I saw you were new in life, I saw you were new here in the North

And you gave me a smile...

Cosmo

volcano by PUSA

Under the island... middle of a mountain
There is a big bad... boomin' system
Blowin' speakers... woofers and tweeters
Amplifiers... melted wires
The parties exploded... the core is corroded
Under ground... the Puget Sound
Cause a shiftin'... and a drifin'
Big black boom box...stuck in the hot rock
It's in there flowin'... it's in there growin'
You don't believe me... that this scenery
Could be a cold blooded killer

It's gonna blow... Volcano
It's gonna blow... Volcano
It's gonna blow... Volcano

Now the island is shiftin'... the plates are liftin'
The core is creamy...docile and dreamy
Stopped up and steamy
Happy campers... poop in there pampers
When the mountain... becomes a fountain
Of white hot lava... molten magma
Super sonic... plate techtonics
Stero phonic... lava and tonic
The boom is bionic
Sony shut down... magnavox meltdown
Ballistic breakdown
Hi-fi heatwave... lo-fi lava cave
That sulfur smells... Mt St Helens
Pompeii was yellin'...

It's gonna blow... Volcano
It's gonna blow... Volcano
It's gonna blow... Volcano
It's gonna blow... Volcano

kyektulu

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ChasenFate

Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

Bury me softly in this womb
I give this part of me for you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers
In a tomb...in bloom

Down in a hole and I don’t know if I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it like a grave
You don’t understand who they
Thought I was supposed to be
Look at me now a man
Who won’t let himself be

Down in a hole, feelin’ so small
Down in a hole, losin’ my soul
I’d like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole and they’ve put all
The stones in their place
I’ve eaten the sun so my tongue
Has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty
Of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more
Of my feelings beneath

Down in a hole, feelin’ so small
Down in a hole, losin’ my soul
I’d like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Bury me softly in this womb
Oh I want to be inside of you
I give this part of me for you
Oh I want to be inside of you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers (oh I want to be inside of you)
In a tomb...in bloom
Oh I want to be inside...

Down in a hole, feelin’ so small
Down in a hole, losin’ my soul
Down in a hole, feelin’ so small
Down in a hole, outta control
I’d like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Lissa

H.I.M. (his infernal majesty)

rip out the wings of a butterfly.

my co-worker loves this line.

cornelius

koRn has loads of good lyrics
one of many nice lines

now I see the times they change
leaving us it seems so strange
I am hoping I can find
where to leave my hurts behind
al the sh$t I seem to take
all alone I seem to break
I have lived the best I can
does that make me not a man?

littlemissattitude

Those are some cool lyrics, wildbill. I've never heard that one before, but reading the lyrics sure made me smile.

Anyway, I don't know about "best lyrics ever", but my current favorite lyrics come from what is also my current favorite video, "Stupid Girls", by Pink:

"Outcasts and girls with ambition,
That's what I want to see."

Anything that combats this current Brittney Spears-Lindsay Lohan-Olson Twins-Paris Hilton thing that so many girls seem to think is so cool is all right with me. This is a song with a message that I hope younger girls out there really "get".

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cornelius

I do hope so, she did great in that clip

and I hate those so called " rock-on" chicks too, they think they're metal, headbanging with their fingers in the " greet the devil" pose, whie they'd start crting over hatebreed, KoRn or Children of Bodom... sorry for the rant, people, I know, Wrong thread, here's something to make it up

Since day one I've been crass and far beyond
I couldn't laugh, I couldn't cry. Before you gauge me
Take a look at yourself. Condescendin', outlivin' in a lie

Despite all the pain in my heart grinding through
It ain't due that you hate what I hate what you do

Despite all the piety you've been consuming thus far
A backstabbing motherfucker to the bone is what you are!

And everyday when the knife in my back starts to twinge 'n' turn
My eyes are catching fire and my heart starts to burn
A foot away from you is like a bit closer to heaven
Then again it's like being needled 24/7

You look down to me to see the scum of the earth to be. **** yeah
That's me, vile and obscene. Hey I ain't happy about it but at least
I don't judge and decree, to be better than another human being

And everyday when the knife in my back starts to twinge 'n' turn
My eyes are catching fire and my heart starts to burn
A foot away from you is like a bit closer to heaven
Then again it's like being needled 24/7

Despite all the piety you've been consuming thus far
Hey won't somebody tell me what the **** is going on?

And everyday when the knife in my back starts to twinge 'n' turn
My eyes are catching fire and my heart starts to burn
A foot away from you is like a bit closer to heaven
Then again it's like being needled 24/7

- children of bodom - needled 24/7 -

Adasunshine

I'm sorry to inject a bit of humour in this thread but these particular lyrics always make me laugh and for that I love them...

"Step in mi caravan of love"

from Luv Me Luv Me by Shaggy

xx

Glyptus

"Nothing to Say" Jethro Tull

Everyday there's someone asking
what is there to do?
Should I love or should I fight
is it all the same to you?
No, I say I have the answer
proven to be true,
But if I were to share it with you,
you would stand to gain
and I to lose.
Oh I couldn't bear it
so I've got nothing to say.
Nothing to say.

Every morning pressure forming
all around my eyes.
Ceilings crash, the walls collapse,
broken by the lies
that your misfortune brought upon us
and I won't disguise them.
So don't ask me will I explain
I won't even begin to tell you why.
No, just because I have a name
well I've got nothing to say.
Nothing to say.

Climb a tower of freedom,
paint your own deceiving sign.
It's not my power
to criticize or to ask you to be blind
To your own pressing problem
and the hate you must unwind.
So ask of me no answer
there is none that I could give
you wouldn't find.
I went your way ten years ago
and I've got nothing to say.
Nothing to say.