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Offline ClairvoyantCat

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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #35 on: August 31, 2011, 09:10:49 AM »
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #37 on: August 31, 2011, 09:27:32 AM »
Conor, fuck you all, fuck you all, fuck you all.
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #38 on: August 31, 2011, 09:42:23 AM »
Peter Hammill
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #39 on: August 31, 2011, 10:05:22 AM »
Steven Wilson mang, not just because he is better than most people in life and makes better music than God's choir of angels but also because he just writes amazing lyrics.
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #40 on: August 31, 2011, 10:22:05 AM »
I am a huge fan of Tommy Roger's lyrics from BTBAM
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #41 on: August 31, 2011, 10:32:39 AM »
Neil Peart
Bruce Springsteen
Jackson Browne
Ray Davies
Don Henley/Glenn Frey
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Every member of Queen
Roger Waters/David Gilmour
Sting
Paul Simon
Warren Zevon
Tom Petty
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #42 on: August 31, 2011, 02:29:41 PM »
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Conor, fuck you all, fuck you all, fuck you all.

I'm glad you think I'm good with lyrics.
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #43 on: August 31, 2011, 06:08:55 PM »
I nominate Dani Filth. He is AMAZING!!! Especially his lyrics from anything from Dusk and her Embrace. Look up some of those lyrics, they are insane! I love A Gothic Romance and Suicide and Other Comforts!

Here is from Suicide and Other Comforts (sorry, it's got a lot of lyrics!)
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I pace, alone
In a place for the dead
Overcome by woe
And here, I've grown
So fond of dread
That I swear it's heaven

Oh sweet Mary,
Dressed in grief
Roll back the stone

With these words scrawled in a severed hand
Tears fall like shards of glass that band
In rivers, like sinners
Swept with me to join the damned

A darkened sky
The day that laughter died
Fell swiftly into night
And stayed within Her sight
Staring at the knife
Oh God, how easy now to sacrifice
My life, to have Her with me

So farewell to distant thunder
Those inept stars I've worshipped under
Fall farther, their Father
Lies in wait in flames below
Whilst my love, a blood red flower
Calls to me from verdant bowers
Graveside, I cry
Please save me from this @#!*% I know

A darkened sky
The day that laughter died
Fell swiftly into night
And stayed within Her sight
Staring at the knife
Oh God, how easy now to sacrifice
My life, to have Her with me

An eye for an eye as espied in the bible
My faith is lost to the burning of idols
One less cross to press upon the survival
Of this lorded agony

And I, (much as I have tried
To bury Her from mind,
Fate's tourniquet was tied, when She died...)
Still sense Her presence so divine
Lithe arms about my throat
Like pining swans entwined
Footfalls at nightfall close to mine

Suicide is a tried and tested formula for release

I snatch Her whisper like the wind through cedars
See Her face in every natural feature
Midst the mist and sleepy hollows of fever...
With glee deceiving me

Suicide is a tried and tested formula for release

I hear Her voice from where the grave defies Her
Sirensong to sing along, no finer
Suicide notes, harmonised in a minor
Strike a chord with misery

No light nor reef
No unsinkable of romance keeps me
Safely from the stormy seas
Now drowning, resounding
Death-knells pound my dreams
Unthinkable to dredge through this
Listless and lonely winter freeze

A darkened sky
This day here after dies
Falls swiftly into night
And stays within my sight
Staring at the knife
Oh God, how ease it was to sacrifice
My life, to have Her with me

No more a victim of crusade
Where souls are strung from moral palisades
I slit my wrists and quickly slip away...
I journey now on jewelled sands
Beneath a moon to Summerlands
To grace Her lips with contraband
The blaze once in my veins
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #44 on: August 31, 2011, 06:52:52 PM »
Jesse Lacey is indeed awesome.

Some other favorites: Dustin Kensrue (Thrice), Julie Christmas (Battle of Mice), Toby Driver (Kayo Dot), and Drew Speziale (Circle Takes the Square).
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #45 on: August 31, 2011, 07:44:17 PM »
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #46 on: August 31, 2011, 07:47:33 PM »
My top 3 favorite lyricists

Bernie Taupin
Steven Wilson
Stevie Nicks
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #47 on: August 31, 2011, 07:58:52 PM »
James Hetfield and Chuck Schuldiner.
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #48 on: August 31, 2011, 08:00:01 PM »
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #50 on: August 31, 2011, 11:21:44 PM »
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Chuck Schuldiner.
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #51 on: September 01, 2011, 06:37:39 AM »
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #52 on: September 01, 2011, 08:33:30 AM »
Early DT lyrics are amazing IMO.
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #53 on: September 01, 2011, 09:55:51 AM »
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #54 on: September 02, 2011, 03:54:25 PM »
kinda suprised more people haven't mentioned Bob Dylan


Anyway, imo has to be Peart.  All of the Rush album titles and songs are double and triple entendre's.  NO ONE puts this much thought into their craft (the below entire song is an anagram).

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Anagram (For Mongo) lyrics

There's a snake coming out of the darkness
Parade from paradise
End the need for eden
Chase the dreams of merchandise

There is tic and toc in atomic
Leaders make a deal
The cosmic is largely comic
A con they couldn't conceal

There is no safe seat at the feast
Take your best stab at the beast
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Raise the art to resistance
Danger dare to be grand
Pride reduced to humble pie
Diamonds down to sand
Take heart from earth and weather
The brightness of new birth
Take heart from the harvest
Shave the harvest from the earth

Reasoning is partly insane
Image just an eyeless game
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Miracles will have their claimers
More will bow to Rome
He and she are in the house
But there's only me at home

Rose is a rose of splendor
Posed to respond in the end
Lonely things like nights,
I find, end finer with a friend

I hear in the rate of her heart
A tear in the heat of the art

The night turns thin
The saint turns to sin
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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #55 on: September 02, 2011, 03:58:14 PM »
"Reasoning is partly insane
Image just an eyeless game..."


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Re: Best lyricists ever.
« Reply #56 on: September 02, 2011, 04:57:33 PM »
um i am pretty big on lyrics when i listen to stuff so i uh

you know i don't even know what i am saying but i think my favorite lyricists are conor oberst and isaac brock
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