Great Lyrics in Music

[Canofceleri]

Well, I really enjoy music with great lyrics. I'd like some suggestions for some bands with great lyrics, musical poetry if you will. Something on the level of The Tain by The Decemberists or Ys by Joanna Newsom.

[Trows]

maudlin of the Well - Heaven and Weak:

You can hear it at their myspace

 

 

I am a swan's wing, bloodied at the joint

and pasted to a boy's back, like in that story

You waved to me from a mountain as I slipped away

Dimming into rust-lit winters with a burning apple branch.

 

Who are you that darkness my shade? You burned my door down.

Don't wait for me, because you're a liar

And each time you dream in colour, I'll be holding your head under

Who took my time away? I know you'll hear me now

I know you'll hear me now...You missed your way out!

 

I thought I had it all

When I was left in shame, I gained even more!

You will welter on your hurried path with me as a prince to the world

All the beauty that is all of Life shall walk with me,

And you shall walk alone...in shame!

 

Dry as a bone withered and cold stuck with a dagger again behold me for I am centuries old cut on the lips by secretive men

terror I watch you nervous slowly insert the dagger again twisting the furnace walls gripping my breast writhing in want

smothered within your heavenly haunt cut on the lips by secretive men slowly insert the dagger again.

[San Andreas Nut]

Dont know if its exactly what you want, but Radiohead has some amazing vocals.

 

 

Radiohead - Knives out

 

 

I want you to know

He's not coming back

Look into my eyes

I'm not coming back

 

So knives out

Catch the mouse

Don't look down

Shove it in your mouth

 

If you'd been a dog

They would have drowned you at birth

 

Look into my eyes

It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth

 

So knives out

Cook him up

Squash his head

Put him in the pot

 

I want you to know

He's not coming back

He's bloated and frozen

Still there's no point in letting it go to waste

 

So knives out

Catch the mouse

Squash his head

Put him in the pot

 

 

 

 

 

Radiohead - Creep

 

 

When you were here before,

couldn't look you in the eye.

You're just like an angel,

your skin makes me cry.

You float like a feather,

in a beautiful world

I wish I was special,

you're so f*cking special.

 

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here.

 

I don't care if it hurts,

I want to have control.

I want a perfect body,

I want a perfect soul.

I want you to notice,

when I'm not around.

You're so f*cking special,

I wish I was special.

 

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.

What the hell am I doing here?.

I don't belong here

 

She's running out the door,

she's running,

she run, run, run, run, run.

 

Whatever makes you happy,

whatever you want.

You're so f*cking special,

I wish I was special,

 

but I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here,

I don't belong here.

 

 

[Drizz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDn0_DJC4M

 

Immortal Technique - Point Of No Return

 

Lyrics are in the video

[Vanillainy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDn0_DJC4M

 

Immortal Technique - Point Of No Return

 

Lyrics are in the video

Most of Immortal Tech, JMT and other oldschool rap style gropus have sweet lyrics. Like Jurrasic 5, A Tribe Called Quest etc.

[MC Rhythmless]

Smashing Pumpkins - Muzzle

 

I fear that I'm ordinary, just like everyone

To lie here and die among the sorrows

Adrift among the days

For everything I ever said

And everything I've ever done is gone and dead

As all things must surely have to end

And great lovers will one day have to part

I know that I am meant for this world

My life has been extraordinary

Blessed and cursed and won

Time heals but I'm forever broken

By and by the way...

Have you ever heard the words

I'm singing in these songs?

It's for the girl I've loved all along

Can a taste of love be so wrong

As all things must surely have to end

And great lovers will one day have to part

I know that I am meant for this world

And in my mind as I was floating

Far above the clouds

Some children laughed I'd fall for certain

For thinking that I'd last forever

But I knew exactly where I was

 

And I knew the meaning of it all

And I knew the distance to the sun

And I knew the echo that is love

And I knew the secrets in your spires

And I knew the emptiness of youth

And I knew the solitude of heart

And I knew the murmurs of the soul

And the world is drawn into your hands

And the world is etched upon your heart

And the world so hard to understand

Is the world you can't live without

And I knew the silence of the world

Great lyrics, great song, and Corgan's voice has a way of sending shivers down your spine.