Låttexter...

Lofon · 20 september, 2007

I den här tråden så tänkte jag att vi skulle kunna ta och diskutera texterna till vissa bands/artisters låtar! Vilken musikstil det är spelar så klart ingen roll - samma gäller textens stil! Oavsett om den är komisk, allvarlig, sorglig eller annat så är det ju kul om ni tipsar!

Huvudsaken är ju att texten i fråga tilltalar!

Känns som att man fokuserar allt på musiken nuförtiden, och att texterna kommer lite i skymundan, trots att man kan ha lagt ned flera timmar på en text!

Så kommer ni på någon låt med en riktigt bra text - släng upp den här!

Over and out!

// Lofon

VickeX · 20 september, 2007

VickeX - Håll Käften...

Sedan är väll alla Björn Rosenströms låtar helt igenom genialiska.

kicken · 20 september, 2007

Kent - Socker

Spelar inte längre någon roll

Jag orkar inte slåss

Det är bortom min kontroll

Du lämnade mig ensam

Och självklart blev jag rädd

Min sista gnista hopp var att synas att bli sedd

Och jag glömmer bort att andas

För sex, musik och våld

var det vackraste som hänt mig sen själen min blev såld

Att synas utan att verka ser enkelt ut på håll

Men jag lever på impuls nu via fjärrkontroll

Men jag sa alltid nej

Men ingen, ingen, ingen, ingen hör...

Och gäst ikväll är Jesus

Han har kickat heroin

Han läppjar på sitt glas och Ramlösa blir vin

Han berättar om sina vapen, sin tid i San Tropez

Om att ge sig själv en chans, om sin nya Z3

I en värld av idioter står han först i kön

Han berättar framför kameran om hur han bytte kön

Eller något helt annat som också är privat

Om alla dom han älskat och dom han bara sög av

Men han sa alltid nej

Men ingen, ingen, ingen, ingen hör...

KvaddadPadda · 20 september, 2007

Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet

A lovestruck Romeo, sings a streetsus serenade.

Laying everybody low... with me a lovesong that he made.

Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade.

Says something like 'You and me babe, how about it?'

Juliet says 'Hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack'.

He's underneath the window, she's singing 'Heyla, my boyfriend's back.'

You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that.

Anyway, what you gonna do about it?

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start,

and I bet and you exploded in my heart...

And I forget the moviesong

When you wanna realise it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Come up on differents streets, they both were streets of shame.

Both dirty, both mean. Yes, and the dream was just the same.

And I dreamed your dream for you. and your dream is real...

How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

Where you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold.

You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold.

You promised me everything, you promised me think and thin.

Now you just says 'Oh, Romeo, yeah you know I used to have a scene with him.'

Juliet... when we made love you used to cry.

You said I love you like the stars above, I'll love you til' I die.

There's a place for us... you know the moviesong

When you gonna realise, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

I can't do the talk, like they talk on tv.

And I can't do a lovesong, like the way it's meant to be.

I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you.

I can't do anything except be in love with you.

And all I do is miss you, and the way we used to be.

All I do is keep the beat and bad company.

All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme.

Julie, I'd do the stars with you... anytime.

Juliet... when we made love you used to cry.

You said I love you like the stars above, I'll love you til' I die.

There's a place for us... you know the moviesong

When you gonna realise, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

A lovestruck Romeo, sings a streetsus serenade...

Laying everybody low, with me a lovesong that he made.

Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade.

Says something like 'You and me babe, how about it?'

Den finaste texten jag vet. En av mina absoluta favoritlåtar, lyssnar alltid på den när jag är nedstämd.

The Killers har gjort en cover på den. Ganska bra, dock inte i närheten av originalet.

Lofon · 20 september, 2007

Loke - Allt Du Är

(Okay, han är jävligt underground - men en av de mest geniala textförfattare jag vet om - den här låten handlar till exempel om hur han vill göra sig av med sin KK!)

Artist: Loke Nyberg

Skiva: Vackra Människor

Låt: Allt du är

Du andas ganska tyst jag tror du somna´ till slut.

Tårar gör en sömnig. Inte sant?

Både du och alla ljusen i mitt rum har brunnit ut.

De slockna när de brann som mest och du gjorde likadant.

Du ligger i min säng med täcket draget över hakan

som du gjort så många baktunga dar.

Bland välbekanta dofter mellan välbekanta lakan

som ifall vi nånsin hade vart ett par.

Och här ligger jag på golvet på en obäddad madrass

och ute dansar stjärnorna på taken.

Nyss var luften fuktigt het. Nu är det kall och vass

och du sover. Jag är obönhörligt vaken.

Och den filt som jag har över mig känns rättvist kort och tunn

när jag tänker på de ord jag hörde komma ur min mun.

Att jag älskar dina ögon och jag älskar din röst.

Jag älskar dina nästan obefintliga bröst.

Jag älskar när du vaknar och är tjurig och yr.

I T-shirt och trosor och knullrufsfrisyr.

Och dina barnsliga stölder av min uppmärksamhet,

din självdestruktiva generositet,

ditt kriminella, livsfarliga sätt att köra bil

och jag älskar din ”Ung och singel tjej i storstan”-stil.

Att du slänger dig med talesätt och kända citat.

Att Cola-light och popcorn är din favvo dryck och mat

och att du svarar på nåt annat när jag frågar hur du mår.

Jag älskar att du skrattar när du går.

Men trots all denna kärlek blir det aldrig dig och mig

jag bara älskar allt du är… men inte dig.

Du kom hit strax innan midnatt, ja du brukar ju göra så.

Som vanligt blev jag glad för att du kom.

Klev som vanligt in i lägenheten utan att knacka på

men du sa; ”Det är nåt jag vill prata om.”

”För det har liksom börjat svida, det dansar, snurrar runt.

Och jag vet inte riktigt vad det är.

Kanske är det som det brukar att jag bara pratar strunt

men jag börjar nästan tro att jag är kär.

Och jag vet att det är helt ur fas med allt vi bestämt

om oberoende och distans.

Jag kanske fuckar upp allt nu, det gör jag ju nästan jämt

men tror du inte att vi har en chans?”

Och där stod du och såg på mig, så kall och underbar.

Och där satt jag och stamma fram mitt fruktansvärda svar.

Att jag älskar när du kommer och vi försover oss med flit.

Jag älskar att din hud är så onaturligt vit.

Och jag älskar varje gång du tvingat med mig ut på stan

och varje misslyckat försök du gjort att bli vegetarian.

Och ditt eviga tjat om hur kul det är med rave.

Och jag älskar när vi leker PJ Harvey och Nick Cave.

Att du alltid ska stampa i varenda vattenpöl

och att du fyllnar till rejält på bara fyra mellanöl.

Jag älskar dina omöjliga lysande idéer,

att du gråter när vi bakisglor på Disney-matinéer.

Jag älskar till och med din göteborgska dialekt.

Jag fattar väl att det hade vart perfekt

så kan du fatta hur puckat det känns att säga nej,

att bara älska allt du är men inte dig.

Det gick inte att hindra. Det var som en vulkan.

Du spändes du darrade och brast.

Som en skadeskjuten varg eller en döende svan

högg du tag i mig och höll dig fast.

Du föll ner på knä, du hävde dig upp på tå.

Du skrek nåt som inte gick att höra.

Med en drunknandes förtvivlan vägrade du att lyssna på

allt jag ville viska i ditt öra just då.

Jag älskar när du rör mig. Och när du är här.

Och jag hatar mer än allting att jag inte kan bli kär.

Jag önskar mer än nånting att det fanns alternativ

till detta bittra, torra, trötta slöseri med liv.

Men jag måste konstatera, fan det känns helt oerhört,

att det jag älskade med oss har själva kärleken förstört.

För jag har ingen chans att ge det du vill ha av mig.

Jag bara älskar allt du är, jag älskar allt du gör, jag älskar allt du är…

…men inte dig.

Mark · 20 september, 2007

Soilwork - Nerve

Edit: Ändrade mig!

Hatebreed - Destroy Everything

A new life begins

Destroy everything

Obliterate what makes us weak

Destroy everything

Decimate what threatens me

Cleanse this world with flame

End this, cleanse this

Rebuild and start again

Obliterate what makes us weak

End this and embrace the destruction

And this and embrace new life

NEW LIFE

Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget

I must destroy everything that tries to infect

Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget

I must destroy everything that tries to infect

Destroy everything

Obliterate what makes us weak

Destroy everything

Decimate what threatens me

Cleanse this world with flame

End this, cleanse this

Rebuild and start again

Obliterate what makes us weak

End this and embrace the destruction

And this and embrace new life

NEW LIFE

Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget

I must destroy everything that tries to infect

Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget

I must destroy everything that tries to infect

A new life begins

Destroy everything

Obliterate what makes us weak

Destroy everything

Decimate what threatens me

Destroy everything

So a new life can begin

Destroy everything

Rebuild and start again....again

Redigerad 20 september, 2007 av Marky

GTApimpfoolife · 20 september, 2007

Art Brut - Rusted Gun of Milan

I know I can, I know I can

I know I can, I know I can.

I doesn't mean that I don't love you,

one more try with me above you.

It's got nothing to do with anything I had to drink.

It's more to do with the way I think.

Leave the lights on!

Leave the lights on for me.

Leave the lights on!

Leave the lights on for me.

I know I can, I know I can.

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.

Can I get you a cup of coffee?

Don't tell your friends!

I promise, it won't ever happen again.

Leave the lights on!

Leave the lights on for me.

It's frustrating for you,

well, it's frustrating for me.

You're lying there and you're beautiful.

You're beautiful.

And of course I want to, why wouldn't I?

I doesn't mean, I don't love you.

One more try with me above you.

Leave the lights on!

Leave the lights on for me.

It's got nothing to do with anything I've had to drink.

It's something wrong with the way I think.

I know I can, I know I can.

I'm fine when I am with my own hands.

Never used my rusted gun of Milan.

EDIT: Sen ska självklart alla läsa detta också!

Redigerad 20 september, 2007 av GTApimpfoolife

mr_tobbe · 20 september, 2007

För att nämna några droppar i havet.

[size=4][b]Neil Young - Thrasher[/b][/size]


They were hiding behind hay bales,

They were planting in the full moon

They had given all they had for something new

But the light of day was on them,

They could see the thrashers coming

And the water shone like diamonds in the dew.


And I was just getting up, hit the road before it's light

Trying to catch an hour on the sun

When I saw those thrashers rolling by,

Looking more than two lanes wide

I was feelin' like my day had just begun.


Where the eagle glides ascending

There's an ancient river bending

Down the timeless gorge of changes

Where sleeplessness awaits

I searched out my companions,

Who were lost in crystal canyons

When the aimless blade of science

Slashed the pearly gates.


It was then I knew I'd had enough,

Burned my credit card for fuel

Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand

With a one-way ticket to the land of truth

And my suitcase in my hand

How I lost my friends I still don't understand.


They had the best selection,

They were poisoned with protection

There was nothing that they needed,

Nothing left to find

They were lost in rock formations

Or became park bench mutations

On the sidewalks and in the stations

They were waiting, waiting.


So I got bored and left them there,

They were just deadweight to me

Better down the road without that load

Brings back the time when I was eight or nine

I was watchin' my mama's T.V.,

It was that great Grand Canyon rescue episode.


Where the vulture glides descending

On an asphalt highway bending

Thru libraries and museums, galaxies and stars

Down the windy halls of friendship

To the rose clipped by the bullwhip

The motel of lost companions

Waits with heated pool and bar.


But me I'm not stopping there,

Got my own row left to hoe

Just another line in the field of time

When the thrashers comes, I'll be stuck in the sun

Like the dinosaurs in shrines

But I'll know the time has come

To give what's mine.[/codebox]

[codebox]
[b][size=4]Bob Dylan - Brownsville Girl[/size][/b]

Well, there was this movie I seen one time,
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck.
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself.
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck.

Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
as the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath.
Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square,
I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death.

Well, I keep seeing this stuff and it just comes a-rolling in
And you know it blows right through me like a ball and chain.
You know I can't believe we've lived so long and are still so far apart.
The memory of you keeps callin' after me like a rollin' train.

I can still see the day that you came to me on the painted desert
In your busted down Ford and your platform heels
I could never figure out why you chose that particular place to meet
Ah, but you were right. It was perfect as I got in behind the wheel.

Well, we drove that car all night into San Anton'
And we slept near the Alamo, your skin was so tender and soft.
Way down in Mexico you went out to find a doctor and you never came back.
I would have gone on after you but I didn't feel like letting my head get blown off.

Well, we're drivin' this car and the sun is comin' up over the Rockies,
Now I know she ain't you but she's here and she's got that dark rhythm in her soul.
But I'm too over the edge and I ain't in the mood anymore to remember the times when I was your only man
And she don't want to remind me. She knows this car would go out of control.

Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey love.

Well, we crossed the panhandle and then we headed towards Amarillo
We pulled up where Henry Porter used to live. He owned a wreckin' lot outside of town about a mile.
Ruby was in the backyard hanging clothes, she had her red hair tied back. She saw us come rolling up in a trail of dust.
She said, "Henry ain't here but you can come on in, he'll be back in a little while."

Then she told us how times were tough and about how she was thinkin' of bummin' a ride back to where she started.
But ya know, she changed the subject every time money came up.
She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead." You could tell she was so broken-hearted.
She said, "Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt."

"How far are y'all going?" Ruby asked us with a sigh.
"We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn,
'Til the sun peels the paint and the seat covers fade and the water moccasin dies."
Ruby just smiled and said, "Ah, you know some babies never learn."

Something about that movie though, well I just can't get it out of my head
But I can't remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play.
All I remember about it was Gregory Peck and the way people moved
And a lot of them seemed to be lookin' my way.

Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey love.

Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour.
I was crossin' the street when shots rang out.
I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.
"We got him cornered in the churchyard," I heard somebody shout.

Well, you saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, "A man with no alibi."
You went out on a limb to testify for me, you said I was with you.
Then when I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears,
It was the best acting I saw anybody do.

Now I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.
Oh if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now.
You know, I feel pretty good, but that ain't sayin' much. I could feel a whole lot better,
If you were just here by my side to show me how.

Well, I'm standin' in line in the rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck,
Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind.
He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about
But I'll see him in anything so I'll stand in line.

Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey love.

You know, it's funny how things never turn out the way you had 'em planned.
The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry Porter.
And you know there was somethin' about you baby that I liked that was always too good for this world
Just like you always said there was something about me you liked that I left behind in the French Quarter.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content.
I don't have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I'm gone.
You always said people don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.
And I always said, "Hang on to me, baby, and let's hope that the roof stays on."

There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice.
I don't remember who I was or where I was bound.
All I remember about it was it starred Gregory Peck, he wore a gun and he was shot in the back.
Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down.

Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey love.

[size=4][b]Elliott Smith - King's Crossing[/b][/size]


The king's crossing was the main attraction

Dominos are falling in a chain reaction

The scraping subject ruled by fear told me

Whiskey works better than beer


The judge is on vinyl, decisions are final

And nobody gets a reprieve

And every wave is tidal

If you hang around

You're going to get wet


I can't prepare for death any more than I already have

All you can do now is watch the shells

The game looks easy, that's why it sells

Frustrated fireworks inside your head

Are going to stand and deliver talk instead

The method acting that pays my bills

Keeps the fat man feeding in Beverly Hills

I got a heavy metal mouth that hurls obscenity

And I get my check from the trash treasury

Because I took my own insides out


It don't matter because I have no sex life

All I want to do now is inject my ex-wife

I've seen the movie

And I know what happens


It's Christmas time

And the needles on the tree

A skinny Santa is bringing something to me

His voice is overwhelming

But his speech is slurred

And I only understand every other Håller med till 100%!

Open your parachute and grab your gun

Falling down like an omen, a setting sun

Read the part and return at five

It's a hell of a role if you can keep it alive

But I don't care if I fuck up

I'm going on a date

With a rich white lady

Ain't life great?

Give me one good reason not to do it

(Because we love you)

So do it


This is the place where time reverses

Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses

Instruments shine on a silver tray

Don't let me get carried away

Don't let me get carried away

Don't let me be carried away[/codebox]

[codebox][b][size=4]Neil Young - Needle And The Damage Done[/size][/b]

I caught you knockin'
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.

I sing the song
because I love the man
I know that some
of you don't understand
Milk-blood
to keep from running out.

I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's
like a settin' sun.

[b][size=4]Songs: Ohia - Coxcomb Red[/size][/b]


and I wanted that heat so bad

I could taste the fire on your breath

and I wanted in your storm so bad

I could taste the lightning on your breath

I watched you hold the son in your arms while he bled to death

he grew so pale next to you

the world is so pale next to you

your hair is coxcomb red your eyes are viper black(x2)

you said every road is a good road

between the next road and your last road

every love is your best love and every love is your last love

and every kiss is a goodbye(x2)

I watched you hold the son in your arms while he bled to death

he grew so pale next to you

the world is so pale next to you

your hair is coxcomb red your eyes are viper black(x3)[/codebox]

[codebox]
[b][size=4]Jason Molina - Everything Should Try Again[/size][/b]

Everything Should Try Again
You don’t forgive the silence for not speaking up
No matter how hard we’re trying it’s not hard enough
Your eyes before the lightning to meet it by yourself
You’ve been tired and a little sick
You’ve been trying to work with it
You drew your grave on every single map
You don’t plan on staying long
You plan on burning it
No matter how wrong it went
You don’t have much more room to forget (x2)
You don’t forgive even the lightning
For leaving you
But everything should try again
Even you
You followed the train through every prarie dawn
Said “I’d like to see Ohio one more time before it’s gone”
You had your hands up high in a prayer to crush your heart
And every single heart
Was that eight point star
Ever been tired
Ever been a little sick
Ever tried working through it

[size=4][b]The Band - It Makes No Difference[/b][/size]


It makes no diff'rence where I turn

I can't get over you and the flame still burns

It makes no diff'rence, night or day

The shadow never seems to fade away


And the sun don't shine anymore

And the rains fall down on my door


Now there's no love

As true as the love

That dies untold

But the clouds never hung so low before


It makes no diff'rence how far I go

Like a scar the hurt will always show

It makes no diff'rence who I meet

They're just a face in the crowd

On a dead-end street

And the sun don't shine anymore

And the rains fall down on my door


These old love letters

Well, I just can't keep

'Cause like the gambler says

Read 'em and weep

And the dawn don't rescue me no more


Without your love I'm nothing at all

Like an empty hall it's a lonely fall

Since you've gone it's a losing battle

Stampeding cattle

They rattle the walls


And the sun don't shine anymore

And the rains fall down on my door


Well, I love you so much

It's all I can do

Just to keep myself from telling you

That I never felt so alone before [/codebox]

[codebox][size=4][b]Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life[/b][/size]

This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go

And so I thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up
And you said “this is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”

So if you want to be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me

[size=4][b]Bright Eyes - Something Vague[/b][/size]


Now and again it seems worse than it is,

but mostly the view is accurate.

You see your breath in the air as you'll climb up the stairs

to that coffin you call your apartment.

And you sink in your chair, brush the snow from your hair

and drink the cold away.

And you're not really sure what you're doing this for

but you need something to fill up the days.

A few more hours.

There's a dream in my brain that just won't go away.

It's been stuck there since it came a few nights ago

And I'm standing on a bridge in the town where I lived

as a kid with my mom and my brothers.

And then the bridge disappears and I'm standing on air

with nothing holding me.

And I hang like a star, fucking glow in the dark,

for all those starving eyes to see,

like the ones we've wished on.

But now I'm confused. Is this death really you?

And do these dreams have any meaning?

No. No, I think it's more like a ghost that's been following us both.

Something vague that we're not seeing,

something more like a feeling.[/codebox]

Kiedis · 20 september, 2007

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

I hurt myself today

To see if I still feel

I focus on the pain

The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole

The old familiar sting

Try to kill it all away

But I remember everything

What have I become?

My sweetest friend

Everyone I know

Goes away in the end

You could have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit

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

What have I become?

My sweetest friend

Everyone I know

Goes away in the end

You could have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

If I could start again

A million miles away

I would keep myself

I would find a way

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge

Sometimes I feel

Like I don't have a partner

Sometimes I feel

Like my only friend

Is the city I live in

The city of angels

Lonely as I am

Together we cry

I drive on her streets

'Cause she's my companion

I walk through her hills

'Cause she knows who I am

She sees my good deeds

And she kisses me windy

I never worry

Now that is a lie

I don't ever want to feel

Like I did that day

Take me to the place I love

Take me all the way

It's hard to believe

That there's nobody out there

It's hard to believe

That I'm all alone

At least I have her love

The city she loves me

Lonely as I am

Together we cry

I don't ever want to feel

Like I did that day

Take me to the place I love

Take me all that way

Under the bridge downtown

Is where I drew some blood

Under the bridge downtown

I could not get enough

Under the bridge downtown

Forgot about my love

Under the bridge downtown

I gave my life away

Elliott Smith - Angeles

Someone's always coming around here trailing some new kill

Says I seen your picture on a hundred dollar bill

And what's a game of chance to you, to him is one

Of real skill

So glad to meet you

Angeles

Picking up the ticket shows there's money to be made

Go on and lose the gamble that's the history of the trade

Did you add up all the cards left to play to zero

And sign up with evil

Angeles

Don't start me trying now u-huh u-huh u-huh

Cos I'm all over it

Angeles

I could make you satisfied in everything you do

All your 'secret wishes' could right now be coming true

And be forever with my poison arms around you

No one's gonna fool around with us

So glad to meet you

Angeles

Redigerad 20 september, 2007 av Kiedis

AngryAxel · 20 september, 2007

Conor Oberst är typ ett geni.

[b][size=4]Bright Eyes - Four Winds 

Skiva: Cassadaga[/size][/b]


Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe

There's people always dying trying to keep them alive

There are bodies decomposing in containers tonight

In an abandoned building where


A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl

With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl

She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world

Four winds blowing through her hair


But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon

She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed

She caves


The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qu'ran's mute

If you burn them all together you get close to the truth still

They are pouring over sanskrit on the ivy league moons

While shadows lengthen in the sun


Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times

And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds

It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines

Four winds, cry until it comes


And it's the sum of man

Slouching towards Bethlehem

A heart just can't contain all of that empty space

It breaks, it breaks, it breaks


Well, I went back to my rented Cadillac and company jet

Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps

All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead

They said, "You'd better look alive"


And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps

In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east

I buried my ballast, I made my peace

Heard four winds leveling the pines


But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon

She just can't remain with all that outer space

She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves[/codebox]

[codebox][b][size=4]Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything
Skiva: I'm Wide Awake its Morning[/size][/b]

So there was this woman and
she was on an airplane and
she's flying to meet her fiancé
sailing high above the largest ocean
on planet earth and she was seated
next to this man who you know
she had tried to start conversation with
but really the only thing
she heard him say was to order his bloody mary
and she's sitting there and she's reading
this really arduous magazine article about this
third world country that she couldn't
even pronounce the name of and
she's feeling very bored and very despondent
and then suddenly there's this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out
and they started just falling thirty thousand feet
and the pilots on the microphone and he's saying,
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Oh My God, I'm Sorry"
and apologizing and she looks at the man and she says,
"Where are we going?" and he looks at her and he says,
"We're going to a party, it's a birthday party.
It's your birthday party, happy birthday darling.
We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much."
And then he starts humming this little tune and it kind of goes like this:

One, Two, One, Two, Three, Four
We must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues from the books we have read
And to the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare.

We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing.

And it'll go like this
While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun.
He says, "Death will give us back to God,
just like the setting sun
is returned to the lonesome ocean."

And then they splashed into the deep blue sea.
It was a wonderful splash.

We must blend into the choir, sing as static with the whole,
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul,
And to this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run, we must run, we must run.

We must hang up in the belfry where the bats in moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
And in the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge.

And then we'll get down there,
way down to the very bottom of everything
and then we'll see it, oh we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it.

Oh my morning's coming back
The whole world's waking up
Oh the city bus is swimming past.
I'm happy just because
I found out I am really no one.

[size=5][b]Bright Eyes - Landlocked Blues


[/b][/size]If you walk away, I’ll walk away

First tell me which road you will take

I don’t want to risk our paths crossing some day

So you walk that way, I’ll walk this way


And the future hangs over our heads

And it moves with each current event

Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain

Just stay in when it’s looking this way


And the moon’s laying low in the sky

Forcing everything metal to shine

And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case

They argue walk this way, no, walk this way


And Laura’s asleep in my bed

As I’m leaving she wakes up and says

“I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave

Baby don’t go away, come here”


And there’s kids playing guns in the street

And ones pointing his tree branch at me

So I put my hands up I say “enough is enough,

If you walk away, I’ll walk away”

And he shot me dead


I found a liquid cure

From my landlocked blues

It’ll pass away like a slow parade

It’s leaving but I don’t know how soon


And the world’s got me dizzy again

You think after 22 years I’d be used to the spin

And it only feels worse when I stay in one place

So I’m always pacing around or walking away

I keep drinking the ink from my pen

And I’m balancing history books up on my head

But it all boils down to one quotable phrase

If you love something, give it away


A good woman will pick you apart

A box full of suggestions for your possible heart

But you may be offended and you may be afraid

But don’t walk away, don’t walk away


We made love on the living room floor

With the noise in the background of a televised war

And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say

“If we walk away, they’ll walk away”


But greed is a bottomless pit

And our freedom’s a joke

We’re just taking a piss

And the whole world must watch the sad comic display

If you’re still free start running away

Cause we’re coming for you!


I’ve grown tired of holding this pose

I feel more like a stranger each time I come home

So I’m making a deal with the devils of fame

Saying “let me walk away, please”

You’ll be free child once you have died

From the shackles of language and measurable time

And then we can trade places, play musical graves

Till then walk away, walk away


So I’m up at dawn

Putting on my shoes

I just want to make a clean escape

I’m leaving but I don’t know where to

I know I’m leaving but I don’t know where to[/codebox]

Tweak · 20 september, 2007

Mm.

Bright Eyes - When the president talks to God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyhSE2SUNE