Favourite Lyricists

[skinnypuppy]

Aaron Weiss from mewithoutyou is the best lyricist ever.
the second best lyricist ever is Sage Francis.
the thirdt is chino or something.

[onlythclouds]

anthony green
method man
gavin hayes
gza
josh moore (beloved)
daryl palumbo
jay forrest (hopesfall)
jake snider (minus the bear)
steve snere (these arms are snakes)
B.I.G.

[CrenshawMoreno]

Tim Kasher from 'Cursive' ...him and Johnny Cash. Fantastic!

[fireflyry]

Robert Smith
Morrissey
GZA
Jeff Buckley
Neil Young
Chuck D
Devin Townsend

and many, many others.....

:-)

[Chrisbo]

jacob bannon

Damn straight! I've been reading alot of his lyrics lately, and they really hit you hard. The whole depth within in them, it blows me away! 'Jane Doe' that song, is just amazing...

"These floods of you are unforgiving
Pushing passed me spilling through the banks
And I fall
Faster than light and faster than time
That's how memory works
At least in the dark where I'm searching for meaning
When I'm just searching for something
I want out
Out of every ackward day
Out of every tongue tied loss
I want out
Out of the burdening nightsweats
Out of the rising seas of blood
Lost in you like saturday nights
Searching the streets with bedroom eyes
Just dying to be saved
Run on girl, run on"

[vadimo]

NORMA JEAN - Memphis Will Be Laid To Rest
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waltz around the room with a glaze in your stare. In your tuxedo suit.
I will give it a name. Lower you defenses. Lower you casket. Open the door
and open your grave. Murder. Now you're doing the waltz with your murder.
Mediocrity is the Killer. You find yourself helpless. Christ is not a fasion, fleeting away.
Fasion. He laid emralds in her eyes but I'd already tried a bracelet made of gold and
scarlet thread around her wrist. Everything was wrong, so we sang sentimental songs. "oh
how seldom we belong, but how elegant our kiss!" We painted crooked lines, but we danced in
perfect time to a love so much refined we know not what it is until like a dullen wine we
pour into a grief we'd know before, but never quite like this. All I know now is regret,
it follows like a sillouete along the cobblestone behind me, but has nothing much to say
except to innocently ask, its voice delicate as glass "do you see me when we pass?"
but I continue on my way.

CONVERGE - Last Light
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i need you to be the strength of widows and soul survivors
i need you to be as fearless as new mothers and new fathers
i need you to be the hope of hearts who lost true love
i need you to be the might of their first kiss
i need a purpose and i need a reason
i need to know that there is trophy and meaning
to all that we lose and all we fight for
to all our loves and our wars
keep breathing
keep living
keep searching
keep pushing on
keep bleeding
keep healing
keep fading
keep shining on
this is for the hearts still beating

DEFTONES - Lotion
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i meant to come back to put out bliss
but the style is crumbling, covered canned
it was sick and no you dont even know how it comes
shifts then gets ruined by you fucking slobs

but it's classical anyways

i can't help it makes me so sick over and over
it sits stiff bound with no heart
fine cause this is where the seperation starts arising
i can see it coming over your cloud

and it's classical anyways
and how cool are you i remember

just a bad call, it's so funny how you think
im so serious but that's not it
the thing is i dont give enough to give a fuck
you're plain boring and you bore me asleep

but it's classical anyways
how cool are you i remember

and i feel sickened
and who the fuck are you anyway you suck
it's making sick sense
seeing how you're sticking out hardly and hoping money
please arise up off the fucking knees
and hop off the train for a second
and try to find your own fucking heart
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Also i love DEFTONES - S.T. i think they are the best.

[skinnypuppy]

90% of memphis will be laid to waste is from aaron weiss, fyi

[thirty nights of violence]

Yup, I was just about to point that out. He starts at: "He laid emeralds in her eyes..." and then goes on to finish the song. Awesome lyricist...like I said before.

And sorry...I just have to post the lyrics in a better way than the previous poster:

He laid emeralds in her eyes
But I'd already tried
a bracelt made of gold
And a scarlet thread around her wrist
Everything was wrong
so we sang sentimental songs
Oh how seldom we belong
but how elegant our kiss
We painted crooked lines
But danced in perfect time
to a love so much refined
We know not what it is
until like a dullen wine
we pour into a grief know before
But never quite like this
All I know now is regret
It follows like a silhouette
along the cobbelstone behind us
But has nothing to say
except to innocently ask
Its voice delicate as glass
Do you see me when we pass
But I continue on my way

[Malpractice]

jacob bannon

Damn straight! I've been reading alot of his lyrics lately, and they really hit you hard. The whole depth within in them, it blows me away! 'Jane Doe' that song, is just amazing...

i like the fact that he dosen't even have to say a cohesive sentence or even finish certain words or even understand what he is saying at all to really feel the message. The "You Fail Me" album has some of the best lyrics put down to paper in my opinion.

Aimee Echo's lyrics for Human Waste Project's "e-lux" album are also favorites of mine

[hydroponic82]

it comes and it kills.
cruising the earth.
attacking your towns.
as you watch from outside
and no one felt crashes in your hearts.

and no one left anything at all.
detecting ourselves
as you watch from outside.
and everyones thrill, it crashes in your heart.

there's another way.
any other one couldn't stop the fingers from freezing.
until you're driven half awake.
all you ever want.
safe inside the covers and freezing.
drove so far away.
no one would ever stop.
couldn't tell the difference between them.
and then you struggle under quake.
hope you never stop.
hope you never finish breathing.
how does it feel t0 clip the patient on the wing feather ?
where does the pain stop and the tearing trough begin, if ever ?

temperature lockdown.
way consumed.
froze in a block with a blazing view.

tazing the numbers.
one through two.
fit in the standard size.

without.

[MyRibItsBroke]

Yup, I was just about to point that out. He starts at: "He laid emeralds in her eyes..." and then goes on to finish the song. Awesome lyricist...like I said before.

And sorry...I just have to post the lyrics in a better way than the previous poster:

He laid emeralds in her eyes
But I'd already tried
a bracelt made of gold
And a scarlet thread around her wrist
Everything was wrong
so we sang sentimental songs
Oh how seldom we belong
but how elegant our kiss
We painted crooked lines
But danced in perfect time
to a love so much refined
We know not what it is
until like a dullen wine
we pour into a grief know before
But never quite like this
All I know now is regret
It follows like a silhouette
along the cobbelstone behind us
But has nothing to say
except to innocently ask
Its voice delicate as glass
Do you see me when we pass
But I continue on my way

i fucking love it.
it fit my last break up so perfectly too. in weird ways.

[Chrisbo]

"Give me your eyes
That I might see the blind man kissing my hands
The sun is humming
My head turns to dust as he plays on his knees

And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away on a strange day

And I laugh as I drift in the wind
Blind
Dancing on a beach of stone
Cherish the faces as they wait for the end
A sudden hush across the water
And we're here again...

And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away
On a strange day

My head falls backs
And the walls crash down
And the sky
And the impossible
Explode
Held for one moment I remember a song
An impression of sound
Then everything is gone
Forever

A strange day..."

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"It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
Going home time
A story on the radio...

Something small falls out of your mouth
And we laugh
A prayer for something better
A prayer
For something better
Please love me
Meet my mother...
But the fear takes hold
Creeping up the stairs in the dark
Waiting for the death blow

Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Fighting for freedom on the television
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
Have we got everything?
She struggles to get away...

The pain
And the creeping feeling
A little black haired girl
Waiting for Saturday
The death of her father pushing her
Pushing her white face into the mirror
Aching inside me
And turn me round
Just like the old days
Just like the old days

Caressing an old man
And painting a lifeless face
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
All shadows and deliverance
Under a black flag
A hundred years of blood
Crimson
The ribbon tightens round my throat
I open my mouth
And my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water
Over and over
We die one after the other
Over and over
We die one after the other after the other...

It feels like a hundred years
One hundred years... "

My Robert Smith favourites

[vadimo]

Yup, I was just about to point that out. He starts at: "He laid emeralds in her eyes..." and then goes on to finish the song. Awesome lyricist...like I said before.

And sorry...I just have to post the lyrics in a better way than the previous poster:

He laid emeralds in her eyes
But I'd already tried
a bracelt made of gold
And a scarlet thread around her wrist
Everything was wrong
so we sang sentimental songs
Oh how seldom we belong
but how elegant our kiss
We painted crooked lines
But danced in perfect time
to a love so much refined
We know not what it is
until like a dullen wine
we pour into a grief know before
But never quite like this
All I know now is regret
It follows like a silhouette
along the cobbelstone behind us
But has nothing to say
except to innocently ask
Its voice delicate as glass
Do you see me when we pass
But I continue on my way

i fucking love it.
it fit my last break up so perfectly too. in weird ways.

ITS JUST EPIC! I LOVE IT TOO.

[eZe^]

adam jones and maynard james keenan

[manic_bastard]

isaac brock

"im drinking away the part of the day that i cannot sleep away"

[ben]

Jonah is pretty good.
Cedric Bixler

[justaphase]

gavin hayes
tom yorke
zach de la rocha
chino
maynard

[deftonekid]

zach de la rocha
chino
maynard

[tarkil]

zach de la rocha
chino
maynard

That and Mike Patton would do it for me...

[DeftonesATF27]

Kurdt Cobain
Me
and Flotsam and Jetsam