hasn't been one in awhile, and I realized that I've never posted HUM lyrics I don't believe.. HUM is my favorite band, has been for 10 years, even got to see them live one time before they brokeup and is probably up there with losing my virginity as one of the most memorable days of my life. I even have a cheesy fansite devoted to them: here it looks like ass because it was designed for a 800x600 res. As far as songwriting goes, HUM just found this thick melodic sound that pushes it's way through your chest.. walls of guitars that swirl around you and crash over you like a mighty wave, the drums are always on point and so deep in the pocket that sometimes his brilliant, thunderous fills go completely unoticed in the tenacity of the song. Matt Talbott's singing while nothing all that impressive is merely a sprinkling on top of the music to not draw away from it's intensity, though if you dig a little bit, you'll find that his lyrics, crafted together in a web of metaphors, tie everything together and fit the tone/mood of the song perfectly, here's a few examples:

a few of you may remember these lyrics from my bazaar and ffxi players comment:

Songs of Farewell and Departure

Before we scream and descend,
steady to the sun
a simple tale of woe,
your hearts won't be undone
a love song to everyone i know
arms wide open, here we go
she weaves a trail of petals
through the embryonic ice
her hair is warm to the touch
and flowers twice as nice
and if he stands on the moon
he can barely catch her eyes
always open to the sky
and so we land only to find
we never left the ground
please leave the walls and the floors
exactly as you found
a love song to everyone i know
arms wide open, here we go
here we go...

The Very Old Man

It's eerie and it's awesome
how connected
two pods scattered
on the surf
and this can become
lazy in to one
He knows lightning kills the other
She can't stand to watch his petals fall
It's better when cascades become like us all
after the golden disengagement
leaves the woman
with a household left to fill
sit and be still
and send the voltage 'cross his ticker
watch the stars they start to flicker
and one by one the levels fall
another drink, my love, and make it
tall enough, so i can stand on it and see
all you've done for me
a world of curves and lines electric
remember how you strung the colored lights
from christmas tree to me

Apollo

I'm thinking of a number
between everything and two
I'm thinking of a number
between everything and two
she said you can find a space
between my arms if you will stay
like if we ignore the systems,
they'll just blink out and
quickly go away
she said I'll keep all the signals
that you send home to me
and I'll meet you back here on the ground
it's lift off, lift off again
she's pissed off, pissed off again
moonlight brings me back again to stay
and I know if she had her way
I'd always be through
tethered to a glass ring
she keeps beside the phone
and never ever stepping out into..
blankness and darkness,
like underneath the leaf,
that settled on me here
and scraped away the sound
she said you can find a place
inside my heart
if you will stay
and I need you back here on the ground
it's lift off, lift off again
she's pissed off, pissed off again
moonlight brings me back again to stay
and I know if she had her way
I'd always be through
tethered to a glass ring
she keeps beside the phone
and never ever stepping out into..
I'm thinking of a number
between everything and two
and moonlight brings me back again to stay
and I know if she had her way
I'd always be through
tethered to a glass ring
she keeps beside the phone
and never ever stepping out into..
and moonlight brings me back again this day
and I don't feel a thing here anymore
strings of information
slowing to a stop
the tether's end
is slipping from its knot
I'm stretching out into...
I'm thinking of a number
between everything and two
I'm thinking of a number
between everything and two
and it's molecules of you

i urge anyone who has never heard of these guys to check them out.. may make a fan out of you for life like me...

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the fucking bled - my assassin

The sky blistered red
Shots ring overhead
I'm scaling walls that the soldiers built to muffle out your screams
The message was dislocated, Misconveyed, incinerated.
In the wake of war, just listen for the flood

The arthritis in us all is choking me out.
It's spilling me.

Maybe you could finally be the one, who reaches in and saves me from the flood.
Collapse, this is our last chance, there's no time for relapse
Just listen for the flood..
If not us, can I just save you?

Can't you hear the bombs are calling all our old habits their own?
A sniper patiently awaiting me in every catacomb
Are you scared girl? Won't you be my assassin?
Hunted down for the last time and carried you home

The arthritis in us all is choking me out
It's spilling me

Maybe you could finally be the one who reaches in and saves me from the flood
Collapse, this is our last chance,
Theres no time for relapse, Just listen for the flood
If not us, can I just save you?

Bring on the love 'cause here comes the flood
Bring on the love 'cause here is comes

We must have been seduced by the calm of the isle as we tied our wrists, our wrists to tight in the shallow

Maybe you could finally be the one who reaches in and saves me from the flood
Collapse, this is our last chance
Theres no time for relapse now, just listen for the flood.
If not us, can I just save you?

bleeding through- revenge i seek

fuck your world and fuck your kind.
go fuck yourself, you're fucking barely alive.
i used to think of what you meant to me.
i think of you every fucking day.
why the fuck did i let you into my heart?
now where do i begin?
today is my last fucking chance.
erase it all and kill my past.
fuck what we fucking said.
the memories don't mean shit.
don't give a fuck about what you'll say.
the memories don't mean shit, anymore.
you're society's whore.
anymore.
i'll walk through this wasteland
before i'll ever fucking hold your hand again.
i'll burn forever before i ever fucking see your face again, in hell.
anymore.
and you're society's whore.
anymore.
motherfucker.
and that's fucking right.
fuck you forever.
i'll despise you for the rest of these days.
fuck you forever.
i'll fucking hate you for the rest of my life, my life.
why the fuck did i let you into my heart?
now where do i begin?
today is my last fucking chance.
erase it all and kill my past.
fuck what we fucking said.
the memories don't mean shit.
don't give a fuck about what you'll say.
the memories don't mean shit, anymore.
you're society's whore.
anymore.
revenge i seek.

"Mind Of My Own"

It's four o' clock
the t.v.'s on
my mind is shut off
and my own thoughts are gone
I change the channel
I change my mind
I change my life
I wanna leave it all behind
cause I don't have a mind of my own
I am influenced by
everything I see
and I can't help it now
everything in my life
just thinks for me
can't help this habit
I'm in love with my disease
worshiping my idle time
a life I cannot seize
trapped by depression
and I sleep all day
but xanax, valium, attavan
makes it all ok
it's so much more
than a cry for attention
no loving hands can sooth this ache
so much more than a war with the world
it's my own degradation
it's my own self hate
I preach my pessimism
right out loud to anyone who'll listen
I'm not afraid to be alive
I'm afraid to be alone
late at night my monsters find me
from under the bed or out of my past
all alone with nobody to talk to
sanity gets put to the test
I close my eyes but I'm still haunted
sometimes I get too twisted to sleep
as all my world crumbles all around me
inspirations become admissions of defeat
cuz I don't have a mind of my own
everything in my life just thinks for me

Ike, go buy the new bled cd, now. k? good

It's out today, i've had it for 2 weeks and I still love it, first listen it sucks, then it grows on you.. alot. The lyrics are sooo awesome.

lol k, ive heared some of the songs already, but i havent had a chance to go buy it yet

bored.. resurrecting an old lyric thread instead of starting a new one

Troubled Waters
Cat Power (covering Michael Hurley) off The Covers Record

I must be
One of the devil's daughters
They look at me with scorn
I'll never hear their horn
Sometimes
It's like being in chains
Sometimes I hang my head
In shame
When people see me
They scandalize my name
I'm going down
To the devil's water
I'm gonna drown
In that troubled water
It's coming round my soul
It's way beyond control
I must be one
I must be one

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I must have missed this one when it was originally posted because I would have flirted with Iolanthe for posting a bad ass Strung Out song. lol

Here's mine. I've had this stuck in my head all day..

Someone told me once
that there's a right and wrong,
and that punishment
would come to those
who dare to cross the line.

But it must not be true
for jerk-offs like you.
Maybe it takes longer to catch a total asshole.
but I'm tired of waiting.
Maybe it's just bullshit and I should play GOD,
and shoot you myself.
Because I'm tired of waiting.

Consequences dictate
our course of action
and it doesn't matter what's right.
It's only wrong if you get caught.
If consequences dictate
my course of action
I should play GOD
and shoot you myself.
I'm very tired of waiting.

I should
kick you,
beat you,
fuck you,
and then shoot you in your fucking head.

I felt like posting the Team America theme song, but thought better of it.

Ben Folds "Bastard"

The old bastard left his ties and his suit
A brown box, mothballs and bowling shoes
and his opinion so you'd never have to choose
Pretty soon, you'll be an old bastard too
You get smaller while the world gets big
The more you know you know you don't know shit
The whiz man'll never fit you like the whiz kid did

So why you gotta act like you know when you don't know?
It's okay if you don't know everything
Why you gotta act like you know when you don't know?
It's okay if you don't know everything

Close your eyes close your ears young man
You've seen and heard all an old man can
Spread the facts on the floor like a fan
throw away the ones that make you feel bad

Kids today gettin' old too fast
they can't wait to grow up so they can get some ass
They get nostalgic about the last ten years
before the last ten years have passed

why you gotta act like you know when you don't know?
It's okay if you don't know everything
Why you gotta act like you know when you don't know?
It's okay if you don't know everything

Tears land on a hand on the chest
The old bastard had a paradigm arrest

You got smaller and the world got big
The more you knew we knew we didn't know shit
The whiz man never fit him the whiz kid did

Why you gotta act like you know when you don't know?
cause It's okay if you don't know everything
Why you gotta act like you know when you don't know?
It's okay if you don't know everything

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I always like Bouncing Souls better. Although Strung Out is awesome too.

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COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh

Song: Kyle's Mom is a Bitch Lyrics
[Cartman:] Weeelllll,

Kyle's mom's a bitch, she's a big fat bitch,
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world,
She's a stupid bitch, if there ever was a bitch,
She's a bitch to all the boys and girls.

On Monday she's a bitch
On Tuesday she's a bitch
On Wednesday thru Saturday she's a bitch
Then on Sunday just to be different,
She's a super king kamehameha bitch

Have you ever met my friend Kyle's Mom,
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world,
She's a mean old bitch, she has stupid hair,
She's a bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch
Bitch, bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch
She's a stupid bitch, Kyle's Mom's a bitch,
And she's such a dirty bitch.

Talk to kids around the world,
It might go a little something like this...

[Sung in three different languages by other children]

Have you ever met my friend Kyle's Mom,
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world,
She's a mean old bitch, she has stupid hair,
She's a bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch
Bitch, bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch.
She's a stupid bitch, Kyle's Mom's a bitch,
And she's such a dirty bitch;

I really mean it,
Kyle's Mom, she's a big fat, stinking bitch
Big old fat fuckin' bitch, Kyle's Mommmmmmmmmmm
Yeahhhhh, Chaaaaa

Doves- Caught by the river

Son
What have you done?
You're caught by the river
You're coming undone

Life
You know it can't be so easy
But you can't just leave it
Cause you're not in control no more

And you give it all away
Would you give it all away now?
Don't let it come apart
Don't want to see you come apart

Son
What are you doing?
You learned a hard lesson
When you stood by the water

You and I
Were so full of love and hope
Would you give it all up now?
Would you give in just to spite them all?

Cause you give it all away
And you give it all away now
Don't let it come apart
Don't want to see you come apart

Lay
I lay in the long grass
So many people
So many people pass

Stay
Stay here and lie on back
Get down in the cornfields
Stay till we're caught at last

Give it all away
Give it all away now
Don't let it come apart
Don't want to see you come apart

And you give it all away
Would you give it all away now?
Don't let it come apart
Don't want to see you come apart

Would you give it all away?x3

Give it all awayx4

"Back To The Motor League"

I like to party fucking hard
I like my rock and roll the same
Don't give a fuck if I burn out
Don't give a fuck if I fade away

So back to the Motor-League with me
Before I'm forced to face the wrath of a well-heeled buying public
Who live vicariously through
Tortured-artist college-rock and floor-punching macho pabulum
Back to the Motor League I go
Once thought I drew a lucky hand
Turned out to be a live grenade

Oh my god!
Holy shit!

Play-acting "anarchists" and Mommy's-little-skinheads,
Death-threats and sycophants and wieners drunk on straight-edge.
Fuck off
Who cares?
I'd rather highlight Trip-Tiks than listen to your bullshit.
Fuck off
Who cares- about your stupid scenes, your shitty zines, the straw-men you build up to burn?

It never ceases to amaze
And as I'm suffering your perfection it reminds me of my own race
To redress my own sad history of:
Mouthed feet
Eaten hats
Teated bulls
Amish phone-books
Drunken brawls

But what have we here?
15 years later it still reeks of swill and Chickenshit Conformists
With their fists in the air
Like-father, like-son "rebels" bloated on korn, eminems and bizkits.
Lord, hear our prayer:
Take back your Amy Grant mosh-crews and fair-weather politics.
Blow-dry my hair and stick me on a ten-speed.
Back to the Motor League
Back to the Motor League
Back to the Motor League

I guess life is just a popularity contest
Success, the ability to perform within a framework of obedience
Just ask the candy-coated Joy-Cam rock-bands
selling shoes for venture-capitalists,
silencing competing messages,
Rounding off the jagged edges

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100(+3) Woodworker.
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Rahstenspace - 51 Goldsmith(+1)
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Trying hard to speak
And fighting with my weak hand
Driven to distraction
It's all part of the plan

When something is broken
And you try to fix it
Trying to repair it
Any way you can

I dive in at the deep end
You become my best friend
I wanna love you but I don't know if I can

I know something is broken
and I'm trying to fix it
Trying to repair it anyway I can

You and me are floating on a tidal wave... together
You and me are drifting into outer space... and singing

You and me are floating on a tidal wave... together
You and me are drifting into outer space

You and me are floating on a tidal wave... together
You and me are drifting into outer space... and singing



and

Fix You
[/i]
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse

When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

High up above or down below
when you too in love to let it go
If you never try you'll never know
Just what your worth

Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you


Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears streaming down your face and I

Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
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COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh

yarr, arrow, neither of you posted the band name.. i'm curious in checking out these songs.. actually... yarr are your songs are coldplay?

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Yarr's are Coldplays from X&Y, good stuff.


KMFDM 'New American Century'

Count your blessings
Walk the line
Don't move too fast
Or fall behind
There are rules you must obey
They get re-written by the day
Don't do this - don't say that
Your every move is logged and tracked
By the all oppressive eye
Spy satellites in friendly skies

The new american century
Has only just begun
No one exempt from the tragedy
Counterattack start pushing back

Fight the power
That chokes your speech
Fight the power
That makes you bleed
Fight the power
That propogates lies
To keep you weak
Keep you in line
Fight the power that reigns you in
Divides and conquers
Defines your sin
Fight the power
For one and all
Before the power swallows us whole

No one dares to say a word
Our panic drives all human herds
In the land where cash is king
Our silence bought and sold for free
The future's banging on our door
When real I.D. will be the law
Love thy neighbor and turn him in
It's call patriotism

The world is watching in disbelief
Chanting shame on you
How can you stand by so quietly
Letting them rape your liberties

You can't be bothered or concerned
You see no reason for alarm
Prejudice, religion hate
Usher in new mandate
Absolute and resolved
One nation under one god
Lack of interest has its price
As we're stripped of all our rights

Those who cannot learn from history
Are doomed to repeat it!

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yeh I had a friend send me the mp3s but they were like some live ones or someshit.. and i didn't get too into them, I need to seriously pick up that album, a lot of folks have told me it's the cat's PJs. Anyone heard the new deathcab yet? I'd like some opinions before dropping 20bills on it

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Criticism As Inspiration
Pedro the Lion

I saw in your bedroom
The drawers had been emptied
Looking for answers
But you won't admit it now
You don't need a reason
That's what you tell me
But I still don't buy it
Drink yourself silly
Night after night

It makes me feel so good
To always tell you when you're wrong
The big man that I am
To always have to put you down
Put you down

Then there's your girlfriend
She opens her legs and
Gives your life meaning
Is that what you love her for
The angels are always looking down
He's perfect with a frown
The bully always wins

It makes me feel so good
To always tell you when you're wrong
The big man that I am
To always have to put you down
Put you down

It makes me feel so good
To always tell you when you're wrong
The big man that I am
To always have to put you down
It makes me look so good
To always put you in your place
I can write it in a song
But never say it to your face
To your face

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Primus

MY NAME IS MUD

My name is Mud
Not to be confused with Bill or Jack or Pete or Dennis
My name is mud and it's always been
'Cause I'm the most boring sons-a-bitch you've ever seen
I dress in blue-yes navy blue
From head to toe I'm rather drab except my patent shoes
I make 'em shine, well most the time
'Cept today my feet are troddin' on by this friend of mine
Six foort two and rude as hell
I got to get him in the ground before he starts to smell

My name is Mud

My name is Mud,
but call me Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie
That's long for Mud, so I've been told
Told that by this sonsabitch that lies before me bloated blue and cold
I've got my pride, I drink my wine
I'd drink the finest except I haven't earned a dime in several months
Or were it years
The breath on that fat bastard could bring any man to tears
We had our words, a common spat
So I kissed him upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat

My name is Mud

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Merits: 241

Sweet Primus rules! My personal fave :

The Air is Getting Slippery

It’s incredibly hot in here today, incredibly hot in here
It’s incredibly hot in here today, incredibly hot in here
The air is getting slipper and it’s not to my surprise
My heart, it beats irregularly and the sweat it fills my eyes
I do not mind what I excrete ’cause
I’m here to make a buck
And those that cannot take the heat can take a flying...
Forgive me if I hesitate
It’s incredibly hot in here today, incredibly hot in here

The dogs are barking merrily as jerry sits on high
If you’ve studied your floyd property, you’d know that pigs could fly
Now if you want an encore you might hear it is luck
But me, I’d rather play residents, ’cause I don’t give a...
Forgive me if I hesitate
It’s incredibly hot in here today, incredibly hot in here

Now, fatty, he’s a hell of a guy but he sweats like a dancing mule
He likes to hang out at checker gas with the chets he knew from high school
He sold enough crystal meth to buy a stepside truck
But if you ask me twice I’d say the boy ain’t worth a...
Forgive me if I hesitate
It’s incredibly hot in here today, incredibly hot in here

The act of perspiration is far beyond control
If the heat compels to aspirate please try not to miss the bowl
If sweatiness makes you horny, well darlin’ I think you’re in luck
’cause all this clever banter gives me the urge to fuck

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viðrar vel til loftárása

ég læt mig líða áfram
í gegnum hausinn
hugsa hálfa leið
afturábak
sé sjálfan mig syngja fagnaðarerindið
sem við sömdum saman
við áttum okkur draum
áttum allt
við riðum heimsendi
við riðum leitandi
klifruðum skýjakljúfa
sem síðar sprungu upp
friðurinn úti
ég lek jafnvægi
dett niður
alger þögn
ekkert svar
en það besta sem guð hefur skapað
er nýr dagur

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vilket faen språk er det.

Ilama is a nazi terrorist.

Thats fact, you heard it here first.

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COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh

Not sure how most feel about these guys or if they even know them, but I really like most of their songs.

Requiem For The Innocent by Kamelot

mother can you hold me
one more time again
whisper "I still love you? in my ear
mother did you lie
would you tell me why
there is something deeper that I fear
justify the malice I portray
daggers in the darkness find your way
when the moon is full and piercing bright
drench me with your innocence tonight

don't you want to die
walk beside me evermore
don't you feel alive
like you've never felt before

visions of the future
unprofound and blurred
I have passed the point of no return

justify the malice I portray
let me keep my beauty one more day
when the moon is full and piercing bright
drench me with your innocence tonight
don't you want to die
walk beside me evermore
don't you feel alive
like you've never felt before

don't you want to die
souls transcending, silver shine
don't you feel alive
your blood preserves my place in time

Save yourself a penny for the ferryman
Save yourself and let them suffer
In hope
In love
This world ain`t ready for The Ark
Mankind works in mysterious ways

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