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Recently got around to playing through the recent Aesop Rock album (I'm tardy, I know) and there were a few moments the lyrics just completely hit me. I think we all have some lyrics that hit us like that though, ones that either resonate or just convey emotions all too well.

So, anyway, ITT we post up to 4 lines of god-tier lyrics.

Today I pulled three green frogs out of leaf and bark
Where the grape vines climb a convenient barn
I told them, "You will grow to be something tenacious and exalted;
You are mighty, you are gracious, you are lauded"

Oh, you touch my tralala,
Mmm... my ding ding dong.
La la la la la la la,
La la la la la la.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z13qnzUQwuI

At 2/25/14 08:45 AM, Asandir wrote: Oh, you touch my tralala,
Mmm... my ding ding dong.
La la la la la la la,
La la la la la la.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z13qnzUQwuI

Goddamnit, I remember when that was a legitimate song on the radio. Music used to be soooooooooo shit

The crowd had gathered there to watch him fall, to watch their hopes destroyed.
They watched them beat him, they watched them break him, they watched his last defense deployed.
There was not a man among them who would let himself be heard.
But from the crowd, from their collective fear, arose these broken words:
We are the dead

- Hope Rides Alone, The Protomen

I'm going to have to go with 10001110101 by Clutch.

Ain't nothin' you can do about it.
Gonna Be a big brawl over it, like them itty bitty babies in the king cake.
Bonnie and Clyde, the whole dome...
The shackles of automaton will shatter like their bones!

I don't eat no ham n' eggs, cuz they're high in cholesterol
Ay yo, Phife do you eat em?
No, Tip do you eat em?
Uh uh, not at all

The whole goddamned thing.

Bodies By Drowning Pool

--supergandhi64

My heart's getting heavy, my blood's getting cold, you changed me into something that I just can't control.

If you see me coming, best get out of my way. The Pendulum is swinging back the other way.

At 2/25/14 07:06 AM, AxTekk wrote:

Today I pulled three green frogs out of leaf and bark
Where the grape vines climb a convenient barn
I told them, "You will grow to be something tenacious and exalted;
You are mighty, you are gracious, you are lauded"

I'd also like to share some Aes Rizzle lyrics:
"We don't need another hero, homie
Go gallop off on your My Little One Trick Pony"
-Some freestyle or something, I think.

Nothing super fancy, but makes me laugh every time. Also reminds me of that internet-stereotype that guys who defend women on the internet are supposedly super-nerdy or something. What are they called? White-knighters or something? I dunno, I don't visit 4chan as much as the rest of the BBS does.

But on a more serious note:
His whole Daylight EP is full of emotional, powerful lyrics and awe-inspiring quotes and lyrics from songs like, Daylight, Nightlight, Nickel Plated Pockets, and the untitled track at the end. That untitled track in particular...Jesus, what an intimate look into in his life. It's basically about his going through a serious mental breakdown in the early 2000s. I'd say around twelve years ago, give or take a year or two.

The lyrics are "plain" in the sense that they're a lot easier to understand when compared to typical Aesop lyrics, but he's obviously not trying to be fancy in that song. None of that takes away from the fact that you can hear and feel a sort of sense of what he went through. Not fully, of course, because I'd reckon it's next to impossible to truly understand something like that until you've been through it.

OH! And the song "None Shall Pass" by good ole Bazooka Tooth is a great one as well. I mean, they're all great, but I especially like this song.

On the TV someone says,
"Send us money, we have AIDS"
Well I have AIDS,
And I don't give a FUCK!

At 2/25/14 03:23 PM, CiviLies wrote: I'd also like to share some Aes Rizzle lyrics:
"We don't need another hero, homie
Go gallop off on your My Little One Trick Pony"
-Some freestyle or something, I think.
[...]
OH! And the song "None Shall Pass" by good ole Bazooka Tooth is a great one as well. I mean, they're all great, but I especially like this song.

YES. Definitely. Fucking, any Aesop bars pretty much, but Labor Days is the album you link anyone who asks about Aesop Rock. Have you played through Skelethon yet? I gotta say, even bars aside, the beats Aesop wrote for it are just crazy.

Taikatalvi by Nightwish is amazing and the lyrics (especially because of Marco's vocals) are beyond amazing (it's basically a Finnish poem) because how well they go with the music and the theme of the song. That plus Finnish sounds really cool.

I especially love the second stanza:

Päällä talvisen maan hetki kuin ikuisuus
Mi pienen kissan jakoin luokseni hiipii
Tääl tarinain lähteellä asua saan mis
Viulu valtavan kaihon
Ikisäveltään maalaa
Laulullaan herättää maan

(English)
In winterland a moment is an eternity that
Creeps to me on kitten paws
I get to live here where the story begins
Where a violin echoes the eternal melody of immense longing
Waking up Gaia with its song

I can never not shiver with The Spirit of Radio, by Rush. Maybe it's a bit cliche, but it always gets to me. Waking up hearing "Begin the day with a friendly voice..." is always a pleasure, and indeed makes my day better from the beginning.

Rush is full of lyrics with this similar "feel", it's great.

"The word predicts the future, and tells the truth about the past, and how the world leaders will hail the new pharaoh"

Washington Is Next by Megadeth

Definitely "Save Yourself" by Stabbing Westward.

My life has been a nightmare
My soul is fractured to the bone
If I must be lonely
I think I'd rather be alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnNmq-bb6r0

No job's too big, no job's too small.

We're Father and Son, give us a call!

Light from Matisyahu

We came to taste the rain
we're just widows and orphans
not afraid to feel the pain
or to leave behind our notions.

So true. I love his stuff.

Valkyrja by Tyr

Faded grey are all the days of yesteryears
So much time has turned to memories and to tears
Lately I have often sat and thought till dawn
Of the days that are to come and those forgone

Seemed my time had passed me by
Like clouds across the sky
I was lost just like a raven in the night
Most dreams waste away alas
Mine all have come to pass
Since I laid my eyes upon my guiding light

Almost every time I listen to it my mind is blown.Most cats in my area be lovin' the hysteria. Synthesized surface conceals the interior.

I can't bring myself to listen to the entire song Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground, by Willie Nelson, without shedding a tear, I usually start getting teary eyed by the time he says, "I knew some day you'd fly away." the first time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3PB1jWO3_E

"Real G's move in silence like lasagna" - Lil' Wayne.

It floors me how awful it is, but at least now I know how to spell lasagna, thanks Wayne

At 2/26/14 01:15 AM, Gobblemeister wrote: Aesop Rock is retarded

In what world are frogs lauded or exalted

It doesn't even make sense it's just pomp for idiots who think it's impressive

Oh Gobble. Why you must you be such a goof.

"Ashes, ashes, we all fall down". Am I the only one that is puzzled that children are singing about the Bubonic Plague?

At 2/26/14 01:15 AM, Gobblemeister wrote: Aesop Rock is retarded

In what world are frogs lauded or exalted

It doesn't even make sense it's just pomp for idiots who think it's impressive

That's the point yo. The song's about being horrible inside and feeling disconnected from the world, so Aesop goes around finding disgusting, poisonous animals and trying to see the good in them. It's about the power and the limitations of love.

I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now.

Even though you broke my heart and killed me.