No, lyrics thread. You are not allowed to die. I've been pretty obsessed with this song lately. It's another one of those hurricane-of-feels songs, and I feel this personal connection to it myself. It's like it's a song about that soul I used to have. ;_; I just see faces. Faces staring blank as they go on with the routine. This routine. Nothing new... its time to go through with this. A spaceman. That’s what they say I am. Nothing but a spaceman... always pushing it all away. Trying to get to that one place I call home. The journey begins... forcing a new life with the unexplained... a creeping rush that surrounds me. Floating... floating away. Always pushing it all away. Trying to get to that one place I call home. My own planet... I allowed this wish... unexpected... not knowing why. (I) Wonder why I question it now. I'm my own planet... not many can experience this sensation. Loneliness is creeping out... or in, however you think of it. But it sure is surrounding me. Maybe all the complaining is an accruance of boredom. I suppose it’s too late. I am floating farther and farther away. I did love, I did laugh, I did live. (Now I’m my own planet.) A spaceman. They say I am... a spaceman. --Between the Buried and Me, Sun of Nothing BTBAM's poetry is freaking great.
WeltenBrand - Bewitched Herds Boys Two boys tended cattle in the Triesner upper village An old woman passed and greeted them but the boys just shouted You old witch you and threw rocks after her The woman turned around and yelled down to them I will get you on your heels And as if on command all the cows lifted their tails and raced towards the Rhein The boys were forced to follow as if pulled by invisible ropes and everything happend so fast that they tumbled many times Dead tired and with lots of bruises they reached their cattle at the Rhein and wanted to drive them back but of no avail all the hitting was useless The two fell asleep in the grass When the bells in the morning played Ave Maria the cows walked back home The farmer saw them coming and discovered the welts He searched for the boys finally found them full of cuts and bruises and they told him what happened here...
For what is the meaning of life? If not... Suffering I wonder what's the meaning of this weak existance If not... Sorrow ~Endless Solitude - Shining~ Suicide Is that the way Where we all will end up After the miserable loneliness These spended hours and days Reaching the exit of living Hopelessness Is what I feel Leading myself to failure Must escape this **** This futility of life It's time to end everything It's time to end everything... ~Life - Unjoy~ When night falls She cloaks the world In impenetrable darkness A chill rises From the soil And contaminates the air Suddenly... Life has new meaning ~Dunkelheit - Burzum~
"Love - Devotion Feeling - Emotion Don't be afraid to be weak Don't be too proud to be strong Just look into your heart my friend That will be the return to yourself The return to innocence If you want, then start to laugh If you must, then start to cry Be yourself don't hide Just believe in destiny* Don't care what people say Just follow your own way Don't give up and use the chance To return to innocence* That's not the beginning of the end That's the return to yourself The return to innocence* Don't care what people say Follow just your own way Follow just your own way Don't give up, don't give up To return, to return to innocence. If you want then laugh If you must then cry Be yourself don't hide Just believe in destiny." Enigma - Return to innocence
Every now and then We find a special friend Who never lets us down Who understands it all Reaches out each time you fall You're the best friend that I've found I know you can't stay A part of you will never ever go away Your heart will stay I'll make a wish for you And hope it will come true That life would just be kind To such a gentle mind If you lose your way Think back on yesterday Remember me this way Remember me this way I don't need eyes to see The love you bring to me No matter where I go And I know that you'll be there Forever more a part of me, you're everywhere I'll always care And I'll be right behind your shoulder watching you I'll be standing by your side and all you do And I won't ever leave As long as you believe You just believe I'll make a wish for you And hope it will come true That life would just be kind To such a gentle mind If you lose your way Think back on yesterday Remember me this way Remember me this way
We are dying in the wake of gods and decrees remain arcane And everything around us is a consequence of pain The writings on the wall depict a truth that no one reads A government of puppets blinded by another creed From 'The Lines in My Hand' by Opeth
Hello, boys and girls This is your old pal stinky wizzleteats This is a song about a whale No, this is a song about being happy That's right, it's the happy, happy, joy, joy, song Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy I don't think you're happy enough That's right, I'll teach you to be happy I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs Now, boys and girls, let's try it again Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy If'n you ain't the granddaddy of all liars Think of the little critters of nature They don't know that they're ugly That's very funny, a fly marrying a bumblebee I told you, 'I'd shoot', but you didn't believe me Why didn't you believe me? Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy
There's a ghost down in the hall There's a ghoul upon the bed There's something in the walls There's blood up on the stairs And it's floating through the room And there's nothing I can see And I know that that's the truth Because now it's haunting me I don't understand it Hey I don't understand it! ...Aaow There's a thumpin' in the floor There's a creak behind the door There's a rocking in the chair But there's no-one sitting there There's a ghostly smell around But nobody to be found And a coughin' and a yawnin' Where a restless soul is going Don't understand it! Hey Don't understand it! ...Ha-Hey! And who gave you the right to shame my family? And who gave you the right to shake my baby, she needs me And who gave you the right to shame my family tree? You put a knife in my back Shot an arrow in me! Tell me are you the ghost of jealousy? The ghost of jealousy There's a thumpin' in the floor There's a creak behind the door There's a rocking in the chair But nobody's sitting there There's a ghostly smell around But nobody to be found And a coughin' and a yawnin' Where a restless soul is going Don't understand it! Yeah Yeah! Don't understand it! You're just a dog gone! Aaow! And who gave you the right to scare my family? And who gave you the right to scare my baby, she needs me And who gave you the right to shame my family tree? And who gave you the right to take intrusion, to see me? And who gave you the right to shame my family? And who gave you the right to hurt my baby, she needs me And who gave you the right to shame my family tree? You put a knife in my back, Shot an arrow in me! Tell me are you the ghost of jealousy A suckin' ghost of jealousy ...Aaow! And who gave you the right to shame my family? And who gave you the right to shake my baby, she needs me And who gave you the right to shame my family tree? And who gave you the right to take, intrusion to see me? And who gave you the right to hurt my family? And who gave you the right hurt my baby, she needs me And who gave you the right to shame my family tree? You put a knife in my back Shot an arrow in me! Tell me are you the ghost of jealousy The ghost of jealousy, Aaow! Aaow Dog gone But there's no doubt about it, piece of mind Tell me are you the ghost of jealousy
In my dream smoke followed me As on fire the whole world had been To the yard I walked in Up the frontstep and opened the door Cranes flew over to the North As I walked on dry And passed through a grove Yellow with flowers They had been expecting me They said so and I believed In my dream smoke came to me And we became as one I am smoke ~ 'The Smoke' by Amorphis. Such dreamy and powerful lyrics.
Went and listened to this song out of curiosity. Gods it's pretty. ;_; I don't know if it's because of BTBAM or what, but I'm finding abstract poetry a lot more attractive lately. Maybe it's the dreaminess (or nightmarishness) of them, or maybe it's the satisfaction that comes with solving a tough riddle. Like this gem... it took me forever to figure out what the hell it was about. XD Rebuild. Cannot close our eyes. Construction paper traffic...corner office destruction. The cityscape burns brighter by the hour. Clock tower: bring us all down. Marching like ants to the foundation of a higher form. Trash. Capped and smothered. Trash bag. Trash hat. Feed me fear. (Informal gluttony) Construction paper lawns...force-fed attention grabber... when will you learn. First come first serve. The all you can eat trumpet...playing the tunes of our death. Breathe......now blow. Now blow. Let it be heard. The preacher's talent is going through the airwaves. (I need to be led in the right direction. Set up the bumpers... running in the gutter) The little kids taught me well... but I wonder why they don't listen anymore. (It's a television nightmare). Eat and watch, eat eat eat...what they feed. Corner office tubes...give me the best view in the hut. Feed me fear. (Informal gluttony) --Between the Buried and Me, Informal Gluttony
You're getting it faster than I did. rofl It's about needing to rebuild ourselves as a society. It obviously outlines mass media as part of the problem, and it also talks about how living like clockwork (Clock tower: bring us all down. / Marching like ants to the foundation of a higher form) is making us complacent and unwilling to move forward or think for ourselves. And the chorus is about how we use fear to control people, both ourselves and other nations. "Trash. Capped and smothered. Trash bag. Trash hat." are some of my favorite lyrics Tommy has written, because they managed to make me audibly go "Okay, WHAT." when I first read them. Tommy really knows how to sound random but have it still mean something, you just have to chew on it for a minute... pun semi-intended. EDIT: I guess I should add that despite how bizarre the imagery in their songs tend to be, BTBAM's poetry is usually meant to be taken literally, which is why Informal Gluttony took me by surprise. They have one particular song that describes a headless woman who turns into an amalgamation of walking trees. There is some symbolism involved, but on the whole, the song is no more of a metaphor than any fictional story you'd read. It's not just a collection of metaphors like Informal Gluttony; it's describing a story where that very thing is actually happening. Tommy has a hell of an imagination on him.
Weltenbrand - The Ghost of New Years Eve In the old days one believed in Triesenberg when one went to church at midnight on new year's eve one could see all the deceased from the previous year And then someone read their names and that person then was the next one to die A curious man went at midnight of new year's eve into the church and hid up in the choir loft Fifteen ghosts entered the church in succession and gathered around the pulpit A living read their names but at the end he said you come too you who has hidden up in the organ Pale as death the man snuck to the ghosts and suddenly everything disappeared when his wife wanted to wake him on new year's morning he laid dead in bed
Sunlight failed - but only for a while In the moonlight pale - someone made me smile The shining almost took me - but I made it through that night And in the morning life it graced me - and I ran for miles Sunlight... In a billion dreams - that are lost and won Moonlight... In spite of all you've seen - there's only one way out ~ 'Sunlight' by Anathema
To those who understand, I extend my hand. To the doubtful I demand: take me as I am. Not under your command; I know where I stand. I won't change to fit your plan; take me as I am. As I am. ~ "As I Am" - Dream Theater I'm OK. I've finally found the person I've been searching for. I'm alright. I'm feeling good about myself and that's for sure. I remember when they said I must do things their way. They tried to cast me in their mold, but I just had to say That I'm OK. I'm OK this way, yes I'm OK. Yes I'm OK! ~ "I'm OK" - Styx
Yesterday's over my shoulder, so I can't look back for too long. There just much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I can't go wrong. Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Drifting... Farther than they can see driftiiiing.... From my god-forsaken vanity watch mee... As I disappear... watch mee... Escape from Heere... -drifting- wrapped in rapture
This is for the hearts still beating (Converge - Last Light) Twin Arteries flow with the pulse of one mighty heart (Isis - 20 Minutes / 40 Years) Slow change might bring holy tears upon his battered skull (Isis - Holy Tears) Spiraling into the ground below like autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away (Opeth - The Drapery Falls) Boards of Canada - An Eagle In Your Mind "Holts are nearly always close to the sea, fallen boulders, old ruins, and cliffs, all at the top of a [sand crevice?], high above the sea: a safe place for cubs. We wait ... tense. We're disappointed. She leaves her [sprint?] loaded by others of us The holts are evenly [spent?], about 500 meters apart, [some warped speech] who passes by, or they (advertise?)"
