R&P: Lyrically what's the best song you have EVER heard. (Lyrically not musically)?

Bob Dylan - The Times they are A-changing

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'.

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'.

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'.

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'.

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

'Thrasher' by Neil Young

THRASHER by Neil Young

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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.

EDIT- Great call on "Last Rose of Summer"- one of my favorite Priest songs- and Sin After Sin is my fave JP album.

In terms of Rock, I was going to say a song by Bob Dylan. (Hadn't decided which) But since he's been mentioned a few times, I'll say Modest Mouse - White Lies, Yellow Teeth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLCnBqWs-sw

Overall, I would agree with Nexx Jordan, in that lyrically Theives in the Night is the best. Although, I prefer Respiration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5kBz7D3rHo&feature...

In the Real World- Roy Orbison...

or Behind blue Eyes by the Who, but I wanted to be original..

In dreams we do so many things

We set aside the rules we know

And fly the world so high

In great and shining rings

If only we could always live in dreams

If only we could make of life

What, in dreams, it seems

But in the real world

We must say our goodbyes

No matter if the love will live

It will never die

In the real world

There are things that we can't change

And endings come to us

In ways that we can't rearrange

I love you, and you love me

But sometimes we must let it be

In the real world

In the real world

When we were dreaming heart to heart

I wish that we had stayed right there

For when the dreamers do awake

The dreams do disappear

In the real world

There are things that we can't change

And endings come to us

In ways that we can't rearrange

I love you, and you love me

But sometimes we must let it be

In the real world

In the real world

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-uc9poLg0c&feature...

While riding on a train goin' west

I feel asleep for take my a rest

I dreamed a dream that make me sad

Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room

Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon

Where we together weathered many a storm

Laughin' and singing 'till the early hours of the morn'.

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung

Our words were told, our songs were songs

Where we longed for nothin' and were satisfied

Joking and talking about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold

We never thought we could ever get very old

We thought we could sit forever in fun

Our chances really was a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white

It was all that easy to tell wrong from right

And our choices they were few and the thought never hit

That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

How many a year has passed and gone

Many a gamble has been lost and won

And many a road taken by many a first friend

And each one I've never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain

That we could sit simply in that room again

Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat

I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

take care

dave

"Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" Dylan

http://bobdylanbiography.8k.com/bob_dylan_albums/B...

Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated by Rise Against

"When I die, will they remember not what I did, but what I haven't done? It's not the end that I fear with each breath; it's life that scares me to death. When we build these dreams on sand, how they all slip through our hands, and this might be our only chance. Let's take this one day at a time, I'll hold your hand if you hold mine; the time that we kill keeps us alive."

In Every Dream Home, a Heartache - Roxy Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSniBxXjK_8

In every dream home a heartache

And every step I take

Takes me further from heaven

Is there a heaven?

I`d like to think so

Standards of living

They are rising daily

But home oh sweet home

It only a saying

From bell push to faucet

In smart town apartment

The cottage is pretty

The main house a palace

Penthouse perfection

But what goes on

What to do there

Better pray there

Open plan living

Bungalow ranch style

All of it's comforts

Seem so essential

I bought you mail order

My plain wrapper baby

Your skin is like vinyl

The perfect companion

You float in my new pool

Deluxe and delightful

Inflatable doll

My role is to serve you

Disposable darling

Can't throw you away now

Immortal and life size

My breath is inside you

I'll dress you up daily

And keep you till death sighs

Inflatable doll

Lover ungrateful

I blew up your body...

But you blew my mind

Oh Those Heartaches

Dreamhome Heartaches

My choice would be Schism by Tool. I'm amazed by it's lyrics everytime I listen to it.

''I know the pieces fit, cause I watched them fall away,

Mildewed and smoldering,

Fundamental differing,

Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers' souls in motion,

Disintegrating as it goes, testing our communication,

The light that fueled our fire then, has burned a hole between us

So, we cannot seem to reach an end, crippling our communication.

I know the pieces fit, cause I watched them tumble down,

No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire to,

Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over,

To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication.

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,

And the circling is worth it,

Finding beauty in the dissonance.

There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away,

Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting,

I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing,

Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion.

Between supposed lovers.

Between supposed brothers.

I know the pieces fit.

I know the pieces fit...''

Lyrically speaking, ^^^^ those two verses describe all the political songs that came after the 9/11 attacks...

I'm still thinking about who i would nominate, i've gone through my playlist twice, i'll decide soon enough.

Edit: Road To Zion, by Damien Marley and Nas.