Rock and Pop- What are some of the wisest lyrics you've ever heard?

"If freedom frees the idiots I don't think I've been set free"

- I think I'm Going to see You - Showbread

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

"I don't want to find someone I can live with; I just want to find someone that I can't live without."

- A Hymn for Her - Anchor & Braille

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-XPbp7WTxo

"Sometimes love it hurts so much you never wanna touch the stuff again. But baby that's the only way you're never gonna outrun all the pain."

- Angels of Night - House of Heroes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb70Z1UUJCk

"Crazy" is, I believe, the medical term when we wanna recover, but we don't wanna learn. Keep breaking what's been fixed a thousand times."

-Iodine - Icon for Hire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2_E0X38FU

BQ: I actually do sometimes.

BQ2: I actually don't ask for recs because I already have a list of 20 bands to look up when I have the time.

Here are some that I have always thought were pretty clever:

"Pain is only a pulse if you just stop feeling it."

Time Consumer - Coheed and Cambria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1eAdCEvdv4

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

Schism - Tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG47gtMCo

"The daydreamers nightmare is to never even try"

11:00 AM (Daydreamer) - 10 Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhH0BWwexcs

"I feel just like somebody else. Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same."

One Headlight - The Wallflowers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM

Those are the ones that are coming to mind.

BQ: I have done that before, yeah. If they do, more power to them! I'm sure that some of the bands recommended that I like won't be liked by the person I gave them to.

BQ2: Love Among Ruins has been feeding me what Porcupine Tree stuff to check out. And she's been doing an incredible job :)

Hey hey hey :)

Gotta share my excitement with R&P that I'm gonna be watching RHCP on Saturday!

Billy Joel - Say Goodbye to Hollywood

"So many faces in and out of my life, some will last, some will just be now and then.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdjyLcuxyQ4

Steely Dan - Any Major Dude

"Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend, that any minor world that breaks apart falls together again."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtZ2J6rNDw

Supertramp - Poor Boy

"I've tried all I can understanding all the fools and all their money.

Enough to get by suits me fine, I don't care if you think me funny.

Though I'm just a poor boy I can still be happy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSVTvsC74dM

Regina Spektor - Small Town Moon

"Everybody not so nice-nice."

Simple and silly but sometimes a great wakeup call or chant in this case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnC-h36hM8

Corinne Baily Rae - Put Your Records On

"When're you gonna realize that you don't even have to try any longer?

Do what you want to!"

Again an odd place to look for wisdom but so so soothing

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

BA: Not unless people ask for something in particular.

BA2: Can't remember :P

Hmm...

-If we just took a step back, A bigger picture we might view, Perhaps the man in the gutter, Is not so different from you

Disparity by Design, Rise Against

Make no mistake, we are not afraid

To bear the burden of repeating

What they're thinking anyway.

Let's raise the stakes

On the bet we made.

Let's decide to be the architects,

The masters of our fate.

-Architects, Rise Against

-I feel lonely for all the losers that would never take the time to say what is really on their mind; instead, they just hide away.

When It's Time, Green Day

-They say that all beauty must die; I say it just moves on.

Save Me, Avenged Sevenfold

-Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost

Seize the Day, Avenged Sevenfold

-There seems to be a difference two different types of kids,

The one's who go out and the one's who are taught to live,

One groups taught how and the other group is taught why,

Streets, Avenged Sevenfold

-This ride that takes me through life

Leads me into darkness but emerges into light

No one can ever slow me down

I'll stay unbound

Unbound the Wild Ride, Avenged Sevenfold

-Modern globalization

Coupled with condemnations

Unnecessary death

Matador corporations

Puppeting your frustrations with a blinded flag

Manufacturing consent is the name of the game

The bottom line is money nobody gives a ****

4000 hungry children

Leave us per hour from starvation

While billions are spent on bombs

Creating death showers

BOOM, System of a Down

-But we all bleed the same way as you do

And we all have the same things to go through

Hold on if you feel like letting go

Hold on it gets better than you know

Don't stop looking, you're one step closer

Don't stop searching, it's not over

Hold On, Good Charlotte

-There's no way to explain why life is filled with so much pain, but do the flowers ever grow in the places it don't rain?

Let the Music Play, Good Charlotte

-all of the song Crazy by Simple Plan

-all of the song Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd/Shinedown

-all of the song Facade and Another Way to Die by Disturbed

BQ1: Sometimes.

BQ2: Hmm... I forgot.

Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Possibly the greatest lyrics of all time, at least in my opinion.

Also I should add Cage The Elephant is like my favorite band ever I got to jam a new song with Matt Shultz at starry nights last September there's a video on YouTube of it if you wanna hear the song just look up Matt Shultz starry nights. But if I had to pick a best lyrical song by them I'd probably argue for "Lotus"

"You never know when your fates gonna switch hands, Get today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand", It's just so damn true.

-Mos Def, "Know That"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIHZqFju58g

"Not like the others that came before, we are the ones who can change."

-Warrel Dane, "Let You Down"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzeng4BP7cM

"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.

Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.

All this pain is an illusion."

-Tool, "Parabola"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8SA4vfmsEk

"You only see what you want to believe" - Generic, but I always think about this short one liner.

-Sublime, "Same in the End"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP2uAHs57M4

"It's not my first time, actually it's nothing new

But that doesn't make it any easier to get through" -I've had times I've felt this exact feeling.

-Eyedea, "By the Throat"

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

"Time taught me how to see every second as heaven even though they're perfectly disguised as hell"

-Eyedea, "Smile"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZQHFU4NDU

"signs read "Support the troops!" "Bring em' home!" "No more innocent victims!"

but when a homeless veteran asks for spare change your to busy protesting to even listen"

^This line really hits for me. I have seen this attitude so many times it makes me sick.

Then the following line as well...

"I'm no different I live in conflict and contradiction but it can be so beautiful

when I don't reject what lies within"

-Eyedea, still from "Smile" Love this guy. Really this entire song.

BQ: Yes, I try to! lol

BQ2: Wreck And Reference. Really Experimental/Black Metal stuff, it's really awesome if your into that stuff.

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way, kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown, waiting for someone or something to show you the way. And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way, the time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say.

There's so much life I've left to live

And this fire is burning still

When I watch you look at me

I think I could find the will

To stand for every dream

And forsake this solid ground

And give up this fear within

Of what would happen if they ever knew

I'm in love with you

'Cause I'd surrender everything

To feel the chance to live again

I reach to you

I know you can feel it too

We'd make it through

A thousand dreams I still believe

I'd make you give them all to me

I'd hold you in my arms and never let go

I surrender

I know I can't survive

Another night away from you

You're the reason I go on

And now I need to live the truth

Right now, there's no better time

From this fear I will break free

And I'll live again with love

And no they can't take that away from me

And they will see...

I'd surrender everything

To feel the chance to live again

I reach to you

I know you can feel it too

We'd make it through

A thousand dreams I still believe

I'd make you give them all to me

I'd hold you in my arms and never let go

I surrender - Celine Dion <3

-"If I don't see you no more in this world, then I'll catch you on the next one and don't be late." - Jimi Hendrix "Voodoo Child." I really like this quote because it's just like "Hey, I'll see you again and everything will be alright." I don't believe in a Heaven or Hell but I do believe in an afterlife and it's fun to think the same way as that quote. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUcI8u-31c

-"Strangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet, I am you and what I see is me." - Pink Floyd "Echoes." I also like this quote because it basically describes love at first sight pretty perfectly. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFXD3wihQ6w

-"When I look in her eyes she goes with me to a blossom world." - The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations." I like this quote because it reminds me of love too (even though it's about LSD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6_sKPiKCnU&list=FL...

-"If you want to sing out sing out, and if you want to be free be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are. And if you want to live high, and if you want to live low, live low, there's a million ways to go, you know that there are." - Cat Stevens "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out." I love the whole song I wish I could quote it all, its so inspiring speaking about how you can do whatever you want. Live your dreams and be happy. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XgbdRhjTa4&list=FL...

-"My pussy taste like Pepsi Cola." - Lana Del Rey "Cola (Pussy)." I just think the quote is funny and a little raunchy so it's just there for laughs. It's a fun way to start off a song though :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpe__GbUzI4

Ok so here are some lyrics I choose:

1) "you only live once so just go ******* nuts"

You only live once by suicide silence. The original YOLO. XD

2) "Let's shout it loud and clear defiant to the end until we hear the call to carry on, we'll carry on and though your dead and gone believe me, your memory will carry on we'll carry on and though your broken and defeated, your weary widow marches."

Welcome to the black parade by my chemical romance.

3)"live right now,yeah, just be yourself,it dosent matter if your good enough for someone else"

Jimmy Eat World the middle

4)"pretty pretty please! If you ever ever feel like your nothin' your ******* perfect"

******* perfect by pink

I have lots more but if I put them all I would be here all night. Hope you enjoy!

BQ1: yes I do recommend bands and songs that I don't like to others if I know they will like them. Just because I dont like a band dosent mean they won't.