Lyrics To Live By

[StarF]

Music is basically a universal love, in some way everyone enjoys music. Some more than others, but I think that everyone does, it's just one of those things. With that in mind, we all have those songs we feel we can relate to, or artists we look up to, and so this is a thread to post nuggets of life-guidance/wisdom you've taken from your favorite songs.

Please no full lyrics, just important lines or short stanzas. :)

Here are a few of mine that I can think of right away:

"With my morals in tact, plus the fact still remains that the depth of empty pockets makes you appreciate change."
-Glue (Haunt)

"And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist."
-Streetlight Manifesto (Here's To Life)

"I always say what I feel and that is a promise, nothing in life is above being honest."
-311 (Jack-o-Lantern's Weather)

"I could never understand why people can't begin again.
Why people can't apprecaite it's okay to do something great.
Yeah, I know, I'm repeating myself again and again and again."
-Bomb The Music Industry! (493 Ruth)

"Smile big, hug bigger
Talk big, act bigger
Stop judging, do something.
Shut the fuck up, DO something."
-Bomb The Music Industry! ((Shut) Up The Punx!!!)

"‘Cause the last thing I wanna be is another negative asshole. Like God speaks through my acoustic guitar and I’ve got the perfect set of morals."
-Bomb The Music Industry! ((Shut) Up The Punx!!!)

"Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
thou shalt not make repetitive generic music."
-Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip (Thou Shalt Always Kill)

"Thou shalt think for yourselves."
-Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip (Thou Shalt Always Kill)

[Johncoyne]

Well, shake it up, baby, now, (shake it up, baby)
Twist and shout. (twist and shout)
C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby, now, (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out. (work it on out)

Well, work it on out, honey. (work it on out)
You know you look so good. (look so good)
You know you got me goin', now, (got me goin')
Just like I knew you would. (like I knew you would)

~Twist and Shout

[StarF]

"And people are just people,
They shouldn't make you nervous.
The world is everlasting,
It's coming and it's going.
If you don't toss your plastic,
The streets won't be so plastic.
And if you kiss somebody,
Then both of you'll get practice."
-Bomb The Music Industry! (Ghost of Corporate Future)

[Ryan]

'opinions are immunity to being told you're wrong, paper rock and scissors they all have their pros and cons' - Relient K

[kadie]

"I'm through excepting limits, cause someone says they're so,
some things I cannot change, but til I try I'll never know."
-Defying Gravity from Wicked

[Trey]

"I smell pussy" ~ 50 Cent

XD jk. trollin

[click3tyclick]

The bodies convulse in agony and pain
I mangle their face 'till no features remain
A blade for the butchery, I cut 'em to shreds
First take out the organs, then cut off the heads

[Deleted]

Eles não sabem que o sonho
É uma constante da vida
Tão concreta e definida
Como outra coisa qualquer

(...)

Eles não sabem nem sonham
Que o sonho comanda a vida
E que sempre que o homem sonha
O mundo pula e avança
Como bola colorida
Entre as mãos duma criança

Pedra Filosofal - Manuel Freire - Composition: António Gedeão

English:

They don't know that the dream / Is a constant of life / As concrete and defined / As anything else
(...)
They don't know nor they dream / That the dream commands life / And always that a man dreams / The world jumps and moves forward / Like a colored ball / Between the hands of a child

I would have put other parts of the lyrics, but I can't put all of the song, nor do I know how to translate some parts into Portuguese while keeping the poetry of it.

[Yokailo]

Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don't think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything gonna be all right
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she's me

Opheliac ~Emilie Autumn

I'm gonna be a history maker in this land
I'm gonna be a speaker of truth to all mankind
I'm gonna stand, I'm gonna run

History Maker ~Delirious?

[click3tyclick]

Apr 25, 2010 14:13:35 GMT -5 @ptmb said:

Eles não sabem que o sonho
É uma constante da vida
Tão concreta e definida
Como outra coisa qualquer

(...)

Eles não sabem nem sonham
Que o sonho comanda a vida
E que sempre que o homem sonha
O mundo pula e avança
Como bola colorida
Entre as mãos duma criança

Pedra Filosofal - Manuel Freire - Composition: António Gedeão

English:

They don't know that the dream / Is a constant of life / As concrete and defined / As anything else
(...)
They don't know nor they dream / That the dream commands life / And always that a man dreams / The world jumps and moves forward / Like a colored ball / Between the hands of a child

I would have put other parts of the lyrics, but I can't put all of the song, nor do I know how to translate some parts into Portuguese while keeping the poetry of it.

Yes, Pedra Filosofal is an excellent poem. I remember studying it in class a few months ago. It was awesome.

[bagelz]

Thinking 'bout tomorrow won't
change how I feel today

-Matt & Kim
Lessons Learned