Lyric driven mix tape.

[LikeAnAvalanche]

I place a giant emphasis on lyrics, so every now and then I get attached to a song that musically I don't really appreciate all that much, but I learn to. Here is my mix-tape of those songs.

1. A Love Like Pi - Innocent man
Holy God, that we have failed, we killed your carpenter with nails.
2. I Set My Friends On Fire - Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beerholder
There's so much oxygen that I forgot to breathe.
3. Mayday Parade - If You Wanted A Song Written About You, All You Had To Do Was Ask.
And you dropped the note and we changed key.
You changed yourself and I changed me.
I really didn't see us singing through this.
Then you screamed the bridge
and I cried the verse.
And our chorus came out unrehearsed.
4. The Receiving End Of Sirens - Planning A Prison Break
Somehow, for now, this skin will have to do.
5. Progress In Color - It's A Plague
I know my songs were never profound, they were never sincere enough to make your heart sing out.
6. The Dear Hunter - The Pimp And The Priest
In the chapel, the brothel, where we suffocate stress.
7. A Day To Remember - Homesick
Hey mom, I wrote you some soft songs, and tell dad I'm just fine.
8. The Dangerous Summer - A Space To Grow
You settled for the pencil days.
I'm a paint brush in a way.
I'm simple, yeah, I'm plain.
I'm colored all the same.
I have meaning if you find it in yourself.
9. Brighten - Without You
Well I could fight a war like a veteran
Give you a little more like a gentleman
Learning from before, I'll be a better man
I know I need to
10. Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground - Birds (On A Day Like Today)
and I guess its why Marky ran away
to a sunnier LA.
he found his brain in an apartment in Chinatown.


What's yours?

[apsterling]

1. Cute Is What We Aim For - Newport Living
Everyone's a letdown, it just depends on how far down they can go.
In every circle friends there's a whore,
the one who flirts and does a little more.
But who's to say this is a social scene anyway?


2. Mayday Parade - Just Say You're Not Into It
In a show of hands, who has said these words before?
In a show of hearts on the floor, who has ever meant them more?
Well I'll swallow my pride if you'll stay for the years,
and watch me spin circles as I disappear;
and hearts they don't lie, they just quiver in fear.

3. The Appreciation Post - Beating Of A Lifetime
Life sucks, then you die: Thanks dad, for the advice,
You aim low, You get by, You won't win, so don't try.
It's the beating of a life time, it's taking it's toll tonight.

4. Farewell - Sucker Bait
Life-sentence spent in my head, skirting around the obvious
Brain-dead and gone- At least my mom thinks I'm a catch
Three square meals served up in bed
Far too ashamed for an audience; A self medicated mess
I'm the poster boy for abstinence

5. Go Radio - Welcome To Life
Welcome to life, here's what it's like, here's what it's always been
A shot in the dark, straight through the heart, while you're in the light with them;
And welcome to hurt, welcome to fear, it's better now that everybody's here.
Yeah, welcome to life.

6. Motion City Soundtrack - Fell In Love Without You
Last night, I fell in love without you.
I waved goodbye to that heart of mine beating solo on your lawn.
And every aching wound will cauterize and bruise, in memory of what we used to call "in love"
And only time will tell if violins will swell in memory of what we used to call "in love"


7. Flight 409 - Operator
I've got plans: Operator, can I talk to God?
Cause I plan on never ever waking up from this.
Oh, and after all the fights are over, we're just another day older.
But I've been going on days without sleep;
I might need another drink before the night runs out,
before we all wind down.

8. Fall Out Boy - Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today
Light that smoke, yeah, one for giving up on me
And one just cause they'll kill you sooner than my expectations.
To my favorite liar, to my favorite scar:
I could have died with you.

9. Bowling For Soup - Almost
And I here I go thinking about all things I coulda done:
I'm gonna need a forklift cause all the baggage weighs a ton.
I know we had our problems I can't remember one...
I almost forgot to say something else,
and if I can't fit it in I'll keep it all to myself.
I almost wrote a song about you today,
then I tore it all up and I threw it away.


10. Paramore - For A Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic
Just talk yourself up, and tear yourself down.
You've hit your one wall, now find a way around.
Well what's the problem, you've got a lot of nerve.
So what did you think I would say, now you can't run away,
you can't run away (You wouldn't.)

[LikeAnAvalanche]

1. Cute Is What We Aim For - Newport Living

Totally forgot how much I liked the lyrics in this song.

[apsterling]

Totally forgot how much I liked the lyrics in this song.

They tend to write pretty good lyrics, I just don't like Shaant's voice, mostly.

[KING COTTON]

i lol'd at the fall out boy lyrics

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - Three Peaches

There is no dream
So wake up run your lips across your fingers till you find
Some scent of yourself that you can hold up high
To remind yourself that you didn't die
On a day that was so crappy whole and happy you're alive

2. Bob Dylan - Masters of War

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.


3. Elliot Smith - Clementine

[this whole song is amazing]

4. The Pixies - Where is my Mind

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind [3x]

5. Soundgarden - The Day I Tried to Live

The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggar's change
And gave it to the rich
The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch
Singing

6. Cage - Shoot Frank

One last vein to poke made it too dark to see this
Scenery slips then line up to go in the ground and leave us
So repeat this till I'm sick and I won't feed this
To my little girl who kept me in this world to beat this
As a little kid taught to follow Jesus
Get to the front of the line I'm bein' lead by elitists
So when I speak words that I don't mean
It's like I'm only in a cloud to wonder what serene is
Unable to wake and delete the reasons
Or be the same bed I made up to sleep with demons
Whether sick sane of a pattern repeated
If I spit pain I knew how to relieve it
If at sixteen I had started to treat it
Till my shit changed whether or not I would need it
To trace back to the face before the fetus
If the departure was wrong from the gate then she is



7. Rites of Spring - For What Of

I—I believed—memory might mirror no reflections on me,
I—I believed—that in forgetting I might set myself free.
But I woke up this morning with a piece of past caught in my throat…
And then I choked.
I bled—I tried to hide the heart from the head.
And I—I said I bled—In the arms of a girl I'd barely met.
And I woke up this morning with the present in splinters on the ground—
And then I drowned.


8. Neutral Milk Hotel - Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone

There are beads that wrap
Around your knees that crackle into the dark
Like a walk in the park like a hole in your head
Like the feeling you get when you realize you're dead
This time we ride roller coasters into the ocean
We feel no emotion as we spiral down to the world
And I guess it's worth your time
Because there's some lives you live
And some you leave behind
It gets hard to explain
The gardenhead knows my name

9. Strike Anywhere - Detonation (not the most amazing lyrics but this song is powerful)

We are not the images we see
I refuse to follow the fashion to its end
hypocrisy is killing me
on the rights of your wealth I disagree
this puppets culture scars our tongues with what's unsung
but we're not finished we're not done

10. Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van (brings back memories)


"Have you been drinking son, you don't look old enough to me"
"I'm sorry officer is there a certain age you're supposed to be?.. nobody told me"
Up rolled the riot van
And these lads just wind the coppers up
Ask why they don't catch proper crooks
Get their address and their name's took
But they couldn't care less


11. Qwel - Broken Wing

Dah nuh na na nuh
G4 fo sure, we're goin to war son
On his snide pride lyin with a smile and forked tongue
Stealin with his eyes, chillin back of the forefront
Will's design to ill the mind, but here the fourth horse comes
Screamin come freedom in this season of drought
Masonic demons meet in secret, we believe it aloud
Without the greedy, grubbin, ducky hands just feet in the clouds
Swingin sickle at these anti Christos, keeping us down
Blingin, heathen at this bloody freak-nic, geekin to drown
Crowds of weekend warriors, but Meaty seeked so we found
Never peace on this earth, reserved for sleep in the ground
Awaken only perfect in to keep the weakness without
But who's that creepin in the teachin without speakin a sound?
The loudest deacon fell asleep and shrouds his speech with a doubt
Yah's fallen singer, fingers you down to scheme and a shout
Blinded eyes screamin, "why?" tryin to beef with the how


12. Bright Eyes - First Day of the Rest of My Life

[whole song is amazing]

those are in my mind at the moment

[i_versions]

I - as cities burn / the widow

"my mother taught my brothers and i not to call you daddy, but to call you father"

II - we came as romans / dreams

"beloved, let us love one another"

III - la dispute / such small hands

"i think i saw you in my sleep, darling. you were stitching up the seams on every broken promise that your body couldn't keep"

IV - ophira / old son

"you were taught to breathe, you'll learn to live"

V - comerica / breather

"breather, let me in. your body's so much stronger when i'm underneath your skin. your heart beats so much faster when you're listening to Him. and when you start to fall, i'll be underneath it all"

VI - oceana / creations

"is there space between, us and a love machine?"

VII - pmtoday / i am wrong

"am i wrong to assume that every woman is just like you? you fall in love so you can wear a dress. you wed to ensure your peers are impressed. but i am wrong if i say i do. i'd be lying to you. i'm bored with your friends and sick of your moods. i'm tired of selling i love you too. i am wrong"

VIII - rosaline / the new utah

"i know that, everything, everything falls apart, in the end"

VIV - like moths to flames / avada kedavra

"so let it go when your words mean nothing, i never believed in a thing that you said to me. so now that i let this go, its time to live your life"

X - structures / encounter

"our lives are nothing but a means to an end"

[clyde2020]

here's a few of mine, I'm sure I'll prolly be back with more later...

1. Therefore I Am - The Modern World. A Battlefield

"Just run away, its the best way to fix all those fading friendships we've lost" So answer this then, what's left to do when you've got no one around you? When everyone you know is a ghost When everything you hold in your hands keeps slipping away Well, still you say I never give enoughI never open up Well, you got it, here I am I scream in front of random people on random nights of the week Spilling my guts for strangers, writing my life on paper Here I am

2. Four Year Strong - One Step At A Time

one step at a time one foot in front of the other i'm gonna get through this one way or another cause i know it's warmer where you are
cause no matter how far the view i still always look up to you

3. Eyes Set to Kill - Reach

Hush don't speak a word about the dreams that I live for It hurts to reach you when I'm down Don't speak again, I'm still waiting for my turn
It hurts to reach you when I'm down

4. The Receiving End Of Sirens - Dead Men Tell No Tales

We have tested the buoyancy of loyalty. You left our lungs for canteens. You left our ankles for anchors. We thought your arms were tied behind your back, But elastic bands tied your hands. You swim with reckless abandon.

5. From Autumn to Ashes - Daylight Slavings

This city truly is assaulting my senses Unkempt unruly devour defenseless Occupant if poverty build character And spoils breed arrogance
Id rather consort with the low and the decadent

6. From First to Last - Note To Self

two roads split off from here, and my life goes running in opposite directions, exaggerating the barrier between who i am and who i want to be

7. United Nations - The Shape of Punk That Never Came

Sometimes false hope is better than nothing at all. Sometimes a dying breath can make true words.

8. Sky Eats Airplane - Giants In The Ocean

My camera's zoom it captures all that might embrace it unsteadied ice creates the wake in deeper places oh darling I cant bare the thought of seperation the years will pass and we'll forget just how this made us there is substance in this silence the proof of what surrounds us. photographs are a mirror image look deep and see yourself in them.


9. This Providence - Losing Control

Honestly, if I'm honest with myself. I've cried myself to sleep. Crying out, 'Oh God, where are you? Can you hear my scream way up there.
Through the clouds, in heaven? Do you even care?' And honestly if I'm honest with myself. I hate the song they sing. It's like salt on an open wound.
But I can't get it out of my head.

10. Taking Back Sunday - One Eigthy By Summer

She says, "Live up to your first impression" Well my best side was your worst invention Why can't you live without the attention? Why can't you live without the attention?

[introduction]

the creek drank the cradle - iron and wine

all i need.

[mymomsapanda]

counterparts- sturdy wings

everything we are today stems from the marrow of our back bone. this is dedication at its finest, and we owe everything that we have to you, our driving force, causing us to constantly better ourselves. we are redefining the meaning of contentment. and though the odds are against us, we all know that we will prevail. we will prevail. accepting all the negativity and turning it into fuel for the flames that we keep burning on the inside. burning from the inside-out. consider this a thank you, for helping us to mold our future selves. and your words alone are not enough to destroy our commitment. this is where i belong. this where we belong.

[deadmanscurve]

Mayonaise- Smashing Pumpkins

"No more promise no more sorrow
No longer will I follow
Can anybody hear me
I just want to be me
When I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will"

Broken Heart- Motion City Soundtrack

"But I get carried away with every day
And every fantasy
The deeper the wound,
The harder I swoon and wish that that was me
There's so much to say
But no words to convey
The loneliness building with each passing day
But I’m getting used to it
You have to get used to it

I’ll devise the best disguise
A brand new look and take them by surprise
They’ll never guess what’s not inside
I’ll express myself with ease,
With confidence and character complete
With fingers crossed, they’ll talk to me"

[jsquaredyo]

This is an awesome forum topic.

Can I say everything by La Dispute?
example:"We are the lovers; we are the last of our kind.
Link your arms and keep your chin up and I swear that we'll be fine" (from The Last Lost Continent)
As Cities Burn - Clouds"I think our love isn't Love, unless it's love to the end."Bright Eyes - Bowl of Oranges"But if the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a wall,
Then i think we'd see the beauty then, and stand staring in awe
At our still lives posed
Like a bowl of oranges"
Copeland - I'm a Sucker for a Kind Word"In a house without a back door I was looking for a fire escape,
And I'll be ripping up the floorboards just trying to get away from this sleeplessness"
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr."And in my best behavior I am really just like him,
Look beneath the floorboards for the secrets I have hid"Ben Harper - Amen Omen
"Silence is the loudest parting word you never say"
Emery - The Ponytail Parades"Three sleepless nights, this isn't how it's supposed to be.
But you're so good at taking your time to get back to me"
The Avett Brothers - Ballad of Love and Hate"Love has been waiting patient and kind,
Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign
That the one that she cares for who’s out of his mind
Will make it back safe to her arms"
Thrice - The Weight"Come what may, I won't abandon or leave you behind,
Because love is a loyalty sworn, not a burning for a moment"
August Burns Red - Composure"Wave goodbye to the past, You've got your whole life to lead...
It's time to gain some ground"
Well there's a few. I'm a sucker for good lyricists.

[Indoor Living]

There's a lot of lyrics in here that are 'ick.'

[deadmanscurve]

Bright Eyes - Bowl of Oranges"But if the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a wall,
Then i think we'd see the beauty then, and stand staring in awe
At our still lives posed
Like a bowl of oranges"
Yesss!!

"Each person I encountered, I couldn't wait to meet
And I came upon a doctor, who appeared in quite poor health,
I said there's nothing that I can do for you you can't do for yourself,
He said 'Oh yes you can, just hold my hand I think that that would help',
So I sat with him a while and I asked him how he felt,
He said 'I think I'm cured, no in fact I'm sure of it, thank you stranger, for your therapeutic smile'

So that's how I learned the lesson, that everyone's alone,
And your eyes must do some raining, if you're ever gonna grow,
But when crying don't help, you can't compose yourself, it's best to compose a poem,
An honest verse of longing, or a simple song of hope,
That's why I'm singing baby don't worry,
'Cause now I got your back, and everytime you feel like crying, I'm gonna try and make you laugh,
And if I can't if it just hurts too bad, then we'll wait for it to pass, and I will keep you company,
For those days so long and black"


Eugh. These words are just... impeccable.