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Does anyone have any really good lyrics that make you think? one with good similes and metphores and just genius phrases in it?
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Dondante by My Morning Jacket:
In A Dream I Saw You Walkin - Like A Kid Alive And Talkin - That Was You. In The Classroom You Were Teachin - On The Streets You Were Policing That Was You. To The One I Now Know Most - I Will Tell Them Of Your Ghost Like A Thing -
That Never, Ever Was.
And All That Ever Mattered Will Some Day Turn Back To Batter Like A Joke. Behind Thin Walls You Hid Your Feelins - Take Four Legs To Make A Ceilin Like A Thing.
In A Dream I Saw You Walkin, With Your Friends Alive And Talking - That Was You. Well I Saw It In Your Movement - And Even Though You Never Knew It - Well, I Knew,
Just How Sweet It Could Be - If You'd Never Left These Streets.
You Had Me Worried! So Worried - That This Would Last... But Now I'm Learning - Learning That This Will Pass...
your ghost like a thing that never ever was a ceiling like a thing
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There's a lot, you just have to listen and write them down when you hear em. I have a huuuge collection of lyrics I've heard that just sounded so ill.
To give an example, write now I'm listening to "Lucy", and just heard the line: Look, I've never had a dream in my life. Cause a dream is what you wanna do but still haven't pursued. I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done, so I've been the dream that I wanted to be since day one.
See what I mean?
Anything by Chris Cornell(Temple of The Dog,Soundgarden,Audioslave) gets you thinking. Or Alice in Chains. Those are all life changing bands. : ] Also a lot of Neil Young's songs are great!
Right now I'm listening to 'Camisado' by Panic at the disco. It always makes me think. Its basically telling Ryan Ross' childhood (and in a way Brendon's) through the song.
Listen to some 2pac.. Seriously, even though he is not with us anymore he is still singing about things going on today...