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Mar 30, 2009 4:14 PM
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The “Book of Songs” or “Shih Ching” 詩經 from Chinese antiquity is considered to be one of the Five Classics of Chinese Literature and was supposedly put into its current form by Confucius himself. In the “Book of Songs” the Chinese recorded songs (poetry) from all aspects of their civilization. This included Martial (Military), Court, Folk, Ceremonial, and Love Songs, as well as other types of music. Unfortunately, we only have the words to theses songs the musical notation itself has been lost to the ages. As a historical find this set of documents is extremely significant. We are able to capture a snapshot of Chinese culture from over two thousand years ago. What song(s) would you choose to represent society and world we live in today? Why? Please use songs that have actual lyrics and are in english. You can post the lyrics in a spoiler tab or just the song name and artist. Please say why you feel that this song represent our society. It can be positive or negative. Post your song(s) and discuss~ |
astronomicalMar 30, 2009 4:17 PM
Mar 30, 2009 4:14 PM
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Mar 30, 2009 4:17 PM
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Mar 30, 2009 4:18 PM
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ZoiQ said: You should give it a try. Especially since people like llxwarbirdxll spam on everything...sounds like spam to me bro. no way ppl can discuss that shit. |
Mar 30, 2009 4:19 PM
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Paranoid by Black Sabbath. |
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Mar 30, 2009 4:21 PM
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Sick_Bastard-kun said: Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Finished with my woman because she couldn't help me with my mind. People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time. All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy. Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify... Can you help me, occupy my brain? Oh, yeah... I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find. I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind... Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry. Happiness I cannot feel like love to me is so unreal... And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state. I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could but it's too late... |
Mar 30, 2009 4:21 PM
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Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpvx5_pearl-jam-do-the-evolution_music I need to sleep now, so no comments from me...just listen and find the lyrics if you want. :) |
Mar 30, 2009 4:22 PM
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llxwarbirdxll said: Namida no Mukou? I dun think so. Shit now it reminds me of JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOO. Damn, what a ripoff. D:<DAREKA WOOOOOOOOOOO Can't think of any on top of my head atm. Maybe In the End by Linkin' Park? lol |
Mar 30, 2009 4:25 PM
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seishi-sama said: Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpvx5_pearl-jam-do-the-evolution_music I need to sleep now, so no comments from me...just listen and find the lyrics if you want. :) I am ahead, I am a man I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah I'm at peace with my lust I can kill 'cause in god I trust, yeah it's evolution, baby I'm a beast, I'm a man I buy stocks on the day of the crash, yeah on the loose, i'm a truck all the rolling hills I'll flatten them out, yeah it's herd behavior, uh huh it's evolution, baby Admire me, admire my home admire my son, he's my clone yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah this land is mine, this land is free i'll do what i want yet irresponsibly it's evolution, baby Im a thief, i'm a liar there's my church I sing in the choir: hallelujah, hallelujah Admire me, admire my home admire my song, admire my clothes Consider, appetite for a nightly feast those ignorant indians got nothing on me nothing, why? because, it's evolution, baby! I am ahead, i am advanced i am the first mammal to make plans, yeah i crawled the Earth, but now i'm higher twenty-ten, watch it go to fire it's evolution, baby it's evolution baby do the evolution come on come on, come on Tachii said: Can't think of any on top of my head atm. Maybe In the End by Linkin' Park? lol [It starts with] One thing, I don’t know why It doesn’t even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To explain in due time All I know, time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away It’s so unreal, didn’t look out below Watch the time go right out the window Trying to hold on but didn’t even know Wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everything inside and even though I tried it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn’t even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn’t even matter One thing, I don’t know why Doesn’t even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To remind myself how I tried so hard Despite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I’m surprised it got so far Things aren’t the way they were before You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me in the end You kept everything inside and even though I tried it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn’t even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn’t even matter I put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go And for all this There’s only one thing you should know I put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go And for all this There’s only one thing you should know I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn’t even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn’t even matter |
Mar 30, 2009 4:31 PM
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Waiting on the world to change - John Mayer I think .. Dx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8xtoP2neSQ&fmt=18 |
Mar 30, 2009 4:37 PM
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Mar 30, 2009 4:44 PM
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llxwarbirdxll said: You spam everything I make. :'(astronomical said: I don't spam everything. :(ZoiQ said: You should give it a try. Especially since people like llxwarbirdxll spam on everything...sounds like spam to me bro. no way ppl can discuss that shit. |
Mar 30, 2009 4:49 PM
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seishi-sama said: Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpvx5_pearl-jam-do-the-evolution_music I need to sleep now, so no comments from me...just listen and find the lyrics if you want. :) I love that video, I havent seen that since I was in college. Pretty scary stuff. For me it would be john lenon 'Imagine' |
Mar 30, 2009 4:53 PM
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astronomical said: I'm sorry, but I can't not spam your threads. It's instinct. :(llxwarbirdxll said: You spam everything I make. :'(astronomical said: I don't spam everything. :(ZoiQ said: You should give it a try. Especially since people like llxwarbirdxll spam on everything...sounds like spam to me bro. no way ppl can discuss that shit. |
Mar 30, 2009 4:57 PM
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seiyu said: That was my third choice actually. The Beatles came up with some good stuff.We All Live in a Yellow Submarine |
Mar 30, 2009 4:59 PM
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Here's a couple I thought of (they kinda speak for themselves, imho) Bob Dylan -The Times They Are A-Changin' Come gather around 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 The battle outside ragin' Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin' The Temptations - Ball Of Confusion People moving out, people moving in Why, because of the color of their skin Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide An eye for an eye A tooth for a tooth Vote for me and I'll set you free Rap on, brother, rap on The only person talking about "Love thy brother" is the preacher And it seems Nobody's interested in learning But the teacher Segregation, determination Demonstration, integration Aggravation, humiliation Obligation to our nation |
Mar 30, 2009 5:03 PM
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Lol a song to represent today's society. I think I'm the only one laughing at this. |
Mar 30, 2009 5:06 PM
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Mar 30, 2009 5:07 PM
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Abney Park - "Stigmata Martyr" A heroine, A deity On Heroin, or vanity To jack their personality Beyond normal humanity. A crowd of massed humanity, Bows and worships diligently. He's built a loyal following And they steer him thoroughly. But jealous man plots from the pews, No need for valid righteousness. One slightly truthful word set free, Will turn the tides quite easily. Our accusations need not be, What would bury mortal man. The sins of our own deity, are tiny, but on these we stand. We don't cry for the gods that die by our hands. We throw stones if our gods take a stand. We create and destroy our Stigmata Martyrs. So once upon the podium, A crucifix we then erect, And nail our hero heartily, hands and feet, and bind his neck. The reasons for our worship fades, Our Idol drenched in his own blood, Forgotten are the virtues that we, Valued beyond royalty. We don't cry for the gods that die by our hands. We throw stones if our gods take a stand. We create and destroy our Stigmata Martyrs. With joy we dig his shallow grave, Anticipating pains to come. We watch the wriggling dance of death, And laugh light hearted at deaths fun. We pounded out the joyous light. Our saviors buried now for years. A legend now of time gone by, A martyr of forgotten tears. We don't cry for the gods that die by our hands. We throw stones if our gods take a stand. We create and destroy our Stigmata Martyrs. We don't cry for the gods that die by our hands. We throw stones if our gods take a stand. We create and destroy our Stigmata Martyrs. We don't cry for the gods that die by our hands. We throw stones if our gods take a stand. We create and destroy our Stigmata Martyrs. The song is basically a giant metaphor for how humans tend to treat celebrities; we throw them in the spotlight but then are so eager to burn them down again. It can also be seen though, I guess, as the bastardization of religion over the ages. |
Mar 30, 2009 5:11 PM
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REM - " it's the end of the world as we know it ( and i feel fine ) " |
Mar 30, 2009 5:22 PM
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Novaangle18 said: NWA - Fuck the police. this and Body Count - Cop Killer |
Mar 30, 2009 5:26 PM
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PopBUTTONSPLZ said: XDREM - " it's the end of the world as we know it ( and i feel fine ) " |
Mar 30, 2009 5:29 PM
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Bobby McFerrin: "Don't Worry, Be Happy Lyrics" Here is a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry be happy In every life we have some trouble When you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy...... Ain't got no place to lay your head Somebody came and took your bed Don't worry, be happy The land lord say your rent is late He may have to litigate Don't worry, be happy Lood at me I am happy Don't worry, be happy Here I give you my phone number When you worry call me I make you happy Don't worry, be happy Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style Ain't got not girl to make you smile But don't worry be happy Cause when you worry Your face will frown And that will bring everybody down So don't worry, be happy (now)..... There is this little song I wrote I hope you learn it note for note Like good little children Don't worry, be happy Listen to what I say In your life expect some trouble But when you worry You make it double Don't worry, be happy...... Don't worry don't do it, be happy Put a smile on your face Don't bring everybody down like this Don't worry, it will soon past Whatever it is Don't worry, be happy |
Mar 30, 2009 5:31 PM
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Fort Minor - Right now |
Mar 30, 2009 5:39 PM
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Vagabond said: Bobby McFerrin: "Don't Worry, Be Happy Lyrics" Here is a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry be happy In every life we have some trouble When you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy...... Ain't got no place to lay your head Somebody came and took your bed Don't worry, be happy The land lord say your rent is late He may have to litigate Don't worry, be happy Lood at me I am happy Don't worry, be happy Here I give you my phone number When you worry call me I make you happy Don't worry, be happy Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style Ain't got not girl to make you smile But don't worry be happy Cause when you worry Your face will frown And that will bring everybody down So don't worry, be happy (now)..... There is this little song I wrote I hope you learn it note for note Like good little children Don't worry, be happy Listen to what I say In your life expect some trouble But when you worry You make it double Don't worry, be happy...... Don't worry don't do it, be happy Put a smile on your face Don't bring everybody down like this Don't worry, it will soon past Whatever it is Don't worry, be happy It's a Fine Day Miss Jane It's A Fine Day People Open Windows They Leave Their Houses Just For A Short Walk It's A Fine Day People Open Windows They Leave Their Houses Just For A Short Walk NananananatooonananaX8 It's Going To Be A Fine Night Tonight It's Going To Be A Fine Day TomorrowX4 they walk by the garden they look at the sky NananananatooonananaX4 It's going to be a fine night Tonight It's going to be a fine day TomorrowX2 Aokaado said: That's a good one.Fort Minor - Right now |
Mar 30, 2009 6:08 PM
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Tool - Vicarious Eye on the TV 'cause tragedy thrills me Whatever flavor it happens to be Like: "Killed by the husband" ... "Drowned by the ocean" ... "Shot by his own son" ... "She used a poison in his tea, Then (she) kissed him goodbye" That's my kind of story It's no fun til someone dies. Don't look at me like I am a monster Frown out your one face, but with the other (you) Stare like a junkie into the TV Stare like a zombie while the mother holds her child, Watches him die, Hands to the sky cryin "why, oh why?" Cause I need to watch things die from a distance Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies You all need it too - don't lie. Why can't we just admit it? Why can't we just admit it? We won't give pause until the blood is flowin' Neither the brave nor bold Nor brightest of stories told We won't give pause until the blood is flowin' I need to watch things die from a good safe distance Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies You all feel the same so why can't we just admit it? Blood like rain fallin' down Drum on grave and ground Part vampire, part warrior, Carnivore and voyeur Stare at the transmittal. Sing to the death rattle. La, la, la, la, la, la, la-lie (x4) Credulous at best Your desire to believe in Angels in the hearts of men. But pull your head on out (of) your hippie haze And give a listen Shouldn't have to say it all again The universe is hostile So impersonal Devour to survive So it is, so it's always been ... We all feed on tragedy. It's like blood to a vampire. Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies Much better you than I. Slayer - Flesh Storm Take a deep breath 'Cause it all starts now When you pull the fuckin' pin The shrapnel burns As it tears into the skin Ever wonder what it takes To be questioning your faith This is what it's like When it happens every Goddamn day Violence is our way of life Shards of life Like confetti in the air The flesh storm grows As it breeds despair You hear screams in the distance Fighting the resistance Not cries of war These are just the sounds of pain It's all just psychotic devotion Manipulated with no discretion Killing's in style And it's now the main event The cameras are whores For the daily bloodshed Like a junkie Hungry for a fix of anything The media devours And feasts upon the inhumane Violence is our way of life It's all too fuckin' clear We can never coincide So let's all drink To genocide All the venomous sights Border on the arcane In times of war Everything is bound by pain It's all just psychotic devotion Manipulated with no discretion Warfare knows no compassion Thrives with no evolution Unstable minds exacerbate Unrest in peace There's no future The world is dead So save that last Bullet for your head Only fallen have won Because the fallen can't run My vision's not obscure For war there is no cure So here the only law Is men killing men For someone else's cause It's all just psychotic devotion Manipulated with no discretion Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons I. The Crimson Sunrise (0:00) Instrumental II. Innocence (3:50) I remember a time My frail, virgin mind Watched the crimson sunrise Imagined what it might find Life was filled with wonder I felt the warm wind blow I must explore the boundaries Transcend the depth of winter's snow Innocence caressing me I never felt so young before There was so much life in me Still I longed to search for more But those days are gone now Changed like a leaf on a tree Blown away forever Into the cool autumn breeze The snow has now fallen And my son's not so bright I struggle to hold on With the last of my might In my den of inequity Viciousness and subtlety Struggle to ease the pain Struggle to find the same Ignorance surrounding me I've never been so filled with fear All my life's been drained from me The end is drawing near... III. Carpe Diem (6:54) "Carpe diem Seize the day" I'll always remember The chill of November The news of the fall The sounds in the hall The clock on the wall Ticking away "Seize the Day" I heard him say Life will not always be this way Look around Hear the sounds Cherish your life While you're still around ("Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) (Old Time is still a-flying;) (And this same flower that smiles today) (Tomorrow will be dying") We can learn From the past But those days Are gone We can hope For the future But there might not be one The words stuck in my mind Alive from what I've learned I have to seize the day To home I returned Preparing for her flight I held with all my might Fearing my deepest fright She walked into the night She turned for one last look She looked me in the eye I said, "I Love You... Good-bye" ("It's the most awful thing you'll ever hear") ("If you're lying to me...") ("Oh, you dearly love her") ("...just have to leave...) (All our lives") ("Seize the day!") ("Something happened") ("Gather ye rosebuds while ye may") ("She was killed") IV. The Darkest Of Winters (10:08) Instrumental V. Another World (13:01) So far or so it seems All is lost With nothing fulfilled Off the pages and the T.V. screen Another world Where nothing's true Tripping through The life fantastic Lose a step And never get up Left alone With a cold blank stare I feel like giving up I was blinded by a paradise Utopia high in the sky A dream that only drowned me Deep in sorrow, wondering why Oh come let us adore him Abuse and then ignore him No matter what Don't let him be Let's feed upon his misery Then string him up for all the world to see I'm sick of all Your hypocrites Holding me at bay And I don't need Your sympathy To get me through the day Seasons change and so can I Hold on Boy No time to cry Untie these strings I'm climbing down I won't let them push me away Oh come let us adore him Abuse and then ignore him No matter what Don't let him be Let's feed upon His misery Now it's time for them To deal with me VI. The Inevitable Summer (16:58) Instrumental VII. The Crimson Sunset (20:09) I'm much wiser now A lifetime of memories Run though my head They taught me how For better or worse Alive or dead I realize There's no turning back Life goes on The offbeaten track I sit down with my son Set to see the Crimson Sunset (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) Many years have come and gone I've lived my life, but now must move on (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) He's my only one Now that my time has come Now that my life is done We look into the sun "Seize the day And don't you cry Now it's time To say good-bye Even though I'll be gone I will live on Live on" Pain of Salvation - Leaving Entropia walk with me and see the world I see it is our home it's where we all belong life is flair a brittle dress we wear a fleeting sigh but though pointless it may seem... live as death were but a dream you don't have to walk their way you don't have to watch the show you don't have to play their game and you don't have to die to leave entropia all remains... forgotten smiles in frames two fleeting lives cut down to pocket-size walk with me and change the world we see we'll cease to be just people passing by home is where we all get by you don't have to cry for more you don't have to have it all you don't have to win a war if death is but a dream then don't let me... ...fall asleep Pain of Salvation - Nihil Morari "See me" "Hear me" "Need me" Some things will never change "Touch me" "Heal me" Mankind remains the same Oceans Forests Nations Now everything bears our name While Earth is bleeding Nothing will remain Nothing prevails We were stuck in this world of change Expecting it to remain Now nothing is left unstained No! When there's nothing more that we can trade Own Steal Or sell When there's nothing whole because we took it apart And Just left Moved on When there's nothing left for us to break Use Abuse Or rape Then you're free to count how much you saved I can see the ways we fail I can see us fall so easily A structure far too frail I can see 40,000 years of knowledge and history Invested in this child Spoiled and stained by proud divinity Gaining at best the perspective and wisdom Of not even a fleeting century We have now reached the final ten thousandth of a second of our evolutionary year, as we hit 2,000 at a birth rate of 250 people a minute Tell me How are we supposed to survive? If we're acting like fools All dropping dead to stay alive? Someone tell me Please just show me If there's nothing to do, God we'll turn to you But if we're an image of you I reckon you are just as puzzled and ugly too You think we have developed fast; that we're civilized and intelligent I'll let you in on a secret: we have developed Things! The rest is simply knowledge passed on (I can see us drain this world I can see us buying loss too cheap Terra Sterilia washing its bronken hand of us now Creation's blackest sheep!) Hell, 99% of humanity couldn't put together a simple light bulb if you put a gun to their heads! And the intellect rubs off on fear The year 2,010 AD: 6,823 Million people 2,020 AD: 7,518 Million people 2,030 AD: 8,140 Million people 2,040 AD: 8,668 Million people 2,050 AD: 9,104 Million people I can see us read the signs But spell them out in backward travesty I see us close our eyes To all the wounds that we inflict to this world by being "free" We love this world to death Purchasing our lifestyles with our lives Defending our momentarily nations With the loss of our priceless earthly home It's not hard to reach the top It's not hard not knowing when to stop It's not hard to take all Not very difficult to fly if you settle for a fall It's not hard to cross a line It's not hard to push and go to far Some creatures cannot climb Then there are us who cannot even learn how to stay alive I'm sorry! For the things we did and did not do Forgive us; the fools that rushed ahead without a clue I am sorry Please forgive us For this human lack of humanity This evolutionary travesty This tragedy called "Man" ...called "Man"... I'm sorry! For the things we did and didn't do Forgive us; the fools that rushed ahead without a single clue ...without a single clue... Frost* - Welcome to Nowhere Life unreal The feeding of the fear An error of creation No love left in here And I see You falling out for fun United in division Defy everyone It’s all a game The hurting and the healing But all the same You’ll leave us nothing Nothing at all Caught in the process Of mass separation Victims of progress And mute isolation Closing time for life… Welcome To Nowhere with me It’s in your head Dead man, firehand I’m burning through your Wonderland God of small empire This numb masturbator Pissing his life into Plastic and paper Chatroom objector You bile carbonator Second Life saviour Still feeling a failure Closing time for life… Welcome To Nowhere with me It’s in your head Dead man, cold hand I’m burning through your Wonderland Fan the flame The hurting and the healing But all the same You’ll leave us nothing Welcome To Nowhere with me It’s in your head Dead man, firehand I’m burning through your Wonderland Opeth - Blackwater Park Confessor Of the tragedies in man Lurking in the core of us all The last dying call for the everlost Brief encounters, bleeding pain Lepers coiled neath the trees Dying men in bewildered soliloquies Perversions bloom round the bend Seekers, lost in their quest Ghosts of friends frolic under the waning moon It is the year of death Wielding his instruments Stealth sovereign reaper Touching us with ease Infecting the roots in an instant Burning crop of disease I am just a spectator An advocate documenting the loss Fluttering with conceit This doesn't concern me yet Still far from the knell Taunting their bereavement Mob round the dead Point fingers at the details Probing vomits for more Caught in unbridled suspense We have all lost it now Catching the flakes of dismay Born the travesty of man Regular pulse midst pandemonium You're plucked to the mass Parched with thirst for the wicked Sick liaisons raised this monumental mark The sun sets forever over Blackwater Park Midtown - Whole New World Just because we're abandoned Doesn't mean we're alone Falling down when were empty Because I know, yes I know Nothing here really matters Nothing helps when you're lost Break me down to an atom Because I know, yes I know It's a whole new different world What you've got to say Save yourself There's no salvation Home is found where the heart is Space is found in our homes Shots ring out across the city Because I know, yes I know So what you've got to say It's a whole new different world What you've got |
Mar 30, 2009 6:34 PM
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Mar 30, 2009 6:35 PM
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Mar 30, 2009 6:43 PM
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Neverender said: I swear, they're probably using some random lyric generator to text their songs. Just feed it lots of epic words, and voila.DRAGONFORCE |
Mar 30, 2009 6:44 PM
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No. They're using the words of our people. The words of the planet. |
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Mar 30, 2009 6:45 PM
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Mar 30, 2009 6:45 PM
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Neverender said: Well, well, I say. I think I heard an epic fanfare when I read that.No. They're using the words of our people. The words of the planet. |
Mar 30, 2009 6:46 PM
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Aokaado said: Fort Minor - Right now let's elaborate a lil Someone right now is leaving their apartment Looking down at the street, wondering where there car went Someone in the car sitting at a signal In front of a restaraunt, staring through the window at someone right now with their finger in their teeth Who could use a little floss right across the street there's somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered Now he gotta walk fourteen blocks to work at a shop where he's about to get fired. Someone right now is looking pretty tired Staring at a laptop trying to get inspired Somebody living right across the street She wrote the best things she's written all week but her best friends coughing up blood in the sink Can't even think what happened, feeling so confused And he knows it looks bad but there's nothing he can do I wonder what it's like to be right there in his shoes But no I'm just taking it in Out the window of a hotel bedroom again Tommorrow I'll be gone I don't know when I'll be back But in this world everything can change just like that, Like that Yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box And trying not to get shot in his throat For the act of freedom right now somebody is stuck in Iraq Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing in a war that he's not really sure of the reasons So we show our support when the press mislead them Though we more then remain proud and salute the troops get some I know you boys got some work to do Meanwhile right now someones 25 to life And is standing on the corner with their thumb up hitchiking Stretching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner Sneaking through the border just to work and to eat a real dinner Right now someone wishes they were you and I instead of second guessing freedom thoughts of quiet suicide But right now I'm staring at the window at a frame with holes in his arm and holes in his jeans he pulled out his cigarette sparked the light And walked right around the corner just outta my sight But yo I'm just taking it in From the second story hotel window again, The TV's on, and my bags are packed, But in this world everything can change just like that, Like that Ya right now somebody sitting in the darkness Trying to figure out how to put some heat in their apartment But they got a little mattress and a little carpet And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench You see them when you rushing to get to the office wife robbed blind when she coming from the market Right now somebody coming out from the pocket Trying to dump that rock they run around the block with at The same time the cops is raising the glock with aim To fill your legs and back with some hot shit Right now somebody struggling to stop this man Who's kick and punching and cussing at the doctors Down the hall the child taking his first breath The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet yo I wonder if he understands what it's worth yet Like the time spent while we here on the earth yet The answer to the question that we all seek can be found depend on how free y'all think Right now it's somebody who ain't eat all week That would kill for the shit that you throw away in the street I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure One mans pain is the next mans pleasure one say infinity the next say forever right now everybody got to get it together man I'm just taking it in another strange hotel lobby again Put my luggage on my back I don't know where I'm at I'm in world where we all change just like that, Like that, like that, just like that, like that, just like that Just like that, Just like that and also Alter Bridge - Blackbird The willow it weeps today A breeze from the distance is calling your name Unfurl your black wings and wait Across the horizon it's coming to sweep you away It's coming to sweep you away [Chorus:] Let the wind carry your home Blackbird fly away May you never be broken again The fragile cannot endure The wrecked and the jaded a place so impure The static of this cruel world Cause some birds to fly long before they've seen their day Long before they've seen their day [Chorus:] Let the wind carry your home Blackbird fly away May you never be broken again Beyond the suffering you've known I hope you find your way May you never be broken again Ascend may you find no resistance Know that you made such a difference All you leave behind will live to the end The cycle of suffering goes on But memories of you stay strong Someday I too will fly and find you again [Chorus:] Let the wind carry your home Blackbird fly away May you never be broken again Beyond the suffering you've known I hope you find your way May you never be broken again May you never be broken again |
Mar 30, 2009 7:20 PM
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Insect Warfare-Internet Era Alienation |
Sometimes you have to lose yourself, before you can find anything-Burt reynolds: Deliverence |
Mar 30, 2009 8:58 PM
#37
Cake - Frank Sinatra We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations, A faintly glimmering radio station. While frank sinatra sings stormy weather, The flies and spiders get along together, Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record. Beyond the suns that guard this roof, Beyond your flowers of flaming truths, Beyond your latest ad campaigns, An old man sits collecting stamps In a room all filled with chinese lamps. He saves what others throw away. He says that he'll be rich some day. We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations, A faintly glimmering radio station. We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations, A faintly glimmering radio station. While frank sinatra sings stormy weather, The flies and spiders get along together, Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record. |
Mar 30, 2009 10:00 PM
#38
Aokaado said: This.Fort Minor - Right now Lyrics: Someone right now is leaving their apartment Looking down at the street, wondering where there car went Someone in the car sitting at a signal In front of a restaraunt, staring through the window at someone right now with their finger in their teeth Who could use a little floss right across the street there's somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered Now he gotta walk fourteen blocks to work at a shop where he's about to get fired. Someone right now is looking pretty tired Staring at a laptop trying to get inspired Somebody living right across the street She wrote the best things she's written all week but her best friends coughing up blood in the sink Can't even think what happened, feeling so confused And he knows it looks bad but there's nothing he can do I wonder what it's like to be right there in his shoes [Chorus] But no I'm just taking it in Out the window of a hotel bedroom again Tommorrow I'll be gone I don't know when I'll be back But in this world everything can change just like that, Like that Yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box And trying not to get shot in his throat For the act of freedom right now somebody is stuck in Iraq Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing in a war that he's not really sure of the reasons So we show our support when the press mislead them Though we more then remain proud and salute the troops get some I know you boys got some work to do Meanwhile right now someones 25 to life And is standing on the corner with their thumb up hitchiking Stretching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner Sneaking through the border just to work and to eat a real dinner Right now someone wishes they were you and I instead of second guessing freedom thoughts of quiet suicide But right now I'm staring at the window at a frame with holes in his arm and holes in his jeans he pulled out his cigarette sparked the light And walked right around the corner just outta my sight But yo I'm just taking it in From the second story hotel window again, The TV's on, and my bags are packed, But in this world everything can change just like that, Like that [Repeat] Ya right now somebody sitting in the darkness Trying to figure out how to put some heat in their apartment But they got a little mattress and a little carpet And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench You see them when you rushing to get to the office wife robbed blind when she coming from the market Right now somebody coming out from the pocket Trying to dump that rock they run around the block with at The same time the cops is raising the glock with aim To fill your legs and back with some hot shit Right now somebody struggling to stop this man Who's kick and punching and cussing at the doctors Down the hall the child taking his first breath The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet yo I wonder if he understands what it's worth yet Like the time spent while we here on the earth yet The answer to the question that we all seek can be found depend on how free y'all think Right now it's somebody who ain't eat all week That would kill for the shit that you throw away in the street I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure One mans pain is the next mans pleasure one say infinity the next say forever right now everybody got to get it together man I'm just taking it in another strange hotel lobby again Put my luggage on my back I don't know where I'm at I'm in world where we all change just like that, Like that, like that, just like that, like that, just like that Just like that, Just like that [Repeat] |
Mar 30, 2009 10:12 PM
#39
hikky said: Cake - Frank Sinatra We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations, A faintly glimmering radio station. While frank sinatra sings stormy weather, The flies and spiders get along together, Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record. Beyond the suns that guard this roof, Beyond your flowers of flaming truths, Beyond your latest ad campaigns, An old man sits collecting stamps In a room all filled with chinese lamps. He saves what others throw away. He says that he'll be rich some day. We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations, A faintly glimmering radio station. We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations, A faintly glimmering radio station. While frank sinatra sings stormy weather, The flies and spiders get along together, Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record. Good one. |
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Mar 30, 2009 10:18 PM
#40
Nothing Can Be Explained - Shiro Sagisu |
Mar 30, 2009 10:27 PM
#41
Safara said: Waiting on the world to change - John Mayer I think .. Dx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8xtoP2neSQ&fmt=18 This song is awesome, and I agree. +1 |
Mar 30, 2009 11:03 PM
#42
Hands Held High - Linkin Park Turn my mike up louder I got to say something Light weights step to the side when we come in Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping People on the street they panic and start running Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping Fuck that I wanna see some fists pumping Risk something, take back what's yours Say something that you know they might attack you for Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for Like this war's really just a different brand of war Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon the poor Like they understand you in the back of the jet When you can't put gas in your tank These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check Asking you to have compassion and have some respect For a leader so nervous in an obvious way Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day In their living room laughing like "what did he say?" Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen In my living room watching but I am not laughing Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen World is cold the bold men take action Have to react or get blown into fractions Ten years old it's something to see Another kid my age drug under a jeep Taken and bound and found later under a tree I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me Do you see the soldiers they're out today They brush the dust with bullet proof vests away It's ironic at times like this you pray But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads Inside your market, your shops, your clothes My dad he's got a lot of fear I know But enough pride inside not to let that show My brother had a book he would hold with pride A little red cover with a broken spine On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die" Meanwhile, the leader just talks away Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day both scared and angry like "what did he say?" Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you There's probably a better one that I know of, but this is what I thought of first. |
Mar 30, 2009 11:11 PM
#43
Mar 31, 2009 5:49 AM
#44
ladyxzeus said: Carmina Burana Mmmyes <3 Any movement in particular? O Fortuna's a bit hackneyed, so I am thinking In taberna quando sumus. They all may fit some way or another, I guess, oh the sex, oh the grimdarkness, and oh the love of warm weather. I'd say Season's End by dear ol' Marillion and 0.00.00 by Kazumoto Endo. First one's the probably greatest (only great) song on the topic of global warming - as far as I with my 0 in musical IQ can tell-, the second just feels like the modern age. Ishikawa Chiaki's Uninstall fits any era, so let's shoehorn that one in too. |
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Mar 31, 2009 6:19 AM
#45
I only listen to positive, uplifting, fun music. And the world is anything but. |
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Mar 31, 2009 9:35 AM
#46
Beautiful World - Utada Hikaru A haunting melody paired with an upbeat tempo. |
Mar 31, 2009 4:05 PM
#47
Kaiserpingvin said: 0.00.00 by Kazumoto Endo. hahah, best one so far. |
Mar 31, 2009 5:26 PM
#48
Land of Confusion by Genesis. There is a version by Disturbed as well, but in my opinion the original is better. Anyways, I think the song is quite fitting for the world we live in today. |
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Mar 31, 2009 5:48 PM
#49
BlackRose826 said: Land of Confusion by Genesis. There is a version by Disturbed as well, but in my opinion the original is better. Anyways, I think the song is quite fitting for the world we live in today. oh god, the video to that song DDD: |
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