What are the best song lyrics you've heard?

Answer 1

A serious answer from me:-

Everybody Hurts - R.E.M

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When youre sure youve had enough of this life, well hang on.
Dont let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes.

Sometimes everything is wrong. now its time to sing along.
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think youve had too much of this life, well hang on.

Everybody hurts. take comfort in your friends.
Everybody hurts. dont throw your hand. oh, no. dont throw your hand.
If you feel like youre alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If youre on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think youve had too much of this life to hang on.

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. and everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. so, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. hold on, hold on. hold on, hold on. (repeat & fade)
(everybody hurts. you are not alone.)

On the flip side I also love the lyrics to Join Me In Death - HIM LOL

Answer 2

i personally think iron and wine's lyrics are so so beautiful, not only is the best gorgeous and amazing the lyrics combined with his voice make perfect listening:

'Some days her shape in the doorway
Will speak to me
A bird’s wing on the window
Sometimes I’ll hear her when she’s sleeping
Her fever dream
A language on her face

I want your flowers like babies want God’s love
Or maybe as sure as tomorrow will come

Some days, like rain on the doorstep
She’ll cover me
With grace in all she offers
Sometimes I'd like just to ask her
What honest words
She can’t afford to say, like

I want your flowers like babies want God’s love
Or maybe as sure as tomorrow will come


also by contrast jack johnsons lyrics are so good to a particular favourite being this one and also dreams be dreams and if i could

There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart
our dreams, and they are made out of real things
like a shoebox of photographs
with sepia-toned loving
Love is the answer
at least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy and
sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing, it's always better when we're together

Mmmm, It's always better when we're together
Yeah we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah it's always better when we're together

And all of these moments
just might find their way into my dreams tonight,
But I know that they’ll be gone
when the morning light sings
and brings new things
for tomorrow night you see
that they’ll be gone too,
too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way
into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression
i was somewhere in between
With only two,
Just me and you,
Not so many things we got to do
or places we got to be
We'll sit beneath the mango tree now,

Yeah It's always better when we're together
Mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

I believe in memories
they look so, so pretty when I sleep
And now when, when I wake up,
you look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
There is no, no song I could sing
and there is no combination of words I could say
but I will still tell you one thing
We're Better together

Answer 3

Is This The World We Created?
Words and music by Freddie Mercury and Brian May

Just look at all those hungry mouths we have to feed
Take a look at all the suffering we breed
So many lonely faces scattered all around
Searching for what they need

Is this the world we created?
What did we do it for?
Is this the world we invaded
Against the law?
So it seems in the end
Is this what we're all living for today?
The world that we created

You know that every day a helpless child is born
Who needs some loving care inside a happy home
Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne
Waiting for life to go by

Is this the world we created?
We made it on our own
Is this the world we devastated
Right to the bone?
If there's a God in the sky looking down
What can he think of what we've done
To the world that He created?

Answer 4

So many, so many good lyricists about....Townshend, Dylan, Waters, Taupin just a few.............but these lyrics from a little known Swedish Prog Rock band, just resonate with me...........it is a short passage from a little song of theirs (30 odd mins) called The Truth Will Set You Free,

"And so the wind will cry the words of love
and you'll design the day you're thinking of
Now so much closer so much more in tune
We'll take the Stars, the Sun but first the Moon"

Answer 5

I have a few favourite depends on mood Aero smith "Dont want to miss a thing" is cool also Brian Adams I know I Know but what can a girl do the lyrics are great " Everything I do I do it for you" ohhhh just remembered another one Sinead O'Connor " Nothing compares to you" that always makes me cry.... oh yes and how could I forget one of my favourites Macy Grey " I try to say goodbye and I choke I try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it its clear my world crumbles when you are not near" WOW thats powerful stuff.........

Answer 6

Ummm i have loads of song lyrics that i love but my main favourite has to be kelly clarkson - because of you!
its just amazing and she has an amazing voice i wish i could sing like her!!
But then i love songs by panic! at the disco
where their lyrics are crazy but get you thinking i suppose in my opinion lol

Answer 7

Blind Melon "When you feel life anit worth livin you've got to stand up and take a look around, then look up way to the sky, and when you deepest thoughts are broken keepin dreaming boy cuz when you stop dreaming it's time to die, an as we all play parts of tomorrow some ways well work and other ways well play, but i know we can't all stay here forever so i want to write my words on the face of today, and then they will paint it."

Answer 8

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no


I'm feeling his pain - we've all been there.

Answer 9

In My Life - The Beatles
By John Lennon and Paul McCartney

There are places I remember all my life,
Though some have changed,
Some forever, not for better,
Some have gone and some remain.

All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are living.
In my life I've loved them all.

But of all these friends and lovers,
There is no one compares with you,
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new.

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before,
I know I'll often stop and think about them,
In my life I'll love you more.

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before,
I know I'll often stop and think about them,
In my life I'll love you more.
In my life I'll love you more.

Answer 10

Maroon 5 has the BEST lyrics.

Answer 11

There's this great Indie song, "Something Else" by Gary Jules, goes like,

They never tell you truth is subjective
They only tell you not to lie
They never tell you there's strength in vulnerability
They only tell you not to cry
But I've been living underground
Sleeping on the way
And finding something else to say
Is like walking on the freeway
They never tell you you don't need to be ashamed
They only tell you to deny
So is it true that only good girls go to heaven?
They only sell you what you buy
And I've been living underground
Sleeping on the way
And finding something else to say
Is like walking on the freeway
I've been living underground
Trying not to burn
And finding something else to learn
At Hollywood and western

Then there's "The boulevard of broken dreams" by Green Day.
goes like,


I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I walk alone
I walk a...

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...

Also "My immortal" by Evanescence and "If this ain't love" Sophie Ellise Baxtor and Groovjet. And the Smallville and Charmed themes- Remy Zero's "Save Me" and Love Spit Love's "How soon is now?" respectively, actually the latter was a Smiths song but I like the LoveSpitLove version better. And then there's Garbage with "Sex is not the Enemy"
They're just great, most have probing emotional and social insight and are a pleasure to listen to. Very much worth the 99cents on iTunes.