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I'm not a big fan of System of a Down, but I do like this song: it's angry, but intelligent at least.

"The Prison Song"
-Sytem Of A Down, Toxicity

They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
(nearly 2 million americans are
Incarcerated in the prison system
Prison system of the us)
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(for you and me to live in)
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don’t even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You don’t even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
The percentage of americans in the prison system
Prison system, has doubled since 1985
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and i, for you and i, for you and i.
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me.
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences
Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy now you police the globe
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
Drug money is used to rig elections
And train brutal corporate sponsored dictators
Around the world
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(for you and me to live in)
For you and i, for you and i, for you and i
For you and i
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me

What an amazing song, Tony. Do they do "Critique of the health care system" as an encore? Seriously, it has little to do with art or music but I am pleased to learn that that kind of stuff is out here. Balances some of the nastier rap stuff I have heard.

my ex-girlfriend wrote this one, along with many others. i really like her lyrics

black eyes see only sorrow

she's lost in a world,
with a dream to sleep
close her eyes, and
fade away
she's lost in a world,
where hope is gone
she has her dream,
not to carry on

go somewhere her eyes
can see
where her heart can feel
and love can be
she's lost somewhere,
she's been before
she keeps on fading
more and more

she's someone you don't
want to know
but if you ask, then
she will show
that even though her eyes
are closed
her heart can always feel

she's someone that,
you overlook
and think she dosen't know
but she's aware of everything
she watches them,
as they go

her black eyes, her angel eyes
are crying lonely tears
she falls into sleep, and
she's caught with her dreams

[QUOTE=Fiona]What an amazing song, Tony. Do they do "Critique of the health care system" as an encore? Seriously, it has little to do with art or music but I am pleased to learn that that kind of stuff is out here. Balances some of the nastier rap stuff I have heard.[/QUOTE]

Hahaha :laugh: I'm glad you like it. It's actual metal not rap but there's some 'rapping' in it if you get my meaning. Some of it's song, some of it's just spoken to the loud crunch of guitars to try and give you an idea. I recommend downloading it if you can because I'm not doing it justice here.

Some Lucinda Williams..
Album: World Without Tears


Bleeding Fingers

You've got a sense of humor
You're a mystery
I heard a rumor
You're making history

Photographic dialogues
Beneath your skin
Pornographic episodes
Screaming sin

'Til its real live bleeding fingers
broken guitar strings

You are my Prince Charming
Draped in velvet robes
of all that's alarming
Raw and exposed

Shattered nerves
Itchy skin
Dirty words
and heroin

Better real live bleeding fingers
Broken guitar strings

(break)

I climbed all the way inside
Your tragedy
I got behind
The majesty

Of the different shapes
In every note
the endless tapes
of every word you wrote

With real live bleeding fingers
broken guitar strings

Atonement

Come on, Come on, Come on
Kill the rats in the gutter
Sings the voice in the choir
Bring your Father and your Mother
Sing it higher and higher
Shake the clammy hand
Repeat the 23rd psalm
Make you understand
Where it was you went wrong

Voices from tapes
Shouting with twisted tongues
Emotional rape
Hell fire scorched lungs

Come on, Come on, Come on
Pay close attention to this
Let me give you something good to eat
Bite down hard 'til it sticks between your teeth
Glory, glory we've killed the beast
Blinded by glittery diamonds
Resting on crooked fingers
Shaded eyes they are the ones
Who'll lead you to your deliverance

From the figure of doom
Force you to understand
Lock you in a room
With a holy roller and a one man band

Minneapolis

I've been waiting for you to come back
Since you left Minneapolis
Snow covers the streetlamps and the windowsills
The buildings and the brittle crooked trees
Dead leaves of December
Thin skinned and splintered
Never gotten used to this bitter winter

I've been wasted, angry and sad
Since you left Minneapolis
I wish my thoughts were pure like the driven snow
Like the heavens and the spring's virgin buds
But they strangle me with their sin
Fill me up with poison
Black clouds have covered up the sun again

I can always trace it back
To that night in Minneapolis
Here on the seventh floor in a room I can't call mine
Deadbolt on the door, do not disturb sign
Shaking and trembling
On the clean white linen
Slivers of starlight across the ceiling

A dozen yellow roses
All that's left in Minneapolis
I wish I'd never seen your face or heard your voice
You're a bad pain in my gut
I wanna spit you out
Open up this wound again
Let my blood flow red and thin
Into the glistening
Into the whiteness
Into the melting snow of Minneapolis

Words Fell

Words Fell
Like roses at our feet
When you let me see you cry
Your silent lips against my cheek
Words Fell
On a night as black as coal
Your kisses traveled deep
Your eyes pierced my soul
Words Fell

Words Fell
In another place and time
We lived within the woods
Ate berries from the vine
Words Fell
When we lay among the stones
And watched the Druids dance
And walked along the rocky shores
Words Fell

Words Fell
In another place and time
I knew your mournful blue
Knew your golden grace
Words Fell
When we let the ocean hold us
And sank beneath the waves
In the silences of the roses
Words Fell
Words Fell
Words Fell

@ Grimar, I really enjoyed that song your ex wrote.

@ Tony, Wonderful song. I got into trouble quoting a part of that song with a friend of mine when I smacked him in the back of the head. I have Serj's poetry book Cool Gardens.

@ Fiona, It isn't precisely rap. They are sort of a rock/rap/hardcore mix and a modern version of Rage Against the Machine IMO.

Another song they've done I find to be just brilliant about police brutality.


Must go listen to SOAD now. *twitches*

another one my ex girlfriend wrote. (she has written a lot)

got no grip


As a phantom we walk the earth with anger.
Trying to force a smile if we can.
We’re trying to hide from the fact that we’re mortal
We try not to walk towards the end

But some have already given up,
Some are tired, some have stopped.
Some just left, they where petrified
For living it all out in flames

Break our rules, and disappear
Fly with anger, fly with fear
If you see me, then I’m here
Born to suffer, born to bleed

So amorphous, so annoyed
No one understands
Our footsteps burns among our hearts
Forgotten buried, standard stands
Wipes away the sanity
Ruined dreams, and gravity
Seems to slowly fade away
Got no grip, will leave today

Got no grip, will leave today

DOWN
Beautifully Depressed
This fits my life style

You can't fool the fool, 'cause I know it in my head
I just want the people to get some before they're dead
You can take my body and dry it in the sun

Seeing vultures circle overhead
This is the home of the beautifully depressed
Life is just a moment that rushes all at once
Letting the vultures surround me when I'm dead
I am the lord of the beautifully depressed

Endlessly, cum for me
Faithfully, bend for me
Lifelessly, hang for me
Endlessly, endlessly

Push me to the limit
I ain't afraid to die
Drive me to the limit
I proudly pledge to die

I dispell the madness by forgetting all the rules
You say I follow in the footsteps of pre-existing fools
Begging vultures to bury off my head
This is the hard life of the beautifully depressed

Endlessly, cum for me
Faithfully, bend for me
Lifelessly, hang for me
Endlessly, endlessly

Push me to the limit
I ain't afraid to die
Look before you're in it
Are you afraid to die

Then join the beautifully depressed
The beautifully depressed...

Saxon - Witchfinder General

Send for the general there's witches to burn
The day of their judgement draws night
Torment and torture the bringer of pain
desciples of satan will die

Tell me your secrets bring them to me
Give your confession your soul will be free
No one is save from the purging of fire
You'll rue the day that you sent for
The witchfinder general

Accusing the innocent prey on the weak
Its not just their souls that you seek
Friends will not help you they stand back in fear
Hide when the general is near

Trial is by water no one can win
Drown and your innocent guilty you swim
The gallows are waiting they're lighting the fire
There's no release from the monsters desire

Tell me your secrets Bring them to me
Give your confession your soul will be free
No one is save from the purging of fire
You'll rue the day that you sent for
The witchfinder general

I like that one OS, the Moody Blues are good stuff.
Seeing as I made an allusion to this song in another thread, it's only fair... Oasis are, well, repetitive and annoying if nothing else but so damn catchy.

"Champagne Supernova"
-Oasis, What's the Story (Morning Glory)?

How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?

Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky

Wake up the dawn and ask her why
A dreamer dreams, she never dies
Wipe that tear away now from your eye

Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova

'Cuz we don't believe
That they're gonna get away from the summer
But you and I will never die
The world's still spinning around we don't know why
Why-why-why-why-i-i

How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova
'Cuz we don't believe
That they're gonna get away from the summer
But you and I will never die
The world's still spinning around we don't know why
Why-why-why-why-i-i
How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
We were getting high

I heard this on my way to work this morning....reminded me how much I love this song.....

nice song juni....I heard that one...its nice

Recorded by "Spandau Ballet"
Album: "True" - 1983


"Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

So true funny how it seems
always in time, but never in line for dreams.
Head over heels when toe to toe.
This is the sound of my soul,
this is the sound

I bought a ticket to the world,
but now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh I want the truth to be said

Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true

With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue
dissolve the nerves that have just begun
Listening to Marvin (all night long)
This is the sound of my soul,
this is the sound

Always slipping from my hands,
Sets a time of its own
Take your seaside arms and write the next line
Oh I want the truth to be known

Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true

I bought a ticket to the world,
but now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh I want the truth to be said

Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true

This much is true

I know, I know, I know this much is true "

Thanks slade! that whole album is pretty cool....he's from Maine too!

I heard that song "collide" last night

I want to dedicate this song to Fiona the Apologetic

@ Lestat. I am sincerely sorry you were put in the position where you felt you had to do that

Spoiler

sheesh, betrayed by a bat

:laugh:

Here's another Aussie band, not very well known, but they have a great first album, a lot of the song is in the music, so the lyrics don't sound as good, but anyway...

WolfMother - "Woman"
Well we always seem to worry,
Life's becoming such a flurry,
Can't you see that theres light in the dark,
Nothin's quite what it seems in the city of dreams,

Rainbows tinted with gold,
All the stories we've been told,
Still her love is yours to behold,
Nothin's quite what it seems in the city of dreams,

You say it's not the real world,
Though it seems so real to me,
And i know that we're never turning back,
Can you see what i see,

I had a vision,
Of festive day's,
She's like an eagle,
In the misted haze,

Sit and wonder at the sky,
Watch the river flowing by,
Now it ends and we're here at the start,
Nothin's quite what it seems in the city of dreams,

You say it's not the real world,
Though it seems so real to me,
And i know that we're never turning back,
Can you see what i see,

I had a vision,
Of festive day's,
She's like an eagle,
In the misted haze,

Oh break my chains girl,
Show me to the land,
Where people live together,
Try to understand,