Lyrical Moments
These are my favourite moments in music where a combination of the lyricals and the vocal delivery really get at me. The emotion in the voice, the relevance it has to me or it's plain creepiness... |
| 1 | Ben Folds Five
Brick
"For the moment we're alone. She's alone, I'm alone. Now I know it" |
| 2 | Bloc Party
Better Than Heaven
"You get sadder the smarter you get and it's a bore" |
| 3 | Brand New
Handcuffs
"I'd drown all these crying babies if I knew that their mothers wouldn't cry. I'd hold them down and I'd squeeze real soft and let a piece of myself die" |
| 4 | Dance Gavin Dance
Carl Barker
"I guess I still miss you, but talking's for functioning people" |
| 5 | Deftones
Change (In The House of Flies)
"I pulled off your wings...and I laughed" |
| 6 | Fear Before
Drowning the Old Hag/...As A Result Of Signals Being Crossed
"What you see and what you believe are never gonna be the same" |
| 7 | Frank Turner
I Knew Prufrock Before He Was Famous
"no one's really clear about tommy's job deion but it's pretty clear he's vital to the whole damn operation" |
| 8 | Gary Jules
Mad World
"I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad...the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" |
| 9 | Gnarls Barkley
Just A Thought
"I've tried everything but suicide, but it's crossed my mind" |
| 10 | In Flames
The Chosen Pessimist
"Come faith I
"Come faith I'm dying" |
| 11 | Kamelot
Memento Mori
"I am the god in my own history" "the more we know the more we yearn" |
| 12 | Karnivool
Deadman
"God's not where you hoped" |
| 13 | COTE
"I don't think you like me now" "Have you heard, it's a silent dream" |
| 14 | The Killers
Mr Brightside
"let me go, I just can't look it's killing me and taking control" |
| 15 | Limp Bizkit
Boiler
"no more eating, no sleeping, no living it's all just more giving to you and I'm done" |
| 16 | Misery Signals
Set In Motion
"When there's nothing left, we'll be fed our fathers dreams" |
| 17 | Modern Life Is War
I'm Not Ready
The whole damn song, but specifically - ""and sometimes the boys who should be your best mates become just strangers with familar faces" |
| 18 | Pearl Jam
Jeremy
"Jeremy spoke in class today" |
| 19 | Poison the Well
Meeting Again For The First Time
"Keep me from believing I can still jump off" |
| 20 | Protest The Hero
A Plateful Of Our Dead
"I'd rather kill a stupid flower than spread it's seeds around" |
| 21 | Radiohead
Reckoner
"You are not to blame" |
| 22 | System Of A Down
BYOB
"everbody's going to the party to have a real good time/dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine" |
| 23 | Thursday
War All The Time
"so wave, to the people who long to wave back from the fabric of a flag that says love all of the time" |
| 24 | VAST
Flames
"When I'm with you I feel flames again" |
| 25 | Descendents
Dry Spell
"Goosebumps been gone for far too long" |
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