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A small, dedicated portion of one of the walls inside my house or garage, completely dedicated to lyrics. Everyone that comes to my house, I would ask them to write down one of the most influential lyrics to them, one or two lines long maximum...
In a way, being a huge music fan, I almost see this as touching someone's soul. Music let's people express things that they could never even dream of putting in words. A lot of the times one line can be a lot more influential than a whole verse, sort of like a picture's worth 1000 words compared to a movie...

So here is where I start. Here is where I come to you and see what people would actually put on my board. Seeing this is my online community, I ask what YOU would put on my Wall O' Lyrics?

Please take it as serious as possible. It doesn't have to be the absolute most influential thing you've ever heard, but it has to at least mean something to you personally....
You may say the name of the artist and song, but it's not necessary. Try to keep it semi-short please.


I'll start this off with a couple that are very influential to me, and one that Spiral shared with me earlier that he said he would write...

"But I'm just sitting on this merry-go round, and the music is too loud"
Stone Temple Pilots - Hello It's Late

"She's a loaded gun in my shaking hand"
Jet - Put your money where your mouth is

"Don't get lost in heaven, they got locks on the gates"

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly"
Beatles - Blackbird

"A little sunshine just to butter my toast and your love next to mine"

"Gotta box full of your toys. They're fresh out of batteries but they're still making noise"
Weezer - My Name is Jonas


"Ride the spiral to the end it may just go where no ones been. Spiral out.... keep going"
Tool - Lateralus (Spiral's)


So please share . I'm interested in what type of lyrics influence a person, and which type of people .

Thanks

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FunkySkunky

"I never really thought of heaven much
until they put him in the ground;
but that's all I'm doing now.
listening for patterns in the sound
of an endless static sea."

Easy/Lucky/Free - Bright Eyes


"Windows open, then close.
That's just how it goes.
Don't it feel like sunshine after all?
The world we love forever gone.
We're only just as happy
as everyone else seems to think we are."

The World You Love - Jimmy Eat World


"They will tell you you can't sleep alone in a strange place,
then they'll tell you you can't sleep with somebody else.
Well, sooner or later you sleep in your own space,
either way it's okay to wake up with yourself."

My Life - Billy Joel

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Dark

Thanks . Im glad you answered. For the wall though I'd actually want shorter quotes then that. Not butchering your quotes, but something like...

To really dig deep you need to discover the lyrics for yourself, but simple lines like that can be really influential

FunkySkunky

Well, I felt like I was keeping it as short as possible without losing the meaning... Anyway, nice thread! I just hope more people decide to post.

Bhikku

If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don’t know. – Kansas, “Carry On My Wayward Son”

All the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me, all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me… - My Chemical Romance, “The Ghost Of You”

I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies. - Fall Out Boy, “Golden”

Heaven’s not enough, if when I’m there I don’t remember you. – Yoko Kanno, “Heaven’s Not Enough”

You are such an inspiration for the ways that I will never ever choose to be. – A Perfect Circle, “Judith”

I see a red door and I want to paint it black. - The Rolling Stones, “Paint It Black”

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Bud&bluntman

"Brick by brick the night eclipsed prickled by cuticle thorns, dried to sleep on nursey slits into this life i'm born, heavens just a scab away, i'd like to see you after just one taste". The mars volta - Cassandra Gemini

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racin36er

jesus, i have far too many... but i'll list as many as i see fit to include

"build your heart a diamond, and it don't need no ring"
- Matthew Good, "She's In It For the Money"

"forget perfect, i'm trying not to be worthless"
- Fort Minor, "Slip Out The Back"

"your lipstick, his collar, don't bother angel
i know exactly what goes on."
- Taking Back Sunday, "Cute Without the "E" (Cut From the Team)"

The entire song, "Excuse me, Mister" by Ben Harper, but if i had to pick a specific line for a wall, it'd be the chorus, for sure:

"
So, excuse me Mr.
But I'm a mister too.
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.
And, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,
'cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame."

this is my personal favourite, hits me the hardest,

"there's no money
there's no possessions,
only obsessions
i don't need that shit.
fuck your money.
fuck your obsession.
fuck your posessions.
i don't need that shit."
- Papa Roach, "Between Angels and Insects"



i'm sure there are more. i'll add more as they come along. this is a great idea, btw. im gonna get one of these started as soon as i get my own garage

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yarb

this is awesome. music is one of the biggest parts of my life and I actually registered just to reply to this thread. Ahhh there's so many good ones but these are off the top of my head in no particular order:

"Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"
-Jimi Hendrix

"It's not a lover I want no more
And it's not heaven I'm pining for
But there's some spirit I used to know
That's been drowned out by the radio"
-Arcade Fire

"I'm standing on the stage
Of fear and self-doubt
It's a hollow play
But they'll clap anyway

I'm living in an age
That calls darkness light
Though my language is dead
Still the shapes fill my head"
-Arcade Fire

"I said I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag"
-Pearl Jam

"Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow"
-Bob Dylan

"I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping while my guitar gently weeps"
-George Harrison

Dark

Thanks guys, and welcome yarb! . Glad you decided to join. There are a BUNCH of great music threads around here, as long as a million others...hope you decide to stay around . Great community we have here, that's what I asked the board this question
Take care

Swabeky

Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there
Box of Rain - Grateful Dead