What Song Has the Greatest Lyrics?

[Citizen Koba]

Always has a special resonance for me given my history but this one kicks everyone in the feels

"Hurt"
(originally by Nine Inch Nails)


I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

[Slugfester]

Bob Dylan


They sat together in the park
As the evening sky grew dark
She looked at him and he felt a spark
Tingle to his bones
'Twas then he felt alone
And wished that he'd gone straight
And watched out for a simple twist of fate

They walked alone by the old canal
A little confused, I remember well
And stopped into a strange hotel
With a neon burning bright
He felt the heat of the night
Hit him like a freight train
Moving with a simple twist of fate

A saxophone someplace far off played
As she was walking on by the arcade
As the light bust through a beat up shade
Where he was waking up
She dropped a coin into the cup
Another blind man at the gate
And forgot about a simple twist of fate

He woke up, the room was bare
He didn't see her anywhere
He told himself he didn't care
Pushed the window open wide
Felt an emptiness inside
To which he just could not relate
Brought on by a simple twist of fate

He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks
Where the sailors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again
How long must he wait?
One more time for a simple twist of fate

People tell me it's a sin
To know and feel too much within
I still believe she was my twin but I lost the ring
She was born in spring
But I was born too late
Blame it on a simple twist of fate

[BodyBagz]

As BodyBagz has already contributed 'Stairway' I'll post this. Not a fan of Duran Duran generally but this was an inspired moment.

Very good song, as is Come Undone

[BodyBagz]

[Pappy O’Daniel]

I like this one. I saw these guys in Ohio somewhere, they opened for Social Distortion.

Marijuana (youtube.com) ...............Rockin'

I’ve seen The Reverend multiple times. Never with Social D though! That would have been a fun show.

[Dr. Z]

I like this one. I saw these guys in Ohio somewhere, they opened for Social Distortion.

Marijuana (youtube.com) ...............Rockin'

There are too many to list. They also are old songs Sadly the modern musicians have all but lost this ability to write their own Lyrics.

Back in the day some people could write songs, play them well, and perform them live.

Now, they can dance well.

[Rockin']

When does the lyrics kick in

I think that you must toke some before hitting play on that song.

Then you'll hear the lyric. -Marijuana-

..................Rockin'

[Willy Wanker]

The definition of subjective

Some of my favorites -

No rap songs bro?

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[Willy Wanker]

"Hurt"
(originally by Nine Inch Nails)

Glad you credited NIN. One of the great cover songs and the lyrics really hit the spot, but it's amazing how so many people think Johnny Cash wrote the song and Nine Inch Nails did the cover.

I like Cash a lot, I just wish people would put more respect on Trent Reznor's name. He said seeing someone cover his most personal song was like watching someone f**king his girlfriend. But even he ended up loving Cash's version of the song after watching the video.

In a way, the lyrics represent Cash's life just as much Reznor's, if not more.

A few weeks later, a CD shows up with the track. Again, I'm in the middle of something and put it on and give it a cursory listen. It sounded... weird to me. That song in particular was straight from my soul, and it felt very strange hearing the highly identifiable voice of Johnny Cash singing it. It was a good version, and I certainly wasn't cringing or anything, but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend **** somebody else. Or something like that. Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on Zack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine any more. Then it all made sense to me. It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. Some-****ing-how that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning – different, but every bit as pure. Things felt even stranger when he passed away. The song's purpose shifted again. It's incredibly flattering as a writer to have your song chosen by someone who's a great writer and a great artist.

— Geoff Rickly interviews Trent Reznor, Alternative Press

[BodyBagz]

No rap songs bro?

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Good lookin out...

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