I enjoy anything by Bob Dylan.

"You're so full of games, you must never lose. Funny how the only one in your bed is you.... I know the secrets that you keep... I know where you sleep"

Perfect uplifting lyrics right there!!

Nine Inch Nails has some of the most abstract and chilling lyrics I've ever heard/read. I love them wholeheartedly.

Right Where it Belongs

See the animal in it's cage that you built
Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all
Right where it belongs

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you wanted to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks?
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?

What if all the world's inside of your head
Just creations of your own?
Your devils and your gods
All the living and the dead
And you really are alone
You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the woods
While you're hiding in the trees

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you wanted to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?

I like Fall Out Boy's lyrics. Pete Wentz's writing, to me, is very imaginative.

Also, I love the lyrics to My Love by Sia.

My love, leave yourself behind
Beat inside me, leave you blind
My love, you have found peace
You were searching for release

You gave it all, into the call
You took a chance and
You took a fall for us

You came thoughtfully, loved me faithfully
You taught me honor, you did it for me

Tonight you will sleep for good (?)
You will wait for me my love

Now I am strong (Now I am strong)
You gave me all anekatips
You gave all you had and now I am home (?)

My love, leave yourself behind
Beat inside me, leave you blind

My love, look what you can do
I am mending, I'll be with you

You took my hand added a plan
You gave me your heart
I asked you to dance with me

You loved honestly
Did what you could release
Aaaahhh oooh

I know you're pleased to go
I won't relieve this love (?)

Now I am strong (Now I am strong)
You gave me all
You gave all you had and now I am home

My love, leave yourself behind
Beat inside me, I'll be with you

The Saltwater Room- Owl City

Time together isn't ever quite enough
When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home
What will it take to make or break this hint of love?
We need time, only time
When we're apart, whatever are you thinking of?
If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?
So tell me darling, do you wish we'd fall in love?
All the time, all the time

Dismantle.Repair.- Anberlin

One last glance from a taxi cab
Images scar my mind
Four weeks've felt like years
Since your full attention was all mine
The night was young and so were we
Talked about life, God, death, and your family
Didn't want any promises,
Just my undivided honesty, and you said

The Man Who Can't Be Moved- The Script

People talk about the guy that's waiting on a girl
There are no holes in his shoes but a big hole in his world

Maybe I'll get famous as the man who can't be moved
Maybe you wont mean to but you'll see me on the news
And you'll come running to the corner
'cause you'll know it's just for you
I'm the man who can't be moved

Just a few lyrics of the many, many songs.

Basically anything Smile Empty Soul and Eminem have ever done.

Favorites though:

Smile Empty Soul- Holes

"These people think they know what's missing from my show, just admit that Jesus died for me. Take your bibles and go home"

Eminem- Mosh

"They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever, they tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go, rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know, stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home"

I like the lyrics to Modest Mouse's "King Rat". The song is pretty long, but my favorite part is:

Deep Water, Deep Water
Senseless Denial
I went down like a rag doll shooken and shy
Deep Water, Deep Water
Senseless Denial
I went down like a rag doll rat of a child

Well King rat has me on his list again
I can never be on the fence again
I found out it's all loud
Open like an organ and it
talk, talk, talk, talk again
he promised me that when I cheated him
But I could open my eye well...
lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky,
lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again.

Down - Jason Walker

I shot for the sky
I'm stuck on the ground
Why do I try
I know i'm going to fall down

Stand still, look pretty - The Wreckers

I am slowly falling apart
I wish you'd take a walk in my shoes for a start
And you might think it's easy being me
You just stand still, look pretty

All I wanted - Paramore

I think i'll paace my apartment a few times and fall asleep on the couch
And wake up early to black and white reruns that escape from my mouth

All I wanted was you

I could follow you to the beginning just to relive the start
Maybe then we'd remember to slow down at all of our favourite parts

But really I love all of Paramore's lyrics

Nuttin No Go So by Notch (Yeh, it's reggae :D)

Best examples:

And yuh neva build yuh shoulda muscle wid yuh third leg
No gal neva kiss yuh mouth aft she done give yuh head

An you no wan no gal fi come an kiss yuh pun yuh lips
Afta she tongue dida deh below your hips


Yuh punanny hole nuh bigger than a basin keg
And yuh nuh shape crooky like the alphabet letter zed

Best Anti-war lyrics I've heard. ever.

Architect - Collapse the War Engine

The gears of the war machine spin
Always forward endlessly driving forever onward
NEVER.
SLOWING.
DOWN.
History repeats over and over.
Explode, Implode.
Faulting, Failing.
From tooth and nail to nuclear arms the results are all the same.
Explode, Implode.
Faulting, Failing.

The reminders are the trademarks.
The accounts of being dragged through unescorted hell.
Told by the innocent passerby that did not embrace the great machine.
The destroyer of human understanding.
Feeds on complacent ignorance.

We will no longer pump fuel to the flame.
But at what price.
I beg the question.

What purpose does drive this engine.
When will this machine collapse.
Never.

you gotta like noisy metal/hear the song to understand why these lyrics are so good in my opinion.

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Empty Streets - Late Night Alumni :]
I actually like the beginning lyrics the most.

Green Day- Homecoming (opening verse)

My heart is beating from me
I am standing all alone
Please call me only if you are coming home
Waste another year flies by
Waste a night or two
You taught me how to live

Numb by Linkin Park

"I'm tired of being what you want me to be, feeling so faithless lost under the surface.
I don't know what you're expecting of me, put under the pressure of walking in your shoes."

I'm not a sad person or anything, but I could really relate to this at one point in my life and sometimes I still can.

Heard the World by O.A.R.

I just heard the world is breaking down into bits again
tell me what am I to do
and you just want me to stay here
so I'm just gonna stay here

Home the last resort
Build a castle with an iron door
Lock the window
Pull the shades
The hazed out sun wont help anyway
If the world is crumbling down
I dont want to be alone No
Locked up in this place

I heard the world up late night holding my breath tight
Trying to keep my head on right
There's a chill in the air
Nobody could care
How you're caught up in the fight of your life

I just like these because they basically just describe what almost everyone feels at some point in there life.

. Deathmask Divine

removal of the eyes gives my heart a saddened chill
I preserve them in formaldehyde
to gaze upon at will
how their greenish flecks befill me
that starlit winters night
how I lost all that I ever was
while locked within their sight
before you sits a broken man
your fragile pinkish heart in hand
peculiar how it can hurt so bad
while love is only in the mind
I sew the gaping chestwork
each thread is made with love
the bosom where I would rest my face
is covered in your blood
no
this is not the end
you'll live on eternally
oh
lord its not the end
my secret you'll forever be
I interrupt this transformation
a familiar lust swelling in me
a long and soulful kiss
the shades are drawn the living world cant see
the coil of entrails
how curious the smell
so pungent to my eager nostrils
hands further compelled
no
no its not the end
forever you'll be in my arms
I could never let you go
my darling cold and blue
I wonder are you dreaming still
spread eagle blood removed
I weave the sucking trocar
beneath your bruising skin
tonight I'll lay beside you darling in necromantic sin
pinned to the bed sheets like a prized butterfly
you're mine
I hear your voice so precious echoing deeply inside
I did my best to love you
while you did live and breathe
this tender taxidermy
trophy of the bereaved

I love that song

Eminem - When i'm gone

Have you ever loved someone so much, you'd give an arm for?
Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?
When they know they're your heart
And you know you were their armour
And you will destroy anyone who would try to harm 'her
But what happens when karma, turns right around and bites you?
And everything you stand for, turns on you to spite you?
What happens when you become the main source of her pain?

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

And I feel that time's a-wasting, go
So where ya going 'til tommorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come
So would you even care?

And I feel it
And I feel it

Where ya going for tommorrow?
Where ya going with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?

And I feel, so much depends on the weather
So is it raining in your bedroom?
And I see, that these are the eyes of disarray
Would you even care?

Citizen Erased - Muse
Wash me away
Clean your body of me
Ease all the memories
They will only bring us pain
And i've seen, all i'll ever need

Inevitable - Anberlin
I want to break every clock.
The hands of time could never move again.
We could stay in this moment for the rest of our lives.
Is it over now hey, hey is it over now?
I want to be your last first kiss
That you'll ever have.

Kick Push - Lupe Fiasco
So he kick push, kick push, kick push, kick push, coast
And away he rolled jus a rebel to the world with no place to go

Baptized In Blacklight - KennaLike a healer
She comes to me
With solace for my spirit
Thoughts in cages
Locked in mazes
Hearing echoes of yesterday

and the whole song is amazing.