I just start listening through some of my songs and really listening to the words and it got me thinking, wow this is really meaningful. So what is the most poetic/meaningful lyrics you have heard lately.

I will get the ball rolling here.
"Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
Is just a freight train coming your way"-No leaf clover - Metallica
It really makes me think about heaven and hell and how we can be so easily deceived by the hopes of heaven.

"All of that time you thought I was sad, I was trying to remember your name"

"This scar is a flec on my porceline skin,
tried to reach deep but you couldn't get in.
Now you're outside me you see all the beauty,
repent all your sins."

"There's one thing I want to say so I'll be brave,
you were what I wanted,
I gave what I gave,
I'm not sorry I met you,
I'm not sorry it's over,
I'm not sorry there's nothing to say."

All from "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" by STARS, I just love the way the words flow together and really evoke varied feelings about relationships and how hard they can be sometimes.

"You climb out the chimney,
and meet me in the middle,
the middle of the town.
Since there's no one else around,
we let our hair grow long,
and forget all we used to know.
Then our skin gets thicker,
from living out in the cold."

From "Neighborhood #1: Tunnels" by The Arcade Fire. Kind of an interesting look at alienation and indifference in the world.

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world

And another one.

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
And you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven

If you don't know these songs then find the nearest pimp and get yourself bitchslapped.

PS:There's something poetic about Freebird's solo.You can almost picture the tears full of win running down the guitarists face.

Music is your special friend,
Dance on fire as it intends,
Music is your only friend,
Until the end,
Until the end.

"When The Music's Over" by The Doors.

Another one:

Well did she make you cry,
Make you break down,
Shatter your illusions of love,
And is it over now,
Do you know how,
To pick up the pieces and go home.

"Gold Dust Woman" by Fleetwood Mac

"Any chimp can play human for a day,
an' use his opposable thumbs to iron his uniform,
and run for office on election day,
fancy himself a real decision maker,
Deploying all the troops and salt shakin,
but it's a jungle where your war is made,
and you'll panic and throw your own shit at the enemy,
the camera pulls back to reveal your true identity,
oh look it's a sheep in wolfs clothing,
a smokin gun holding ape."

From "It's a Hit" by Rilo Kiley, hmmm, I wonder what this one is about...

"She is Everything to me
the song that no one sings
the unattainable
She's a myth that i have to believe in
all i need to make it real is one more reason
Now i dont know what to do
i dont know what to do
when she makes me sing
Slipknot Vermillion part 2

legion by vnv nation

Enveloped in a sentiment,
a sound that rushes over me.
Engage an impulse to pretend
I have a faith as pure.
Not forgetting what it means to dream.
Indulging everything.
Entertaining thoughts that I've the strength
of those I yearn to be.
Cheers and tribute greet the saviours.
Reckless thoughts survive.
Anachronistic and impulsive.

And what will happen?
Will I dream?
I am too scared to close my eyes.
For a second please hold me.
None can change in me these things that I believe.
But I don't know what happens now.
I am too scared to close my eyes.

forsaken by vnv nation

When I have nothing left to feel
When I have nothing left to say
I'll just let this slip away.

I feel these engines power down.
I feel this heart begin to bleed
as I turn this burning page.

Please forgive me if I bleed.
Please forgive me if I breathe.
I have words I need to say.
Oh so very much to say.

And whose life do I lead?
And whose blood do I bleed?
Whose air do I breathe?
With whose skin now do I feel?

I'm supposed to walk away from here.
I'm supposed to walk away from here.

And whose life do I lead?
Whose blood do I bleed?
Whose air do I now breathe?
I'm convinced there's nothing more.

The day you died I lost my way.
The day you died I lost my mind.

What am I supposed to do?
Is there something more?

The engines power down.
Like a soldier to his end I go.
Because I'm convinced
that there is nothing more.

and whose life do I lead
and whose air do I breathe?
With whose skin and whose blood do I feel?

What happens now?
Have I done something wrong?

Forgive my need to bleed right now.
Please forgive my need to breathe
But I've so much to say
and it wouldn't matter anyway.
You're not here to hear these words that I must say
and I'm convinced inside
that there is nothing more.

Whose life do I lead?
Whose air do I breathe.
Whose blood do I now bleed?
With whose skin now do I feel?

I have nothing left to say.
I have nothing left to feel.
Am I supposed to let this go now,
let darkness come and take you away?

Hmm, forgive my saying so, but there are a couple of pretty pants examples in this thread. Lets roll out a proper lyrics Legend; Mr Bob Dylan.

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

Damn why didn't I remember Bob Dylan?! More to the point: how did I forget to mention Bob Dylan?! I curse myself. Well done Mr Wednesday.

a decent theme song for anyone who has ever ended up outsmarting themselves, thinking things through so hard that they end up missing their chance altogether.

Poets of the Fall - "Clevermind"

Looking at the road that rises up ahead
I thought I'd learned a thing or two
But this is where it's all made new
N' I gotta throw my hands up
I can't go on if I can't stop

Look the leaves are dead
The moments gone, there's no surrender
Forever now unsaid
The words that might've warmed December
Cos it's all inside your head
Like fragments of a dream you remember
So never mind, your clever mind, never mind me

Staring at the ceiling from my bed
I thought I'd earned a chance or few
Thought I'd be paid in due
Time isn't made for waiting
Past isn't worth debating

Look the leaves are dead...

Feeling like a fool again
Just need a new direction
a new beginning , a new beginning
I can't hold back and I can't hold on
It's all about gratification
See me running, see me running

Look the leaves are dead...

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

"In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
and he carries the reminders of every glove that's laid him down
or cut him 'till he cried out in his anger and his pain,
"I am leaving, I am leaving" but the fighter still remain"

From "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkle, one of my favorite songs.

Apologies for only having one. I'll post some more when they come to me. I keep thinking of Iron Maden for some reason...

anything by Flogging Molly

My favorite is "No more tears for you paddy's lament"

Wipe the blood from your lip
With the flesh of your hand
Theres no thorn in the side left to grow
So lets cherish the names that we lost for an age
With the ruex now the supper must go
Where traditions they blend lives a home on the mend
The grass glistens now for alls eyes
So lets sever the shame we have come to reclaim
With the waters retreat 'neath the shore
With the red rose pales lay a thousand graves, many warm
Where the ghost still haunt for the day we come to live for

Don't look back
For whats dead now is safe
They exiled, a home where the soul kept safe
Take me back on the crest of a wave
No more tears for you paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's
Lament

Rip the tree from his heart
Theres no sorrow tonight
For once banished dreams sleep divine
Where the silence you hear is the prosper we shared
The only blade is a razor sharp smile
Still the church bell rings the collective sings that still roam
But the only thing left is the pain of nothing once more

Don't look back
For whats dead now is safe
They exiled, a home where the soul kept safe
Take me back on the crest of a wave
No more tears for you paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's
Lament

Grab the leaf of the branch from the tree in the ground
Where the roots claimed the earth many toiled
To a land that now stands under no-ones command
And her beauty let no man destroy
So remember the gun and the damage it's done
The last drop as been spilled for you and I
Let there be no despair for the ruex we once shared
Brush the tear from the eye that still shines

Where the red rose pales lay a thousand graves many more
Where the ghost still haunt for the day we come to the fore

Don't look back
For whats dead now is safe
They exiled, a home where the soul kept safe
Take me back on the crest of a wave
No more tears for you paddy's lament

Don't look back
For whats dead now is safe
They exiled, a home where the soul kept safe
Take me back on the crest of a wave
No more tears for you paddy's lament
No more tears for you paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's
Lament

From Skyclad's "When God Logs-Off":

Insomnia taunts me, I turn on my TV,
Rapt in the arms of a galaxy spiral.
Heard a sea-shell hid its secret as well,
This nexus is key to our planet's survival.

One precious moment it all became clear;
Brain-cloud-haze lifted by euphoric fear.
To the unknown my mind's eye directed;
Beheld every mote in creation connected.

No more Hereafter, eugenics our master,
Sectarist lecture mere witless hubris.
Humanity's blunder was ceasing to wonder;
Why are we here; what's the meaning of this?

Virtual church without actual sages;
Souls under scrutiny, rats in glass cages.
Enigmas deciphered are no longer needed;
Last words of warning unheard or unheeded.

We're all hooked-up to the vast karmic internet;
Each of our souls on te end of its fibre.
One sacred fact that we can't download yet;
The truth is we share the same service-provider.

The atheist plays whilst the orthodox pray.
Fundamentalists freak-out as humanists scoff.
A headlong collision 'twixt science and religion;
There'll be Hell to pay when one day God logs-off.

"All That's Left" - Thrice

One day the dreamers died within us
When all our answers never came
We hid the truth beneath our skin but
Our shadows never looked the same

A ghost is all that's left
Of everything we swore we never would forget
We tried to bleed the sickness
But we drained our hearts instead
We are, we are the dead

And when we couldn't stop the bleeding
We held our hearts over the flame
We couldn't help but call it treason
After that we couldn't fill our frames
After that our shadows never looked the same

A ghost is all that's left
Of everything we swore we never would forget
We tried to bleed the sickness
But we drained our hearts instead
We are, we are the dead

In summers past we'd challenge fate
With higher pitch and perfect aim
And standing fast, we'd radiate
A light we loved but never named
But the answers never came
And our shadows never looked the same

A ghost is all that's left (we are the ones who lost our faith)
Of everything we swore we never would forget (can we be saved?)
We tried to bleed the sickness
But we drained our hearts instead
We are, we are the dead (we are the ones who lost our faith)
A ghost of everything we thought but never said (can we be saved?)
We tried to bleed the sickness
But we drained our hearts instead

We are the ones who lost our faith
We dug ourselves an early grave
We are the dead, can we be saved?

I'm tired and feeling hateful
I'm tired and I can't breathe
So tired that I would be grateful
If you closed the door when you leave
That's me diggin' my heels in
That's me with the holy ghost
'Scuse me but I don't remember
Where were you when I needed you most

And I'm tired of the sky
As you claw at my eyes
As I wait for the flood
I swim in blood
As I crawl to my knees
And I beg your disease
Taste the ice on your breath
As you catch your death

I close my eyes
Embrace the wave
Deliver me

Hey you, the voice of reason
Hey you, are you listening to me
It's you that I can't believe in
I don't buy what I don't see
Say goodbye cause I don't need

And I'm tired of the sky
As you claw at my eyes
As I wait for the flood
I swim in blood
As I crawl to my knees
And I beg your disease
Taste the ice on your breath
As you catch your death

And I'm tired of the sky
As you claw at my eyes
As I wait for the flood
I swim in blood
As I crawl to my knees
And I beg your disease
Taste the ice on your breath
As you catch your death

I close my eyes
Embrace the wave
Abandon me
Save the day that I won't see
Deliver me

Alice In Chains- Nutshell:

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find, and yet I find repeating in my head
If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

Gives me chills whenever I listen to it.

Apologies in advance for a long post, but I got a couple to post:

Queens of the Stone Age - Turnin' on the Screw

You got a question? Please don't ask it
It puts the lotion in the basket
You say bigger's better but bigger's better
White boy dressed up like a
Figure drawn inside a toilet on the wall
The world is round,
My square don't fit at all

They say those who can't just instruct others
& act like victims or jilted lovers
You can't lose it if you never had it
Disappear man. Do some magic
You want a reason ? How is about because
You ain't a has been if you never was

I sound like this
Scared to say what is your passion
So slag it all
Bitter's in fashion
Fear of failure's all you've started
The jury is in, VERDICT:
Retarded,
I'm so tired, I'm wired too
I'm a mess
I guess I'm turning on the screw

So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now

Parabol/Parabola - Tool

Embracing you, this reality here
This one, this form I hold now
So wide-eyed and hopeful

Wide-eyed and hopefully wild
We barely remember what came before this precious moment
Choosing to be here right now, hold on, stay inside
This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal, all this pain is an illusion

-:-

We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment
We are choosing to be here right now, hold on, stay inside
This holy reality
This holy experience, choosing to be here in

This body
This body holding me
Be my reminder here that
I am not alone in
This body
This body holding me
Feeling eternal, all this
Pain is an illusion

Alive!

In this holy reality
In this holy experience, choosing to be here in

This body
This body holding me
Be my reminder here that
I am not alone in
This body
This body holding me
Feeling eternal, all this
Pain is an illusion

Swirling round with this familiar parable
Spinning, weaving round each new experience
Recognize this as a holy gift and
Celebrate this chance to be
Alive and breathing, the chance to be
Alive and breathing

The Widow - The Mars Volta

He's got fasting black lungs
Made of clove splintered shardes
They're the kind that will talk
Through a weezing of coughs

And I hear him every night
In every pore
And every time he just makes me warm

Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Must I hide?
Cause I'll never
Never sleep alone

Look at how they flock to him
From an isle of open sores
He knows that the taste is such
Such to die for

And I hear him every night
On every street
The scales that do slither
Deliver me from...

Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll hide
Cause I'll never
Never sleep alone

Oh lord
Said I'm bloodshot for sure
Pale runs the ghost
Swollen on the shore

Everynight
in every pore
The scales that do slither
Deliver me from...

Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Then I'll hide
Cause I'll never
Never sleep alone

Freeze without an answer
Free from all the shame
Let me die
Cause I'll never
Never sleep alone

"If you die" you said "So do i" you said...
But it ends the day you see how it is
There is no always forever... Just this...
Just this...

"If you die" you said "So do I" you said
But it ends the day you understand
There is no if... just and

There is no if... just and

There is no if...

There is no if- The Cure

This is hard i love poetic lyrics all my favourite artists use poetry in their lyrics (except maby sex pistols)

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass ,they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai guru deva, om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on across the universe,
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
Jai guru deva, om,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing
Through my opened ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying Love which shines around me like a
million suns, It calls me on and on
Across the universe
Jai guru deva, om,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva

Across the Universe - The Beatles

Well she's up against the register
with an apron and a spatula
with yesterday's deliveries,
and the tickets for the bachelors
she's a moving violation
from her conk down to her shoes
but it's just an invitation to the blues

and you feel just like Cagney
looks like Rita Hayworth
at the counter of the Schwab's drug store
you wonder if she might be single
she's a loner likes to mingle
got to be patient and pick up a clue

she says howyougonnalikem
over medium or scrambled
anyway's the only way
be careful not to gamble
on a guy with a suitcase
and a ticket gettin out of here
it's a tired bus station
and an old pair of shoes
but it ain't nothing but an
invitation to the blues

but you can't take your eyes off her
get another cup of java
and it's just the way she pours it for you
joking with the customers
and it's mercy mercy Mr. Percy
there ain't nothin back in Jersey
but a broken-down jalopy of a
man I left behind
and a dream that I was chasin
and a battle with booze
and an open invitation to the blues

but she's had a sugar daddy
and a candy apple Caddy
and a bank account and everything
accustom to the finer things
he probably left her for a socialite
and he didn't love her 'cept at night
and then he's drunk and never
even told her that he cared
so they took the registration
and the car-keys and her shoes
And left her with an invitation
to the blues

'Cause there's a Continental Trailways leaving
local bus tonight, good evening
you can have my seat
I'm stickin round here for a while
get me a room at the Squire
the filling station's hiring
I can eat here every night
what the hell have I got to lose
got a crazy sensation,
go or stay and I've got to choose
and I'll accept your invitation to the blues

Invitation to The Blues - Tom Waits

oh my god! how has stairway to heaven not been mentioned? or any led zep for that matter. yes the whole song is now a cliché and the lyrics are more pseudo-meaningful than anything but still!

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)- Bob Dylan

And the rain comes
And the world is on my head
Crave the sun
But I can't get out of bed
- A Lot Like Me (The Offspring)

Chocolate Rain
Makes the best of friends begin to fight
Chocolate Rain
But did they know each other in the light?
- Chocolate Rain (Tay Zonday)

Hands on the mirror, can't get much clearer
Can't make this all go away
Now that you're bleeding, you stare at the ceiling
And watch as it all fades away
- Because of You (Nickelback)

Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass
- Zoo Station (U2)

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and
Desert you
- Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley)

And I couldn't copy and paste this next one (curse you internet)

And pretty much the best beginning of a chorus ever:
Stove burns, on my hands!
Show them, to my friends!
Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles
It's funny because after that the line is 'Make you participate' but it sounds sort of like 'Make you forget the cake'.