[Suzerain of Sheol]

What sort of lyrics does everyone prefer in music they listen to?
Provide an example, if you can.

For me, rich, intricate, dark, and poetic. I appreciate religious or mystical themes and allusions, but really, anything that can be pondered and analyzed. Lyrics that don't get boring after you get to know a song.

For my example,

Soft Pluvia Murmurs Piano, Tales of Dark

When nox-perfumed shadows embellish the gloom
And soft pluvia pours murmuring piano
The genuine affliction unrolls in sight
Through my flesh its fangs pierce
… in search of words still imprisoned inside

Wherefore didst the flowers grow weazen
When such exquisite charms were apt to cherish them gently?

Imageless reflections through high-flown visions dance
Lost within the sequence of dust-veiled mirrors
Divide the recollections entwined like coiling snakes
Thus cloaked more by forgetfulness than in apathy
My sorrow shall exist

Palled be the waxing catharsis of ever-blissful delight
In this emotional winter, all my passions hibernate
From affectionate embraces deprived

While soft pluvia murmurs piano
Infecting my wounds with all its glamour deranged
I burn the bridges decrepit and leave them all behind
As I curse the dead with a brand new lust for life

From the ashes of persistence no desire shall rise
For a dying hand now holds the flaming torch
Hear the plaudit for the paramount death-work
As hideous winds fiddle across the meadows scorched

Has life truly withered inside me?

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I like lyrics that sound pleasant, even if they seen silly or make little sense. What drives me nuts are songs that are written with very obvious or forced poetics. If the lyrics are complicated or intricate, I prefer the song to me minimal in design, with fewer intruments or elaborate stretches of music and what not. I guess I like something of an inverse relationshp between complexity of lyrics and complexity of music.

I like to sing too, though it's been some time since I've done anything outside of moments on my own. I gravitate towards songs that are pleasant to sing, where the lyrics make up the melody more than the intruments.

I know this doesn't particularly talk about specific words or sentences but I like it when the voice feels like an intrument itself.

Some of songs where I like the voicework would be Nightwish "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" (I love it even though I don't understand it), Triakel "En Vacker Vän" and Stone Sour "Bother," all with fairly simple instrument work.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Mm, yeah, I'm almost completely the opposite. :p

I prefer the instruments to create a poetic resonance with the lyrics and bring them to life. Of course, I can't, don't, and won't sing, so that doesn't factor into my preference. I look at music like poetry I can take in audibly.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Oh it's well and good to have complex music going on behind song, but I'd rather it be simpler so I can enjoy the intruments without trying to focus on the song. Of course, that goes away after hearing the song a few times. Simple statements like the chorus in "Carved in Stone" I really like with the more intense instumental background, expecially with the layered voices. Men's choir is something I've always liked. I went to a Welsh mens choir concert when I was in elemtary school after studyingi Wales.

[Espy]

Looks like we're in three different categories. I guess you could call the lyrics of the songs I listen to "depressing" or "angry"...

For example, Karakuri Burst from Vocaloid and Linkin Park lyrics...Nickelback can also be decent.

Sometimes I just go with OSTs and stuff, lyric-less XD

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Espy

Sometimes I just go with OSTs and stuff, lyric-less XD

Ooh... tricky. :p

[Espy]

Not when they sound awesome :D -points to the AC series OST and MMO soundtracks-

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I still have my LP CD somewhere. I actually went to one of their concerts. The only concert I've ever been to! I like the tunes they have, but to me it does come close to 'yelling' but doens't loose the melody, which annoys me. "In The End" is one of my favourites along with "Numb". I'm not too familiar with their new stuff. I tend to ignore the rapping though. I'd say they are a band I don't listen to for lyrics but for overall sound. It' similar for me with the odd song by other bands like Static-X or Disturbed. David Draiman's voice is neat but I rarely pay too much attention to what he's actually saying.

[Espy]

In terms of LP's rapping....I'll take My December and In The End, and Somewhere I Belong.

The rest of the rapping/screamo is borderline for me.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I'm not that fond of "Somewhere I Belong" music-wise, but I love the critters in the video. They look like the walked out of a Dali painting.

[Nanka]

Cause I'm strong enough to live without you
Strong enough and I quit crying
Long enough, now I'm strong enough
To know you gotta go
There's no more to say
So save your breath and walk away
No matter what I hear you say
I'm strong enough to know you gotta go

I just posted those lyrics on Facebook, so something like this. xD

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Nanka

Cause I'm strong enough to live without you
Strong enough and I quit crying
Long enough, now I'm strong enough
To know you gotta go
There's no more to say
So save your breath and walk away
No matter what I hear you say
I'm strong enough to know you gotta go

I just posted those lyrics on Facebook, so something like this. xD

You just gave me a better idea for this thread. Everyone should post examples of the sort they like.

*whisks off to edit first post*

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Hmm. Tricky to think about lyrics that I like in terms of actual language since I like the as much for sound or flow. These ones I like, mostly becasue of the way the melody works the the rhyme:

HIM - "Funeral of Hearts"

"She was the sun
Shining upon
The tomb of your hopes and dreams so frail
He was the moon
Painting you
With it's glow so vulnerable and pale

...

She was the wind, carrying in
All the troubles and fears you've for years tried to forget
He was the fire, restless and wild
And you were like a moth to that flame

The heretic seal beyond divine
A prayer to a god who's deaf and blind
The last rites for souls on fire
Three little words and a question why..."

I'm not big on the chorus, but I like the parts in between. I'm a big fan of internal rhyming, though having it here without the meldoy kind of messes the rhythm up.

[Extraterrestrial]

i think dark and hurtful music is the best i don't pay attention to the artist or anything though. :o

[Quiet Man Cometh]

So watching Idol with mom last night (recorded) and one guy decides to sing Journey's Don't Stop Believin', which is most cool, and the line "midnight train going anywhere" remind me of "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum. I love the song but decent recordings of it seem hard to come by. When I first started looking for it I had to search it by the lyrics because I didn't know the title (but I could guess) or the artist.

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

CHORUS
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here no there

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

CHORUS

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same

[Echo-chan713]

That's a good question since I like various types of music, I like the kind of songs that have this complex meaning in the lyrics they can be emo, dark, life experiences, love, heartaches, and I know one song that is close to biblical but it's made in a dark way (the Book of Revelation)

I like the types that gets you to think "What does that mean? Does it mean this or that?" Or it has a complex story that it gives you though of what it means, not the total obvious.

Fireflies- Owl City

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

Falling Down- Oasis

The summer sun, it blows my mind
Is falling down on all that I've ever known
Time will kiss the world goodbye
Falling down on all that I've ever known
Is all that I've ever known