Best lyrics ever? vote inside!

[B3TA07]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 2:18pm

How can this be?
This devil leaves,
and God abandons me.

I'm left here looking
at these flames
that, too, could set me free.

The vessel that i used to be
is tainted now and ripped apart
bathed in madness by that feind
who robbed me of my human heart

my life is gone
but I live on
dead; but still alive!

and lost to those
who loved me once
a demon now inside.

for here i am a thing of darkness
Blown from this un-godly swoon
immortal from a savage kiss:
kept from my eventual tomb

but wait:
did i invite this fate?
this invitation from the damned?
This introduction to the dark
was never in my mortal plan

and could it be this curel joke
was somehow in my destiny
should I embrace its wicked ways
and haunt the night for what I need?

to die in such a way
and simply to be born again
a thing of terrifying strength
a bringer of bewitching pain

and blood become the drug i need
will blood fulfill this thirst in me
the thirst that sends them too their graves
the thirst for that which I know crave

THIS THIRST
THIS THIRST IS STRONG
IT OVER POWERS
ALL RIGHT AND WRONG

THE THIRST
I FEEL IT COMING ON...

THE THIRST
I FEEL IT COMING ON...

THE THIRST
I FEEL IT COMING ON!!

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 2:33pm

I was planning this morning to start a 'Worst lyrics ever' thread. By the looks of it, you beat me to it, B3TA.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 2:35pm

^Shall I make you as I am?


I have an Encores! presentation on the way, guys!

[D2]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 2:36pm

Best lyric ever? I don't know. My favorite lyric, ever?

"WEAR YOUR HAIR DOWN
AND A FLOWER
DON'T USE MAKEUP, DRESS IN WHITE
SHE'LL GROW OLDER BY THE HOUR
AND BE HOPELESSLY SHATTERED
BY SATURDAY NIGHT."

[B3TA07]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:39pm

For so many years
we've shared this path together
kindred spirits
in the path of history

for you the quest
to heal is all that matters
but it's a different road
i crave these days for me

You dwell so
on the cure for your creation
and seek a ghost
from our mythology

but now, the wonders
that the world can offer
mean more to me
than anctient family trees

to hear the waves pound
the timvers of a schooner
fighting off the coastline
of cape horn

to travel in the shadow
of the long boats
to where the giants
of the artic ice were born

to the dangers in the deep
dark congo river
where the crocodile hunts,
and the python strikes

to watch another predator in action
could rejuvinate some meaning in your life

the thrill to hunt in such exotic places
i can almost taste those beauties in siam
the brown-skinned boys of meek innocent wranglers
the shy chinese behind their painted fans

my need to go is hard to fight
i want to gaze upon the world
just like the northern light

and of all the things about you
that i'm going to miss
is the bond we form together
through this crimson kiss

my son so dear,
the world's out there
mystery calls and I can't resist
but you and i have memories
bound together by the Crimson kiss

Lestat: Please stay with me 8(

Carolee: I cannot

Lestat: I did not give you the dark gift so that you could one day walk away from me!

Carmello: I gave you the gift of life, knowing that some day you WOULD walk away from me! (burrrn)

With the well-spring
of my strength unrestricted,
there's so little
i could fail to endure

i could face a treck
across the hyiimaleyas
survive the freezing mists
of scottish moores

my need to go is hard to fight
i want to gaze upon thsi world
just like the northern light

and of all the things about you
that i'm going to miss
it's the bnd we form 2getha
thru tha krimson kiss

my son so dear
the world's out there
mystery calls
and i can't resist

but you and i have memories
bound 2getha
by the crimson kisss

my son so dear
the world's out there
mystery calls
and i can't resist

but you and i have memories
bound 2getha
by the crimson kisss<3

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:42pm

"She'd strike you as unenlightened."

"No, I'd strike her first."

[B3TA07]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:46pm

See me!
Wolf killer!

[Julian2]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:00pm

"Though I thought it might amuse you to know whose invited to go, this time with his pants"

"You don't mean-"

"I'll give you three quesses"

"He wouldn't-"

"Reduce it to two"

"It can't be-"

"It never the less is-"

"Egerman"

"Right! Score one for you!"

"Ah ha!"

"Ah ha!"

"Ah ha"

"Ah ha?"

Updated On: 3/18/07 at 09:00 PM

[paradox_error]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:20pm

Now, as her sweet imbecilities tumble so lavishly onto her lap...

[ahmelie]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:24pm

I'm goin' right to the top, and I'm gonna be a...

HAT CHECK GIRL!

[paradox_error]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:27pm

It's the Day of the Ox, my Lord.
With but three days remaining
And today already waning,
I've a few further shocks, my Lord.

To begin, let me say,
At the risk of repetition,
There are ships in the bay,
And they didn't ask permission,
But they sit there all day
In contemptuous array
With a letter to convey
And they haven't gone away
And there's every indication
They they still plan to stay,
And you look a little gray, my Lord …

Have some tea, my Lord,
Some chrysanthemum tea,
While we plan, if we can,
What our answer ought to be.

If the tea the Shogun drank will
Serve to keep the Shogun tranquil,
I suggest, if I may, my Lord,
We consult the Confucians —
They have mystical solutions.
There are none wise as they, my Lord …

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:30pm

This thread has basically turned into the A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC lyrics thread (with the PO exception). I'm fine with that!

STENDHAL WOULD RUIN THE PLAN OF ATTACK
FOR THERE ISN'T MUCH BLUE IN THE RED AND THE BLACK.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:31pm

Everybody's playin' the game
But nobody's rules are the same
Nobody's on nobody's side!

Never stay a minute too long
Don't forget the best will go on
Nobody's on nobody's side

[ahmelie]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:34pm

He smiles sweetely, strokes my hair, says he misses me
I would murder him right there, but first I die
He talks softly of his wars, and his horses, and his whores
I think loves a dirty business!
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me
He assumes I lose my reason, and I do.

Breaks. My. Heart.

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:02pm

omen, women...
Understanding and reliable,
Knowing their place.
Insufferable, yes, but gentle,
Their weaknesses are incidental.
A functional but ornamental
Race.
Durable, sensible
Women, women...
Very nearly indispensable
Creatures of grace.
God knows the foolishness about them,
But if one had to live without them,
The world would surely be a poorer,
If purer,
Place.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:41pm

This is the moment,
This is the day,
This is the moment when I know I'm on my way.
Every endeavour,
I have made ever,
Is coming into play,
Is here and now today.

This is the moment,
This is the time,
When the momentum
And the moment are in rhyme!
Give me this moment
This momentous moment.
I'll gather up my past
And make some sense at last!

This is the moment.
When all I've done,
All of the dreaming,
Scheming and screaming,
Becomes one!
This is the day,
Just see it shine,
When all I've lived for,
Becomes mine!

This is the moment,
This is the hour,
When I can open up tomorrow
Like a flower,
And put my hand to,
Everything I planned to,
Fulfil my grand design,
See all my stars align!

This is the moment,
My final test!
Destiny beckoned,
I never reckoned,
Second best!
I won't look down,
I must not fall,
This is the moment,
The sweetest moment of them all!

This is the moment,
Damn all the odds,
This day or never,
I'll sit forever with the gods!
When I look back,
I will recall,
Moment for moment,
This was the moment,
The greatest moment of them all!

[keen on kean]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:46pm

Me as a merry-go-round,


Me as King Lear.

[jbdc]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:49pm

underwater?
it's like a song you hear on the radio at night
like sleepin with the light off
like the wooden sound of your mama sad bassoon

noah, someday we'll talk again
but they's things we'll never say
that sorrow deep inside you
it inside me too
and it never go away

you be okay
you'll learn how to lose things

my sorrow go where my heart grow calm
when you stop breathing air...
you get oh so calm
no fire down there
so it's calm calm calm
and there's never any money
so it's very very calm

but you miss
oh you miss
the sun and the moon
and the wooden bassoon

and sharing cigarettes?
do you miss sharing a cigarette?

you bet i do, noah
you bet

[D2]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 11:59pm

How can I wait around til later?
I'll be 90 on my deathbed and the late,
or rather later,
Henrik Egerman...

Doesn't anything begin?

[keen on kean]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 3:10pm

Someone, marry me a little,
Love me just enough,
Warm and sweet and easy,
Just the simple stuff.

Keep a tender distance
So we'll both be free.
That's the way it ought to be.
I'm ready!

Marry me a little!
Body, heart and soul.
Passionate as hell,
But always in control.

Want me first and foremost,
Keep me company.
That's the way it ought to be.
I'm ready!
I'm ready now!

Oh, how gently we'll talk,
Oh, how softly we'll tread.
All the stings, the ugly things
We'll keep unsaid.

We'll build a cocoon of love and respect.
You promise whatever you like,
I'll never collect.
Right?

Posted: 3/19/07 at 3:31pm

No fits no fights no feuds and no egos!
Amigoes! Together!

[jv92]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 4:46pm

For brevity's sake I'm not going to reprint the whole thing, but I'm Still Here is hands down the greatest lyric ever written for the musical theater. Ever.

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 4:51pm

It's intolerable
Being tolerated

[HearMeWhispering]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 11:22pm

"He smiles sweetely, strokes my hair, says he misses me
I would murder him right there, but first I die
He talks softly of his wars, and his horses, and his whores
I think loves a dirty business!
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me
He assumes I lose my reason, and I do."




what are those lyrics from?
Updated On: 3/19/07 at 11:22 PM

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 11:35pm

every day a little death- a little night music

my favorite sondheim song, ever