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Lyrics that tell a story

Not every song has a purpose or unique meaning. Even fewer tell a story. Whether they represent a concept or theme or simply just tell a story, some of my favorite songs are songs that tell a story. To me it shows the skill of songwriter to write about more than just money, sex, partying, and drugs (although these topics can tell a good story). Here are some examples: The Cop - House of Heroes [spoiler]Some men do it 'cause it pays the bills, Others want to save the world. Me myself, I never was a hero though. Joined the force like my daddy did. Figured I'd marry young, But the things I've seen made me take a different road. 'Til you've been in the dark you might never feel it. 'Til you've been in the dark you might think you're guaranteed But your life can leave, With a spark. The rain falls on the blessed ones and the damned. Met my girl about a year ago, Knew that I'd found a home, Laughed so much I felt like a kid again Since that day it's hard to do the job, It's hard to know what I've known, So much pain, and so few innocent. 'Til you've been in the dark you might never question, 'Til you've been in the dark you might think you're quarantined, Yeah, but nothing's free And your love can leave, In the dark. The rain falls on the blessed ones, The rain falls on the damned, And you've changed my mind, I love you more, Than I love myself, And I'm scared to death, That you love me less[/spoiler] Ghost - House of Heroes [spoiler]Fell in love in high school With a brown haired, green eyed girl I walked her home most everyday Held her hand, I held the world We made our plan to run away I couldn't wait to share her life We started countin down the days She couldn't wait to be my wife I got a job and bought a car I turned 18 that spring By summer had my own place And I bought my baby's ring Fell in with the wrong crowd Breakin laws, I broke her heart By autumn was in handcuffs Baby's cryin out in her front yard And that's what hurt the most I saw it in her green eyes She had seen a ghost My mama saw me every week Tried her hardest not to cry She told me that she loved me Disappointment in her eyes I said, "Mama, I love you too And I'm gonna make you proud one day" A month before I got out They told me mama passed away And that's what hurt the most I saw it in her eyes, her son was a ghost I hate this life I chose Long before she died her son was a ghost Now I got my freedom But it feels like emptiness In front of the apartment Where your sister says you live And there's another man, who fills my empty shoes And darlin you don't see me But you know that I see you, I drift off... I'm gonna fade away Beyond the city lights I'm gonna fade away Through the empty night I'm gonna fade away Drifting out your life I wanna fade away Through the empty night[/spoiler] The Gambler - fun. [spoiler]Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden I don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we die We were barely eighteen when we crossed collective hearts It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye And then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's our time So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side It was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen over So we moved to Arizona to save our only son And now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his mother He believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyone And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter She has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are gray And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complains You think that I nearly lost you when the doctors tried to take you away Like the night you took my hand beside the fire thirty years ago to this day, You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time But it's not time, you never quit in all your life So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side You come home from work, and you kiss me on the eye You curse the dog, you say that I should never feed them what is ours So we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grown And the kids are coming home so I'll set the table; you can make the fire[/spoiler] Angels In Top Hats - House of Heroes [spoiler]I waited for you, watching you sleep machines were breathing for you. Dolled up in white, wrapped in tubes You wore them so gracefully Angels and demons were fighting for you Your maidens do your bidding If you wake, mine will be The first eyes you see Oh, hey Hopeless cathedrals, blankets and needles Oh, hey Angels in top hats, and cups full of blood Everything happened so fast I can't recall the road, the rain The bag, the blood, the splash Tell me everything's fine, tell me that she's alright But she's not, she's not I see you now only in pieces, in pieces Janie, can you hear my prayers hit the ceiling? And can you tell me if my words have meaning? Can you tell me what my hope is to look like? Hey, you'll never find another Hey, hey, you'll never find another end Hey, hey, you'll never find another Hey, hey, hey, you'll never find another Hopeless cathedrals, blankets and needles Angels in top hats, cups full of blood Dreams are for dreaming, buckets for bleeding Eyes are for seeing, but you'll still be sleeping[/spoiler] By Your Side - House of Heroes [spoiler]Born on the plains, a farmer's sons and brothers the same,raised on promises... we'd stay that way. As boys we believed, summers at the sea we were free to become men of good will... side by side. And we were children then,foot prints in the sand And where the ocean bends, we made our promises... He knows. Duty soon called, 1943 we enrolled, together we would be our family's pride... And we were soldiers then,our bodies in the sand And like that sand through our hands, go our grandest plans. And just to see your face for one moment, I'd cross the ocean again, the end... is not the end. And I'll be by your side, on the other side And I'll be by your side, on the other side And through the cloud of death, we find our way back home. And though I hold your hand, all must go alone. And when you see the face of our Maker, you don't have to be ashamed, He knows the promises we made. And I'll be by your side, on the other side.[/spoiler] Let's see what OffTopic can come up with.

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  • Like I Do - Witt Lowry [spoiler]No ones gonna love you like I do I can't stop thinking about you I gotta numb the pain I can't stop drinking about you Without you I ain't the same I can't stop thinking about you I gotta numb the pain I can't stop drinking about you Without you I ain't the same Yeah, here I go again, you must think that I'm lame Remembering back to us talking on AIM And stealing your heart, that was never my aim See I let you leave and now nothings the same I'm picking your brain, you pick me apart I'm picking your heart, you left me in dark I guess all the pain and the hurt and the worry you left me Returned in the shell of a star Damn do we end arm in arm or are we Armageddon Guess you'll never know cause you never let him Show you how he love and he trusts and he cared But all of it showed, but you never were there So lets really see if you cared Knew if you needed then he would be there To put all the blame onto you isn't fair But all you care bout is your makeup and hair Your taking a selfie, I'm taking your shit I see all your pics, I see who you picked And just know it eats me alive You're happy with him, that you're happy with him Damn, I'm jealous creeping through your instagram And find myself asking why the -blam!- that I still give a damn About you, about us, like Mark give her the -blam!- up And although I hate his guts, I gotta give your man that thumbs up Cause he was bringing you close Now he's been the one, who wanting the most One minute I hate you, one minute I love you Well right now I'm writing and feeling em both I can't stop When I was given this beat, immediately thought about you Curse with the hurt is the one that I found you Stuck here, I'm drinking and thinking about you Well all of my friends say I'm better without you Better without you right Thought I found you on the darkest night Coulda shown you what a red carpets like Rode up on a dark horse, the darkest knight And the girls flowing like water now Wanna give em my heart, but its watered down And and honestly lets keep it real See I'm just jealous that you found love And I'm searching for it still All of these girls are dry and plain I want complex so that we can build Nothing's out of my league, you ain't in my lane And whenever we talk, now its never the same Being put in your friend zone is bringing me pain And I just wanna get you up out of my brain Out of my brain, never been one for past tense And so know that I'm moving forward before I finish this sentence I crumble when in your presence, rent time in my mind like tenants So sorry, I'm so offensive, its hard just being your friend And in the end I look stupid, the time I spent was useless The truth is, honestly girl I miss you and No ones gonna love you like I do No ones gonna kill like I'd do[/spoiler] Gang Related - Logic [spoiler]Yeah, livin' life like this Gotta paint a picture when I write like this Tales from my hood, not a sight like this Where they up to no good on a night like this And they murder mother-blam!-ers just cause Type of shit I see and probably wonder what it was I was in the crib, just sitting on the rug Basedheads coming through looking for the plug Now, born and raised in my area Beautiful by day, by night its hysteria -blam!- around and bury ya tonight Ridin' with my homies on sight Momma tell me to come in at night Now I really gotta go, but they never know Living life to the fullest, I got to blow Po-po finna bust in the door, we got blow in the crib In the kitchen over there next to the baby with the bib God damn, what it feel like, middle of the night Waking up, scared for my life Never had the heat, just a knife When the gat go blat (GunShots) like that Guarantee you it’s a wrap, finna put you on your back Like that Just breathe, while their mama grieve Bullet to the dome like an aleve Got to leave from the premises, to murder my nemesis No, no, uh, uh Just stop, stop, stop ‘fore they even call the cops Do it for the money and the bitches and the drugs and the props Tell me why another body even got to drop Get shot off top for some shit that was gang related Living life like this, hope little Bobby never fight like this Stab a mother-blam!-er with a knife like this All about the money on a night like this Run up in the crib, put a bullet in your rib Got a lot to give but I never had the chance Never had the chance, yeah Stay strapped, but I hate it when I take it out If you want it Imma lay it out Hope my little brother make it out Every night what I pray about What I pray about, check it uh yeah Got a son on the way But I cling to the streets even though I want to run away I imagine a better life Where I never had a debt in life Hit you with the- (Gunshots) -in the dead of night Selling crack to my own pops Pushing this weight on my own block If I sell a brick I can buy a house If they find a key they might lock me up But I take the chance cause I need that shit and don’t give a -blam!- Take the chance cause I need that shit and don’t give a -blam!-[/spoiler] Soul Food - Logic [spoiler]God damn, god damn, conversations with legends Crazy how one day your idols can turn into your brethren Bitches we severin', hit up my jeweler, watch him freeze us Breaking bread like I'm Jesus Money ain't everything, but somehow eases Better believe and think down and leave us, the baby cryin' Crack, cooking where my sister be frying soul food Plus my other sister just went back to her old dude He whoopin' her ass, I kill him, I kill him, I mother-blam!-ing kill him I said I really want to kill him, but I can't Cause if I do po po gon' claim I'm the villain, but I ain't See my vision from pictures I paint Do you feel it like I feel it, I grip the mic and then kill it Okay, I'm gone, as memories resurface from hella long in my past Chillin’, sippin' Sinatra from a flask Little bobby, just a youngin’, skating was my hobby Tryna stay out of trouble, my homie in jail for robbery Welfare, food stamps, and stealing from the store Come home and see an eviction notice taped to my door Can’t take no more, momma on drugs, daddy M.I.A What can I say? I just wanted to be a kid and play To this day I pay homage to the Gods, to the greats Never stolen, I’m from Maryland Where they shoot you in the dark of the night Like Christopher Nolan, for talking out your colon Catch me rollin’ with the realest Lyricism the illest, my chain is the chillest, sub zero Far from a hero, bitch, I’m De Niro in Goodfellas If your bitch around me best bring an umbrella Let me tap into my inner southern killer, another illa Murder the game and then resurrect it like Thriller Yeah, my skin is vanilla, but bitch I dare ya to test my killa We don’t do it for the skrilla, we do it for love Word to my homies up above, we slinging like drugs And overdose 'em like the dealer does See my vision as I've elevated and risen Open your eyes, despise lies with deadly precision I finally made my way up out that section 8 division Not by busting and killing though I've had my share of stealin' But by putting pen to this pad and dispersing these feelings While the label only care about making a killin' Feel my energy, I ain't talking E-N-E-R-G-Y, I mean inner G That's the shit they never see But I own supremacy, number 1 I better be Bitch, I said I bet I be Take my kindness for weakness, trying to get the better of me Tell me how is they gonna remember me As the artist that concocted the perfect recipe Or will they be addressing me, talking less of me Just because I was different, just because I was doing what I love And the fans they say they love you, but they push and they shove Cause they want what they want how they want when they want it I just gave them twenty songs, now they want another hundred I just see it as a challenge, I could do it, bitch, I run it Worldwide tours, type of shit I always wanted While the rest of 'em just worry about bitches and getting blunted Still that same mother-blam!-er from that YS1 Only difference is I'm stronger and better from when I've begun So when people that never knew me they tell me that I changed That my music is different and my vision's rearranged? I just stop, and do my best to refrain From having conversations with people that ain't in my lane Will I die? Will I live? Give the world everything I have to give This is feelings on the page, know my wisdom, not my age Understand that I'm a man not defined by his wage Even though it's in the millions that shit don't define my brilliance Open your mind and maybe you can see the billions Our people that separated, but all equal To know the ending one must understand the prequel[/spoiler]

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