Silent Music - Rate the lyrics above you

[Phenomenon]

Here is something that I came up with. I thought, "What if nobody knew if a song was rock or any other genre? What if they only read the lyrics, and what would they think of the song if they didn't know who sings it?" I thought people should just put up any lyrics they know, then see what other people thought of the song just from the lyrics (we all know we tend to mishear lyrics and we can't understand a single word they're saying). Then, after somebody posts about what they think of the words, just edit your post and say the name of the song, the band, and post a link to a vid of the song.
You may be surprised by how it sounds.

I'll start the sequence:

Never reaching what I want to reach...
Never being who I want to be...
Blaming me when I fall and fail...
All my dreams splintering under my fingernails...
Under my finger-...

I'm empty, lonely and accused
Accused without a word
My fingernails are chipping down
From clawing in the dirt
I'm so lost, lost and confused
I threw it all away
How can I be beautiful
When I am so afraid?

Never reaching what I want to reach
Never being who I want to be
Blaming me when I fall and fail
All my dreams splintering under my fingernails
All my dreams out of reach under my fingernails

I watched it all slip through my hands
My brokenness revealed
I'm so proud, I'm so proud, I'm crying to be filled
I'm killing, destroying the plaugue that's killing me away
I've got to live, I've got to love like I am unafraid

Never reaching what I want to reach
Never being who I want to be
Blaming me when I fall and fail
All my dreams splintering under my fingernails
All my dreams out of reach under my fingernails

I'm wasting, wasting every moment
I want to be tasting, tasting every moment
I'm suffering, I'm bleeding, on my knees
Who's gonna save me?
Suffering, bleeding, save me from this pit of frailty

Never reaching what I want to reach
Never being who I want to be
Blaming me when I fall and fail
All my dreams splintering under my fingernails
All my dreams out of reach under my fingernails

Never reaching me

EDIT: It's called "Fingernails" by Skillet. Here is a vid of the song: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAIBOhU5atk

By the way, if you know a song, don't say what it is. And try not to rate it so that others have their chance. ^^

[NorthernSoul]

Horribly cliched.


Take these hands they're good for nothing
You know these hands never worked a day
Take these boots they're going nowhere
You know these boots don't want to stray

You got my head filled with songs
You got my shoelaces undone
Take my shirt, go on take it off me
You can tear it up
If you can tie me down

Do you feel loved
Do you feel loved
Do you feel loved
Do you feel loved

Take the colours of my imagination
Take the scent hanging in the air
Take this tangle of a conversation
And turn it into your own prayer

With my fingers as you want them
With my nails under your hide
With my teeth at your back
And my tongue to tell you the sweetest lies

Do you feel loved
Do you feel loved
Do you feel loved
And it looks like the sun
But it feels like the rain

Love's a bully pushing and shoving
In the belly of a woman
Heavy rhythm taking over
To stick together
A man and a woman
Stick together
Man and woman
Stick together...

And I feel loved
Do you feel loved
Do you feel loved
And it looks like the sun
But it feels like the rain
And there's heat in the sun
To see us through the rain

Do you feel loved
Do you feel loved
Do you feel...
Do you feel...

[Billie_blujean]

Eh. Not so good.

Allow me to exaggerate a memory or two
Where summers lasted longer than
Longer than we do
When nothing really mattered
Except for me to be with you
But in time we all forgot and
We all grew

Your melody sounds as sweet
As the first time it was sung
With a little bit more character for show
And by the time your father's heard
Of all the wrong you've done
Then I'm putting out the lantern
Find your own way back home

If I've forgotten how to sing
Before I've sung this song
I'll write it all across this wall
Before my job is done
And I'll even have the courtesy
Of admitting I was wrong
As the final words before I'm dead and gone

You've never been so divine
In accepting your defeat
And I've never been more scared to be alone
If love is not enough to put my enemies to sleep
Then I'm putting out the lantern
Find your own way back home


It's "Folkin Around" by Panic! At the Disco.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cFl4I3_mVOk

[Phenomenon]

Pretty good.

The question asked in order
To save her life or take it
The answer no to avoid death
And yes would make it
Do you believe in God?
Written on the bullet
Say yes to pull the trigger
And my sister Cassie pulled it

They didn't love their lives so much
As to shrink from death
Inspired; in their footsteps
We will march ahead
Don't be shocked that people die
Be surprised you're still alive

All heads are bowed in silent reverence
The floor is wet with tears of sorrowful rememberance
The alter is filled with hearts of repentance
Perfect love kills all fear
Rejoice in this deliverance

They didn't love their lives so much
As to shrink from death
Inspired; in their footsteps
We will march ahead
Don't be shocked that people die
Be surprised you're still alive

[Notoriety]

Not bad at all

What is of me
And who am I
My soul is only as clear as the stormy skies
I look for a place to release my pain
and with all of this pressure I will eventually go insane
So now I bid to you before I leave
Why must this world become in need
Why must this world feel this pain
and why must life be played as game

What is of me
And who are you
Do you see what I am and what I’m going though
I only speak to inform your soul
that there’s something more valuable than gold
but “why?” you ask must I inform you
Its to tell you what’s happening is not only happening to you

Now I guess my story is told
but for now excuse my tone
expand you life and live freely
and say the constrictions of life cannot seal me….

[Billie_blujean]

It's interesting. I thought at first it was going to be a bit emo, but it ended up not being so. I was fairly impressed with them.

I was thinking that I might fly today
Just to disprove all the things you say
It doesn't take a talent to be mean
Your words can crush things that are unseen
So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive
And I'd like to stay that way.

You always tell me that is impossible
To be respected and be a girl
Why's it gotta be so complicated?
Why you gotta tell me if I'm hated?
So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive
And I'd like to stay that way.

I was thinking that it might do some good
If we robbed the cynics and took all their food
That way what they believe will have taken place
And we can give it to people who have some faith
So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive
And I'd like to stay that way.

I have this theory that if we're told we're bad
Then that's the only idea we'll ever have
But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty
Someday we will become what we see
'Cause anyone can start a conflict
it's harder yet to disregard it
I'd rather see the world from another angle
We are everyday angels
Be careful with me 'cause I'd like to stay that way

It's "I'm Senstitve" by Jewel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSH4pOY9X70

[withoutfail]

I like it. Maybe I'm biased because I'm female, and sensitive strikes a bell in me.

-
I'm the same as I was when I was six years old
And oh my God, I feel so damn old
I don't really feel anything
On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my God, they look so alone
Do they really feel anything?
Oh my God, I've got to, got to, got to, got to move on
Where do you move when what you're moving from is yourself?
The universe works on a math equation
That never even ever really ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying
We ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land
And the plants and the animals; they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other
Oh my God, and oh my cat
I told my Dad what I need
Well, I know what I have and want
But I don't know what I need
Well, he said, he said, he said, he said
"Where we're going, I'm dead."

[gold dragon]

Heh im devoleping one but it s kinda bad i know. plz help if you have in idea. the subject is night and how pretty it is.


Come on lets go to see the night again.
The moon the stars and everythinglets go, lets go.
Lets go to see the stars they sparkle in the night.

thats all i made so far.

[gold dragon]

oh the lyrics above pretty good.

[Chance Narcissistic]

Hide the petals underneath that bedroom floorboard and they will wither without fail or success.
Put the people in the hollow box they crafted, bolt the doors and watch them perish.
Its a cautious descent, so polite and pensive at first.
But the only truth is change, have patience.
Every hundredth year a single breath and then its over.
Even if only for a minute for a minute it's over.
Even if only for a minute.
So how did it end? Can you describe those final days?
Broken windows and resting eyes.
Can you tell us what happened here?
They finally got sick of it all, they just gave up on accepting fate. That was the loophole. They found the achilles heel and managed to strike it down. At the feet of the ruins is a dormant structure. Dormant but breathing, still breathing. The wind sweeps through its hallways, echoing at the establishment of their caretakers. An exhaltation of cold premonition.
Can you describe what took place?
The shock, sounds from a hollow box. A corner to dive in. I touched their misery, he just went to sleep. An exhalation of cold breath.
The kind of breath you could see?
The shock, the terror. Behold the riddle of the ruins. When a door is not a door. Behold the riddle of the ruins, adore.
Describe the feeling when you knew it all would end, in those final days.
He gave up. Behold a branch will continue to grow.
How did it all end that night? Last night, did they?
Fear, and a touch of their misery.
And he just stopped breathing?
It was a single lesson, he just layed down, sounds from a hollow box. Just went to sleep. Dormant, dormant but still breathing. Took a final breath. He just went to sleep and just stopped breathing. A single lesson will be taught. We will all be taught. Behold the final breath, when they knew it all would end. Still breathing and he just stopped. Stopped breathing. We will all be taught, taught how to swallow bark.
So brave in the face of all those roots that ruin,
to stand so tall when in fact in ruins.
To face that corner of the box and dive in,
just the sound alone of its humble breath.
A murmur from the ruins echoes softly as the roots undo, and the branch becomes.

INTERVIEW AT THE RUINS by CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE.

[marcuz29]

Whew..What kind of thinking does the person who wrote that song have? It is very deep.i can't even understand it well. HEHEHE. well, if it does have a good tone and sound,it will pass the other listeners.

[reticulated99]

I saw how many of them went
Too many of them didn't return
Friends were separated
Houses were broken
Families cried
Shedding their tears
Human buds
Flowers that never bloomed
The hope in our heads
The love in our hearts
The dream in our spirits
So we continue in our path

The silence has disappeared
As again it sounds of war
Another soldier returns
Wrapped in what?
The flag of the nation
Blood and tears
Are absorbed by the land
And another shocked mother
Is left with just a picture
The hope is locked in the heart
Our strong nation will not fold
Because the S.O.B that can stop the nation
Has not yet been born

Give me the hope to accept what isn't there
The strength to change what is

(Chorus)
Let's continue living
Our lives are before us
It's not too late because
Tomorrow is a new day
If we lose our hope
The dream will perish
So reach out a hand in love

You promised a dove
But in the sky is a hawk
My brother, stinging plants
This is no olive branch
Living in a dream
Everyone talks about peace
But they
Shoot
Oppress
Pull
Squeeze the trigger
In a world of suicide attacks
The people are still talking about
Living in an illusion of righteousness
They widen the rift in the nation

I go through madness every day
In order to survive
I don't want to live
In order to fight
I fight corrupt fights
In order to survive
Plant hope
The roots will take effect
Shield in my body for the dream
So it won't be shattered to splinters
Stop
Enough with the pain
Enough with the drama
A year that the land
Bleeds without sleeping
And why?

Give me the hope to accept what isn't there
The strength to change what is

(Chorus)
Let's continue living
Our lives are before us
It's not too late because
Tomorrow is a new day
If we lose our hope
The dream will perish
So reach out a hand in love

God, give me the hope to accept what isn't there
Give me the strength to change what is
Give me the courage to try to fix the world

Let's continue living
Our lives are before us
It's not too late because
Tomorrow is a new day
If we lose our hope
The dream will perish
So reach out a hand in love

Let's continue living
Our lives are before us
It's not too late because
Tomorrow is a new day
If we lose our hope
The dream will perish
So reach out a hand in love

Let's continue living
Our lives are before us
It's not too late because
Tomorrow is a new day
If we lose our hope
The dream will perish
So reach out a hand in love

I should note that this is translated from another language, and that this is why the lyrics don't rhyme and are fragmented. Here is a video with subtitles of the song: "HaTikva" by Subliminal. The words in my signature, incidentally, are excerpted from this song.

[Frank]

^Pretty good.

This one's "Like a Rolling Stone" by the late and great Bob Dylan. Long live folk rock.

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

[Kevah]

Pretty good, I already knew the song, though.
<3


To change the world,
Start with one step.
However small,
The first step is hardest of all.

Once you get your gate,
You will walk in tall.
You said you never did,
Cause you might die trying,
Cause you might die trying.
Cause you---

If you close your eyes,
Cause the house is on fire.
And think you couldn't move,
Until the fire dies.
The things you never did,
Oh, cause you might die trying,
Cause you might die trying.
You'd be as good as dead,
Cause you might die trying,
Cause you might die trying.

If you give, you, you begin to live.
If you give, you begin to live.
You begin, you get the world.
If you give, you begin to give
You get the world, you get the world.
If you give, you begin to live.

You might die trying.
Oh, you might die trying.
Yeah, you might die trying.

The things you never did,
Cause you might die trying;
You'd be as good as dead.
You never did.

[Kai]

I like the beginning but the second half of it got way too repetitive. It just kind of lost it for me.

I am your poison candygram,
The love that's meant to fade away
Vade retro, alter ego, move aside, I'm choking on this life
I think I tolerate your hate, as long as you're afraid
All I wanted was to be with you and suffer every day

Under the moon I hold a wake for a promise torn
Mortally wounded, feelings sheltered me
Once again my shadow will enter your life
Could I let you wait out the night

Mother always said “My son, do the noble thing...
You have to finish what you started, no matter what
Now, sit, watch and learn...
It's not how long you live, but what your morals say
Cannot keep your part of the deal
So don't say a word... don't say a word”

It won't be long now, love,
Like mist I slowly fill the room
I place a black candle on your chest,
The path of night is manifest
I never wanted us to end up in this catatonic phase
It wasn't me who ran away, you made me stray

Open your blue eyes, tell me that you love me, whore
Make me believe it, oh I know you lied
Broke the vow I thought you made, my angel, why...
Settling the score, we pass the twilight...

Mother always said “My son, do the noble thing...
You have to finish what you started, no matter what
Now, sit, watch and learn...
It's not how long you live, but what your morals say
Cannot keep your part of the deal
So don't say a word... don't say a word”

Strawberry blonde, your stranglehold
On my heart is bound to end
I suppose, life sometimes
It doesn't go the way it was meant
Though you never were a believer,
I assure you: I won't die before you
You read the book now,
The part “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust”

Closing your eyes, don't ever say you love me, whore
You never meant a word, I know you lied
When there is life, there is despair, indulge me now
And stay alive this night...
I promise you the end before the first light arrives

Mother always said “My son, do the noble thing...
You have to finish what you started, no matter what
Now, sit, watch and learn...
It's not how long you live, but what your morals say
Cannot keep your part of the deal
So don't say a word... don't say a word”

Edit: Hehe It's"Don't Say a Word" (<~~ Click) by Sonata Arctica.

[Blade]

I literally have no idea.

Umm... With my guess... Is it some kind of song played with a piano in the background? Or a slow-rock?

Heres some lyrics, im insterested to see what people think of this one:

Lost in a dream, finally it seems,
Emptiness and everlasting madness,
See the sadness grow, watching as we know,
Long before our journey for the world,
Call for us, the power in all of us,
So far beyond the blackened sky tonight...
Glorious, forever more in us,
We are victorious, and so alive.

[Chorus]
We'll all find our sacrifice tomorrow,
Our journey on towards a brighter day,
Silent tears we left behind, still so far away,
Across the endless sands,
Through the fields of our despair,
Free for all eternity, we stand, yeah,
Rise above the universe tonight,
Starchaser...

Fly towards the storm, see the world reborn,
Feel the pain inside the voice of sorrow,
Cross the distant shores, find the open door,
Stand alone, in judgment for tomorrow.

Years of pain still haunt us all, we saw the last sunrise,
Take me home, in freedom, for a lifetime...
Pray now for the silence, and the last tears we'll cry
So glorious, this fire inside, united we stand.

[Chorus]
And we'll all find our sacrifice tomorrow,
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Our journey on towards a brighter day,
Silent tears we left behind, still so far away,
Across the endless sands,
Through the fields of our despair,
Free for all eternity, we stand, yeah,
Rise above the universe tonight,
Starchaser...

Free from this world, here for the last time,
Oceans collide inside of us all,
Believe who we are,
The phoenix will guide us,
Freedom will rise once again.

Save us tonight, the last hope for all of us,
Light-years gone by, we're still holding on,
Save us tonight, a star shines in all of us,
Far beyond our lives, still our glory lives on.

[Chorus]
And we'll all find our sacrifice tomorrow,
Our journey on towards a brighter day,
Silent tears we left behind, still so far away,
Across the endless sands,
Through the fields of our despair,
Free for all eternity, we stand, yeah,
Rise above the universe tonight,
Starchaser...Starchaser...

Our kingdom come, we stand as one,
And we will live for always evermore...

[HK_metal]

That sounds like some EXTREMELY unnorigional power metal (I won't name who it is) but I dislike them for there completely senseless lyrics and incapability to diversify

I don't think you would believe that the lyrics came from where they did.

Blasphemer, Heretic, Defiler of the Sacred Ones.
Thou art Deprived of Your Limbs.
Thy Nose Shall be Split.
Thou art Cast Down and Overthrown.
Ra-Harmakhis Destroyeth Thee.
He Damneth Thee and Driveth Hooks into Thy Body.
Isis Sayeth in Mighty Voice,
"The Number of Thy Days are Cut Short.
Thy Bones are Broken to Splinters Thy Vertebrae are Severed."
Horus Hammereth Thy Head.
The Sons of Heru Smash You with Their Blows.

Thou Art Decimated by Their Violence.
Thou Fallest Backwards as Thou Retreateth Like unto Apep.
The Great Company of Gods Gather in Retribution.
They Hath Passed Judgment upon Thee.
They Cast Down Your Heresy.
They Spit Upon Thee and Thy Rebellion And Turn Their Back upon Thee.
Horus Repulseth Thy Crocodile.
Sut Defileth Thy Tomb.
Nephthys Hacketh Thee in Pieces.
The Sons of Horus Speareth Thee.
The Gods Repulse Thee.
The Flame of Their Fire is Against Thee.
Cursed Art Thou, Impaled Thou Art, Flayed Art Thou.
Heretic Thou Art Cast Down.

Blows are Rained upon Thee.
Dismemberment and Slaughter are on Thee.
Thy Crocodile is Trampled under Foot.
Thy Soul is Wrenched from its Shade.
Thy Name is Erased.
Thy Spells are Impotent.
Nevermore Shalt Thou Emerge from Thy Den.
Thy City Armana Lays in Ruin.
Damned Art Thy Accursed Soul and Shadow.
Die O One, which Art Consumed.
Thy Name is Buried in Oblivion.
Silence Covereth Thee and Thy False One.
Down upon Thy Belly.
Be Drowned, Be Drowned, Be Vomited Upon.

[Guitar solo]

The Gods have Pronounced Thy Doom.
They Scorn Thee and Thy False Aten.
The Ancient Ones Turn Their Backs upon Thee.
Thou Art Cast Down, Overthrown.
Thy Reign of Heresy is Ended.
Those Thou Hast Driven Out Have Risen Against Thee.

Cast down the Heretic.
Cast down the Heretic.
Cast down the Heretic.

Khnemu Draggeth Thy Spawn to the Block of Slaughter.
Sick Shalt Thou be at the Mention of Thine Own Name.
Sekhmet Teareth Out Thy Bowels and Casteth Them into Flames.
She Filleth Thine Orifices with Fire.
Uadjit Shutteth Thee in the Pits of Burning.
Nevermore Shall You Breathe or Procreate.
Neither Thy House or Tomb Exist.
Thou Shalt Drive Thy Teeth into Thine Own Body.
Heretic, Thou Art Cast Down.
Overthrown, Ended, Hacked in Pieces, Slaughtered, Butchered.
Ra Hath Made Thoth to Slay Thee Utterly.

[Saint Lucifer]

Lacking in substance, variety, and in fact a point.


--
Don't look back until you've tried
A line so openly a lie
'Outside of you, it's just tomorrow starting'
I've said I'm wrong when I've been right
I've seen times when I've been sure but still I find
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use
It's just tomorrow starting
Don't look back until you've tried
With time you'll endlessly arrive
Outside of use
With just tomorrow starting
See my eyes tell me I'm not lying
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use
It's just tomorrow started

[TFairy]

Okay
-
I feel it, every thing's changed.
All that's left is the ruins of a memory.
This town was a refuge,
Summer had it's losses but we drank it's wins.

And everyone I know fell short of making it
Out alive
And everyone I thought I knew were
incapable of telling the truth
Now I keep my habits to myself,
So you go get high with someone else.
It's so sweet tonight, I'm not gonna wake up on the floor.
This goodbye, just passed by.
It's so sweet tonight, I'm not gonna wake up on the floor.
This goodbye, it's just passed by.

I grew up, and I let go
I get bored of the same old scenery
Late nights leaves a bad taste
It's a town for fakes and apologies.

And everyone I know fell short of making it
Out alive
And everyone I thought I knew were
incapable of telling the truth
Now I keep my habits to myself,
So you go get high with someone else.
It's so sweet tonight, I'm not gonna wake up on the floor.
This goodbye, just passed by.
It's so sweet tonight, I'm not gonna wake up on the floor.
This goodbye, it's just passed by.

When we're out it's all my cane x3

And everyone I know fell short of making it
Out alive
And everyone I thought I knew were
incapable of telling the truth
Now I keep my habits to myself,
So you go get high with someone else.
It's so sweet tonight, I'm not gonna wake up on the floor.
This goodbye, just passed by.
It's so sweet tonight, I'm not gonna wake up on the floor.
This goodbye, it's just passed by.

[aiden209]

pretty good if it is rock music...

~~~
I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know will be alright
Perhaps it's just imagination

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Come back another day

Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation

At least there's pretty lights
And though there's little variation
It nullifies the night from overkill

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Come back another day

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know will be alright
It's just overkill

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Ghosts appear and fade away
Ghosts appear and fade away



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EDIT: 'Overkill' by Colin Hay/Men at Work

This is a music video for it in 1983: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcu7OCIqlqE