Song Lyrics

[Chrysocyon]

I don't know if this forum has a thread for this yet, hopefully this is the right place.

Just a place to post lyrics to songs you like, are interesting, you can relate to, etc.

I'll start with a favourite of  mine:

Band: ohGr

Song: Dog

I live it to the matter
Want it to be better
I can only fake it
When I'm sitting naked on the floor
I wonder what I would be doing
if there weren't four walls

I'm sitting in the box and watching it all talk
and making all my minds up
is it finally times up
No matter what the facts are
it is antimatter
I'm waking up and blind

I'm feeling like a dog

I'm taking up the time now
Watching all the balls burn
and I'm feeling high now
oh and no connector
Wanna go for walk now
I just don't know what to

Feeling like a dog

Are you alone so
You can make it alone so you can make it alone
So you can make it all out
Alone

The tourniquet around my neck is slowly tightening
and I feel as if these things are coming in through
all of those windows kept up nice and tight
and feeling as if sound

I'm feeling like a dog
and it's getting me down
Don't look at me like I am a dog on the floor

[Skylar Husky]

I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. 1879.

 

Major General:
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

Chorus:
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotepotenuse

Major General:
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Chorus:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

Major General:
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore

Chorus:
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinapinafore

Major General:
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Chorus:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

Major General:
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"

When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee

Chorus:
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a sat a gee

Major General:
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Chorus:
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

Edited October 12, 2015 by Skylar Husky

[Vaer]

"Polarize" - twenty one pilots

Help me polarize, help me polarize,
Help me down,
Those stairs is where I'll be hiding all my problems,
Help me polarize, help me polarize,
Help me out,
My friends and I, we've got a lot of problems.

You know where I'm coming,
From though I am running,
To you, all I feel is deny, deny, denial,
I wanted to be a better brother, better son,
Wanted to be a better adversary to the evil I have done,
I have none to show to the one I love,
But deny, deny, denial.

Help me polarize, help me polarize,
Help me down,
Those stairs is where I'll be hiding all my problems,
Help me polarize, help me polarize,
Help me out,
My friends and I, we've got a lot of problems.

Polarize is taking your disguises,
Separating them, splitting them up from wrong and right,
It's deciding where to die and deciding where to fight,
Deny, deny, denial.

I wanted to be a better brother, better son,
Wanted to be a better adversary to the evil I have done,
I have none to show to the one I love,
But deny, deny, denial.

Help me polarize, help me polarize,
Help me down,
Those stairs is where I'll be hiding all my problems,
Help me polarize, help me polarize,
Help me out,
My friends and I, we've got a lot of problems.

We've problems
We've problems

[2x]
Domingo en fuego, I think I lost my halo,
I don't know where you are,
You'll have to come and find me, find me.

We've problems
We've problems

Help me polarize, help me polarize,
Help me out,
My friends and I have problems.

[Chrysocyon]

Band: Muse

Song: Citizen Erased

Break me in,
Teach us to cheat
And to lie, cover up
What shouldn't be shared?
All the truth unwinding
Scraping away
At my mind
Please stop asking me to describe him

For one moment
I wish you'd hold your stage
With no feelings at all
Open minded
I'm sure I used to be so free

Self expressed, exhausting for all
To see and to be
What you want and what you need
The truth unwinding
Scraping away
At my mind
Please stop asking me to describe

For one moment
I wish you'd hold your stage
With no feelings at all
Open minded
I'm sure I used to be so free

Wash me away
Clean your body of me
Erase all the memories
They will only bring us pain
And I've seen all I'll ever need

[Ginpanther]

Musician: Neil Young

Song: Heart of Gold

I want to live,
I want to give
I've been a miner
for a heart of gold
It's these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Keeps me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old

I've been to Hollywood
I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean
for a heart of gold
I've been in my mind,
it's such a fine line
That keeps me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Keeps me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old

Keep me searching
for a heart of gold
You keep me searching
And I'm growing old
Keep me searching
for a heart of gold
I've been a miner
for a heart of gold

Edited October 27, 2015 by Ginpanther
Killed the MetroLyrics link

[Sarcastic Coffeecup]

I've pieced together a bit of a collage that describes myself with song lyrics (with a couple of fillers) that I felt like I could relate to, or just enjoyed a lot onto my Steam page. I quite like the mashup so I'm just gonna paste it here.

Features lyrics/references from songs such as "Everything's alright", "Communication sublime", "Chequered light buildings", "Dream of stone", "Glass prison" and "Shattered Fortress", also a line or two from Dear Esther.

When this world is no more, the Moon is all we see.
We will leave twin vapour trails in the air, white lines etched into these rocks.
We stood at the edge of the world. Everything is alright, we can be ghosts now.
I’ve begun my voyage in a paper boat without a bottom; I will fly to the moon in it.
Here I stand, crestfallen, forlorn.
But I still stand.
If I tell you what I'm seeing, will you tell me what is true?
I'll show you my collection of memories where we are together, but are they just lies of my own?
A glass prison where I can only watch, sheltered in a shattered fortress.
And I'm hanging on by the fingernails.
A weathered monolith in the garden of dreams, a lighthouse lost without a shepherd.

Edited November 29, 2015 by Sarcastic Coffeecup

[KyryK]

Musician: Tom Waits

Song: Walk Away

Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain
With a little drop of poison in the red red blood
She need a way to turn around the bend
She said I want to walk away and start over again

There are things I've done I can't erase
I want to look in the mirror see another face
I said, "never", but I'm doing it again
I wanna walk away, start over again

No more rain, no more roses
On my way, shake my thirst in a cool cool pond

There's a winner in every place
There's a heart that's beating in every page
The beginning of it starts at the end
When it's time to walk away and start over again

Weather's murder at a hundred and three
William Ray shot Corabell Lee
A yellow dog knows when he has sinned
You wanna walk away and start over again

No more rain, no more roses
On my way, shaking my thirst in a cool cool pond

Cooper told Maui the whole block's gone
They're dying for jewelry, money, and clothes
I always get out of the trouble I'm in
I want to walk away, start over again

I left my bible by the side of the road
Carve my initials in an old dead tree
I'm going away but I'm going to be back when
It's time to walk away and start over again

Ho ho yeah, hmm, yeah
Gotta walk away, gotta walk away, gotta walk away
Just wanna walk away yeah, wanna walk away and start over again
Wanna walk away, wanna walk away, wanna walk away

[Caledonian]

I'm a stranger everywhere I go
From Washington to Tokyo
Angry eyes tell me I don't fit in
I smile back but I can not win

So I stand tall, and face the scorn
It's not the place but the time I was born
The road ahead, may be filled with hate
But I know my path and I walk it straight

I was born, born at the wrong time
And I live, here at the wrong time
I was born, born at the wrong time
And I live, here at the wrong time

When I hear the countless voices whine
I can't believe it's even worth the time
I get angry for the things I see
This is not the way the world's supposed to be

So I stand tall, and face the scorn
It's not the place but the time I was born
The road ahead, may be filled with hate
But I know my path and I walk it straight

I was born, born at the wrong time
And I live, here at the wrong time
I was born, born at the wrong time
And I live, here at the wrong time

I think there's not a place where I can go
But I'll be damned if I'll follow the flow
Angry minds have built an angry time
It seems the worlds is used to what was once a crime

So I stand tall, and face the scorn
It's not the place but the time I was born
The road ahead, may be filled with hate
But I know my path and I walk it straight

I was born, born at the wrong time
And I live, here at the wrong time
I was born, born at the wrong time
And I live, here at the wrong time

I look back
I look forward
And I see, it all makes sense

[KyryK]

Musician: Warren Zevon 

Song: My Shit's Fucked Up

Well, I went to the doctor
I said, "I'm feeling kind of rough"
"Let me break it to you, son
Your shit's fucked up."
I said, "my shit's fucked up?"
Well, I don't see how-"
He said, "The shit that used to work-
It won't work now."

I had a dream
Ah, shucks, oh, well
Now it's all fucked up
It's shot to hell

Yeah, yeah, my shit's fucked up
It has to happen to the best of us
The rich folks suffer like the rest of us
It'll happen to you

That amazing grace
Sort of passed you by
You wake up every day
Hang your head and cry
Yeah, you want to die
But you just can't quit
Let me break it on down:
That's the fucked up shit

As a side note i ended up singing this while playing my bass yesterday, was the first time i've ever sung and played at the same time.

[Endless/Nameless]

This is my favorite song of all time, and the song that made me get into music in a real way. It perfectly sums up how I feel when listening to music. Someone please play it at my funeral. 

Artist: Bob Dylan

Title: Mr. Tambourine Man 

Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to 
Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it.

Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to 
Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin' swingin' madly across the sun
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to 
Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to 
Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

[Chrysocyon]

Musician: Alan Price

Song: Time and Tide

I don't feel no pain no more
I've left this cruel world behind
And I've found my peace of mind
I don't feel no pain no more

Time and tide are flowing over me
I once was blind but now I see
The answer lies within your heart
Memories are only about the past
The present time will never last
The future lies within your heart

I don't feel no pain no more
I've left this cruel world behind
And I've found my peace of mind
I don't feel no pain no more

Yes I know I'm going home
When I reach the end
I know I'll find a friend
Yes I know I'm going home

I don't mind if the sun don't shine
Or if it's pouring down with rain
There'll be a smile on my face
When I see you again

Yes I know I'm going home!
When I reach the end
I know I'll find a friend
Because I know
I'm going home!

[axelthefox]

Holier than thou - Metallica

 

No more!
The crap rolls out your mouth again
Haven't changed, your brain is still gelatin
Little whispers circle around your head
Why don't you worry about yourself instead

Who are you? Where ya been? Where ya from?
Gossip is burning on the tip of your tongue
You lie so much you believe yourself
Judge not lest ye be judged yourself

Holier than thou
You are
Holier than thou
You are

You know not

Before you judge me take a look at you
Can't you find something better to do
Point the finger, slow to understand
Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand

It's not who you are it's who you know
Others lives are the basis of your own
Burn your bridges build them back with wealth
Judge not lest ye be judged yourself

Holier than thou
You are
Holier than thou
You are

You know not

Yeah
Who the hell are you?

Hey you

Holier than thou
You are
Holier than thou
You are

You know not
Know not

[Vaer]

A good song for when I'm in a reflective mood.

 

Artist: The Cat Empire

Title: Miserere
 

Do you ever look around
turn your ear to the ground
show your face to the sky
on a night when the skies echoe sounds
from inside of your mind
on the stage that you shone
where the sun did become you
and move with your thoughts
through the sighs and the scenes
of the worlds you have seen
and the sights that have been
your reflection in shadows and dreams?
- your reflection in shadows and dreams

Did you ever see a man
who did walk down the street
white robe with no shoes on his feet
and on top of his head place a box with two slits
and the sign from his neck said 
'I do not exist'
or a woman who could not remember her name
did stutter and stutter 
again and again
and saw you and called you her son 
her eyes said
'my being is gone 
but still I'm not dead'?

Miserere

Have you ever seen a sound
have you listened to an image
have you ever touched a thought
have you ever tasted nothing
have you ever told a lie
that was true more than truth
because truth it had lied
all its life when it spoke to you?
And what did it say
it is that it is this
this goes here here is there
it is not yes it is
it was dulling your senses
your eyes they were bound
have you ever my friends
been looking around?

And the other replies
with a wave of a hand
I am already here 
in this promised land
but not by a god and not by a king
and not by a spirit
deep from within
I am here 
because a miracle's a whim
it's a flash of glory
it's an empty tin
and maybe might lets you in
not to save you
but to keep on looking-

Miserere

Have you ever 
been so happy that you're sad?
that the lights turn to stars 
and the stars become eyes
and hello's are goodbye's
and the laughs are the sigh's
and the show disappears with the note
'until next time'

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Long live living
if living can be this

Do you ever look around
turn your ear to the ground
show your face to the sky
on a night when the skies echoe sounds
from inside of your mind
on the stage that you shone
where the sun did become you
and move with your thoughts
through the sighs and the scenes
of the worlds you have seen
and the sights that have been
your reflection in shadows and dreams
Do you ever look around
and find what is yet to be found?

Edited February 19, 2016 by Vaer

[Terminal7]

Grieves - Sunny Side of Hell

[Intro]

Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain
Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain
Sunny, you smiled at me and really eased the pain
Now the dark days are gone and the bright days are here
And my sunny side shines
 

[Verse 1]

Come on man, not your same old shit
I’ve been living steady wobbling on the edge
Chasing life around in circles trying to decompress my head
I feel it get intense, choose to break my bread and spread it around
Take my every single thought into this pen and jot it down
Cause it’s the truth to me, you should see
It’s all that ever helped
Held my shattered world together
When I knocked it off the shelf into the blackness
Tripping over broken hearts and homes
And getting close enough to turn that kid inside of me to stone
And I’ll admit it, cause I was never taught to give it up
Sailed an ocean full of drug addicted misencouraged blood, without a paddle
It took a lot of faith to fight my battles
And tackle a couple of habits I never thought that I’d have to
But did, bottle the water under the bridge
And toss another written page of my history to the wind
When it blows, cause all of this disaster has lead me home
And left a lot of room for me to learn to grow
Yeah, you are not alone

[Chorus]

Grab hold of yourself, I know what it’s like to get blown away
I know you, you’ve done
Your dirt and you’ve dug your graves
And it feels like you won’t be saved
I say grab hold yourself and face those days
When you feel like it always rains
I’ve seen the sunny side of hell,
That which I never thought I’d find for myself
Never thought I’d find for myself

[Verse 2]

Not your same old song
I’ve been writing on a mirror with a razor blade
And chased away the devil in my brain that played me like a spade
Cause day to day, painted jaded faith issues a shade of gray
And cowered, hid behind emotion just to play it safe
A pawn, slowly turning victim to my wrongs
I had to wake up all alone to finally figure out my wants
In the house of haunted love the past will keep me warned and explain me
Even if you’re listening through the storm
I found a purpose and if you heard this then sit it down
Pick its brain until it opens up and redirects the sound
The conductor, frozen thunder rumbling through the ground
With a perfect little twist of that suit of armor and crown
You created, built for denying it
Hiding the cuts and bruises due to the self-inflicted bone crushing anxiety
I’m with you, so understand that all of this within you
Has chiseled you a flower out of stone
Yeah, you are not alone

(Chorus)

No, you are not alone...

(Chorus)

[Endless/Nameless]

I really like this song. Not so much because of the subject matter, which only mildly interests me; but because of how poetic it is.

 

"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" -Gordon Lightfoot

There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real 

But time has no beginnings and hist'ry has no bounds
As to this verdant country they came from all around
They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forests tall
Built the mines, mills and the factories for the good of us all 

And when the young man's fancy was turnin' to the spring
The railroad men grew restless for to hear the hammers ring
Their minds were overflowing with the visions of their day
And many a fortune won and lost and many a debt to pay 

For they looked in the future and what did they see
They saw an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea
Bringin' the goods to a young growin' land
all up through the seaports and into their hands 

Look away said they
across this mighty land
from the eastern shore
to the western strand

Bring in the workers and bring up the rails
We gotta lay down the tracks and tear up the trails
Open 'er heart let the life blood flow
Gotta get on our way 'cause we're movin' too slow 

Bring in the workers and bring up the rails
We're gonna lay down the tracks and tear up the trails
Open 'er heart let the life blood flow
Gotta get on our way 'cause we're movin' too slow
Get on our way 'cause we're movin' too slow 

Behind the blue Rockies the sun is declinin'
The stars, they come stealin' at the close of the day
Across the wide prairie our loved ones lie sleeping
Beyond the dark oceans in a place far away 

We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swingin' our hammers in the bright blazin' sun
Livin' on stew and drinkin' bad whiskey
Bendin' our backs 'til the long days are done 

We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swingin' our hammers in the bright blazin' sun
Layin' down track and buildin' the bridges
Bendin' our backs 'til the railroad is done 

So over the mountains and over the plains
Into the muskeg and into the rain
Up the St. Lawrence all the way to Gaspé
Swingin' our hammers and drawin' our pay
Drivin' 'em in and tyin' 'em down
Away to the bunkhouse and into the town
A dollar a day and a place for my head
A drink to the livin', a toast to the dead 

Oh the song of the future has been sung
All the battles have been won
On the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil
With our teardrops
And our toil 

For there was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real

And many are the dead men
Too silent to be real

[AlastairSnowpaw]

Muscian: Beck 

Song: Loser

In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose

Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin' with a loser in the cruise control
Baby's in Reno with the Vitamin D
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love seat

Someone came in sayin' I'm insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Don't believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve

So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park
Yo, cut it

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Double barrel buckshot)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
'Cause one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
One's on the pole, shove the other in a bag

With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey neck and it's hangin' from a pigeon wing

You can't write if you can't relate
Trade the cash for the beef, for the body, for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite
That's chokin' on the splinters

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Get crazy with the cheese whiz)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Drive-by body pierce)

Yo, bring it on down

I'm a driver, I'm a winner
Things are gonna change, I can feel it

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Sprechen sie Deutsche, baby)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Know what I'm sayin'?)

[Xaende]

Artist: Enigma

Song: Push the Limits

 

Basic instincts, social life
Paradoxes side by side

Don't submit to stupid rules
Be yourself and not a fool
Don't accept average habits
Open your heart and push the limits

[Toboe]

One I like:

Band: Saltatio Mortis

Song: Prometheus

Original (german) Text and Translation:

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/prometheus-prometheus.html-1

Slightly altered translation (to better fit my understanding of the song):

Recognize the people
Their spirit is frozen
Forced to live
in eternal night
Listen to their complaints
Their enemy is the cold
Damned to wait
in eternal watch

In the tail of the comets
before clouds black as night
I descend from Heaven, burning
My hand holds fire
My mind the knowledge
I'll lay to rest the commandments
of the gods

I bring you fire
the ability to know/understand*
I bring you fire,
and the wrath of the gods on the world
I bring you fire
the power to burn
I bring you fire
and the ashes that fall from Heaven

To know means freedom
to decide for yourself
No destiny
is conceived by the gods
to inflame the spirit
The seed of knowledge
has made gods
of the people.

My work is done,
the boundaries have fallen
Ignorance, a broken curse
However my punishment
will appear unfathomable
like a book
written by the gods

I bring you fire
the ability to know/understand*
I bring you fire,
and the wrath of the gods on the world
I bring you fire
the power to burn
I bring you fire
and the ashes that fall from Heaven

Forged in steel
chained on the mountain
damned by the gods
saved by no one
My eternal body
a meal for the eagle
The eternal punishment
in the Caucasus valley

I bring you fire
the ability to know/understand*
I bring you fire,
A blaze that lights up the night
I bring you fire
the power to burn
I bring you fire
and the ashes that fall from Heaven

I bring you fire

I bring you fire

I bring you fire
the power to burn
I bring you fire
and the ashes that fall from Heaven

 

*the lyrics contains Erkenntnis -> knowledge and the derived verb erkennen ->realize/recognize/understand

 

[KyryK]

Artist: Blind Willie Johnson, although this is from David Lindley's cover with slightly tweaked lyrics

Song: Soul Of A Man

I'm gonna ask a question, Please answer if you can
If any you children can tell me
What is the soul of man? What is the soul of a man?
Won't somebody tell me, answer if you can
Want somebody tell me, what is the soul of a man, what is the soul of a man?
Well I've travelled in different countries, I've travelled foreign lands
I've found nobody could tell me, about the soul of a man, about the soul of a man
I saw a crowd stand talking, I just came up in time
The teachers and the doctors and the lawyers, say a man ain't nothing but his mind, a man ain't nothing but his mind
Won't somebody tell me, answer if you can
Want somebody tell me, what is the soul of a man, what is the soul of a man?
I read the bible often, I tries to read it right
As far as I can understand, it ain't nothing but a burning light, it ain't nothing but a burning light
Christ stood in the temple, the people stood amazed
He was showing the doctors and the lawyers, how to raise a body from the grave, how to raise a body from the grave, raise a body from the grave, raise a body from the grave