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Benjeezy

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What is a song title/lyric/line/snippet/stanza/canto/whatever that had a lasting impact on you, and why? Feel free to go into detail.

Thank you for your posts, as always.
 

Simalacrum

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sooo what, good quotes?

From the epic poem, Paradise Lost: "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven"

From The Clash's song 'Know your rights': "you have the right to free speech... so long as your not dump enough to actually try it!"
 

S.R.S.

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Why have you forsaken me,
In your eyes forsaken me,
In your thoughts forsaken me,
In your heart forsaken, me oh,

Trust in my Self Righteous Suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die,
In my self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die.


Yep, thats pretty much me right there. Look closer
 

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"All your dreams are made when you're chained to your mirror and your razor blade"

-Morning Glory, Oasis

While at first it sounds like a pro-cocaine statement, there's just something about the sentence that sounds depressing about it, like the "dreams" aren't what you want, or that the dreams come from being under drug-influence, a drug-influence you can't escape from, hence the "chained to your mirror and your razorblade".

Maybe I'm over-analyzing it, but I'm fascinated by it.
 

Benjeezy

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S.R.S. said:
Why have you forsaken me,
In your eyes forsaken me,
In your thoughts forsaken me,
In your heart forsaken, me oh,

Trust in my self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die,
In my self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die.


Yep, thats pretty much me right there.
YES, THANK YOU. FINALLY, some love for SOAD from somebody else. You just made my day much better.
 

Archereus

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S.R.S. said:
Why have you forsaken me,
In your eyes forsaken me,
In your thoughts forsaken me,
In your heart forsaken, me oh,

Trust in my self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die,
In my self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die.


Yep, thats pretty much me right there.
Chop Suey by System of a Down, perfect choice of very powerful lyrics. I was here thinking of lyrics but i am with you on this one, thanks for taking the best idea for the both of us ^.^
 

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Actually this thread could help me. I love the quote "Walk carefully, you're treading on my dreams" from Equilibrium. I'm curious what book that line came from.
 

S.R.S.

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You guys should see the SOAD tatt I got after meeting them backstage. Big Day Out '02.
 

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"A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them" - XKCD

?I could be rich like a wandering gypsy / I could be poor like a fat wallet lost / I could be first man or I could come last / It?s not who breaks the ribbon boy it?s how you get across? ? John Butler Trio
 

Benjeezy

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S.R.S. said:
You guys should see the SOAD tatt I got after meeting them backstage. Big Day Out '02.
You fucking met them

I am shocked and jealous

Darn you you lucky person.
 
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Vohn_exel said:
Actually this thread could help me. I love the quote "Walk carefully, you're treading on my dreams" from Equilibrium. I'm curious what book that line came from.
It's from a poem by Yeats: He has wished for the clothes of Heaven.

W.B. Yeats - I have spread my dreams under your feet
HAD I the heavens? embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

For me, the quote would be something like:

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel

Not sure though, I read a lot of verse and I listen to a lot of music.
 

omega 616

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I am by no means religious but " though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil"
kicks ass.

Who says the bible is full of boring stuff?
 

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omega 616 said:
I am by no means religious but " though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil"
kicks ass.

Who says the bible is full of boring stuff?
Coolio for ya

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life
And realize there's nothing left.
 

Vohn_exel

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MelasZepheos said:
Vohn_exel said:
Actually this thread could help me. I love the quote "Walk carefully, you're treading on my dreams" from Equilibrium. I'm curious what book that line came from.
It's from a poem by Yeats: He has wished for the clothes of Heaven.

W.B. Yeats - I have spread my dreams under your feet
HAD I the heavens? embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

For me, the quote would be something like:

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel

Not sure though, I read a lot of verse and I listen to a lot of music.
Ah thanks! I've been wondering where that was from. I'm not much of a poetry reader so no wonder I'd never heard it before, lol.

I actually have a hundred of these, but I can never remember them when someone asks me for stuff like this. I hate it, cause there are lots of quotes that I think are awsome, but I can't think of any of them now.
 

Benjeezy

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One of mine is the second-to-last line of "The Metro" cover by System of a Down. Now, in the original version by Berlin, it goes "I remember hating you for loving me" delivered in a flat, synth-pop-esque voice-it's practically a monotone. When Serj Tankian sings the revised line, it is much different.

At what sounds to be from the bottom of his lungs, he bellows the new line "FUCK YOU FOR LOVING ME".

Now maybe things are different for you, but that was very powerful to me. The emotion in his voice is, to me at least, very indicative of his mood. I felt as though I had been drawn into the "story" the song had been spinning the entire time. The phrase itself shocked me to my very core. I could never imagine that kind of thing ever being said.

I think SOAD took a song and gave it new meaning and life. That line is almost haunting to me.

Here are two links to the song. The first is the original Berlin version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv2XvrQki_w

Now here's the System cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NucicclOd9E

See for yourself what I mean.
 

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From Periscope by Andromeda:

In a shallow environment I've been taught to live
But I always wondered what was in the deep
Trapped in the indecision of which way to go
Where it's safe and home or where no one has gone


That sums up my life pretty well... I've always wanted to be different and explore new waters, but the comfort of normality has restrained me.
 

Benjeezy

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I slapped up a new thread entitled "Striking a Chord: The Metro". I'd really appreciate some feedback there if at all possible.
 

omega 616

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S.R.S. said:
Thats a pet peeve of mine, a "gangster" bastardizing the bible.

Like I said I am not religious but don't be a hypocrite by putting out this imagine of being a "badass" gangster, who we all know kill, then quote something that is all about "peace and love" to make a song sound better.

Just not my thing, I do like some rap, mainly eminems' stuff, so it's not like I just hate the whole genre.