Lyrics that make an impact

My first submission is:

"Put your hands up high if you haven't abandoned hope that a pen stroke is stronger than a cannon"

From Stand Up by Flobots ala Jonny 5!

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Permalink Reply by BRIAN on December 30, 2008 at 12:55am

Keep steppin, by Atmosphere

It goes job after job after blow to the self value
He doesnt get along with powerful people
The mind is a box kept locked
Inside is the pride and the ego and he cant find the keyhole
Compensates with alcohol and hate
And contimplates whether or not he wants to be awake
Bounce around the words, all the nouns and verbs
But better late then never doesnt work for work
Cant hold employment, cant hold a girl
But he can hold a weapon and keep this whole world steppin
Another angry arrogent american
One frustrated step away from where you stand
Put your hands up for fear or fear itself
Or write it off as balances and cheques
Or take the sign out the window and change it to say you want to help
And maybe we can talk him into walking up these steps

Keep looking up
Try to count them
How many left
Look em up
One at a time, until your out of breath
One foot infront of the other
Right, left
And spend your whole life climbing these steps
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For every boy that she allows to step on her heart
She comes one step closer to findin what she needs
The sad part is shes still stuck somewhere behind the start
Still doesnt know what it takes to make it leave
That tattoo bleeds upon the paid dues
Break the rules, to balance the odds, challenge her God
The untrained eye thinks shes got it all together
But the first time I seen her smile I knew better
Right down the letters, piece them in order
Make sense out of a sentance, give the picture a border
Got to sort through the images that clutter the soul
But the photo got fried cause the shutter didnt close
Over exposed, too many steps, too soon
Killed the pain with a jameson under a blue moon
She climbs, she cries, she waits
How many more can she take before her legs break

So if you're doing bad I'mma sing about you
And if you're doing good I'mma sing about you
Whether or not you knew I've been singin about you
It's all I know, I don't know what else to do
When you take a step I take a step
Or maybe it's the other way around I'm not too sure
Right and wrong got together, the vision was blurred
The path was crooked but the intentions were pure
And I count these steps getting closer to home
And I love each step like it was my own
And when I reach the top of the goal or whatever
Maybe finally they'll let me forget her

(Don't stop looking up)

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Permalink Reply by mastaphoo on December 30, 2008 at 12:39pm

"Castles made of Sand" - Hendrix (The entire amazing song)

"Well when you like something, it's an opinion
But when i like something, it's a manifesto.
Pomposity is when you always think you're right arrogance is when you know."
-Pike St./Park Slope by Harvey Danger

The entire song "The Distance" by Cake

And many, many more that I can't think of at the moment.

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Permalink Reply by BRIAN on December 30, 2008 at 10:33pm

When you die you're dead by Jimmi's chicken shack
-following the crowd provides security
-cities alienate people
-many of the things you want are worthless
-if you try..congratulate yourself
-surviving can take a lot of energy
-everything's an integral of everything else
-almost no-one findsthier match
-strangers don't want to know you
-nature always wins
-we all want the same things
-you have chosen everything that
happens to you
-we are part of are land
-people want to look nice
- loneliness is not contagious
-viloence is passed through generations
-crowds create thier own power
-everyone you meet is a mirror of yourself
-things left undone become harder
-progress takes time
-experience gives you options
-the range of personalities...endless
-most weirdos want to be
-people are attached to what they can't have
-defense mechanisms are inherited
-power is passed to those near it
-one size fits all...doesn't
-western man is too seperated from nature
-peoples interests should come
before bussiness interests
-you can only screw yourself
-self-esteem is basic to success
-it will be a long time before safe is sex
-pain inside shows
-only certain types are religious
and many artist..aren't
-you can have anything you want
-a court of law is designed to intimidate
-stay in touch with your inner self
-living increases knowledge
-and when you die you're dead

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Permalink Reply by NAS#16 on January 3, 2009 at 10:32pm

these are just some lines i thought of the other before i went to sleep

Why save the world when we only care about ourselves?
It's really hard to focus with bullets on our shelves
We attempt the impossible by trying to break the spirits
of those who believe in a cause
When we are the ones who are flawed

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Permalink Reply by Dirty Roots Revolution on January 4, 2009 at 2:15pm

Words are so much stronger than a canon, or any other form of violence you could use to impose your will on anyone else.

Words are the expresions of ideas.

Ideas can filter the air through a song, a microphone, a book, whatever. And once they're out there, they're out there. There's no stopping them.

Ideas can infect you and lead to a revolution.

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Permalink Reply by Huwdlum on January 4, 2009 at 3:28pm

In my living room watching but I am not laughing
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen

World is cold the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions

Ten years old it's something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep

Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me

Do you see the soldiers they're out today
They brush the dust from bullet proof vests away

It's ironic at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday

There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes

My dad he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show

My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine

On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die

Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay

And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"

"Hands Held High" Linkin Park

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Permalink Reply by Huwdlum on January 4, 2009 at 3:32pm

im sorry i cant make this shorter but i just couldnt. i cry every time i hear it. it would take away from the message. here it is.

Hero of War
Rise Against

He said "Son, have you seen the world?
Well, what would you say if I said that you could?
Just carry this gun and you'll even get paid."
I said "That sounds pretty good."

Black leather boots
Spit-shined so bright
They cut off my hair but it looked alright
We marched and we sang
We all became friends
As we learned how to fight

A hero of war
Yeah that's what I'll be
And when I come home
They'll be damn proud of me
I'll carry this flag
To the grave if I must
Because it's a flag that I love
And a flag that I trust

I kicked in the door
I yelled my commands
The children, they cried
But I got my man
We took him away
A bag over his face
From his family and his friends

They took off his clothes
They pissed in his hands
I told them to stop
But then I joined in
We beat him with guns
And batons not just once
But again and again

A hero of war
Yeah that's what I'll be
And when I come home
They'll be damn proud of me
I'll carry this flag
To the grave if I must
Because it's a flag that I love
And a flag that I trust

She walked through bullets and haze
I asked her to stop
I begged her to stay
But she pressed on
So I lifted my gun
And I fired away

The shells jumped through the smoke
And into the sand
That the blood now had soaked
She collapsed with a flag in her hand
A flag white as snow

A hero of war
Is that what they see
Just medals and scars
So damn proud of me
And I brought home that flag
Now it gathers dust
But it's a flag that I love
It's the only flag I trust

He said, "Son, have you seen the world?
Well what would you say, if I said that you could?"

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Permalink Reply by skurin on January 11, 2009 at 2:49pm

Love the song "The UnderDog" by Spoon

Cause you don't talk to the water boy
and there's so much you could learn but you don't want to know,
You will not back up an inch ever,
that's why you will not survive,

The thing that I tell you now
It may not go over well
And it may not be photo-op
in the way that I spell it out

But you won't hear from the messenger,
don't wanna know bout something that you don't understand,
You got no fear of the underdog,
that's why you will not survive! (Hey!)

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Permalink Reply by Battle Of Belgium on January 16, 2009 at 5:51pm

I am a fan of Flobots (as u can deffo tell :P)

However i love the lyrics of RATM+Linkin Park

Probably the best lyrics ive seen for a while are

Slip out the back before they know you were there
And at the worst you'll see nobody cares
Cos you dont wana be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared
Slip out the back before they know you were there
And at the worst you'll see nobody cares
Cos you dont wana be around when it all goes down
Even heroes know when to be scared

Slip out the back - Fort Minor

Battle Of Belgium (I will post regularly :D)

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Permalink Reply by MalcolmB on January 16, 2009 at 6:32pm

This is a little piece of the song Riot Van by Arctic Monkeys. I love this song because its short and to the point. Just a little song about rebellion...

And up rolls the riot van
And these lads just wind the coppers up
They ask why they don't catch proper crooks
They get their address and their names took
But they couldn't care less

Got thrown in a riot van,
and all the coppers kicked him in,
and there was no way he could win,
just had to take it on the chin.

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Permalink Reply by The Teege on February 24, 2009 at 9:33pm

If We're the flagship of peace and prosperity
We're taking on water and about to fuckin' sink
No one seems to notice, No one even blinks
The crew left the passengers to die under the sea

COUNTDOWN, to the very end,
Equality, an invitation that we wont extend
READY AIM, pull the trigger now,
In time you'll firmly secure your place in hell