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I'd say several Metallica songs, especially The Unforgiven and Until it sleeps. I think they're relatable for some people who've broken free from (religious) oppression, or are struggling with some kind of illness or darkness inside them. I think James Hetfield is very good at expressing his own life experiences and feelings into the music. Master of Puppets and Sad But True are also among my Metallica favorites.

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Couldn't possibly care any less about the lyrics when I'm listening to the extreme metal which makes up the majority of my listening, but I can really identify with these heartfelt lyrics from the 1970's. They sure don't write 'em like this anymore. 
 
 
I Just Want to Have Something to Do
 
Hanging out on 2nd Avenue
Eating chicken Vindaloo
I just want to be with you
I just want to have something to do
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, well alright!
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Wait! Now!
Wait! Now!
Hanging out all by myself
I don't want to be with anybody else
I just want to be with you
I just want to have something to do
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, well alright!
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Wait! Now!
Wait! Now!
Wait! Now!
Wait! Now!
Hanging out all by myself
I don't want to be with anybody else
I just want to be with you
I just want to have something to do
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, well alright!
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight
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I enjoy the music more than the lyrics with a lot of bands. However I do enjoy early Carcass lyrics. Necroticism-Descanting the Insalubrious album is my favorite. I’ve sat down and read the entire album many times.

song- Inpropagation [“Reaping the gone, to nourish the land…Replenishing exhausted pasture with my uncanny sleight of hand.”]
 

song-Buried Dreams (Heartwork) 

When aspirations are squashed
When life's chances are lost
When all hope is gone
When expectations are quashed
When self esteem is lost
When ambition is mourned
...All you need is hate

(I’ve always wanted this one hung on my wall like those motivational posters that teachers used to put up around the classrooms.)

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All the best lyrics come from the world of punk. Or my favorites do anyway.

Cosmic Psychos - Follow Me Home

I went at her, she says alright

I'm gonna try and take her home tonight

she's lookin' beaut, maybe a root

there's a swag in the back of me ute

Chorus: Instead of fuckin' fighting me why don't you fuckin' follow me home 2x

She's lookin' good, as she should

We've talked so much my brain is bread and butter pud'

she's such a beaut, maybe a root,

there's a swag in the back of me ute

and she said: blah, bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh blah

bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh blah blah blah blah blaah

bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh blah, bluh bluh bluh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah bluh bluh bluh blah blah blah blah blah

Chorus: Instead of fuckin' fighting me why don't you fuckin' follow me home 2x

guitar solo

Chorus: Instead of fuckin' fighting me why don't you fuckin' follow me home 2x

 

 

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Surely the elegant and elegiac beauty of The Chats 'Smoko' can't be beaten.

 

'So it's Tuesday morning

And my CentreLink hasn't come through

So I pick up the phone

Because I've got some abusing to do.'

And the chorus

'I'm on smoko

So leave me alone

I'm on smoko

So leave me alone...'

 

Brings a tear to the eye.

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Yeah Smoko is a certified genuis poet at work.

More brilliant work is on display in the song I've Got The Clap

 

Last week, pulled a root,

In the back of me ute,

I was cautious, double wrapped

But I still got the clap

[Chorus]
I've got the clap (He's got the clap)
I've got the clap (He's got the clap)

So I went to the clinic

Doctor said, "Mate you're fucked!"

Then he told me what I had

Turns out I've got the clap
 

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Shakespeare eat your heart out.

All in all though, apart from gems like these I'm glad I can't understand 90% of the lyrics of songs I listen to.

I must make an exception of Valborg's Romantic. The lyrics sound great in German and translated they really are joyfully grim. The album is musically the simplest of Valborg's oeuvre, but there is such a great blend of melancholy music and gleefully miserable lyrics. You gotta laugh.

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I went through a stage a few years ago where pretty much everything I listened to I couldn't understand due to language or it just being undecipherable but these days I prefer it when I can understand the lyrics and sing along....the cows love it...and I wont hear anything or anyone who says different!

 

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My favorite lyrics are of my favorite song as well: Dancers to a Discordant System by Meshuggah. It talks about a reality controlled by higher beings who subdue the human race without us knowing it. We just keep dancing the same old dance to appease the ones who control us.

This dance represents "the system" or "the man". It can be interpreted as the law system, the education system, or simply society.

 

Listen to the hidden tune
The essence of lies in notes defined
As we dance to the dissonant sway
The choreography refined
Will subdued and shackled
Reason washed aside
Pledging our love to the chains
Our ignorance ever-amplified

Blooded hands lead the waltz
We're trapped in the out-of-tune swirl
Still we set the show on continue mode
And dance to a discordant system

We accept the nails we're fed
Lies sharpened to bleed us silent
Muted from the pains
Defiance employed in vain
Any attempts to leave the dance,
Invisibly suppressed
Questions unasked, we learn the steps
Eyes shut like all the rest

Unsuspecting, willing, blind, controllable herd
Pawns in a covert game conducted by hands we trust
Dominated, compliant and deceptable
Confident that we matter - we don't see that we're but dust

Committed to a lie we cannot see, cannot know nor comprehend
We're all asinine drones kept in the dark, kept in line

Confined, Bereft of reason
Withering in toxicity
The deadly fumes of deceit
And we all reek of complicity
Humbled, brought to our knees
By the weight of our own guilt
Our nescient ways the catalyst
To injustice and inhumanity

We dance - to appease
Compete in stupidity

Obscured faces file our points
Numbers fed to the machine
Still we stand in line for the next show
The human spine liquefied
What are we, but stupefied
Dancers to a discordant system

We believe - so we're misled
We assume - so we're played
We confide - so we're deceived
We trust - so we're betrayed

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Love these lyrics (and song). Perfectly describes the behavior of one particular shitty, lying person that I had to cut out of my life.

 

Evile - Devoid of Thought

 

Changing out the face you wear

Turning from the guilty stares

Listen to the fables you tell

You're giving the game away

Aren't you ever man enough

To face your consequence

Did the fire burn too bright

So you launch more offence

 

Thought

Devoid of thought   x2

 

Fiction crossing in with fact

Caught up in creation's frame

Honesty, the greater act

You're too far to go back

Wanting not the world you walk

Living in the one that's made

Negative a positive

For your weak masqeraude

 

Thought

Devoid of thought x4

 

Come forth with the truth

Come forth

Be who you are

Not who you want

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