Someone choose who's left and who's leaving. We meet here for our dress-rehearsal to say " I wanted it this way" The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand, The sidewalks are watching me think about you, Through buildings gone missing like teeth.
My city's still breathing (but barely it's true) Neither might be your musical style, but they have excellent lyrics that read like reasonable prose on the printed page. You might like some of the earlier Weakerthans, or maybe even some earlier work back when their lead singer was the bassist for Propaghandi. (Also acceptable: classic poems by modern performers.) posted by jdroth to Media & Arts (98 answers total) 14 users marked this as a favorite I want to make a brainy mix, just for fun. Bonus points for songs that are catchy and tuneful (as I feel the above are). What I'm looking for is music with smart lyrics (or maybe smarty music, too) from any genre. Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again. The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the sand. With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars, If only summer rain would fall on the houses and the boulevardsĪnd the side walk bagatelles.
Riding up the width and length of the Champs Elysees. On the old left bank, my baby in a charabanc, Longing for old fecundity of my homeland.Ĭurses to this mirage! A bottle of ancient Shiraz,Ī smattering of distant applause is ringing in my poor ears. Medicating in the sun, pinched doses of laudanum, I had hoped the salt below would divorce what was wed aboveįor the fleshy vessel, I, kept it sustainedĪnd so we froze a while surrounded by one big tearīut we weren't welcome, the sea made that clearīy filling us with saline and sailing us blue blue back intoĪre there other songs with great, extended metaphors? Or, there's the more obvious wordplay of Colin Meloy, such as that found in The Decemberists' "The Legionaire's Lament" (note that I think some of this gets forced: "mirage/shiraz" is wince-worthy): I dove into that freezing sea with the parasite attached to me In "Sea Ghost" by the Unicorns, it is the metaphor that I like: I adore the complexities of those lines: the vocubulary, the rhyme, the assonance. Here's the first stanza from "Bridges and Balloons":Īnd the nautical, like all things, fades. Joanna Newsom is typical of what I'm after.
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