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This thread is for Rock, Metal and all their subgenres lyrics.
You can post the lyrics of a song you love, feel related to, it discuss an important issue........etc.
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Band name: .........
Album title: ........
Genre: ........
Wikipedia link for the band: .........
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Note1: Genre is for the band's genre not the song's....
Note2: If you cant find a Wikipedia link for the band you can try http://www.metal-archives.com/ for Metal and http://rockalmanac.com/ for Rock.

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Feel free to discuss with each other about the lyrics....

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And I will start with this one:

Song title: Modern Life Architecture
Band name: Woods of Ypres
Album title: Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
Genre: Blackened doom metal
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_of_Ypres
Lyrics:

When we're young, we design a plan, we work, we build, we make it real
and in the moment it becomes complete, The first cracks start to appear

A weak foundation, finally revealed
in the desperation, when the walls came tumbling down

Oh, In my prime - Oh, never to return
Oh, as I once was - A broken man, Living half a life... (without you...)

On the path to recovery, As a sign of the times, with the empires crumbling
I left all dreams abandoned, On the steps of a modern life

In defeat we redesign the plan, and we give it just one more chance
As we take another deep breath, and prepare for the worst, again

A life in crisis, is always threatened by time
For the longer it takes to be restored...
the less likely it is to occur.

Oh, In my prime - Oh, never to return
Oh, as I once was- A broken man, Living all alone... (without you...)

On the path to recovery, with the empires crumbling
I left all dreams abandoned, On the steps of a modern life

On the path to recovery, with the empires crumbling
I left all dreams abandoned with you, On the steps of a modern life

There is always hope, of course, that one day, we will rise again
but this modern life architecture, Is crumbling, under the weight of the world

Song title: Distractions Of Living Alone
Band name: Woods of Ypres
Album title: Woods III: Deepest Roots And Darkest Blues
Genre: Blackened doom metal
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_of_Ypres
Lyrics:

When I come home at the end of the day, everything is just where I left it...
No one has called, nothing has changed, everything is just how I left it...

I haven't spoken a word in days, except for cursing the noise in the hall...
I haven't spoken a word in days, to anyone else at all...

And so, as I go, I'll leave my body for you...
And so, as I go, don't feel sorry for me
For life is the sacrifice, before you die
And so as I go, I'll leave my body for you...to...see...

A bed all alone in the bedroom
A vacant space where a table should be
Some posters on the walls
The bathroom mirror covered in spit

I have made such desperate attempts to make this a nice place to live...
And I have failed, for I have tried to fill this dead empty space with a life!

All this time on my hands,
And I have no where to go,
Haunted by the distractions of living alone

I hope you'd be the first one to find me
After I'd concluded the past behind me
So hold your hands, over your mouth
And run to tell the others...

Song title: The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Real Puppet
Band name: Sonata Arctica
Album title: Reckoning Night
Genre: Power metal
Wikipedia link for the band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonata_Arctica
Lyrics:

So many years ago, many more than I'd
Even care to bear in my mind
From the darkest of all places I found you

All the limbs in their right places
And a heart made of real gold
Sell me your little doll, oh sir, I ask you kind

Every night I returned to watch them
The master and the puppet in the show
He said: "Oh, no, I cannot sell him...
Priceless he is, masterpiece of mine"

Please, sell me your puppet, sir
Name your price, oh please,
Whatever you may ask,
Tenfold the price I pay

"Did I not make it clear?
This debate is over
I will never part from this puppet, my son... "

With hungry eyes I followed them all night
The blind master and the puppet he had made
"No, sir, to sell is not my will!"
The doll is mine, even if I have to kill...

So it shall be... If this is what it takes
"Greed is truly blinder than me..."
"Heart of gold is what you wish for?"
"So, this little boy... wants to be... a puppet, for real..."

So I have the golden heart
Now only needing the voice of the master
Never feel hunger, never grow older
My dream was to be a star in a real puppet show

[Solo]

It's so hard to remember my life
The times before the show
Can I ever cut off the strings?
"Take a bow, now dance and sing..." (Sing!)

Would you turn me to a child again?
"No, never, I am your Guide"
You can see a small grin on the face
Of the master, when the puppet's in his place

Be careful what you wish for
Wishes might come alive
The twines are pulling me every day and night...
The show, the glitter and all the fame
I'd give away for a life
Some things can end with a word, they say
This only ends with a sharp knife (Knife!)

Good one! I like it.
I will give it a listen...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Song title: Shards Of Love (Hurt Forever)
Band name: WOODS OF YPRES
Album title: Woods IV: The Green Album
Genre: Blackened doom metal
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_of_Ypres
Lyrics:

You pulled your things off the walls, took all that was yours.
You packed your books into boxes and placed them at the door.
You emptied your half of our closet, and went through the drawers.
Taking it all for granted and left what was left for me on the floor.

And still I'm pouring my heart out to you, trying to move you.
Still I'm pouring my heart out to you, trying to get you to stay.
Still I'm pouring my heart out to you, trying to move you.
Still I'm pouring my heart out to you, trying to get you to stay.

And I said, "What about this? What about that? Don't you remember the good times?
What about this? What about that? Don't you remember our life?"
She said, "What about this? And what about that? Don't you remember the hard times?
What about this? And what about that? Don't you remember our lives?"

And I said, "No, wait. (No, wait)."
And she said, "No, it's too late. (No, it's too late)."
And I said, "Wait, please stay. (Wait, please stay)."
But she said, "No, I'm going away. (I'm going away)."

And I said, "No, you cannot go."
And I said, "Wait, please stay."
She said, "No, I have to go. It's too late, I'm going away.
And there's nothing in the world that you could say to make me stay.

Song title: The Sea of Immeasurable Loss
Band name: Woods of Ypres
Album title: Demo: "Against The Seasons"
Genre: Blackened doom metal
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_of_Ypres
Lyrics:

Who knows how long I've stood here...
Or how many times.
I may wander, but I will return,
The same time each night.
For running water plays the score to this scene.
I stand and stare into the mirror.
This has become so familiar to me,
Because I no longer rest where I used to sleep.
A handful of water to cool your face
will be the only comfort you'll know.
So pick up your heart and run for your life.
To drain your body of all it's energy.
For heavy steps on a quiet path,
Is the sound of earning your rest.

[Clean]
Try to sleep
on the other side of the room.
Forget all the time you have lost
For it's the insight...that kills you.
This night will end,
Only to begin again.
And nothing will change until the change of the seasons
Many months away.
The night is long,
Exhausted I make my way home.
As the earliest of those begin their day,
I finally begin to sleep.
This strain that resolves in me,
Truly has come at a cost,
For the rain, that falls on me,
Was drawn, from the sea of immeasurable loss.

Song title: Silver
Band name: Woods of Ypres
Album title: Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
Genre: Blackened doom metal
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_of_Ypres
Lyrics:

Come when you need me, leave me when you need to be free
Come when you want me, leave me when you need me to understand
Did you fall out of love, because you fell in love again?
Did you fall out of love, because you fell in love, with someone new?

When the new love, shined with all the promise of all I couldn't give to you.
And the new life offered all you wanted, and you had to choose

I helped to carry you, I took good care of you, I wanted us to continue
But I knew, that you would leave, when the time was right for you.

Life was a relay I passed it off to you. You ran away, and won the race
You never looked back, to see what happened to me, For I was only second place

When the new love, shined with all the promise of all I couldn't give to you.
And the new life offered all you wanted, and you were asked to choose.

We come together to share your sorrows - where you save yourself for someone else.
You keep your distance in times of hope, while I cry (for you) all by myself

When you're silver, you never come first, When you're silver, the truth always hurts.

I don't want unconditional love, Ill always need to be judged
I don't want a traditional love, Ill always need to be wanted/loved by someone else

When did the city make you so cold?
We share your sorrows but I dine alone...
When did the city make you so cold?
I cry alone - while you dine with someone else

When did the city make you so cold?
We cry together but I dine alone...
When did the city make you so cold?
We share your sorrows but I dine alone... I always dine alone...

Song title: No One There
Band name: Sentenced
Album title: The Cold White Light
Genre: Gothic metal, heavy metal, black metal, melodic death metal, death metal. (early)
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentenced
Lyrics:

The axe, the bottle, and the rope
The feeling there really is no more hope
The thought of the great unknown
And facing it alone
The dark, the silent, and the cold
The feeling I have come to the end of my road
Yes these are the things I spend my remaining moments with

When the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there

Why did it have to be so hard
For us to live our lives
Again I reach out in the dark in despair

The desperation and the snow
The feeling of finally coming back home
The melancholy and the hole in the soil so hard and cold

When the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there

Your love for me, my love for you
Things we somehow managed to lose
Now there's only the ruthless wind
To blow right through
If freezes my heart, my desperate heart
To think we both will die alone

When the wind blows through my heart
Shivers me one last time
As I now reach out in the dark
No one there

Song title: Pretoriaanikyborgit / Praetorian Cyborgs
Band name: CMX
Album title: Talvikuningas / Winterking
Genre: progressive rock
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMX_%28band%29
Lyrics:

Finnish
Laumoista hurmahenkien
joukoista uhrimielisten
valittiin sotilaat
eliittijoukkojen
Väestä nuorten ylimysten
toivottomista slummien
parhaimmat, hulluimmat
mielettömimmät

Hiekasta näiden kenttien
kasarmien kaiuista
koneöljystä, verestä
kasvoivat meidän voimamme
Raskaimmista aseista
taisteluiden painosta
arpia oli ihomme
happoa veremme

Vuosia kesti sotamme
roihusi alla tähtien
tuhansien tannerten
pelossa ja surussa
Rakkaamme vain jyrinä
pudotusalusten
myrskyssä ja lumessa odottaa
menetykset, epäily

Komentajamme pelastin
fregatin tuhosta
kapteeniksi tähtilaivan
kohosin, palvelin
Kaukana tähtien
sylissä kotona
sukuni mahtajat
janosi valtaa
Olisin aseensa
salainen orjansa
veljien pettäjä
kuoleman tuoja

"Antareksen tunneleista tähtipölyyn Laerteen,
kapinoista Plejadien Orionin kansannousuun,
kvasitaivaan mandaateista hyperavaruuden nieluun,
kaikkialla vieretysten kunnes on kuin yhtä.
Muuntogeeni susilauman tekee meistä kimairoista,
kyborgeja, kerubeja vastaan meitä heitetään.
Golemeja, serafeja vihollinen kehittelee,
arkkienkelinsä keittää roistot kohtutankeissaan."

English translation
From the herds of fanatics
From those wanting to self-sacrifice
Were the soldiers for the elite troops selected
From young aristocrats
From the hopeless of the slums
The best, the craziest
The maddest

Out of the sand of these fields
Out of the echoes in barracks
Out of engine oil, blood
Our strength grew
Out of the heaviest weapons
Out of the weight of battles
Our skin was all scars
Our blood was acid

Our war lasted for years
Raging under the stars
In the fear and the sadness
Of a thousand fields
Our only love is
The roar of the dropships
In storm and snow
The loss and the doubt await

I saved our commander
From the destruction of a frigate
I was promoted to the captain of a starship
I served far in the midst of stars
At home, the greats of my family
Were hungry for power
I would be their secret weapon
Their slave
The deceiver of my brothers
The death bringer

"From the tunnels of Antares to the stardust of Laertes
From the insurrections of Pleiades to the uprising of Orion
From the mandates of quasi-heaven to the maw of hyperspace
Everywhere side by side until we become as one.
A transgene turns us chimeras into a wolf pack
Cyborgs and cherubs are thrown against us.
The enemy is developing golems and seraphs
Their archangels boil crooks in womb tanks."

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Note: My avatar is cropped from the albums cover art. Also the song does not "cut" unintentionally at the end, but rather changes midflight to next one.

Song title: Season of Withering
Band name: Dead End Finland
Album title: Single
Genre:Modern Melodic Death Metal
Wikipedia link for the band: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Dead_End_Finland/3540328236
Lyrics:

We failed

Look at the nation | What can you see
Colossal scars | You have to agree
Satellites reflect disorder | Confusion and murder

Who would teach me the wrong and the right
When surrounded by people ready to bite
Politics full of lies can't answer
With their face disguised

We failed

Forthcoming times can't give us much
But another Midas with a golden touch
Corrupted bank without the real assets
Feeding the beast of greed

Season of withering | Help me | It's defiling me, it's raping me
Season of withering | Help me | It's smashing me, drowning me

We failed

Faults always result in actions | Actions have an effect
Effect lead to resistance | Resistance and revenge

See the sky with the chemical trails
Government takes care of the bails
Was 911 just a cheap and priceless trick
All these doubts make me sick

Season of withering | Help me | It's defiling me, it's raping me
Season of withering | Help me | It's smashing me, drowning me

We failed

A trivial turn to make it
Better just burn it down
When the fire is gone and the dust is set
You'll feel the silence and get to rest

Season of withering | Help me | It's defiling me, it's raping me
Season of withering | Help me | It's smashing me, drowning me

Song title: Blood Don't Flow Streamlined
Band name: Vulture Industries
Album title: The Dystopia Journals
Genre: Avant-garde Black Metal
Wikipedia link for the band: N/A, try Encyclopaedia Metalium
Lyrics:

I shook the devils left hand,
felt his breath down my back.
Gazed upon the dying gardens of Eden,
turned and took my own path.
Have you never wondered whether your morality,
is a product of the past?
A defunct and long outdated ancient artifact,
long the shadows you cast.
Folly clings to the past.
Man's deception is vast.

I bear no demons with pride,
though their existence I aknowledge,
We are all bastard sons of gods and devils,
glorious and vile.
I bear no demons with pride,
though I acknowledge them as mine.

I've felt the price of containment,
paid what's due for my lies.
Cursed both God, self, and devil,
stared through strained, bloodshot eyes
Have you never questioned whether your morality,
is a product of the past?
A defunct and long outdated ancient artifact,
long the shadows you cast.
Folly clings to the past, man's deception is vast.

I am a sinner and a saint,
both gods and devils will attend my wake.
Am I a beast? Am I impure?
Tell me mother, how much must I endure?

I bear no demons with pride,
though their existence I aknowledge,
We are all bastard sons of gods and devils,
glorious and vile.
I bear no demons with pride,
though I acknowledge them as mine.

If in blood flows the essence of mankind,
then blood, don't flow streamlined.

Song title: Weight
Band name: Isis
Album title: Oceanic
Genre: Post-Metal
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_%28band%29
Lyrics:

All in all in, all in a day,
A day it changes everything.

I've listened to a few minutes (will listen to it later), I like the Post-Metal / Rock bands, They're really weird in a good way...

Song title: Disengagement
Band name: Sentenced
Album title: Shadows Of The Past
Genre: Gothic metal, heavy metal, black metal, melodic death metal, death metal. (early)
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentenced
Lyrics:

Darkness fills the life
Covers the tired mind
like the darkest damnation
anxiety, oppression

a wounded soul
manages to escape
from exhausted body,
from the bleeding prison
disengagement, dark visions,
forgotten personality

feeling of loss
nocturnal suffocation
tears like blood
stench of decayed

alone...
without a body
life...
is turned to hell

living in emptiness
torture of the timeless
into the black pieces
of total chaos and sorrow

No blessing
no chances to survive
leads the way
to infernal death
disengagement, dark visions
forgotten personalities

As far as metal and rock goes, I typically like more melancholy and abstract lyrics like that, mostly just fiction. For some better songs by Vulture Industries, you might like 'Pills of Conformity' or 'The Tower' which I could post if you want.
For more meaningful/relevant lyrics, I usually turn to Pain or Soilwork, so here's another one:

Song title: Just Think Again
Band name: Pain
Album title: Psalms of Extinction
Genre: Industrial metal
Wikipedia link for the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_%28musical_project%29
Lyrics:

Have you ever seen a child die?
Did you even know that it exists?
Did you know people outside your walls are starving to death?

So what would you do if it was up to you?
Would you even care?
I bet you would look another way and think of better things

Oh no, it's better to look away
You better close your eyes
Oh no, you don't wanna see anyone die
You just want to live your pretty life

Why won't we do anything?
Build up a wall around you so you don't have to see
Don't wanna preach, but just think again

Oh no, it's better to look away
You better close your eyes
Oh no, you don't wanna see anyone die
You just want to live your pretty life

Why won't we do anything?
Build up a wall around you so you don't have to see
Don't wanna preach, but just think again