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There is some song that are so good (for us at least...) that we almost feel the need to make everyone we know to listen to it... the people who really love music know what i am talking about, so i decide to make a post of these songs, to comment about them and hear other people's, but don't get me wrong, the idea is not make a "your favorite song" topic.. some song we like just because we do, nothing special with them... i mean this is for the really epic songs...
I've been Preparing this since a while, so please hear some, even if you think/know its not going to like it... maybe you got a surprise
Im going to start and see if at least i got one reply... (music topic lives less than a dragonfly... and worst that this place a lot less populated than before)
1: "Time" by Pink Floyd (Epic level 10)
Info: From the Masterpiece Album "Dark Side Of the Moon"
Comment: This Song is a very Hard song... i mean, it can literally bring you to your knees and tears when you got it, especially if you are over 20s, i can say that it change my life forever, I hope that it can be used as an advise for the younger people...
Note: The intro can be boring for some inpatient people, you can move Forward to about 1:50 if you cant wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiahoYfPGkLyrics Only:
Ticking away the moments
That make up a dull day....
Fritter and waste the hours
In an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground
In your home town,
Waiting for someone or something
To show you the way...
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain,
You are young and life is long,
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find...
Ten years have got behind you,
No one told you when to run...
You missed the starting gun!
(Solo)
And you run and you run
To catch up with the sun
But it's sinking!
Racing around,
To come up behind you again!
The sun is the same
In a relative way
But you're older...
Shorter of breath,
And one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time...
Plans that either come to naught,
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over...
Thought I'd something more to say
(Breathe reprise)
Home,
Home again...
I like to be here
When I can
When I come home
Cold and tired,
It's good to warm my bones
Beside the fire
Far away
Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell...
2: "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd (Epic level 10)
Info: Live, extract from the PULSE cd/dvd, Performed on 1994
Comment: One of the best songs, and best live performances ever, the video is amazing... yet i've only seen it 2 times, i cant stop myself to lean back and close my eyes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZYG5qwHHILyrics Only ...Even when the really Epic is the live show and not the lyrics
Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now
I hear you're feeling down
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
"There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are the only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
I have become comfortably numb"
(Guitar solo)
Okay
Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more (OOoooh!)
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go
"There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are the only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown the dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb"
(5 minutes long Classic rock Guitar solo)
3: "Love Song" by The Cure (Epic level 5)
Comment: This is a song that everyone should know... there is plenty of covers (that are actually better IMO) but i post the original for respect.... BTW Emos did not exist when that song was released 1988 LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PZcgi4c5XQLyrics Only
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am fun again
However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say I will always love you
I will always love you
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am free again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am clean again
However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say I will always love you
I will always love you
4: "Civil War" by Guns and Roses (Epic level 8 )
Comment: I personally Don't like GnR at all, but this songs really deserve to be heard, "I don't need you civil war, it feeds the rich while it bury the poor"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1fHxPY3TJoLyrics Only
"What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it.
Well, he gets it. I don't like it
any more than you men."
Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before
Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before
My hands are tied!
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands, time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars!
Did you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"?
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see.
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land
And...
I don't need your civil war!
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor!
You're power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war!!
Look at the shoes you're filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more...
My hands are tied!
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights,
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars!!
We practice selective annihilation
Of mayors and government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer
I don't need your civil war!!
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You're power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war!
I don't need your civil war!
I don't need your civil war!
You're power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war
I don't need one more war!!!!
...What's so civil 'bout war anyway
5: "Paschendale" by Iron Maiden (Epic level 10)
Info: From the CD "Dance of the Death" from 2003, this Song is Based on a Real Story, "The Battle of Paschendale" During the World War, let a dead soldier tell you about his last days.
Comment: Movies, games and other stuff make the people that War is a good, or normal thing, never thought about what it is actually stand on a battlefield, there is and old quote that says something like "Show a man War and he will hate it"( i don't really remembered)
About The Battle of Paschendale, As far as I know "the battlefield was filled with mud because the heavy rains and the heavy artillery got stuck, so the english army send all the soldiers on foot to run straight to the Nazi army resulting on a Massacre, that later they try to cover up... I may be wrong or not know the facts right but its something like that, google it if want more info
NOTE: this song DOES NOT encourage war, support it or glorified on ANY WAY. it may never says that war is bad, but.. you got the idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67_FA2AD19MLyrics Only:
In a foreign field he lay, lonely soldier unknown grave...
On his dying words he prays, tell the world of Paschendale...
Relive all that he's been through, last communion of his soul,
Rust your bullets with his tears. Let me tell you 'bout his years
Laying low in a blood filled trench, killing time 'til my very own death
On my face I can feel the falling rain, never see my friends again,
In the smoke in the mud and lead, smell the fear and the feeling of dread
Soon be time to go over the wall, rapid fire and the end of us all...
Whistles, shouts and more gun fire, lifeless bodies hang on barbed wire,
Battlefield nothing but a bloody tomb, be reunited with my dead friends soon...
Many soldiers eighteen years, drown in mud no more tears,
Surely a war no-one can win, killing time about to begin...
Home... far away, from the war, a chance to live again
Home... far away, but the war, no chance to live again
The bodies of ours and our foes, the sea of death it overflows!
In no man's land God only knows, into jaws of death we go!!
Crucified as if on a cross, allied troops they mourn their loss,
German war propaganda machine, such before has never been seen...
Swear I heard the angels cry, pray to god no more will die,
So that people know the truth, tell the tale of Paschendale...
(guitar solo)
Cruelty has a human heart, everyman does play his part
Terror of the men we kill, the human heart is hungry still...
I stand my ground for the very last time, gun is ready as I stand in line
Nervous wait for the whistle to blow, rush of blood and over we go!!!!
(Main Guitar Solo Part: A)
Blood is falling like the rain!!!, its crimson cloak unveils again...
The sound of guns can't hide their shame, and so we die on Paschendale!!!
(Main Guitar Solo Part: B)
Dodging shrapnel and barbed wire, running straight at cannon fire..
Running blind as I hold my breath, say a prayer symphony of death...
As we charge the enemy lines, a burst of fire and we go down..
I choke a cry but no-one hears,
Feel the blood go down my throat...
Home... far away, from the war, a chance to live again
Home... far away, but the war, no chance to live again
Home... far away, from the war, a chance to live again!
Home... far away, but the war, no chance to live again!
....See my spirit on the wind, across the lines beyond the hill
Friend and foe will meet again, those who died at Paschendale...
And don't get Fooled by Eddy (the zombie mascot) or some TV evangelist, IM is for far a NON offensive band nor satanic or anything like that, actually a lot of songs have positive messages, there is a lot of songs about historic things like wars and stuff.... and yeah they have probably have one or two dark song, but they are playing since 1980....
6: "Mama I'm coming home" by Ozzy Osbourne (Epic level 7)
Comment: A song about the love of the sons for the mother no matter what... a soft and kinda sweet song for someone who was considered the anti-christ on the 70-80s... well something like a vintage Marilyn Manson... oh wait... MM sux, so i guess that the vintage MM should be... Alice Cooper? LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSBgfXoIPoLyrics Only:
Times have changed and times are strange
Here I come but I ain't the same
Mama, I'm comin home...
Times go by, seems to be
You could have been a better friend to me
Mama, I'm comin home...
You took me in and you drove me out
Yeah, you had me hypnotized, yeah
Lost and found and turned around
By the fire in your eyes
You made me cry, you told me lies
But I can't stand to say goodbye
Mama, I'm comin home...
I could be right, I could be wrong
It hurts so bad it's been so long
Mama, I'm comin home...
Selfish love yeah we're both alone
The ride before the fall, yeah
But I'm gonna take this heart of stone
I just got to have it all
I've seen your face a hundred times
Everyday we've been apart
I don't care about the sunshine, yeah
'Cause mama, mama, I'm comin home
I'm comin home
I'm comin home
You took me in and you drove me out
Yeah, you had me hypnotized, yeah
Lost and found an turned around
By the fire in your eyes
I've seen your face a thousand times
Everyday we've been apart
I don't care about the sunshine, yeah
'Cause mama, mama, I'm comin home
I'm comin home
I'm comin home
7: "Crash and Burn" by Savage Garden (Epic level 5)
Comment: one of the best songs when you feel down and alone...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAHzrtckTCELyrics Only
When you feel all alone
And the world has turned it's back on you
Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart
I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you
It's hard to find relieve and people can be so cold
When darkness is upon your door and you feel like you can't take anymore
Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone
When you feel all alone
And a loyal friend is hard to find
You're caught in a one way street
With the monsters in your head
When hopes and dreams are far away and
You feel like you can't face they day
Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone
Because there has always been heartache and pain
And when it's over you'll breathe again
You'll breath again
When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please
To tame your wild wild heart
Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone
8: "Wasted Years" by Iron Maiden (Epic level 9)
Info: From the great Album "Somewhere in Time" from 1986, considered one of the best metal songs ever
Comment:Easy, If you got down by "time" de PF hear this, the song is about the life on tour and the little things of life that we miss, but the message is amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0LuFaPtmt8Lyrics Only:
From the coast of gold, across the seven seas,
I'm travelling on, far and wide,
But now it seems, I'm just a stranger to myself,
And all the things I sometimes do, it isn't me but someone else.
I close my eyes, and think of home,
Another city goes by, in the night,
Ain't it funny how it is, you never miss it til it's gone away,
And my heart is lying there and will be til my dying day.
Chorus:
So, understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years,
Face up...make your stand,
And realise you're living in the golden years.
Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind,
Can't ease this pain, so easily,
When you can't find the words to say, it's hard to make it through another day,
And it makes me wanna cry, and throw my hands up to the sky.
(guitar Solo)
Chorus:
So, understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years,
Face up...make your stand,
And realise you're living in the golden years.
And for make them 10 Im gonna put some "Rock Anthems"9: "Ram it Down" by Judas Priest (Epic level 9)
Info: From the Album of the Same name "Ram It Down" from 1988, this is considered a Rock Anthem and it contain one of the best guitar solos ever made
Comment:
"Thousand of cars and a million guitars
Screaming with power in the air
We've found the place where the decibels race
This army of rock will be there"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtu20Ejv3SILyrics Only:
Raise the sights, the city lights are calling
We're hot tonight, the time is right, there's nitro in the air
In the street is where we'll meet, we're warning
On the beat, we won't retreat, beware
Thousand of cars and a million guitars
Screaming with power in the air
We've found the place where the decibels race
This army of rock will be there
To ram it down, ram it down
Straight through the heart of this town
Ram it down, ram it down
Razing the place to the ground
Ram it down
Bodies revvin' in leather heaven in wonder
Lights are dimmin' and heads are swimmin' as thunder hits the stage
Hell breaks loose, turn on the juice get stronger
We metal maniacs begin to rave
Thousand of cars and a million guitars
Screaming with power in the air
We've found the place where the decibels race
This army of rock will be there
To ram it down, ram it down
Straight through the heart of this town
Ram it down, ram it down
Razing the place to the ground
Ram it down
Shout it out, we're all together now
Shout it out, we join as one, one
(Awesome Guitar Solo)
Thousand of cars and a million guitars
Screaming with power in the air
We've found the place where the decibels race
This army of rock will be there
To ram it down, ram it down
Straight through the heart of this town
Ram it down, ram it down
Razing the place to the ground
Ram it down
10: "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden (Epic level 10)
Info: *spoiler*at the end of the song, only the prisoner know what was on the other side, after that he screams "Yeeeeahhhh yeeeah **spoiler**"
Comment: probably this is one of the best metal songs ever made, even if you don't like it you got to appreciate how good it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5pdECfZvrQLyrics Only:
I'm waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime...
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time...
'Cause at 5 o'clock, they'll take me to the gallows pole...
The sands of time for me are running low.
(Guitar Solo)
When the priest comes to read me the last rites,
I take a look through the bars at the last sights,
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me.
Can it be that there's some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?
Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming,
It's not easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when I try to speak!
Tears fall but why am I crying,
After all I'm not afraid of dying.
Do not believe that there never is an end.
(Guitar Solo)
As the guards march me out to the courtyard,
Somebody cries from a cell "God be with you".
If there's a God then why has he let me go?
As I walk my life drifts before me,
Though the end is near I'm not sorry.
Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away.
Mark my words believe my soul lives on
Don't worry now, that I have gone
I've gone beyond to see the truth!
When you know that your time is close at hand.
Maybe then you'll begin to understand,
Life down here is just a strange illusion
(4 minutes Awesome Guitar Solo)
Yeeeah....
Yeeeah....
Yeeeeeaaaaah!!!!!
Hallowed Be Thy Name...
HALLOWED BE THY NAME!!!!
I put a lot in case that nobody replies, yet i got other that deserve to be here... Do you have your "Songs that you should hear before you die"?
This post has been edited by DeadInside: May 2 2010, 10:25 AM
Songs that you should hear before you die, Epic Songs
Mar 29 2010, 10:04 AM
