I've wanted to make this thread for a while. What are your favorite individual lyrical passages in Ben Cooper's songs? Which songs have the best songwriting in general? For me, there are far too many to list, however I will attempt to give a few of my favorites lyrical passages here: Radical Face there's nothing wrong with smiling on your way through the windshield and there's nothing wrong with laughing as your heartbeat stops there's nothing wrong with dancing as the missile hits the roof and there's nothing wrong with grinning as your last hopes are shot From "We Crawl Through Ceilings", Ben's first truly great song in my opinion. It's the look upon your face (...) It's the age when you didn't care, darling This whole stanza from "Fog in the House of Lightbulbs" a bird, caught in the wires, bleating for help I can't provide I'm not that big I hope for the best, but nothing changes I'm sorry but I was blessed with bad eyes there's a lot that I miss, but I don't mind I'm not that old I'll find out what broke me soon enough From "Glory" Broken down, but still worth a lot to someone This line "Along the Road" the house feels like a graveyard now like the floorboards hide the bones My favorite part of "Goodbye, Goodbye", although the lyrics of the entire song are brilliant but knowing you won't be back, doesn't mean that I will stop waiting From "A Pound Of Flesh" father turned into a drinker a dark bastard with a wooden heart sister learned to be a mother before she'd ever played another part From "Family Portrait" you were never at rest you were always somewhere bound as for me I'm the simple kind I'll live and die in this town From "The Moon Is Down" and I knew in my heart that my old life was gone that in walking away, my name was undone so I might as well run From "The Deserter's Song" night, down by the shore. we were down by the shore and the skies opened up, and the all the stars fell into the lake From "Summer Skeletons" I still call her name, sometimes, just in case This line from "Southern Snow" is so sad check your head for target signs From "Blindinoneeye", an obscure one The Electric President ones are too numerous to list here. What are your favorites?
Well it's quite hard to tell which are my favorite lyrics because I appreciate a lot whole of them, but if I had to pick some, I would say these ones : "he said to me these words: don't you fear for me, I am where I'm supposed to be. and when I woke he was gone and I was wrapped in blankets on the lawn the sky was blue and my skin matched the hue and I could hear mother crying in your room from here on out I wear this face for both of us" - Severus and Stone "So, collect your scars and wear 'em well Your blood's a good an ink as any" - The Crooked Kind "Sometimes at night When the voices quiet down I find I hope that I am missed And that they haven't forgot me" - Second Family Portrait But frankly there are so much more lyrics that I like a lot... It was very hard to pick. I would add The Mute, the whole song, because I love the story and how it's written, but it would have been too long. (Sorry if I made some mistakes in the lyrics of the songs, English is not my native language...)
Oh man those are good lyrics! I like loads of lines in pigeon teeth. I'll try and think of some of my favourites.