Kickass songs/lyrics

[Bad^Hat]

Inspired by re-discovering a song I liked from awhile back, post some kick-ass/bad-ass/anything but pansy-ass songs and/or lyrics. I'm talking about anything that makes you go "OOOMPPPH!" and just makes you feel grrrreat. And not that uplifting, appreciative kind of great you get from feel-good type music, but that burst of awesome energy you get when you rip out something like Rage Against the Machine (just an example) that kicks you in the face and demands you rock out there and then. And of course, awesome lyrics that reinforce this kickassery.

To start, the aforementioned song -


Rollins Band - The End of Something
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfkp76cjgOA[/youtube]

I'll post up lyrics later when I've got time to write em down... can't find any accurate transcripts and I've been over about 20 lyrics sites -_-

 

[StardogChampion]

I like the lyrics to this one:
Pearl Jam - Unemployable
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzEj1FfiGRg[/YOUTUBE]
He's got a big gold ring which says "Jesus Saves"
And it's dented from the punch thrown at work that day,
Where he smashed a metal locker where he kept his things
After the big boss said you'd best be on your way

Oh yeah...
So this life is sacrifice
Oh yeah...
Jumping trains just to survive

Well his wife and kids' asleep but he's still awake
On his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills unpaid
Gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate
Thinkin if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream

Or if you wanted something heavier:
Soundgarden - Outshined
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2NhjyLyU[/YOUTUBE]
I got up feeling so down
I got off being sold out
I've kept the movie rolling
But the story's getting old now
I just looked in the mirror
Things aren't looking so good
I'm looking California
And feeling Minnesota

So now you know, who gets mystified
Show me the power child, I'd like to say
That I'm down on my knees today
It gives me the butterflies, gives me away
Till I'm up on my feet again
I'm feeling outshined

Someone let the dogs out
They'll show you where the truth is
The grass is always greener
Where the dogs are shedding
I'm feeling that I'm sober
Even though I'm drinking
I can't get any lower
Still I feel I'm sinking

 

[knut]

EDIT: I'll post a video when I get home.

Hot Water Music - No Division

 

[Space Farm]

Melvins - Hooch

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqrsShcHc_E[/youtube]

Los ticka toe rest. Might likea sender doe ree.
Your make a doll a ray day sender bright like a penelty.
Exi-tease my ray day member half lost a beat away.
Purst in like a one way sender war give a heart like a fay.
Cuz I can ford a red eed only street a wide a ree land.
Die-mond make a mid-evil bike a sake a like a ree caste.
Cuz I can ford a red eed only street a wide a ree land. On a ree land. Find a ree land.
You sink a my swan. Rolly a get a worst in. Maybe minus way far central poor forty duck a pin.
Milk maid dud bean. Master a load a head. Pill pop a dope a well run general hash pump a gonna led.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Soundgarden, YES! Fell On Black Days is a great one too - has a nice, deep, heavy grungy sound. Pretty kickass lyrics-wise too, but that goes for much of their stuff (if I do say so myself).

Whatsoever Ive feared has come to life
Whatsoever Ive fought off became my life
Just when everyday seemed to greet me with a smile
Sunspots have faded
And now Im doing time
Cause I fell on black days

Whomsoever Ive cured Ive sickened now
Whomsoever Ive cradled Ive put you down
Im a search light soul they say
But I cant see it in the night
Im only faking when I get it right
Cause I fell on black days
How would I know
That this could be my fate

So what you wanted to see good has made you blind
And what you wanted to be yours has made it mine
So dont you lock up something that you wanted to see fly
Hands are for shaking
No, not tying
No, not tying

I sure dont mind a change
But I fell on black days
How would I know
That this could be my fate

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-3LtESULL0[/youtube]
It's pretty out of sync, but the video's nothing special anyway. Actually, it's not the best recording either, but you get the idea.

Anyway, this is probably more on the bluesy end of the ass-kicking spectrum, but it still has a place IMO


Super Edit - Oh yeah! This one is bound to be criticized, but it's pretty kickass if only for it's ridiculousness :E

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NewEBRKFwXg[/youtube]

 

[Raxxman]

Audioslave, Cochise

Well I been watchin'
while you been coughin
i've been drinking life
while you been nausous
and so i drink to health
while you kill yourself
and i got just one thing
that i can offer

go and save yourself
take it out on me
go and and save yourself
take it out on me yea

well i'm not a martyr
i'm not a prophet
and i won't preach to you
but heres a caution
you better understand
that i won't hold your hand
but if it helps you mend
then i won't stop it

go and save yourself
take it out on me
go and save yourself
take it out on me
go and save yourself
take it out on me
go and save yourself
take it out on me yea

go if you want
and i'll see you in the bottom
where you crawl
on my skin
and put the blame on me
so you don't feel a thing

go and save yourself
take it out on me
go and save yourself
take it out on me
go and save yourself
take it out on me
go and save yourself
take it out on me yea


Pearl Jam, Fatal


How good is he?
how warm are his eyes
you'll see it's not a reprise
did he arrive
too late and too tethered away
to put on his suit and his tie

how good is he?
how warm is his heart
or ego telling him which place to park
did he relate, the message is clearly hardly
grounds for dismissal outright
grounds for dismissal outright

i wake up and wait up
when anger's in fashion
i wake up and wait up
it echoes through the mansions
i wake up and wait up
when april's in may, oh uh oh
i wake up and wait up
the answers are fatal
the answers are fatal

when i wait up and wake up
the answers are fatal

if he's truly out of sight
is he truly out of mind?

 

[brink's]

Bowie's best lyrics IMO

I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery
I'm living in a silent film
Portraying
Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain't got the power anymore
No I ain't got the power anymore

I'm the twisted name
on Garbo's eyes
Living proof of
Churchill's lies
I'm destiny
I'm torn between the light and dark
Where others see their targets
Divine symmetry
Should I kiss the viper's fang
Or herald loud
the death of Man
I'm sinking in the quicksand
of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

[CHORUS]
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes
with death's release

I'm not a prophet
or a stone age man
Just a mortal
with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic
of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes
from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it
On, the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand
of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

 

[gick]

EDIT: I'll post a video when I get home.

Hot Water Music - No Division

****in' A. My brother got a HWM tatoo a few weeks back.

Also - OP, Rollins is my all time hero.

To contribute a song with some of my favourite lyrics:

Poverty for All By Ignite. Lyrics are in the video ('tis fan made)

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HDpE1y94S8[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Foo Fighters - DOA

[YOUTUBE]http://youtube.com/watch?v=HA-bP5fZwR0[/YOUTUBE]

Yeah, you know I did it
It's over and I feel fine
Nothing you can say is gonna change my mind
Waited and I waited the longest night
Nothing like the taste of sweet decline

I went down and I fell, I fell so fast
Dropping like a grain in an hour glass
Never say forever 'cause nothing lasts
Dancing with the bones of my buried past

Never mind there's nothing I could do
Bet your life there's something killing you.

It's a shame we have to die my dear
No one's getting out of here alive
This time
What a way away to go but have no fear
No one's getting out of here alive
This time

I'm finished, I'm getting you off my chest
Made you come clean in a dirty dress
A promise is a promise you kept in check
Hard to cross a heart that beats its fist

Take a good hard look for the very last time
The very last one in a very long line.
Only took a second to say goodbye
Been a pleasure, but the pleasure's been mine all mine

Ain't no way
D.O.A
Ain't no way
D.O.A

Take a good hard look for the very last time
The very last one in a very long line
Only took a second to say goodbye
Been a pleasure, but the pleasure's been mine all mine

It's a shame we have to disappear
No one's getting out of here alive
This time
This time
This time

<3 this song.

 

[Stigmata]

My all-time-favorite lyric:

Hiding backwards inside of me
I feel so unafraid
Annie, hold a little tighter
I might just slip away

And my current favorite lyrics:

Angels on the sideline
Puzzled and amused
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused

Don't these talking monkeys know that
Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys
Where there's one you're bound to divide it
Right in two

Angels on the sideline
Baffled and confused
Father blessed them all with reason
And this is what they choose
Monkey killing monkey killing monkey
Over pieces of the ground

Silly monkeys give them thumbs
They forge a blade, and where there's one
They're bound to divide it
Right in two
Right in two

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey
Over pieces of the ground
Silly monkeys give them thumbs
They make a club and beat their brother down
How they survive so misguided is a mystery
Repugnant is a creature who would squander
The ability to live tonight in heaven
Conscious of his fleeting time here

Cut it all
Right in two

Fight over cloud, over earth, over sky
Fight over life, over blood, over air and light
Fight over love, over sun, over another
Fight for each other, for the ones who are rising

Angels on the sideline again
Been so long with patience and reason
Angels on the sideline again
Wondering when this tug of war will end

Cut it all
Right in two
Right in two

Right in two

 

[bam23]

NIN - We're in This Together

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Zulx4mjHk[/YOUTUBE]

Byahhhhh.

 

[CrazyHarij]

heroin by velvet underground
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcwt9mSbYE[/youtube]

I dont know just where Im going
But Im gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
cause it makes me feel like Im a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And Ill tell ya, things arent quite the same
When Im rushing on my run
And I feel just like jesus son
And I guess that I just dont know
And I guess that I just dont know

I have made the big decision
Im gonna try to nullify my life
cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the droppers neck
When Im closing in on death
And you cant help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet silly talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just dont know
And I guess that I just dont know

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that Id sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailors suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just dont know
Oh, and I guess that I just dont know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, its my wife and its my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then Im better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really dont care anymore
About all the jim-jims in this town
And all the politicians makin crazy sounds
And everybody puttin everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds

cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really dont care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that Im as good as dead
Then thank your God that Im not aware
And thank God that I just dont care
And I guess I just dont know
And I guess I just dont know

 

[Steven]

Video is some nerdy weabo shit, but this song is the hardest metal.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQbuy36LAvk[/YOUTUBE]

 

[SilentKilla]

Custom - Like you

Sitting in an empty house
On a simple chair in the corner
Of an empty room
On a wooden floor
With nothing between here
And where I came from
Except for a girl
Waiting for a bus
With a leather knapsack
Over her shoulder
And hope in her eyes
And enough beauty
To fill this empty room
A thousand times

Like you
Like you
Like you
Just like you
Like you
Like you
Like you
Just like you

She ties her legs in a bow
And like butterflies
Her eyes close
Then her soul streches
Like paint in the rain
She breathes
Her arms fall up
Streching up reaching
She moves the sun

Like you
Like you
Like you
Just like you
Like you
Just Like you
Like you
Just like you

 

[Pulse]

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXm5fVNVZzw[/YOUTUBE]

 

[gick]

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXm5fVNVZzw[/YOUTUBE]

In a similar vein:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4A1JLJth4Q[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Septih]

cba to find videos for all of these, and tbh it would make the post far to big anyway

NIN:

It won't give up, it wants me dead
and god damn this noise inside my head

God is dead. And no one cares. Drowning in his own hypocrisy

I'm just an effigy to be defaced
To be disgraced
Your need for me has been replaced
And if I can't have everything well then just give me a taste

Just a fading ****ing reminder of who I used to be

Come on tell me

Rise Against:

We are the angry and the desperate,
The hungry, and the cold,
We are the ones who kept quiet,
And always did what we were told.

But we?ve been sweating while you slept so calm,
In the safety of your home.
We?ve been pulling out the nails that hold up
Everything you?ve known.

erm, those are a few i suppose

 

[Space Farm]

Stone The Crows...excellent choice. I can't wait for Down III.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Sgt. Baker!

Sgt. Baker is my name
I'm gonna teach you how to play the game
of warfare
Suddenly it appears to me
You got a bit much dignity
For your own good, boy
Yes sir, yes sir.

I will rape your personality
Pummel you with my own philosophy
Strip you of your self-integrity
To make you all just a bit like me
I said right, left

Sgt. Baker here again
And if you calls me "puddin Tame"
I'll stomp you down, boy
Steers and Queers
Steers and Queers where you come
from there's just steers and queers
And you ain't got no horns, boy
Yes sir, yes sir

I will rape your personality
Pummel you with my own philosophy
Strip you of your self-integrity
To make you all just a bit like me
I said right, left

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYJVf7wu24A[/youtube]

 

[Space Farm]

I've got that DVD, it's excellent...although I wish they had Tommy The Cat on the setlist.

 

[Bad^Hat]

SAY BABEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!

Hells yeah.

Borrowed the DVD off a friend awhile back. Seems pretty cool, except I thought the drummer could stand to exert atleast a LITTLE bit of enthusiasm on their FINAL tour night.

Anyway, that'll be top o' the list when someone makes a "kickass basslines" thread

 

[gick]

A reminder of one of the best live shows (and bass solos) I've ever seen:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdF1MQlunIQ[/YOUTUBE]

When I saw them last November that bass solo lasted upwards of 2 minutes!

 

[Cole]

I'm pretty sure this is the best song ever created.

Tubthumping
Well be singing
When were winning
Well be singing

I get knocked down
But I get up again
Youre never going to
Keep me down

Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away

He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that
Remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that
Remind him
Of the better times:

Oh danny boy
Danny boy
Danny boy...

I get knocked down
But I get up again
Youre never going to
Keep me down

Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away

He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that
Remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that
Remind him
Of the better times:

Dont cry for me
Next door neighbour...

I get knocked down
But I get up again
Youre never going to
Keep me down

Well be singing
When were winning
Well be singing


well actually what I ment was:
Stairway To Heaven
Theres a lady whos sure
All that glitters is gold
And shes buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and shes buying a stairway to heaven.

Theres a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
Theres a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

Theres a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And its whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If theres a bustle in your hedgerow
Dont be alarmed now,
Its just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
Theres still time to change the road youre on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it wont go
In case you dont know,
The pipers calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How evrything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And shes buying a stairway to heaven.

 

[Geogaddi]

A reminder of one of the best live shows (and bass solos) I've ever seen:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdF1MQlunIQ[/YOUTUBE]

When I saw them last November that bass solo lasted upwards of 2 minutes!

Matt Freeman is one of the best bassists alive.

[YOUTUBE]http://youtube.com/watch?v=-skYlgPTrxE[/YOUTUBE]

 

[gick]

Matt Freeman is one of the best bassists alive.

[YOUTUBE]http://youtube.com/watch?v=-skYlgPTrxE[/YOUTUBE]

Good god, I love that song.

War's End. Lars singing solo. Rancid really are one of the best live bands on the planet when they're on form:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CMqvX_twcE&mode=related&search=[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Geogaddi]

By "on form" you mean "not too wasted"

 

[Dumb Dude]

The White Stripes - Death Letter

[YOUTUBE]http://youtube.com/watch?v=EKd1dfY3IGY[/YOUTUBE]

I know its a cover, but omg, this video and song OWNS.

 

[Steven]

Also kick assary, not as hard as previous Black Sabbath post but still kick ass.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZ9bL2WGBE[/YOUTUBE]

 

[gick]

I forgot to post this one earlier. When I first heard this song I had a joygasm, I was literally laughing with pure glee

Finntroll - Trollhammeren:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNXVzlwOfsI[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Keane]

Devin Townsend - Earth Day

Eat your beets, recycle...recycle...
Don't eat your beets, recycle...recycle

The message is; 'THERE IS NO MESSAGE'

Babe, you better not ever think,
Staring into the drink...get out of my mind...
Cause I may not be the one to say,
is there no other way we could do this another day?

I saw God.

She said...'If you don't believe me, guaranteed you'll never leave me'
On your way, and out of my time
But I didn't even know if it was true or just a result of chemicals

Shut up and think of something more important to say...
'Sometimes I think that in every straight there's a gay!' Something or nothing a whole either way it's a way,
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way
EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way
EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY

It's like your birthday, it's on Earth Day,
Like a child you're born again, little child you're bored again...
It's your worst f**king day, it's on Earth Day...
Little lies to cover up...please make your mind up

(Eat your beets, Recycle...recycle...)
(...Don't eat your beets, recycle...recycle)

Man Overboard (I'm so far away)
Man overboard (I'm so far...)
But f**k it! ...I really don't care
f**k! Listen to me! Just shut the f**k up!

Peace, Love, Joy
Man overboard (I'm so far...)
Hate, hell, war
Hate, love, love, hate, love, hate...destruction!

So just shut your face and take a seat
Because after all, you're just talking meat...and music?
Well, it's just entertainment folks.

Sometimes I think that I really have something moreto say...
'Sometimes I think that in every straight there's a gay!' ...forgive me for saying it blows either way, it's a
way,
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way...

It's your birthday, it's on Earth Day,
Like a child you're born again, little child you're cold again...
It's your worst f**king day, it's on Earth Day
Little child your time is up...please turn the heat up

You need your beets, you recycle...
...Don't eat your beets...recycle...

Man overboard...I'm so far away...