Lyrics (Phonomancy)

[wolven7]

Some lines just capture more than a mood, for me. Some lines capture whole thought processes, and come to symbolise everything that resonates with them. Certain aspects of music have that kind of power, and that line of thinking goes back into Phonogram territory, but there it is. Some songs, some single lines can be invoked to sum up an entire series of feelings, and can be made to stand in for a much more complex web of emotions and concepts. Things which may not be able to be addressed, for whatever reason.

These days, for me, it's the lines from "Days Before You Came," by Placebo: "It always seemed enticing/To be naked and profane/There is no denying."

Several layers can be expressed, in this fashion, and when the wash of feelings comes, just repeat the line like a mantra, the litany carrying your through, until you can face the concepts, and process them, more completely.

If pressed, what lines would you say work, for you, right now? No need to put any context, just the song title, the artist, and the lyrics.

Going to bed, now. Got a ten hour shift, tomorrow. Good night.

Comments

[triskelmoon.livejournal.com]

This is not quite in the same vein, but I've been thinking about transformation and survival stories a lot lately (part of my own pending lj post). There is a harper song from the Harper Hall trilogy by Anne McCaffrey that I read as a child that I pull when I need it:
“Who tries, does.
Who wills, can.
Who loves, lives.”

Not so much for right now, but this is my always line

[drgnsyr.livejournal.com]

"And even though it all went wrong, I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but 'Hallelujah.'"
- Hallelujah (one version anyway)
- Leonard Cohen

http://drgnsyr.livejournal.com/29954.html

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I've had lyrics from Coheed's 'In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3' stuck in my head for days now, bits and pieces of the entire album...and I forgot to bring it up to your work tonight.

All the sounds involved-guitars, beats, vocals-in their first two albums sound like taking off and flying and fighting, like great speed and intensity of purpose.

[opalblack.livejournal.com]

Vocal chords/a minor key/sanity's a single note - Ashbury Heights Bare Your Teeth

If I gotta sin to see you again then I'm gonna lie, lie, lie - Puscifer Rev 22:20

How I would love to gnaw/gnaw on your bones so white/and watch while the freight trains paw/paw at the wild, wild night - Joanna Newsom Swansea

That will do for now...