Lyrics

We are all too familiar with looking up lyrics only to find when read without a melody they don’t seem to have the same impact. Most lyrics need rhythm, instruments, etc. for the words to really hit home. However, on occasion you find lyrics that do both. Here’s a compilation of just that. Enjoy!

Do you really want to win or just look good losing?

-Little Brother-

When nothing is owed or deserved or expected
And your life doesn’t change by the man that’s elected
If you’re loved by someone, you’re never rejected
Decide what to be and go be it

-The Avett Brothers-

It’s better to feel pain, than nothing at all
The opposite of love’s indifference

-The Lumineers-

Oh maturity’s a wrapped up package deal so it seems
And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams
All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will
Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled
Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what’s so great
About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate
Look I’m meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity
Well if that’s your road then take it but it’s not the road for me

-Frank Turner-

Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life
Trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to the money then you die

-The Verve-

Always gon’ be a bigger house somewhere, but nigga feel me
Long as the people in that motherfucker love you dearly
Always gon’ be a whip that’s better than the one you got
Always gon’ be some clothes that’s fresher than the ones you rock
Always gon’ be a bitch that’s badder out there on the tours
But you ain’t never gon’ be happy ’til you love yours

-J. Cole-

I don’t need another collar
I don’t need another hat
I don’t need to leave this small town
It don’t matter where I’m at’

Cause I’m happy being me the most
When I let what makes me happy go
And I finally learned what I need to know
I am happier with nothing

-The Avett Brothers-

Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for?
Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom up?
Just listening to Pac ain’t gone make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts, ain’t gon’ make it halt
If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor
Pills with million side effects
Take ’em when the pains felt
Wash them down with diet soda
Killin’ off your brain cells
Crooked banks around the world
Would gladly give a loan today
So if you ever miss a payment
They can take your home away

-Lupe Fiasco-

Oh there’s something in my mind that’s killing me
There’s something that this life’s not giving me

-The Strumbellas-

I’m stressing over little shit, when I should be happy I can

-Big Sean-

I ain’t trading my youth for no suit and jacket
I ain’t giving my freedom for your money and status
So don’t say I’m getting older
Cause I’ll say it when I do

-Judah & The Lion-

If you are not very careful, your possessions will possess you
TV taught me how to feel, now real life has no appeal

-Marina Diamandis-

Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate
Scared of being outcasts, afraid of common fate
Today is build on tragedies which no one want’s to face
Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced
Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air
Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares
Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops,
knowing that my sanity content when I’m dropped
But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new,
build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth
Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride
I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive

-Tupac Shakur-