What are you listening to?

Amazing lyrics from the band that inspired my nickname:

Skyclad

I'll sing to you of days departed,
Times when men proud and stouthearted carved their names on history's bloody
page,
The corpse of chivalry long dead
Is turning in his loamy bed indignant at your new 'enlightened' age
White-collared knights at boardroom tables dream their own financial fables,
Fight to make their incomes larger--mounted on their 'credit charges.'
Held within the safety of this mundane existence--
Facing endless grey Mondays of dull nine to fives,
We all climb the social ladder with a dogged persistence,
Forging chains we shall carry for the rest of our lives.
We cannot see through clothes may maketh man they cannot give us shelter
On this mortal helter-skelter if our loyalties are torn,
Between the values we believe in and the egos we are feeding
We stand all together naked as the day we were born.
And so cast off the lies that are our lives and find the truth within.

SKYCLAD- the veil has lifted,
SKYCLAD- now I see through,
SKYCLAD- your mask of illusion,
SKYCLAD- to the fake that is you.

Financial wizards read their spells from filofaxes
Concrete hells of their own making pass for Avalon.
These men self-made by shrewd investing spend their weekends child-molesting,
Lost in 'green-belt' dreams they do no wrong.
Your mortgage payment rocket
Like your blood pressure rising,
Executive stresses are the dragons you fight.
In your Armani armour you are practically shining,
So have no code of honour, you must always be right.
Just give me a simple life, my tastes are not demanding,
And whatever life may hand me I'll accept it with good grace;
For I'm just a simple lad with few ideas about my station,
So ale and song will apt suffice to keep me in my place.
How can you know the cost of everything yet never see its worth?
If you think because you've paid the piper you should call the tune
Well think again my friend life is a gain of chance,
By Fate's command we win or lose,
But still retain the right to choose
If we should stumble on, or shed our cares and dance.

SKYCLAD- the veil has lifted,
SKYCLAD- now I see through,
SKYCLAD- your mask of illusion,
SKYCLAD- to the fake that is you.

You charge each other for the time and breath it takes to say 'good morning,'
But the truth is slowly dawning, things are getting out of hand,
We all pursue our shattered dreams along the roads to our own ruin
Watch our empires sink and wash away like castles made of sand.
And so cast off the lies that are your lives and find the truth within.
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luke wilson said:
Well I woke up with this playing in my mind so I thought I'd share:

Kid Cudi: Sky Might Fall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwI3CS2CHE8
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This song is very chill and I enjoy the beats. Thanks, luke wilson!! :D

Can Won said:
ETANA - People Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fiPem9COpM
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I'm really diggin' the mellow, positive vibe I've got going on now over here thanks to this song! Thanks for posting it, Can Won! :)
 
Possible esoteric references in this song?

[I know nothing of this group, I just stumbled upon it]


Good Charlotte -The river


Acoustic style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj-abJdNe9s

Rock style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txmhgEqEGRU

Good Charlotte: The River Lyrics
Songwriters: George Don Gilmore;Joel Combs;Benjamin Combs
Featuring: M Shadows & Synyster Gates from Avenged Sevenfold

As I walk through the valley
of the shadow of LA
The footsteps that were next to me
have gone their separate ways
I've seen enough now
to know that beautiful things
don't always stay that way
I've done enough now
to know this beautiful place
isn't everything they say

I heard that evil comes disguised
Like a city of angels
I'm walking towards the lie

Baptized in the river
I've seen a vision of my life
And I wanna be delivered
In the city was a sinner
I've done a lot of things wrong
But I swear I'm a believer
Like the prodigal son
I was out on my own
Now I'm trying to find my way back home
Baptized in the river
I'm delivered
I'm delivered

You're from a small town
you're gonna grow up fast
underneath these lights
Down in Hollywood on the boulevard
the dead come back to life
To the praying Mother
And the worried Father
Let your children go
If they come back they'll come home stronger
and if they don't you'll know

They say that evil comes disguised
Like a city of angels
I'm walking towards the lie

Baptized in the river
I've seen a vision of my life
And I wanna be delivered
In the city was a sinner
I've done a lot of things wrong
But I swear I'm a believer
Like the prodigal son
I was out on my own
Now I'm trying to find my way back home
Baptized in the river
I'm delivered
I'm delivered

Baptized in the river (on my own)
Baptized in the river (on my own)
I wanna be delivered
(on my own)
(on my own)
Baptized in the river (on my own)
I wanna be delivered
Baptized in the river (on my own)
I wanna be delivered
Baptized in the river (on my own)
I wanna be delivered

I confess I'm a sinner
I've seen a vision of my life
And I wanna be delivered
 
:cool2: I can't believe it, after some daily meditation and after taking care about my sleep habits, now I may take back that like for heavy songs, or whatever they are called. Maybe the first song from this crazy dude I liked:

The Fight Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHmYKRDTZDU

Nothing suffocates you more than the passing of everyday human events
Isolation is the oxygen mask you're making children breathe into to survive
But I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist
And I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a s****

And when we were good
You just close your eyes
So when we are bad
We'll scar your minds

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

You'll never grow up to be a big rock star
Celebrated victim of your fame
Just cut our wrists like cheap coupons
And say that "death was on sale today"

And when we were good
You just close your eyes
So when we are bad
We'll scar your minds

But I'm not a slave to god that doesn't exist
And I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a s***

The death of one is a tragedy
The death of one is a tragedy
The death of one is a tragedy
The death of a million is just a statistic

But I'm not a slave to god that doesn't exist
And I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a s***
But I'm not a slave to god that doesn't exist
And I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a s***

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!


Now that I re-read the lyrics, very creepy indeed.
 
Loreena McKennitt - "Bonny Portmore"


O Bonny Portmore, I am sorry to see
Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree
For it stood on your shore for many's the long day
Till the long boats from Antrim came to float it away.

O Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore.

All the Birds in the forest they bitterly weep
Saying "where shall we shelter or where shall we sleep?"
For the Oak and the Ash they all cutten down
And the walls of Bonny Portmore are all down to the ground.

O Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYkg6styqfM
 
Sheila Chandra doing her Taka... Speaking in tonguesIII that is, enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIqbaYPFqw&feature=related

There was even some finnish in there :)
 
Nicole Atkins - The Tower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qec4oQCbyvI
 
Lonely road of faith - Kid Rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e9l4H4xQOo​
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AZxolIJU74

Lupe Fiasco-words I never said

It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said

[Lupe Fiasco]
I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit
Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets
How much money does it take to really make a full clip
9/11 building 7 did they really pull it
Uhh, And a bunch of other cover ups
Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, thats on the up and up
Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the uppercrust
You get it then they move you so you never keeping up enough
If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the f-cks”
Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such
And that aint Jersey Shore, homie thats the news
And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say -shite-
Thats why I aint vote for him, next one either
I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
And I believe in the people.

[Skylar Grey - Chorus]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said

[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 2]
Now you can say it aint our fault if we never heard it
But if we know better than we probably deserve it
Jihad is not a holy war, wheres that in the worship?
Murdering is not Islam!
Lupe Fiasco Words I Never Said lyrics found on http://www.directlyrics.com/lupe-fiasco-words-i-never-said-lyrics.html

And you are not observant
And you are not a muslim
Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve pushed them
Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush went
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 aint gone make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts, aint 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 payment
They can take your home away!

[Skylar Grey - Chorus]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said, never said
I can’t take back the words I never said

[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 3]
I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
Fear is such a weak emotion thats why I despise it
We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth
So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you
Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to
I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few
My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is finally yelling through

[Skylar Grey - Chorus]
It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
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"We are Family" by e All Stars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oiu9jW-VyE&feature=related​
 
Leonard Cohen - Who by fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTRX23EMNk

Who By Fire said:
And who by fire, who by water,
who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
who in your merry merry month of may,
who by very slow decay,
and who shall I say is calling?

And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,
who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,
and who by avalanche, who by powder,
who for his greed, who for his hunger,
and who shall I say is calling?

And who by brave assent, who by accident,
who in solitude, who in this mirror,
who by his lady's command, who by his own hand,
who in mortal chains, who in power,
and who shall I say is calling?
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I'm also finding live version with saxophone player, Sonny Rollins, very impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2T274bXIxU
 
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