favorite lyrics

Colin · Post: # 13121Post **Colin** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:01 pm

whats your list of five songs by the slip that you think have the best lyrics?

1. paper birds (sometimes simplicity is best)
2. sometimes true to nothing
3. children of december
4. tinderbox
5. suffocation keep

order is not really important cus i love a lot of them equally...

fourthaye · Post: # 13122Post **fourthaye** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:18 pm

Ill add,

Predicting the Rain

74

If One of Us Should Fall

Reddish Moon

#5 I will leave open, because I really cant pick just five, so many I love

Dan · Post: # 13128Post **Dan** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:20 pm

you might say
alsoa
weight of Solomon
paper birds
reddish moon
STTN
Soft warm simple wonder
74
shiver
if one of us should fall

( i think i like most of them)

yeah 5 i cannot do

tonygaboni · Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:55 pm

im trying to do work but I cant help myself so Ill be quick

dear milena
before you were born- props to nathan for these fucking amazing words
the shouters
STTN
"untitled" or through the iron gate

diesel · Post: # 13130Post **diesel** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:57 pm

the shouters
back in 15 min
chasing rabbits
predicting the rain

life in disguise is growing on me

hoby · Post: # 13137Post **hoby** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:24 pm

Hard to choose, but I can easily say that the lyric that affects me the most deeply is "Through the Iron Gate." (Is that the official title? Does Lazilee fit in there somewhere?) Stops me in my tracks every time.

I'll second (or third) the motion for The Shouters.

The other two that slay me are Nathan tunes:

Ambrosia Drunk
Before You Were Born

but I've said before I think Nathan is a lyrical genius.

To round out the list of five I vote for......

YELLOW MEDICINE!!

Because it's such an easy sing-along.

hoby

Colin · Post: # 13173Post **Colin** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:29 pm

change my mind, shift my whole list down one to make room for the shouter at #1

booher · Post: # 13175Post **booher** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:48 pm

alsoa
the invocation
before you were born
a crack in the sundial
chasing rabbits

drewry · Post: # 13187Post **drewry** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:25 pm

reddish moon

invocation

tinderbox

sometimes there's wine

sleepyhead

Guest · Post: # 13211Post **Guest** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:28 am

it's interesting that almost all of these songs are from older slip albums. very few eisenhower tracks on these lists. but i agree with that. these seem to be good lyrics but not near the level of some previous songs.

<3 it · Post: # 13219Post **<3 it** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:54 pm

More of the recent ones for me:

Suffocation Keep
Paper Birds
The Shouters, of course!
Fear of Falling
Chasing Rabbits
Airplane Primative, except for the Dylan Thomas line,everything else, yes.
Let there be Horses
Soft Machine

And there are a whole bunch of SMMD ones, that I didn't include here