Saatan kuunnella musiikkia keskittymättä juuri ollenkaan sanoituksiin, mutta toisaalta on myös biisejä, joissa ne lyriikat nousevat ehkä jopa biisin tärkeimmäksi osaksi. Joskus saatan kuunnella jotain biisiä pitkäänkin, eikä se kuulosta edes mitenkään erikoiselta, mutta sitten kun satunkin vilkaisemaan tarkemmin niitä lyriikoita, niin nousee ihan lempparibiiseihin. Vaikka en lyriikoihin välttämättä aina kovin paljolti paneudu, en silti tykkää kuunnella vieraskielistä musiikkia (englanti ja suomi toki menee, mutta muut kielet ei), koska en ymmärrä mistä puhutaan. Tosin, eipä ole minun suosikkieni joukossa paljoakaan suomenkielisiä tekstejä. Yhtenä voisin nostaa tuolla aikaisemmin tässä ketjussa lainatun Marja Mattlarin Linnun (Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukauksen teki siitä sen tunnetumman version). Se on kovin nätti.
Suosikkisanoittajani on
Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer), jolla on todella nättejä lyriikoita. Osa hänen sanoituksistaan saataa mennä ihan täysin yli ymmärryksen, pitäisi keskittyä paljon enemmän, jotta niistä saisi mitään irti, mutta osa on kyllä todella kivoja. Toinen ihan loistava sanoittaja on
Morrissey (ex-The Smiths ja hänen soolotuotantonsa), jolla on välillä kohtuu nerokkaita oivalluksia.
Trent Reznorilla (Nine Inch Nails) on myös omat helmensä, mutta kaiken kaikkiaan ei ihan näiden kahden tasolle yllä.
A Perfect Circle - Stranger
"Cast the calming apple
Up and over satellites
To draw out the timid wild one
To convince you it's all right
And I listen for the whisper
Of your sweet insanity
While I formulate denials
Of your effect on me
You're a stranger
So what do I care?
You vanish today
Not the first time I hear
All the lies
What am I to do with all this silence?
Shy away, shy away phantom
Run away, terrified child
Won't you move away
You fuckin' tornado
I'm better off without you
Tearin' my will down"
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
"Threw you the obvious
And you flew with it on your back
A name in your recollection
Down among a million, say:
Difficult not to feel a little bit
Disappointed, passed over.
When I've looked right through,
To see you naked and oblivious
and you don't see me
Well I threw you the obvious,
Just to see if there's more behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel,
Eyes of a tragedy.
Here I am expecting just a little bit
Too much from the wounded
But I see,
See through it all,
See through,
And see you.
So I threw you the obvious
To see what occurs behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel
Eyes of a tragedy
Well, oh well..
Apparently nothing.
Apparently nothing at all.
You don't, you don't
You don't see me"
Tool - 10,000 Days (Wings part 2)
// Tässä on taustalla Maynardin oman äidin tarina, kertoo siitä, kuinka hän oli vuosia halvaantuneena ja hänen kuolemastaan. Ehkä juuri tuon takia koskettaa.
"And this little light of mine, a gift you passed on to me;
I'm gonna let it shine to guide you safely on your way,
Your way home ...
Oh, what are they going to do when the lights go down
Without you to guide them all to Zion?
What are they going to do when the rivers overrun
Other than tremble incessantly?
High is the way, but all eyes are upon the ground.
You were the light and the way they'll only read about.
I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out.
Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough;
You're going home.
You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fists at the gates saying:
"I've come home now!
Fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father.
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.
It's time now!
My time now!
Give me my, give me my wings!"
You are the light and way that they will only read about."
Tool - Right in Two
// Tämä on tällä hetkellä yksi suurimmista suosikkeistani. En ole ihan varma edes, että miksi tämä niin kolahti, mutta tykkään.
"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?"
Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs
// Tämä oli pitkään sellainen 'nojoo'-biisi minulle, en oikeastaan ollut kiinnittänyt huomiota koko tekeleeseen, mutta sitten kerran puolivahingossa lukaisin tämän lyriikat ihan ajatuksen kanssa ja ah. Kolahti.
"See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all
Right where it belongs
What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks?
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?
What if all the world's inside of your head
Just creations of your own?
Your devils and your gods
All the living and the dead
And you're really all alone?
You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the woods
While you're hiding in the trees"
Nine Inch Nails - Zero-Sum
"They're starting to open up the sky, they're starting to reach down through.
It feels like we're living in that split second of a car crash.
And time is slowing down, and if we'd only had a little more time than this, I'll just hold
your hand."
...
"And I guess I just wanted to tell you, as the lights start to fade,
That you are the reason that I am not afraid.
And I guess I just wanted to mention, as the heavens will fall,
We will be together soon if we will be anything at all."
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
"And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Oh, There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out"
The Smiths - Asleep
"Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I'm tired and I
I want to go to bed
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don't try to wake me in the morning
'Cause I will be gone
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go"
EDIT: Pistin nuo pätkät nyt spoilereiden alle, niin ei viesti olisi niin kovin pitkä.
