Favourite NMA song for JS lyrics ?

[fiddlesticks]

When the motorbikes rolled out of the woods, I just stood there smiling...

Beautiful song.  Reminds me of my hitch hiking days.

[cthulhu]

Which are your favourite lyrics on the last album "Winter"?

i take the opportunity to remind most of you about this:
http://board.newmodelarmy.org/index.php?topic=9198.0
;-)

think about that winter is so special in regards to lyrics, because three songs, three storys expressed poetically have been transformed to pictures. a very unique thing this.
one of my favourite lyrics is from devil:

They took me down to the Tree of Knowledge and said that I must resist
And all I could think was – what kind of stupid joke is this?
Not to want to know and feel everything that exists
Behind the curtain drawn by self-appointed control freaks and their apologists

but also winter as a whole is beautiful, eyes got used to the darkness is powerful, weak and strong is lovely and burn the castle is a burner!

[fiddlesticks]

They're all good!

Wordplay...
Pax Americana reigns and rains from two miles in the sky ...

Rhythm...
M6 southbound roadside cafe on a wild wet and windy night...

Imagery..
Some live by the bloody sword and die by the bloody sword, some by beauty and desire
I live in the shadow of the great volcano, I live by the good soil and the fire...

[Guillaume]

And what about the best lyrics of the last album FROM HERE?

[marius]

And what about the best lyrics of the last album FROM HERE?

“Now all the sense of scale is gone and the splinters think they’re trees
And the stones believe they’re mountains and the rivers think they’re seas
And we all gaze down like little gods, our feathers think they’re wings
And the glass believes it’s diamond and the courtiers think they’re kings
And the more of this we onboard, the stupider we become
The rose and glow of approaching fire mistaken for the rising sun

So let’s all go home now, look ourselves in the mirror
Throw our heads back and laugh”


Painfully true these times...

[Ragamuffin]

It would have to be The Charge for me. I'm not from a mining family but I was brought up in the coalfields of South Yorkshire and saw the horrors wrought by the stinking tory filth. Every time I hear it filled with righteous anger.
Red Earth also has a similar effect.

[Guillaume]

And what about the best lyrics of the last album FROM HERE?

“Now all the sense of scale is gone and the splinters think they’re trees
And the stones believe they’re mountains and the rivers think they’re seas
And we all gaze down like little gods, our feathers think they’re wings
And the glass believes it’s diamond and the courtiers think they’re kings
And the more of this we onboard, the stupider we become
The rose and glow of approaching fire mistaken for the rising sun

So let’s all go home now, look ourselves in the mirror
Throw our heads back and laugh”


Painfully true these times...

yes great lyrics in this song, also the lyrics of "Passing through", "The weather", "Conversation"...as usual great words from JS!

[Tarsier]

And what about the best lyrics of the last album FROM HERE?

I have to agree with marius and go for From Here...
But, Passing Through... makes me tearful every time. Every. Damn. Time. I just tested it, just to make sure. 

[Willard]

And what about the best lyrics of the last album FROM HERE?

I have to agree with marius and go for From Here...
But, Passing Through... makes me tearful every time. Every. Damn. Time. I just tested it, just to make sure. 

Passing Through is fantastic.  I'm partial to this portion


Winds will change direction, grace and light will again shine on you
It will be over soon
It will be over soon

I find great peace in this.

I also like this lyric from End of Days

The expression on your face says that you've been cheated
well yes you've been cheated, but not in the way that you think

I think these two lyrics actually go together quite well. 

[Tarsier]

Today these lines haunted me...

You only get a moment in the eye of the storm
You can catch your breath before stumbling on
I can feel the air, I can feel my pulse
And everything burning up on everything else

[Tarsier]

...not sure to which topic to post, but today I found myself listening to Winter. Without paying much attention to the fact, I ended up listening to the whole album, but in reverse song order. Damn, works bloody well!!!

[Master Ray]

...not sure to which topic to post, but today I found myself listening to Winter. Without paying much attention to the fact, I ended up listening to the whole album, but in reverse song order. Damn, works bloody well!!!

Whatever order you play it in, it's certainly one of NMA's finest.  Deffo top five.

[Tarsier]

...not sure to which topic to post, but today I found myself listening to Winter. Without paying much attention to the fact, I ended up listening to the whole album, but in reverse song order. Damn, works bloody well!!!

Whatever order you play it in, it's certainly one of NMA's finest.  Deffo top five.

Damn right! Also, maybe my favourite album art ever... Stunningly beautiful and haunting.

And talking about some favourite lyrics... Devil.