A while back we were looking for the weirdest phrases of POTF songs. Now it's time to name the wisest ones, like good advice or attitudes to life...

For me it's either you cannot learn a thing you think you know

or past isn't worth debating

Your turn.......

I got what I wanted, so naturally I want more

Killjoy walks in just when it's turning sunny

There ain't no trick to winning double what you bet

A stone will not need you to guess if
You're still going to drown

This day will die tonight and there ain't no exception
We shouldn't wait for nothing to wait for

Love is all the good in you that still remains

"There's always some loophole technicality you buy into and pay until you die
Money doesn't bring me joy, it's more like a darling dead weight"

For me, one of the wisest is : "You just need to heal, make good all your lies, move on and don't look behind..."

Most Wise for me:
-"When I thought I fought this war alone, you were there by my side on the front line"
-"I won't cry for my solitude, lay my head and dream of you, and hope that you'll come knocking on my door."
Finally, the one that kept me going through the darkest moments of my life:
"Maybe tomorrow is a better day"

Most wise-ass?
"How could an amputee ever pick a bone?" XD

THere are just way too many to list them all here.

The first ones that came to my mind without thinking:

"It does not solve a thing to dress it in a pretty gown"

"I have a mind for simple things, but things are not of mind to simplify
There's always some loophole technicality you buy into and pay until you die"

There is a few in POTF songs, mine would be:

"It'll never change until we change ourselves"

"But everybody wants to be a rock'n'roll star"


"I feel a change coming on
Rolling out of the blue like a storm
Crashing against my delirious thoughts where humanity's waiting alone
"

"If life itself has a meaning,
is it anything more than what we choose to call it?
Sweet words make appealing,
but they only serve to mask the smell of what you buried"

"It doesn't solve a thing to dress it in a pretty gown,
a stone will not need you to guess if
you're still going to drown"

"The images they sell are illusion and dreams,
in other words: dishonesty"

"Ignorance spreads conformity smiling happily"


there would be so many more
the thoughtful lyrics was the first thing that hit me most about potf, back in the days...


edit: oh, and, sure: "you cannot learn a thing you think you know", that's so true.
I must keep myself from posting all phrases

Another wise one :

"Whatever tomorrow wants from me
At least I'm here, at least I'm free,
Free to choose to see the signs
This is my line."

every line of every lyric of every song of every album.

I felt the same way when I read this topic

The bigger the lies
The more they want to believe them
And like a vice
Hold on to what they believe in


No-one else can heal your wounds

it's underrated how we overrate

Save me
I'm my own worst enemy
Running headlong to the wall cos I want my freebie
Save me
You're the only out I see
N' I need your love the most when I least deserve it



Is there a hero somewhere, someone who appears and saves the day
Someone who holds out a hand and turns back time
Is there a hero somewhere, someone who will never walk away
Who doesn't turn a blind eye to a crime


And in the emptiness, there's a solution,
just look within yourself for absolution


And maybe tomorrow is a better day

Remembrance, can be a sentence, but it comes to you with a second chance in tow
Don't lose it, don't refuse it, cos you cannot learn a thing you think you know


A new light is warm, shining down on you after the storm
Don't mourn what is gone, greet the dawn


Did you think that I'd blink, that I'd go and take the ink to your control, that I'd sell my soul, and does it ring any bells that it sells that we're living out of shells in a shotgun, if we couldn't shoot, we'd have to run, and finally the cerebral fantasy, better genes and machines, so we can die looking like we're teens, like snapshot scenes in smithereens...


That is when it seems
We move in circles day to day
Twist the drama of the play to get us by



Do we need debate
When it seems too late


And among the schemes
And all the tricks we try to play
Only dreams will hold their sway and defy


Glad the waters are so shallow
When the river runs so cold



Cos without your love my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust


It's all a game, avoiding failure, when true colors will bleed
All in the name of misbehavior and the things we don't need
I lust for after no disaster can touch us anymore
And more than ever, I hope to never fall, where enough is not the same it was before


And you need to heal
The hurt behind your eyes
Fickle words crowding your mind

So
Sleep, sugar, let your dreams flood in,
Like waves of sweet fire, you're safe within
Sleep, sweetie, let your floods come rushing in,
And carry you over to a new morning


You just need to heal
Make good all your lies
Move on and don't look behind


All I'm saying is don't give up, when you're getting so close. All I'm
saying is don't give up, it's the right way you chose.



There are so many, but I really like the ones above......today

Seems to matter what I say, so I'll hold my tongue at bay
And rather use my mouth to kiss your frown away
So your doubts no longer darken your day
So you can hold your head up high come what may

Fire - full second verse

I feel a change coming on, rolling out of the blue like a storm and it's bending your will like a willow-tree twisting, tying to regain its form

Revelation lead into my psychosis and inspiration

I think I'm gonna start my own religion, seems to be the recipee for a new sensation, think it's gonna make a trendy revolution, quite a contribution to the unnatural selection

Which way to the fountain of my youth I wonder
Which way to the years I've let go by
Let a thirsty man drink in its memories while the water still flows sweet and crystal clear
For yesteryear


Mercury dances in its skyscraper cell, rising and falling in harmony
And I feel winter stealing my days, to herald another creation

Yeah decency, she done left our home
On her rollerskates, so I guess she's pretty far gone


A man may be less than an animal
The antichrist write up the honor roll

Everything fades away, come turning of the tide. For your love I'm sorry. For your pain, don't worry.

Knowing Poets made me realize how incredibly trivial and superficial most lyrics are. Sometimes when listening to English musicians I think:"Bow your head in shame for insulting your mother tongue so deeply."

"If there was a King for Fools would you wear the crown?"

"So why do we keep up this charade?
How do we tell apart the time to leave from the time to wait?"

Yep yep.

And a brand new one : "And you can have what you want if you want it like you need to breathe..."

hey, I was thinking of writing the same here

Too late it seems

All of their songs have at least one great line. But some of the best are (at least in my opinion):

Teach me to speak with their voices
Show me the way and I'll try again


If what I feel is the only truth
And what I give out will make up what I'll receive
Can I leave behind my naivete of youth?
Will I be crucified for wanting to believe?


Kill sweet desire, faith may numb the trial, but can you run all your life
Kill sweet desire, truth will make a liar, you can run but not hide
So run for your life

In these days of manmade wonders we still bicker over flies
When you come seeking for forgiveness, I'll be forced to choose my side


There are way more but these are my favorites

That.

Completely true and completely awesome.

Today I fell in love once again with those lyrics :

Why do we sacrifice the beautiful ones?
Why when they walk with love alone
Why do we sacrifice our beautiful souls?
Just trying to find their way home.

XD Couldn't agree more! (especially with that last one...lol)

But I have to add this...

"Will I be crucified for wanting to believe?"

Today it is :

"Time isn't made for waiting
Past isn't worth debating"

"And in the emptiness, there's a solution,
just look within yourself for absolution"

It's all there...

this for me