Mikizee,

I had no idea that such lyrics as you've been posting ever existed.  I really love them !  thank you!   
Unfortunately I'm old and cannot hear so well so I don't tune into heavy rock. Maybe if they sang it like the troubadors of the 17th century did.....

How can someone in my situation find out about this poetry? What groups also have such lyrics that I have missed? 

Bets

The lyrics I have posted are from the album Lateralus, which was made after the band met and had many meditation sessions with alex grey. You can really see his influence.

Here are some pictures from their concerts involving Alex's artwork-

http://alexgrey.net/2l/19.jpg

http://alexgrey.net/2l/16.jpg

http://alexgrey.net/2l/18.jpg

If you think the lyrics are good, they are but a small part of the music. the music from these songs speak to my soul like no other can. It takes my breath away still. so deep, so many levels, so beautiful. They are like no other band on the planet.

Since you liked the lyrics so much, here are more!!!!! excuse me while I self-indulge.

Here are some that talk about how destructive holding grudges can be -

     Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
     Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
     Desperate to control all and everything.
     Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

     Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
     Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
     Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
     Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.

     Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again.

     Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
     Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
     Saturn ascends, comes round again.
     Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.

     Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
     Calculate what you will or will not tolerate.
     Desperate to control all and everything.
     Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

     Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
     Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper.

     Defining, confining, sinking deeper. Controlling, defining, and we're sinking deeper.

     Saturn comes back around to show you everything
     Let's you choose what you will not see and then
     Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
     Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.

     Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or
     Drags you down like a stone to
     Consume you till you choose to let this go.
     Choose to let this go.

     Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor.
     Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.

     Let go.

I'll post one more, this was from their latest album, 10,000 days. It was called 10,000 days because it was dedicated to the singer's mother, who had recently died. She had had a stroke, spending the last 27 years (roughly 10,000 days) in a wheelchair. She was a fierce Roman Catholic, which Maynard (the singer) often struggled with, since he doesn't agree with Catholicism AT ALL.  Its called 'Wings for Marie/10,000 days". Every time I listen to it its difficult for tears not to well up in my eyes. You can feel his immense love that he had for his mother, and the music is so beautiful that you can tell the other band members were right there with him, feeling his pain and grief as a collective.

You...
You believed ...
You believed in movements none could see.
You believed in me

A passionate spirit
Uncompromised
Boundless and open
A light in your eyes
Then immobilized.

Broken
Fell at the hands of those movements that I wouldn't see
Yet it was you who prayed for me.
So what have I done
To be a son to an angel?
What have I done
To be worthy?

Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescents
Difficult to see you in this light
Please forgive this selfish question, but
What am I to say to all these ghouls tonight?
"She never told a lie,
... well might have told a lie,
But never lived one.
Didn't have a life,
Didn't have a life,
But surely saved one."
See? I'm alright
Now it's time for us to let you go.


Listen to the tales and romanticize,
How we'd follow the path of the hero.
Boast about the day when the rivers overrun.
How we rise to the height of our halo.

Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
Our way into the arms of the savior,
Feigning all the trials and the tribulations;
None of us have actually been there.
Not like you.

Ignorant siblings in the congregation
Gather around spewing sympathy,
Spare me.
None of them can even hold a candle up to you.
Blinded by choice, these hypocrites won't see.

But, enough about the collective Judas.
Who could deny you were the one who
Illuminated your little piece of the divine?

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.

Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance,
(With the) burden of proof tossed upon the believers.
You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence,
Judith Marie, unconditional one.

Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescents.
Difficult to see you in this light.
Please forgive this bold suggestion, but
Should you see your Maker's face tonight,
Look Him in the eye, look Him in the eye, and tell Him:
"I never lived a lie, never took a life, but surely saved one.
Hallelujah, it's time for you to bring me home."

Music can shape a country, they play it in elevators and marketplaces, its subliminal information into the emotions and your very soul.

I'm a folk background singer for the most part, partial to the quality of the human voice as an instrument,  if the vocolist is difficult to hear above the other instruments I get disappointed if hard music has no softness or subtleness in it.  I like Enya's music, so celestial she takes me home. I will take a look at the band you love, just to see who is inspiring you enough to brag about them and to say that they saved your life! That is a wondrous thing to think about it.

I do love lyrics above a tune I think. I would like to sing you all a tune from the 60's which expresses my sentiment in finding this board to chat on and grow on. so lalalalalal!!!

Sang by Judy Collins:
anda one anda two anda...

Sometimes I remember the old days
when the world was filled with sorrow
you might have thought I was living
but I was all alone

In my heart the rain was falling
the wind blew, the night was calling
come back, come back
I'm all you've ever known
chorus
Open the door and come on in
I'm so glad to see you my friend
you're all like rainbows coming around the bend
and when I see you happy
you know it sets my heart free
I'd like to be as good a friend to you
as you are to me.

There were friends who could always see me
saying howRU, saying goodbye, saying hello
soon I knew that what I was after
was life, love, tears and laughter
hello my darlin' hello my good friend
what do you know?

Open the door and come on in
I'm so glad to see you my friend
you're all like rainbows coming around the bend
and when I see you happy, well it sets my heart free
I'd like to be as good a friend to you as u r to me.
_____
I haven't changed much what kind of music I like, I just carry
the 60's with me into the next decade!

love alysia