Miglior testo

Parto con il dire che i Converge sono una della band del panorama attuale che piu` mi piacciono come testi: dentro ci si trova l`angoscia, lo "star male", la speranza per un futuro...
E presto per me, dire quale sia il migliore, dato che i primi testi devo ancora approfondirli; devo dire pero che un lavoro come "Last light" lo trovo eccezionale...

Metto anche un po` di pepe: molti gruppi frangetto-emo hanno testi dove offrono il proprio suicidio per l`amata e cose del genere, un po come i Converge. Come distinguereste i due (che non sia con scappatelle tipo "Non si mischia la me**a con la cioccolata"...)?

"And we won't be breathing in that same sun again. None of this will ever surface again. How we get older, how we forget about each other. And the angel falls to the sky. Raised and colled she blessed this day she did. And it rings our ears. She rarely flies anymore, burden broke her wings. And I know this ghost, i have seen it before. Young it is the dying to fast, too soon, i'll be okay. The air thins in the quick and our lips move but we hear no sound. Every time you justify, another good in you dies. Faith and fear sears me, and love and you pull all the right strings. "How we get older, how we forget about each other" she said. Entwined within the sadder of days."

"All these fairy tale forevers welcome everyone in,
and it's no wonder that she fell from his great blue sky.
I can still taste my defeat on these lips and you still have Hell welled up in your eyes.
I will burn that bridge when we get it it. Erase the sun.
These days we laugh a little slower,
and we push our fears a little lower than I ever thought we'd sink.
To those who've killed this hope, a presage, I will rise again. Phoenix in flight,
I'm here to break your wings. I welcome this.
Don't let this heart stop beating I won't let this heart stop beating
and I will rise again and again. I will rise again."

"Death was just a simple glance across a dim lit room
And those eyes did it
Those three words did it
Those three words killed him
And I surrender to it all
Between you and me, I surrender to you
Forgive me for the sadness
And the bringing of you down
I just needed a lover and I needed a friend
And there you were
Running from forever like all the rest
Three simple words bled me dry
Three simple word bled us dry, bled us dry
I love you"

"thousand miles
forgetting
anything
everything
wheels racing
black cloud gaining ground
engine roars
rain pours down
the chase is on
my black cloud
gaining ground
three years spent
outrunning
my demon
and her ring
keep moving
with engine heart
and boiled blood
i will push on down
my wounded roads
i can outrun
i will outrun you all
horsepower hope
find me a home
in brand new arms
that won't let go
racing on to my end"

"i'm stopping this slow death
by letters never sent
i'm killing one way romance
and its words never read
i'm leaving love's lost battles
to the vulture's need to feed
i'm leaving you
i'm leaving them
and learning to be me
heart is everything
heart is you
love is you
hell is you
loss is you
heartless"

"you fail me with every fatal crush
you fail me with every abandoned love
you fail me with your inferno fuck me eyes
that burn as fuel for my city and its neon lights
burn bright white line fever take them all
you fail me with your new dead end dream
you fail me with your pill box fantasy
you fail me as love's greatest war
that was never worth
you were never worth fighting for
dying living dying living dying everyday
living dying living dying living everyday
you think you are a poet
in your eyes you are a star
who lives through a fantasy of rising above
you think you're a victim
but you live as a drunk
that has never sacrificed that has never loved
you think you are tragic but i know you are lost
you have walked the fault lines
and you have crossed them all
this world doesn't fight you, you fight yourself
thinking we fail you you fail yourself"

"she is at the end chasing her own fading light
running from her shadow in the name of living
searched for worth in the lust of men
paid in blood in different beds
mistaking sex for true love
they never meant a thing
her addiction brought her a world
of coward boys and of cheater girls
looking for an easy way out of being ordinary
so she boarded their sinking ship
and crossed their red needle sea
drowning truth to live her lie
that she was ordinary
in her fading shadow"

"When I see me in your heart
I just want to go blind
When I build coffin worlds with words
I just want a place to hide
When old guests meet new regrets
My daylight fades to grey
When our days bring guilt and shame
My heart turns black
These are my tombs
Painted black and blue
These are my tombs
Painted just for you
Goodnight,
Goodnight, dear
Goodbye
Black rose,
Be my light in the darkest of days
Be my heart in the darkest of nights
Be my heart"

"From a victim to a friend
Don't ever let them in keep
Your scars on your sleeve and your heart in your hands
All the whores with their wars
Their gaping mouths want more
All of them choke on regret
We sit in silence
Dead or dedicated
Alive or medicated
A coward queen or harlot
Heart, it's up to you
This world owes you nothing
This world owes me nothing
This world owes us nothing but a hard road to walk
These mountains that we climb is everything they've lost
This world owes us nothing but a hard road to walk
These mountains that we move are everywhere we look
It's all up to me and you"

"In pure ghost white I see what was mine
Drowned in jet black that haunts your shadows
Endless night begins
This forked road now bends
A forked tongue appears to lead us astray
All this that I have is all that you are
Cutting for love a new trophy scar
Just not worth the tears and penance not worth the blood that we both pour
I want to live without the guilt we give
I want to die without this pain
I want to live without the guilt we give
I want to die without your name
Without this pain
Born to burn with hell to pay
Born to burn with we will someday"


"To the lions
As she closes her doors to end this night
This raging sea won't have you
This weary grave won't keep you
These tired arms won't hold you
As she closes her doors to the lions
Inferno dreams won't leave you
This moonless night won't guide you
These brittle ghosts won't love you as she closes her doors
Queen of guilt
Queen of grief
Remember them (erase me)"



A voi il compito di riconoscere i brani....

Il quartultimo ("Grim Heart / Black Rose") è semplicemente sublime...

Pure il primo testo messo da Ed, "The saddest day" e` molto bello; lo volevo mettere tra i miei preferiti anzi..

Testo più bello?

I need you to be the strength of widows and soul survivors
i need you to be as fearless as new mothers and new fathers
i need you to be the hope of hearts who lost true love
i need you to be the might of their first kiss
i need a purpose and i need a reason
i need to know that there is trophy and meaning
to all that we lose and all we fight for
to all our loves and our wars
keep breathing
keep living
keep searching
keep pushing on
keep bleeding
keep healing
keep fading
keep shining on
this is for the hearts still beating

Perchè NOI non siamo emo. NOI non spaliamo merda su noi stessi e le cose che ci stanno intorno, e ci crogioliamo come porci in questo letamaio.

NOI si, l'abbiamo capito che in fondo è tutta la stessa merda, ma sappiamo anche che bisogna stare a galla, sennò sono cazzi pure peggio. E allora NOI continuiamo a respirare e a far battere 'sti cuori.

Grandioso

non conta solo ciò che dici, conta anche come lo dici. certe cose se sono dette dai converge sono poesia, se sono dette dai my chemical romance sono diabete.

io adoro il testo di When Forever Comes Crashing

For the swarms will come and reap your day dreams of love and hope.
For the fears and blood stained faith are woven through her yeam of war.
And the sadder song of broken wings heard through the battered pavement among this city.
Deafening, it betrays me in the sweetest and of the greatest of dreams.
These moments can't avoid you.
Your tired faith cannot erase you.
Tonight the lonesome sky opens wide.
Forgive me, 2 a.m. my city lights burn bright as day.
Catching the flattering silhouettes of the tired and the damned.
I am tapped clean of respect, and I'm walking waist deep in ruin.
If this is need then I never wanted you.
This is a monument to our everything before our forever comes crashing. I loved you.

Comunque i Converge hanno un cuore davvero tanto tanto emo

Mo zeeerto. Jake è veramente bravo a scrivere. Poi c'è da dire, i MCR non arrivano alla profondità stilistica, ma neanche a contenuti stanno messi bene. Tipo the black parade che mi ha fatto due maroni così su mtv, parlava di suo papà che da piccolo lo portava a vedere la banda in parata e gli diceva figliolo sconfiggi i tuoi demoni.

EH?

concordo sul come le si dice le cose..ovviamente..ma stare a disquisire e comparare testi tra una band e l'altra mi pare un po sterile come cosa..sopratutto se le band non hanno nulla ma proprio nulla in comune (nenache l'attitudine da "demoralizzazione cronica" dai . perchè se vogliamo anche le canzoni (nel senso musicale del termine, a livello strumentale/compositivo) sono più complesse di una dei my chemical.. e quindi? non voglio fare il bastian cotrario per carità ma la pecca che trovo nei Converge è il non capire una cippa anche su disco di ciò che dice Bannon..i testi li vado a leggere e certamente sono molto intensi, indubbiamente..ma dire che sono più sentiti rispetto a chissa chi..io sono un disilluso..non credo che un testo sia più o meno sentito e si possa considerare più reale di un altro..di sicuro quello che "dicono i Converge" è più credibile e toccante..scritto meglio di tantissime altre band e davvero emozionale..ma ripeto, dire che è più sincero a priori o "reale " (ma che vuol dire?) e che certamente è più "sentito"non ce la faccio

Nono certo, lungi da me comparare converge e mcr, è solo che si parlava del lato emo dei primi, e i secondi sono i principali colpevoli di un certo modo di fare rocchenroll moderno..tutto qui

E si, non si capisce proprio nulla di quello che canta..

Anzi, mi sorge il dubbio che dal vivo Bannon canti veramente la metà dei testi che scrive...!

ovvio che su queste cose non ci potrà mai essere accordo. nel senso che i testi, come le poesie e tutte le forme d'arte, provocano reazioni diverse in chi li ascolta/legge.
per me i converge sono il dolore, sia a livello lirico che musicale, e certe cose da loro le accetto e le apprezzo. in ambito italiano, uno che scrive testi intrisi di dolore è lele dei right in sight, e anche lì si tratta di un sentimento espresso tanto nei testi quanto nella musica o quanto nella presenza scenica sul palco (chi ha visto i right in sight dal vivo capirà di cosa parlo).
sono sentimenti.
a me i testi dei MCR o degli aiden non dicono un cazzo, però a milioni di ragazzine si..