Favorite Project 86 lyrics

One of the things that really makes or breaks music for me is lyrics. The coolest chord progression or rhythm/beat or what-have-you can be utterly destroyed by lame lyrics. That's one of the reasons that 'pop' music bothers me so much some times- the lyrics are so cookie-cutter, blah-blah-blah, with no substance. I want music that makes me think and feel. Project 86 does this better than most bands that I've encountered. Except maybe Baby Cannon (this message has been brought to you by Baby Cannon. A band that isn't famous but is awesome).

I'll limit this to a top-15 (I couldn't narrow it down to just 10), since they have a bevy of songs. Also, I'll limit it to a line or two, or a few- that is, I'm not ranking songs according to their overall lyrical content, I'm just rating sections of lyrics that I have found to be particularly inspiring, intellectual, or just plain B.A.

Now that I have laid the ground rules, I present without further adieu...my top fifteen Project 86 lyrics!

15)Shadow On Me, Songs To Burn Your Bridges By
Take me in these fleeting moments of solitude in you
Remove this fascination with shadow and remove
This shattered self of preservation, this commitment to undo
All that you forgave and give, and all you promised to...

14)Sad Machines, Drawing Black Lines
Now so many wonder why it is so much has gone awry in all of this
And being makes you sigh that you exist but you can't escape this
Seemingly undeserved is your lot but generations past and you forgot
We chose to eat our fill and tell it not
This pain is here reminding us to turn and leave to come back home
This lyric is followed by the most amazing musical scream I have ever heard

13)A Toast To My Former Self, Drawing Black Lines
Kill the day and fill me, break my past renew me
Lift up my head, I'm weary, strip my thoughts and I'll kill this day, now fill me

12)Know What It Means, Truthless Heroes
Remember what its like to be you?
Remember what its like to be me?
All that I see these eyes in my dreams
These thought police coming for me

11)Another Boredom Movement, Truthless Heroes
The grins of your puppeteers are beaming because the quotas will be made
Or your time in the spotlight will fade at the hands of the same pigs that made you

10)PS, Drawing Black Lines
It is a basis for your heartfelt hunger so gaze
At the page, at the page, at the faces of nameless...
You're alone again and this distortion is an apt replacement for
An unquenchable desire for more
More pages strewn across this sickening floor
I can't look at this, I can't look at you, I can't look at me, I can't

9)Little green men, Truthless Heroes
History's a stage for re-runs for 3 A.M. insomniacs who quote the episodes
If tricycles came with guns we'd all be safe

8)Bottom Feeder, Truthless Heroes
So little of what seems to be is ever really there, so much of what's here I resent

7)Sincerely, Ichabod, ...And The Rest Will Follow
I know who I am in the depths of spirit and truth
I've seen the face of redemption and He isn't you
I'm through indulging the tastes of my cruelest nature
So I think this blade better suits you

6)Safe Haven, Songs To Burn Your Bridges By
I'm just a stranger here, despite your everything
I'm not attached to your world of disease
Like father always said, and I can only agree
'Son they will hate you because they always hated me'
And even though I feel alone
I know that I could never be

5)Spy Hunter, Songs To Burn Your Bridges By
Pawns standing in awe of the game, of the stage
You've worked so hard at building an empire of secret rooms to display yourself
And add to your wealth

4)Soma, Truthless Heroes
If you can amputate my heart then I will learn to smile and then
You can replace me with yourself and I'll become the model citizen
And I will tell them all that I had this breakthrough surgery
They give you a pill, then remove your heart and replace it with a battery

3)Breakdown in 3/4, Songs To Burn Your Bridges By
When you're just a memory I'll be there to remind you of what you said
As ash to ash so you will return... "You once made such noise, but now so obsolete."

2)Hollow Again, Truthless Heroes
And all along here I was told by fallen men in their charade
That we could find a hope inside the safety of this empty place

1)Kane Mutiny, Rival Factions
So far you've been able to have your way without a fight
Oh, it's long been overdue you will not survive the night
You're not gonna stop us tonight
No one's gonna take us alive

Well, I hope you've enjoyed this weeks edition of 'Project 86 Monday'. If you have a particularly favorite lyric that I didn't name, let me know! I hope you were inspired, insmartened, or B.A.ed reading these sweet lyrics. Tune in next Monday to find out my favorite Project 86 songs of all time!