What's your favorite song verse?

[DaMuleRules]

Just got back from walking my dog and listening to my iPod and was reminded of one of my favorites (in it's entirety):

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.

On the shore lay montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.

And his subjects gathered round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.

And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.

Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.

They carried them to the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up with their bare hands
What we still cant do today.

And I know shes living there
And she loves me to this day
I still cant remember when
Or how I lost my way.

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, cortez
What a killer.
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You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames

Jason Isbell

Man, do those lyrics resonate right now

[REPPIN 818]

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

[Omar Little]

[prisma8slg]

I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless
When I'm breathless Ill run till I drop, hey
The thoughts of a fools kind of careless
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah
Light of the love that I found...
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"I define success by championships, by winning..." Kobe Bryant

"I've seen it all. Sasha dunked on somebody," Kobe Bryant said. "I'm ready to retire now."

[mattnz]

[Intro:]
Yung Seph
Who the best in the league?
You tell me
Who the best in the league?
You tell me
Who the best in the league?
You tell me, you tell me man
Yung Seph

[Chorus: x2]
Throu' The Legs To The Left, Throu' The Leg To The Right
We Don't Run them Laker plays, We Just Kobe Fadeaway Like
(YOU) Crank Dat Kobe Bryant
(YOU) Crank Dat Kobe Bryant
(YOU) Crank Dat Kobe Bryant
81 Points You Should Try it

[Verse 1:]
High school to NBA, 24 from number 8
Folks say these kids will never ever see the MJ
Still bustin heads in the league in them huraches
Anyway, dunk like dam who can stop me?
So what he cocky, 81 ya do the same
Yao Ming, Dwight Howard both got postered in the game
Cross the defenders in the lane, coaches can never complain
See tha dunk with Steve Nash man I damn near went insane
People try to complain and say he got no vision
Well let me tell you 16 assist is against the wizards (the wizards)
I'm a do my dance do my, do my fadeaway
Step back and hesitation goin see the next...

[Chorus x2]

[Verse 2:]
Walk-walk, walk-walk it out
Walk-walk, walk-walk it out
Step back cross hestation throwing no-look pass [x3]
Do the lay up line [x8]
Set me a pic, I'm a dunk on his ass [x4]

[Chorus x2]

Yung Seph I'm in the building mayn
Ay Yung Seph I'm in the building mayn
Yung Seph Crank Dat Kobe Bryant
Crank Dat Kobe Bryant
Man Crank Dat Kobe Bryant
Yeah

[Omar Little]

[skin]

booty booty booty booty rockin everywhere!

[mattnz]

[JerryMagicKobe]

The wheels on the bus go round and round . . .


(Steelers Fan)

[Sportsmuze]

Baby I've got to ramble.

[doughboy90650]

my house shoes get wet from the dew on the grass
up early in the morning takin' out the trash
feelin' like a loser, alcohol abuser
two youngsters roll up on a beach cruiser

one on the peddles, the other on the handle bars (what)
tryin' be ghetto stars, they said:
Are you from the westside is it so?
i said hell yea and who wanna to know (me)

in slow mo, fo' fo' slugs, face down in the mud
puddle full of blood left for dead
the pain starts to spread, now I can't feel my legs
I meet Doctor Who, at King Drew Medical Center
as I enter I.C.U

he said the bullet hit a nerve that was vital
I said I can't move my legs, he said don't try to
now this ain't the end my friend but you'll probably never walk again
I sit there motionless, holdin' this, pain inside contemplating suicide

at night I jerk and jerk
but my dick don't work it don't even hurt (damn)
now who'd ever thought a (bleep) rude as Ice Cube
would be pissin' through a tube

Fool i'm a vet


Ice Cube's Ghetto Vet

[Ko8e8ryant]

[B_Rabbit1212]

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this

The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful..
These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever

.....

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death

I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood
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[Ares24]

[dna.]

You and me
Meant to be
Immutable
Impossible
It's destiny
Pure lunacy
Incalculable
Insufferable
But for the last time
You're everything that I want and ask for
You're all that I'd dreamed

Who wouldn't be the one you love?
Who wouldn't stand inside your love?
Protected and the lover of

A pure soul and beautiful you
Don't understand
Don't feel me now
I will breathe
For the both of us
Travel the world
Traverse the skies
Your home is here
Within my heart
And for the first time
I feel as though I am reborn
In my mind
Recast as child and mystic sage

Who wouldn't be the one you love?
Who wouldn't stand inside your love?

And for the first time
I'm telling you how much I need and bleed for
Your every move and waking sound
In my time
I'll wrap my wire around your heart and your mind
You're mine forever now

Who wouldn't be the one you love and live for?
Who wouldn't stand inside your love and die for?
Who wouldn't be the one you love?

[dna.]

You, who are on the road
Must have a code
That you can live by
And so, become yourself
Because the past
Is just a goodbye

Teach your children well
Their father's hell
Did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks
The one you'll know by
Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would die
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

And you (Can you hear and)
Of tender years (Do you care and)
Can't know the fears (Can you see we)
That your elders grew by (Must be free to)
And so please help (Teach your children)
Them with your youth (You believe and)
They seek the truth (Make a world that)
Before they can die (We can live in)

Teach your parents well
Their children’s hell
Will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks
The one you’ll know by

Don’t you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

[ocho]

The entire album "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"

[TheGOATWears#24]

I like big butts and I cannot lie,
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face..
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"Love me or hate me; it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved for the exact same reasons."

[prisma8slg]

[melo061]

[vanexelent]

[rchanou]

Casualties of war; as I approach the barricade
Where's the enemy? Who do I invade?
Bullets of Teflon bulletproof vest rip
Tear ya outta ya frame with a bag full of clips
Cause I got a family that waits for my return
To get back home is my main concern
I'ma get back to New York in one piece
but I'm bent in the sand that is hot as the city streets
Sky lights up like fireworks blind me
Bullets, whistlin over my head remind me...
President Bush said attack
Flashback to Nam, I might not make it back
Missile hits the area, screams wake me up
from a war of dreams, heat up the M-16
Basic training, trained for torture
Take no prisoners, and I just caught ya
Addicted to murder, send more bodybags
They can't identify em, leave the nametags
I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor
CASUALTIES OF WAR!

[smoothCbutla]

It's really long but I do encourage you to read the whole thing. One of the best storytelling hip hop songs written in my opinion.

[Verse 1]
I once knew a (bleep) whose real name was William
his primary concern, was making a million
being the illest hustler, that the world ever seen
he used to (bleep) moviestars and sniff coke in his dreams
a corrupted young mind, at the age of thirteen
(bleep) never had a father and his mom was a feen
she put the pipe down, but forever yeah she was sober
her sons heart simultaneously grew colder
he started hanging out selling bags in the projects
checking the young chicks, looking for hit and run prospects
he was fascinated by material objects
but he understood money never bought respect
he build a reputation cause he could hustle and steal
but got locked once it didn't hesitate to squeal
so criminals he chilled with didn't think he was real
you see me and (bleep) like this have never been equal
I dont project my insurecurity's at other people
he feeded for props like addicts with pipes and needles
so he felt he had to prove to everyone he was evil
a fever minded young man with infinite potetial
the product of a ghetto breed capatalistic mental
coincidentally dropped out of school to sell weed
dancing with the devil, smoked until his eyes would bleed
but he was sick of selling trees and gave in to his greed

[Hook]
Everyone trying to be trife never face the consequences
you propably only did a month for minor offences
ask a (bleep) doing life if he had another chance
but then again there's always the wicked at new and advanced
dance forever with the devil on a code cell block
but thats what happens when you rape, murder and sell rock
devils used to be gods, angels that fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot

[Verse 2]
So Billy started robbing (bleep), anything he could do
he'd get his respect back, in the eyes of his crew
starting fights over little (bleep), up on the block
stepped up to selling mothers and brothers the crack rock
working overtime for making money for the crack spot
hit the jackpot and wanted to move up to cocaine
for filling the scarface fantasy stuck in his brain
tired of the block (bleep) treating him the same
he wanted to be major like the cut throats and the thugs
but when he tried to step to 'em, (bleep) showed him no love
they told him any (bleep) coward can sell drugs
any (bleep) (bleep) with a gun, can bust slugs
any (bleep) with a red shirt can front like a blood
even Puffy smoked the (bleep) up in a club
but only a real thug can stab someone till they die
standing in front of them, starring straight into their eyes
Billy realized that these men were well guarded
and they wanted to test him, before business started
suggested raping a (bleep) to prove he was cold hearted
so now he had a choice between going back to his life
or making money with made men, up in the cife
his dreams about cars and ice, made him agree
a hardcore (bleep) is all he ever wanted to be
and so he met them friday night at a quarter to three

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
They drove around the projects slow while it was raining
smoking blunts, drinking and joking for entertainment
untill they saw a woman on the street walking alone
three in the morning, coming back from work, on her way home
and so they quietly got out the car and followed her
walking through the projects, the darkness swallowed her
they wrapped her shirt around her head and knocked her onto the floor
this is it kid now you got your chance to be raw
so Billy oaked her up and grapped the chick by the hair
and dragged her into a lobby that had nobody there
she struggled hard but they forced her to go up the stairs
they got to the roof and then held her down on the ground
screaming shut the (bleep) up and stop moving around
the shirt covered her face, but she screamed and clawed
so Billy stomped on the (bleep), until he broken her jaw
the dirty bastards knew exactly what they were doing
they kicked her until they cracked her ribs and she stopped moving
blood leaking through the cloth, she cried silently
and then they all proceeded to rape her violently
Billy was meant to go first, but each of them took a turn
ripping her up, and choking her until her throat burned
a broken jaw mumbled for god but they weren't concerned
when they were done and she was lying bloody, broken and broos
one of them (bleep) pulled out a brand new twenty-two
they told him that she was a witness of what she'd gone through
and if he killed her he was guaranteed a spot in the crew
he thought about it for a minute, she was practicly dead
and so he leaned over and put the gun right to her head

(Sample from "Survival of the Fittest" by Mobb Deep)
I'm falling and I can't turn back
I'm falling and I can't turn back

[Verse 4]
Right before he pulled the trigger, and ended her life
he thought about the cold pain with the platinum and ice
and he felt strong standing along with his new brothers
cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover
but what he saw made him start the cringe and studder
cuz he was starring into the eyes of his own mother
she looked back at him and cried, cause he had forsaken her
she cried more painfully, than when they were raping her
his whole world stopped, he couldn't even contiplate
his corruption had succesfully changed his fate
and he remembered how his mom used to come home late
working hard for nothing, cause now what was he worth
he turned away from the woman that had once given him birth
and crying out to the sky cause he was lonely and scared
but only the devil responded, cause god wasn't there
and right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold
and so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul
they say death take you to a better place but I doubt it
after that they killed his mother, and never spoke about it
and listen cause the story that I'm telling is true
cuz I was there with Billy Jacobs and I raped his mom to
and now the devil follows me everywhere that I go
infact I'm sure he's standing among one of you at my shows
and every street cypher listening to little thugs flowe
he could be standing right next to you, and you wouldn't know
the devil grows inside the hearts of the selvish and wicked
white, brown, yellow and black colored is not restricted
you have a self destructive destiny when your inflicted
and you'll be one of gods children and fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot
so when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never
because the dance with the devil might last you forever
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"When it come down to this recording - I must be Lebron James if he's Jordan
No, I won rings with my performance
I'm more Kobe Bryant of an artist
Same coach, same game, been starting
Same triangle offense"

[ocho]

[TACH]

He like to frequent this club down up on 36th
Pimps and thangs like 2 hang outside and cuss for kicks

Talking 2 no one in particular, they say the baddest I am tonight
4 letter words are seldom heard with such dignity and bite.
All the poets and the part time singers always hang inside
Live music from a band plays a song called soul psychodelicide.
The songs a year long and had been playing 4 months when he
Walked into the place.
No one seemed to care, an introverted this-is-it look on most of their faces.

Up on the mic repeating 2 words, over and over again
Was this woman he had never noticed before he lost himself in the
Articulated manner in which she said them.
These 2 words, a little bit behind the beat.
I mean just enough 2 turn u on.
4 everytime she said the words another one of his doubts were gone.

Should he try 2 rap with her? should he stand and stare?
No one else was watching her, she didnt seem 2 care.
So over and over, she said the words til he could take no more, (no more)
He dragged her from the stage and together they ran through the back door
In the alley over by the curb he said tell me whats your name
She only said the words again and it started to rain (rain, rain, rain)
2 words falling between the drops and the moans of his condition
Holding someone is truly believing theres joy in repetition.
Theres joy in repetition.
Theres joy in repetition.
Theres joy in repetition.
Theres joy in repetition.
She said love me, love me, what she say?
She say love me, love me.