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What are your favorite lyrics from Mayhem?


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AVeryGagaHolyDick

I always thought “like a god without a prayer” was weird:ladyhaha:

It would make more sense if it was “like a prayer without a god” since the previous line says “You reach out and no one’s there” 

 

But to answer you question, I’ll probably give the most basic answer and it’s also Gaga’s but “It was cold in a summertime”. Gaga rarely paints images like that in her music.

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30 minutes ago, ****oDanceFight said:

 really don't understand fans who say this album has some of her weaker lyrics when, imo, these prove how much stronger of a songwriter she's become since doing Joanne and her jazz records.

I think the songs manage the balancing act between cool lyrics and her feelings quietly good. The Killiah lyrics are just somethin' 🩷They are as good as on The Fame Monster, even better. For example i love Chromatica sonically very much - it is my taste , but there are some weaker lyrics like on Fun Tonight or Free Woman - but MAYHEM is lyrically mostly on point. 

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Lovers kiss in a garden made of thorns, traces of lonely words, illusions torn
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River

two lovers regret their time.

It's a sentence that only couples with a big age gap can really understand and relate, there's 10 years gap between me and my husband and this gap sometimes feels like a lost time and as years will go by, it's going to be tough to see him getting older..

So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy
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"bring me your desire" is my favorite part of all and any versions of disease. Poison/Antidote/Requiem live, etc, a masterpiece. 

"no return" for abracadabra to not quote "amor/morta" and "phantom of the dance floor come to me, sing for me a sinful melody"

"poisoned apple, take a bite" love the biblical metaphors of bisexuality all over garden of eden but this is the best part 

"hollywood's a ghost town" because ngl I love the whole selfmythology of perfect celebrity 

"eyes bleed from the smoke, angels appear/from her beauty, you choke, her lipstick you smear" can't stop the high and the gay! And the ever-present catholiqueer motif 

"like a ghost/when I die can I vanish into you?" I like my love morbid and melancholy, and a shout-out to my favorite LG quote ever, "we were happy just to be alive"

"if I get you alone under your skin and bone/I'ma try you on for size/about to wear you out like my favorite suit/wool's paralyzed" to not say "I'm a killah and boy you're gonna die tonight!" 

"I think about you in my dreams (see you in my dreams)/you're better off a fantasy" for zombieboy because it echoes queer themes

"the music's gonna bring me back from death" from the dead dance, a most dear to me

"my heart is in a bind/if I could bear it on my own" for lovedrug 

Nothing for how bad do u want me. But, for the sake of the prompt, "that girl in your head ain't real"

"we twist the knife too many times to say goodbye" and all of don't call tonight's bridge 

"you know what I am"/"I know what you are" another amazingly put queer theme by kill for love

"I don't wanna be the one to fall on the knife to come alive" shadow of a man just made me realize the knifemotif going on... hollup let her cook 

"you got your hands a little red, tick tock, you're out of time" ominous, eerie, the best of the beast

"this is the lawn of memories I mourn/I fall into your eyes, shelter from storm" the best of blade of grass

"I don't even wanna do this anymore" for die with a smile. Joking, it's "if the world was ending, I'd wanna be next to you"

I don't believe in the glorification of murder, I do believe in the empowerment of women
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