Rate the song on the Moh's scale of LYRICAL hardness

I'd say it's a 7.5.

Alice in Chains - Rooster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHXMmddscOM

A hard 6. It IS about the Vietnam war, and does have some darkness/emotion, but it's ultimately about a strong solider who makes it out alive.

Next up, while Pink Floyd's lyrics have been known for being dark and cynical I feel this song takes it the farthest, singling out still-living world leaders for execution.

The Fletcher Memorial Home

Lyrics here

edited 29th Mar '17 8:23:34 AM by WhatArtThee

Definitely a 7. Very political and it calls out the leaders playing games with people.

At The Drive-In-Invalid Letter Dept

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/at+the+drive+in/invalid+litter+dept_20009806.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgAkZfObn0c

3.5 - This might've been somewhat eerie and unsettling if it could've settled on a particular thread of subject matter; its own painfully dense emphasis on metaphors ends up muting much of its impact.

Axis of Advance - Deceiver Purged

The song is about the murders of young woman in Ciudad Juarez. At The Drive-In(and by extension,The Mars Volta) often use a lot of metaphors in their lyrics. The song does mean something, it's just not as straightforward as some of the songs on here.

edited 29th Mar '17 1:36:21 PM by pointless233

That doesn't really change much if it's so vague you have to start googling to try and figure out what it's about. Metaphors tend to work better when they're not slapped together haphazardly as if to obscure more than they reveal.

I don't think ATDI's lyrics are slapped together and I don't think they're trying to be deliberately obscure but whatever. It's your opinion.

edited 29th Mar '17 3:15:18 PM by pointless233

Simply writing everything off as just your opinion, bruh, reeks a bit of trying to deliberately shut discussion down, man.

I'm not trying to shut down a conversation. All I'm just saying is that you have your views and I have mine.

edited 29th Mar '17 3:38:30 PM by pointless233

Anyways, the lyrics to your song are an 8 or 9. Pretty dark stuff.

Throbbing Gristle-Slug Bait

http://www.lyricsmania.com/slug_bait_lyrics_throbbing_gristle.html

Here's the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXsWBMXorhM

Sheesh, level 11. Now that's messed up.

Onto a song by my favorite band:

Rush- Subdivisions

Lyrics

That's a little implicit and redundant given we're disagreeing now, isn't it? The only time people very say "it's just an opinion" is when they have nothing else to offer but the obvious to avoid something that might challenge what they hold dear.

6 - A very poetic description of suburbanite middle class teenage youth disillusionment, worded in a way that captures the angst but perhaps not quite the full visceral impact of such.

Halberd - Ignorance of Morbidity

8. Pretty dark just reading it, especially the beginning with the orphans being left on the streets.

Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.

Lyrics

Either 6 or 7. It's a pretty gritty song about street life and trying to make money.

Pearl Jam-Alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGiTPgvKktM

Here's are the lyrics

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pearljam/alive.html

edited 29th Mar '17 6:28:59 PM by pointless233

Around a 6. Maybe a 7. Deals with the loss of a family member.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee

The lyrics

The song

Sheesh, it's a 9, maybe even a 10. A Murder Ballad with lyrics worthy of Gangsta Rap.

Time for some good old Zep:

Whole Lotta Love

Lyrics here

An 7. Lots of sex talked about in the song and it's pretty blatant.

XTC-Dear God

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/x/xtc/dear+god_20147941.html

Here's the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHmTqoLjlXo

I was Ninja'd

edited 30th Mar '17 5:34:05 AM by pointless233

9. Really hates God and blames God for what's happening in the world.

Kinda surprised no one's mentioned this yet.

Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkXIYgsvO0c)

The Devil gleefully sings about all the atrocities he committed during the whole history of humanity, but since he committed them with the hands of willing mortals, nothing really differs him from us. We are the Devil. I'd say that's a 9.

Arianne - Come Sweet Death

Also, can I post a song in a foreign language if provide a good translation of the lyrics?

6 - Mournful and depressive but not particularly overbearing or forceful about it, enough that you can tell whomever wrote this was at a kind of peace with themselves when it was written.

Demilich - And You'll Remain... (In Pieces in Nothingness)

It's an 8. It's pretty creepy.

Eminem-'97 Bonnie and Clyde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naBlBgZhV20

Here's the Lyrics

https://genius.com/Eminem-97-bonnie-and-clyde-lyrics

8. Very dark, especially for a hip-hop song.

CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share

Lyrics

A song about an exhausted releationship, and the sadness that comes with it. There's one f-word in the lyrics, so it's a 4.

Vladimir Vysotsky - Koni priveredlivyye (Capricious Horses)

Translated lyrics

edited 31st Mar '17 12:22:22 AM by Millership

I'd say somewhere between 6 and 7.

Goldy - Baby By a Dog (lyrics)

9 or 10. These are some dirty lyrics.

Boogiemonsters-Old Man Jacob's Well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oi5vBYsqA

Here's the lyrics

https://genius.com/Boogiemonsters-old-man-jacobs-well-lyrics