Songs with Thief in 'em... Contribute... - by Schwaa2
june gloom on 20/9/2008 at 08:39
Quote Posted by theBlackman
:wot:
NOT!Well as Beleg pointed out, someone suggested The Cure's "Fear of Ghosts" a long time ago and I really don't see it. But the Anathema song, well...
However, I do have this- fitting Thief 2 perfectly:
Science - The new aristocracy
Progress - The world is on the march
Why shouldn't it turn too?
It's the vision of numbers.
We are moving towards the Spirit.
Certainly deserted: It's the voice of the oracle, what I say.
Understand, and not knowing how to express myself without using hidden words.
I prefer to remain silentNaturally it's an Ulver song ("Gnosis", off their
Metamorphosis EP.) Lyrics appear to be adapted after an Arthur Rimbaud poem.
jtr7 on 20/9/2008 at 08:39
I know there's another thread out there for sure, started within this last year, less than two, but likely there are more. I know some music sounds like Brosius's soundscapes, or Subway to Sally, yet the subject matter doesn't necessarily fit. The terms "anathema" and "leave no trace" are part of Thief.
Tannar on 22/9/2008 at 03:10
A Prudent Thief
Album: Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales
words by Cindy Vanous, music Andrew McKee
A prudent thief should never drink so much that he becomes bold.
Because a thief who boasts and brags will rarely live to grow old.
For silence is a thief's best bet and if he breaks this etiquette.
Undoubtedly what he will get...will be more trouble than gold.
Consider Zhele a thief from Greel, who drank at the Swan and Grouse.
He made himself quite popular by buying rounds for the house.
One night in drunken revelry, he made a bet with prideful glee,
But later on he would agree...he never should've been soused.
A thief's best friends are luck and speed, alertness, cunning and stealth.
And ale can cause these all to flee and cheat a thief of his wealth.
But add to this a drunken dare to steal a lock of the Empress' hair,
Then even a fool should be aware...this may be bad for your health.
So Zhele did stumble through the door in his most fearless state.
He slipped in shadows past the guard and snuck through the palace gate.
Then giggling he scaled the wall so drunk he thought he could not fall.
For wasn't he the best of all...and surely favored by Fate.
As he climbed in he saw a girl who was dressed in cloth not fur.
A palace maid? Perhaps a cook? T'was difficult to be sure…
Gillie on 22/9/2008 at 21:35
J. Bon Jovi
Okay it is about Billy the kid and Garrett the Lawman
Hey Patty Garrett that's what I used to call you :cool:
They tell me you want me but I hear they've got you
They made you a lawman with a badge made of silver
They paid you some money to sell them my blood
But you say this ain't about me, this ain't about you
Or the good and the bad times we've both been through
When the lines between brothers and justice have changed
You do what you've got to cause you can't walk away
I wonder what would have happened
If you were the killer
And I was the hero
Would things be the same
Or would I have traded
Your life for my own life
Would I have paid
Your debts in your place
Jason Moyer on 22/9/2008 at 23:18
Can - Thief
theBlackman on 22/9/2008 at 23:22
Error, error, error! Arsène Lupin is the original and is fiction in short stories and novella. Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (11 November 1864 - 6 November 1941), a contemporary of Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, is his creator (author).
The Anime imitation is a pale imitation and a new-comer.
As well as not being a "Song".
I had the impression that "Songs about, or containing" thieves, or words pertaining to was the query. But then hi-jacking threads is the rude norm around here.
demagogue on 23/9/2008 at 00:12
Of course Arsène Lupin is the "original" original gentleman thief.*
But Arsène Lupin III, his grandson, is a classic in his own right, and doesn't need defending when it comes to bona fide thief credentials. And this is no new, flash-in-the-pan character; he's been on since the mid-60's without stop ... one of the most prolific manga/anime series there is, if not the most.
I would have picked more of a song to go with him, but nothing seemed to showcase him as well as the theme music to his show.
If anyone doesn't think it fits here ... what can I say ... If you recognize the music, you immediately think "THIEF!" If you don't, then I guess you don't really think of anything... Anyway, it's just a game. I don't mind that my entry is disqualified since it's just for fun, and it unmistakably evokes "thief" to me.
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* The word "original" was actually first applying to "international man of mystery", but I added "gentleman thief" at the last second for the record ... I should have rearranged that sentence to make it a little more tBM-resistant...
Edit: OK fine ... (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaVIVHZGsNQ) here's a tribute to Goemon, the most Garrett like of the Lupin crew (The original Goemon was a medieval samurai thief, and his descendant is true to that heritage), set to the music (
http://www.lyrics007.com/The%20Rasmus%20Lyrics/In%20The%20Shadows%20Lyrics.html) In the Shadows by Rasmus (song already posted, I think, but it's the context that counts).
demagogue on 23/9/2008 at 01:15
double-post, but it's a completely different point/post.
Other songs that have a Thief (the game) vibe to them, without exactly evoking a thief:
1. (
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Waiting-for-the-Night-lyrics-Depeche-Mode/A76C2BE787C022D7482568B70038924B)
Depeche Mode - Waiting for the Night, so-so ... maybe not
(Garrett might also be the kind of guy who can Enjoy the Silence, but speaking of that: ).
2. (
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/simon+and+garfunkel/the+sound+of+silence_20124712.html) Simon & Garfunkle - Sound of Silence
Quote:
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
[...]
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.
Aside from the role of "silence" and the nighttime cobblestone-street setting, the neon signs sound like Keeper glyphs.
