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| 2 | [[folder: #-D]] |
| 3 | * [[Music/ThreeOHThree 3OH!3]]'s "Don't Trust Me" gives us this absolute gem: |
| 4 | -->And tell your boyfriend, if he says he's got beef |
| 5 | -->That I'm a vegetarian and I ain't [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin']] scared of him |
| 6 | * Music/{{ACDC}}'s "T.N.T." |
| 7 | -->'Cause I'm T.N.T., I'm dynamite\ |
| 8 | T.N.T., and I'll win the fight\ |
| 9 | T.N.T., I'm a power load\ |
| 10 | T.N.T., watch me explode |
| 11 | * Music/AskingAlexandria's "Reckless & Relentless" |
| 12 | --> I! AM! ROCK AND ROLL!!! |
| 13 | * Music/{{Amaranthe}}'s "Unreal" |
| 14 | -->You can try to defeat me, you won't win\ |
| 15 | You won't beat me on the field\ |
| 16 | My fortitude beyond unreal\ |
| 17 | If you dare interfere me\ |
| 18 | Slow me down or impede me\ |
| 19 | I guarantee, my vengeance will be so unreal |
| 20 | ** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Invincible"]] too. |
| 21 | --->''Can't you see who I am? I'm invincible'' |
| 22 | --->''Like a force that is out of control'' |
| 23 | --->''But this power runs deep in my soul'' |
| 24 | * Given their love of fantasy and sci-fi pulp, PurpleProse, and use of first-person [=POVs=] in their songs, Music/BalSagoth's lyrics are positively ''stuffed'' with elaborate and original {{Badass Boast}}s. Particular credit though has to go to the song ''Of Carnage and the Gathering of Wolves'': |
| 25 | --> Yes... I am the scythe in the field at summer |
| 26 | --> I am the thunder which awakens the earth |
| 27 | --> I am that which gives the night air its chill |
| 28 | --> ... |
| 29 | --> I am far beyond the ken of men |
| 30 | --> My gaze shall make the night tremble! |
| 31 | * "A National Acrobat" by Ozzy-era Music/BlackSabbath. |
| 32 | -->I am the one that hides the universal secret of all time |
| 33 | -->Destruction of the empty spaces is my one and only crime |
| 34 | -->I've lived a thousand times, I've found out what it means to be believed |
| 35 | -->The thoughts and images, the unborn child that never was conceived |
| 36 | * [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlindGuardian Blind Guardian's]] "And then there was silence" with |
| 37 | --> "We have been betrayed by the wind and the rain |
| 38 | --> The sacred hall's empty and cold |
| 39 | --> The sacrifice made should not be done in vain |
| 40 | --> Revenge will be taken by Rome" |
| 41 | |
| 42 | --> "We don't regret it |
| 43 | --> So many men have failed but now he's (gone) |
| 44 | --> Go out and get it |
| 45 | --> The madman's head it shall be thine |
| 46 | --> We don't regret it |
| 47 | --> That someone else dies hidden in (disguise) |
| 48 | --> Go out and get it |
| 49 | --> Orion's hound shines bright |
| 50 | --> No hope |
| 51 | --> The blind leads the blind |
| 52 | --> Carry on |
| 53 | --> Though future's denied |
| 54 | |
| 55 | --> Mare or stallion |
| 56 | --> There's far more inside |
| 57 | --> We are in at the kill we'll cheerfully die." |
| 58 | * BoastfulRap in general. |
| 59 | * Music/BobMarley's "Small Axe": |
| 60 | --> If you are the big tree\ |
| 61 | We are the small axe\ |
| 62 | Ready to cut you down... |
| 63 | * Music/BoDiddley's "Who Do You Love?" |
| 64 | --> I walk 47 miles of barbed wire\ |
| 65 | I use a cobra snake for a necktie\ |
| 66 | I got a brand new house out on the roadside\ |
| 67 | Made out of rattlesnake hide\ |
| 68 | I got a brand new chimney made on top\ |
| 69 | Made out of a human skull\ |
| 70 | Come take a little walk with me and tell me\ |
| 71 | [[TitleDrop Who do you love?]] |
| 72 | * A lot of martial music does this. An example from ''The British Grenadiers'': |
| 73 | -->"Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules," |
| 74 | -->"Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these." |
| 75 | -->"But of all the world's great heroes, there's none that can compare." |
| 76 | -->"With a tow, row, row, row, row, row, to the British Grenadiers." |
| 77 | --> "Those heroes of antiquity ne'er saw a cannon ball," |
| 78 | --> "Or knew the force of powder to slay their foes withal." |
| 79 | --> "But our brave boys do know it, and banish all their fears," |
| 80 | --> "With a tow, row, row, row, row, row, for the British Grenadiers." |
| 81 | * Piece Of Me by Music/BritneySpears |
| 82 | ---> ''No wonder there's panic in the industry'' |
| 83 | * Brown Bird's ''Blood of Angels'' is about a ''[[TheNightThatNeverEnds very]]'' [[RageAgainstTheHeavens angry person]]. |
| 84 | --> I tried to drink the [[TitleDrop blood of angels]] from a bottle |
| 85 | --> [[SmiteMeOMightySmiter Just to see if I could call the lightning down]]. |
| 86 | --> It hasn't struck me yet, and I would wager my soul to bet |
| 87 | --> That there ain't no one throwing lightning anyhow! |
| 88 | * Chase & Status - No Problem |
| 89 | --> I move like water, I go with the flow |
| 90 | --> I go back to old school, I go back to Rome |
| 91 | --> But this is no history it's the start of the show |
| 92 | --> Never worry that is the way that I roll |
| 93 | --> I'm a bad man, what is it? Let me say again |
| 94 | --> You can try copy like a slave to a trend |
| 95 | --> Nothing they can say and nothing they can do |
| 96 | --> It's no problem for me, but it's a problem for you. |
| 97 | * {{Music/Chumbawamba}}'s classic ''Tubthumping'': |
| 98 | --> I get knocked down, but I get up again |
| 99 | --> You're never gonna keep me down |
| 100 | * {{Music/Clutch}} has a few. |
| 101 | ** "Subtle Hustle" on the album "Blast Tyrant." |
| 102 | --> I got your number |
| 103 | --> I steal your thunder |
| 104 | --> I got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm! |
| 105 | ** "Walking In The Great Shining Path Of Monster Trucks" is almost nothing ''but'' these. |
| 106 | -->[[ToHellAndBack Well I crashed a Cadillac through the gates of Hell and returned with a fist full of dollars]] |
| 107 | -->And Evel Knievel, like Virgil |
| 108 | -->Was a gentleman as well as a scholar |
| 109 | * Music/CoheedAndCambria's [[ConceptAlbum albums]] are a [[SpaceOpera sci-fi epic about]] [[SelfInsertFic Claudio Kilgannon]], [[TheChosenOne prophesied to defeat]] [[BigBad Supreme Tri-Mage Wilhelm Ryan]], [[YouKilledMyFather the man responsible for his family's deaths]]. In the song ''The End Complete'', which describes their [[FinalBattle final battle]], Ryan boasts: |
| 110 | -->We are the fate of Hell and |
| 111 | -->The call of Justice |
| 112 | -->We are now waiting while you wish us away |
| 113 | -->With your plans in all deliverance |
| 114 | -->Won't take us over, baby! |
| 115 | -->God (He will not save you) |
| 116 | -->Is not (He will not save you) |
| 117 | -->here! (He will not save you from this) |
| 118 | * Music/{{Cormorant}} touches upon this in "The Purest Land" |
| 119 | -->My deeds live on, |
| 120 | -->for I have seen what men |
| 121 | -->could only dream they saw. |
| 122 | -->I have seen what men |
| 123 | -->could only dream they saw. |
| 124 | * Given that RageAgainstTheHeavens is pretty much ''The Crown's'' raison d'etre, these are pretty common in their lyrics. One particularly memorable one is from the song "Deathexplosion" (no, really) |
| 125 | -->All legends tell of me |
| 126 | -->Creating a killing spree |
| 127 | -->What the legend doesn't say |
| 128 | -->IS THAT I'M COMING BACK ONE DAY! |
| 129 | * Music/CypressHill's [[Music/BlackSundayAlbum "Insane In The Brain"]] sums up decades of rap boasting in one simple lyric: |
| 130 | -->'''SEN DOG''': "Punks just jealous 'cause they can't outwrite me" |
| 131 | * The Crystal Method's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khJd_upjov8 Play For Real]] seems to take it to the next logical step: the person singing doesn't need to boast about his achievements. You should already know them. So the only logical thing is to ''question your sanity for challenging him''. |
| 132 | -->You gotta be mad\ |
| 133 | Or stone-cold crazy\ |
| 134 | Outta your mind\ |
| 135 | If you wanna play with me\ |
| 136 | What are you, sick?\ |
| 137 | Or maybe just straight-up ill\ |
| 138 | You gotta be crazy as fuck\ |
| 139 | If you wanna play for real |
| 140 | * Music/DavidGuetta's "Titanium": |
| 141 | --> I'm bulletproof, nothin' to lose |
| 142 | --> Fire away, fire away |
| 143 | --> Ricochet, you take your aim |
| 144 | --> Fire away, fire away |
| 145 | --> You shoot me down, but I won't fall |
| 146 | --> I am titanium |
| 147 | * Dean Brody's song, "[[https://youtu.be/r-ETlr40I3g Cattleman's Gun]]" relates the tale about kindly old preacher who beseeches his followers to forgive rather than seek vengeance against the Cattleman, a skilled but cruel gunfighter whom has been terrorizing the town. All that changes one day when the Cattleman [[MoralEventHorizon guns down a farmer in front of his two sons]] then taunts the boys as they're crying over their father's body...at which point the preacher emerges from the church [[DeathGlare with fiery murder in his eyes]] and issues the following threat to the Cattleman, before [[BewareTheNiceOnes gunning the tyrant down]] before he can even clear leather: |
| 148 | --> ''" Your ticket to hell is a comin' to you, and I got a hollow-point to give you the ride!"'' |
| 149 | * Music/DemonHunter, being a [[ChristianRock Christian Metal]] band often have badass metal anthems boasting about being warriors of God that can tear down even hell itself in his name. Lines taken from This I Know (featured on the VideoGame/KillingFloor2 soundtrack) |
| 150 | -->I am the ruthless bane of a wicked world |
| 151 | -->And I prey on the killing floor |
| 152 | |
| 153 | -->Let my will be a violent path |
| 154 | -->To tear apart what’s left |
| 155 | -->All Hell falls down around my feet when I speak with a word of wrath |
| 156 | * "Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniel Band. Admittedly, it's for a duel by fiddles, but... |
| 157 | -->My name's Johnnie |
| 158 | -->And it might be a sin |
| 159 | -->But I'll take your bet |
| 160 | -->And you're gonna regret |
| 161 | -->Cause I'm the best that's ever been. |
| 162 | ** You mean a ''badass'' fiddle duel. |
| 163 | -->Now Devil you just come on back |
| 164 | -->If you ever wanna try it again |
| 165 | -->I done told you once you old sonofabitch |
| 166 | -->'''IM THE BEST THAT'S EVER BEEN!''' |
| 167 | * "The Queen's Rebuke" from a concept album by Music/TheDecemberists features the hero's fae foster mother, boasting her immortality and power over the forest: |
| 168 | -->I'm made of bones of the branches the boughs and the brow-beating light |
| 169 | -->While my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy high |
| 170 | -->And my fingers extend to the leaves in the eves, and the bright |
| 171 | -->Brighter shine, it's my shine |
| 172 | * Music/{{Dio}} era Music/BlackSabbath had "I", another boast-in-song-form, this one from the point of view of an AntiHero. The end of the last verse, however, outbadasses the rest of the song. |
| 173 | -->I'll smash your face in |
| 174 | -->But with a smile |
| 175 | -->All together you'll never |
| 176 | -->Be stronger than me |
| 177 | * "Indestructible" by Music/{{Disturbed}} is one long boast. [[AwesomeMusic/{{Music}} And it works]]. |
| 178 | -->No hesitation / When I am commanded to strike |
| 179 | -->You need to know that you're in for the fight of your life |
| 180 | -->You will be shown / How I've become |
| 181 | -->Indestructible / Determination that is incorruptible |
| 182 | -->From the other side a terror to behold / Annihilation will be unavoidable |
| 183 | -->Every broken enemy will know / That their opponent had to be invincible |
| 184 | -->Take a last look around while you're alive |
| 185 | -->I'm an indestructible Master of war! |
| 186 | ** "Divide," off the same album, though it doesn't go to nearly the same extreme: |
| 187 | --> You might say that I'm the last man standing now, |
| 188 | --> Though you'll try, you'll never find a way to break me |
| 189 | ** "Warrior" from the next album takes this to a stupidly extreme level, sounding as if Dave Draiman watched multiple episodes of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' for reference. |
| 190 | -->I am an instrument of violence / I am a vessel of invincibility |
| 191 | -->I cannot leave this undecided / Stepping down to battle another day |
| 192 | -->Remember me for all time, this / Determination is a vital part of me |
| 193 | -->Surrender now or be counted / With the endless masses that I will defeat |
| 194 | -->Broken down till your hope has died / Beat down till the victory's mine |
| 195 | -->Stand up and show me some pride, are you ready? |
| 196 | -->I'm one with the warrior inside / My dominance can't be denied |
| 197 | -->Your entire world will turn into a battlefield tonight |
| 198 | -->As I look upon you / Through the warrior's eyes now |
| 199 | -->I can see the fear that will ensure my victory this time |
| 200 | -->I can't be told of compromise / They'll never doubt the body lying at my feet |
| 201 | -->A most formidable reminder / They will speak my name for eternity |
| 202 | -->I have no need of any guidance / I am a weapon, powerful beyond belief |
| 203 | -->Seen through the warrior's eyes / I never need to question how to defeat you |
| 204 | ** And then there is their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piX_CDdRwNw&list=FLaeoX3CApple3apt_n02XTA&index=11 theme song]] for Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin. |
| 205 | * Music/{{Disciple}} had a few |
| 206 | ** Unbroken is an entire extended one with lyrics like |
| 207 | -->So come what may let the waters rise and I’ll walk on the tides |
| 208 | -->Won’t let my faith be haunted by the bones that lay behind |
| 209 | -->Cause there’s an ending that’s unseen that I choose to believe |
| 210 | -->that I won’t break |
| 211 | |
| 212 | -->So let sky fall down, the earthquake shake the ground |
| 213 | -->I am coming out, I’m coming out Unbroken |
| 214 | ** Outlaws |
| 215 | -->We're more than faces, we're more than just names |
| 216 | -->We're more than labels the hypocrites gave |
| 217 | -->We're the affection of the Unseen |
| 218 | -->We are the sons and daughters of the King |
| 219 | ** Kings |
| 220 | -->Lie if you want in your bed of hate |
| 221 | -->We're not your slaves |
| 222 | -->We are the kings with a King |
| 223 | * Music/DoctorSteel has one in [[StartOfDarkness Lament for a toy factory]]: |
| 224 | -->''I am the nightmare that crushes your dreams'' |
| 225 | -->''I’m the greatest creator this world’s ever seen!'' |
| 226 | * Music/DrDre and Music/IceCube's "Natural Born Killaz" combines Badass Boast, BlasphemousBoast, DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu and RefugeInAudacity: |
| 227 | -->'''CUBE''': "So FUCK [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson CHARLIE MANSON]]\ |
| 228 | I'll snatch him out of his truck\ |
| 229 | Hit em with a brick\ |
| 230 | And I'm dancin" |
| 231 | * Music/{{Donovan}} with "Sunshine Superman": "Superman and Green Lantern ain't got nothing on me!" |
| 232 | ** Even that pales in comparison to "Lord Of The Universe". |
| 233 | --> I never lived and I'll never die\ |
| 234 | It's all the same to me\ |
| 235 | 'Cause I'm the Lord, I'm the king of the universe\ |
| 236 | And it's best you don't mess with me\ |
| 237 | ('Cause I'll stomp on ya!) |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder: E-K]] |
| 241 | * Music/{{Eluveitie}}'s ''Kingdom Come Undone'' is basically a 03:22 BadassBoast SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic consider the chorus: |
| 242 | -->This is V for vengeance |
| 243 | -->This is V for vehemence |
| 244 | -->This is V for victory |
| 245 | -->This is V for Vercingetorix |
| 246 | --> [...] |
| 247 | -->This is V for verdict |
| 248 | -->This is V for valour |
| 249 | -->This is V for venture |
| 250 | -->This is revolt |
| 251 | -->This is kingdom come undone |
| 252 | * Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HChXoAprXsM Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression]] |
| 253 | ---> ''No man yields who flies on my ship!'' |
| 254 | * Music/{{Eminem}} does this right off the bat in Godzilla. |
| 255 | -->I can swallow a\ |
| 256 | Bottle of\ |
| 257 | Alcohol and I'll\ |
| 258 | Feel like Godzilla |
| 259 | * Music/FatsDomino had one of the earliest proto-Rock'n'roll hits with "The Fat Man", a boasting song about his sex appeal. |
| 260 | -->"They call, they call me the fat man\ |
| 261 | 'Cause I weigh two hundred pounds\ |
| 262 | All the girls they love me\ |
| 263 | 'Cause [[DoubleEntendre I know my way around]]" |
| 264 | * [[FilkSong Filk singer]] Rob Balder's song "[[YetAnotherStupidDeath Yet Another Stupid Decade]]: ''VideoGame/NetHack'' Turns 20" ([[http://www.thefump.com/lyrics.php?id=93 available here]]) contains this boast: |
| 265 | --> "I've played since the eighties! I've seen more dungeons than Torquemada! I've killed more explorers than malaria! I've kicked in more doors than the LAPD and I've opened more chests than a M* A* S* H unit! Crom help me, I have ascended a [[JokeCharacter Tourist]]." |
| 266 | * War is the Answer by Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch is one long Badass boast.. |
| 267 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA&feature=related Flobots' "Handlebars"]] is one giant BadassBoast. |
| 268 | * Music/FloggingMolly is rather fond of these too. "You Won't Make a Fool Out Of Me". |
| 269 | -->For green is the heart of your greed |
| 270 | -->That much I can tell |
| 271 | -->You may think you're the captain of me |
| 272 | -->But I'm your coffin ship from hell |
| 273 | |
| 274 | -->But you won't |
| 275 | -->No, no, no you won't |
| 276 | -->You won't make a fool out of me |
| 277 | * Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine's Seven Devils |
| 278 | ---> ''Holy water'' |
| 279 | ---> ''Cannot help you now'' |
| 280 | ---> ''A thousand armies'' |
| 281 | ---> ''Couldn't keep me down'' |
| 282 | |
| 283 | ---> ''I AM ALL THERE IS!'' |
| 284 | * Music/FooFighters -- "Pretender": |
| 285 | -->I'm the voice inside your head |
| 286 | -->You refuse to hear |
| 287 | -->I'm the face that you have to face |
| 288 | -->Mirrored in your stare |
| 289 | -->I'm what's left, I'm what's right |
| 290 | -->I'm the enemy |
| 291 | -->I'm the hand that will take you down |
| 292 | -->Bring you to your knees |
| 293 | * At least half of {{Christian|Rock}} {{Metalcore}} band Music/ForToday's songs are this. |
| 294 | --> Hell, fear me\ |
| 295 | I am the one that will bring you down\ |
| 296 | And when you fall, feel me\ |
| 297 | I'll see your face on the battleground\ |
| 298 | \ |
| 299 | Let my name be fear at the gates of Hell\ |
| 300 | as I exalt the Savior\ |
| 301 | The one who died to bring my victory\ |
| 302 | and give me a new name\ |
| 303 | \ |
| 304 | In the name of the Holy One of God\ |
| 305 | \ |
| 306 | I will cast you down\ |
| 307 | at the foot of the cross He hung from\ |
| 308 | I will stand behind my Savior\ |
| 309 | as I burn your kingdom down\ |
| 310 | \ |
| 311 | And I will see you on your knees\ |
| 312 | before the King of Kings\ |
| 313 | You will lose your throne\ |
| 314 | to the Chosen One\ |
| 315 | \ |
| 316 | The chosen ones will rise |
| 317 | * Music/FoxyShazam's [[LargeHam bombastic]] performance style means that their lyrics and live shows are full of this. During a live show lead singer Eric Nally once shouted into the audience, [[https://youtu.be/g3j3RpioJ5s?t=3m11s "20 bucks says nobody here can kill me! I'll get to you before you can get to me!"]] |
| 318 | ** In addition to repeated shoutings of "I'm a dangerous man", the song "A Dangerous Man" has: |
| 319 | -->''I thought you said I never could, well I did''\ |
| 320 | ''[[WhosLaughingNow I did it right in front of your face]]'' |
| 321 | ** from "Introducing Foxy": |
| 322 | -->''Kill everyone here''\ |
| 323 | ''[[LeaveNoSurvivors Ain't no survivors]]''\ |
| 324 | ''Making it clear''\ |
| 325 | ''Yeah, making it clear''\ |
| 326 | ''With a [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud ruff ruff]]''\ |
| 327 | ''Ah, they won't do anything''\ |
| 328 | ''I don't know about you but I feel I got all the power in hand'' |
| 329 | * [[Music/MyWay "My Way"]] by Creator/FrankSinatra is one entire badass boast from the start to finish, all the more impressive if you consider it to be from the viewpoint of someone at the end of his life, who may have had "times when he bit off more than he could chew", but still thinks that despite all he still came through. |
| 330 | * "St. Jimmy" from Music/GreenDay's ''Music/AmericanIdiot'' is pretty much one big Badass Boast: |
| 331 | -->St. Jimmy's coming down across the alleyway |
| 332 | -->Upon the boulevard like a zip gun on parade |
| 333 | -->Light of his silhouette, he's insubordinate |
| 334 | -->Comin' at you on the count of 1, 2—(1, 2, 3, 4!) |
| 335 | -->My name is Jimmy and you better not wear it out |
| 336 | -->Suicide commando that your momma talked about |
| 337 | -->King of the forty thieves and I'm here to represent |
| 338 | -->The needle in the vein of the establishment |
| 339 | -->I'm the patron saint of the denial |
| 340 | -->With an angel face and a taste for suicidal |
| 341 | -->Cigarettes and ramen and a little bag of dope |
| 342 | -->I am the son of a bitch and Edgar Allen Poe |
| 343 | -->Raised in the city in the halo of lights |
| 344 | -->Product of war and fear that we've been victimized... |
| 345 | -->Are you talking to me? I'll give you something to cry about! ST JIMMY! |
| 346 | -->My name is St. Jimmy, I'm the son of a gun |
| 347 | -->I'm the one that's from the way outside, now |
| 348 | -->I'm a teenage assassin executing some fun |
| 349 | -->In the cult of the life of crime, now |
| 350 | -->I really hate to say it, but I told you so |
| 351 | -->So shut your mouth before I shoot you down, old boy |
| 352 | -->Welcome to the club, and give me some blood |
| 353 | -->I'm the resident leader at the lost and found |
| 354 | -->It's comedy and tragedy |
| 355 | -->It's St. Jimmy, and that's my name...and don't you fucking wear it out!!!! |
| 356 | * Constantly parodied by ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'', either as the theme of the whole song or as dialogue within it. |
| 357 | ** Entire songs, and who's boasting or being boasted on behalf of: |
| 358 | *** "Hail to Crail" (Brotherhood of Crail) |
| 359 | *** "Legend of the Astral Hammer" (Angus [=McFife=] XIII) |
| 360 | *** "The Hollywood Hootsman" (the Hootsman) |
| 361 | *** "Victorious Eagle Warfare" (Brotherhood of Crail) |
| 362 | *** "Masters of the Galaxy" (Death Knights of Crail) |
| 363 | *** "Power of the Laser Dragon Fire" (the heroes) |
| 364 | *** "Gloryhammer" (Angus [=McFife=] XIII) |
| 365 | *** "Hootsforce" (the Hootsforce) |
| 366 | *** "Battle for Eternity" (the heroes) |
| 367 | *** "Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost" (the kingdom of Fife) |
| 368 | *** "Wasteland Warrior Hoots Patrol" (the heroes, the Hootsman) |
| 369 | *** "Brothers of Crail" (Brotherhood of Crail) |
| 370 | *** "Fife Eternal" (the heroes) |
| 371 | *** "Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy" ([[BigBad Zargothrax]]) |
| 372 | * Music/KanyeWest's ''Jesus Walks'' has: |
| 373 | --> "Harrasin' arrestors harass and arrest us, |
| 374 | --> Sayin' 'we eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!' |
| 375 | --> 'Huh, y'all eat pieces of shit?...'" |
| 376 | ** He's nicking Adam Sandler jokes now? Ladies and Gentlemen, the voice of a generation. |
| 377 | *** It's [[TakeThatUs that kind of generation]]. |
| 378 | * Music/{{Halsey}} does this often, most notably in "Hurricane": |
| 379 | -->''I'm a wanderess, I'm a one-night stand |
| 380 | -->Don't belong to no city, don't belong to no man |
| 381 | -->I'm the violence in the pouring rain |
| 382 | -->I'm a hurricane.'' |
| 383 | ** And then again, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic even more so]], in "Control": |
| 384 | --> ''I'm bigger than my body, I'm colder than this home |
| 385 | -->I'm meaner than my demons, I'm bigger than these bones |
| 386 | -->And all the kids cried out, "Please stop, you're scaring me" |
| 387 | -->I can't help this awful energy |
| 388 | -->God damn right, you should be scared of me.'' |
| 389 | * [[GenreMashup One-man acoustic punk troubadour]] Hamell On Trial's "The Meeting" gives us |
| 390 | -->I'm rocking like Music/TheClash |
| 391 | -->It's acoustic kind of meanery |
| 392 | -->I'm as bad as Music/NineInchNails |
| 393 | -->Except I don't need machinery! |
| 394 | * Music/HayleyKiyoko's SignatureSong "Girls Like Girls" has a verse that's pretty much entirely a badass boast, albeit of a more personal and self-affirming sort. |
| 395 | --->''Always gonna steal your thunder, watch me like a dark cloud'' |
| 396 | --->''On the move, collecting numbers-I'mma take your girl out'' |
| 397 | --->''We will be everything that we'd ever need, oh'' |
| 398 | --->''Don't tell me, tell me what I feel-I'm real and I don't feel like boys!'' |
| 399 | * Music/IronMaiden's "The Trooper" |
| 400 | -->You'll take my life but I'll take yours too |
| 401 | -->You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through |
| 402 | -->So when you're waiting for the next attack |
| 403 | -->You'd better stand there's no turning back. |
| 404 | * Music/JimiHendrix: "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" |
| 405 | -->''Well I'm standing next to a mountain'' |
| 406 | -->''And I chop it down with the edge of my hand'' |
| 407 | * Jen Titus does a brilliant one in "O Death", honoring Death itself. |
| 408 | --> Well I am Death, none can excel, |
| 409 | --> I open the door between Heaven or Hell. |
| 410 | --> My name is Death and The End is here. |
| 411 | * According to "Folsom Prison Blues", Music/JohnnyCash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. |
| 412 | ** The entirety of "Ain't No Grave" is a Badass Boast. |
| 413 | * All verses in Music/JudasPriest's "Hard As Iron" is a BadassBoast of some kind. The chorus of "Blood Red Skies" is also a BadassBoast: "You won't break me/You won't make me/You won't take me/Under [[TitleDrop blood red skies]]", as are "Tyrant", "The Ripper", parts of "Invader", "Killing Machine", "Electric Eye", "Riding on the Wind" if you assume it's in 1st person, "You've got Another Thing Comin'", possibly "Love Bites", "Heavy Du-" let's just say "a lot". |
| 414 | * Kaleidoscope's rendition of 'Oh Death' |
| 415 | -->My name is Death, and none can excel\ |
| 416 | I can open the gates to heaven or hell |
| 417 | * Karliene's "Wolves of the North" is a ''Series/GameOfThrones'' song from the perspective of the remaining members of House Stark, finally reunited and itching to avenge their murdered family members. |
| 418 | -->And we howl for our fallen\ |
| 419 | And we howl for our slain\ |
| 420 | To [[Characters/GameOfThronesHouseLannister the lions]], we give warning\ |
| 421 | That we'll howl on their graves\ |
| 422 | And we howl for our family\ |
| 423 | And we howl for our name\ |
| 424 | To the lions, we are coming\ |
| 425 | And we'll howl on your graves! |
| 426 | * Music/KenAshcorp does this sometimes, but most notably in his song "Touch Fluffy Tail", where the singer is a self assured adventurer. |
| 427 | -->''I don't give a damn, not an iota,'' |
| 428 | -->''Motherfucker, I'm the [[ItMakesSenseInContext Straightest Shota!]]'' |
| 429 | * The Eurobeat song "The Top" by Ken Blast has a long badass boast |
| 430 | -->What were you thinking telling me to change my game? |
| 431 | -->That style wasn't going anywhere, it was kaputt! |
| 432 | -->Don't you see what I've done with this place? This whole thing? |
| 433 | -->Don't you see that I've changed the game? No! I am the game! |
| 434 | |
| 435 | -->Before I knew where this was going I wouldn't listen to you |
| 436 | -->But right now I've distanced myself from whatever you have to say |
| 437 | -->I made this something way bigger than you were ever gonna be |
| 438 | -->I made it this far....and I'm taking it to the top |
| 439 | * Music/KendrickLamar dropped quite a few in Big Sean's "Control": |
| 440 | --> I'm important like the Pope; I'm a Muslim on pork\ |
| 441 | I'm Makaveli's offspring, I'm the King of New York\ |
| 442 | King of the Coast; one hand, I juggle 'em both\ |
| 443 | the Juggernaut's all in ya jugular, you take me for jokes\ |
| 444 | ---- |
| 445 | --> And I'm gon' get it even if you're in the way\ |
| 446 | And if you're in it, better run, for Pete's sakes\ |
| 447 | ---- |
| 448 | ** And of course, the four bars that the verse is famous for: |
| 449 | --> And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big K.R.I.T., Wale,\ |
| 450 | Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake,\ |
| 451 | Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller\ |
| 452 | I got love for you all, but I'm tryna murder you niggas! |
| 453 | * Music/KidRock: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! AM! AMERICAN BADASS!]][[note]](but I [[{{Sampling}} steal]] from Music/{{Metallica}})[[/note]] |
| 454 | ** The entire song "Cocky" is a badass boast, summed up by the chorus |
| 455 | --> They say I'm cocky, and I say ''what''?\ |
| 456 | It ain't bragging, [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker]], if you back it up |
| 457 | ** From "I Am The Bullgod" (Kid Rock does this a lot) |
| 458 | --> A lotta people poke fun and that's all right\ |
| 459 | But when I start poking back they get all uptight\ |
| 460 | You can't cap with the master, son\ |
| 461 | So sit your ass down 'fore I blast you one. |
| 462 | * The lyrics for "The Man" by [[{{Music/TheKillers}} The Killers]] are filled to the brim with this throughout the song. Here are the lines in the chorus, for example: |
| 463 | -->I got gas in the tank\ |
| 464 | I got money in the bank\ |
| 465 | I got news for you baby, you're looking at the man.\ |
| 466 | I got skin in the game\ |
| 467 | I got a household name\ |
| 468 | I got news for you baby, you're looking at the man. |
| 469 | * At the beginning of Side One of Music/{{KISS}}' ''[[Music/KISSAliveII Alive II]]'' album: "You wanted the best, and you got the best! The hottest band in the world...KISS!" |
| 470 | [[/folder]] |
| 471 | |
| 472 | [[folder: L-P]] |
| 473 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9qFZjaTJEY Break You]]'', by Music/LambOfGod. Many of their songs are like this: |
| 474 | -->You taught me hate, I'll teach you fear. |
| 475 | -->Open the eyes, kill despair. |
| 476 | -->You tried to squeeze the life from me. |
| 477 | -->Son of a bitch, I'm going to break you. |
| 478 | * The number of ludicrous claims Music/LilB has made boggles the mind. Here's a sample of what he has claimed about himself: |
| 479 | -->I'm retired nigga I already ruled the world |
| 480 | -->I'm UsefulNotes/BillClinton |
| 481 | -->I'm Creator/ParisHilton |
| 482 | -->I'm [[MillionairePlayboy Hugh Hefner]] |
| 483 | -->I look like Bill Gates mixed with [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] |
| 484 | -->Girlfriend look like Ellen [Degeneres] |
| 485 | ** One of his songs is titled "I'm God" |
| 486 | ** He takes it further a year later by calling his tape ''God's Father''. |
| 487 | ** His song "Wanton Soup" is about "fuck[ing] your bitch" and then "eat[ing] wanton soup." |
| 488 | ** Pretty sure "Look Like Jesus" takes the cake: |
| 489 | -->Hoes on my dick 'cause I look like Jesus |
| 490 | -->Young Based God coming straight with the heater |
| 491 | -->Niggas getting mad cause I dress like Jesus Christ |
| 492 | -->I'm that pretty bitch, I'mma fuck her all night |
| 493 | * Music/LilWayne's "Drop The World": |
| 494 | -->"Pick the world up and I'ma DROP it on yo' fuckin head, yeah\ |
| 495 | Bitch I'ma pick the world up and I'ma DROP it on yo' fuckin head, yeah\ |
| 496 | And I could die now, [[AlbumTitleDrop rebirth]] motherfucker\ |
| 497 | Hop up in my spaceship and leave Earth motherfucker\ |
| 498 | I'm gone.. motherfucker I'm gone" |
| 499 | * Music/MachineGirl's track "Suck Shit" is full of these: |
| 500 | -->I'll end your fucking ass, that's not a threat, it's a fact\ |
| 501 | You're a stupid little boy and your jokes are fucking whack\ |
| 502 | I'll eat your heart for breakfast and save your bones as a snack\ |
| 503 | So bitch, you better run for cover when I attack! |
| 504 | * Nearly ''anything'' by '''Music/{{Manowar}}''', music's [[LargeHam penultimate]] Badass Boasters. They are the living embodiment of this trope. |
| 505 | ** "The Crown and the Ring" is a long, Norse-flavored badass boast, including the stanza: "High and mighty alone we are kings / Whirlwinds of fire we ride / Providence brought us the crown and the ring / Covered with blood and our pride". |
| 506 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9OnQDhlZA King of Kings]]. |
| 507 | * First two minutes of Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "Prince of Darkness" are boasts from {{Satan}} itself, culminating in: |
| 508 | -->I am more powerful than all the armies of the world |
| 509 | -->I am more violent than violence, more deadly than death |
| 510 | -->I have destroyed more men than all the nation's wars |
| 511 | -->I am relentless, unpredictable, waiting for your last breath |
| 512 | ** "Public Enemy No. 1" has a pretty boastful chorus. |
| 513 | --->I'm invincible |
| 514 | --->You might say despicable |
| 515 | --->Punishment's reciprocal |
| 516 | --->Public Enemy number one |
| 517 | --->I'm unbeatable |
| 518 | --->My mind is untreatable |
| 519 | --->Crimes unrepeatable |
| 520 | --->Public Enemy number one |
| 521 | *** The same song drops the line "The posters say I'm wanted 'dead or dead' / Anyone who's tried got a bullet to the head". |
| 522 | * Music/TheMegas: Quite a few of the Robot Masters get one of these lines, as does Mega Man himself. |
| 523 | -->'''Mega Man:''' The road that I walk is a gathering storm.\ |
| 524 | '''Air Man:''' I'll usher in the end upon my thunder chariot!\ |
| 525 | '''Metal Man:''' As soon as you step foot inside that door, you'll fall victim to my metal dance.\ |
| 526 | '''Wood Man:''' It'll take more to stop this war than a little boy in blue. When the leaves fall, so will you.\ |
| 527 | '''Snake Man:''' You can fight for the steel, or die beneath my heel. It's up to you.\ |
| 528 | '''Top Man:''' I'm the one on top, I'm the one who makes history, yeah. You can't stop the rhythm of victory.\ |
| 529 | '''Also Top Man:''' I've been told I can cut a rug, but ''tonight it's gonna bleed.''\ |
| 530 | '''Hard Man:''' Harder than steel![[note]]delivered by the crowd, admittedly, rather than Hard Man himself[[/note]]\ |
| 531 | '''Shadow Man:''' I am the knife in a gunfight!\ |
| 532 | '''Skull Man:''' It's not this world that needs saving.\ |
| 533 | '''Also Skull Man:''' What is dead can never die! |
| 534 | * The country song "Sixteen Tons", originally performed by Merle Travis and made famous by Music/TennesseeErnieFord (and covered by numerous other artists ranging from other country acts such as Music/JohnnyCash to Swedish doom metal bands like Memento Mori) features this segment: |
| 535 | --> Well if you see me comin' better step aside |
| 536 | --> A lotta men didn't and a lotta men died |
| 537 | --> One fist of iron, the other of steel |
| 538 | --> If the right one don't get ya then the left one will |
| 539 | * You don't see a lot of female country singers on this list but Music/MirandaLambert's ''Gunpowder and Lead'' certainly counts: |
| 540 | -->I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun |
| 541 | -->Wait by the door and light a cigarette |
| 542 | -->If he wants a fight well now he's got one |
| 543 | -->And he ain't seen me crazy yet |
| 544 | -->He slap my face and he shook me like a rag doll |
| 545 | -->Don't that sound like a real man |
| 546 | -->I'm going to show him what a little gir'ls made of |
| 547 | -->Gunpowder and lead |
| 548 | * Music/TheMenThatWillNotBeBlamedForNothing: Isambard Kingdom Brunel tersely refuses to let the failures of others stop him from any engineering project he sets his mind to. |
| 549 | --> ''I looked him up and down, and then replied'' |
| 550 | --> ''"A lot of men tried, and a lot of men died!"'' |
| 551 | --> ''"Yeah? Well... I'm not a lot of men."'' |
| 552 | * As with Music/MonsterMagnet, pretty much every flippin' song, only letting up when they tackle "serious" subjects like Vietnam Veterans' Syndrome or the Guyana massacre. They think they're the house band at [[Myth/NorseMythology Valhalla]], what else would one expect? |
| 553 | ** The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dscfeQOMuGw "Space Lord" by Monster Magnet]] can be read, at least in part, as a [[WordSaladLyrics somewhat surreal]] badass boast: |
| 554 | -->I left my throne a million miles away\ |
| 555 | I drink from your tit, I sing the blues every day\ |
| 556 | Give me the strength to split the world in two, yeah\ |
| 557 | I ate all the rest and now I've gotta eat you |
| 558 | ** Monster Magnet are defined by that description; it would be easier to list the songs that ''don't'' fit this trope (usually, some kind of put-down song), and they almost always combine it with some kind of drug/sexual innuendo or comic book reference. And even their songs that don't fit this trope sound as if they do, because of Dave Wyndorf's "AGodAmI" vocal delivery: |
| 559 | -->"'''Bummer'''": I need a fistful of medication just to keep it in my pants |
| 560 | -->"'''All Friends and Kingdom Come'''": I can fry you with my eyes, I can blow you to kingdom come, I can take the friends away |
| 561 | --->I've got mushroom butts in my hands, and a place in my head for you |
| 562 | -->"'''The Right Stuff''''": My nerves are made of steel and my eyes are eagle sharp |
| 563 | ---> What would freak the average man does not affect my heart |
| 564 | -->"'''Crop Circle'''": I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun |
| 565 | ---> I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young |
| 566 | ---> Started surfing the madhouse and I decided to stay |
| 567 | ---> Got an itch in my cosmic pocket and it won't go away |
| 568 | * Music/{{Motorhead}}: |
| 569 | ** "Orgasmatron" is a badass boast by the personification of religion, politics, and war. Part of the war stanza includes: "I hold a banner drenched in blood, I urge you to be brave / I lead you to your destiny, I lead you to your grave / Your bones will build my palaces, your eyes will stud my crown / For I am Mars, the god of war, and I will cut you down." |
| 570 | ** "You Better Run", including lines like "I'm iron and steel, I'm bad to the bone/If you come looking for trouble honey, don't you come alone." |
| 571 | ** From "I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care): |
| 572 | --> "I make love to mountain lions\ |
| 573 | Sleep on red hot branding irons\ |
| 574 | When I walk the roadway shakes\ |
| 575 | Bed's a mess of rattlesnakes"\ |
| 576 | * "Werewolf Gimmick" by Music/TheMountainGoats is a particularly NightmareFuel-laden example: |
| 577 | -->Bring your heroes to the wolf-den\ |
| 578 | Watch them all get ''crushed!'' |
| 579 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOpdyytB3OY "I Am Murloc"]] is basically one long badass boast on behalf of the [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft murlocs]]. This makes it a parody since murlocs in the game are just humorous and annoying GoddamnedBats. |
| 580 | ** The same band has also done "Power of the Horde" which is one long serious badass boast on behalf of a Farseer of the Horse. |
| 581 | --> I feel the fire burning in my veins |
| 582 | --> Lightning strikes at my command! |
| 583 | --> By storm and earth |
| 584 | --> By axe and fire |
| 585 | --> We have come to claim this land! |
| 586 | ** Music/LilWayne's guest spot on the "Roman's Revenge" re-release, naturally. |
| 587 | --->''All I do is win; my name should be Victor!'' |
| 588 | * Music/MuddyWaters' "I'm Ready": |
| 589 | -->I got a axe-handled pistol on my graveyard frame\ |
| 590 | That shoot tombstone bullets, wearing balls and chain\ |
| 591 | I'm drinking TNT, I'm smoking dynamite\ |
| 592 | I hope some screwball start a fight |
| 593 | * Music/MysterySkulls has a couple, with ''Unstoppable'' being the most straightforward. |
| 594 | -->This is a joke, baby, |
| 595 | -->These dudes are ganging up on me, |
| 596 | -->These people must be crazy, |
| 597 | -->Guess they don't know that I'm unstoppable, |
| 598 | ** ''In My Sleep'' is another one, from the perspective of one musician to another. |
| 599 | -->You can't do this like I do it, |
| 600 | -->I fuckin' wrote this in my sleep, |
| 601 | * Most of Music/NickiMinaj's music, but [[SignatureSong her verse in "Monster"]] stands out. |
| 602 | --->''You can be the king but watch the queen conquer!'' |
| 603 | ** "Roman Reloaded" and "Roman's Revenge" are also shining examples, thanks to [[AlterEgoActing the]] [[LargeHam title]] [[AwesomeEgo character]]. |
| 604 | --->''I am not Jasmine, I am Aladdin''\ |
| 605 | ''So far ahead, these bums is lagging''\ |
| 606 | ''See me in that new thing, bums is gagging''\ |
| 607 | ''[[UnstoppableRage I'm starting to feel like a dungeon dragon]]'' |
| 608 | |
| 609 | --->''Is it me, or did I put these rap bitches on the map again?''\ |
| 610 | ''You mad 'cause I'm at the Grammys with the Vatican?''\ |
| 611 | ''You in the booth, but I'm who you be channeling''\ |
| 612 | ''Why they never bring your name up at the panel, then?'' |
| 613 | * Nightquest, by Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}. The first four verses are fantasy-themed metaphorical description of one of band members, and it ends like this. |
| 614 | -->Guardians of the halls of heart |
| 615 | -->When we from my homeland depart |
| 616 | -->To challenge the gods of emptiness |
| 617 | -->May the quest begin! |
| 618 | * Music/{{Nile}}'s music, many songs being retellings of old myths, is naturally full of these. Some prominent ones include: |
| 619 | ** ''The Eye Of Ra'': |
| 620 | -->Flee from me, humanity, though it availeth thee not. |
| 621 | -->Hide in the deserts and the mountains, let fear grow in your hearts, |
| 622 | -->For I am vengeance and bloody death. |
| 623 | ** ''Permitting The Noble Dead To Descend To The Underworld'': |
| 624 | -->I have gone forth, |
| 625 | -->Even I, the vindicated Osiris. |
| 626 | -->The great ones on earth await me, |
| 627 | -->The scribes on their mats magnify me. |
| 628 | -->I am as Re the eldest of the gods, |
| 629 | -->I have taken possession of the sky, |
| 630 | -->I have inherited the earth, |
| 631 | -->Who shall take away the sky and earth from me? |
| 632 | -->I know you and I know your names.[[note]]This last line requires a bit of explaining: the Egyptians believed there were five parts of a person's soul: one of the most important was a person's name, and cursing a person's name was believed to be lethal, so this last line is a very serious threat indeed[[/note]] |
| 633 | ** ''User Maat Re'' is a song being sung from the perspective of Ramses the Great, to his father, Seti I, the entirety of which is a series of [[BadassBoast badass boasts]], speaking of the nearly innumerable acts that are the reason he's known as "The Great." The twist is that Ramses has literally been [[FreudianExcuse driven insane by his own desire to live up to his father's legacy]], [[InadequateInheritor which he never felt worthy of]], and begins hearing his father's voice in his head, telling him "Thou hast done '''nothing'''." |
| 634 | ** The one that takes the cake, however, is ''Those Whom The Gods Detest''. [[RageAgainstTheHeavens The whole song is a screed against the Egyptian gods]], as a way of saying, in the words of Karl Sanders: "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Oh yeah. Bring it on biatch. Do your worst]]." The final lyric stands out: |
| 635 | -->Embraced within the coils of Set, |
| 636 | -->I have no fear of the second death. |
| 637 | -->Of being slashed with knives, |
| 638 | -->Of being butchered on the slaughtering blocks. |
| 639 | -->No god or demon will feed on my entrails or drink my blood. |
| 640 | -->No blind servant of the throne of Ra |
| 641 | -->Shall I willingly allow to devour me. |
| 642 | -->No consuming flames of uttermost damnation shall I fear. |
| 643 | -->No tongue speaking words of redemption shall ever penetrate my will. |
| 644 | -->Darkly splendid, I remain unconquered. |
| 645 | -->... |
| 646 | -->I am counted amongst the legions of the unrighteous |
| 647 | -->Who dread not being immersed in the pits of fire. |
| 648 | -->We are they whom the gods detest. |
| 649 | -->'''We are they whom the gods detest'''. |
| 650 | * Music/NineInchNails, "The Warning", pretty much everything said by The Presence (everything in the song after "You've become a virus"). |
| 651 | --> You will change your ways\ |
| 652 | And you will make amends\ |
| 653 | Or we will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wipe this place clean.]] |
| 654 | * Music/NoxArcana's "Blood of Angels" is basically a long BadassBoast... from the point of view of Fallen Angels! Lyrics include: |
| 655 | -->We are the twilight and we are the dawn |
| 656 | -->We are the silence when all else is gone |
| 657 | -->(...) |
| 658 | -->Ours is the power and ours is the might |
| 659 | -->Ours are the shadows that swallow the light |
| 660 | -->Worship us mortals, bow down to our reign! |
| 661 | -->The blood of the angels, it beats in our veins. |
| 662 | -->(...) |
| 663 | -->Once we were scattered, in hiding, alone... |
| 664 | -->Now we have marshalled to regain our throne. |
| 665 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1paTrimD6O4 The Finisher]] by Oh, Sleeper is, pretty much in its entirety, one of these from {{God}} to [[ArchEnemy Satan]]. And, within Christian doctrine, a deserved one since, well, He's God: |
| 666 | -->Do you mean to challenge me? Because your speech is threatening |
| 667 | -->to the writer of your history[...] |
| 668 | -->Your whisper may sway the weak, but when I speak it roars the seas. |
| 669 | -->Your challenge has been met, because with a breath I could snap your neck. |
| 670 | -->This won't be like the first time you tried, because my patience and mercy |
| 671 | -->for you has run dry[...] |
| 672 | -->Because if that tree keeps them from seeing me, I'll burn off your limbs, |
| 673 | -->you will never shade again. You'll bow at my feet or I'll rip out your knees |
| 674 | -->and make of your face all the carnage you crave[...] |
| 675 | -->From the armories the angels sing, you will fear them when they lift their wings. |
| 676 | -->They will sing to a world reborn, they will sing as I cut off your horns. |
| 677 | -->I'll cut off your horns! |
| 678 | * Music/OzzyOsbourne's "Not Going Away" has a good one, short and sweet. |
| 679 | -->Try so hard to break me, |
| 680 | -->But all your diamonds turn to sand |
| 681 | * "Showdown" by dubstep band Music/{{Pendulum|Band}} definitely has this, complete with an awesome drop: |
| 682 | -->"I know you thought I'd sold my soul\ |
| 683 | But never told me to my face\ |
| 684 | I just had to leave you cold\ |
| 685 | And BLOW THIS SHIT AWAAAAAY!" |
| 686 | * Music/ThePipettes' self-introduction ThemeTune "We Are The Pipettes" cops a GirlGroup attitude: |
| 687 | -->We are The Pipettes, and we've got no regrets\ |
| 688 | If you haven't noticed yet, we're the prettiest girls you've ever met\ |
| 689 | We are The Pipettes, we will drop you in our nets\ |
| 690 | When you're crying in your bed, you'll hope we haven't finished with you yet... |
| 691 | * Music/ThePogues in "If I Should Fall From Grace With God": |
| 692 | -->"This land was always ours\ |
| 693 | Twas the proud land of our fathers\ |
| 694 | It belongs to us and them\ |
| 695 | Not to any of the others!" |
| 696 | * The national anthem of UsefulNotes/{{Poland}} contains very many - fitting, as it was originally a marching song of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's Polish troops. |
| 697 | -->''Poland is not yet lost,\ |
| 698 | So long as we still live.\ |
| 699 | What foreign power has taken from me,\ |
| 700 | I shall reclaim at sabrepoint.'' |
| 701 | |
| 702 | -->''We'll cross the Vistula and the Warta,\ |
| 703 | And we shall be Polish.\ |
| 704 | Bonaparte has shown us,\ |
| 705 | The way to victory!'' |
| 706 | |
| 707 | -->''Like Cziarnecki returning to Poznan,\ |
| 708 | Battling the Swedish,\ |
| 709 | To save our Fatherland,\ |
| 710 | We shall return by sea!'' |
| 711 | |
| 712 | * Music/TheProtomen's ''Vengeance'' is a song-long Badass Boast. |
| 713 | -->Send your armies! |
| 714 | -->There's no man or machine who can stop me! |
| 715 | -->And you'll soon see |
| 716 | -->I've come for vengeance, for the first son of Light! |
| 717 | -->And I'm ready, and I'm willing, and I'm prepared to... |
| 718 | -->Send me the best you've got! |
| 719 | -->Send me your strongest machine! |
| 720 | -->The fight my brother fought |
| 721 | -->Here, now, will end with me! |
| 722 | -->All you wounded! |
| 723 | -->Those of you who can, get yourselves off the ground, |
| 724 | -->Hurry back! |
| 725 | -->Tell your leader you need more men! |
| 726 | -->Send me the best you've got! |
| 727 | -->Send me your strongest machine! |
| 728 | -->The fight my brother fought |
| 729 | -->Here, now, will end with me! |
| 730 | -->Is this the best you've got?! |
| 731 | -->Is this your strongest machine?! |
| 732 | -->Now with one Power Shot, |
| 733 | -->You'll see what vengeance means! |
| 734 | |
| 735 | -->The shadow, it covers your face! |
| 736 | -->But your eyes shine just like mine! |
| 737 | -->Step forward! Step into the light |
| 738 | -->If you're ready, and you're willing, and you're prepared to fight! |
| 739 | |
| 740 | -->So be it, send your armies! |
| 741 | -->There's no man or machine who can stop me! |
| 742 | -->And you'll soon see! |
| 743 | -->I've come for vengeance for the first son of Light! |
| 744 | -->And I'm ready and I'm willing and I'm prepared to fight! |
| 745 | |
| 746 | -->Send me the best you've got! |
| 747 | -->Send me your strongest machine! |
| 748 | -->The fight my brother fought |
| 749 | -->Here, now, will end with me! |
| 750 | -->Is this the best you've got?! |
| 751 | -->Is this your strongest machine?! |
| 752 | -->Now with one Power Shot, |
| 753 | -->You'll see what vengeance means! |
| 754 | [[/folder]] |
| 755 | |
| 756 | [[folder: Q-U]] |
| 757 | * [[http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Princes-Of-The-Universe-lyrics-Queen/016FA20092F7E481482568940006B89D "Princes of the Universe"]] by Music/{{Queen|Band}}. [[Film/{{Highlander}} Sword-wielding immortals]] are just ''that'' badass. |
| 758 | -->I am immortal! |
| 759 | -->I have inside me blood of kings! |
| 760 | -->I have no rival! |
| 761 | -->No man can be my equal! |
| 762 | ** Another song from Queen's soundtrack to ''Highlander'', "Gimme The Prize (Kurgan's Theme)". |
| 763 | -->Here I am! |
| 764 | -->I'm the master of your destiny! |
| 765 | -->I am the one, the only one! |
| 766 | -->I am the god of kingdom come! |
| 767 | -->GIMME THE PRIZE! |
| 768 | |
| 769 | * Creator/RachelBloom's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pophN0sF2UU "Die When I'm Young"]] is a darkly comic Deconstruction of the BadassBoast. The first verse goes " Don’t live for the future / I don’t live in the past / I throw my hands up in bliss ready for the world’s kiss / No regrets or hesitations taking chances / Cause I’m gonna / Die when I'm young / Burn out fast and dance forever" -- but then the song is interrupted by Rachel getting a phone call from her doctor, informing her that she has cancer. She immediately starts to have second thoughts: |
| 770 | -->Gonna |
| 771 | -->Die when i’m young |
| 772 | -->I should have had my home checked for asbestos |
| 773 | -->Gonna die when I’m young |
| 774 | -->Yeah, it was way cooler in theory. |
| 775 | -->Doctors give me heavy sedatives |
| 776 | -->(O-M-G I’m such a stoner) |
| 777 | -->Hands are feelin’ up my body |
| 778 | -->Cause I’m an organ donor! |
| 779 | -->I’m dyin’ young just ‘cause I lived too fast. |
| 780 | -->Also |
| 781 | -->I have tumor. |
| 782 | |
| 783 | * Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's "Sleep Now in the Fire:" |
| 784 | -->Crawl with me into tomorrow\ |
| 785 | Or I'll drag you to your grave\ |
| 786 | I'm deep inside your children\ |
| 787 | They'll betray you in my name |
| 788 | |
| 789 | * Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Sympathy for the Devil" is one long badass boast by {{Satan}}, beginning: "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a ManOfWealthAndTaste / I've been around for a long long year / stolen many man's soul and faith". |
| 790 | |
| 791 | * Rap duo Music/RunTheJewels has a few long-rhymed boasts as songs. For example, "Legend Has It". |
| 792 | -->Doctors of death\ |
| 793 | Curing our patients of breath\ |
| 794 | We outta pay you the trust\ |
| 795 | Crooked at work\ |
| 796 | Cookin' up curses and slurs, smoking' my brain into mush\ |
| 797 | I became famous for blaming you fucks\ |
| 798 | Maimin' my way through the brush\ |
| 799 | There is no training' or taming of me and my bruh\ |
| 800 | Look like a man but I'm animal raw |
| 801 | ** Along with "Let's Go (The Royal We)" |
| 802 | --> We pray for your God to end the perverse\ |
| 803 | [[TheDreaded He sent the worst of the worse]]\ |
| 804 | Every death demon disperse\ |
| 805 | We put em' all in a hearse\ |
| 806 | We put em' under the earth\ |
| 807 | [[OneManArmy We are the savages ravaging hell]]\ |
| 808 | [[BloodKnight Death in the air, we relish the smell]]\ |
| 809 | We are the hand of the Lord\ |
| 810 | We are the hand with the sword\ |
| 811 | Taking the head to the face\ |
| 812 | We are the sealers of fate\ |
| 813 | We are the fangs of the snake |
| 814 | |
| 815 | * {{Music/Sabaton}} has several on behalf of many military units, like [[TankGoodness Panzer Battalion]]: |
| 816 | -->Under this sun no shadows will fall |
| 817 | -->Piercing our eyes as we charge |
| 818 | -->An armoured battalion on course to the east |
| 819 | -->Closing the end of it's march |
| 820 | -->This time we're here to finish a job |
| 821 | -->Started a decade ago |
| 822 | -->Driving the animals out of their holes |
| 823 | -->To bury them 6 feet below |
| 824 | -->Armoured tanks of mass destruction |
| 825 | -->Killers in the east |
| 826 | -->Rats who dares to stand before us |
| 827 | -->Feel our guns go live |
| 828 | -->Death in the shape of a panzer battalion |
| 829 | -->Insect of terror don't run face your fate like a |
| 830 | -->Man cannot outrun our panzer battalion |
| 831 | -->Thousands of tons of armour and guns |
| 832 | -->Making it's way through the sand |
| 833 | -->Our panzer battalion is back for revenge |
| 834 | -->Artillery sweeping the land |
| 835 | -->First strike is ours no mercy is shown |
| 836 | -->There's rivers of blood in our track |
| 837 | -->Breaking their lines of defence with our tanks |
| 838 | -->Infantry watching our back |
| 839 | -->Blow their SAM sites clear for air strike |
| 840 | -->Bring forth the storm |
| 841 | -->Minefields swept there's no surrender |
| 842 | -->Feel our napalm burn |
| 843 | ** Resist and Bite contains the following from the perspective of the Chasseur Ardennais, a 40-strong Belgian Army company that slowed the Wehrmacht eighteen days while outnumbered a thousand to one. |
| 844 | --> But when captured by the Axis and forced to tell the truth |
| 845 | --> We will tell them with a smile, we will surprise them with a laugh |
| 846 | --> we are all, we were all |
| 847 | --> [[MathematiciansAnswer We where told to hold the border and that is what we did]] |
| 848 | --> Honoured where our orders in despite of our foe |
| 849 | ** Their ambiguously-non-war songs tends to go into that direction as well, for example Birds of War: |
| 850 | -->The priesthood is trembling |
| 851 | -->the five knights of light has betrayed mankind |
| 852 | -->Now known as the dark ones |
| 853 | -->we strike down on earth with powers from hell |
| 854 | -->We ride on the wind we ride through the sky |
| 855 | -->like unholy birds of war we fly |
| 856 | -->we bring agony and insanity |
| 857 | -->Once blessed by the light now serving the night |
| 858 | -->and soon cursed by every man on earth |
| 859 | -->We follow our lust, in no god we trust |
| 860 | -->Come join us |
| 861 | -->Leave this world behind and you will find satisfaction |
| 862 | -->fight on our side you cannot hide from us forever more |
| 863 | -->Once greeted as heroes |
| 864 | -->now treated as foes wherever we go |
| 865 | -->Recruiting more warriors |
| 866 | -->the hordes of undead march on our command |
| 867 | -->Now mankind will pay from this very day |
| 868 | -->every man on earth will curse his birth |
| 869 | -->We spread fear and pain resistance in vain |
| 870 | -->We march in the dark your kind is our mark |
| 871 | -->avoid the daylight in dark we fight |
| 872 | -->We'll control your souls you'll end up like ghouls |
| 873 | -->Come join us! |
| 874 | * Music/{{Scar Symmetry}} in Quantumleaper: |
| 875 | -->I'm nothing and all things |
| 876 | -->I drift between dimensions |
| 877 | -->I'm lifeless, immortal |
| 878 | -->Collapsed duality |
| 879 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gWQQHHEz04 "I Am The Cool" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins]]. |
| 880 | * Chris Cornell of Music/{{Soundgarden}}'s ''Film/JamesBond'' theme "You Know My Name" is basically one long one. Sample: |
| 881 | -->I've seen angels fall from blinding heights |
| 882 | -->But you yourself are nothing so divine |
| 883 | -->Just next in line |
| 884 | ** Although this is less a Badass Boast than a chilling prophesy about how Bond will inevitably [[HeWhoFightsMonsters become a cold-blooded killer]]. |
| 885 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhEsuwp6g8 Mirdautas Vras]]'' by Music/{{Summoning}}. Translated excerpt: |
| 886 | -->Northwards ride on [[EvilArmy a thousand orcs]], |
| 887 | -->[[SavageWolves On wolves with giant bloody fangs]]; |
| 888 | -->They take the storm and power |
| 889 | -->Of {{Mordor}} through the world! |
| 890 | -->Fire and ice -- the Nazgûl fly! |
| 891 | -->It is a good day to kill! |
| 892 | -->[[RedSkyTakeWarning Painted red is earth and sky]] - |
| 893 | -->Even [[GoD Manwë]] shall bow down! |
| 894 | ** Also ''Farewell'': |
| 895 | --> Who can, who can find you clear springs of water? But I -- but I can! |
| 896 | --> Who can, who can tell you the age of the moon? But I -- but I can! |
| 897 | --> Who can, who can call up the fish from the depths of the sea? Yes I can! |
| 898 | --> Who can, who can change the shape of the hills and the headland? I can! |
| 899 | *** AND it includes an audio sample from a second example of the trope: |
| 900 | --> "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings This is my hour. Do you not know death when you see it? Die now!]]" |
| 901 | * Music/TheStooges, "Search and Destroy": |
| 902 | -->I'm a streetwalkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm |
| 903 | -->I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb |
| 904 | -->I am the world's forgotten boy |
| 905 | -->The one who searches and destroys |
| 906 | * Tragedy, who called their album of heavy metal Music/TheBeeGees covers ''We Rock Sweet Balls And Can Do No Wrong.'' |
| 907 | * The Ballad of Little Jock Elliot (who was a real person, a Scottish border reiver of the powerful Elliot clan) |
| 908 | |
| 909 | -->In raids I ride always the foremost, |
| 910 | -->My straik is the first in melee, |
| 911 | -->My name is little Jock Elliot, |
| 912 | -->And wha daur meddle wi' me? |
| 913 | |
| 914 | -->I ne'er was afraid of a foe, |
| 915 | -->Or yield I liefer wad die; |
| 916 | -->My name is little Jock Elliot, |
| 917 | -->And wha daur meddle wi' me? |
| 918 | * Music/TaylorSwift's "Blank Space" informs the world that she is the crazy, manipulative, man-eating psycho the media makes her out to be. She doesn't care if everyone knows... [[Main/TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou but you will soon.]] |
| 919 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5M04_qkRdY Tribute]]'' is a BadassBoast by ''Music/TenaciousD'' about how they accidentally played "The Best Song In The World" to kill a shiny demon threatening to eat their souls. |
| 920 | * Dubstep artist Terminite has one in his track titled "Earthquake". |
| 921 | --> "People often confuse earthquakes for Terminite gigs, but that's okay." |
| 922 | * Played with on Music/TobyKeith's "As Good as I Once Was": The narrator admits that he can't be a badass all the time, but he is put in situations where he still shows that, when pressed, he has at least some of his badassery left ("I ain't as good as I once was / But I'm as good once as I ever was"). |
| 923 | * Music/TomWaits, ''Goin' Out West'' |
| 924 | -->''IKnowKarate, Voodoo too\ |
| 925 | I'm gonna make myself available to you\ |
| 926 | I don't need no make-up\ |
| 927 | I got real scars\ |
| 928 | I got hair on my chest\ |
| 929 | I look good without a shirt.'' |
| 930 | * [[http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=5647427&q=hi&newref=1 The Curbstomp Song]] is basically an entire song about one-sided battles. There's one that stands out at the end: |
| 931 | -->"This battle was ''over'' before it even ''started.'' |
| 932 | -->''Cause darling [[Main/BitchInSheepsClothing I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.]]'' |
| 933 | * Music/TomSmith (known as The World's Fastest Filker) is not exactly shy about his own abilities in "(Don't Gotta Be A) Big Star": |
| 934 | --> I can make you laugh like mad\ |
| 935 | Or cry from love or pain\ |
| 936 | I can sing a song\ |
| 937 | You'll never get out of your brain!\ |
| 938 | (and "A Boy And His Frog" completely backs up his boasts...) |
| 939 | * Music/{{Theocracy}} has I AM, a 11 minute long hero song written from the perspective of God describing his nature and his power |
| 940 | -->I am the melody that weaves it's way inside your soul |
| 941 | -->I am the symphony, the masterpiece, the actor's greatest role |
| 942 | -->I am the poetry that speaks to you with every rhyme |
| 943 | -->I am the songwriter who seems to write your life in every line |
| 944 | -->I am the simple truth that shaped your world from your birth |
| 945 | -->I am the vast volumes of knowledge spanning all across the earth |
| 946 | -->I am the whisper of the wind you feel but cannot see |
| 947 | -->I am the Alpha and Omega, First and Last, eternally |
| 948 | |
| 949 | -->I am the breaking of chains and the tolling of freedom's bell |
| 950 | -->(I am grace and mercy, I am sacrifice) |
| 951 | -->I am the notes that eternally ring in the music too holy for angels to sing |
| 952 | -->I am the fire on the altar consuming the sacrifice |
| 953 | -->(I am endless glory, I am light and life) |
| 954 | -->I am the three and yet I am the one in the grace of the Father and the death |
| 955 | |
| 956 | -->I am the one who bled in silence and endured it all |
| 957 | -->I am the Word who spoke no word, with a thousand angels waiting for my call |
| 958 | |
| 959 | * The [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps']] official theme song is essentially one long Badass Boast, complete with a TakeThat at the rival branches of the U.S. military in the final verse: |
| 960 | --> If the Army and the Navy ever look on heaven's scenes\ |
| 961 | They will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines! |
| 962 | [[/folder]] |
| 963 | |
| 964 | [[folder: V-Z]] |
| 965 | * Music/{{Voltaire}}'s "When You're Evil" is one long boast by a goofy CardCarryingVillain. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Or so it seems]]. The first few verses describe pretty silly cartoon villainy. And then... |
| 966 | -->I pledge my allegiance, to all things dark |
| 967 | -->And I promise on my damned soul |
| 968 | -->To do as I am told, Lord Beelzebub |
| 969 | -->Has never seen a soldier quite like me |
| 970 | -->Not only does his job, but does it happily. |
| 971 | |
| 972 | -->I'm the fear that keeps you awake |
| 973 | -->I'm the shadows on the wall |
| 974 | -->I'm the monsters they become |
| 975 | -->I'm the nightmare in your skull |
| 976 | -->I'm a dagger in your back |
| 977 | -->An extra turn upon the rack |
| 978 | -->I'm the quivering of your heart |
| 979 | -->A stabbing pain, a sudden start. |
| 980 | * Music/TheWhiteStripes -- ''"Seven Nation Army"'' |
| 981 | -->[[PreAssKickingOneLiner I'm gonna fight em' off]] |
| 982 | -->A seven-nation army couldn't hold [[OneManArmy me]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome back]] |
| 983 | * Music/WuTangClan's discography has too many examples to list. But their eponymous track codifies this. |
| 984 | -->If you want beef then bring da ruckus. |
| 985 | -->WU-TANG CLAN AIN'T NOTHING TO FUCK WITH! |
| 986 | [[/folder]] |
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