Song lyrics that mean something to you

[phinz]

This is an interesting thread on another forum I frequent, so I thought I'd try it over here. Post some of your favorite/most meaningful lyrics. A song that speaks to you. You can tell us why, or you can leave it up to our individual interpretations.

I'll start out. When I got on the plane in Ft. Lauderdale after leaving my father-in-law, my mother-in-law and my wife at the hospital in West Palm Beach, I knew that was the last time I would see him alive, though I wouldn't call what he had when I left "living."

I miss him every day. This song is the first thing I listened to on the plane as we climbed to cruising altitude. I wrote in my journal and contemplated my relationship with my own father. This song reminds me of Fred (my father-in-law) but it speaks of my relationship with my father.

U2


Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own




Tough, you think you've got the stuff
You're telling me and anyone
You're hard enough

You don't have to put up a fight
You don't have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

We fight all the time
You and I...that's alright
We're the same soul
I don't need...I don't need to hear you say
That if we weren't so alike
You'd like me a whole lot more

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me - when - I -
Sing, you're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me...

Where are we now?
I've got to let you know
A house still doesn't make a home
Don't leave me here alone...

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Sometimes you can't make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

[auntdot]

God Bless America. I can never hear that song without a tear coming to my eye.

 

[middie]

Believe by Savatage.

Main Street by Bob Segar.

Lips of An Angel by Hinder.

Man On The Corner by Phil Collins.

Then again you can play almost anything by Phil Collins as a solo artist or with Genesis and it'll have meaning for the simple fact of my dad loving him as much as I do if not more.

There's more. ALOT more but these are what come to mind right now.

 

[texasgirl]

The Dance-Garth Brooks.
My sisters and I heard this song for the first time when we were coming home to take showers after being with my mom at the hospital for a few days. We were pretty quiet, so, we were able to really listen to the words and we all started crying. That day the doctor told us that she had a couple of days left. Sure enough, she left us 2 days later. We played the song at her services and now everytime we hear it, it seems like something is going on and she is just saying, Hey, I'm here and I'm with you" My sister heard it on the way to my mammaw's to tell her about my niece having cancer. She said that it made her relax enough to tell her.
At first, that song was really hard to listen to. Now, like I said, it's like she's saying hello to us.

 

[LEFSElover]

Jimmy Buffet ... A pirate looks at 40

Il Divo ... Mama

Jimmy Buffet ... Come Monday

Barry Manilow ... Ships

Garth Brooks ... The dance

Garth Brooks ... Unanswered prayer

I'll stop there

 

[phinz]

The Dance-Garth Brooks.

The first race after Davey Allison died from injuries suffered in a helicopter crash at Talladega, when his uncle Donny did the last lap in the 28 car, this was the song that played on the TV. A few years later I had the pleasure of getting to know his widow Liz and the kids, Robbie and Christa, while at a dude ranch in Colorado owned by our former family physician. I told Robbie during a discussion on a hay ride in which Robbie brought up who his dad was that Davey was my favorite driver and that NASCAR had lost its lustre after he was gone. I told all three of them that I couldn't listen to The Dance without thinking of Davey and shedding a tear. What a beautiful, poignant song. Thank you, TG.

The Dance
Garth Brooks

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
The way it all would go

Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Holding you, I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Hey, who's to say? You know I might have changed it all

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
The way it all would go

Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Yes my life, it's better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

 

[qmax]

I'm in love with Emma Peel
Smooth as ivory, hard as steel.
Wanna know the way she feels.
Wanna touch her.


She appears upon the screen,
She's a two-dimensional dream.
Is she really what she seems?
Am I crazy?


The house is empty,
My girlfriend left me.
I don't go out
I've got no friends.

But I've got a TV,
Emma, you move me.
I feel good till the rerun ends.
Till the rerun ends.

The reception's crystal clear
I can feel she's really here
And I whisper in her ear,
"Lord, I love you."


Emma, I'll be your Steed,
I'll be all you'll ever need.
If I cry and if I plead
Will it help me?


The house is empty,
My girlfriend left me.
I don't go out
I've got no friends.

But I've got a TV,
Emma, you move me.
I feel good till the rerun ends.
Till the rerun ends.

 

[Katie H]

Our wedding song and part of our wedding vows. It's the story of Buck and me:

EVERGREEN (From "A Star is Born" with Barbra Streisand and Chris Christofferson)

Love soft as an easy chair
Love fresh as the morning air
One love that is shared by two
I have found with you.

Like a rose under the April snow
I was always certain love would grow
Love ageless and evergreen
Seldom seen by two.

You and I will make each night a first
Every day a beginning
Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed
They warm and excite us, cause we have the brightest love.

Two lives that shine as one
Morning glory and midnight sun
Time we've learned to sail above
Time won't change the meaning of one love
Ageless and ever evergreen.

 

[texasgirl]

It is a beautiful song, isn't it?

The first race after Davey Allison died from injuries suffered in a helicopter crash at Talladed, when his uncle Donny did the last lap in the 28 car, this was the song that played on the TV. A few years later I had the pleasure of getting to know his widow Liz and the kids, Robbie and Christa, while at a dude ranch in Colorado owned by our former family physician. I told Robbie during a discussion on a hay ride in which Robbie brought up who his dad was that Davey was my favorite driver and that NASCAR had lost its lustre after he was gone. I told all three of them that I couldn't listen to The Dance without thinking of Davey and shedding a tear. What a beautiful, poignant song. Thank you, TG.

The Dance
Garth Brooks

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
The way it all would go

Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Holding you, I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Hey, who's to say? You know I might have changed it all

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
The way it all would go

Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Yes my life, it's better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

 

[keltin]

Bon Jovi!!!

"Have A Nice Day"

Why, you wanna tell me how to live my life?
Who, are you to tell me if it's black or white?
Mama, can you hear me? Try to understand.
Is innocence the difference between a boy and a man.
My daddy lived the lie, it's just the price that he paid.
Sacrificed his life, just slavin' away.

Ohhh, if there's one thing I hang onto,
That gets me through the night.
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to,
I'm gonna live my life.
Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice,
Standing on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly.
When the world gets in my face,
I say, Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day

Take a look around you; nothing's what it seems
We're living in the broken home of hopes and dreams,
Let me be the first to shake a helping hand.
Anybody brave enough to take a stand,
I've knocked on every door, on every dead end street,
Looking for forgiveness,
what's left to believe?

Ohhh, if there's one thing I hang onto,
That gets me through the night.
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to,
I'm gonna live my life.
Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice,
Standing on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly.
When the world gets in my face,
I say, Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.

[Guitar Solo]

Ohhh, if there's one thing I hang onto,
That gets me through the night.
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to,
I'm gonna live my life.
Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice,
Standing on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly.
When the world gets in my face,
I say, Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.

When The world keeps trying, to drag me down,
I've gotta raise my hands, gonna stand my ground.
Well I say, Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day
Have A Nice Day

 

[TATTRAT]

Minor Threat: Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White

I'm a poor boy born in a rut
Some say my manners aint the best
Some of my friends made a whole lot of trouble
And some towns are better than the rest

But tell your momma and your papa
Sometimes good guys dont wear white

Everyday I work hard
At night I spend restless time
Those rich kids and all their lazy money
They can't hold a candle to mine

So tell your momma and your papa
Sometimes good guys dont wear white

Good guys, bad guys
Which is which?
The white collar worker
Or the digger of the ditch?
Man, who's to say who's the better man?
I'm doin the very best I can
Best I can

You thought I had a dirty mind
All those messed up chicks
Of the changing times
Love-filled and easy livin
Can't come close
To the love that I've given

So tell your momma and your papa
Sometimes good guys dont wear white
They don't wear white
They don't wear white
They don't wear white
They don't wear white

 

[krichardson]

U2 sometimes you can't make it on your own!!!!!!!!!!
My ex-boyfriend/ current roommate, plays and sings this one for me and it means sooo much. Every time I hear it I think of him and know I am loved by him, and he loves me too!

 

[NAchef]

Kinda hard, mostly events in my life have made it so songs will really speak to me.

The last one (quite a while ago) was probably Don Mclean, Castles in the Air

 

[phinz]

Linkin Park

Hands Held High


Turn my mic up louder I got to say somethin'.
Lightweights step it aside when we come in
Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumpin
People on the street they panic and start running.

Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming.
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme i'm dumping.
Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and

Jump when they tell us that they wanna to see jumping.
**** that, I wanna see some fists pumping.
risk something, take back what's yours
say something that you know they might attack you for

cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for.
Like this war's really just a different brand of war.
Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor.

Like they understand you in the back of the jet, when you
can't put gas in your tank, and these ****ers are
laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check
asking you to have compassion, AND have SOME respect

for a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
and the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
in the living room laughing like "what did he say?"

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen

In my living room watching but I am not laughing,
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen
The world is cold, the bold men take action
have to react or get blown into fractions.

Ten years old, it's something to see,
another kid my age drug under a jeep,
taken and bound, and found later under a tree,
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me.

Do you see, the soldiers, they're out today
they Brush the dust from bulletproof vests away.
It's ironic, at times like this you pray,
but a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday.

There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads,
inside your market,your shops, your clothes,
My dad, He's got a lot of fear I know
but enough pride inside not to let that show.

My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine.
On the back, he hand wrote a quote inside:
"when the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"

Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
and the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.

With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.

With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.

With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.

With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.

With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.

 

[The Z]

I know most of you have never heard of these guys, but I had a nostalgic moment yesterday and found the video for this on YouTube.

Cold Chisel: "Flame Trees"

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Kids out driving Saturday afternoon pass me by
I'm just savouring familiar sights
We share some history, this town and I
And I can't stop that long forgotten feeling of her
Try to book a room to stay tonight

Number one is to find some friends to say "You're doing well
After all this time you boys look just the same"
Number two is the happy hour at one of two hotels
Settle in to play "Do you remember so and so?"
Number three is never say her name

Oh the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there's nothing else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around

But Ah! Who needs that sentimental bollsh!t, anyway
Takes more than just a memory to make me cry
I'm happy just to sit here round a table with old friends
And see which one of us can tell the biggest lies

There's a girl falling in love near where the pianola stands
With her young local factory out-of-worker, holding hands
And I'm wondering if he'll go or if he'll stay

Do you remember, nothing stopped us on the field
In our day

Oh the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there's nothing else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around

Oh the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there's nothing else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around[/SIZE][/FONT]


Okay... I'll save you the trouble

 

[expatgirl]

Phil Collin's "One More Night" will always be permanently etched into such a sad memory. One of the newbies that my husband worked with had recently married. Young, vibrant, nice couple.........up and going places engineer & architecture graduate wife. They had gone target practice the day before and the wife had picked up the gun to put it away when it went off and struck Todd in the back killing him within minutes of getting his bike ready for a mileathon. How can this be? The song playing at the time was Phil Collin's "One More Night" and to this day when I hear it I immediately think of Todd and Brenda.

 

[Bilby]

I know most of you have never heard of these guys, but I had a nostalgic moment yesterday and found the video for this on YouTube.

Cold Chisel: "Flame Trees"

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Kids out driving Saturday afternoon pass me by[/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] I'm just savouring familiar sights[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] We share some history, this town and I[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] And I can't stop that long forgotten feeling of her[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Try to book a room to stay tonight[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Number one is to find some friends to say "You're doing well[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] After all this time you boys look just the same"[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Number two is the happy hour at one of two hotels[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Settle in to play "Do you remember so and so?"[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Number three is never say her name[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Oh the flame trees will blind the weary driver[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] And there's nothing else could set fire to this town[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] There's no change, there's no pace[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Everything within its place[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] But Ah! Who needs that sentimental bollsh!t, anyway[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Takes more than just a memory to make me cry[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] I'm happy just to sit here round a table with old friends[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] And see which one of us can tell the biggest lies[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] There's a girl falling in love near where the pianola stands[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] With her young local factory out-of-worker, holding hands[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] And I'm wondering if he'll go or if he'll stay[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Do you remember, nothing stopped us on the field[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] In our day[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Oh the flame trees will blind the weary driver[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] And there's nothing else could set fire to this town[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] There's no change, there's no pace[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Everything within its place[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Oh the flame trees will blind the weary driver[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] And there's nothing else could set fire to this town[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] There's no change, there's no pace[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Everything within its place[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around[/FONT][/SIZE]


Okay... I'll save you the trouble

Thanks for posting that link. I've never seen the video before. Got their songs just not seen most of their videos. Most of what they do holds meaning when you listen to their lyrics.

 

[Bilby]

True Blue by John Williamson

TRUE BLUE 21st Anniversary - Lyrics by John Williamson

He is playing a concert on the tv at the moment which is why I thought of this song. Some (all?) of you might be familiar with this song as it was played at Steve Irwin's memorial service but that isn't why I suggest this song. Perth recently lost three media identities in a very short time. This song was used for both of the two men. It was just very touching the way people kept on phoning up the radio and asking for this song for both men.

I surprised myself thinking of this song but it always makes me sad now when I hear it. Anticipating he will finish the concert with it.

 

[GB]

Box of Rain

Look out of any window, any morning, any evening, any day.
Maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing,
No rain is falling from a heavy sky.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago.

Walk out of any doorway, feel your way, feel your way like the day before.
Maybe you'll find direction,
Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.
What do you want me to do, to watch for you while you are sleeping?
The please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming too.

Look into any eyes you find by you, you can see clear to another day,
Maybe been seen before, through other eyes on other days while going home.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago.

Walk into splintered sunlight,
Inch your way through dead dreams to another land.
Maybe you're tired and broken,
Your tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear

What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain, and love will see you through.

Just a box of rain, wind and water,
Sun and shower, wind and rain,
In and out the window like a moth before a flame.

And it's just a box of rain, I don't know who put it there,
Believe it if you need it, or leave it if you dare.

And it's just a box of rain, or a ribbon for tour hair;
Such a long long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.

 

[GB]

Eyes Of The World

Right outside this lazy summer home
you ain't got time to call your soul a critic no.
Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home,
wond'rin' where the nut-thatch winters,
wings a mile long just carried the bird away.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.

There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away,
And there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay.
And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay,
and night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.

Sometimes we live no particular way but our own,
And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home,
sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone,
sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.