Songs that make you look at life differently

Lana80

Sunscreen song by baz Luhrman,full of gems.What's yours?

rainbow kirby

Dream Theater - Learning To Live

There was no time for pain
No energy for anger
The sightlessness of hatred slips away
Walking through winter streets alone
He stops and take a breath
With confidence and self-control

I look at the world and see no understanding
I'm waiting to find some sense of strength
I'm begging you from the bottom of my heart to show me understanding

I need to live life
Like some people never will
So find me kindness
Find me beauty
Find me truth
When temptation brings me to my knees
And I lay here drained of strength
Show me kindness
Show me beauty
Show me truth

The way your heart sounds
makes all the difference
It's what decides if you'll endure
the pain that we all feel
The way your heart beats
makes all the difference
In learning to live
Here before me is my soul
I'm learning to live
I won't give up
Till I've no more to give

Listening to the city
Whispering its violence
I set out watching from above
The 90s bring new questions
New solutions to be found
I fell in love to be let down

Once again we dance in the crowd
At times a step away
From a common fear that's all
spread out
It won't listen to what you say
Once you're touched you stand
alone
To face the bitter fight
Once I reached for love
And now I reach for life

Another chance to lift my life
Free the sensation in my heart
To ride the wings of dreams into changing horizons
It brings inner peace within my mind,
As I'm lifted from where I've spilt my life
I hear an innocent voice
I hear kindness, beauty and truth

The way your heart sounds
makes all the difference
It's what decides if you'll endure
the pain that we all feel
The way your heart beats
makes all the difference
In learning to live
Spread before you is your soul
So forever hold the dreams
within our hearts
Through nature's inflexible
grace
I'm learning to live

seenitall

Till It Shines (Bob Seger)

Take away my inhibitions
Take away my solitude
Fire me up with your resistance
Put me in the mood
Storm the walls around this prison
Leave the inmates
Free the guards
Deal me up another future
From some brand new deck of cards
Take the chip off of my shoulder
Smooth out all the lines
Take me out among the rustling pines
Till it shines

Like an echo down a canyon
Never coming back as clear
Lately I just judge the distance
Not the words I hear
I've been too long on these islands
I've been far too long alone
I've been too long without summer
In this winter home
Still if we can make the effort
If we take the time
Maybe we can leave this much behind
Till it shines

See the rich man lost and lonely
Watch him as he dines
Sitting there just testing all the wines
Till it shines

Something about hope for a better future etc. Doing my best not to consider future too much, but this song sets me back every time! :D

some_dose

Bon Iver - Bloodbank

Well I met you at the blood bank
We were looking at the bags
Wondering if any of the colors
Matched any of the names we knew on the tags

You said see look it that's yours
Stacked on top with your brothers
See how they resemble one anothers?
Even in their plastic little covers

And I said I know it well

That secret that you know
That you don't know how to tell
it f--ks with your honor
And it teases your head
But you know that its good girl
Cause its running you with red.

Then the snow started falling
We were stuck out in your car
You were rubbing both my hands
Chewing on a candy bar
you said ain't this just like the present
To be showing up like this
There's a moon waning crescent
we started to kiss

And I said I know it well

That secret that we know
That we don't know how to tell
I'm in love with your honor
I'm in love with your cheeks
what's that noise up the stairs baby
Is that Christmas morning creak

And I know it well (8x)

A song about being stuck with someone you love alone in the snow - really makes you appreciate finding that someone special

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Pearl Jam
"I'm Open"

a man lies in his bed in a room with no door
he waits hoping for a presence, something, anything to enter
after spending half his life searching, he still felt as blank
as the ceiling at which he's staring
he's alive, but feels absolutely nothing
so, is he?
when he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him
by nine he had deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact
no tradebacks...
so this is what it's like to be an adult
if he only knew now what he knew then...
i'm open
i'm open
come in
come in
come in
come in
i'm open
i'm open
come in
come in
come in
come in
lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
he decides to dream...
dream up a new self for himself

minidazzler

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

Funnily enough, i was listening to this before I saw this thread! Alot of music changes my perspective on things, this is just one of ALOT of songs really.

Fago!

Metallica - Motorbreath

"Those people who tell you not to take chances, they are all missing on what life's about. You only live once so take hold of the chance, don't end up like others, same song and dance"

Lorrs33

This Is Your Life - Switchfoot

um7y1h83ge06nx

Another Pearl Jam one. I love this one.

"Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town"

i seem to recognize your face
haunting, familiar, yet i can't seem to place it
cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
lifetimes are catching up with me
all these changes taking place, i wish i'd seen the place
but no one's ever taken me
hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
i swear i recognize your breath
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
me, you wouldn't recall, for i'm not my former
it's hard when, you're stuck upon the shelf
i changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
perhaps that's what no one wants to see
i just want to scream...hello...
my god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
but now here you are, and here i am
hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
hearts and thoughts they fade...away...
hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
hearts and thoughts they fade...


Here's the meaning behind the lyrics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly_Woman_Behind_the_Counter_in_a_Small_Town#Lyrics

Walls

Don't know if this changes my life, but it is rare to have a song match my own mind so strongly.

Only Exception, by Paramore
When I was younger
I saw my daddy cry
And curse at the wind
He broke his own heart
And I watched
As he tried to reassemble it

And my momma swore that
She would never let herself forget
And that was the day that I promised
I'd never sing of love
If it does not exist

But darling,
You, are, the only exception

Maybe I know, somewhere
Deep in my soul
That love never lasts
And we've got to find other ways
To make it alone
Keep a straight face

And I've always lived like this
Keeping a comfortable, distance
And up until now
I had sworn to myself that I'm
Content with loneliness
Because none of it was ever worth the risk

Well, You, are, the only exception


I've got a tight grip on reality
But I can't
Let go of what's in front of me here
I know you're leaving
In the morning, when you wake up
Leave me with some kind of proof it's not a dream


You, are, the only exception


And I'm on my way to believing
Oh, And I'm on my way to believing

Rented Mule

Any song that makes you think about the harder choices that we make in relationships through the years to get to where we are today. There are three that come to mind. I'll list the lyrics to all three as they can be long when telling a story. I'll post them in three consecutive threads.

This is the song that I usually end us singing after a long night on the sauce

Taxi by Harry Chapin

It was raining hard in 'Frisco
I needed one more fare to make my night
A lady up ahead waved to flag me down
She got in at the light

Oh, where you going to, my lady blue
It's a shame you ruined your gown in the rain
She just looked out the window and said
"Sixteen Parkside Lane"

Something about her was familiar
I could swear I'd seen her face before
But she said, "I'm sure you're mistaken"
And she didn't say anything more

It took a while, but she looked in the mirror
Then she glanced at the license for my name
A smile seemed to come to her slowly
It was a sad smile, just the same

And she said, "How are you Harry"
I said, "How are you Sue
Through the too many miles and the too little smiles
I still remember you"

It was somewhere in a fairy tale
I used to take her home in my car
We learned about love in the back of a Dodge
The lesson hadn't gone too far

You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
And I took off to find the sky

Oh, I've got something inside me
To drive a princess blind
There's a wild man, wizard, he's hiding in me
Illuminating my mind
Oh, I've got something inside me
Not what my life's about
'Cause I've been letting my outside tide me
Over 'til my time runs out

Baby's so high that she's skying
Yes she's flying, afraid to fall
I'll tell you why baby's crying
'Cause she's dying, aren't we all

There was not much more for us to talk about
Whatever we had once was gone
So I turned my cab into the driveway
Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawns

And she said, we must get together
But I knew it'd never be arranged
And she handed me twenty dollars for a two fifty fare
She said, "Harry, keep the change"

Well another man might have been angry
And another man might have been hurt
But another man never would have let her go
I stashed the bill in my shirt

And she walked away in silence
It's strange, how you never know
But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for
Such a long, long time ago

You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
And I took off for the sky

And here, she's acting happy
Inside her handsome home
And me, I'm flying in my taxi
Taking tips, and getting stoned
I go flying so high, when I'm stoned

Rented Mule

Unanswered Prayers by Garth Brooks

Just the other night a hometown football game
My wife and I ran into my old high school flame
And as I introduced them the past came back to me
And I couldn't help but think of the way things used to be

She was the one that I'd wanted for all times
And each night I'd spend prayin' that God would make her mine
And if he'd only grant me this wish I wished back then
I'd never ask for anything again

CHORUS:
Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs
That just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

She wasn't quite the angel that I remembered in my dreams
And I could tell that time had changed me
Inn her eyes too it seemed
We tried to talk about the old days
There wasn't much we could recall
I guess the Lord knows what he's doin' after all

And as she walked away and I looked at my wife
And then and there I thanked the good Lord
For the gifts in my life

CHORUS

Some of God's greatest gifts are all too often unanswered...
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

Rented Mule

Beeswing by Richard Thompson

I was nineteen when I came to town
They called in the Summer of Love
They were burning babies, burning flags
The Hawks against the Doves

I took a job in the steamie
Down on Cauldrum Street
I fell in love with a laundry girl
Was working next to me

CHORUS
She was a rare thing
Fine as a beeswing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child
She was running wild, she said
As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
And you wouldn't want me any other way

Brown hair zig-zag round her face
And a look of half-surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights
There was an animal in her eyes

She said, young man, O can't you see
I'm not the factory kind
If you don't take me out of here
I'll surely lose my mind

CHORUS

We busked around the market towns
And picked fruit down in Kent
And we could tinker lamps and pots
And knives wherever we went

And I said that we might settle down
Get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth
And babies on the rug

She said O man, you foolish man
It surely sounds like hell
You might be lord of half the world
You'll not own me as well

CHORUS

We was camping down the Gower one time
The work was pretty good
She thought we shouldn't wait for frost
And I thought maybe we should

We were drinking more in those days
And tempers reached a pitch
Like a fool I let her run
With the rambling itch

Last I hear she's sleeping out
Back on Derby beat
White Horse in her hip pocket
And a wolfhound at her feet

And they say she even married once
A man named Romany Brown
But even a Gypsy caravan
Was too much settling down

And they say her flower is faded now
Hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's just hte price you pay
For the chains you refuse

She was a rare thing
Fine as a beeswing
And I miss her more than ever words could say
If I could just taste
All of her wildness now
If I could hold her in my arms today
Then I wouldn't want her any other way

HERO By: Superchick

No one sits with him, he doesn’t fit in,
But we feel like we do when we make fun of him,
'Cause you want to belong, do you go along?
'Cause his pain is the price paid for you to belong
It’s not like you hate him or want him to die,
But maybe he goes home and thinks suicide,
Or he comes back to school with a gun at his side,
Any kindness from you might have saved his life...

TAG: Heroes are made when you make a choice...
CHORUS:
You could be a hero,
Heroes do what’s right,
You could be a hero,
You might save a life,
You could be a hero, you could join the fight,
For what’s right, for what’s right, for what’s right...

No one talks to her, she feels so alone,
She’s in too much pain to survive on her own,
The hurt she can’t handle overflows to a knife,
She writes on her arm, wants to give up her life,
Each day she goes on is a day that shes brave,
Fighting the lie that giving up is the way,
Each moment of courage her own life she saves,
When she throws the pills out, a hero is made...

TAG/CHORUS

No one talks to him about how he lives,
He thinks that the choices he makes are just his,
Doesn’t know he’s a leader with the way he behaves,
And others will follow the choices he’s made,
He lives on the edge, he’s old enough to decide,
His brother who wants to be him is just nine,
He can do what he wants because it’s his right,
The choices he makes change a nine-year-old's life...

TAG/CHORUS

Little Mikey-Dee was the one in class
Who everyday got brutally harassed
This went on for years
Till he decided that never again would he shed another tear
So he walked through the door
And grabbed the .44 out of his father's dresser drawer
He said 'I can't take life no more'
And like that a life can be lost
But this ain't even about that
All of us just sat back and watched it happen
Thinking its not our responsibility
To solve a problem that isn't even about me
This is our problem.
This is just one of the daily scenarios
In which we choose to close our eyes
Instead of doing the right thing
If we make a choice and be the voice
For those who won't speak up for themselves
How many lives would be saved, changed, rearranged?
Now it's our time to pick a side.
So don't keep walking by not wanting to intervene,
Cause you just want to exist and never be seen.
So lets wake up, change the world
Our time is now.

Dolbert

A friend posted this up on Facebook the other day and it brought a tear to my eye!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUBYzpCNQ1I

BumbleB

HUrt _nine inch nails ,prefer the cash version.


I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

hatful

GirlOfGlass

The Avett Brothers - The Ballad Of Love And Hate

Basically about two completely different people - love and hate.
The end is lovely, hate basically forfeits. Such a sweet song.

Love writes a letter and sends it to Hate:
"My vacation,s ending, I'm coming home late
The weather was fine and the ocean was great
And I can't wait to see you again"

Hate reads the letter and throws it away
"No one here cares if you go or you stay
I barely even noticed that you were away
I'll see you or I won't, whatever"

Love sings a song as she sails through the sky
The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes
And everyone knows it whenever she flies
And also when she comes down

Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street
Every stranger and drifter he greets
And shakes hands with every loner he meets
With a serious look on his face

Love arrives safely with suitcase in toe
Carrying with her the good things we know
A reason to live and a reason to grow
To trust, to hold, to care

Hate sits alone on the hood of his car
Without much regard to the moon or the stars
Lazily killing the last of a jar
Of the strongest stuff you can drink

Love takes a taxi, a young man drives
As soon he sees her hope fills his eyes
But tears follow after at the end of the ride
Because he might never see her again

Hate gets home lucky to still be alive
He screams over the sidewalk and into the drive
The clock in the kitchen says two-fifty-five
And the clock in the kitchen is slow

Love has been waiting patient and kind
Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign
That the one that she cares for who's out of his mind
Will make it back safe to her arms

Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door
Weary head hung down, eyes to the floor
He says, "Love, I'm sorry," and she says, "What for?
I'm yours and that's it, whatever
I should not have been gone for so long
I'm yours and that's it, forever
Your mine and that's it, forever"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7xUZkKd58c

cealabeala

Love this thread

The Sunscreen song is brilliant, also love Bon Iver and Brighteyes, I was going to say First Day of My Life too.

I really like the lyrics to Ellie Gouldings Guns and Horses...

Also Stornoways I Saw You Blink...

Faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS0rwQK_pI

This was one of the first songs to make me realise my ex wasn't coming back, and I needed to say a last goodbye.

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die.
But it's over
Just hear this and then I'll go:
You gave me more to live for,
More than you'll ever know.

Well, this is our last embrace,
Must I dream and always see your face?
Why can't we overcome this wall?
Baby, maybe it's just because I didn't know you at all.

Kiss me, please kiss me,
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation.
Oh, you know it makes me so angry 'cause I know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

Did you say, "No, this can't happen to me"?
And did you rush to the phone to call?
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind saying,
"Maybe, you didn't know him at all,
you didn't know him at all,
oh, you didn't know"?

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime,
Burning clues into this heart of mine.
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes, and the memories
Offer signs that it's over, it's over.

mariaf24

The Spice Girls - Wannabe.

banie01

This song was always just a song to me!
Until I found out I was going to be a Dad, then it all just clicked into actual meaningfulness

Des Carter

WATCH THIS VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUSZyjiYuY

Otis Driftwood

This song always reminds me thats its the simplest things in life that mean the most.:)

BumbleB

mollymascara

I_am_LOST

Colin Hay - Waiting for my real life to begin

Any minute now my ship is coming in
I'll keep checking the horizon
And I'll stand on the bow
And feel the waves come crashing
Come crashing down, down, down on me

And you said,"Be still, my love
Open up your heart
Let the light shine in"
Don't you understand?
I already have a plan
I'm waiting for my real life to begin

When I awoke today suddenly nothing happened
But in my dreams I slew the dragon
And down this beaten path
And up this cobbled lane
I'm walking in my own footsteps once again

And you say,"Just be here now
Forget about the past
Your mask is wearing thin"
Let me throw one more dice
I know that I can win
I'm waiting for my real life to begin

Any minute now my ship is coming in
I'll keep checking the horizon
And I'll check my machine
There's sure to be that call
It's gonna happen soon, soon, oh so very soon
It's just that times are lean

And you say,"Be still, my love
Open up your heart
Let the light shine in"
Don't you understand?
I already have a plan
I'm waiting for my real life to begin

Hey heyeyeyeyey
Hey yeeeeeee
Hey heyeyeyeyey
Eeh eeh eeh eeh eh

On a clear day
I can see, see a very long way

On a clear day
I can see, see a very long way

Ramette

joni mitchell Both Sides Now (am showing my age!!!)

especially like the 'love actually' version

Chinafoot

Love this waltz version of a truly beautiful song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OCnm6cdZvQ

We said we'd walk together baby come what may
That come the twilight should we lose our way
If as we're walkin a hand should slip free
I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me

We swore we'd travel darlin' side by side
We'd help each other stay in stride
But each lover's steps fall so differently
But I'll wait for you
And if I should fall behind
Wait for me

Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true
But you and I know what this world can do
So let's make our steps clear that the other may see
And I'll wait for you
If I should fall behind
Wait for me

Now there's a beautiful river in the valley ahead
There 'neath the oak's bough soon we will be wed
Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me
Darlin' I'll wait for you
Should I fall behind
Wait for me

EnglishPollop

Dolorous wrote: »

A friend posted this up on Facebook the other day and it brought a tear to my eye!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUBYzpCNQ1I

This just made me cry! What a lovely little song...
Is going up on my FB page now

pearliefan

+1 Suncreen song... I've listened to it too many times and I still love it and it still speaks to me.

Love this... Philip Glass, The Hours. It sends shivers up my spine...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FniHgiyaTY

As does his 'Knee 2'.


edit ; tried figuring out how to put in a video, but to no avail, sorry.

Faith

I_am_LOST wrote: »

Colin Hay - Waiting for my real life to begin

I was actually going to post that too .

Some of you might know it from Scrubs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-AIVJeR6Hk

ShagNastii

Reminds me of a friend of mine. He was forever putting the beach boys on the student bar jukebox.

People always would say "Geez Mark, the beach boys? Isn't that a bit cheesy?"

He would always smile and say nicely. "It is always sunny when you listen to the beach boys."

roashter

smoggy11

Ah there have been so many!

I think songs will speak to you at different times depending on your mood. A few that always move me are:

Gabriel and the Vagabond - Foy Vance

Indescriminate act of kindness - Foy Vance
(I'm not religious at all, but these songs always move me!)

Dance me to the end of love - Madeline Peyroux (Jeff Buckley is just a bit too depressing:p)

Kissing you- Des'ree

Also a lot of classical pieces, requiem for a dream, adagio in d-minor, the soundtrack for the shawshank redemption...

It just depends on mood really.

Oh, also a song by paul simon, you can call me al. One line in particular, "he looks around, around, he sees angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity he says, amen and hallelujah" That gives me shivers even typing it!

Panthro

the most played tune on my ipod is none other than:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7CycUkDQU

fuct if i know, i just think its a wicked good tune!:D

watna

cealabeala wrote: »

Also Stornoways I Saw You Blink...

Stornoway are my new favourite band. They are fantastic! I can't get enough of listening to their album.

Anna Molly

This came from a soundtrack Nikki Sixx did for his book, "The Heroin Diaries." Sends shivers down my spine everytime.

Also, Weak and Powerless by APC changed my life

Tomorrow-Sixx:am

Where ya gonna be tomorrow?
How ya gonna face the sorrow?
Where ya gonna be when you die?
'Cause nothing's gonna last forever
And things they change like the weather
They're gone in the blink of an eye

Just look at yourself, can you see where you are?
Look at yourself, now you can't hide the scars
Just look at yourself 'cause there's nowhere to go
And you know

Tomorrow
You're gonna have to live with the things you say
Tomorrow
You'll have to cross bridges that you burned today
Tomorrow...
And everything you do, it's coming back for you
You'll never outrun what waits for you
Tomorrow.

And are you terrified by sadness
And have you given into madness
You're running out of places to hide
'Cause everybody's got a reason
To justify how they're feelin'
Maybe you should open your eyes

Just look at yourself, do you like what you see?
Look at yourself, is this how it should be?
Just look at yourself, 'cause there's nowhere to go
And you'll know

Tomorrow
You're gonna have to live with the things you say
Tomorrow
You'll have to cross bridges that you burned today
Tomorrow...
And everything you do, it's coming back for you
You'll never outrun what waits for you
Tomorrow.

Are you waiting for the reason to change?
Are you waiting for the end, has it came?
Nothing's gonna stand in your way...

Just look at yourself, do you like what you see?
Look at yourself, is this how it should be?

Tomorrow
You're gonna have to live with the things you say
Tomorrow
You'll have to cross bridges that you burned today
Tomorrow...
And everything you do, it's coming back for you
You'll never outrun what waits for you
Tomorrow.

kiwi123

pearl jam - rearview mirror


I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize
I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down
Hand on my face, pushed to the ground
Enmity gaged, united by fear
Forced to endure what I could not forgive...

I seem to look away
Wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface most defiled
Head at your feet, fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down
Enmity gaged, united by fear
Tried to endure what I could not forgive

Saw things
Clearer
Once you, were in my... rearviewmirror...

I gather speed from you ****ing with me
Once and for all I'm far away
I hardly believe, finally the shades...are raised...hey...

Saw things so much clearer
Once you, once you...
Rearviewmirror

Saw things so much clearer
Once you...oh yeah...



the frames - what happens - when the heart just stops

So what happens when the heart just stops
Stops caring for anyone
The hollow in your chest dries up
And you stop believing

So what happens when the heart gives up
But the body goes on living
The blood crawls to a slow and stops
And flows away

Well we got no-one to meet
No love we would beseech
We only have ourselves to blame for everything
The was no answer in the dust
And I'm missing you so much
And now you're sleeping
And I'm leaving

Empty-handed waiting
Time it will subside and we'll agree
It was a given
Well there was no standard we could set
And the world it does regret
To have to leave you in this state of bereavement

You see I'm feeling everything
Nothing gets by

There is a hollow in my chest
The time I won't forget
There is no comfort in the eyes
They put us always to the test
I can't prepare myself for that
But I work it out in time
There is a love that flows between us
Ever-changing everyday
I worked myself up to a crawl
But I'm not fearing it at all
We have no reason left to stay
And that's why we're leaving
And there was no answer in the dust
And the one I feared to trust
There is a lie that drags us
Beating and pulling into disappointment

I'm disappointed
I'm disappointed
I'm disappointed

It's so late, till you're gone

candy-gal1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wP5W2R0wY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVamOVZNG6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8arvEzHsA8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Abk1jAONjw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaRFcPVF7cI

Theres a lesson in all of these, and the songs arent too bad either :)

THEZAPPA

Alice in chains...love this song!

This song means so much to me

disposedof

For me, yea going through bad breakup at 30 :rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAfRW_RMK4M
In flames - Come Clarity


love it

my anthem h a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKqBBD5Og1A

alanajane

YouTube - Johnny Cash - For The Good Times.wmv



Originally a Kris Kristofferen song but there is something in JC voice that just touches the heart, my relationship was on the point of breakup when we both heard this song, it made us stop and think and to give it another go.

Below is my 'happy song' always puts me in a good mood.


YouTube - Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole 'IZ' 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'

magneticimpulse

Real Gone Kid - Deacon Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHTI31XuQxk


Dont you forget about me - Simple Minds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAdaQhitdKg

Just go happy classic tunes

Mr Yellow

Sorry to depress you all but these are deep, too deep even...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycze0tiMAPw

This second one wont post like the first, def worth a listen though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_jSSVJwGek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k

SheRa

Frank Sinatra's "You make me feel so young"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVWJashcBKg&feature=related

When I first heard it I was 13 and going through the usual teenage angst. I remember thinking that all was suddenly right with the world:). Even now it still has that magic and makes my heart sing.

"you make me feel there are songs to be sung, bells to be rung".......... :)

pow wow

Calico Skies by Paul McCartney. For so many reasons I won't bore you with. But yeah, heart warmer and spirit lifter!

psycho-hope

christ on a bike!

Red Army Blue by The Waterboys is a little respected or talked about song and I don't know why. The first half of the twentieth centuary had so much needless bloodshed, millions upon millions dying and this song goes illustrates that you do not betray your ideals, but your ideals betray you.

And for me, and this may sound a little cynical but you often have to be, you can do your little your part for a cause but it will never be exactly what you want it to be.

In short, be conscientous, but at the end of the day just try to enjoy your own little life and your own piece of turf because the greater ideal can let you down.

If you have never heard this song please listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aupn-91BNwU

When I left my home and my family
my mother said to me
"Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts
It's how many people you set free!"

So I packed my bags
brushed my cap
Walked out into the world
seventeen years old
Never kissed a girl

Took the train to Voronezh
that was as far as it would go
Changed my sacks for a uniform
bit my lip against the snow
I prayed for mother Russia
in the summer of '43
And as we drove the Germans back
I really believed
That God was listening to me

We howled into Berlin
tore the smoking buildings down
Raised the red flag high
burnt the reichstag brown
I saw my first American
and he looked a lot like me
He had the same kinda farmer's face
said he'd come from some place called Hazzard, Tennessee

Then the war was over
my discharge papers came
Me and twenty hundred others
went to Stettiner for the train
Kiev! said the commissar
from there your own way home
But I never got to Kiev
we never came by home
Train went north to the Taiga
we were stripped and marched in file
Up the great siberian road
for miles and miles and miles and miles
Dressed in stripes and tatters
in a gulag left to die
All because Comrade Stalin was scared that
we'd become too westernized!

Used to love my country
used to be so young
Used to believe that life was
the best song ever sung
I would have died for my country
in 1945
But now only one thing remains
but now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
but now only one thing remains
The brute will to survive!

cards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXi68fzm6w&playnext_from=TL&videos=W-QReCNk6L0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GSboEx4vJg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLJSsOVsvs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQeeZDkMCUQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=53lC10Z-N58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XVVZPefbR4&playnext_from=TL&videos=Y1PcGqQiIFc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0Dm-OaTNk&playnext_from=TL&videos=x-HkFWJiv3s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmzix6eFHw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPbRnbPQz_g&playnext_from=TL&videos=o9eu8wjlGbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurva0PVNy0&playnext_from=TL&videos=_ZgJwOgC3Wc


All these mean so much to me so have to post them all. I think the last 2 are incredibly touching.