For Fun: Profound Song Lyrics

[covergirl82]

Just because I heard one over the weekend...  For some reason, I never really paid attention to the following line from "Name" by Goo Goo Dolls, but it really resonated with me now (maybe because I've had 2 C-sections and one skin cancer excision):

"And scars are souvenirs you never lose"

Anyway, I thought it would be a fun thread.

[2chatter]

How To Save A Life - the Fray - I listen to it every time I run after a friend committed suicide.

[justcheckingin73]

I never really listened to Grey Street by Dave Matthews until a few years ago but all of the lyrics are so profound to me.

There’s also a song by Blake Shelton - Who Are You When I’m Not Looking? It’s one of my favorites but in particular, the line - who are you when I’m not around? It’s so simple but I just love it.

[waverly]

From the 1970's Charlotte's Web

"Sometimes when somebody loves you miracles somehow appear." I thought of that because I saved DS's life several times or maybe I should say modern medicine did.

Christina Perry "I have died everyday waiting for you" I know it is probably supposed to be a romantic love song. But I also think of this song during my difficult pregnancy because it was the longest time of my life because I didn't know if he would survive or if I would have him early. So I pretty much cried every day.

And I also have a scar from the medical procedure, so that one relates to me too. I don't think mine are fun lyrics though.

[justcheckingin73]

Feb 6, 2018 10:50:24 GMT -5 2chatter said:

How To Save A Life - the Fray - I listen to it every time I run after a friend committed suicide.

I never really listened closely to the lyrics and was kind of sick of this song when it came out but then someone on The Voice sang it and explained why it moved them and I was amazed at the lyrics. It’s one of my favorites now. 

[akafred]

From "Frozen" (the trolls song): "People make bad choices when they're mad or scared or stressed, but if you throw a little love their way, you'll bring out their best." Kind of an awesome parenting mantra really.

[akafred]

My favorite singer Frank Turner:

'Cause it turns out hell will not be found
Within the fires below,
But in making do and muddling through
When you've nowhere else to go.

I find this to be true of parenting also. Lol

[rere]

Not really a song lyric, but my class wrote out inspirational quotes on index cards to put in lockers and around school. I am currently going through them yo make sure they are appropriate and spelled correctly. My favorite so far: "Life is short, smile while you still have teeth. " Teenagers.

[sunbutter]

Not sure how profound but I was fixated on these DMB lyrics in college:
I hear more than I like to...
so I boil my head in a sense of humor...
I laugh at what I cannot change...
I throw it all on the pyre again..

I laugh and joke as a stress release. It has driven some of my previous bosses absolutely mad. “This is not funny!!!” “Why are you smiling right now?!?!” I don’t have an MI and then I go and change what I can.

[HeartofCheese]

Ani diFranco: "I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might have to turn your head." Clearly relates to being a young 20-something, but it had a big impact at the time that maybe the reason some people didn't get me was because they were mentally lazy. I still think about it when I'm trying not to internalize someone's reaction to something I did.

[twinmomma]

I love Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" - the whole song feels special to me when I hear it, but these lyrics in particular. DH and I got married at 23, after a really tumultuous young love (our families hated each other) and now we still have bumps in the road, but at the end of the day, we're in love.

And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70
And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23
And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways

And this part:

I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe it's all part of a plan
I'll just keep on making the same mistakes
Hoping that you'll understand

[supertrooper1]

I am constantly changing my IM tag line at work with a new song lyric, either one that hits me at that time or something that is related to what is going on at work. I have a word document with future lyrics.

A couple of my favorites:
"You can't look forward to tomorrow and still hold onto yesterday", I Guess It Never Hurts to Hurt Sometimes, Oak Ridge Boys.

"If you need me, I'll be where my reputation don't proceed me", Vice, Miranda Lambert.

The whole song of Good Ole Boys Like Me, by Don Williams.

[k3am]

HeartofCheese I was absolutely OBSESSED with Ani growing up. Obsessed. It was hard to be obsessed with someone who wasn't on the radio and before the days of streaming music, but I totally succeeded. Living in Clip is basically still my favorite album ever. I could basically quote most of her songs as profound.

I'm currently educating DD on Macklemore. She likes Sloane's Song. She calls it "instructions on how to live." She's got this line down pat: Don't wake your mom up, do yoga, learn about karma, find god but leave the dogma.

Parts of the song I want her to catch onto? You put the work in, don't worry about the praise, my love. Don't try to change the world. Find something that you love and do it every day. Do that for the rest of your life, and eventually, the world will change.

[2chatter]

Along the lines of k3am - Sit Still, Look Pretty is one that’s big with my girls. It’s amazing how at their ages they now “get” that I work and have a career and could be totally fine on my own - and was when they were little.

[mae0111]

I like a couple from Ellis Paul:

“Bless your sweet mistakes
That crumbled you down to your knees
They brought you to this place
Changing you by degrees
When change was just what you needed.”

This is a Woody Guthrie poem put to music by Ellis Paul, called God’s Promise. It helps me to reset if I’m feeling sorry for myself.

“All that I promise is strength for this day,
Rest for my worker, and light on your way.
I give you truth when you need it, my help from above,
Undying friendship, my unfailing love.”

[judyblume14]

justcheckingin73, Grey Street gives me the chilly willies. It's so... sad and desperate.

[judyblume14]

Billy Joel's "Lullabye" kills me. With my mom having passed away years before my daughters were born, this line brings me comfort:
Goodnight my angel now it's time to dream,
And dream how wonderful you life might be.
Some day your child may cry
and if you sing this lullabye,
then in your heart, you'll always be a part of me.

[justcheckingin73]

Feb 6, 2018 13:14:11 GMT -5 judyblume14 said:

justcheckingin73 , Grey Street gives me the chilly willies. It's so... sad and desperate.

I don’t think I realized how sad it was until I really listened to it one day. 

Another song that gets me is Godspeed by the Dixie Chicks. More than the lyrics, the story behind the song is so sad. The guy who wrote it was divorced and his former wife remarried and moved to France with their son. He lost the custody battle and in his grief wrote it as a lullaby to his son. 

[2chatter]

justcheckingin73 - Godspeed made me ugly cry during my divorce before I had the passport block in place for the girls so they couldn’t be taken overseas. You mentioned that song and I’m crying and feel like I’m going to throw up.

[justcheckingin73]

Feb 6, 2018 14:00:30 GMT -5 2chatter said:

justcheckingin73 - Godspeed made me ugly cry during my divorce before I had the passport block in place for the girls so they couldn’t be taken overseas. You mentioned that song and I’m crying and feel like I’m going to throw up.

Ugh. I’m sorry. I was ugly crying as I writing it and thinking of that song.

[waverly]

Is it dusty in here?

[2chatter]

justcheckingin73 - it’s a great song. Good addition!

[sandandsea]

Avicci - The Nights. It’s ds’s (6) favorite song. Basically I love all the lyrics and think it’s kinda funny that dh got ds hooked on EDM.

“One day you’ll leave this world behind so live a life you will remember”

[covergirl82]

With DD's birthday coming up in a few days, it always reminds me of a song I first heard when my grandma passed away. A little backstory is that I had DD's name picked out for 5 years before that, and her middle name is my grandma's (mom's mom) middle name. We found out I was pregnant in early June 2010, about 2.5 weeks before my grandma passed away. Then my grandpa (mom's dad) passed away 12 days later. It was a pretty rough summer. Then we found out in September we were expecting a girl. DD was my "joy that's coming."

"Would you dare, would you dare to believe
That you've still got a reason to sing
Cause the pain that you've been feeling
It can't compare to the joy that's coming"

(Before the Morning, by Josh Wilson)