Songs With Meanings

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Whenever you listen to a song, do the lyrics sometimes "resonate" inside of you and hit some sort of a emotional chord?
Whenever I go through life experience, a song usually comes to mind. I will usually interpret the lyrics as an event in my life.

I will give you an example.

Even Flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies. He don't know. So he chases them away.
Some day yet, he'll begin his life Again.
Whispering Hands, gently lead him away.

I'm writing this thread because that is what has exactly happened to me. I feel an emotional connection to a song.

Best Regards,

Jake

Yes it does the song "Time" by Pink Floyd is a perfect example -"Ten years have got behind no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun"

There are several, but I'm only naming one. It's part of Cinderella's "Nobody's Fool."

You take your road, I'll take mine
The paths have both been beaten
Searching for a change of pace
Nothing's too be sweetened.
I scream my heart out just to make a dime
With that dime I bought you love
But now I've changed my mind
I'm not your fool...

What? You want me to make a list?

Alright then:

Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending (Parental discresion advised)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8QYxmpuyxg[/youtube]
"You were everything, Everything, That I wanted..."

Avril Lavigne - When you're gone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G3_kG5FFfQ[/youtube]
"I never thought I'd need you there when I cried... I miss you"

Avril Lavigne - Wish you were here (Again, parental discresion advised)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1-sitWRtY[/youtube]
"How I wish you were here"

Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttWmXkYkd8[/youtube]
"No, You'll just have to wait"

Carly Simon - Let the river run
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-0mmVnxPA[/youtube]
This one, I have an attachment to, for telling me to let things be the way they are.

Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k[/youtube]
"I just wish I could've told him In the living years"

Mike and the Mechanics - All I need is a miracle
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAMLa5ZC-B4[/youtube]
"And though I treated you like a child, I'm gonna miss you for the rest of my life"

Cat Stevens - Remember the days (of the old schoolyard)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFwDEqLQ0bA[/youtube]
The person I am in love with went to school with me.

Hunters and Collectors - Throw your arms around me
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69wQsfrbSU[/youtube]
"Yeah, You will throw your arms around me"

The Seekers - Time and again
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFxiwaJWQs[/youtube]
"I find myself, Thinking of you time and again"

Sarah Blasko - We won't run
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5RtLfE7K6Q[/youtube]

Cher - If I could turn back time (Parental discresion)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEszTzdUMcY[/youtube]
"If I could find a way - I'd take back all those things that hurt you"

Chicago - Hard to say I'm sorry
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR9Ibt7AWN4[/youtube]
"Hold me now, It's hard for me to say I'm sorry"

Belinda Carlisle - Summer Rain
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wssIZOBV9i4[/youtube]
The setting, where she's lost her husband to the war, is similar to my current predicament

Olivia Newton-John and John Farnham - Dare to Dream
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ9i-QnDCo[/youtube]
"Dare to dream, Dare to fly, Dare to be the heir, the chosen one to touch the sky"

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I also have a couple... The first that comes to mind is Push And Pull by Nikka Costa. I posted it before. The lyrics are pretty self explanatory.

Also, Memories Can't Wait by Talking Heads.... THough I usually listen to the cover version by Living Colour:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJu-IABeCws[/youtube]

Do you remember anyone here?
No, you don't remember anything at all
I'm here, flat on my back
Never woke up, had no regrets

There's a party in my mind
And I hope it never stops
They party all the time
Gonna party till they drop

Other people can go home
Other people, they can split
I can never stop
I can never quit

Take a walk through the land of the shadows
Take a walk through the peaceful meadows
Don't look so disappointed
Isn't what you hoped for, is it?

There's a party in my mind
And I hope it never stops
I'm stuck here in this seat
And I may not stand up

Other people can go home
Other people, they can split
I can never stop
I can never quit

Everything is quiet
Everyone's gone to sleep
I'm wide awake, but these memories
These memories can't wait
These memories can't wait

I dunno, usually I'm very long-winded with explanations in this kind of thread, but as with the Nikka Costa song, I'd say its all self-explanatory for the most part. Though I have to say the above lyrics applied more to my state of mind of some 4-5 years ago, when I posted these same lyrics on another forum.

Dig For Fire by the Pixies

English song: SHE'S GIVEN UP TALKING by PAUL MCCARTNEY

She’s given up talking
Don’t say a word
Even in the classroom
Not a dickie bird
Unlike other children
She’s seen and never heard
She’s given up talking
Don’t say a word

You see her in the playground
Standing on her own
Everybody wonders
Why she’s all alone
Someone made her angry
Someone’s got her scared
She’s given up talking
Don’t say a word

Ah but when she comes home
Its yap-a-yap-yap
Words are running freely
Like the water from a tap
Her brothers and her sisters
Cant get a word in edgeways
But when she’s back at school again
She goes into a daze

Ah but when she comes home
Its yap-a-yap-yap
Words are running freely
Like the water from a tap
Her brothers and her sisters
Cant get a word in edgeways
But when she’s back at school again
She goes into a daze

She’s given up talking
Don’t say a word
Even in the classroom
Not a dickie bird
Unlike other children
She’s seen and never heard
She’s given up talking
Don’t say a word

She’s given up talking
She don’t say a word

Don’t say a word

Cantonese song: ACCUSTOMED TO FALLING OUT OF LOVE by JOEY YUNG (Rough translation)

1. If we had never held hands, our romance might have sizzled. But since we had held hands, our romance lasted shorter than a cough. I had fallen out of love even before I could taste happiness. I have forgotten the warmth of being loved. I cannot understand why I am not qualified enough to melt your heart. I only know that my heart is aching now. I ought to acknowledge that I am at fault for causing you to leave me so suddenly, but is it really my fault? How did you manage to predict so quickly and clearly that our romance would end like this?

2. I know that I am a person who is impossible to please. I count myself lucky that we have loved each other for a moment. But when I reflect upon our past, I ask myself whether I am indeed so detestable that I earn nothing but your hatred. I know that even my tears cannot move you. My tears are just there to test your patience. I tried approaching you in the past when I saw you alone, but you remained alone and called me stupid.

3. Am I not good enough? I still do not know how to kiss. I know how to earn your pity but do not know how to arouse your love. I am not worried about my wounded pride, but I worry that once I develop self-awareness I will become accustomed to falling out of love. I should have developed the ability to detect incompatibility.

4. I am not attractive enough and you are not blunt enough. Now that I think of it, I am unsure whether our love story has ever taken place.

5. I should stop punishing myself from now onwards. I should continue to chase after love even though my heart is broken. May we meet again one day. I do not know how to love because loving people is so difficult, but I am willing to learn how to love someone till eternity.

Good Charlotte "Hold On". It's a song about depression and suicide prevention. It goes like this:

Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Don't stop looking, you're one step closer
Don't stop searching, it's not over
Hold on

It gives me hope when I'm depressed.

Queensryche, "Some People Fly":
The box you live within is strong,
And it's up to you to see beyond
That comfort zone you've grown to love -
There's more to life than that!
The expectations that you hold
Will keep you down, make you old -
If you can't see what I'm trying to say,
Maybe you just need to wear my shoes for a while.
I can't live your way,
Go ahead without me,
I'll find my own way....

Or "Someone Else?":
From where I stand at the crossroad's edge,
There's a path leading out to sea,
And from somewhere deep in my mind
Sirens sing out loud
Songs of doubt
As only they know how...

The first time I heard "White Horse" by Taylor Swift it made me tear up because it reminded me of the guy I've posted about here before - I was madly in love with him but he was manipulative and would toy with me. What struck me most is that in the video for "White Horse" the girl finds out the guy already has a girlfriend and was cheating woth her, while she had no idea (similar to what happened with my ex and I). I wasn't over him at the time so the first line - "Say you're sorry, that face of an angel comes out just when you need it to" - cut into me.

anything by limp bizkit, icp, or marilyn manson