Songs that make you look at life differently

metaoblivia

Swim, by Jack's Mannequin

You gotta swim
Swim for your life
Swim for the music
That saves you
When you're not so sure you'll survive
You gotta swim
And swim when it hurts
The whole world is watching
You haven't come this far
To fall off the earth

The currents will pull you
Away from your love
Just keep your head above

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
A crack in the armor yeah
I swim for brighter days
Despite of the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in
Swim

You gotta swim
Through nights that won't end
Swim for your family
Your lovers your sisters
and brothers and friends
Yeah, you gotta swim
For wars without cause
Swim for the lost politicians
Who don't see their greed as a flaw

The currents will pull us
Away from our love
Just keep your head above

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
A crack in the armor yeah
I swim for brighter days
Despite of the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in
I'm not giving in
Swim

You gotta swim
Swim in the dark
There's no shame in drifting
Feel the tide shifting and wait for the spark
Yeah you gotta swim
Don't let yourself sink
Just find the horizon
I promise you it's not as far as you think

The currents will drag us away from our love
Just keep your head above

Killer Wench

Waterfall by Griffin House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc75XpTv-wE

Heaven's My Home by Sam and Ruby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTTP3XDIpso&feature=related

Sing me a Love Song by BarlowGirl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFXFfMF5hic&feature=related

Osinilshatin by Michelle St. John (one of the few times that I got shivers from hearing a voice)

http://www.myspace.com/thebusinessoffancydancing

Kya1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdsmbQC9y1E


The translation isnt the best. Such a beautiful song,it makes me cry:o:o


Lie to me darling
She wants to believe that you have come to stay She wants to believe that you are what you pretend to be She is listening to you, you are warm and confident She is listening to you and wants to believe all she hears But she believes that what has the power to bring us together also reasonably has the power to bring us apart She believes that everything built eventually also will be demolished Still she holds you so gently everytime you are there Cause she, wants to be led behind the light She, wants kisses and cuddling She says lie to me darling, you white liar Lie, as if everything was a game She says lie to me darling, you white liar Lie, between kissing and cuddling When her eyes are open the darknes is there to obscure She is thinking, let us close our eyes to the light blinded noone can see So she comes to that she has never seen anything for real She comes to that she doesnt know what anything is like But is there still anything beyond reasonable doubt Is there anything a poor, blinded fool can hold as a thruth No, there is nothing she can completly believe in there is nothing that for always will feel the same way Cause she, wants to be led behind the light She, wants kisses and cuddling She says lie to me darling, you white liar Lie, as if everything was a game She says lie to me darling, you white liar Lie, between kissing and cuddling Cause she, wants to be hugged and held she, wants to be cradled to rest She says lie to me darling, you white liar Lie, cause I want to believe She says lie to me darling, you white liar Lie, to one that wants to believe

shaddupayaface

Vince Gill " It's what you give away"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VMB4Hb9NTY

Howard the Duck

If you can see past the fact he can't sing i think Jeffrey Lewis has written some of the best lyrics i ever heard. Not sure any song has changed my outlook on life.. music makes life better that's for sure.
I like to think of the first part of this song when i might be feeling a bit down.


Jeffrey Lewis - Life

Life is a story don't you doubt
Bad times give you something to talk about
The next time you feel you're all worn out
Remember life is a story
Don't you doubt
It only takes a day for everything to turn around

Love is a story they tell to you
But the way they tell it ain't quite true
You'll wake up one day and you're twenty-two
You know love is just a story that they tell to you
Love takes a lot of work like everything else you're Gonna do

Friends are just the people that you can talk with
Somebody to talk about that somebody to talk About this
But everyone changes and forever is a myth
Friends are just the people that you can talk with
A lot of them'll leave but only a few you're gonna Miss

School is the place where I did my growing
They fill your brain to overflowing
They tell you this is all stuff you need to be knowing
School is the place where I did my growing
Just when I got to like it it was time to be going

The world is the place where it all happens
They draw lines on it and call it a map
In between every line's a different flag flapping
The world is the place where it all happens
Six billion people all taking turns eating in a napkin

Animals are critters just like you and me
The only difference is that they don't worry
About things that they can't smell or see
Animals are critters just like you and me
So we buy pants and deodorants and claim not to be

Songs are just something to waste your time
I listen to yours and you listen to mine
Before we know it the day's gone by
Songs are just something to waste your time
So is everything else to do whatever makes you feel Fine

God's just a story someone made up long ago
Before they had books and tv shows
I don't believe in him and I ain't afraid to say so
You know god's just a story someone made up long Ago
But it's hard not to be superstitious despite all you Know

Everyone's born and everyone dies
Everyone has a time and wonders why
The ocean's blue so is the sky
Everyone's born and everyone dies
The old lady cries, the new baby cries...and sighs

Kisses are weird but they can be fun
Instead of shaking hands it's like shaking tongues
I wish I got to do it more when I was young
Kisses are weird but they can be fun
I hate going once a month without kissing anyone

At this point it's been since uh...how many months
1 2 3 4 5 6...7
I think if kissing someone could make them Pregnant
The last person I kissed would have had their kid by Now

*snort laugh snort*

Dreams are weird but they can be fun too
They happen more often than kisses it's true
In some I was naked and in some I flew
Dreams are weird but they can be fun too
I wonder if you're dreaming about me when I'm Dreaming about you

Now that you heard everything I said
There ain't nothing new inside your head
If you want, disregard it all go ahead
Now that you've heard everything I said
There are probably one or two things you coulda Been doing instead

Life is a story don't you doubt
Bad times give you something to talk about
The next time you feel you're all worn out
Remember life is a story
Don't you doubt
It only takes a day for everything to turn around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Co39hWoUo

Bog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taB9mFqDx9c

musicmattersx

such a powerful song love it so much, lyrics are incredible!

makes me cry everytime I hear it!

Latchy

My musical tastes are so wide and varied ,from Mozart to Moby and like everybody sure I could choose dozens

but this oldie holds special memorys for me .

Frank Sinatras 'Love been good to me '

(also recorded by Jonny Cash and Rod McKuwen )

dammitjanet

Reef- I've got something to say. This song always gives me hope

"I've got something to say;
We have come a long way.
After all the things that we have been through,
I'm glad still to have you.
I know your hurting, I know your hurting
It will get better every day.

I Love all that you are.
You are what I live for.
After all the things that we have been through,
I'm glad still to have you.
I know your hurting, I know your hurting
It will get better every day.

I know your hurting, I know your hurting
It will get better every day"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxHiaj2p3vg

Chuchoter

Oh the memories!!

Majestic 12

This song always makes me think about life. It was used at the ending to Six Feet Under and if you were a fan I bet you were in tears like me!

Sia - Breathe Me (Six Feet Under Ending)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwARV9tPUw

MsHolloway

This song means a lot to me, for reasons I won't really get into. The song is pretty self explanatory.

The Perishers - Nothing like you and I

edit - oops the url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWi3BBAOrMY

not entirely sure if the embedding worked

doctorwu

Propably not look at life differently but more humanely.

Youve Got A Friend.

Carly Simon.
James Taylor.

Emmsy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghhXT9GpaKA

me_right_one

God gave rock and roll to you - Kiss
the greatest love of all - Whitney Heuston

Dave147

Incubus - Drive

Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.
And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the
fear take the wheel and steer.
It's driven me before, and it seems to have a vague, haunting mass appeal.
But lately I am beginning to find that
I should be the one behind the wheel.
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.
So if I decide to waiver my chance to be one of the hive
will I choose water over wine and hold my own and drive?
It's driven me before and it seems to be the way that everyone else gets around.
But lately I'm beginning to find that
when I drive myself my light is found.
So whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open arms and open eyes. Yeh.
Would you kill the Queen to crush the hive?
Would you choose water over wine....
hold the wheel and drive?

Acacia

I have a million and one songs that mean a lot to me, but ill post one by my favorite band, Death Cab for Cutie. I was listening to their album 'Plans' during a weird and difficult time in my life, and this song deals with death and letting go of people... It's about how every significant person in your life will either die or you'll lose them in some other kinda way. But you know you love someone if you're watching them die. I can't decide if it's a positive or negative song but it's really powerful.

"What Sarah Said"

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me
Away from me

Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself

'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die"

So who's going to watch you die?
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On a different note, I once read somewhere that soulmates are two people who recognise the damage in each other. This song is along those lines. It's by a band called Finch, used to love them, dont think they're around anymore.

"What it is to Burn."

She burns

Today's on fire
The sky is bleeding above me, and I am blistered
I walk these lines of blasphemy, every day
And still:

Like a bad star, I'm falling faster down to her
She's the only one who knows, what it is to burn

I feel diseased
Is there no sympathy from the sun?
The sky's still fire
But I am safe in here, from the world outside

So tell me
What's the price to pay for glory?

Like a bad star, I'm falling faster down to her
She's the only one who knows, what it is to burn

Today is fire, and she burns
Today is fire, and she burns
She burns
She burns
She burns
She burns
She burns
She burns

Like a bad star, I'm falling faster down to her
She's the only one who knows, what it is to burn

eskimoparty

Two of my favorite songs. Lived on both of them when I was travelling alone missing my girlfriend!

Josh Ritter- Kathleen
Creed- Lullaby

Silverfish

Mine's a Josh Ritter one as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG6uDn7tNbQ

I became a thin blue flame, polished on a mountain range…
And over hills and fields I flew, wrapped up in a royal blue.
I flew over Royal City last night, bullfighter on the horns of a new moon light. Caesar’s ghost — I saw the war-time tides. The Prince of Denmark’s father — still and quiet. The whole world was looking to get drowned. Trees were a fist, shaking themselves at the clouds. I looked over curtains, oh it’s then that I knew — that only a full house gonna make it through.

I became a thin blue wire that held the world above the fire. And so it was I saw behind — heaven’s just a thin blue line.
If God’s up there, he’s in a cold, dark room. The heavenly host are just the cold dark moons. He bent down and made the world in seven days, and ever since he’s been walking away. Mixing with nitrogen in lonely holes where neither seraphim or raindrops go; I see an old man wandering the halls alone, but only a full house gonna make a home.

And I became a thin blue stream, the smoke between asleep and dreams. And in that clear blue undertow, ‘saw Royal City far below.
Borders soft with refugees, streets aswimming with amputees. It’s a bible or a bullet they put over your heart — it’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart. The days are nights and the nights are long.. Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs.. And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign, get missiles from so high they might as well be divine. And now the dogs are howling at your door, singing about vengeance like it’s the joy of the lord. Bringing justice to the enemies — not the other way ‘round. They’re guilty were killed and they’re killed where they’re found. If what’s loosed on earth will be loosed up on high, it’s a hell of a heaven we must go to when we die — where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance, please; the fat man is crying on his hands and his knees. Back in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage, now he twists indecision; takes bourbon for rage. Lead pellets peppering aluminum, halcyon, laudanum and opium. Sings, “kiss thee Hardy, this poisoned cup.” His wind-up sheet is busy winding up. In darkness he looks for the lights that have died; you need faith for the same reasons that it’s so hard to find. And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck — and like good tragedy, that’s what we expect

At night I make plans for a city laid down — the hips of a girl on the spring-covered ground. Spirals and capitals and the twists of a script, streets named for heroes that could almost exist. Fruit trees from Eden and the gardens that seem to float like the smoke from a lithium dream. Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares; young women walking in the portals of prayer. The future glass buildings and the past, an address; the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless.. And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right; the suffering verbs put to sleep in the night. The future descending like a bright chandelier, the world’s beginning and the guests ‘in good cheer. In Royal City I fell into a trance, cos it’s hell to believe there ain’t a hell of a chance.

I woke beneath a clear blue sky.. The sun: a shout, the breeze: a sigh. The old hometown and streets I knew were wrapped up in a royal blue.
I heard my friends laughing out across the fields… The girls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel. The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay; cicadas electric in the heat of the day. A run of Three Sisters and the flush of the land, and the lake was a diamond in the valley’s hand. The straight of the highway and the scattered-out hearts, they were coming together, they were pulling apart. And angels everywhere were in my midst, in the ones that I loved and the ones that I kissed. I wondered what it was I’d been looking for above.. Heaven’s so big there ain’t no need to look up. So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air — only a full house gonna have a prayer.

Only a full house.


It was running through my head when I was sitting in the hospital the night my mum died - this line in particular

you need faith for the same reasons that it’s so hard to find. And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck — and like good tragedy, that’s what we expect

and then this

The straight of the highway and the scattered-out hearts, they were coming together, they were pulling apart. And angels everywhere were in my midst, in the ones that I loved and the ones that I kissed. I wondered what it was I’d been looking for above.. Heaven’s so big there ain’t no need to look up.

Otis Driftwood

I Will Follow You Into The Dark

Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
'cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Strange Loop

This song always helps brighten my mood...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o

poochierockz

Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen the Rain?