quotes/songs with meanings.

Soul Stretcher

I ain't a Lady.. well in that I'm male.. but let's not get too technical

1970

2000

Wow.

Kiva.D

Wow, Soul Stretcher. 2000 Joni Mitchell - incredibly touching. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAwFFRd8xO0

IrishGrimReaper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1ydSXHsc9Y

Hope it hasn't been posted

Such a beautiful song.

Nervous Wreck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8LFq4vMKQ

mg1798

Dancing in the moonlight.... such a feelgood song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unnh0T2Ftro

careymary

I love Bell X1 and all their lyrics but at the moment I'm definatly feeling this line: I'm not over you, can I get back under
From Next to you

x Purple Pawprints x

I just found this song today...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGrM1sh-8pE

IrishGrimReaper

Had to bump for this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTEtDBHGY4

I see where Jeff got his talent from.

Logical Fallacy

I love Gil Scott Heron, was gutted when he passed away. Will never forget the first time i heard this song...such fragility...very few people could ever match this guy in my opinion. I love it as a song because everyone has a breaking point, a moment when something will happen and what you were before is not what you are now...and the effect can be both long lived and far reaching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VqGWfq0Btg

Jagged jigsaw pieces
Tossed about the room
I saw my grandma sweeping
With her old straw broom
But she didn't what she was doing
She could hardly understand
That she was really sweeping up..
Pieces of a man

I saw my daddy greet the mailman
And I heard the mailman say
"Now don't you take this letter to heart now Jimmy
Cause they've laid off nine others today"
But he didn't know what he was saying
He could hardly understand
That he was only talking to
Pieces of a man

I saw the thunder and heard the lightning!
And felt the burden of his shame
And for some unknown reason
He never turned my way

Pieces of that letter
Were tossed about that room
And now I hear the sound of sirens
Come knifing through the gloom
But they don't know what they are doing
They could hardly understand
That they're only arresting
Pieces of a man

I saw him go to pieces
I saw him go to pieces
He was always such a good man
He was always such a strong man
Yeah, I saw him go to pieces
I saw him go to pieces

xxtattyberxx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPBzTxZQG5Q&feature=grec_index

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58ohuUw1lBg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XQfDd0iMc&feature=related

the lyrics, the cords, everythings perfect

Teddy_Picker

When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.


W. Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet)

Kiva.D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zq3TNtDWw

I can't listen to this one anymore.
It speaks to my soul, a little too much.

x Purple Pawprints x

xxtattyberxx wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPBzTxZQG5Q&feature=grec_index

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58ohuUw1lBg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XQfDd0iMc&feature=related

the lyrics, the cords, everythings perfect

I don't know the middle song but absolutely love Here Without You and Broken, those are amazing songs. Both sort of have meaning for me too so thank you for posting xxtattyberxx.

Kiva.D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCeYC5dUfY

Ciara_kee

Love this thread! I've been through it all and hopefully I'm not repeating with this post but this song gets me everytime. I think the lyrics are just beautiful. Love the guitar sound as well....I tried highlighting my favourite lines but I actually would be highlighting the whole thing sooooo:

Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a street light, steps out of the shade
Says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"

Juliet says, "Hey it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack"
He's underneath the window, she's singing, "Hey la, my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here, singing up at people like that"
Anyway, what you gonna do about it?

Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start,
And I bet, then you exploded in my heart,
And I forget, I forget, the movie song
When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame,
Both dirty, both mean, yes and the dream was just the same,
And I dreamed your dream for you, and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

Well you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin yeah
Now you just say, "Oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him"

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
You said "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die"
There's a place for us, you know the movie song
When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

I can't do the talk like the talk on the TV
And I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you
I can't do anything 'cept be in love with you

And all I do is miss you, and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat, the bad company
And all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme
Julie, I'd do the stars with you, anytime

Ah Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us, you know the movie song
When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

And a lovestruck Romeo he sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made
Find a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade
And says something like, "You and me babe, how 'bout it?"

"You and me babe, how about it?"

histories

Inhumanity is harmful in any age - Cicero

Never do things that other can and will do, if there are things that others cannot do or will not do - Amelia Earhart

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction - Blaise Pascal

Bertrand Russell
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
(I always tear up at the part in bold)

John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you....
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen
and ask yourself if the step you contemplate going to be of any use to him - Gandhi (This makes me feel like I can change the world or something:o)

raveni

Beautiful song, I'm sure a lot of people can relate to it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp9rpC6Yt1A

Kiva.D

Excerpts from a poem by Carl Dennis:

To Happiness~

If you’re coming this way, send me the details –
The name of the ship, the port it leaves from –
So I can be down on the dock to help you
Unload your valises, your trunk and boxes,
And stow them in the big van I’ll have rented.

I’d like this to be no weekend stay
Where a single change of clothes is sufficient.
Bring clothes for all season, enough to fill a closet;
And instead of a single book for the bedside table
Bring boxes of all your favorites.

I’ll be eager to clear half my shelves to make room,
Eager to read any titles you recommend.
If we’ve many in common, feel free to suggest
They prove my disposition isn’t to blame
For your long absence, just some problems with attitude,
A few bad habits you’ll help me set to one side.

Then light the candles you’ve brought from afar for the occasion.
Light them and fill the room I supposed I knew
With a glow that shows me I was mistaken.
Then help me decide if I’m still the person I was
Or someone else, someone who always believed in you
And imagined no good reasons for your delay.

~ Carl Dennis

That_Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wG6pSfgdec

This distance, this dissolution
I cling to memories while falling
Sleep brings release, and the hope of a new day
Waking the misery of being without you

mars411

JJ from Criminal Minds said:

"I'm thankful for my years spent with this family;
For everything we shared, for every chance we had to grow.
I'll take the best of them and lead by their example; where ever I go.
A friend told me to be honest with you, so here goes.
This isn't what I want, but i'll take the high road.
Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson. Or I don't want to walk around angry.
Or maybe it's because I finally understand.
There are things we don't want to happen, but we have to accept;
Things we don't want to konw, but we have to learn,
And people we can't live without, but we have to let go."

Along with this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWpw3CMCEg

It all makes so much sense Brings a tear to my eye.

20260622

Christina Perri - Jar of hearts
Beautiful song

That_Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywQYRAjLo4

Life starts now,
You've done all the things that could kill you somehow,
And you're so far down.
But you will survive this somehow,
Because life starts now.

dammitjanet

My OH is a musician and he wrote me a song last year about how we met and how we fell in love and two lines of it have always stayed with me

"I've been lifted,
I've been waiting for her"

He gave me the page he wrote the lyrics down onto and I've now got it framed in my bedroom, always makes me smile when I'm down. He can be terribly romantic when he wants

x Purple Pawprints x

dammitjanet wrote: »

My OH is a musician and he wrote me a song last year about how we met and how we fell in love and two lines of it have always stayed with me

"I've been lifted,
I've been waiting for her"

He gave me the page he wrote the lyrics down onto and I've now got it framed in my bedroom, always makes me smile when I'm down. He can be terribly romantic when he wants

Awh that is unbelievably romantic!! You're a lucky woman.


Chorus reminds me a little of myself.

I love the lines "I have been searching for your touch, unlike any touch I've ever known" and "I have been bound by the shackles of love and I don't mind if I die tied up." Kinda reminds me of my bf. And the first couple of lines of the chorus speak to me as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la0Fxx3ZbNo

Sunshineboo

Dido- White Flag.

This song has always meant a lot to me for various reasons, particularly these lines.

And when we meet
Which I'm sure we will
All that was there
Will be there still
I'll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I've moved on.

x Purple Pawprints x

I just started listening to this band today. All I can say is wow.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IocHzS2sRJ8

hondasam

sallysaucer101

Griffin House - The Guy that says goodbye to you is out of his mind.


A friend sent me a copy of this song after a bad break up and I just love it!!

Kiva.D

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

Benjokota

Lost by Anouk -jt love her voice

Folie a deux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwFS69nA-1w

"Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up
And you said “this is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”

So if you want to be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me"

Get's me every time, especially the bit in bold.

merlie

This means a lot to me because every time I hear it I think of my last ex, who is never forgotten and whom I still love very much, though we are now only friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8SuLBCq3k

That_Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0RFjzPZL8

It's ok to feel lost,
It just means you're alive.
I tell myself a thousand times,
From the ashes we will rise.

Kiva.D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ow0XOp_WI

Who would sell their soul for love? Or waste one tear on compromise. Should be easy enough to know a heartache in disguise.
But the heart rules the mind and the going gets rough, pride takes the fall, when you find that kind of love.
I can't help feeling like a fool, since I lost that place inside. Where my heart knew its way and my soul was ever wise.
Once innocence was lost, there was not faith enough. Still my heart held on when it found that kind of love.
Though beauty is rare enough, still we trust. Somehow we'll find it there with no guarantee. It seems to me, at least it should be fair.
But if it's only tears and pain, isn't it still worth the cost Like some sweet saving grace or a river we must cross.
If we don't understand what this life is made of, we learn the truth, when we find that kind of love.
Cause when innocence is lost, there is not faith enough. We learn the truth when we find that kind of love.

That_Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnjjkR14rHY

'Cause you will be somebody's girl
And you will keep each other warm
But tonight I am feeling cold

gargleblaster

The Beta Band - To You Alone

a black box inside my mind
records the time we spend together

you do not realize the line that runs from me
across the universe to you alone

Kiva.D

Not a day goes by, I don't think of you.
After all this time, you're still with me it's true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggwgP0u74RI

.
Somehow you remain locked so deep inside.
...Not a day goes by

x Purple Pawprints x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfKFjqi2j8w

That_Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4G6k5Y4xy8

It's only you, beautiful,
Or I don't want anyone,
If I can choose,
It's only you.
But how could I miscalculate,
Perfect eyes will have perfect aim.
If I can choose,
It's only you.

Vinta81

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8VfdaY8xNs

Kiva.D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwblLcBuM1M

That_Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgOlnZP2jcI

Some men die under the mountain looking for gold;
Some die looking for a hand to hold

dammitjanet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpP0b_CQQi4

Life is changing
I can't go on without you
Rearranging
I will be strong
I'll stand by you

You were fighting every day
So hard to hide the pain
I know you never said goodbye
I had so much left to say

One last song
Given to an Angel's Son
As soon as you were gone
As soon as you were gone

I have a new life now
She lives through you
What can I do?
I feel so alone now
I pray for you
We still love you

You were fighting every day
So hard to hide the pain
I know you never said goodbye
I had so much left to say

One last song
Given to an Angel's Son
As soon as you were gone
As soon as you were gone

One last song
Given to an Angel's Son
As soon as you were gone
As soon as you were gone
Gone Gone Gone

Kiva.D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYMqPu5PBAQ

seenitall

Grrrrr... don't you hate it when, after a long long loooong drought, a two-for-the-price-of-one situation suddenly arises?! Why can't life be more orderly? Ugh. :mad:

I'm talking about this:


Bloody Men

Bloody men are like bloody buses -
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.

You look at them flashing their indicators
Offering you a ride.
You're trying to read the destinations,
You haven't much time to decide.

If you make a mistake, there is no turning back.
Jump off, and you'll stand there and gaze
While the cars, the taxis and the lorries go by
And the minutes, the hours, the days.

Wendy Cope (b. 1945)

Sunshineboo

Adele- Hiding my Heart

I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away

x Purple Pawprints x

Sunshineboo wrote: »

Adele- Hiding my Heart

I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away

Love that song. My bf said some of the lines in that remind him of me.

Sashiee

Gwen Stefani - "Life is Short, you're Capable" what you waiting for?

Gwen again... "it's sad, the map of the world is on you,
the moon gravitates around you ,
the seasons escape you" from Early Winter

BellX1-
"It was part of our experiment
Went you said go and I went
like a gooseberry on Noah's ark

I watched them file in two by two
And I set sail without you
And we were carried on the flood of your tears

Time pulls a face when I'm next to you
Let's hope the wind changes
Time pulled a face when I'm next to you
Let's hope the wind changes

Now I'm looking for dry land
As all this crying subsides
But I'm like Columbus in India

I'm a little all over the shop
Like those souvenirs from Knock
that come all the way from China" - Next To You


The last one in particular has a lot of meaning as I had moved away and was absolutly smitten with a boy and all i could hope was that things wouldnt have changed by the time i came home...unfortunatly , time dosnt stand still!!

pixie80

Pushing Me Away by Linkin Park

"this is the last smile that i'll fake just for the sake of being with you"

sarahbro

Neil Young - Like a Hurricane

"Once I thought I saw you,
In a crowded, hazy bar".

Foo Fighters - Everlong
"Breathe out, so I can breathe you in".