What are your favourite relevant/most poignant/powerful song lyrics

[whatthewhatthewhat]

The 1975

"You used to have a face straight out of a magazine.Now you just look like anyone..."

The Cure

"Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more"

And, weirdly...

Miley Cyrus

"This world can hurt you
It cuts you deep and leaves a scar
Things fall apart, but nothing breaks like a heart..."

One more

"You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?
Even though I'm the sacrifice,
You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me,
I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?"

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface,
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I've become so tired,
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do,
Is be more like me,
And be less like you
Can't you see that you're smothering me?
Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control
'Cause everything that you thought I would be,
Has fallen apart right in front of you

When moonlight crawls along the street
Chasing away the summer heat
Footsteps outside somewhere below
The world revolves I let it go
We build our church above this street
We practice love between these sheets
The candy sweetness scent of you
It bathes my skin I'm stained by you
And all I have to do is hold you
There's a racing in my heart
I am barely touching you

The moonlight plays upon your skin
A kiss that lingers takes me in
I fall asleep inside of you
There are no words
There's only truth
Breathe in Breathe out
There is no sound
We move together up and down
We levitate our bodies soar
Our feet don't even touch the floor
And nobody knows you like I do
The world doesn't understand
But I grow stronger in your hands

We never sleep we're always holdin' hands
Kissin' for hours talkin' makin' plans
I feel like a better man
Just being in the same room
We never sleep there's just so much to do
Too much to say
Can't close my eyes when I'm with you
Insatiable the way I'm loving you

Closer than close - you see yourself -
A mirror image of what you wanted to be
As each day goes by - a little more -
You can't remember - what it was you wanted anyway
The fingers feel the lines - they prod the space -
Your ageing face - the face that once was so beautiful
Is still there but unrecognizable -
Private Hell

Music was the most important thing in my childhood through years of abuse, and the only way I can express my emotional state. Could do this for hours, great thread.

she tried hard to love him but it never did take
just another way for the heart to break
so she learned to bend

one thing they dont tell ya bout the blues when you got em
you keep on falling cause there aint no bottom
there aint no end

• Red Dirt Girl, Emmylou Harris

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I feel you beside me, and even their memories are gone
like stars in the night, lost in the sweet light of dawn

• Old Flames Cant Hold A Candle To You, Dolly Parton

"People
Will always make a lover feel a fool
But you knew I loved you
We could have shown them all
We should have seen love through"

George Michael - kissing a fool.

Relates to my ex fiancé who I feel gave in to pressure from others to give up on our relationship. Rich boy, poor girl basically and each of our family and friends were telling us it'd never work cos we were too young and too different. He eventually believed them, but I know he regrets it.

"There is nothing wrong with me
There's nothing wrong with you...

Nobody knows what we had
Nobody knows what we had...

You could do much better
You could do much worse than me
I could have walked right out on you
There was nothing stopping me...

I won't live in your world
You can't live in mine
We don't hate each other darlin'
We just gave up trying...

Maybe I'm not crying
Maybe I don't mind
But it hurts just knowing
That your children won't be mine..."

Same ex fiancé. Particularly poignant as I discovered I was pregnant a few weeks after we split, sadly mc.

"Running down corridors
Through automatic doors
Got to get to you
Got to see this through
I see hope is here in a plastic box"

Wires - athlete

Dds birth was dreadful and she was very poorly and had to go into scbu and this basically sums up my feeling/reaction when I was "with it" enough to understand. I'd had a c-section and lost a lot of blood and almost died myself, was in a wheelchair and so wheeled rather than ran to her, and i was being discouraged from going to scbu but I couldn't not. I had to see her. She's a strapping 18 year old now. I couldn't have any more children without risking my life.

"Well I thought I knew you, thinkin' that you were true...

Cause it makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
It makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter...

Never saw it coming, all of your backstabbing...

I heard you're goin' round playin', the victim now...

How could this man I thought I knew
Turn out to be unjust so cruel"

Fighter - Christina Aguilera

Relates to immediate aftermath of split from ex. He'd cheated with a supposed "friend" but trying to make out they'd not got together till after we split, playing victim and trying to make me not believe in myself too. He hated that I was coping fine without him. I used to play this after dropping off dd with him or going to get her from him to give me a boost before his snide put downs.

"Loving you the way I do
I know we're gonna make it through
And I would go to the ends of the earth
'Cause, darling, to me that's what you're worth
Where you lead, I will follow
Anywhere that you tell me to
If you need, you need me to be with you
I will follow where you lead
If you're out on the road
Feeling lonely and so cold
All you have to do is call my name
And I'll be there on the next train
Where you lead, I will follow
Anywhere that you tell me to
If you need, you need me to be with you
I will follow where you lead
I always wanted a real home with flowers on the window sill
But if you want to live in New York City, honey, you know I will
You never know how it's all gonna turn out, but that's okay
Just as long (just as long) as we're together, we can find a way
And where you lead, I will follow
Anywhere that you tell me to
If you need (if you need), you need me to be with you
I will follow, oh oh oh
Where you lead, I will follow
Anywhere that you tell me to
If you need (if you need), you need me to be with you
I will follow where you lead
Oh baby, yeah (yeah)
I'm gonna follow where you lead"

Carole King - where you lead I will follow

Initially because dd and I watched Gilmore girls together (and could relate to the dynamic) but the lyrics are also meaningful to us, especially now she's 18 and neither of us are really feeling ready for her to be an adult, so we have a little in joke that she can travel the world...but I'll be following her.

It's been just the 2 of us against the world since she was a toddler, so its going to be a hard transition.

Played at my dd's funeral.
To Where you are.

Who can say for certain
Maybe you're still here
I feel you all around me
Your memories so clear
Deep in the stillness
I can hear you speak
You're still an inspiration
Can it be
That you are mine
Forever love
And you are watching over me from up above
Fly me up to where you are
Beyond the distant star
I wish upon tonight
To see you smile
If only for awhile to know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are
Are you gently sleeping
Here inside my dream
And isn't faith believing
All power can't be seen
As my heart holds you
Just one beat away
I cherish all you gave me everyday
'Cause you are mine
Forever love
Watching me from up above

I never made promises lightly, and there have been some that I've broken,
but, I swear, in the days still left, we will walk in fields of gold

ParkheadParadise😢

Yeah, look at me,
See I’m a dreamer and
I’m looking at the stars.
And when ole Death comes in
I’m gonna say
“Man, have you got the keys to these old bars?”

Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And think of all the great things we would do

Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way

Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I'd see you in the tavern
We'd smile at one another and we'd say

Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days

Just tonight I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me

Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days

Through the door there came familiar laughter
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same

Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
(Mary Hopkins)

Doctor doctor won't you please prescribe me something
A day in the life of someone else

and

I open up my heart
You can love me or not
There's no such thing as sin
Let it all come right in
I wanna make some mistakes, I wanna sleep in the mud
I wanna swim in the flood, I wanna fuck 'til I'm done
I like whiskey on ice, I like sun in my eyes
I wanna burn it all down, so let's start a fire
I wanna be lost, so lost that I'm found
Naked and laughing with my blood on the ground
I am here, I am here
I've already seen the bottom, so there's nothing to fear
I know that I'll be ready when the devil is near
I am here, I am here
All of this wrong, but I'm still right here
I don't have the answers, but the questions is clear
Let me ask you
Where does everybody going when they go
Where does everybody going when they go
Where does everybody going when they go
Let me…

When the waves come crashing down
And you feel you're gonna drown
I swear I'll be there to pull you out
And there'll be hard times, there'll be pain
Whatever obstacles we face
We can do it all our way

You're the oxygen I need to survive
When I'm running out of air
You'll be there by my side
And now I'm begging you please
Don't take this life, life from me
When it's the only thing I need
You're the air that I breathe

Bury all your secrets in my skin
Come away with innocence and leave me with my sins
The air around me still feels like a cage
And love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again

So if you love me let me go
And run away before I know
My heart is just too dark to care
I can't destroy what isn't there

Deliver me into my fate
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you
Ooh, my smile was taken long ago
If I can change I hope I never know

I still press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every kiss
I couldn't face a life without your lights
But all of that was ripped apart when you refused to fight

So save your breath, I will not care
I think I made it very clear
You couldn't hate enough to love
Is that supposed to be enough?

I only wish you weren't my friend
Then I could hurt you in the end
I never claimed to be a saint
Ooh, my own was banished long ago
It took the death of hope to let you go

So break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself

And I won't listen to your shame
You ran away, you're all the same
Angels lie to keep control
Ooh, my love was punished long ago
If you still care don't ever let me know
If you still care don't ever let me know

Yesterday don't matter if it's gone - Ruby Tuesday

Just now, as my health condition worsens (thank God for the NHS!) and my chances of ever seeing my 'home' again are set at 0, sometimes I indulge in a Pity Fest and James Taylor's Carolina in my Mind plays on a loop.
Oh! and as we come from the same part of the State, and he wrote it while he,too, was experiencing acute home sickness, it's particularly apt.Sorry I can't provide a link
Right! Off now to have a blast of James Taylor,pull myself together-and get on with the day

@SimplySteveRedux

I see you like Darren Hayes. The Tension And The Spark is one of my favourite ever albums.

These two verses from 'Polaroid Picture' by Frank Turner give me the chills

Let go of the little distractions
Hold close to the ones that you love
Cause we won't all be here this time next year
So while you can, take a picture of us

So in the stillness of the moment
Make sure you take a Polaroid picture
And keep it with you forever
To remind yourself that everything changes
But there was this one time
There was this one time
When things were okay...

I challenge anyone to listen to All I Want by Kodaline and not be moved

❤️ Kodaline lyrics

And their videos. In particular, The video to 'High Hopes'

More lyrics... Johnny Cash's piece at the end of 'Highwayman'

'And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again'

Gives me chills

Powerful? No son of mine (Phil Collins) is near top of list.
Green (Joni Mitchell) another one I can barely listen to.

Favourite is harder to say... Too many that are amazingly clever.

@lljkk Ooh nice one. That reminded me of this bit:

you coming back to me
is against all odds
its the chance ive gotta take

Oooof, that's a punch in the gut.

I've seen you in my dreams honey,
I've watched you in my sleep,
We were drinking in the bars darlin',
Dancing down the street.

Small bones courteeners reminds me of when I first met my DH. Great days of falling in love.
I walked down the aisle to it

'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't ,you can't make your heart feel something that it won't,' sung by George Michael, just heartbreaking

You could be happy, by Snow Patrol , simplistic but so good