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

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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..."

There Is - Boxcar Racer

This vacation's useless
These white pills aren't kind
I've given a lot of thought on this 13-hour drive
I miss the grinding concrete where we sat past 8 or 9
And slowly finished laughing in the glow of our headlights
I've given a lot of thought to the nights we use to have
The days have come and gone
Our lives went by so fast
I faintly remember breathing on your bedroom floor
Where I laid and told you, but you sweared you loved me more
Do you care if I don't know what to say
Will you sleep tonight or will you think of me
Will I shake this off pretend its all okay
That there's someone out there who feels just like me
There is
Those notes you wrote me
I've kept them all
I've given a lot of thought of how to write you back this fall
With every single letter in every single word
There will be a hidden message about a boy that
Loves a girl
Do you care if I don't know what to say
Will you sleep tonight or will you think of me
Will I shake this off, pretend its all okay
That there's someone out there who feels just like me
There is...

'When you're gone'
The Cranberries

Hold on to love, that is what I do
Now that I've found you
And from above, everything's stinking
They're not around you
And in the night I could be helpless
I could be lonely, sleeping without you
And in the day, everything's complex
There's nothing simple when I'm not around you

And I miss you, when you're gone
That is what I do, bay-, bay-, babe
And it's going to carry on
That is what I knew, bay-, bay-, baby

Hold on to my hands
I feel I'm sinking, sinking without you
And to my mind, everything's stinking
Stinking without you

And in the night I could be helpless
I could be lonely, slipping without you
And in the day, everything's complex
There's nothing simple when I'm not around you

And I miss you, when you're gone
That is what I do, bay-, bay-, babe
And it's going to carry on
That is what I knew, bay-, bay-, baby
Bay-, bay-, baby
Bay-, bay-, babe

*sleeping without you

I'm the t-shirt that I wear
Pick the thorns out of my hair
I broke your heart so carelessly
But made the pieces part of me

Nothing but thieves - Sorry

Literally the whole of demons by imagine dragons
And the whole of halo by Bethany joy lenz.
But the most powerful is hurt by Christina aguilera. The whole song aswell, I can’t even choose a part as it’s all powerful

The end by the doors. I saw it on tv the night my ex told me he was leaving and I played it over and over and over. I can't hear it without crying now.

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend
The end

[Verse 1]
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again

I'll take my medicine, you'll take the credit, this thing will get the better of you if you let it, hold on I'm not finished just give me a minute, my everything looked so much nicer with you in it.

Leave with your head high, you fought for it and you should be applauded.

And if you're trying to cut me down, you know that I might bleed, and if you're trying to cut me down I know that you'll succeed, and if you want to hurt me, you're doing really well my dear.

Hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way

Neil Young : The needle and the damage done

I caught you knocking
at my cellar door
I love you, baby
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done
I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done
I sing the song
because I love the man
I know that some
of you don't understand
Milk-blood to keep from running out
I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it
in everyone
Every junkie's like a setting sun
I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it
in everyone
Every junkie's like a setting sun

beastfromthemiddleeast I so agree with that

"Don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them..."

Jackson Browne - These Days

Don't want to feel another touch
Don't want to start another fire
Don't want to know another kiss
No other names falling off my lips
I'll never love again

Lukas Nelson, Turn Off the News

His Glastonbury set where be played this was just so poignant, reminds of the power we all have to make the world a better place, even when the politicians are getting it wrong.

Turn off the news and build a garden
Just my neighborhood and me
We might feel a bit less hardened
We might feel a bit more free
Turn off the news and raise your kids
Give them something to believe in
Teach them how to be good people
Give them hope that they can see
Hope that they can see
Turn off the news and build a garden with me.

From Comfortably Numb, by Pink Floyd:
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
.......
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb

This doesn't really compare with the previous ones. I'd been out of a very abusive relationship for a while but had stopped really living.

"find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy,
You're a shooting star I see, a vision of ecstasy,
When you hold me, I'm alive
We're like diamonds in the sky"

Diamonds, Rihanna.

The last bit was about when i was with my preschool Grandchildren.

I made a point of choosing to be haapy every day and value the real relationships i had, which is much more than my abusive ex has.

About one friend in particular, but I've known a few people who've died, committed suicide, after drug use.

"How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?"

Champagne Supernova, Oasis.

I had a much younger, friend-with-benefits, die because of steriod and cocaine, usage.

"Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown"
Goodbye my Lover, James Blunt.

Depending on my mood:

"Well the oppressors are trying to keep me down
Trying to keep me underground
Well they think that they have got the battle won
I say forgive them Lord, they know not what they've done
For as sure as the sun will shine, I'm gonna get my share of what's mine
And the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all"

Or on a bad day...
"I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race..
where do we go from here?
the words are coming out all weird
where are you now when I need you?"

Or if feeling belligerent after an argument reasoned, yet frank discussion with DH..
"it's hard when you're always right to make a decision, to make a choice
a complicated view of life is never satisfactory
I'm always wrong, you're always right
You've got it easy
One day I'll get it right with none of your help
And you'll be uneasy - queasy - easy!"
These Animal Men, providing the soundtrack to my grouchiness since 1993...

Frankie goes to Hollywood, The Power of Love...
”I’ll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down
I’ll be around with my undying death defying love for you...”

I used to sing it to my DC when they were little, brings me out in goosebumps whenever I hear it.

Also INXS, Never tear us apart,

“I told you
That we could fly
Cause we all have wings
But some of us don’t know why...”

A truly beautiful song.

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why can't it be mine?"

Black by Pearl Jam.

Gets me every time.