Pop lyrics that suddenly catch you in the feelings years later.

[crosshatching]

Just musings really, today I heard Everything But the Girl on the radio. I'm of the generation that probably heard Missing much too much because it was everywhere for a while, but I was reflecting that 'and I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain', is a belting lyric that maybe you need to have lived/loved/lost a bit to really appreciate. Or at least more than I did in my teens!
Anyone got any other pop lyrics that have struck you by their wisdom years later?

This will sound ridiculous but the lyrics to Mmm bop are actually pretty intense

@SisterAgatha Yes I bet he treated her badly. What a life she’s lived - there at the beginning of 1960s counter culture and introduced Dylan to the world by singing his songs (she was well known). Paul Mcartney cites Dylan as a major influence on the Beatles when they first started. Interesting to think what direction they’d have taken without Dylan!

Saw JB sing a few years ago- she still has an amazing voice after 50+ years!

Baz Luhrmann / Mary Schmich - Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen). All of it but particularly these two verses.

"Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth, oh, never mind.
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagine

Don't worry about the future,
Or know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday"

Elbow - One Day Like This

This one. I have a particular person in mind when I hear it … I have a physical reaction to it, hairs on my arms standing up, etc. Stunning track.

I just called to say I love you - for all my miscarried babies all 7 of them.

I can't listen to it

Avril lavigne I'm with you it came out when I was pg with my pfb.

Take me by the hand, take me somewhere new. I dont know who you are, but I'm with you.

Nothing compares to you

Sinead O'Connor

Back for good by take that.

"In the twist of separation you excelled at being free"

What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away

Never knowing
What could have been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do

Cascada

Leonard Cohen " thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes, I thought it was there for good so I never tried."

God, I have so many…Elbow..lippy kids sums up youth perfectly.

Bookends-Simon & Garfunkel-literally has me sobbing (I’m far too sentimental!)

Faithless-Crazy English summer

Seasons in the sun

Time in a bottle

Kate bush-This woman’s work

Nearly all Elbow songs, come to think of it…beautiful lyrics

Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here

It was played during the funeral of a friend taken far too soon.

Heartbreaking

"I've run every red light on Memory Lane..."
Dire Straits, Telegraph Road

Feels truer with every passing month.

"Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order, an insulating border
In-between the bright lights and the far, unlit unknown.
Growing up, it all seemed so one-sided:
Opinions all provided, the future pre-decided,
Detached and subdivided in the mass-production zone.
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone."
Rush, Subdivisions

An eternal reminder of an agonisingly lonely adolescence...

"I never realised the lengths I'd have to go.
All the darkest corners of a sense I didn't know.
Just for one moment I heard somebody call,
'Look beyond the day at hand: there's nothing there at all.'
Now that I've realised how it's all gone wrong,
Gotta find some therapy: this treatment takes to long.
Deep in the heart of, where sympathy held sway,
Gotta find my destiny before it gets too late."
Joy Division, Twenty-Four Hours

...and the lonely early adulthood that followed it.

There was a thread the other night re a relationship issue and a poster put a link to the video from The Beautiful South 'I need a little time'. Wow. It was both a blast from my past, as I remember my dad playing it on cassette on our family holidays but also completely spoke to me in a different way now that I'm an adult. Very profound.

I drafted a couple of posts on the thread to thank the poster but they seemed incredibly trite in light of the original posters anguish so I didn't post them. But if you are reading this - thank you.

She really is a special thing. Interestingly I saw Bob Dylan live a few years ago and he was terrible. What little voice he had left was awful. I didn’t even recognise many of the songs, everyone in the audience was scratching their heads. I doubt she cares much about him now.

@Seriously79 i love hallelujah so much! The Jeff Buckley version is the one that really moves me because I heard it first: I always think the first version you hear of a song is the one that sticks with you. Leonard Cohen himself doesn’t do it very well and it’s long.

Talking of Leonard Cohen though, another one - First we take Manhattan

“you loved me as a loser and now you’re worried that I just might win.”

Ruby Tuesday
“Lose your dreams and you will lose your min

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Agreed

You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You go through all the pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast
Oh yeah
And they're gone so fast, yeah
Oh, so hold on the ones who really care
In the end they'll be the only ones there
And when you get old and start losing your hair
Can you tell me who will still care

Winds of Change by the Scorpions… A more hopeful time somehow

Missing brings back memories of my early 20s, such a great song. I'm sure the original unremixed song was a slow version. Tracey Thorn has such an amazing voice.

Maybe a bit cheesy but Goodbye Heartbreak by The Lighthouse Family:

“You know that you’ll survive
The day you realise
you can’t stop day from turning into night

hey
You know you’re gonna Iive
to fight another day
it’s just today things ain’t so good”

Those lines have gotten me through some hard days.

Shades of Grey by The Monkees. Very true and mature lyrics, although they were very young at the time.

Sade - By your side . Thought it was a bit boring when first released but then I listened again when my teen was going through an exceptionally hard time and the lyrics resonated with how I felt towards her so much.

Loudon Wainwright - Daughter. Anyone who has a daughter listen.....it'll get you right in the feels.

You've lost that lovin feeling. This KILLS me.

Perfect by Alanis Morrisette.

Here you come again by Dolly Parton.

My Nan passed away in January and when I went to say goodbye to her in hospital shortly before she went, I was holding her hand and Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" came on the radio. I've never listened to the actual words of that song so intently before and it absolutely broke my heart. I'll never be able to listen to it without remembering that moment ever again.