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Lyrics that make you think "Yes!..."

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IntelligentInputDarling · 04/05/2025 11:34

Clunky title right 😅

I'm listening to The Boss 'Dancing in the Dark' and
"You can't start a fire,
you can't start a fire without a spark"
just gets me.

Bloody love this song ❤️ 🎵

OP posts:
Vallmo47 · 05/05/2025 09:41

When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
Oh, when times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I'll take your part
Oh, when darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Sail on, silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
Oh, if you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind

foreverblowingbubbless · 05/05/2025 12:58

Rainbowmum32 · 05/05/2025 04:37

I hope you think about me when she asks you if it's in
Can she tell where the lying stops and where the truth begins?
I'm sorry that you're balding, but you're paying for your sins
You'll get used to it

I immediately thought Alanis Morisette but I see it's a Taylor Swift sanitised version 😊

foreverblowingbubbless · 05/05/2025 12:59

This is me :

Oh heaven, oh heaven
I wake with good intentions
But the day, it always lasts too long
Then I'm gone
Oh heaven, oh heaven
I wake with good intentions
But the day, it always lasts too long 😂

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PuppyMonkey · 05/05/2025 13:13

Was quoting that wonderful Seventeen song the other day when talking with my DDs about school days and trying to explain I was one of those girls “whose names were never called when choosing sides for basketball.” Sad

I also adore “and I need you more than want you. And I want you for all time…”

JoyousEagle · 05/05/2025 13:39

foreverblowingbubbless · 05/05/2025 12:58

I immediately thought Alanis Morisette but I see it's a Taylor Swift sanitised version 😊

That isn’t a Taylor Swift song. It’s Napoleon Complex by Neriah.

Bitchesbelike · 06/05/2025 22:05

Natsku · 05/05/2025 05:52

Listening to the radio this morning and Sit Down by James came on. Forgot how much I loved this song, especially this part

Now I've swung back down again
It's worse than it was before
If I hadn't seen such riches
I could live with being poor

Yes! Having worked abroad having a great time when young, being home was so dull

piscofrisco · 06/05/2025 22:42

MiloMinderbinder925 · 04/05/2025 15:26

You cry out in your sleep, all my failings exposed
There's a taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good, just can't function no more

This was the song I listened to as my first marriage was ending and it was so apt

Why is the bedroom so cold? You turned away on your side.

Tillow4ever · 06/05/2025 22:53

Omg, I feel like I could quote a million songs here. I love music, I grew up listening to a real range of genres and decades so it’s always been a big part of my life.

When Starship, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us comes on it takes me back to a couple of years back on a work do - it was a music intro quiz, this came on and we all just started singing then yelled when they stopped it so they just played it for us to sing to as it was pretty obvious we all knew the answer then!

My all time favourite song is “Poison” by Alice Cooper, I particularly love the lyrics “I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name”

the song that always makes me cry though is “Who Knew” by Pink. It came out not too long after a very close (male) friend of mine who I had been madly in love with had suddenly dropped me from his life right after revealing he had feelings for me too but before anything serious could even happen. Literally went from the discussion that night with him talking about holidays we could take, a job he thought I’d be good at at his place of work, and ending the evening with a kiss that told me, I thought, all I needed to know, to the next day not replying to me at all (previously we’d have been emailing or messaging all day but it was pre decent text message tariffs) then finally speaking to me to say he thought we should stay away from each other for a while….i never heard from him again. So this song always makes me think of him and even all these years later I’m still blown away by just how much it seemed to sum it all up:

You took my hand,
you showed me how
you promised me you’d be around.

Ah ha, that’s right.

I took your words and I believed
in everything you said to me.

Yeah huh, that’s right.

If someone said 3 years from now, you’d be long gone
I’d stand up and punch them out
Cause they’re all wrong.
I know better, cause you said forever, and ever
Who knew?

Remember when we were such fools,
And so convinced and just too cool,
Oh no, no no

I wish I could touch you again
i I wish I could still call you a friend
I’d give anything.

When someone said count your blessings now, for they’re long gone
I guess I just didn’t know how, I was all wrong
But they knew, better, still you said forever.
And ever, Who Knew?

I’ll keep you locked in my head
until we meet again
Until we, until we meet again
I won’t forget you my friend,
What happened?

if someone said 3 years from now
you’d be long gone.
id stand up and punch them out
cause they’re all wrong and
that last kiss, I’ll cherish
until we meet again
and time makes it harder, I wish I could remember,
But I keep your memory, you visit me in my dreams,
My Darling, who knew?

My darling, who knew to fade

BassesAreBest · 06/05/2025 23:05

Sometimes it's hard
To speak what's on your mind
To leave your past behind
To hope that you can find
A way through circumstances you cannot control
A sadness deep into your soul
That you cannot disregard
Sometimes it's hard To get through your working day
And find the words to say
Everything's okay when you know differently inside
You feel you're gonna break
Your life is full of the same mistakes
And it seems to fall apart

And

When it never came true never happened to you
It just slowly faded away ‘til it broke your heart
Some dreams die harder some are living yet
Sooner or later you get to the losing part

Aintgointogoa · 07/05/2025 01:09

Ah ! Good thread ! and so many great choices. Some I have to look up !
This is one of mine
Northern Skies by I am Kloot

Above there are no stars tonight just northern skies
Reflected light upon your face
Some people think stars rule our lives,
Some people they think otherwise
They can be replaced.
Where did you go on that big black night?
Did you take the coast road back through your life?
See the sand, the moon, the stars that shine the light and say, well
They'll do all right for me
We shroud our lives in mysteries,
Shooting stars and storming seas, if we
Have any sense
Storm clouds roll, they're free to break
And we're free to make
The same mistakes again and again

When my brother died recently, this really got me, although I knew it well. He was a sailor and a pilot so no stranger to stars at night. But this song gives me the sense of absolute freedom from the shackles of earthbound existence.

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 07/05/2025 01:38

'Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest' from The Boxer by and Garfunkel really resonates with me. Although TBF women do the exact same thing.

IntelligentInputDarling · 08/05/2025 14:20

@Tillow4ever l love Pink songs , her lyrics are always 👌 and that's one of my favourites!

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Shoxfordian · 08/05/2025 15:14

Some people stay far away from the doorIf there’s a chance of it opening upThey hear a voice in the hall outside And hope that it just passes bySome people live with the fear of a touch And the anger of having been a foolThey will not listen to anyoneSo nobody tells them a lieI know you’re only protecting yourselfI know you’re thinking of somebody elseSomeone who hurt youBut I’m not aboveMaking up for the loveYou’ve been denying you could ever feelI'm not above doing anythingTo restore your faith if I canSome people see through the eyes of the oldBefore they ever get look at the youngI’m only willing to hear you cryBecause I am an innocent manSome people say they will never believeAnother promise they hear in the darkBecause they only remember too wellThey heard somebody tell them beforeSome people sleep all alone every nightInstead of taking a lover to bedSome people find that’s it’s easier to hateThan to wait anymoreI know you don’t want to hear what I sayI know you’re gonna keep turning awayBut I’ve been there and if I can surviveI can keep you aliveI’m not above going through it againI’m not above being cool for a whileIf you’re cruel to me I’ll understandSome people run from a possible fightSome people figure they can never winAnd although this is a fight I can loseThe accused is an innocent manOh yes I am an innocent manYou know you only hurt yourself out of spiteI guess you’d rather be a martyr tonightThat’s your decisionBut I’m not below anybody I knowIf there’s a chance of resurrecting a loveI’m not above going back to the startTo find out where the heartache beganSome people hope for a miracle cureSome people just accept the world as it isBut I’m not willing to lay down and dieBecause I am an innocent man

Shoxfordian · 08/05/2025 15:15

Sorry that's a total mess, I thought I'd spaced it out

Innocent man by Billy Joel

BassesAreBest · 08/05/2025 15:15

Some people stay far away from the doorIf there’s a chance of it opening upThey hear a voice in the hall outside And hope that it just passes by

Isn’t that the Mumsnet theme tune?

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 09/05/2025 22:21

BassesAreBest · 08/05/2025 15:15

Some people stay far away from the doorIf there’s a chance of it opening upThey hear a voice in the hall outside And hope that it just passes by

Isn’t that the Mumsnet theme tune?

😂😂😂

YorkieTheRabbit · 09/05/2025 22:30

The past was yours but the future’s mine.

CamomileCream · 09/05/2025 22:53

I'm trying to get better because I haven't been my best
She took a plain black marker, started writing on my chest
She drew a line across the middle of my broken heart
And said, come on now, let's fix this mess
We could get better
Because we're not dead yet

They threw me a whirlwind
And I spat back the sea
I took a battering but I've got thicker skin and the best people
I know looking out for me
So I'm taking the high road
My engines running high and fine
May I always see the road rising up to meet me
And my enemies defeated in the mirror behind

Frank Turner, Get Better. Gave me courage to fight when I needed it

Mumofyellows · 09/05/2025 23:10

sowemeetagainbananaman · 04/05/2025 22:58

Gives me tingles:

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse
Still, it's so much clearer
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
The moon is low tonight
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
I'm not sure all these people understand
It's not like years ago
The fear of getting caught
Of recklessness and water
They cannot see me naked
These things, they go away
Replaced by everyday
Nightswimming, remembering that night
September's coming soon
I'm pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming
You, I thought I knew you
You, I cannot judge
You, I thought you knew me
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath
Nightswimming

I love this song ❤️

SheilaFentiman · 09/05/2025 23:20

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk with you again.

Is just the perfect couplet.

Lyrics which energise rather than move me to tears:

I dug my keys into the side
Of his pretty little souped up four wheel drive
Carved my name into his leather seats

Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood

Trouble got evicted,
From the Devil's lair
I wager she got betrayed
By her friend Despair

Trouble’s Lament - Tori Amos

afuckinggoat · 09/05/2025 23:31

Paris Paloma

All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid
Nymph, then a virgin, nurse, then a servant
Just an appendage, live to attend him
So that he never lifts a finger
24/7 baby machine
So he can live out his picket-fence dreams
It's not an act of love if you make her
You make me do too much labour

LuckyManifestations · 10/05/2025 00:36

I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in the sand
I can talk for hours, about things you don't understand.
I can take myself dancing, I can hold my hand, and I can love me better than you can.

UpMyself · 10/05/2025 00:42

The world still is the same, you never change it
As sure as the stars shine above
Well, you're nobody 'til somebody loves you
So find yourself somebody to love.

NormasArse · 10/05/2025 00:47

Colinthedog · 04/05/2025 21:40

When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing
That in a matter of hours we'd change the way we were going

My favourite love song.

Gobolino80 · 10/05/2025 00:51

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine

Black by Pearl Jam

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