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What are some of the best lyrics you have heard in a song? What has hit you the hardest, made an impact on you, or sent something to your heart?

 

One song that hit me hard was "Dance" by Nas

 

Here are the lyrics:

 

One more time, one more time

Huh, one more time, huh

One more time

 

I dream of the day I could go back to when I was born

Laying in your arms, wishing you was here today mom

Wish you the pid

Just for a second from heaven my tears would be gone

I wouldn't be rapping this song

I'd be happy driving up to your 8 bed room mansion

Ablade, laughing bout the hard time we faced

The galaxy is so enchanting beyond, Galileo's understanding

Past the milky way and all the planets

There's something out there greater

But only god knows, scientist claim we came from apes

But they lies though, that was part of our conversation

I spark went up a star blazing

Thinking of how amazing she was

A angel gave me love

I'm thankful, to ever know a women so real

I pray when I marry my wife'll have one of your skillz

But mom you could never be replaced

I'd give my life up

Just to see you one more day

To have...

 

[Chorus]

One more dance with you mama

If I could only have

One more dance with you mama

Praying, wish that I could have

One more dance with you mama

If I could only have

One more dance with you mama

 

I wish you were here,

I miss you more each second I breathe

You resting in peace forever I accepted you free

A blessing to me, I see you dressed in all white

Smiling at me, happy knowing everything's all right

If only I could hear your voice and your laughter

Just one more time, my chest would be filled up with sunshine

April 7, 42

That's when the gates of heaven opened up for you to stroll threw

Beautiful Anne Jones

Job is done, raising ghetto kids in the hood

You was my strength to carry on and now I'm good

Job well done, you lived threw you sons and your grandchildren

Jesus finally got his bridge, mommy dance with em

And you've been my guide threw all the trouble I faced

They playing our song the lifebeat my hand on your waist

I grab your other hand and try not to step on your toes

Spin you around with my eyes closed

Dreaming I could have

 

[Chorus]

 

I love you forever mom

You will always live threw me ... always

Huh, huh huh, yea

 

These lyrics hit me hard. I usually do not listen to rap, but this song is different and it appeals to me. What are some of yours?

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One song that makes me think is Jimi Hendrix's "Castle's Made of Sand. Let me get the lyrics

 

"CASTLES MADE OF SAND"

 

DOWN THE STREET YOU CAN HEAR HER SCREAM

"YOU'RE A DISGRACE"

AS SHE SLAMS THE DOOR IN HIS DRUNKEN FACE

AND NOW HE STANDS OUTSIDE

AND ALL THE NEIGHBOURS START TO GOSSIP AND DROOL

 

HE CRIES "OH GIRL, YOU MUST BE MAD

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SEET LOVE YOU AND ME HAD"

AGAINST THE DOOR HE LEANS AND STARTS A SCENE

AND HIS TEARS TALL AND BURN THE GARDEN GREEN

 

AND SO CASTLES MADE OF SAND,

FALL IN THE SEA EVENTUALLY

 

A LITTLE INDIAN BRAVE WHO BEFORE HE WAS TEN

PLAYED WAR GAMES IN THE WOODS WITH HIS INDIAN FRIENDS

AND HE BUILT A DREAM THAT WHEN HE GREW UP

HE WOULD BE A FEARLESS WARRIOR INDIAN CHIEF

 

MANY MOONS PASSED AND THE DREAM GREW STRONG UNTIL TOMORROW

HE WOULD SING HIS FIRST WAR SONG

AND FIGHT HIS FIRST BATTLE BUT SOMETHING WENT WRONG

SURPRISE ATTACK KILLED HIM IN HIS SLEEP THAT NIGHT

 

AND SO CASTLES MADE OF SAND

MELTS INTO THE SEA EVENTUALLY

 

THERE WAS A YOUNG GIRLS WHOSE HEART WAS A FROWN

BECAUSE SHE WAS CRIPPLED FOR LIFE AND COULDN'T SPEAK A SOUND

AND SHE WISHED AND PRAYED SHE WOULD STOP LIVING

SO SHE DECIDED TO DIE

SHE DREW HER WHEEL CHAIR TO THE EDGE OF THE SHORE

AND TO HER LEGS SHE SMILED

"YOU WON'T HURT ME NO MORE"

BUT THEN A SIGHT SHE'D NEVER SEEN MADE HER JUMP AND SAY

"LOOK A GOLDEN WINGED SHIP IS PASSING MY WAY"

AND IT REALLY DIDN'T HAVE TO STOP

IT JUST KEPT ON GOING

 

AND SO CASTLES MADE OF SAND

SLIPS INTO THE SEA EVENTUALLY

 

It's a good sing that always makes me think.

 

:lsduel::duel:

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Britneys song "hit me baby one more time". I couldn't get the message across when i was little. Though when i though about it as i grew older, I found out what a dirty B@stard she is. Strange how many of her songs with dirty subliminal messages are top hits.

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Originally posted by AcrylicGuitar

Many 2pac songs touch me, but the slow kid rock songs touch me like you wont believe.

 

Like lonely road of faith, midnight train to memphis, picture, and most of all, my favorite song....ever...

 

Only God Knows Why

 

Alot of Tupac songs touch me including My Block remix. I'll post the lyrics when I get em.

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System of a Down has some really neat songs on their new album......my favorite lyrics are in BOOM!

 

I've been walking through your streets

Where all your money's earned

Where all your building's crying

And clueless neckties working

Revolving fake lawn houses

Housing all your fears

Desensitized by TV

 

Overbearing advertising

God of consumerism

And all your crooked pictures looking good

Mirrorism

Filtering information for the public eye

Designed for profiteering

Your neighbor, what a guy

 

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Every time you drop the bomb

You kill the god your child has born

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Modern globalization

Coupled with condemnations

Unnecessary death

Matador corporations

Puppeting your frustrations

With a blinded flag

 

Manufacturing consent

Is the name of the game

The bottom line is money

Nobody gives a ****!

4,000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation

While billions are spent on bombs

Creating death showers

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Every time you drop the bomb

You kill the god your child has born

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

 

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

 

Why must we kill our own kind?

 

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Every time you drop the bomb

You kill the god your child has born

Boom! (X12)

 

Every time you drop the bomb!

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Although this song has very personal lyrics, this song really made me feel happy for John Lennon, finding happiness in Yoko. The lyrics are pretty heavy too.

 

 

God

 

 

God is a concept,

By which we measure

Our pain.

I'll say it again.

God is a concept,

By which we measure

Our pain.

 

I don't believe in magic

I don't believe in I-Ching

I don't believe in Bible

I don't believe in Tarot

I don't believe in Hitler

I don't believe in Jesus

I don't believe in Kennedy

I don't believe in Buddha

I don't believe in Mantra

I don't believe in Gita

I don't believe in Yoga

I don't believe in Kings

I don't believe in Elvis

I don't believe in Zimmerman

I don't believe in Beatles

I just believe in me

Yoko and me

And that's reality.

 

The dream is over,

What can I say?

The dream is over

Yesterday

I was the dreamweaver,

But now I'm reborn.

I was the walrus,

But now I'm John.

And so dear friends,

You just have to carry on

The dream is over.

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Originally posted by Dark Warrior

Alot of Tupac songs touch me including My Block remix. I'll post the lyrics when I get em.

 

OMG! You like that song too? Wow, I love that song. I also like "Mama's Just a Little Girl" "Fair Xchange"<- kinda, it has cool music tho. I lovev so many, they all touch me. I like all the oldies, the new songs dont touch me as much.

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Originally posted by AcrylicGuitar

OMG! You like that song too? Wow, I love that song. I also like "Mama's Just a Little Girl" "Fair Xchange"<- kinda, it has cool music tho. I lovev so many, they all touch me. I like all the oldies, the new songs dont touch me as much.

 

Yea the oldies are good. Another song I really liked was changes. It really hit me hard. I also like the new hit thugz mansion:)

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Three Doors Down - Duck and Run

 

To this world I’m unimportant,

Just because I have nothing to give.

So you call this your free country,

Tell me why it cost so much to live?

Tell me why then!

 

This world can turn me down,

But I won’t turn away, oh no

and I won’t turn around.

 

All my work and endless measures,

Never seem to get me very far.

Walk a mile just to move an inch now,

even though I’m trying so damn hard.

I’m trying so hard.

 

This world can turn me down,

But I won’t turn away.

And I won’t duck and run,

cause I’m not built that way.

 

When everything is gone,

there's nothing there to fear.

This world cannot bring me down

No cause I’m already here, oh no!

I'm already here,

Down on my knees.

I am already here, on no.

I'm already here.

I must have told you a thousand times,

I am not running away.

 

I won’t duck and run...

I won’t duck and run...

I won’t duck and run...

No no no pass away.

 

This world can turn me down,

but I won’t turn away.

And I won’t duck and run,

cause I’m not built that way.

When everything is gone,

there's nothing there to fear.

This world cannot bring me down,

no cause I’m already here.

 

This world can turn me down,

But I won’t turn away.

And I won’t duck and run,

cause I’m not built that way.

When everything is gone

there's nothing there to fear.

This world cannot bring me down,

No cause I’m already here.

 

 

Matthew Good Band - Strange Days

 

Good morning, don't cop out.

You crawled from the cancer to land on your feet.

Are you crazy, to want this, even for a while?

 

We're making this s**t up,

the reasons for being are easy to pay.

You can't remember the others,

they just kind of went away.

 

So you're driving, it's rush hour.

The cars on the freeway are moving like slugs,

When you drift off, to wake up,

do you always hit the brakes?

 

We're done, lying for a living,

the strange days have come and you're, you're gone, you're gone.

Either dead or dying.

Either dead or trying, to go.

 

It's evening, you're tired,

you sleep walk a robot out to the street.

You're crazy, to want this, even for a while.

 

You're driving, it's rush hour.

The cars on the freeway are moving... backwards...

Into a wall of fire.

Backwords...

Into a wall of fire.

 

Backwords, into a wall of fire.

Backwords, into a wall of fire.

 

And we're done lying for a living,

strange days have come and you're gone, you're gone.

We're done lying for a living,

strange days have come and you're gone, you're gone.

Either dead or dying

Either dead or trying, to go...

To go...

 

Good morning...don't cop out...

 

 

Radiohead - Street Spirit(one of the best and most depressing songs ever, might I add :D)

 

Rows of houses, all bearing down on me.

I can feel their blue hands touching me.

Hold these things into position,

All these things will want this world.

 

And fade out again...

And fade out...

 

This machine will, will not communicate,

These thoughts and the strain I am under

Be a world child form a circle,

Before we all, go under.

 

And fade out again...

And fade out again...

 

Cracked eggs, dead birds,

Scream as they fight for life.

I can feel death, can see it's beady eyes.

Hold these things into position,

All these things we'll one day swallow whole.

 

And fade out again...

And fade out again...

 

Immerse your soul in love...

Immerse your soul in love...

 

 

Matthew Good Band - Apparitions

 

Say hello, remain,

Close to me.

No goodbye suicide, mystery.

 

The rat, in your brain,

Turns a wheel,

Connected to your guts and,

All your thoughts are in me,

and all your faults in me.

 

What would you say,

If we lived on TV?

Besides all the things they told you to,

all the things they told you to,

all the things they told you to,

all the things they told you to.

 

We're stuck,

Inside our own machine.

Apparitions... apparitions... apparitions.

 

Say hello,

Well is it strange.

Where you are,

Where you used to be kind of free,

Are they laughing at you,

laughing at you.

 

The rat, in your brain.

Rules the world,

From the comfort of your living room,

tell me are we leaving soon.

The comfort of your living room,

tell me are we leaving soon.

 

We're stuck,

Inside our own machine.

Apparitions... apparitions... apparitions.

 

We're stuck,

Inside our own machine.

Apparitions... apparitions.

Apparitions.

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Originally posted by AcrylicGuitar

Keep this thread alive until I get the new computer at least (6 days) so I can download these songs, if they touch you, they most probably will touch me too I guess.

 

I'll try;)

 

BTW: Reb I dled those songs. Thanks for posting them, they are great.

 

For me, lyrics are #1 in a song. I can listen to a song that has the best tune but I will never listen to it again. For me if a song has bad lyrics, it isn't a song imho. Also, I despise any singer, rapper, band or anything that does not write there own songs. Tupac songs come from his heart, not from another writer. Does anyone else feel this way? Opinions are welcomed.:)

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Originally posted by Dark Warrior

Also, I despise any singer, rapper, band or anything that does not write there own songs. Tupac songs come from his heart, not from another writer. Does anyone else feel this way? Opinions are welcomed.:)

 

Yes, thats how I feel. Thats why I dont like the whole pop scene, they dont write from the heart. It would be better if they did, then theyd be open to more of an audience.

 

And Tupac. That is totally why I listen to him, it all comes from the heart, and hes been through everything, so he has a vast knowledge and all. So yea, I love that.

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Originally posted by AcrylicGuitar

Yes, thats how I feel. Thats why I dont like the whole pop scene, they dont write from the heart. It would be better if they did, then theyd be open to more of an audience.

 

And Tupac. That is totally why I listen to him, it all comes from the heart, and hes been through everything, so he has a vast knowledge and all. So yea, I love that.

 

I agree 100%.

 

And again, I just listened to this song again and anyone who hasn't heard it is a must dl even if you don't like rap imo. It is called "dance" by "nas". Check my first post in the thread for the lyrics.

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Good god I've got a lot.

 

A bunch of the songs on the Tears for Fears Greatest Hits-

Sowing the Seeds of Love

Woman in Chains

Shout

Mad World

Pale Shelter

I believe

Laid so Low (Tears Roll Down)

Mothers Talk

Change

Advice for the Yound at Heart

 

Paul McCartney songs I don't know the names of

 

Eh, I know more, but that's all I can think of :D

 

Ask and I will print lyrics.

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Originally posted by Wes Marrakesh

Good god I've got a lot.

 

A bunch of the songs on the Tears for Fears Greatest Hits-

Sowing the Seeds of Love

Woman in Chains

Shout

Mad World

Pale Shelter

I believe

Laid so Low (Tears Roll Down)

Mothers Talk

Change

Advice for the Yound at Heart

 

Paul McCartney songs I don't know the names of

 

Eh, I know more, but that's all I can think of :D

 

Ask and I will print lyrics.

 

 

I ask;)

 

Yea, I would like to see some of those lyrics. Print the ones that delivered a message to you, the ones that hit you the hardest.

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Righto... since I only know the Tears for Fears lyrics I'll post them.

 

Woman in Chains:

 

You better love loving and you better behave

You better love loving and you better behave

Woman in chains

Woman in chains

 

Calls her man the Great White Hope

Says she's fine, she'll always cope

Woman in chains

Woman in chains

 

Well I feel lying and writing is a poor man's deal

And I feel hopelessly weighted down by your eyes of steel

It's a world gone crazy

Keeps Woman in Chains

 

Tends her soul as skin and bone

Sells the only thing she owns

Woman in Chains

Woman in Chains

 

Men of Stone Men of stone

 

Well I feel deep in your heart there are wounds Time can't heal

And I feel somebody somewhere is trying to breathe

Well you know what I mean

 

It's a world gone crazy

Keeps Woman in Chains

 

It's under my skin but out of my hands

I'll tear it apart but I won't understand

I will not accept hte Greatness of Man

 

It's a world gone crazy

Keeps Woman in Chains

 

So Free Her So Free Her

 

 

Mad World:

 

All around me are familiar faces

Worn out places

Worn out faces

 

Bright and early for their daily races

Going nowhere

Going nowhere

 

Their tears filling up their glasses

 

No expression

No expression

 

Hide my head I want drown my sorrow

 

No tomorrow

No tomorrow

 

And I find it kind of funny

I find it kind of said

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had (this line gets to me)

I find it hard to tell you

'Cos I find it hard to take

When people run in circles

 

It's a very very

Mad world

Mad world

Mad world

Mad world

 

Children waiting for the day they feel good

 

Happy birthday

Happy birthday

 

Made to feel the way that every child should

 

Sit & listen

Sit & listen

 

Went to school and I was very nervous

 

No-one knew me

No-one knew me

 

Now the teacher tell me

What's my lesson

 

Look right through me

Look right through me

 

And I find it kind of funny

I find it kind of sad

 

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best

I've ever had

 

I find it hard to tell you

'Cos I find it hard to take

 

When people run in circles it's a very

 

very mad world

Mad world

Mad world

 

And I find it kind of funny

I find it kind of sad

 

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best

I've ever had

 

I find it hard to tell you

'Cos I find it hard to take

 

When people run in circles it's a very

 

Mad world

Mad world

Halogeon world

Mad world

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