The Inspiring Lyrics That Mean Something to You Philosophically or Spiritually Thread

Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by bkadoctaj, May 9, 2008.

  1. And now it seems
    as if we're used to the shegree
    We made our beds
    and now we hate where these beds be
    Took nothing at all to part this Red Sea
    I'm a shackled child
    singing the good song of Freedom
    They've got no pride
    they interrupt our grieving
    Tear drop dropping
    for the pain of the world
    My best friend dies
    when she was just a young girl
    Left me here, to fend for myself
    Now the pain never leaves
    We just learn to cope
    so when the devil needs haning
    will you tie up the rope and shout PULL!
    Let's put an end to this bull
    zen thing
    How many years
    before we pratice what we preach
    How many years
    before we truly clinch the peak
    Only to find that
    there is no honey on the moon
    Official goon
    with the unofficial croon

    I'm All Things to All Men
    All of the Women
    All the Children
    Just say when
    and I'll take you to my Tardis
    Who's the Hardest
    Who's the Hardest

    16 bar cycles
    heart felt recital
    from the wacky blacky man
    they should have called me Michael
    Look at the monster you make
    look at the monster you pay
    But you claim no responsibility
    cause it's each to his self
    in these times that we live
    Does God have a sense of humour
    then the joke's on us
    Cause we're chasing our tails
    for how long
    The tussle makes us how strong
    vintage poor people fun
    If we could ease up
    on these booze and fags
    then, just maybey
    life wouldn't be so mad
    Be a man my dad said
    but what the hell he know
    he lost his dreams
    he lost his flow
    And I don't wanna be alone
    I'm born King
    so where's my throne
    I'm too intense
    I'm too deep
    I'm too nice for life
    So what makes this place so nervous?

    I'm All Things to All Men
    All of the Women
    All the Children
    Just say when
    and I'll take you to my Tardis
    Who's the Hardest
    Who's the Hardest

    Look at the monster you make
    look at the monster you pay
    But you claim no responsibility
    but you claim not
    We're searching for Jezus
    but I'll be damned
    if I'll be crucified by 10,000 spies
    compulsive lies
    They Hate Me
    They Love Me
    They Hate Me

    Cause I'm All Things to All Men, All of the Women, All the Children
    Just say when and I'll take you to my Tardis
    Who's the Hardest, Who's the Hardest
     
  2. Still I wonder how it is to be a stream,
    From a dark well constant flowing,
    Winding seawards over ancient mossy wheels
    Yet feel no need of knowing?
    Still I wonder how it is to be a tree,
    Circled servant to the seasons,
    Only drink on sky and rake the winter wind
    And need no seal of reasons?

    Still I wonder why I wonder why I'm here
    All my words just the shaft of my flail
    As I race o'er this beautiful sphere
    Like a dog who his chasing his . . .
    Tailors and tinkers, princes and Incas,
    Sailors and sinkers, before me and like me . . .

    Still I wonder how it is to be a bird,
    Singing each dawns sweet effusions;
    Flying far away when all the world has stirred
    Yet seek no vain conclusions . . . . . .

    Still I wonder if I passed some time ago
    As a bird, or a stream, or a tree?
    To mount up high you first must sink down low
    Like the changeable tides of the
    Caesars and Pharoahs, prophets and heroes,
    Poets and hobos, before me and after me all the
    Painters and dancers, mountainside chancers,
    Merchants and gamblers, bankers and ramblers,
    Winners and losers, angels and boozers,
    Beatles and Bolans, raindrops and oceans,
    Kings, pawns and deacons, fainthearts and beacons,
    Caesars and Pharoahs . . . . . .

     
  3. How a Resurrection Really Feels-The Hold Steady

    her parents named her halleluiah, the kids all called her holly. if she scared you then she's sorry. she's been stranded at these parties. these parties they start lovely but they get druggy and they get ugly and they get bloody.


    the priest just kinda laughed. the deacon caught a draft. she crashed into the easter mass with her hair done up in broken glass. she was limping left on broken heels. when she said father can i tell yr congregation how a resurrection really feels?

    holly was a hoodrat. now you finally know that. she's been disappeared for years. today she finally came back. she said: st. louis had enslaved me. i guess santa ana saved me. st. peter had me on the queue. the st. paul saints they waved me thru.
    i was all wrapped up in some video booth. when i heard her say i love you too.

    she said i've laid beneath my lovers but i've never gotten laid. some nites she felt protected. some nites she felt afraid. she spent half last winter justa trying to get paid. from some guy she'd originally thought to be her saviour. they wrote her name in magic marks. on stopsigns and subway cars. they got a mural up on e.13th. that said halleluiah rest in peace. halleluiah was a hoodrat. and now you finally know that. she's been disappeared for years. today she finally came back.

    walk on back. walk on back. she said don't turn me on again. i'd probably just go and get myself all gone again. holly was a sexy mess. she looked strung out but experienced. so we all got kind of curious.
     
  4. Wolves Behind Me - Lifestory:Monologue

    I was in the sun, so proud and strong
    It didn't take long for the clouds to grey
    And the rain to break my shield
    Oh help me stand!
    It was the lightning that cut my heal

    Hold me in the wind, my friend
    It's time to let my hair down again
    I've been the prisoner of winter
    I've never made a sound
    But I'm not
    Holding my breath now

    I will lift my head, to the early sun.
    I will stand on edge and I will shout
    "I am a (wo)man of faith, love and hate!
    Try and break me, try and break me now!"

    I'll be where you can't find me
    Standing still in a field, wolves behind me
    Oh! Please just leave me be
    I have a feeling I won't be seen
    Quiet just for a little bit more
    We'll be the stones on the shore
    Calm and silent, so proud and strong
    Silent and calm, oh, so proud and strong

    Let's go home today
    Back to where the wind, will always sway our way

    I will lift my head, to the early sun
    I will stand on edge and I will shout
    "I am a (wo)man of faith, love and hate!
    Try and break me, try and break me now!"

    Quiet just for a little bit more…
     
  5. Easy Star All-Stars - Climbing Up The Walls

    I am the key to the lock in your house
    That keeps your toys in the basement,
    And if you get too far inside
    You'll only see my reflection.

    It's always best with the covers up
    I am the pick in the ice,
    Do not cry out or hit the alarm,
    You know we're friends till we die.

    And either way you turn I'll be there,
    Open up your skull, I'll be there
    Climbing up the walls.

    It's always best when the light is off,
    it's always better on the outside,
    Fifteen blows to the back of your head
    Fifteen blows to the skull.

    So lock the kids up safe tonight,
    And shut the eyes in the cupboard
    I've got the smile of a local man
    Who's got the loneliest feeling.

    That either way you turn, I'll be there
    Open up your skull and I'll be there
    Climbing up the walls
    Climbing up the walls.
     
  6. THE RAIN SONG - Zeppelin

    This is the springtime of my loving-
    The second season I am to know
    You are the sunlight in my growing-
    So little warmth Ive felt before.
    It isnt hard to feel me glowing-
    I watched the fire that grew so low.

    It is the summer of my smiles-
    Flee from me keepers of the gloom.
    Speak to me only with your eyes
    It is to you I give this tune.
    Aint so hard to recognize-
    These things are clear to all from
    Time to time.

    Talk talk-
    Ive felt the coldness of my winter
    I never thought it would ever go
    I cursed the gloom that set upon us...

    But I know that I love you so
    But I know that I love you so.

    These are the seasons of emotion
    And like the winds they rise and fall
    This is the wonder of devotion-
    I see the torch we all must hold.
    This is the mystery of the quotient-
    Upon us all a little rain
    Must fall.
    Just a little rain?
    Ooh, yeah yeah yeah...
     
  7. dedicate dedicate, hu
    this one right here, goes out
    to my homie with a dream, naw mean

    He said, "I write what i see
    write to make it right don't like where i be
    i'd like to make it like the sites on TV
    quite the great life so nice and easy".
    see, now you can still die from that
    but it's better than not being alive from straps, agreed.
    A Mead notebook and a Bic that clicked
    when it's pushed in a wack ass beat.
    thats a track that's week that he got last week
    cause everybody in the Stu was like thats that heat.
    A bass heavy melody with a sample from the 70's
    with a screwed up hook that went "Stack that cheese".
    something, something, something "stack that cheese"
    mother, sister, cousin "Stack that cheese"
    he couldn't think of nothing "Stack that cheese"
    he turns down the beat writers block impedes.
    crying from the next room a baby in need
    of some pampers and some food and a place to sleep
    that plus a black cadillac on D's
    is what keeps them on track to be a great M.C.
    yea yea (echoes)

    one you've never heard of, I
    push it hard to further, the
    grind life feel like murder, but
    hip hop has saved me.
    one you've never heard of, I
    push it hard to further, the
    grind life feel like murder, but
    hip hop has saved my life.

    reps north side so he rocks them braids
    eleven hundred friends on his myspace page
    "Stack that cheese" got 700 plays
    producer made him take it down said he had to pay.
    open mic champ two weeks and a row
    ex D boy with a B boy flow
    glow like LeRoy you should see boy go
    got a daddy surving life and a brother on the road.
    best homie in the grave
    tatted up while in the cage
    Minute Maid got his mamma working like a slave.
    down baby mamma who he really had to honor
    cause she was his biggest fan even let him use the Honda
    to, drive up to Dallas with and open up for amauters
    let him keep a debit card so he could put gas in it
    told her when he get on he gon' take her to the gallery
    and buy everything but the manicans. ya digg (echoes)

    one you've never heard of, I
    push it hard to further, the
    grind life feel like murder, but
    hip hop has saved me.
    one you've never heard of, I
    push it hard to further, the
    grind life feel like murder, but
    hip hop has saved my life.

    his man called said "your time might be now,\t
    they played your freestyle over 'Wipe me Down'
    they played it two times said it might be crowned
    as the best thing out of H town in a while".
    he picked up his son with a great big smile
    rapped every single word to the new born child
    then he put him down and went back to the kitchen
    and then put on another beat and got back to the mission to
    get his momma out the hood
    put her somewhere in the woods
    keep his lady looking good
    have her rolling like she should.
    show his homies there's a way
    other than that flippin yay
    bail his homie out of jail
    put a lawyer on his case.
    throw a concert for the schools
    show to shoulder cause that is cool.
    throw some candy on the cadi
    chunk the duce and act a fool.
    man it feels good when it happens like that
    two days from going back to selling crack
    yesssirr (echoes)

    one you've never heard of, I
    push it hard to further, the
    grind life feel like murder, but
    hip hop has saved me.
    one you've never heard of, I
    push it hard to further, the
    grind life feel like murder, but
    hip hop has saved my life.
     
  8. rjd2 - 1976

    the lack of lyrics opens up a free avenue into oneself. when there are lyrics i feel it goes into a specific idea the artist wants to speak about.
     
  9. This singer/ guitarist died shortly after the release of this album, it's from the 70's. I remembered it in a dream, and looked on youtube and behold, it lives!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poaCoVxNmq4&NR=1

    Armageddon- Silver Tightrope

    I close my eyes to worldly skies,
    I leave behind the day
    And deep within me I shall begin
    to chase my thoughts away...

    As loved ones call me to their side,
    their strength flows into me
    To cast me out of sorrows blindness into eternity...

    I thought I heard them softly crying, The voices of the sphere's
    As light years flash, forever falling
    Away from waking fears

    I reach out, try to touch the passing
    Of beings bathed in light
    But they just smile, their eyes not asking
    To see beyond their sight

    I thought I saw the candle bearers
    On their way to the beyond
    Beckon to me from the future
    To come and join the throng

    I stepped upon the silver tightrope
    Balancing beliefs
    And wings unfurling with a new hope
    I left behind my grief

     
  10. I have come curiously close to the end, down
    Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole,
    Defeated, I concede and
    Move closer
    I may find comfort here
    I may find peace within the emptiness
    How pitiful

    It's calling me...
    And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping
    The moon tells me a secret - my confidant
    As full and bright as I am
    This light is not my own and
    A million light reflections pass over me

    Its source is bright and endless
    She resuscitates the hopeless
    Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting

    And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt
    Don't wanna be down here feeding my narcissism.
    I must crucify the ego before it's far too late
    I pray the light lifts me out
    Before I pine away.

    So crucify the ego, before it's far too late
    To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical,
    And you will come to find that we are all one mind
    Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.
    Just let the light touch you
    And let the words spill through
    And let them pass right through
    Bringing out our hope and reason ...
    before we pine away.
     
  11. Hypnotize

    Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen square?
    Was Fashion the reason why they were there?

    They disguise it, Hypnotize it
    Television made you buy it

    I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my..

    She's scared that I will take her away from there
    Her dreams that her country left with no one there

    Mezmerize the simple minded
    Propaganda leaves us blinded

    I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl
    I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl

    I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl
    I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my..

    Girl



    Here's the link for the video..(embedding's disabled) --->
    http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtuNseSjuo

    :)



    EDIT: wanted to add another..


    Gorillaz - Kids With Guns


    Kids with guns
    Kids with guns
    Taking over
    But it won't be long
    They're mesmerized
    Skeletons
    Kids with guns
    Kids with guns
    Easy does it, easy does it, they've got something to say mental

    Drinking out (is she real, is she)
    Pacifier (is she real, is she)
    Vitamin soul (is she real, is she)
    Street desire (is she real, is she)
    Doesn't make sense to (is she real, is she)
    But it won't be long (is she real, is she)
    Kids with guns
    Kids with guns
    Easy does it, easy does it, they've got something to say mental


    And they're turning us into monsters
    Turning us into fire
    Turning us into monsters
    It's all desire
    It's all desire
    It's all desire

    Drinking out
    Pacifier
    Sinking soul
    There you are
    Doesn't make sense to
    But it won't be long
    Cause kids with guns
    Kids with guns
    Easy does it, easy does it, they've got something to say mental

    And they're turning us into monsters
    Turning us into fire
    Turning us into monsters
    It's all desire
    It's all desire
    It's all desire

    Is she, is she real, is she
    Is she real, is she (it's real)
    Is she, is she real, is she
    Is she real, is she (it's real)
    [etc]

    Is she is she real
     
  12. "Love is the Answer"


    Name your price
    A ticket to paradise
    I can't stay here any more
    And I've looked high and low
    I've been from shore, to shore, to shore
    If there's a short cut I'd have found it
    But there is no easy way around it


    Light of the world, shine on me
    Love is the answer
    Shine on us all
    Set us free
    Love is the answer


    Who knows why
    Someday we all must die
    We're all homeless boys and girls
    And we are never heard
    It's such a lonely, lonely, lonely world
    People turn their heads
    And walk on by
    Tell me is it worth just another try


    Light of the world, shine on me
    Love is the answer
    Shine on us all
    Set us free
    Love is the answer


    Tell me, are we alive
    Or just a dying planet
    (What are the chances)


    Ask the man in your heart
    For the answer


    And when you feel afraid
    (Love one another)
    When you've lost your way
    (Love one another)
    And when you're all alone
    (Love one another)
    And when you're far from home
    (Love one another)
    And when you're down and out
    (Love one another)
    And when your hopes run out
    (Love one another)
    And when you need a friend
    (Love one another)
    And when you're near the end
    (Love)
    (We've got to love)
    (We've got to love one another)


    Light of the world, shine on me
    Love is the answer
    Shine on us all
    Set us free
    Love is the answer


    Light of the world, shine on me
    Love is the answer
    Shine on us all
    Set us free
    Love is the answer...


    by


    Todd Rundgren

    Performed by England Dan and John Ford
     
  13. God Module - Sections

    Take off your head to let me in
    so I can understand you
    take off your hands so I can feel
    if there is anything left inside of you

    Remember to smile
    while I cut out what's bad inside of you
    remember to cry to pretend you're alive
    while I hide inside of you

    Sections of life
    reflections of pain
    in this mirror we all look the same

    How can I see what you are
    when your not anything that I am?
    how could you be what I was
    when it's something you could never understand?
     
  14. Well, I heard there was a secret chord
    That David played and it pleased the Lord
    But you don't really care for music, do you?
    Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
    The minor fall and the major lift
    The baffled king composing Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof
    You saw her bathing on the roof
    Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
    She tied you to her kitchen chair
    She broke your throne and she cut your hair
    And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    Baby I've been here before
    I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
    You know, I used to live alone before I knew you
    I've seen your flag on the marble arch
    And love is not a victory march
    It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    Well there was a time when you let me know
    What's really going on below
    But now you never show that to me, do you?
    But remember when I moved in you
    And the holy dove was moving too
    And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    Maybe there is a god above
    But all I've ever learned from love
    Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
    And it's not a cry that you hear at night
    It's not somebody who's seen the light
    It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    In my opinion, the song is about finding faith. Beautiful imagery. No matter what I say, deep down I envy those bible thumpers :rolleyes:
     
  15. Conviction of the Heart

    One with the earth, with the sky, one with everything in life...

    Where are the dreams that we once had?
    This is the time to bring them back.
    What were the promises caught on the tips of our tongues?
    Do we forget or forgive?
    There's a whole other life waiting to be lived when...
    One day we're brave enough
    To talk with Conviction of the Heart.

    And down your streets I've walked alone,
    As if my feet were not my own
    Such is the path I chose, doors I have opened and closed
    I'm tired of living this life,
    Fooling myself, believing we're right, when...
    I've never given love
    With any Conviction of the Heart

    One with the earth, with the sky
    One with everything in life
    I believe we'll survive
    If we only try...

    How long must we all wait to change
    This world bound in chains that we live in
    To know what it is to forgive,
    And be forgiven?

    Too many years of taking now.
    Isn't it time to stop somehow?
    Air that's too angry to breathe, water our children can't drink
    You've heard it hundreds of times
    You say your aware, believe, and you care, but...
    Do you care enough
    Where's your conviction of the Heart?

    One with the earth, with the sky, one with everything in life.
    I believe it will start with conviction of the heart.
    With the earth, with the sky, one with everything in life.
    I believe it will start with conviction of the heart.

    One earth,one sky, only one world, only one chance for one life.
    When will we live?
    One child, one dream, only one life.
    You've but one chance for one life.
    When will we live?
    Only one earth, and only one sky, and only one world.
    We've only got one chance to live in one life.
    I believe, it's only gonna start when we begin with some conviction of the heart.

    By

    Kenny Loggins
     
  16. Theres a shadow just behind me. shrouding every step I take.
    Making every promise empty. pointing every finger at me.
    Waiting like a stalking butler, who upon the finger rests.
    Murder now the path of must we, just because the son has come.

    Jesus, wont you fucking whistle. something but the past and done.

    Why cant we not be sober? I just want to start this over.
    Why cant we drink forever? I just want to start this over.

    I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile.
    I will only complicate you. trust in me and fall as well.
    I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave.
    I will work to elevate you, just enough to bring you down.

    Mother mary, wont you whisper. something but the past is done.

    Why cant we not be sober? I just want to start this over.
    Why cant we sleep forever? I just want to start this over.

    I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile.
    I will only complicate you. trust in me and fall as well.
    I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave.
    Trust me. trust me. trust me. trust me. trust me.


    Why cant we not be sober. I just want to start things over.
    Why cant we sleep forever. I just want to start this over.

    I want what I want...
    I want what I want...
    I want what I want...
    I want what I want...

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  17. Sunless Saturday- Fishbone

    I see the pestilence outside my window
    I see the dung heaps piled at least a mile high
    I see the shards of shattered dreams in the street
    I face the morning with my customary sigh

    I hear the sounds of children laughing aloud
    A stumbling wino has attracted quite a crowd
    My breakfast finished now I brave the outside
    But clouds have hidden all the warmth inside

    Chase these clouds away
    I hate this sunless Saturday

    Freedom come
    For us now
    Light our sky
    Burn away these clouds

    Perhaps the charcoal grey and brown around me
    Is just the mirror image of tainted soul
    I think the sun will never visit my sky
    Until the truth is seen by each and every eye

    I see the helpless and I see the insane
    I see a pauper singing in the pouring rain
    I see the means of help elude us again
    I think the sun will never visit me again

    Chase these clouds away
    I hate this sunless Saturday


    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yi5TBF4uloY
     
  18. The Beatles- Within you Without you

    We were talking-about the love that's
    gone so cold and the people, Who gain the world
    and lose their soul- They don't know-they can't
    see-are you one of them? When you've seen beyond
    yourself-then you may find, peace of mind, Is
    waiting there- And the time will come when you see
    we're all one, and life flows on within you and
    without you.
     
  19. Bone Thugs N Harmony - The Crossroads

    It's steadily creeping up on the family
    Exactly how many days we got lasting
    While you laughin we're passing, passing away
    So y'all go rest y'all souls
    Cause I know I'ma meet you up at the crossroads
    .....

    Hey and we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
    everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
    and we pray, and we pray, and we pray, and we pray
    everday, everyday, everyday, everyday
    ....
    And I'm gonna miss everybody
    And I'm gonna miss everybody when I'm gone
    .......
    Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
    That's how we roll
    ....
    See you at the crossroads
     
  20. Zion I - Birds Eye View

    From the first time I saw you, infatuation
    Pulled to the side to provide conversation
    Wild reputation but you were so cool
    Any old fool knew that you was a jewel
    Ghetto to ghetto, your influence settled
    More hardcore than r&b but not metal
    Blacker than a kennel, you made me feel mellow
    Introduction to my life, I said "hello"
    Meet me in a minute 'cause I gotta finish school
    Some of my homies, they never finished puffin' woo's
    Stayin' up late, always studying the tapes
    The world watched you fall in love, I guess fate had a,
    Grip on my mind state, I wanna rhyme, wait
    I fell in line, getting signed at the wrong gates
    And so my heart braced at first for real
    But I would still be lovin' you 'cause deep is what I feel

    [Chorus]
    I got a bird's eye view (hip hop...the realness)
    I be wit'chu, I be there wit'chu
    I be wit'chu, I be there wit'chu
    2x

    [Verse 2]
    She's the one I always count on, one that wouldn't leave me
    One that's in the city always written in graffiti
    One that keeps me company, when I'm all alone
    She's my heart, my mind, my spirit and my bones
    She's the only one I know that would go across the globe
    Meet me in a foreign land, treat me like I'm home
    Everything I own, give to her, she deserves it
    Treats me like a king, every syllable is perfect
    Searched through the earth for a reason just to be here
    And since I met her every moment's like a leap year
    Baby you can sleep here, you can stay with me
    Anywhere you go, know I'm probably gon' be
    Full of energy, and you never acting tired
    You're everything I need, when I prayed, God supplied
    You my chunky fire, blessings you provide
    Always in my life 'til the day that I die
     

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