# Most Inspirational Song For You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inspirational-song-for-you/498641 "2009-06-03T22:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inspirational-song-for-you/498641/21 "2009-06-06T03:56:35Z")
This was not as easy to find as it might have been once. A search for “Midnight Oil Bushfire” now gives you a lot of links to a benefit concert where they apparently did not play this song. [“Bushfire” from **Earth and Sun and Moon**](http://theeducatedfool.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4142487a66a470100a7ea90cc000e.html) ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inspirational-song-for-you/498641/22 "2009-06-06T04:10:36Z")
Thank you for the responses! Quite a few of these songs are songs I have never heard of. Hopefully over the weekend I won’t be so tired and busy and will have some time to listen to them and respond in kind. I really do like knowing how people think and what evokes emotion, longing, courage, etc. in them. And who knows, I might acquire a few new favorite songs! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inspirational-song-for-you/498641/23 "2009-06-06T13:19:18Z")
> [@Plynck](#): > > Any number of people have told Pete Morton how much his song “Another Train” has inspired them. Another one occurred to me. If this song appeals to you, you may want to seek out Dana Cooper’s “Standing in My Own Way”. A very similar feeling. Cooper has his own recording which is great, and it has been covered by a number of people. Susan Werner most notably, but her version is just a little too “perfect”, and this is really a song about imperfection. I like Jen Cohen’s interpretation, but it may be a bit hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inspirational-song-for-you/498641/24 "2009-06-06T16:55:21Z")
> [@glee](#): > > I’ve got several that make me cry, partly because they remind me of things: > > - [James Taylor ‘Fire and Rain’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T35WXFOmwI) > - [Jeff Buckley ‘Hallelujah’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88&feature=related) > - ['Annie Lennox ‘Into the West’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgcoBKWTW14) > - [Alison Krauss ‘The Lucky One’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7J1_hZ7iM) Hallelujah was my choice as well but my favorite is the version being recorded for Shrek of all things. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/T2NEU6Xf7lM/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/T2NEU6Xf7lM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inspirational-song-for-you/498641/25 "2009-06-06T17:08:45Z")
[The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZIISfOm3dI) by the Pogues I’d like to say I’d lived a life like this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-inspirational-song-for-you/498641.md?page=1)