# post Your Favorite And Most Meaningful song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964 "2012-10-07T04:03:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stainles\_Stan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stainles\_Stan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainles_Stan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/1 "2012-10-07T04:03:26Z")
Just what the title says. I’ll be a courteous and see what other have to post before I post my favorite lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Rubixcube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Rubixcube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubixcube)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/2 "2012-10-07T04:07:18Z")
> [@](#): > > You run and you run, to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Time by Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Dano83860](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@Dano83860](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dano83860)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/3 "2012-10-07T04:47:02Z")
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all. Paul Simon Kodachrome 😃 ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/4 "2012-10-07T05:16:56Z")
The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime. Free Four Pink Floyd Obscured By Clouds ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/5 "2012-10-07T05:24:05Z")
And in the end they traded their tired wings For the resignation that living brings And exchanged love’s bright and fragile glow For the glitter and the rouge And in the moment they were swept before the deluge “Before the Deluge” Jackson Browne ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/6 "2012-10-07T06:51:55Z")
_And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again._ – “The Mary Ellen Carter,” by Stan Rogers. Never again will somebody tell me that I cannot do something. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/7 "2012-10-07T07:15:56Z")
On a morning from a Bogart movie in a country where they turn back time, You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime. Year of the Cat, Al Stewart also: Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind. We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin. Its been over two years now I’ve carried a gun; at home it will almost be Spring. The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin. Roads to Berlin, Al Stewart ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/8 "2012-10-07T07:51:14Z")
Accept certain inalienable truths; prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Baz Luhrmann, “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/9 "2012-10-07T13:09:14Z")
_when I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown The dream is gone_ _oh yeah life goes on long after the thrill of livin is gone_ _but don’t forget who’s always our guide it is the child in us_ hmmm picking up a theme here ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/10 "2012-10-07T13:16:59Z")
The whole song, but this line in particular when going through a break up with someone I still had bump into on a regular basis. > [@](#): > > I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes > You’d know what a drag it is to see you From Positively Forth Street. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/11 "2012-10-07T13:40:19Z")
It seems like I’ve been here before I can’t remember when But I got this funny feeling That we’ll all be together again There’s no straight lines make up my life And all my roads have bends There’s no clear-cut beginnings And so far no dead-ends Harry Chapin - _Circle_ Knowing morning follows evening makes each new day come as a gift. Rich Mullins - _Hello Old Friends_ ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/12 "2012-10-07T13:42:10Z")
Moved MPSIMS --\> Cafe Society, with a reminder that we respect copyrights around here: no long quotations please, but feel free to link to the full version elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/13 "2012-10-07T14:19:07Z")
_We all know success, when we all find our own dreams And our love is enough to knock down any walls And the future’s been seen, as men try to realize The simple secret of the note in us all_ –Pure And Easy, Pete Townshend ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/14 "2012-10-07T15:00:57Z")
We spend all of our lives going out of our minds Looking back to our births forward to our demise Even scientists say everything is just light Not created, destroyed, but eternally bright Masters in every time, Lord in everyplace Those who stood up for love in spite of the hate. Live, ‘‘They Stood Up for Love’’ The whole wide world, an endless universe Yet we keep looking through the eyeglass in reverse Don’t feed the people but we feed the machines Can’t really feel what international means In different circles we keep holding our ground In different circles we keep spinning round and round and round Rush, ‘‘Territories’’ ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/15 "2012-10-07T15:24:53Z")
Don’t confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them. Jackson Browne _These Days_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/16 "2012-10-07T15:43:37Z")
I could be here all day. Representative of my overall oeuvre, which was playing when I noticed the thread, in fact: **U2: Breathe** Every day I die again, and again I’m reborn Every day I have to find the courage To walk out into the street With arms out Got a love you can’t defeat Neither down nor out There’s nothing you have that I need I can breathe Breathe now ---
**Author:** ![Stainles\_Stan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stainles\_Stan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainles_Stan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/17 "2012-10-07T17:07:01Z")
**Whether you die or kill them, its another brother dead But I know youll never get that through your head Cuz were mislead and misfed facts, were way off Killing you and killing me, its the soliloquy of chaos** [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/45QOPG_XkOM/hqdefault.jpg "Gangstarr - Soliloquy Of Chaos") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45QOPG_XkOM) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/18 "2012-10-07T17:14:48Z")
The lyrics to “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” and “Paradise By The Dashboard Light”, by one Meat Loaf, have always stood out in my mind as remarkably cynical and anti-romantic, in a world of glurgey loooooove songs. “I want you I need you But there ain’t no way I’m ever gonna love you Now don’t be saaaad…cause two out of three ain’t bad” “So no I’m praying for the end of time so I can end my tiiiiime with yooouuu…” ---
**Author:** ![Imago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/19 "2012-10-07T17:28:44Z")
> [@](#): > > And I could see it clear > To fall was not my fear > To make one fall was and > [@](#): > > Parts of bones and strings of secrets cut the ties that bind me > I have dreamed myself as king but I ain’t mean for glory Radical Face, “The Deserter’s Song” Erm… Stainless, I think the mods might not like that… ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/20 "2012-10-07T17:58:19Z")
> **[Rascal Flatts - Bless The Broken Road Lyrics | AZLyrics.com](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rascalflatts/blessthebrokenroad.html)** > > Rascal Flatts "Bless The Broken Road": I set out on a narrow way many years ago Hoping I would find true love along the broken road But I g... “God bless the broken road, that led me straight to you.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964.md?page=2)