# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/41 "2012-10-09T00:28:35Z")
_Tried hard to find a woman, but all I could find was a wife, she had me convinced I was no one, and I had her convinced she was right._ Michael Franks, _Born with the Moon in Virgo_ ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/42 "2012-10-09T00:49:41Z")
Ice is forming on the tips of my wings Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything No navigator to find my way home Unladen, empty, and turned to stone A soul in tension that’s learning to fly Condition: grounded - determined to try Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies Tongue-tied and twisted; just an earth-bound misfit, I “Learning to Fly” Pink Floyd Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. “My Back Pages” Bob Dylan, but made famous by The Byrds ---
**Author:** ![dataguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dataguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dataguy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/43 "2012-10-09T19:21:23Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > Ah, but I was so much older then, > I’m younger than that now. > > “My Back Pages” > Bob Dylan, but made famous by The Byrds Another vote for that one. This one I didn’t understand until I was older: Stop trying to be something you’re not. Hard, cold, cruel is the man Who paid too much for what he got. “Ain’t No Way” Aretha Franklin ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/44 "2012-10-10T03:48:50Z")
Double post. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/45 "2012-10-10T03:50:56Z")
Teacher told us The Romans built this place. They built a wall and a temple In an.edge of the empire garrison town. They lived and they died Made prayers to their gods But their stone gods did not make a sound. And their empire crumbled till all that was left Were the stones some workmen found. Sting, “All This Time.” ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/46 "2012-10-10T05:14:21Z")
I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at ease I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered Or driven to its knees From An American Tune by Paul Simon. I learned it when I was six or seven, from my sister, before I knew much about disappointment or brokenness. I love Paul Simon, and I really love this one of his. ---
**Author:** ![Aeris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Aeris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeris)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/47 "2012-10-10T16:22:17Z")
Mine are not quite as poetical as others posted here but I can’t even think these lyrics without crying because they mean a lot to me personally… Settle down, it’ll all be clear Don’t pay no mind to the demons they fill you with fear The trouble it might drag you down If you get lost, you can always be found Just know you’re not alone Cause I’m going to make this place your home –Phillip Phillips, Home Seriously I’m turning into a pile of goo right now because I just typed those lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/48 "2012-10-10T16:30:08Z")
Too many hands on my time Too many feelings Too many things on my mind When I leave I don’t know what I’m hoping to find When I leave I don’t know what I’m leaving behind Rush, Analog Kid We’re not pawns in a game We’re not tools of bigger men There’s only one who can really move us all The Who, Naked Eye ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/49 "2012-10-10T18:01:01Z")
You’re soft as glass And I’m a gentle man; We got the sky to talk about And the earth to lie upon. Townes Van Zandt, “To Live Is To Fly” If I needed you would you come to me, Would you come to me, and ease my pain? If you needed me I would come to you I’d swim the seas for to ease your pain Townes Van Zandt, “If I Needed You” And I’ll find strength in pain And I will change my ways I’ll know my name as it’s called again Mumford & Sons, “The Cave” 'Cause tonight I’ll be on that hill 'cause I can’t stop I’ll be on that hill with everything I got Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost I’ll be there on time and I’ll pay the cost For wanting things that can only be found In the darkness on the edge of town In the darkness on the edge of town Bruce Springsteen, “Darkness On The Edge Of Town” Plus all the Floyd stuff already listed. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/50 "2012-10-10T18:04:03Z")
I am as God made me, I have no desire For mouth at my breast, or a pot on the fire … And they won’t call me mother, or sister, or wife They will know me or not by the strength of my life I will burn with a light of my own They’ll know me as Joan. “Joan” by Heather Dale. Personally, I think that Jehanne d’Arc was batshit crazy, but she did accomplish a great deal, and was at least known by her own name, not the name of her husband or father. In her time, that was a great deal. I’ve only recently discovered Heather Dale. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/51 "2012-10-10T18:07:09Z")
I always loved this from Eric Clapton: \*Standing at the crossroads, trying to read the signs To tell me which way I should go to find the answer, And all the time I know, Plant your love and let it grow. - ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/52 "2012-10-10T18:11:49Z")
"Mmmbop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, ba duba dop Ba du Yeah Oh yeah In an Mmmbop they’re gone Yeah yeah." That really got me through some tough times, man. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/53 "2012-10-10T18:32:44Z")
[Cry if you want to](http://www.elyrics.net/read/h/holly-cole-lyrics/cry-%28If-you-want-to%29-lyrics.html). I like the entire song, so I’ll just post a link to the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![baileygrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@baileygrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baileygrrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/54 "2012-10-10T19:35:31Z")
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a dangerous time Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone Rush - Subdivisions ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/55 "2012-10-10T23:05:46Z")
Sometimes someone controls everything about you And when they tell you that they just can’t live without you They ain’t lyin’, they’ll take pieces of you And they’ll stand above you and walk away That’s right and take a part of you with them “Missing Pieces” Jack White ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964/56 "2012-10-11T03:41:13Z")
I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel I was staring in my empty coffee cup I was thinking that the gypsy wasn’t lyin’ All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles I’m gonna drink 'em up And if California slides into the ocean Like the mystics and statistics say it will I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill “Desperados Under The Eaves”-Warren Zevon [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vwqOLprj8VY/hqdefault.jpg "Desperados Under The Eaves - Warren Zevon and Jackson Browne") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwqOLprj8VY) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-and-most-meaningful-song-lyrics/636964.md?page=2)