most inspirational song lyrics?

[Nomilynn]

I was just listening to music, and I was wondering what songs have really left people with that "wow" feeling because the words really made you think. So many songs today are so dumb, but some can really hit you hard.

So.. what songs got to you?

[Nomilynn]

I'll post a couple. Here is one that really got to me. The sound of the song made me ignore the lyrics at first, but then when I looked them up I really liked them. I got these off a lyrics site, so I don't know if they are exact - I think the word "brightful" is wrong :)




Bad Religion
Sorrow

Father can you jear me?
How have I let you down?
I curse the day that I was born
and all the sorrow in this world

Let me take you to the herding ground
where all good men are trampled down
Just to settle a bet that could not be won
between a brightful father and his son

Will you guide me now for I can't see a reason
for the suffering and this long misery
What if every living soul could be upright and strong?
Well then I do imagine

There will be (sorrow)
Yeah there will be (sorrow)
And there will be sorrow no more

When all soldiers lay their weapons down
or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns
Or when the only true messiah rescues us
from ourselves it's easy to imagine

There will be (sorrow)
Yeah there will be (sorrow)
And there will be sorrow no more

There will be (sorrow)
Yeah there will be (sorrow)
And there will be sorrow no more

Yeah there will be (sorrow)
Yeah there will be (sorrow)
And there will be sorrow no more

[Nomilynn]

Save Yourself

turn out the light
just say goodnight, to yourself
may I remind you
when you find you, you're all alone is when you've got to be strong
cause that's when they call you, in the night
he's got your picture in his mind
he's got your number on a paper at his disposal anytime

is it really true
could you save yourself for someone who, loves you for you
so many times we just give it away, to someone who
someone who you
met in bar
the back of a car
and for a moment you felt important but not in your heart
my self esteem, it's been low, go ahead and count it's been lower than low
i know the feeling of it stealing life out from under me
i want to learn, how you save yourself for someone who, loves you for you
so many times we just give it away to someone who, couldn't even remember your name
could you save yourself for someone who, loves you for you, loves me for me
give it away to someone who someone who will cherish your name

cause I want to learn, can you save yourself for
someone who will love you for you so many times we
just give it away, someone who, couldn't even remember your name
you save yourself for someone who, loves you for you,
loves me for me
give it away to someone who, someone who will
cherish your name
cherish your name


Sense Field

[Ann]

Whoa, you listen to Bad Religion?! That's my boyfriend's favorite band (he listens a lot to punk music) :)

Songs that really got to me... Hmm... The first one that pops into my mind is My Name Is Luka by Suzanne Vega:

My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before

If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble. some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was

I think it's because I'm clumsy
I try not to talk too loud
Maybe it's because I'm crazy
I try not to act too proud

They only hit until you cry
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore

Yes I think I'm okay
I walked into the door again
Well, if you ask that's what I'll say
And it's not your business anyway
I guess I'd like to be alone
With nothing broken, nothing thrown

Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am

Then there's Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen:

There's no time for us,
There's no place for us,
What is this thing that builds our dreams, yet slips away from us?

Who wants to live forever,
Who wants to live forever.....?
There's no chance for us,
It's all decided for us,
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us.

Who wants to live forever,
Who dares to love forever,
When love must die.

But touch my tears with your lips,
Touch my world with your fingertips,
And we can have forever,
And we can love forever,
Forever is our today,
Who wants to live forever,
Who wants to live forever,
Forever is our today,
Who waits forever anyway?

I know there's more but that'll do for now :)

I do not know all the lyrics by heart , but the latest song that really touched me is : I am alive !! -by Céline Dion

[Nomilynn]

Whoa, you listen to Bad Religion?!

Hehe.. I have a very broad taste is music. I like just about everything :) The only things I really don't like are jazz, blues, etc.. but some songs of that style are really good :)

I forgot about Queen!!! This is my fave song of theirs:

You're My Best Friend
Words and music by John Deacon

Ooh you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It's you you're all I see
Ooo you make me live now honey
Ooo you make me live

Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had
I've been with you such a long time
You're my sunshine and I want you to know
That my feelings are true
I really love you
Oh you're my best friend

Ooo you make me live

Ooh I've been wandering round
But I still come back to you
In rain or shine
You've stood by me girl
I'm happy at home
You're my best friend

Ooo you make me live
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I got you to help me forgive
Ooo you make me live now honey
Ooo you make me live

You're the first one
When things turn out bad
You know I'll never be lonely
You're my only one
And I love the things
I really love the things that you do
You're my best friend

Ooo you make me live

I'm happy at home
You're my best friend
Oh you're my best friend
Ooo you make me live
You you're my best friend



I play it for my boyfriend, and tell him to ignore the "girl" part :)

[Nomilynn]

here's another:

Metallica
Mama Said



Mama, she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
"Son, your life's an open book
Don't close it 'fore its done"
"The brightest flame burns quickest"
That's what I heard her say
A son's heart owed to mother
But I must find my way
Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still
Yeah, still

Rebel, mind your last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never asked forgiveness
But what is said is done

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still

Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Mama, now I'm coming home
I'm not all you wished of me
A mother's love for her son
Spoken, help me be
I took your love for granted
Not a thing you said to me
I needed your arms to welcome me
But, a cold stone's all I see

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still

Let my heart go
Mama, let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still

Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave
Let this heart be still

A great tip is this : group : Within Temptation
title cd : Mother earth
best song : Ice Queen .

It is fabulous !!!

[Nomilynn]

Originally posted by lut
A great tip is this : group : Within Temptation
title cd : Mother earth
best song : Ice Queen .

It is fabulous !!!

take this advice! It's a great song! ;)

[Former User]

I like music from Nightwish (Nightwish Homepage (http://www.nightwish.com) ), their album Wishmaster is brilliant, all the songs are great! Also from their older album I like the song Walking In The Air. I don't have lyrics though....

And, I also love Stratovarius(Stratovarius Homepage (http://www.stratovarius.com) ), they have PLENTY of excellent songs!

[wolf_Q]

Oh I have tons.......

Here's some amazing U2 lyrics:

Summer Rain (read the very first and very last lines...they're the best)

When you stop seeing beauty
You start growing old
The lines on your face
Are a map to your soul
When you stop taking chances
You'll stay where you sit
You won't live any longer
But it'll feel like it

I lost myself in the summer rain, I lost myself
I lost myself in the summer rain
In the summer rain

Tequila and orange
Jamaica and rum
at the Morella
Honey on my tongue
In a small boat on a generous sea
You let me be your enemy
A tiny hand
With a grip on the world
Holding our breath now diving for pearls

I lost myself in the summer rain, I lost myself
I lost myself in the summer rain

Just as you find me always I will be
A little bit too free with myself

I lost myself in the summer rain, I lost myself
Now there's no one else in the summer rain
Raining down
It's raining down
It's rain

Raining now
Raining now

Just as you find me always I will be
A little bit too free with myself

It's not why you're running
It's where you're going
It's not what you're dreaming
But what you're gonna do
It's not where you're born
It's where you belong
It's not how weak
But what will make you strong

[wolf_Q]

Kite

Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

And hardness, it sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin

I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone, anything at all

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me

I'm a man, I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Roof top to the basement
The last of the rock stars
When hip hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
That was the big idea

[wolf_Q]

One

Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame

You say
One love
One life
When it's one need in the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you don't care for it

Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without

Well it's...
Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come tor raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head?

Did I ask too much?
More than a lot
You gave me nothing, now it's all I got
We're one, but we're not the same
Well we hurt each other
Then we do it again

You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other

One

[wolf_Q]

Stuck in a Moment

I'm not afraid of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find a decent melody
A song that I can sing in my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling, look at you
You gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere, baby

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I will not forsake, the colors that you bring
But the nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears, and through your eyes I can see

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough, and you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now ... my oh my

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it
Oh love look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm till you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now
You're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass

[wolf_Q]

This song is by Our Lady Peace

Life

How many times have you been pushed around?
Was anybody there?
Does anybody care?
How many time have your friends let you down?
Was anybody there?
Did anybody stare?

How many time have your friends let you down?
Just open up your heart
Just open up your mind
How many times has your faith slipped away?
Well, is anybody safe?
Does anybody pray?

Oh, Life is waiting for you
So messed up, but we're alive
Oh, Life is waiting for you
So messed up, but we'll survive

How many days have you just slept away?
Is everybody high?
Is everyone afraid?
How many times have you wished you were strong?
Have they ever seen your heart?
Have they ever seen your pain?

Oh, Life is waiting for you
So messed up, but we're alive
Oh, Life is waiting for you
So messed up, but we'll survive

She gets high
She gets lost
She gets drowned by the cost
Twice a day, every week, not a lie

She gets high
She gets lost
She gets drowned by the cost
Twice a day, every week, not a lie

Oh, Life is waiting for you
So messed up, but we're alive
Oh, Life is waiting for you
So messed up, but we'll survive
All messed up, but we'll survive.

[Ann]

*grins at wolf_q* Somehow I'm not surprised ;)

My favorite U2 song would have to be In God's Country. Do you like that song too?

[wolf_Q]

LOL

Of course! I love In God's Country! :D

You poor souls....I could sit here and post the lyrics to at least 50 U2 songs...good thing I stopped when I did!

[Nomilynn]

OLP is a good band too - thanks for the replies :)

[RICHARD]

the secret of life-faith hill

[Kfamr]

From the album "Stripped"

Don't look at me Every day is so wonderful
And suddenly, it's hard to breathe
Now and then, I get insecure
From all the fame, I'm so ashamed

I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring me down
So don't you bring me down today

To all your friends, you're delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness
The piece is gone and the puzzle undone
That's the way it is

You are beautiful no matter what they say
Words won't bring you down
You are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words won't bring you down
Don't you bring me down today...

No matter what we do
(no matter what we do)
No matter what they say
(no matter what they say)
When the sun is shining through
Then the clouds won't stay
And everywhere we go
(everywhere we go)
The sun won't always shine
(sun won't always shine)
But tomorrow will find a way
All the other times

We are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words won't bring us down
We are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words can't bring us down
Don't you bring me down today

Don't you bring me down today
Don't you bring me down today

Christina Aguilera

[Kfamr]

Alot of Tupac's songs mean alot to me, but alot of the lyrics shouldn't be posted. Changes really touches me.

[primabella]

Originally posted by Nomilynn
OLP is a good band too - thanks for the replies :)

yeah, i love our lady peace! they are performing here tonight and my best friend is going. i really wanted to go also!! oh well :( i love their song "innocent".

Johnny wishes he was famous
Spends his time alone
in the basement
With Lennon and Cobain
A guitar and a stereo
While he wishes he
could escape this
It all seems so contagious
Not to be yourself and faceless
In a song that has no soul

I remember feeling low
I remember losing hope
I remember all the feelings
And the day they stopped
We are we are all innocent
Tina’s losing faith in what she knows
Hates her music
hates all of her clothes
Thinks of surgery
And a new nose
Every calorie is a war
While she wishes she
was a dancer
And that she'd never
heard of cancer
She wishes God would give her
some answers
And make her feel beautiful

[primabella]

i can go on and on about great songs with meaning. i usually love songs for their words. here's one from Creed and then one from the Cranberries. and then i'll stop. i don't wanna take up all the space ;)

Creed
Higher

When dreaming I'm guided to another world
Time and time again
At sunrise I fight to stay asleep
'Cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place
'Cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape
From the life I live when I'm awake
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?

Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets

Although I would like our world to change
It helps me to appreciate
Those nights and those dreams
But, my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights
If I could make the Earth and my dreams the same
The only difference is
To let love replace all our hate
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?

Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets

So lets go there, lets go there,
Come on, lets go there
Lets ask can we stay?

Up high I feel like I'm alive for the very first time
Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine
Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine

Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets

Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets

[primabella]

and a song that suits perfectly with what is going on today. it made me think:

Cranberries
"Zombie"

Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

[primabella]

ooo, i love this thread ;)

i would also post a song by eminem (despite some things he says and does, he's got great meaning in his songs). "hailie's song" has great words describing the love for his daughter that he has. i won't post the lyrics for obvious reasons ;)

ps - kfamr - i love that song :D

[mugsy]

Living Outside the Fire
The River
The Dance

all by Garth Brooks

I like Creed a lot too!! and I ADORE Queen....I like the song 39 off of the Night at the Opera album

OOOOHHH yeah...

Crystal Ball by Styx

[primabella]

queen is pretty good too. :) "we are the champions" and, i don't remember the name but it goes "mama mia" maybe that's the name..:p anyways, i ike those songs best. lol so yeah :D

[mugsy]

Bohemian Rhapsody...and they almost lost that song because in the middle of the song with the operatic voices....that's all 4 of them and no one else and they kept recording over themselves and when they finished the tape was so thin you could see through it.

[Desert Arabian]

Let's see, when I am depressed I like to hear this song. (Mainly because of my extremely low self-esteem level):
Beautiful, by Christina A. Even though, I hate her with all my heart. Lyrics are above in Kfamrs post.

To cheer me up/make me laugh I *love* to listen to this song:

She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy: Kenny Chesney

Plowing these fields in the hot summer sun
Over by the gate lordy here she comes
With a basket full of chicken and a big cold jug of sweet tea
I make a little room and she climbs on up
Open up a throttle and stir a little dust
Just look at her face she ain't a foolin' me

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin' along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

We ride back and forth until we run out of light
Take it to the barn put it up for the night
Climb up in the loft sit and talk with the radio on
She said she's got a dream and I asked what it is
She wants a little farm and a yard full of kids
One more teeny weeny ride before I take her home

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin' along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

Well she ain't into cars or pick up trucks
But if it runs like a Deere man her eyes light up

She thinks my tractor's....

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin' along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

She thinks my tractor's sexy
She thinks my tractor's sexy

It makes me laugh every time I listen to it. What makes it better is the fact that Mr. Chesney- the cutiest Country singer, sings it.
:D ;) :p

[Aspen and Misty]

I love this song. I love that she is trying to get the word out abotu child abuse and I love the way she says "A broken heart that the world forgot" because so many times we forget to think about things that are going on in peopels lives around us and just focass in on ours. This song has touched me and almost all of my school. Its a song that just brings tears to your eyes and makes you thankfull for everything you have.



Concrete Angel By Martina McBride
She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen and lace

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it'll be too late

Repeat Chorus

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

[mugsy]

yep you're right Ash....I haven't heard it, but the lyrics get to you.

[Cincy'sMom]

This was the song Ralph and I used for our first dance at our wedding...

With This Ring-Sawyer Brown


I'll say my peace and I'll play my hand
And maybe this way you'll understand
I'm short on words I was raised that way
But I still mean all the ones I say

Chorus
And with ring I promise you
Everything that I have or can do
There's so many roads that love can run
But here in my heart your the only one

I do all right here on my own
But you give me things I've never known
Oh here I am getting up my nerve
It may not be all that you deserve

[lovemyshiba]

I'm going to try to keep these short--I absolutely love the Dave Matthews Band, and a lot of their songs have meaning for me personally, but they have good messages too--


two step

By: Dave Matthews Band

Say, my love, I came to you with best intentions
You laid down and gave to me just what I'm seeking
Love, you drive me to distraction

Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years
Or more if not for this,
our flesh and blood
It ties you and me right up
Tie me down

Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
These things we cannot change

Hey, my love, you came to me like wine comes to this mouth
Grown tired of water all the time
You quench my heart and you quench my mind

Celebrate we will
Because life is short but
Sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
The things we cannot
Celebrate, you and me, climbing two by two, to be sure
these days continue, things we cannot change

Oh, my love I came to you
with best intentions
You laid down and gave to me
Just what I'm seeking

Celebrate we will
Because life is short
But sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
Things we cannot change...
Things we cannot change



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[lovemyshiba]

here's another one

#41

By: Dave Matthews Band

Come and see
I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles
I'm coming slow but speeding
Do you wish a dance and while I'm in the front
The play on time is won
But the difficulty is coming here

I will go in this way
And find my own way out
I won't tell you to stay
But I'm coming to much more
Me
All at once the ghosts come back
Reeling in you now
What if they came down crushing
Remember when I used to play for all of the loneliness that nobody
notices now
I'm begging slow I'm coming here
Only waiting I wanted to stay
I wanted to play,
I wanted to love you

I'm only this far
And only tomorrow leads my way

I'm coming waltzing back and moving into your head
Please, I wouldn't pass this by
I wouldn't take any more than
What sort of man goes by
I will bring water
Why won't you ever be glad
It melts into wonder
I came in praying for you
Why won't you run
in the rain and play
Let the tears splash all over you



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[lovemyshiba]

just one more, but I also like Eminem, the Christina Aguilera song is great, and I love the Dance by Garth Brooks. My all time favorite song is "Wish You Were Here"--Pink Floyd

big eyed fish

By: Dave Matthews Band

Look at this big - eyed fish swimming in the sea oh
How it dreams to be a bird swoop and diving through the breeze
So one day caught a big old wave up on to the beach
Now he’s dead you see beneath the sea is where a fish should be

But oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem brighter on the other side

You see this crazy man decided not to breathe
He turned red and blue - purple, colorful indeed
No matter how his friends begged and pleaded the man would not concede
And now he’s dead you see the silly man should know you got to breathe

But oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem brighter on the other side

Oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem so much better on the other side

No way, no way
No way out of here

You see the little monkey sitting up in his monkey tree
One day decided to climb down and run off to the city
But look at him now lost tired living in the street
As good as dead you see what a monkey does - stay up your tree

But oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem brighter on the other side

Oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem so much better on the other side

No way, no way, no way
No way out of here

Rain in my dreams

Fall away

[lovemyshiba]

Here are the "wish you were here" lyrics;

Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here...



Doesn't sound like much, but everytime I hear it, I love it more and more
I'm done, for real this time

[mugsy]

If we are talking favorite songs, mine is Desperado by the Eagles.

[iceyshiver21]

I kinda know alot of them put here's my fave two. One i think is by Greenday, "There's Somthing unpreditable and in the end there's rain, I hope you had the time of your life." I heard that after my 8th grade graduation when me and the kids i went to school with for 9 years where half asleep on the bus. The last time we ever be togather as a class AND

Garth Brooks, Pushin Up Daisy' s

Sometimes I tell you the way that I feel
I swear that I'm going crazy
Keep telling myself it ain't that big a deal
It's better than pushing up daisies

I felt the arrow from death's fatal quiver
Come so close it actually grazed me
I bled the blood and I've felt the cold shiver
God only knows how He saved me

Chorus:
THERE'S TWO DATES IN TIME
THAT THEY'LL CARVE ON YOUR STONE
AND EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THEY MEAN
WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT
IS THE TIME THAT IS KNOWN
IN THAT LITTLE DASH THERE IN BETWEEN
THAT LITTLE DASH THERE IN BETWEEN

Sometimes my heart is as true as a dove
Sometimes my heart it betrays me
So I draw my sword for to fight for my love
But without a whisper she slays me

My mother died but somehow she keeps living
She'll never cease to amaze me
Now Dad turns his back on each day that he's given
Because he'd rather be pushing up daisies

Repeat Chorus

[COCatMama]

"Wish You Were Here" -- Incubus

I dig my toes into the sand.
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket.
I lean against the wind, pretend that i am weightless and in this moment i am happy.

[Chorus:]
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here.

I lay my head onto the sand.
The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it.
I'm counting ufo's.
I signal them with my lighter
and in this moment i am happy, happy.

[Chorus]

The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in.
Maybe I should hold with care,but my hands are busy in the air.

[Chorus]

[COCatMama]

and this song gives me chills everytime I listen to it, I believe it is about the Dieppe 'incident' in WW2 where way too many young canadian soldiers died at the hands of the Nazis, in France:

TRAGICALLY HIP LYRICS

"Nautical Disaster"

I had this dream where I relished
The fray and the screaming that filled my head all day
It was as though I'd been spit there, settled in , into a pocket
Of a lighthouse off some rocky socket,
Off the coast of France, Dear

One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water here
Five hundred more were thrashing madly as parasites might in you blood
Now I was in lifeboat designed for ten and ten and only,
Anything that systematic would get you hated.
It's not a deal nor a test nor a love of something fated.
The selection was quick, the crew was picked and
those left in the water got kicked off our pant leg and we headed for home.

Then the dream ends when the phone rings
You doing alright he said it's out there ,most days and nights
But only a fool would complain
Anyway Susan if you like our conversation is as faint as the sound in my memory
As those fingernails scratching on the hull

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Originally posted by YellowLabLover
Let's see, when I am depressed I like to hear this song. (Mainly because of my extremely low self-esteem level):
Beautiful, by Christina A. Even though, I hate her with all my heart. Lyrics are above in Kfamrs post.

To cheer me up/make me laugh I *love* to listen to this song:

She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy: Kenny Chesney

Plowing these fields in the hot summer sun
Over by the gate lordy here she comes
With a basket full of chicken and a big cold jug of sweet tea
I make a little room and she climbs on up
Open up a throttle and stir a little dust
Just look at her face she ain't a foolin' me

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin' along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

We ride back and forth until we run out of light
Take it to the barn put it up for the night
Climb up in the loft sit and talk with the radio on
She said she's got a dream and I asked what it is
She wants a little farm and a yard full of kids
One more teeny weeny ride before I take her home

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin' along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

Well she ain't into cars or pick up trucks
But if it runs like a Deere man her eyes light up

She thinks my tractor's....

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin' along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

She thinks my tractor's sexy
She thinks my tractor's sexy

It makes me laugh every time I listen to it. What makes it better is the fact that Mr. Chesney- the cutiest Country singer, sings it.
:D ;) :p

I like this song, too! I really like country music, though!:) ;)

[*LabLoverKEB*]

"I'm Alive"

Mmmmm ... Mmmmm ...
I get wings to fly
Oh, oh ... I'm alive ... Yeah

When you call on me
When I hear you breathe
I get wings to fly
I feel that I'm alive

When you look at me
I can touch the sky
I know that I'm alive

When you bless the day
I just drift away
All my worries die
I'm glad that I'm alive

You've set my heart on fire
Filled me with love
Made me a woman on clouds above

I couldn't get much higher
My spirit takes flight
'Cause I am alive

When you call on me
(When you call on me)
When I hear you breathe
(When I hear you breathe)
I get wings to fly
I feel that I'm alive
(I am alive)

When you reach for me
(When you reach for me)
Raising spirits high
God knows that...

That I'll be the one
Standing by through good and through trying times
And it's only begun
I can't wait for the rest of my life

When you call on me
(When you call on me)
When you reach for me
(When you reach for me)
I get wings to fly
I feel that...

When you bless the day
(When you bless, you bless the day)
I just drift away
(I just drift away)
All my worries die
I know that I'm alive

I get wings to fly
God knows that I'm alive

Here's the lyrics to "I'm Alive" by Celine Dion. I like a lot of songs by celine Dion, especially "A New Day has Come"

[Crikit]

Hmm I know a few.

BEAUTIFUL-JOYDROP

If I was beautiful like you, oh the things I would do.

Those not so blessed would be crying out murder.

And I'd just laugh and get away with it too. Like you do.

If I was beautiful like you, I would

never be at fault. I'd walk in the rain

between the rain drops. Bringing

traffic to a halt.



But that would never be.

That would never never be.

'Cause I'm not beautiful like you, I'm beautiful like me.



If I was beautiful like you.

I'd be quick to assume.

They'd do anything to please me why not.

I see their reaction when you walk into the room.



If I was beautiful like you, I'd have so many friends.

All fighting for my time to be next in line.

So if I hurt one I wouldn't have to make amends

[Crikit]

THE HAND SONG by Nickel Creek

The boy only wanted to give mother something
And all of her roses had bloomed
Looking at him as he came rushing in with them
Knowing her roses were doomed
All she could see were some thorns buried deep
And the tears that he cried as she tended his wounds

And she knew it was love
It was one she could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands

He still remembers that night as a child
On his mother's knee
She held him close and she opened her Bible
And quietly started to read
Then seeing a picture of Jesus he cried out
"Momma, He's got some scars just like me"

And he knew it was love
It was one he could understand
He was showing His love
And that's how He hurt His hands

Now the boy's grown and moved out on his own
When Uncle Sam comes alone
A foreign affair, but our young men were there
And luck had his number drawn
It wasn't that long till our hero was gone
He gave to a friend what he learned from the Cross

But they knew it was love
It was one they could understand
He was showing His love
And that's how He hurt His hands
It was one they could understand
He was showing His love
And that's how He hurt his hands

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Wow, I don't think I could post the lyrics to just one song. I guess it depends what you mean by "inspirational" - a song can inspire me to do lots of different things, like laugh, cry, dance, hug my kid/husband, whatever. I don't listen to inspirational music as pertains to religion, and I have favorite songs from the 40's right on up to now. The song "Creep" by Radiohead always gives me shivers....

When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so (very) special
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.

I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so (very) special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.

She's running out again,
She's running out
She's run run run running out...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so (very) special
I wish I was special...

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo,
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
I don't belong here.

Reminds me of that outcast feeling I always had in high school....

Then there's the song that I would sing for my husband, if I could actually sing without scaring the cat....:rolleyes:

"Still The One" by Orleans

We've been together since way back when
Sometimes I never want to see you again
But I want you to know, after all these years
You're still the one I want whisperin' in my ear

You're still the one I want to talk to in bed
Still the one that turns my head
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

I looked at your face every day
But I never saw it 'til I went away
When winter came, I just wanted to go
Deep in the desert, I longed for the snow

You're still the one that makes me laugh
Still the one that's my better half
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You're still the one that makes me strong
Still the one I want to take along
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

Changing, our love is going gold
Even though we grow old, it grows new

You're still the one that I love to touch
Still the one and I can't get enough
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You're still the one who can scratch my itch
Still the one and I wouldn't switch
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You are still the one that makes me shout
Still the one that I dream about
We're still having fun, and you're still the one...

Then there's that Nine Inch Nails song, "Closer" - I don't dare put any of those lyrics on here, but there's something about it that draws me in, even though the lyrics are pretty raw. (It's my other love song for my husband - :eek: :eek: j/k)

"Run For The Roses" by Dan Fogelberg - whenever I hear this song, I can close my eyes and I am in a pasture in Kentucky in the summertime, in perfect peace:

Born in the valley
And raised in the trees
Of Western Kentucky
On wobbly knees
With mama beside you
To help you along
You'll soon be a-growing up strong

All the long, lazy mornings
In pastures of green
The sun on your withers
The wind in your mane
Could never prepare you
For what lies ahead
The run for the roses so red -

And it's run for the roses
As fast as you can
Your fate is delivered
Your moment's at hand
It's the chance of a lifetime
In a lifetime of chance
And it's high time you joined
In the dance
It's high time you joined
In the dance -

From sire to sire
It's born in the blood
The fire of a mare
And the strength of a stud
It's breeding and it's training
And it's something unknown
That drives you and carries
You home

And it's run for the roses
As fast as you can
Your fate is delivered
Your moment's at hand
It's the chance of a lifetime
In a lifetime of chance
And it's high time you joined
In the dance
It's high time you joined
In the dance -

I think The Eagles, Queen, Supertramp, a lot of those 70's groups had really great lyrics, or maybe it's just that I listened to them when I was going through my maudlin, teenage, just-kill-me-now phase and they seemed deeper than they really were - ;) :D .

[Nomilynn]

Then there's that Nine Inch Nails song, "Closer" - I don't dare put any of those lyrics on here, but there's something about it that draws me in, even though the lyrics are pretty raw. (It's my other love song for my husband - j/k)

LOL :D :D :D

That's an awesome song !!!!

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

The most inspirational song to me is "Call on Jesus" by Nicole C. Mullen. I have never had a song touch my heart the way that song has ..... and the lyrics are truly inspirational...Call on Jesus

by Nicole C. Mullen

from "Talk About It"



I'm so very ordinary

Nothing special on my own

I have never walked on water

I have never calmed a storm

Sometimes I'm hiding away from the madness around me

Like a child who's afraid of the dark



But when I call on Jesus

All things are possible

I can mount on wings like eagles and soar

When I call on Jesus

Mountains are gonna fall

'Cause He'll move heaven and earth to come rescue me when I call



Weary brother

Broken daughter

Widowed, widowed lover

You're not alone

If you're tired and scared of the madness around you

If you can't find the strength to carry on



repeat chorus



Call Him in the mornin'

In the afternoon time

Late in the evenin'

He'll be there

When your heart is broken

And you feel discouraged

You can just remember that He said

He'll be there

[Kfamr]

Another song that means alot to me is Dilemma by Nelly..... only because what kelly sings is alot how i feel

"I love you and I need you
Nelly, I love you, I do
And it’s more than you’ll ever know
Boy, it’s for sure
You can always count on my love
Forever more, yeah, yeah "

I Love Nelly, and I NEED Nelly.:D

[Kfamr]

the lyrics in my sig too. :)

[Kfamr]

One of the most inspiration song syrics to all Americans....

If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife.

I’d thank my lucky stars,
to be livin here today.
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

From the lakes of Minnesota,
to the hills of Tennessee.
Across the plains of Texas,
From sea to shining sea.

From Detroit down to Huston,
and New York to L.A.
Well there's pride in every American heart,
and its time we stand and say.

That I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

And I’m proud to be and American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

Lee Greenwood.

[Cookiebaker]

Originally posted by Aspen and Misty
I love this song. I love that she is trying to get the word out abotu child abuse and I love the way she says "A broken heart that the world forgot" because so many times we forget to think about things that are going on in peopels lives around us and just focass in on ours. This song has touched me and almost all of my school. Its a song that just brings tears to your eyes and makes you thankfull for everything you have.



Concrete Angel By Martina McBride


Have you seen the video for this song??? it is so powerful! You can see it here (http://www.cmt.com/av/). It's in the second column about half-way down.

I love so many of Martina's songs. I only have 1 almbum so far, but I hope to get them all at some point.

[wolfsoul]

Dixie chicks always come to my mind! lol...their slow songs have great hidden meanings...but when it comes to really inspirational, i always have to say Leanne Rhimes, when she sung (hence the name) "inspiration lights the fire within" its a really good song, and i sang it in choir last year. lets see if i can remember all the lyrics haha......uhhhh....nope i remember a few lines and then im completely blnk...u should look it up, its a great song

[CountryWolf07]

The River - Garth Brooks

You know a dream is like a river
Ever changin' as it flows
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores.. and

I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry
Like a bird upon the wind
These waters are my sky
I'll never reach my destination
If I never try
So I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry

Too many times we stand aside
And let the waters slip away
'Til what we put off 'til tomorrow
Has now become today
So don't you sit upon the shoreline
And say you're satisfied
Choose to chance the rapids
And dare to dance the tide.. yes

I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry
Like a bird upon the wind
These waters are my sky
I'll never reach my destination
If I never try
So I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry

And there's bound to be rough waters
And I know I'll take some falls
But with the good Lord as my captain
I can make it through them all.. yes

I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry
Like a bird upon the wind
These waters are my sky
I'll never reach my destination
If I never try
So I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry

Yes, I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry
'Til the river runs dry

[CountryWolf07]

How You Ever Gonna Know - Garth Brooks

That old wind that's whippin' out there
It's whistlin' your tune
That wind blew pyramids to Egypt
And footprints to the moon

And that old star that you been wishin' on
Is shinin' mighty bright
But it's the fire inside your heart
That's gonna lead you to the light

How you ever gonna know
What it's like to live there
How you ever gonna know victory
How you ever gonna know
What it's like when dreams become reality
How you ever gonna know
How it feels to hold her
How you ever gonna know
What it's like to dance
How you ever gonna know
If you never take a chance

You know failure isn't failure
If a lesson from it's learned
I guess love would not be love
Without a risk of being burned


Anything in life worth havin'
Lord, it has its sacrifice
But the gift that you're receiving
Is worth more than the price

How you ever gonna know
What it's like to live there
How you ever gonna know
What you never knew
How you ever gonna know
If you're down here doin'
What the good Lord put you here to do
How you ever gonna know
If you could have done it
How you ever gonna know
How it feels to fly
How you ever gonna know
If you never dare to try

Listen not to the critics
Who put their own dreams on the shelf
If you want to get the truth to admit it
You gotta find out for yourself

How you ever gonna know
What it's like to be there
How you ever gonna know
If you're the best
How you ever gonna know
What you believe in
If you don't put it to the test
How you ever gonna know
How it feels to hold him
How you ever gonna know
What livin' means
How you ever gonna know
If you never chase the dream

How you ever gonna know
Your potential
How you ever gonna know victory
How you ever gonna know
What it's like when dreams
Become reality
How you ever gonna know
How it feels to hold her
How you ever gonna know
What it's like to dance
How you ever gonna know
If you never take the chance

[CountryWolf07]

Annnnnnnnnnnd.. here is the last one...

Standin' Outside the Fire - Garth Brooks

We call them cool
Those hearts that have no scars to show
The ones that never do let go
And risk the tables being turned

We call them fools
Who have to dance within the flame
Who chance the sorrow and the shame
That always comes with getting burned

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire
'Cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire

We call them strong
Those who can face this world alone
Who seem to get by on their own
Those who will never take the fall

We call them weak
Who are unable to resist
The slightest chance love might exist
And for that forsake it all

They're so hell-bent on giving ,walking a wire
Convinced it's not living if you stand outside the fire

Standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Life is not tried, it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire

There's this love that is burning
Deep in my soul
Constantly yearning to get out of control
Wanting to fly higher and higher
I can't abide
Standing outside the fire

Standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Life is not tried, it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire

Standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Life is not tried, it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by CountryWolf07
Annnnnnnnnnnd.. here is the last one...

Standin' Outside the Fire - Garth Brooks

that is quite an inspirational song! ecspecially after u see the video!

[CountryWolf07]

Originally posted by wolfsoul

that is quite an inspirational song! ecspecially after u see the video!

I agree.. I have that video on tape.. taped it off CMT.. It's just really powerful at the end.. it just sends a strong message to everyone who has a disablity of whatever.. I'm hearing impaired, so.. that's why I chose that song to post on here.. :)

[mugsy]

Ok, you stole my songs!! I posted both GB songs earlier in this thread! hehehe

[CountryWolf07]

LOL!! You did? I didn't see!! sorry!! Ok well.. I checked, but hey.. I have the lyrics to those three songs ;) so, I kind of helped ya out!

[mugsy]

Yeppers....I was too lazy to get them! hehehe

[CountryWolf07]

LabLuver - Hehe, that Tractor song is *AWESOME*! :) I love it.. one of my favorites by Kenny.. one of the best songs he sings at the concerts!!! :D

Here's one by Kenny - a real fun song - "How Forever Feels"

Big orange ball, sinkin` in the water.
Toes in the sand, couldn`t get much hotter.
Little umbrella shaped margaritas
Coconut oil, tan senioritas
Now I know how Jimmy Buffet feels.

Hands on the wheel, cruisin` down the interstate
Gas pedal sticks, carries my car away
I was going fast as a Rambler goes
I could feel the speed from my head to my toes
Now I know how Richard Petty feels

I`ve been around the block a time or two
Done almost everything a boy can do
I`ve done some livin`, yeah I`ve had fun
But there is one thing that I haven`t done

Saved two months, bought a little diamond
Tonights the night, feels like perfect timin`
Down on one knee on momma`s front steps,
Man I`m gonna die if she really says yes

I wanna know how forever feels

I`ve been around the block a time or two
Done almost everything a boy can do
I`ve done some livin`, yeah I`ve had fun
But there is one thing that I haven`t done

I wanna know how forever feels
Hey, I wanna know how forever feels
Girl, I wanna know how forever feels

[CountryWolf07]

To respond to that video of Martina McBride's "Concetre Angel".. oh man.. such a great song.. but gets me everytime! I gotta reach out for a tissue.. it's really powerful.. I have two CD's.. "Greatest Hits" and "Evolution".. she has a beautiful voice :) - Rachel

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by CountryWolf07


I agree.. I have that video on tape.. taped it off CMT.. It's just really powerful at the end.. it just sends a strong message to everyone who has a disablity of whatever.. I'm hearing impaired, so.. that's why I chose that song to post on here.. :)

yes, i believe it is great disabled people to watch! even people who r perfectly healthy should watch (and listen)...it sure brings up hopes and makes u feel better...
i like it at the end when the father hepls his son finish the race...now that is truly inspirational! :D

[mugsy]

You're right, the video makes that song.

[iceyshiver21]

I WAS JUST ABOUT to post those GB songs!! :D

I like Wolves, by garth brooks, and ummm the Dance! :)
Heres another by i forgot who-


What If Shes an Angel

There's a man
Standin' on the corner
With a sign sayin' will work for food
You know the man, you see him every morning
The one you never give your money to
You can sit there with your window rolled up
Wonderin' when the lights gonna turn green
Never knowin' what a couple more bucks
in his pocket might mean

CHORUS:(he's)
What if he's/she's an angel sent here from heaven
And he's/she's makin' certain that your doing your best
To take the time to help one another
Brother are you gonna pass that test
You can go on with your day-to-day
Tryin' to forget what you saw on his face
Knowin' deep down you could of been his saving grace
What if he's an angel

There's a man and there's a women
Livin' right above you in apartment G
There's alot of noise coming from the ceiling
And it don't sound like harmony
You can sit there with your TV turned up
While the words in his anger flush
Come tomorrow when you see her with her shades on
Can you look her in the eye?

CHORUS:(she's)

Little girl
On daddy's lap
Hiding her disease with a baseball cap
You can turn the channel
Most people do
But what if you were sittin' her daddy's shoes?

CHORUS:(she's)

[iceyshiver21]

oppps sorry bout the sad faces! LOL

[CountryWolf07]

That's by Tommy Shaines :) I think.. lol.. anyway, that is a real good song too!! :)

[Aspen and Misty]

Originally posted by mugsy
yep you're right Ash....I haven't heard it, but the lyrics get to you.


Originally posted by CountryWolf07
To respond to that video of Martina McBride's "Concetre Angel".. oh man.. such a great song.. but gets me everytime! I gotta reach out for a tissue.. it's really powerful.. I have two CD's.. "Greatest Hits" and "Evolution".. she has a beautiful voice :) - Rachel


I havn't seem the video but I want to. I just love that song, its so powerful And yes I love her voice!

Ash

[cloverfdx]

Sorry to bring this back again.

Miss you love By Silverchair *i love it* although it is a depressing song. cant cut and paste at the moment so you will have to go without the lyrics sorry.
Tuna in the brine By Silverchair.
(not realy insperational but)Vincent By Don McClean (any of his songs actually)

most Dixie Chicks songs *Sighs*

ALOT more that i just cannot think of right this moment.

[ChrisH]

Because I am pretty old :D lots of songs have stuck with me and inspired me, but the song, that still speaks to me is the song Amy (Wolf Q) wrote about, One, by U2, this one line in particular.

We`re one, but we`re not the same,
we get to carry each other,
carry each other.
One.

Chris

[CountryWolf07]

Few new ones..

"I Love You This Much" - Jimmy Wayne

He can't remember
The times that he thought
Does my daddy love me?
Probably not
That didn't stop him
From wishing that he did
Didn't keep him from wanting
Or worshipping him
He guesses he saw him
About once a year
He could still feel the way he felt
Standing in tears
Stretching his arms out
As far as they'd go
Whispering dad
I want you to know

CHORUS: I love you this much
And I'm waiting on you
To make up your mind
Do you love me too?
How ever long it takes
I'm never giving up no matter what
I love you this much

He grew to hate him for what he had done
'Cause what kind of father
Could do that to his son?
He said 'damn you daddy'
The day that he died
The man didn't blink
But the little boy cried

CHORUS

Half way through the service
While the choir sang a hymn
He looked up at the preacher
And he sat and stared at him
He said
'Forgive me father'
When he realized
That he hadn't been unloved
Or alone all his life
His arms were stretched out
As far as they go
Nailed to the cross
For the whole world to know

CHORUS


Paper Angels - Jimmy Wayne

After every day-after-Thanksgiving sale the malls just ain't complete
Without a bunch of decorations and a paper angel tree
There's artificial smiles on artificial tree limbs
Saying what she'd love to have and what to buy for him
Well I hope Maggie likes her new winter clothes and her buggy with a baby
Doll
And maybe Tom'll smile in his new Nike shoes when he shoots that
Basketball
I can't help but wishing that I could so more
But not just while I'm shopping in the department store

CHORUS: Paper angels you're in my thoughts and prayers
No matter where you are right now remember God's right there
He's asking all of us to help take care
Of his paper angels everywhere

Going through the mail almost every afternoon I see a Mom and Dad's
Worst dream
There on the back of a money-saving ad to get my carpet cleaned
Height, weight, hair, eyes, date missing, and DOB
A child's name, a picture, and the words 'have you seen me?'

CHORUS

His documented bruises fill a folder in a file
She's a second grade self-portrait drawn without a smile
And every town is littered with this kind of debris
We've got to stop this madness and it's up to you and me

CHORUS


JIMMY WAYNE IS AMAZING - IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM, GO TO HIS WEBSITE - HTTP://WWW.JIMMYWAYNE.COM/ - I AM SEEING HIM ON THE 28TH..

[G.P.girl]

i know it sounds wierd but i don't really hear the lyrics. i hear the music but the words just go in one ear and out the other. but i think alot of songs have that wow affect on people

[sheltielover]

When I first found out I was pregnant, this song came to mind.....

Creed

"With Arms Wide Open"

Well I just heard the news today
It seems my life is going to change
I closed my eyes, begin to pray
Then tears of joy stream down my face

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
With arms wide open

Well I don't know if I'm ready
To be the man I have to be
I'll take a breath, I'll take her by my side
We stand in awe, we've created life

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I'll show you love
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
With arms wide open
I'll show you everything ...oh yeah
With arms wide open..wide open

[Guitar Break]

If I had just one wish
Only one demand
I hope he's not like me
I hope he understands
That he can take this life
And hold it by the hand
And he can greet the world
With arms wide open...

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I'll show you love
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
With arms wide open
I'll show you everything..oh yeah
With arms wide open....wide open

I listen to the acoustic version of it and get teary eyed....love that song!!!

[Tonya]

I can't think of the song title, but there is a song by Creed that just gives me the chills. He wrote it when he found out that his wife was pregnant. It's about how he's scared and hopes he gives his baby a better life.

*Lmao. I just wrote this and then scrolled up to the very post above me. That's the one! :D

[sheltielover]

Tonya, that is too freaky!!! We posted about the same song at almost the same time!!! :D

[RubyMutt]

I have to post a couple...

"Imagine" - John Lennon

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No Hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isnt hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
No religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

Imagine no possesions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer
But Im not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one

[RubyMutt]

"Father of Mine" - Everclear

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
You know I just closed my eyes
My whole world disappears
Father of mine
Take me back to the day
When I was still your golden boy
Back before you went away

I remember blue skies
Walking the block
I loved it when you held me high
I loved to hear you talk
You would take me to the movies
You would take me to the beach
You would take me to a place inside
That is so hard to reach

Father of mine
Tell me where did you go
You had the world inside your hand
But you did not seem to know
Father of mine
Tell me what do you see
When you look back at your wasted life
And you don't see me

I was ten years ole
Doing all that I could
It wasn't easy for me
To be a scared white boy
In a black neighborhood
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
With a five dollar bill
I never understood you then
And I guess I never will

Daddy gave me a name
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad he gave me a name

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
I just closed my eyes
And the world disappears
Father of mine
Tell me how do you sleep
With the children you abandoned
And the wife i saw you beat

I will never be safe
I will never be sane
I will always be weird inside
I will always be lame
Now I'm a grown man
With a child of my own
And I swear that I'm not going to let her know
All the pain I have known

Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away

[cloverfdx]

Alot of John Denver songs have the "Wow" effect on me. it would be good if i actually knew the titles of the particular songs ;)

one of the titles could be "leaving on a jet plane" not sure though , but i love that song *sighs*

[mahayana]

"Hollis Brown he lived ...on the outside of town,
Hollis Brown he lived on the outside of town
with his wife and 5 children, in a cabin, broken down.

He looked for work and money, and he walked a ragged mile.
(repeat)
His children are so hungry...they don't know how to smile.

There's no crops in his fields, there's no water in his well,
(repeat)
He spent his last lone dollar...on 7 shotgun shells.

There's 7 breezes blowin'...all around the cabin door.
(repeat)
7 shots ring out...like the ocean's pounding roar.

There's 7 people dead...on a South Dakota farm,
(repeat)
Somewhere in the distance...7 new people born."

(repeat verse 1)

[mahayana]

Wow! Forgive me for stopping the flow, with that last song. The reason it's inspirational to me is because the message is- even if life is so terrible as to be unbearable, humanity still goes on.

There are awful problems on this planet, but we have the opportunity to do something about them. I don't look away when I see the bad stuff; it reminds me to do something about it.

Please keep this thread going, it is the best!

Another of my favories starts out-

"For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies,
for the love which from our birth,
over and around us lies...

Lord of all to Thee we raise...this our hymn of thankful praise!"

[mahayana]

There But For Fortune

"Show me an alley, show me a train,
show me a homeless man who sleeps out in the rain

and I'll show you a young man
with many reasons why
and there but for fortune may go you or I

Show me a prison, show me a jail,
show me a prisoner whose face is growing pale

and I'll show you a young man
with so many reasons why
there but for fortune may go you or I

Show me a country where the bombs had to fall
show me the ruins of buildings once so tall

and I'll show you a young land
with many reasons why
there but for fortune may go you or I
even I

[Stenograsaurus]

I'm not sure of the artists and I am too short on time to look up the lyrics now. Here are the songs: They are all Country songs.

Don't Laugh At Me. (I think this song should be played over the loudspeaker every morning in every school.)

Outside Looking In.

We Shall Be Free.
(I believe Garth Brooks sings this one.)

[Stenograsaurus]

Okay, so work can wait a little bit longer. ;)

Artist: Mark Wills
Album: Wish You Were Here
Title: Don't Laugh At Me


(allen shamblin/steve seskin)

I'm a little boy with glasses
The one they call the geek
A little girl who never smiles
'cause i've got braces on my teeth
And i know how it feels
To cry myself to sleep

I'm that kid on every playground
Who's always chosen last
A single teenage mother
Tryin' to overcome my past
You don't have to be my friend
But is it too much to ask

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In god's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

I'm the cripple on the corner
You've passed me on the street
And i wouldn't be out here beggin'
If i had enough to eat
And don't think i don't notice
That our eyes never meet

I lost my wife and little boy when
Someone cross that yellow line
The day we laid them in the ground
Is the day i lost my mind
And right now i'm down to holdin'
This little cardboard sign...so

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In god's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

I'm fat, i'm thin, i'm short, i'm tall
I'm deaf, i'm blind, hey, aren't we all

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In god's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

[Stenograsaurus]

Artist: GARTH BROOKS
Album: Double Live
Title: We Shall Be Free


This ain't comin'
From no prophet
Just an ordinary man
When I close my eyes
I see the way
This world shall be
When we all walk
Hand in hand
When the last child
Cries for a crust of bread
When the last man dies
For just words that he said
When there's shelter
Over the poorest head
We shall be free

When the last thing
We notice is
The colour of skin
And the first thing
We look for is
The beauty within
When the skies and
The oceans are clean again
Then we shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight,
Walk proud
'Cause we shall be free
When we're free to
Love anyone we chooseWhen this world's big enough
For all different views
When we all can worship
From our own kind of pew
Then we shall be free
We shall be free

We shall be free
Have a little faith
Hold out
'Cause we shall be free

And when money talks
For the very last time
And nobody walks
A step behind
When there's only one race
And that's mankind
Then we shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight,
Walk proud,
Have a little faith,
Hold out
We shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight,
Have a little faith

We shall be free