Thread: Meaningful Songs

I don't think a thread like this has been started, but if it has, I apologize. Just an idea I had... I think it would be interesting if everyone posted lyrics or just song titles of songs that are really meaningful and deep, like songs whose purpose was to wake people up and make them come to some realization through the message of the song. Hope that makes sense. For example: Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones

Wikipedia: "The song's lyrics paint a picture of social apocalypse -- storm, fire, flood, war, rape, murder, all "just a shot away" -- finally capped by the assertion that "love, sister, it's just a kiss away."

Things like that.

*sniff sniff*... guess no one likes this idea. oh well
I just think it's a cool thing, because music is very much a way to express feelings and get views out, so i thought it'd be interesting to see what kind of songs like this people like.

Give us a day to discover your thread, we're not that quick :P

Yea I really like anti-war songs, they can be very meaningful indeed. And I like "Streets of London" by eh hm dunno the artist, 70s song about the poor&lonely forgotten people. And great guitar work.

There u go, "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell:

Have you seen the old man
In the closed-down market
Kicking up the paper,
with his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
And held loosely at his side
Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking,
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags.

Chorus

In the all night cafe
At a quarter past eleven,
Same old man is sitting there on his own
Looking at the world
Over the rim of his tea-cup,
Each tea last an hour
Then he wanders home alone

Chorus

And have you seen the old man
Outside the seaman's mission
Memory fading with
The medal ribbons that he wears.
In our winter city,
The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn't care

Chorus

It's Cold outside, no kind of atmosphere,
All alone, more or less....

And then to neatly balance this pessimistic view....


Always look on the bright si-ide of life....

Here's one of my favorites... Blinded by Rainbows - Voodoo Lounge - The Rolling Stones (the entire album is really excellent) The music is really good too. Great song altogether.

Did you ever feel the pain
That He felt upon the cross
Did you ever feel the knife
Tearing flesh that's oh so soft

Did you ever touch the night
Did you ever count the cost
Do you hide away the fear
Put down paradise as lost

You're blinded by rainbows
Watching the wind blow
Blinded by rainbows
Do you dream at night
Do you sleep at night
I doubt it

Did you ever feel the blast
As the semtex bomb goes off
Do you ever hear the screams
As the limbs are all torn off
Did you ever kiss the child
Who just saw his father shot
Do you ever shed a tear
As the war drags on and on

do you ever touch the night
Or is it just another job
Do you fear the final hours
Put down paradise as lost

Blinded by rainbows
And faces in windows
Blinded by rainbows
Do you dream at night
Do you sleep at night
I doubt it

Do you ever fear the night
Could it be the war is lost
Do you fear the final hour
Do you kneel before the cross

You're blinded by rainbows
And I'm watching the wind blow
Blinded by rainbows
Do you dream at night
Do you scream at night
Do you smell of fear
Is your conscience clear
Are you caked in sweat

Are your clothes all wet
Do you see the light
Is the end in sight

See the face of Christ
Enter paradise
I doubt it

I love U2. Sunday Bloody Sunday, and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For are awesome. And menaingful. But I also love to listen to Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits make fun of society in Money For Nothing, Sultans of Swing, and Romeo and Juliet.

To me, "O' Holy Night" is the most powerful and deepest song I have ever sung. I sing it many times during December and I've found nothing to take its place.

O' Holy night, the stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Savior's birth
Long lay the world
In sin and error pining
'Til He appeared and the soul felt His worth

The thrill of hope,
The weary world rejoices
For yonder brings a new and glorious morn

Fall on your knees
Oh, hear the angel's voices
O' night divine
O' night when Christ was born
O' night divine
O' night,
O' night divine

O' Holy night, the stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Savior's birth
Oh...
Long lay the world
In sin and error pining
'Til He appeared and the soul felt His worth

The thrill of hope,
The weary world rejoices
For yonder brings a new and glorious morn

Fall on your knees
Oh, hear the angel's voices
O' night divine
O' night when Christ was born
O' night divine
O' night,
O' night di...divine

Bettina

as its a science forum how about monty pythons galaxy song(remember this is a good couple of decades old) :wink: :-

Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enough......

Just, remember that you standing on a planet thats evolving,
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
Its orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so its reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer spiral arm at fourty thousand miles an hour
In a galaxy we call the milky way.

Our galaxy itself, contains a hundred billion stars,
Its a hundred thousand light years side-to-side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
but out by us it just three thousand light years wide.

We're thirty thousand light years fron galactic central point,
We go round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and
expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can wizz.
As fast as it can go, the speed of light ya know,
Twelve million miles a minute and thats the fastest speed there is,
So remember when your feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth.
And pray that theres intellegent life somewhere up in space,
Cause theres bugger-all down here on earth.

Make me laugh even when they're not on a screen!

Here's a good one, this song really puts a lot of my feelings toward the world into words.


Tell me what's wrong with society
When everywhere I look I see
Young girls dying to be on TV
They wont stop 'til they've reached their dreams

Diet pills, surgery
Photoshop pictures in magazines
Telling them how they should be
It doesn't make sense to me

Is everybody going crazy?
Is anybody gonna save me?
Can anybody tell me what's going on?
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something is wrong

I guess things are not how they used to be
There's no more normal families
Parents act like enemies
Making kids feel like it's world war III

No one cares, no one's there
I guess we're all just too damn busy
Money's our first priority
It doesn't make sense to me

Is everybody going crazy?
Is anybody gonna save me?
Can anybody tell me what's going on?
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something is wrong

is everybody going crazy?
is everybody going crazy?

Tell me what's wrong with society
When everywhere I look I see
Rich guys driving big SUV's
While kids are starving in the streets
No one cares
No one likes to share
I guess life's unfair

Is everybody going crazy?
Is anybody gonna save me?
Can anybody tell me what's going on
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something

something is wrong
Is everybody going Crazy?
Can anybody tell me what's going on
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something is wrong

Oh, I forgot. That's Crazy by Simple Plan.

Try Mendelssohn. Songs without words, quite a selection to chose from. 8)

Songs make me feel not for their lyrics. The melodies are what make me feel (sad, happy, nervous, strange, etc). I listen only electronic music and my favourite genres don't have many sang songs (they are only melodic or base sound).

I have many tracks that make me feel:

Endymion - Nothing is what it seems.
Endymion - Rock the part-E.
Ophidian - Angel.
Ophidian - Butterfly V.I.P.
Ophidian - The middle children.
Nosferatu versus Endymion - All the way up.
Nosferatu - Raythered.
Nosferatu - Language of rythm.
Tommynocker - Showtime.
Osiris & T-Junction - Adrenalin shotz.
Negative A - Death after visualizing eternity.
Evil activities versus Endymion - Do you like bass?
DJ D feat. The viper - Loose control (Korsakoff remix).
Endymion feat. Ophidian - Petrifaction.

And many more...

war pigs - black sabbath....this song describes exactly what is wrong with the world - a war pig way of tinking let the lyrics speak for themselves:

generals gathered in their masses
just like witces at black masses
evil minds that plot destruction
sourcerers ot deaths construction
in the field the bodies burning
as the war machine keeps turning
death and hatred to mankind
poisoning their brainwashed minds

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'til their judgement day comes

Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees the war pig's crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings


this doesnt only apply to war...it describes the state of mind of people today, type of people that allow temselves to be brainwased by the media, people who find tempory satisfaction in material or selfish gain, its about materialism and consumerism - just that whole state of mind...powerful uplifting song ...NO MORE WAR PIGS HAVE THE POOOOWEEERRRR!!!!!

i like that, thanks for posting.

thanks! i could disscus lyrics and meanings of songs ALL day! quite a fan of the stones myself!

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

war pigs - black sabbath....this song describes exactly what is wrong with the world - a war pig way of tinking let the lyrics speak for themselves:

generals gathered in their masses
just like witces at black masses
evil minds that plot destruction
sourcerers ot deaths construction
in the field the bodies burning
as the war machine keeps turning
death and hatred to mankind
poisoning their brainwashed minds

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'til their judgement day comes

Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees the war pig's crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings


this doesnt only apply to war...it describes the state of mind of people today, type of people that allow temselves to be brainwased by the media, people who find tempory satisfaction in material or selfish gain, its about materialism and consumerism - just that whole state of mind...powerful uplifting song ...NO MORE WAR PIGS HAVE THE POOOOWEEERRRR!!!!!

good taste in music :-D sabbaths best song

definately their best songs and certainly one of THE best songs to have been made! in my humble opinion :wink: nice to know there r other sabbath fans around!

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

definately their best songs and certainly one of THE best songs to have been made! in my humble opinion :wink: nice to know there r other sabbath fans around!

I like most rock/metal from the early days through to modern bands :-D

Ahhh Black Sabbath, yep those wordss look familiar...
I quite liked Hawkwind too, and deep purple, and many others...
Life don't suck, it rocks!.

ja, i prefer rock/metal thats pre-mid 80s though! motley crue rocks! uriah heap is cool and of course ACDC....and led zep...cud go on forever. Dont u find that music before the 80s seemend to have so much more soul, passion and raw life in it? i dont know but todays music seems frivolous to me, even some of the metal....

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

ja, i prefer rock/metal thats pre-mid 80s though! motley crue rocks! uriah heap is cool and of course ACDC....and led zep...cud go on forever. Dont u find that music before the 80s seemend to have so much more soul, passion and raw life in it? i dont know but todays music seems frivolous to me, even some of the metal....

Most of it now just seems to be computerised crap.

remember Mr Hendrix on the geetar?

Originally Posted by billco

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

ja, i prefer rock/metal thats pre-mid 80s though! motley crue rocks! uriah heap is cool and of course ACDC....and led zep...cud go on forever. Dont u find that music before the 80s seemend to have so much more soul, passion and raw life in it? i dont know but todays music seems frivolous to me, even some of the metal....

Most of it now just seems to be computerised crap.

remember Mr Hendrix on the geetar?

yeah i dont like modern music but like modern bands that harp back to the early days

Some has evolved slightly, others harp back to the early bands

bands like audioslave have their roots set right back in the 70's era


I wasn't born til 74, so missed some of the bands i'd have loved to see

And then along came 'motown' -it was to pop music what Mc Donalds is to cuisine - the begining of the end.

Originally Posted by captaincaveman

I like most rock/metal from the early days through to modern bands :-D

describes me pretty well too

Originally Posted by Chemboy

Originally Posted by captaincaveman

I like most rock/metal from the early days through to modern bands :-D

describes me pretty well too

Like who?

Originally Posted by billco

And then along came 'motown' -it was to pop music what Mc Donalds is to cuisine - the begining of the end.

hahaha! i like that analogy! motown was a bad trend and unfortunatly it as evolved into something far worse...r&b! but i honestly cannot understand how some "musicians" get record deals! its an insult to the publics intelligence! lets bring back the 60s-70s music! hungerstrike outside cd stores! woohoo!

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

Originally Posted by billco

And then along came 'motown' -it was to pop music what Mc Donalds is to cuisine - the begining of the end.

hahaha! i like that analogy! motown was a bad trend and unfortunatly it as evolved into something far worse...r&b! but i honestly cannot understand how some "musicians" get record deals! its an insult to the publics intelligence! lets bring back the 60s-70s music! hungerstrike outside cd stores! woohoo!

Mostly today I stick with classical music, once you really get into it you realise Beethoven was the first true rocker! - well he would have been if he was alive today!

yes and the greatest thing about beehtoven is that the music iteslf is simple, uncomplicted and yet so amazingly powerful, unlike mozart for example who's music is full of technicalities- yet still enjoyable. moonligt sonnata as got to be te best song ever written compared to any genre, dont u think?

for me the best piece of classical music is pachelbel's cannon in d major. I prefer more string based classical as a whole :-D

i have to be honest i have never heard of him, or that piece. its funny, when it come to classical i find people identify more with certain parts of the orcestra! like my uncle loves brass instruments! he can listen to a brass band for hours on end, i on the other hand prefer the sound of a piano and like u said, u prefer the strings...i dont know about overseas but ere in South Africa classical CDS are 1/4 of the price of popular CDS!

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

i have to be honest i have never heard of him, or that piece. its funny, when it come to classical i find people identify more with certain parts of the orcestra! like my uncle loves brass instruments! he can listen to a brass band for hours on end, i on the other hand prefer the sound of a piano and like u said, u prefer the strings...i dont know about overseas but ere in South Africa classical CDS are 1/4 of the price of popular CDS!

yeah pianos i like also and pianos and strings go together well but brass just grates my spine

Also rock music with classical can go together well, did you ever hear S&m by metallica?

If not, Its like a greatest hits of metallica played alongside michael kamen and the san francisco symphony orchestra

I also like blues influenced rock like the black crowes and they always say rock was just the evolution of 12 bar blues music anyway :-D

yes, pianos and strings go well together, especially pianos and violins! it takes a special person to enjoy brass!! ja, i have heard S&M it took a while to get used to but it sounds good....also cradle of filth, which is more thrash metal, dont know if uv heard of them, incorporate haunting piano pieces and other classical instruments into their music and it makes it sound so dramatic - theatrical even. but dark theatre!

yes blues influenced rock is great! in some of sabbath songs u can hear a bit of blues...also i was lisening to booker t the other day and i cud imagine that song being redone by a metal band...

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

yes, pianos and strings go well together, especially pianos and violins! it takes a special person to enjoy brass!! ja, i have heard S&M it took a while to get used to but it sounds good....also cradle of filth, which is more thrash metal, dont know if uv heard of them, incorporate haunting piano pieces and other classical instruments into their music and it makes it sound so dramatic - theatrical even. but dark theatre!

yes blues influenced rock is great! in some of sabbath songs u can hear a bit of blues...also i was lisening to booker t the other day and i cud imagine that song being redone by a metal band...

yeah i love cradle of filth, love the contrasts with them, they just released a new album and single here in the uk. Singles called temptation which i thinks a new order cover

probably take months to get here! never heard of new order! same style as cradle?

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

probably take months to get here! never heard of new order! same style as cradle?

no new order were an 80's electro pop kinda thing,but cradles version isn't :-D

cradle covering electro pop?? haha! gotta hear this one!

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

cradle covering electro pop?? haha! gotta hear this one!

yeah, pretty good, im really into trivium and stone sour at moment plus i love my slipknot, staind, incubus and pretty much most bands. Ive got about 1200-1300 cds at moment

thats a LOT of CDS! ja, stone sour r good, better than slipknot even tho same vocalist....what do u think of country music?

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

thats a LOT of CDS! ja, stone sour r good, better than slipknot even tho same vocalist....what do u think of country music?

never quite got it myself, not got enough punch for me

lol, yeah, dont mind a bit of willie nelson or crosby, stills nash n young....heres another meaningful song i was listening to today also by black sabbath - electric funeral- once again describing whats wrong with the world:

Reflex in the sky warn you you're gonna die
Storm coming, you'd better hide from the atomic tide
Flashes in the sky turns houses into sties
Turns people into clay, radiation minds decay

Robot minds of robot slaves lead them to atomic rage
plastic flowers, melting sun, fading moon falls upon
dying world of radiation, victims of mad frustration
Burning globe of oxy'n fire, like electric funeral pyre

Buildings crashing down to a cracking ground
Rivers turn to wood, ice melting to flood
Earth lies in death bed, clouds cry water dead
Tearing life away, here's the burning pay

chorus

And so in the sky shines the electric eye
supernatural king takes earth under his wing
Heaven's golden chorus sings, Hell's angels flap their wings
Evil souls fall to Hell, ever trapped in burning cells!

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

lol, yeah, dont mind a bit of willie nelson or crosby, stills nash n young....heres another meaningful song i was listening to today also by black sabbath - electric funeral- once again describing whats wrong with the world:

Reflex in the sky warn you you're gonna die
Storm coming, you'd better hide from the atomic tide
Flashes in the sky turns houses into sties
Turns people into clay, radiation minds decay

Robot minds of robot slaves lead them to atomic rage
plastic flowers, melting sun, fading moon falls upon
dying world of radiation, victims of mad frustration
Burning globe of oxy'n fire, like electric funeral pyre

Buildings crashing down to a cracking ground
Rivers turn to wood, ice melting to flood
Earth lies in death bed, clouds cry water dead
Tearing life away, here's the burning pay

chorus

And so in the sky shines the electric eye
supernatural king takes earth under his wing
Heaven's golden chorus sings, Hell's angels flap their wings
Evil souls fall to Hell, ever trapped in burning cells!

very topical with iran and north korea :-D

yes and this is a song written 20-30 years ago! the world has not changed a bit! its actually disgustng! when are we gonna learn??

Originally Posted by DrNeedles

yes and this is a song written 20-30 years ago! the world has not changed a bit! its actually disgustng! when are we gonna learn??

sadly the people in charge never learn

maybe the people in charge want this - the self destruction of man? they encourage it in a way - but that is a completely new topic all on its own

Originally Posted by captaincaveman

Originally Posted by Chemboy

Originally Posted by captaincaveman

I like most rock/metal from the early days through to modern bands :-D

describes me pretty well too

Like who?

sorry it took me so long to get to this, i was away over the weekend, and i've been busy since then. ok, let's see here...

AFI, Anberlin, Audioslave, Def Leppard, Green Day, Linkin Park, Mastodon, Nickelback, Nirvana, Rammstein, Rancid, The Rolling Stones, Simple Plan, Trapt, Guns 'N' Roses, Aerosmith, Rick Derringer, Van Halen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, P.O.D., Pillar, etc. etc. etc. I think that covers about the 60s til today pretty well, at least one group from each decade.

Originally Posted by Chemboy

Originally Posted by captaincaveman

Originally Posted by Chemboy

Originally Posted by captaincaveman

I like most rock/metal from the early days through to modern bands :-D

describes me pretty well too

Like who?

sorry it took me so long to get to this, i was away over the weekend, and i've been busy since then. ok, let's see here...

AFI, Anberlin, Audioslave, Def Leppard, Green Day, Linkin Park, Mastodon, Nickelback, Nirvana, Rammstein, Rancid, The Rolling Stones, Simple Plan, Trapt, Guns 'N' Roses, Aerosmith, Rick Derringer, Van Halen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, P.O.D., Pillar, etc. etc. etc. I think that covers about the 60s til today pretty well, at least one group from each decade.

exept anberlin, trapt, rick derringer and pillar ive got all those bands, and in most cases everything by them.

Good choices, im also into bands like slayer, pantera, metallica,maiden,hoobastank, chilli peppers, papa roach, disturbed and loads more :-D

here's the one i mentioned from my original post...

Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away