What song lyrics really touched you?
 

What song lyrics really meant a lot to you, touched you, or you felt identified with?

I enjoyed a lot Escape (Pina colada song) lyrics, It's about a man who, disenchanted with his current relationship, reads the personals and spots an ad that catches his attention: the ad of a woman who is seeking a man that, among other things, must like piña coladas, and he answers her So I wrote to the paper, Took out a personal ad, And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half bad, "Yes I like Pina Coladas... And getting caught in the rain..."

But 2 songs really touched me. One is Silver Springs, that you perfectly know, and the other is Elton's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. With both songs I felt kind of identified, in different times of my life of course..

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

"Yesterdays" by Kern & Harbach

Yesterdays
Yesterdays
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love

Everytime I hear WHY by Annie Lennox, I am deeply moved.

Mull of Kintyre
Rhythm of my Heart (by Rod Stewart) even though it has a different meaning. With the bagpipes underneath the lyrics mean something else to me and "never will I roam for I know my place is home" makes me so homesick.

Kid Rocks, "Only God Knows Why"

5 o'clock world
 

It's a 5 o'clock world when the whistle blows
no one owns a piece of my time
there's a long haired girl who waits I know
to ease my troubled mind, yeah

What a lady....

also I like the line that says: "livin' on money that I ain't made yet."

also: "sounds of the city running through my brain
while another day goes down the drain, yeah, yeah..."

Definitely Grace (the album) has a good few songs where the lyrics just spoke volumes to me... Especially 'Dream, Brother' and 'Lover, You Should Have Come Over.'

Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
And much too blind to see the damage hes done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one..

..I feel too young to hold on,
I'm much too old to break free and run,
Too deaf, dumb and blind to see the damage I've done.

so beautiful...:)

The first verse of Love Runs Deeper and all of Cast Away Dreams by L. Buckingham. Crystal as well.

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

Very haunting and emotional.

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day youll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And youll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
Ive watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

Theres so many different worlds
So many differents suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

I love that song! for me that song goes hand in hand with Friday on my Mind by the Easybeats. do you know that song? It's a classic you should hear it.

The Vogues. Great song. "You're The One" is another favorite.

Nick Cave, "The Ship Song"

Come sail your ships around me
and burn your bridges down.
We make a little history, baby,
every time you come around.

Come loose your dogs upon me
And let your hair hang down.
You are a little mystery to me
every time you come around.

We talk about it all night long.
We define our moral ground.
But when I crawl into your arms
everything comes tumbling down.

Chorus: Come sail your ships around me
and burn your bridges down.
We make a little history, baby,
every time you come around me.

Your face has fallen sad now
For you know the time is nigh
when I must remove your wings
and you...you must try to fly...

Here's a clip of Nick doing this song live on the Songwriters Circle he did with John Cale and Chrissie Hynde:

There is a song by the Sundays, one of my favorite bands, called Life Goes On. I can totally relate to its lyrics on many levels. Life goes on was a b-side from the Static and Silence sessions, goes like this:


Build me up, don't get me down

weather the storm

well, life goes on

feelings ebb and flow by hour

you're up in the clouds

then you sink like a stone

so do you feed yourself with pills

oh to deaden your ills

or are you only one love short of happiness

and in a picture on the wall

no glimmer of yourself at all

you've left yourself far away

build me up, don't mop my brow

weather the storm? no

because life goes on

it's my only hope right now

to soar like a bird

and not to sink like a stone

so do you feed yourself with pills

oh to deaden your ills

or are you only one love short of happiness

and in a picture on the wall

no glimmer of yourself at all

you've left yourself far away

oh do you feed yourself with pills

to cure you of your ills

or are you only one love short of the happy days to come

and in a picture on the wall

you can' see the face at all

so untie yourself

because that's all you've got to do

and I can grow a pair of wings

and I can take up flying

ther'll be no crying

up in the air looking back down

and let me tell you

if I talk about gloom

i don't get out of feeling down

it strips you of yourself

and splits you from the self that you know

There's so many from Fleetwood Mac, but one that springs to mind is from Destiny Rules.

'It's not being together, it's just following the rules'

Pure brilliance that one