Really Meaningful or Relateable Song Lyrics

[Anthony Nasti]

Any songs whose lyrics really resonate with you on a particular level? Remind you of a time in your life and connect with an aspect of your personality.

One that has personally always spoke to me is John Lennon's "Watching the Wheels."

People say I'm crazy
Doing what I'm doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings
To save me from ruin
When I say that I'm okay, well they look at me kinda strange
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game"

People say I'm lazy
Dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice
Designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
"Don't you miss the big time boy, you're no longer on the ball?"

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ah, people ask me questions
Lost in confusion
Well, I tell them there's no problem
Only solutions
Well, they shake their heads and they look at me, as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round

I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go

 

[4gottenLoreKali]

I think you just struck the motherlode with regard to topics I like to discuss Anthony. I can think of so many songs with lyrics that I can apply to situations in my life, either general or specific. Sometimes I've had to endure terrible suffering and couldn't find the words to describe it until I happened upon a song with lyrics that did so; it's kind of like a bittersweet 'lightbulb moment' when that happens. I find I empathize with songs better than I do most people...

Anyway, there are plenty of lyrics that I either relate to or draw inspiration from. Here are just a few of them:

"We're all OK, until the day we're not
The surface shines, while the inside rots
We raced the sunset and we almost won
We slammed the brakes, but the wheels went on"
~"Audience of One" by Rise Against

"Who could call my name without regretting?
Who could see beyond this my darkness
And for once save their own prayers?
Who could mirror down just a little of their sun?
How could this go so very wrong
That I must depend on darkness?
Would anyone follow me further down?"
~"Tonight's Music" by Katatonia

"I've done my time in jails and prison too
Emergency rooms are nothing new
I've been picked apart by a shrink or two
But nothing you can do can change my point of view"
~"Shove That Warrant Up Your Ass" by G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies

"You made me realize
Everything I've ever known of love was pain
And the person you once were
Has died and rotted away
I've lived with this knife in my heart
As a reminder of what I can't be
I know all I do is hate you
There is nothing you can say or do"
~"Unloved" by Hatebreed

"How can you look me in the eyes
And tell me you're proud of what you've done within this life?
Your footprint can't dematerialize
And when you die, look where you've left your children behind...
A world unsuitable for life"
~"Not Suitable For Life" by Cattle Decapitation

"He who walks alone
Always walks uphill
But beneath his feet are the broken bones of flawed men"
~"Blood Noose (Hog-Tied Like Swine)" by Revenge

 

[Anthony Nasti]

Some very good, deep, honest lyrics there. Here a few more that have really spoken to me at different times in my life:

The Beach Boys - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
I keep looking for a place to fit
Where I can speak my mind
I've been trying hard to find the people
That I won't leave behind

They say I got brains
But they ain't doing me no good
I wish they could

Each time things start to happen again
I think I got something good goin' for myself
But what goes wrong

Sometimes I feel very sad
Sometimes I feel very sad
(Can't find nothin' I can put my heart and soul into)
Sometimes I feel very sad
(Can't find nothin' I can put my heart and soul into)

I guess I just wasn't made for these times

Every time I get the inspiration
To go change things around
No one wants to help me look for places
Where new things might be found

Where can I turn when my fair weather friends cop out
What's it all about

Each time things start to happen again
I think I got something good goin' for myself
But what goes wrong

Sometimes I feel very sad
Sometimes I feel very sad
(Can't find nothin' I can put my heart and soul into)
Sometimes I feel very sad
(Can't find nothin' I can put my heart and soul into)

I guess I just wasn't made for these times
I guess I just wasn't made for these times
I guess I just wasn't made for these times
I guess I just wasn't made for these times
I guess I just wasn't made for these times
I guess I just wasn't made for these times

How Soon is Now - The Smiths
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die

When you say it's gonna happen "now"
Well when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

Heart of Gold - Neil Young
I want to live,
I want to give
I've been a miner
for a heart of gold
It's these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Keeps me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old

I've been to Hollywood
I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean
for a heart of gold
I've been in my mind,
it's such a fine line
That keeps me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Keeps me searching
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old

Keep me searching
for a heart of gold
You keep me searching
And I'm growing old
Keep me searching
for a heart of gold
I've been a miner
for a heart of gold

 

[Aeolienne]

How Soon is Now - The Smiths
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die

When you say it's gonna happen "now"
Well when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

Talk about a mondegreen - I'd always thought those lyrics sounded like "I am the sun and the earth"!

 

[Judge]

https://www.aspiescentral.com/threads/favorite-aspie-expressive-song.10939/

 

[umbrellabeach]

Simple Plan - Astronaut

Can anybody hear me
Or am I talking to myself
My mind is running empty
In this search for someone else
Who doesn't look right through me
It's all just static in my head
Can anybody tell me why
I'm lonely like a satellite

'Cause tonight I'm feeling like an astronaut
Sending SOS from this tiny box
And I lost all signal when I lifted up
Now I'm stuck out here and the world forgot
Can I please come down
Can I please come down

I'm deafened by the silence
Is it something that I've done
I know that there are millions
I can't be the only one
Who's so disconnected
It's so different in my head
Can anybody tell me why
I'm lonely like a satellite

Chorus

Now I lie awake and scream
In a zero gravity
And it's starting to weigh down on me
Let's abort this mission now
Can I please come down

Chorus

 

[ChrisN]

<---- my favorite
HARVEST MOON

Come a little bit closer
Hear what I have to say
Just like children sleepin'
We could dream this night away.

But there's a full moon risin'
Let's go dancin' in the light
We know where the music's playin'
Let's go out and feel the night.

Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon.

When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart.

But now it's gettin' late
And the moon is climbin' high
I want to celebrate
See it shinin' in your eye.

Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon.

 

[Bellatrix]

This song ("I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker", by Sandi Thom), because it is absolutely true:

When the head of state didn't play guitar,
Not everybody drove a car,
When music really mattered and when radio was king,
When accountants didn't have control
And the media couldn't buy your soul
And computers were still scary and we didn’t know everything

[Chorus]

When pop-stars still remained a myth
And ignorance could still be bliss
And when God Saved the Queen she turned a whiter shade of pale
When my mom and dad were in their teens
And anarchy was still a dream
And the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail

[Chorus]

When record shops were still on top
And vinyl was all that they stocked
And the super info highway was still drifting out in space
Kids were wearing hand me downs,
And playing games meant kick around
And footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face

It sums up perfectly how things really were 30 to 40 years ago. So much has changed since then (and for the worse, in my opinion).