What song lyric strikes a deep truth for you ?

[lihpster]

One's the devil, one keeps drivin' me insane.
Sometimes I wonder, if they ain't both the same.
One's a liar, helps to hide me from my pain
and one's a long gone bitter truth.
That's the difference between whiskey and you.

 

[walkin jack]

I suppose we all have made decisions in the past or taken one path and not another, or just let an opportunity slip away. I know I have. Some them haunt me yet.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEE3ycDH9_8[/ame]

 

[Rustyt1953]

Claude-Michel Schönberg wrote this for Les Misérables.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGP1nEG-OTQ[/ame]

 

[Buford57]

At the risk of violating community standards:
Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come;
'Twas grace that brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

 

[husker51]

Misquote

"Yesterday, when I was young, the taste of life was sweet as tears upon my tongue. I played at life as though it were a foolish game. Only now do I see how the years have slipped away."

Performed by Roy Clark. Released in 1969.

I was in error. My memory is not that dependable. The correct lyrics are as follows:
" Yesterday, when I was young, the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue. I teased at life as if it were a foolish game. The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame. The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned, I always built to last on weak and shifting sand. I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day. And only now do I see how the years ran away. "

I felt like I needed to do the song justice and get it right. There is much more of course but I figured those who wanted to know the whole song would find it and listen to it.

 

[ggibson511960]

I love you in a place
Where there's no space or time
I love you for my life
You are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone
And I was singing this song to you………

"A Song for You", Claude Russell Bridges, aka Leon Russell, 1970

 

[Mainsail]

Huddie Ledbetter:

When your house catches afire, and there ain't no water 'round
Throw your jelly out the window
Let the doggone shack burn down
Come a tie-yi-yippie, tie-yi-yippie-yippie-yay

 

[yaktamer]

Very profound:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeF-xJ1mOmU[/ame]

 

[Rustyt1953]

Lyricists have been fighting an uphill battle since Mr Trololo burst on the scene.

 

[jimbo728]

The fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools.
Kong Crimson 1971.
Jim

 

[UncleEd]

"Send in the clowns"

 

[soFlaNative]

"Ninety years without slumbering
Tic toc tic toc
His life's seconds numbering
Tic toc tic toc
It stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died."


The Grandfather Clock made me think about mortality and Go tell Aunt Rhody dealt with grief and loss.
A bit heavy for my 4 yr. old self.

 

[oink]

Lots of great popular songs listed. But you asked for my favorite song based on lyrics. At the risk of getting dinged, It is well with my soul:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJ6wQpLmuo&ab_channel=GaitherVEVO[/ame]

I was hoping Home Free did a version but these guys are pretty good:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyJuyJuJz-s&ab_channel=RedeemedQuartet[/ame]

 

[Rustyt1953]

I, too, am not proselytizing but posting a most impactful, stirring and moving piece.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tXQpDDcrN-w[/ame]