What song lyric strikes a deep truth for you ?

[Rustyt1953]

I often play and sing this to her. A simple, elegant testimonial.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iMW5c1GPoPs[/ame]

 

[Rule3]

I often play and sing this to her. A simple, elegant testimonial.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iMW5c1GPoPs

This one for my Wife (by Climax Blues of all groups!)
She saved my life!


[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvDwr9-MlfE[/ame]

 

[ladder13]

The undisputed truth indeed

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GXSHRJYxTQ&pp=ygUec21pbGluZyBmYWNlcyB1bmRpc3B1dGVkIHRydXRo[/ame]

 

[Bugkiller99]

A Mother's advice to her soon be be young man. Sage wisdom.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man - Live At The Florida Theatre / 2015 (Official Video) - YouTube

 

[Echo40]

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

 

[Kenna]

Double Likes For Simple Man!!!

 

[Rustyt1953]

If a song moves you, makes you feel something and makes you think then the lyricist has done their job.

 

[M1A]

"Here's a quarter, call someone who cares."

 

[Mbrgr1]

Well, this is one of many..........

A bit heavy, but he was 24 when he recorded it I think.


Sam Stone, John Prine


Can't seem to embed the video, but I'll bet you all know it!

 

[walkin jack]

This a BIG question but a good one. There are many, mostly written by Willie Nelson, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Don Henly, Glenn Frye, etc, etc, etc.

Are there anymore real cowboys?, Sing me back home, the green green grass of home, the girl from yesterday, I'll be true to you What might have been, Years, etc,etc,etc.

 

[walkin jack]

If a song moves you, makes you feel something and makes you think then the lyricist has done their job.

ABSOLUTELY!!! From the movie: Eddy And The Cruisers: it's all about words and music...,WORDS AND MUSIC.

 

[venomballistics]

There are hundreds of songs who's messages stir and move me deeply.

It's impossible for me to narrow them down to one.

If there be only one, you need to change radio stations.
I'm sure we could comb youtube off the top of our heads and plug this thread well past 20 pages of music vids that'd leave the forum needing therapy and a puppy.

 

[DeplorabusUnum]

I love this song by James McMurtry because it so aptly describes the feeling we all know when your gal goes quiet, and you know you've done something wrong (but don't necessarily know what). His description in Verse 3 is perfect.


[Verse 1]
She gets a little restless in the spring
She might follow the lines you sing
******** though they are
'Cause sometimes that's just the thing
If delivered with panache and a certain grace
Fingertips on satin lace
Cuttin' cards and quoting Proust
Whatever turns her wild mare loose

[Verse 2]
She gets a little restless now and then
She feels the changes in the wind
Way down deep where I can't see
She can get clean away from me
With a side step and subtle shift
And the turning of a key
Locks me out and lets me drift
She'll come back if I let her be
She'll come back if I let her be

[Chorus]
And you know I'm just a little down tonight
I'm just a little down
A little messed up is all I'm sayin'
Just a little down tonight
I'm just a little down
But I believe I'll make it
Believe I'll make it

[Verse 3]
She gets a little restless I can tell
When she goes back up inside her shell
And the conversation slows
To a stop and I might as well
Be out alone on the highway
Way off in the Utah sage
Wavin' to the railroad crew
That's when I get restless too

[Chorus]

[Outro]
She gets a little restless in the spring
She might follow the lines you sing
******** though they are
Sometimes that's just the thing

 

[Alk8944]

Any of several Hymns/Gospel songs by Albert E. Brumley. I won't post any links for fear of being dinged for a religious post. I will give you a few of my favorite titles.

"I'll Fly Away"
"If We Never Meet Again"
"This World is Not My Home"
"Turn Your Radio On"

Many are available on You Tube

 

[Rustyt1953]

If there be only one, you need to change radio stations.
I'm sure we could comb youtube off the top of our heads and plug this thread well past 20 pages of music vids that'd leave the forum needing therapy and a puppy.

The jukebox in my head houses an extensive playlist gathered over a lifetime.

Like you I could clog this thread up for weeks.

 

[lihpster]

Like Rusty, there is no end to the number of songs that move me. Lately, I have been kinda in a dark place. One lyric that keeps going around in my head is from Pat Green's Sweet Revenge.

I found out my saving grace,
was a little cold steel in a warm dark place.

 

[Bugkiller99]

If there be only one, you need to change radio stations.
I'm sure we could comb youtube off the top of our heads and plug this thread well past 20 pages of music vids that'd leave the forum needing therapy and a puppy.

Well, there are those who think we all need the former, and I am always all in for the later!

 

[venomballistics]

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

 

[Walkin Horse]

Delia all my life
If I hadn't shot poor Delia
Ida had her for my wife.

 

[pawngal]

This a BIG question but a good one. There are many, mostly written by Willie Nelson, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Don Henly, Glenn Frye, etc, etc, etc.

Are there anymore real cowboys?, Sing me back home, the green green grass of home, the girl from yesterday, I'll be true to you What might have been, Years, etc,etc,etc.

The closest I can come to those greats is Jamey Johnson. Both as a writer and a performer.
I had tickets to see Willie & Merle on the last tour that Merle had booked, when Merle's health didn't let him continue he picked Jamey to be his replacement. Merle passed the day I was driving to Missouri for the concert the following night. Probably the best and saddest I have ever attended.