4N6 DNA

Hey guys!

I am a big fan of paying attention to lyrics in songs. I love the ones that mean something and try to convey a message. I am always looking for songs that hit home.

What are some of your favorites? Be sure to post the lyrics and if you can find the video with lyrics, even better.

To get us started:

I think Black Eyed Peas "One Tribe" has a great message:



"One Tribe, one time, one planet, one race
Its all one blood, don't care about your face
The color of your eye or the tone of your skin
Don't care where ya are
Don't care where ya been
Cause where we gonna go
Is where we wanna be

The place where the little language is unity
And the continent is called Pangaea
And the main ideas are connected like a spear
No propaganda, They tried to upper hand us
Cause man I'm loving this peace

I don't need no leader
That's gonna force feed a
Concept that make me think I need to
Fear my brother and fear my sister
And shoot my neighbor or my big missile
If I had an enemy, then my enemy is gonna try to come and kill me
Cause I'm his enemy
There's one tribe ya'll

One tribe ya'll
We are one people
Let's cast amnesia, forget about all that evil
Forget about all that evil, that evil that they feed ya
Let's cast amnesia, forget about all that evil
That evil that they feed ya
Remember that we're one people
We are one people
One people, one people [One People]
One people, one people [One People]
One people, one people [One People]

One tribe, one tribe
One tribe, one time, one planet, one [race]
Race, one love, one people, one [and]
Too many things that's causing one [to]
To forget about the main cause
Connecting, uniting
But the evil is seen and alive in us
So our hopes are colliding
And our peace is sinking like Poseidon
But, we know that the one [one]
The evil one is threatened by the sum [sum]
So he'll come and try and separate the sum
But he dumb, he didn't know we had a way to overcome
Rejuvenated by the beating of the drum
Come together by the cycle of the hum
Freedom when all become one [one]
Forever

One tribe ya'll
We are one people"

I don't know if you payed attention to "All Star" lyrics from Smashmouth way back when but especially the line:

"Somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas
I need to get myself away from this place
I said yep what a concept
I could use a little fuel myself
And we could all use a little change"

You guys have any favorites?

Slayerette89

I love Black Eyed Peas' socially-conscious (not sure if I used the right expression, but you probably know what I mean) lyric. They are so soaked with humanitarianism, optimism and freedom love.


I came across Possessed My Belief ages ago, while I was still in my early teens and I was at awe at the strong non-conformist attitude conveyed. While the lyric are rather simple and straightforward (and aggressive, but I think it's only there for the emphasis) I still find them powerful.

I believe only the real
Walk through life on what I feel
Living my life from day to day
What's wrong, what's right, who's to say

I live how I want to live
I don't regret my choice
I give what I want when I want to give
And I speak my voice

Conformist pigs
Gather around
And criticize
The life I've found

Kill the pigs
Hear them squeal
They want to change
The way I feel

I cannot follow majority
It's how I'm living
Constantly

Find the power
To control
Soul on ice
Heads will roll

My belief

4N6 DNA

Absolutely.

There is also a song I liked called "Honestly". It might be a religious song. I am not very religious, but I liked the lyircs, part goes:

If you don't see the real me,
you won't see what mercy's done.
If you don't see my weakness,
you won't see what love has won.
If you don't see the distance
from the darkness to the sun
You won't see, Honestly

If you don't see the real me,
you won't see what grace has done.

Slayerette89

Especially like this part.

One of my favourite Napalm Death's anti-racism lyric:

Unchallenged Hate

A chronic complaint of dimness
Prevails your profound ideology
A romantic vision of a "master race"
Attained through coercive forms of authority
Your observance is negligence
If you see the threat from different cultures
We're all in this sinking ship
All of us together
Where does the white man stand?
Where does the black man stand?
Where do we all ****ing stand?
KNEE DEEP IN THE ****!
Look into yourself
And you'll find the real oppressor
To a life of unchallenged hate
It's you who's the ******!

Hope that nobody will find the n-word offensive (I'll edit the line out if it's a problem), it's the "speak to them in their language" case.
Oh, nevermind, I see it's done automatically.

Slayerette89

A favourite for years now:
Iron Maiden Blood on the World's Hands

Sometimes it makes me wonder
Sometimes it makes me question
Sometimes it makes me saddened
Always it makes me angry but...

When you can see it happening
The madness that's all around you
Nobody seems to worry
The world seems so powerless to act...

It's out of control
Blood on the world's hands
Each day a new toll

Another assassination
The same day a new creation
But what are they coming into
Security of a world that brings...

One day another killing
Somewhere there's someone straying
Another a savage raping
Meanwhile there's someone laughing at us

It's out of control
Blood on the world's hands
Each day it goes on

Brutality and aggression
Tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid
Praying for a geaserfire

They say things are getting better
No need to be complacent
There's chaos across the border
And one day it could be happening to us

It's out of control
Blood on the world's hands
It's our epitaph
It's out of control
Someone should know
Blood on the world's hands

troianfans

I have quite a few song lyrics that inspire me or make me feel a certain way... which isn't too hard to do.. but here goes..

Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys & Jay-Z
"Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,
Long live the king yo,
I'm from the empire state"

Yes I realize it's not a super inspirational song... but for some reason this makes me very proud of having grown up in the city of new york even though I left it behind four years ago for arizona!

Moments - Emerson Drive
"I've had my moments, days in the sun, moments I was second to none, moments, when I knew i did what I thought I couldn't do, like that cool night on the e street bridge, when I young man almost did it in, I was right there, wasn't scared a bit, I helped to pull him through.... looking at me now you may not know it, but I've had my moments"

^^ one of my all time favorite songs. the video makes me want to cry.

blue winter roses

Artist: Joshua Radin
Song: Winter

I should know
Who I am by now
I walk
The record stands somehow
Thinking of winter

Your name is the splinter inside me
While I wait

And I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wait

The walk has all been cleared by now
Your voice is all I hear somehow
Calling out Winter

Your voice is the splinter inside me
While I wait

I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wait

I could have lost myself
In rough blue waters in your eyes
And I miss you still

I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wait

It's a really sad song but it's so deep as well. I first heard it on an episode of Scrubs and thought it was one of the best uses of music ever.

atwoodsmariano

I’m still not over the lyrics for this song almost 2 years after hearing it for the first time

quin0611

Amazing lyrics!