What are some song lyrics that mean a lot to you and why?

Nevertheless o’child

I want to come closer, but you are so distant.
Lately your thoughts are so far.
I want to show you all that you’re missing,
and I’ll meet you right where you are.

O’ Love, I’ve always known you, and,
O’ Love, you’ve always been mine.
O’ Love, I’m only asking you for your life.

Say that you need me. I know what you’re feeling.
and You cannot do this alone. I gave you my Word,
and I gave you my life so you’ll never be on your own.

O’ Love, I’ve always known you, and,
O’ Love, you’ve always been mine.
O’ Love, I’m only asking you for your life.

You’re waiting for this life to be what you wanted
(Is this what you wanted?)
You’re waiting for this life to be what you needed.
(Is this what you needed?)
You’re waiting for this life.

O’ Love, I’ve always known you, and,
O’ Love, you’ve always been mine.

This is where I get power from

Oh my story is not the oldest of its kind.
I was to touched to see you clearly,
far too young to realize I had loved so dearly you,
whose world I had designed,
but the sweet smoke came with mirrors
and it brought tears to my wide eyes.

Dying just to see you…
dying since I misconstrued
your blue heart, black eyes,
feigning falling, words I won’t forget.
I died right when I saw you
while you shared that cigarette.

Oh I saw you every time I close my eyes,
in the Hughes film I had scored,
produced and starred in, in my mind.
I could recite you, well,
I’d written every line…
but you strayed far from my flawless script
on which I’d spent a lifetime!

Falling over dead.
Dying since I had misread
your blue heart, black eyes,
feigning falling, words I won’t forget.
I died right when I saw you
while you shared that cigarette.

-From Veronica Sawyer Smokes by AFI

Is there anyone who
Ever remembers changing their mind from
The paint on a sign?
Is there anyone who really recalls
Ever breaking rank at all
For something someone yelled real loud one time

Everyone believes
In how they think it ought to be
Everyone believes
And they’re not going easily

Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword
Like punching under water
You never can hit who you’re trying for

Some need the exhibition
And some have to know they tried
It’s the chemical weapon
For the war that’s raging on inside

Everyone believes
From emptiness to everything
Everyone believes
And no one’s going quietly

We’re never gonna win the world
We’re never gonna stop the war
We’re never gonna beat this
If belief is what we’re fighting for

What puts a hundred thousand children in the sand
Belief can
Belief can
What puts the folded flag inside his mother’s hand
Belief can
Belief can

Natalia Zukerman, “Anyway”

let sleeping dogs lie
they know something that we don’t
they just trust everything will be alright
you know we tend to think it won’t

so I think of you in this golden light
as we watch the sun go down
both wishing it would put up a better fight
as morning comes around I’m in a new place
a new town

and no matter what we say
it’s gonna happen anyway

you grew up in one of those towns
where everybody gets just one tiny square patch of ground
and you gotta keep it tidy and neat
your mamma kept the nicest one on Montgomery street
and you know she thinks, you don’t care
since you’ve let yours go
flowers have bloomed up everywhere

and no matter what you say
it’s gonna happen anyway

I got these two friends, they built there own home
it’s not like they knew how
it’s not like anybody showed them
they just cut some wood, and started to build
knowing that there would be valleys, even though there would be hills
and one day by the river side
they made a perfect circle
around two perfect brides

cuz no matter what they say
it’s gonna happen anyway
anyway

any way you look at it
you always gotta try to fit it
if it’s too big
if it’s too small
if it’s got no name what should we call it?
any way to have control
as if there were a way to know
the way the wind blows, the way the wind blows
anyway

so I think of you in this golden light
as we watch the sun go down

There’s a lot of lyrics I adore, mostly from Bright Eyes, but this song by him is one of my favorites:

“Because I have learned that nothing is as pressing
as the one who is pressing would like you to believe
and I’m content to walk a little slower
because there’s nowhere that I really need to be

But these are days we dream about when the sunlight paints us gold,
and this apartment could not be prettier as we danced up there alone
This tv is old, the color is fucked, do you see the
difference in the shades?
but the green is still close to green, my love
and I believe we are the same
And we’ll stay like this, all gold and green…”

Edit: I left out why… I guess these specific lyrics don’t really “hit home” with me personally, but I really like the mood the song portrays. The feeling of summer, the emphasis on taking your time to enjoy life, instead of getting caught up in the trivial stuff that seems super important at the time. The atmosphere the song paints, two people in a sunny apartment on a summer afternoon… I like how he compares the 2 of them to the slightly-off colors on the TV. The green does not look exactly as it should be, but you still know it’s supposed to be green. It’s like saying they’re not perfect, but they exist anyway, and they’re enjoying this moment. It makes a lot more sense in my head.

Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division

When the routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
But emotions won’t grow
And we’re changing our ways,
Taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed,
Our respect run so dry?
Yet there’s still this appeal
That weve kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again

Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings expose?
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can’t function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again

Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor
Reachin’ for the phone ‘cause I can’t fight it anymore
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It’s a quarter after one, I’m all alone and I need you now
Said I wouldn’t call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don’t know how I can do without
I just need you now

Another shot of whiskey can’t stop looking at the door
Wishing you’d come sweeping in the way you did before
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It’s a quarter after one, I’m a little drunk and I need you now
Said I wouldn’t call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don’t know how I can do without
I just need you now

woah woaaah.

Guess I’d rather hurt than feel nothin’ at all

It’s a quarter after one I’m all alone and I need you now

And I said I wouldn’t call but I’m a little drunk and I need you now

And I don’t know how I can do without

I just need you now

I just need you now

Ooo, baby, I need you now

“Oh the mother and child reunion
is only a moment away…” S & G

Band: AFI

Song: Silver and Cold

Lyrics: “Your sins into me, oh my beautiful one, your sins into me ooohoo, as a rapturous voice escapes I will tremble a prayer, and I’ll beg for forgiveness, your sins into me… Oh my beautiful one”

Reason: because I think it’s so rare to find a love/someone you’ll die for, and in the song Davey sings it as if he loved someone sooo much that he would take all her sins from her and beg for forgiveness from them. It’s truly inspiring.

And @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Veronica Sawyer Smokes iss a great song, it’s actually my boyfriend and mines song. So I have a question for you, do you know with out cheating ( I.E. No looking on the web or asking someone) the 2 different names of what “AFI” stood for befor it was “A Fire Inside”? I only ask because I have only met 1other person who knew besides myself.

Brokedown Palace by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia means the world to me. It sweetly and sadly reminds us of life’s deep changes, usually involving never seeing a loved person or place, ever again. It’s a song of love, change, remembrance, acceptance, death and life.

Brokedown Palace
Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone

Gonna leave this brokedown palace,
On my hands and my knees, I will roll, roll, roll.
Make myself a bed by the waterside,
In my time, in my time, I will roll, roll, roll.

In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.

River going to take me, sing me sweet and sleepy,
sing me sweet and sleepy, all the way back home.

Sing a lullaby beside the water,
Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.

Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell,
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.

Gonna plant a weeping willow
by the banks’ green earth, it will grow, grow grow

It’s a far gone lullaby, sung many years ago
Mama, mama many worlds I’ve come since I first left home.

Goin’ home, goin’ home, by the waterside I will rest my bones,
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.

Gonna plant a weeping willow,
By the bank’s green edge it will grow, grow, grow.
Sing a lullaby beside the water,
Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.

Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell,
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.

Sorry for bringing down the mood guys :(
It is the first one that came to mind ^.^

The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know i’m alive but i feel like i’ve died
And all that’s left is to accept that it’s over
My dreams ran like sand through the fists that i made
I try to keep warm but i just grow colder
I feel like i’m slipping away

After all this has passed, i still will remain
After i’ve cried my last, there’ll be beauty from pain
Though it won’t be today,
Someday i’ll hope again
And there’ll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

My whole world is the pain inside me
The best i can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I’ll wonder why God lets me walk through this place
And though i can’t understand why this happened
I know that i will when i look back someday
And see how you’ve brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames

After all this has passed, i still will remain
After i’ve cried my last, there’ll be beauty from pain
Though it won’t be today,
Someday i’ll hope again
And there’ll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

Here i am, at the end of me
Tryin to hold to what i can’t see
I forgot how to hope
This night’s been so long
I cling to Your promise
There will be a dawn

After all this has passed, i still will remain
After i’ve cried my last, there’ll be beauty from pain
Though it won’t be today,
Someday i’ll hope again
And there’ll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

So close, no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

I never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don’t just say
And nothing else matters

Nothing Else Matters, Metallica

@Inked_up_chic, Anthems for Insubordinates and Asking For It. They were actually “A Friend Inside” too for a VERY brief period, according to Davey Havok.

Havok’s personal favorite of all the various possible acronyms is “Aw Fuck It,” apparently. I remember reading that in his unauthorized biography.

Three Babies – Sinead O’Connor

I have always loved this song….a very get up and get your ass going kind of song. Getting out and living to your whole potential has been my mantra and this struck a chord with me almost 30 years ago.
You Got Livin’ by Frank Marino

I’ve been thinkin quite a lot lately
About the way that people live from day to day
You know they try to play the game safely
They never venture nor do they ever gain

Turn around, you’re overthinkin
Lay away forgotten plans
It’s time you love what you have
You got livin, yeah!
You got life
You got livin, yeah!
You gotta put an end to strife

I’ve seen a lotta people claim it’s too late
But what they’re sayin isn’t really just a phrase
Well I will never be content to stagnate
Cause I’m the kind of guy who steps into the fray

Taste what you’ve been drinkin
Taking for granted what the world demands
It’s time you knew what you have
You got livin, yeah!
You got life, ha!