What song has good lyrics because of the idea/lesson/experience it shares?
In my opinion, most Mountain Goats songs. John Darnielle is an amazing songwriter, and he tackles very difficult subjects, especially in his earlier stuff. The Sunset Tree album is all about growing up with an abusive step-father, Tallahassee about a couple who fall apart, Full Force Galesburg about a small town you can disappear in, etc. Some of my favorites include “The Mess Inside” about two people that can’t find the love they lost, “No Children” about a couple that hate each other, and “Jeff Davis County Blues” about a sort of meditative experience after a breakup. I’d give it all a listen. To go even deeper, the albums All Hail West Texas and In League With Dragons have sort of companion podcast seasons (I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats) where Darnielle and Joseph Fink of Welcome to Nightvale go through each song, the inspiration, the meaning, stuff like that.
Darnielle is also a pretty good author, I liked his book Devil House
As I hurtle towards middle age, I find Time by Pink Floyd more and more relevant
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say Home, home again I like to be here when I can And when I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away, across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spellParamore - This is why
If you have an opinion
Maybe you should shove it
Or maybe you could scream it
Might be best to keep itTo yourself (to yourself)
Noah Kahan - Growing Sideways
And I divvied up my anger into thirty separate parts Keep the bad shit in my liver and the rest around my heart I’m still angry at my parents for what their parents did to them But it’s a start
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CSNY - Teach Your Children
Vienna by Billy Joel.
A nice reminder that life is for living.
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As I grow old and struggle with the break up of a marriage of ~19 years: Both Sides Now, from Joni Mitchell
It’s a bit long to paste here, so just Google it if you care.
@fernandofig sorry to hear that, but listening now
Be sure to hear the 2000’s re-record. It’s one of those rare cases where the re-record blows the original (IMHO, at least)
Melt-Banana - A Shield for Your Eyes, a Beast in the Well on Your Hand
Liquid eye, sticky eye Tricky eye, flashy eye How to fake? How to make 50 times more eyes to get cracked? Your heart’s got plastic
Catch the mean beast in the well on your hand, on your left Wake up, you’ve got no fist! Look up, no peace will be seen! In your hand, in the shade of your mind Watch out, you’ve got no right! Your pure cell can’t spark
Paul Baribeau - Ten Things
name ten things you wanna do before you die and then go do them.
name ten places you really wanna be before you die and then go to them
name ten books you wanna read before you die and then go read them
name ten songs you wanna hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream thembecause right now all you have is time time time yeah,
but someday that time will run out.
that’s the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.Valley Forge by Iced Earth
I like The Christians And The Pagans by Dar Williams. It’s a simple song about a multi faith extended family being able to just enjoy and celebrate Solstice/Christmas with understanding and openness and without drama. Like, we really all could get along if everyone chilled.
Avatar - Going Hunting - world vs self
Ozzy Osbourne - See You On The Other Side - loss of others
Iron Maiden - No More Lies - the inevitable end
Also maybe some Alice in Chains songs from the Layne Staley era, but for me those depend heavily on the mood I’m in.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Don’t go boating in a storm, folks.
