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So what song has the greatest meaning to you and why? Feel free to post lyrics or better yet...the links to the lyrics.

for me i really have two, by the same musician, Mark Schultz.

here are the lyrics:

When you come home (http://www.christianlyricsonline.com/artists/mark-schultz/when-you-come-home.html)

and

I have been there (http://www.christianlyricsonline.com/artists/mark-schultz/i-have-been-there.html)

"When you come home" is a song dedicated to his mom, and for me it shows how important and special mothers really are.
As for "I have been there", well that song lets me know that no matter the BS i face in life, I know that Christ has been there, and faces the pain with me and will lift me up when I am down.
here is a selection of the song that I like in particular:
He’d been a pastor twenty years
But tonight he sits alone and brokenhearted
In the corner of the church
He’s tried to change a fallen world
With his words and with his wisdom
But it seems like it is only getting worse
And he cries
Oh Lord I just don’t understand
And then he felt the hand of grace,
And he heard a voice that said

I have been there
I know what pain is all about
Yes, I have been there
And I am standing with you now
I have been there
And I came to build to a bridge oh so
This road could lead you home
Oh I have been there



That part means so much to me, partially because thats what I am kinda going through as a christian. I sit in my bed many nights wondering why I can't change myself and the world around me.

Blame It On The Tetons, by Modest Mouse.

"How I Could Just Kill a Man" by Cypress Hill

"Don't worry, be happy" is the song that means the most to me.

Blame It On The Tetons, by Modest Mouse.
I <3 that song, but Ocean Breathes Salty is better. Hmm for me "A different city" worked well last year after I moved.

"Don't worry, be happy" is the song that means the most to me.


haha Thats a classic :D

For some reason listening to Webern's Symphony op. 21 never fails to bring tears to my eyes. But they're tears of boredom and/or laughter. :D

I <3 that song, but Ocean Breathes Salty is better. Hmm for me "A different city" worked well last year after I moved.
"Your body may be gone. I'm gonna carry you in. In my head and my mouth and my soul..." (Not sure about the Head/Mouth/Soul part. I think it might be Head/Heart/Soul. Not sure)

Means the most: Blackbird by the Beatles
I had a girlfriend that uses the nickname Blackbird more than she uses her given name. Lots of meaning.

Favorite song: Hey You by Pink Floyd
God, I love that song.

Your Woman by White Town, but it's mostly because of that awesome beeping part in it.

Usually, any Muse song can get me to dance and be happy. I guess Dave Chappelle was right when he said that white people have to dance when they hear an electric guitar.

'Slip Inside This House' by the Thirteenth Floor Elevators.

Your Woman by White Town, but it's mostly because of that awesome beeping part in it.

Usually, any Muse song can get me to dance and be happy. I guess Dave Chappelle was right when he said that white people have to dance when they hear an electric guitar.


Hey thats not true...wait...do you hear that??? it sounds like eddie van halen...oh crap..not again -dances-...damnit

I have a terrible disability - I am completely unable to process lyrics while listening to music. This is probably one of the reasons why I appreciate almost all music regardless of the "depth" of their lyrics - they're completely lost on me, I only hear them as another instrument or as a foreign language.

That is, except for two songs. Neither of which are particularly spectacular in themselves, but they hold an extremely special place in my heart because they are linked to certain memories that make me cry. They are:

Run by Snow Patrol and Chop Suey by System of a Down.

"Us" by The Subway Thugs, or "Warriors" by The Blitz are prolly some of the songs that mean the most to me. Against Me! does some lovely lyrics, but I need to be in the right mood to appreciate their music (It's radically different from what I normally listen to). Here's an example:We're all presidents,
We're all congressmen,
We're all cops
In waiting.
We're the workers of the world.
There is the elite and the dispossessed
And it's only about survival,
Who has skill to play the game
For all it's worth,
Reaching out for a scary kind of perfection.
Let's try to keep
As much emotion out of this
As possible.
Let's try not to remember any names.
We'll do it for our country,
For our people,
For a moral vision.
United, we'll make them remember
Our history,
Or how we like to be told...
How we like to be told,
And we rock,
Because it's us against them.
We found our own reasons to sing,
And it's so much less confusing
When lines are drawn like that,
When people are either consumers or revolutionaries,
Enemies or friends hanging on the fringes
Of the cogs in the system.
It's just about knowing where everyone stands.
All of a sudden,
People start talking about guns,
Talking like they're going to war
'Cause they found something to die for.
Start taking back what they stole;
Sure beats every other option,
But does it make a difference how we get it?
Well, do you really fucking get it?EDIT: Most of my favorite lyrics aren't English...

I have a terrible disability - I am completely unable to process lyrics while listening to music. This is probably one of the reasons why I appreciate almost all music regardless of the "depth" of their lyrics - they're completely lost on me, I only hear them as another instrument or as a foreign language.


Oh you poor, poor man/woman. That sucks.

That is, except for two songs. Neither of which are particularly spectacular in themselves, but they hold an extremely special place in my heart because they are linked to certain memories that make me cry. They are:

Run by Snow Patrol and Chop Suey by System of a Down.

Those are intresting choices. :)

Agalloch - The Misshapen Steed

A masterpiece that needs no vocals, no lyrics to express itself.

I suppose Change the World -- Eric Clapton means the most to me although I am still looking for that person, but usually I listen to Disturbed...I'm odd, I know :)

"Water's Edge" by Seven Mary Three

Either "Luka" by Suzanne Vega, "Against the Wind" by Bob Seger, or "Desperado" by the Eagles.

Special-stephen lynch

honestly, while my guitar gently weaps-beatles, all appologies-nirvana, and as the footsteps die out forever-catch 22.

your choices better be good, becuase i'm dowloading some of the ones that sound cool. and i'll hold you responsible if they are not.

When you post a song that no one else has heard, you may as well not post at all. When you post a song that's so well known, you may as well say "I'm bland and predictable."

When you post a song that no one else has heard, you may as well not post at all. When you post a song that's so well known, you may as well say "I'm bland and predictable."Because you can be certain that no one who'd read or post in this thread, would be inclined to look interesting things up on google/wiki/some P2P site...

Or perhaps you just forgot to take your anti-depressants.

Or perhaps you just forgot to take your anti-depressants.

Oh yes, perhaps.

Little Deuce Coup by Beach Boys
Hotel California by The Eagles
Dance into the Light by Phil Collins
i love these songs. if u want the funniest tho, listen to "Wild Wood Weed." tis hilarioso.

The song that means the most to me is called "The Black Hawk War, Or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization And Still Feel Good About Yourself In The Morning, Or, We Apologize For The Inconvenience But You're Gonna Have To Leave Now, Or, 'I Have Fought The Big Knives And Will Continue To Fight... " and is by Sufjan Stevens on the 'Illinois' album.

I like this song because it has some ooos and aaahs and nothing else with trumpets and drums and other odd instruments. It makes me laugh until I cry and cry until I laugh. So glorious.

I really have two - Queen's "Who Want's to Live Forever?", and Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly". The emotion and power of those two just blow me away.

No Way by Korn was a poignant one for me at uni:

Lately things won’t go my way
Lately everything is grey
It feels like something
It feels like nothing

So I came too far
To end up this way
Feeling like I’m god
Feeling is no way

So I’m angry for today
Anger’s the only thing I’ve made
It feels like something
No it’s nothing

So I came too far
To end up this way
Feeling like I’m god
Feeling is no way

To live this way
Hating, feeling, falling
To the place where people haunt me
I can’t help but give up
Falling to the place where people know me
I can’t wait
To give them these feelings of hating
Keeping in side me
For all to take
Picking at me
They’re ripping at me
Ripping at me

So I came too far
To end up this way
Feeling like I’m god
Feeling is no way
To live this way


though more recently One Day by Gary Moore has meant a lot to me (and another NSer who shall remain obvious):

I've seen that look somewhere before
your sorrow is like an open door
you've been this way for much too long
somebody must have done you wrong
But one day the sun will shine on you
turn all your tears to laughter
one day your dreams may all come true
one day the sun will shine on you
I've seen that look so many times
i know the sadness in your eyes
your life is like a wishing well
where it goes, only time will tell
But one day the sun will shine on you
turn all your tears to laughter
one day your dreams may all come true
one day the sun will shine on you
Say goodbye to the lonely nights
say goodbye to the northern lights
say goodbye to cold north winds
say goodbye to the autumn leaves
One day the sun will shine on you
Turn all your tears to laughter
One day your dreams may all come true
One day the sun will shine on you

One day the sun will shine on you
One day the sun will shine on you

Skips on the Record by At the Drive In.

It was the first song I listened to after I found out one of my friends had just died. The softness of it was 'perfect' when that realisation kicked in....

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

means the most to me?

how so?

I assign personal meaning to many songs, but not many are all that important to me.


I suppose my husband and I have "a song" and I guess that would "mean the most to me" whatever that means.


it's easier for me to pick like people that mean the most to me, or even possesions (like "if your house were on fire and you could only grab 3 things what would they be?") but not so much songs.

In terms of personal memories, probably Don McLean, "American Pie", for what it recalls to me from parties at undergrad, times I'll never get back. The first movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 also elicits strong memories of a certain person whom I'll never forget.

Strangely enough the song that affects my immediate emotions the most though is "Star-Stealing Girl" by Yasunori Mitsuda, from Chrono Cross, I guess because it was from such a sad moment and it still chokes me up just a bit. I'm such a nerd. :p

Erm oh tough one, well this will need to be split into categories...
Story of the year with until the day i die, means the most to me out of any song, 1 because i saw it live and just said wow, that was amazing. 2 because it is me and my girls song :D
actually screw categories that is it. HA!

I honestly don't know. There are huge amounts of songs that mean things to me - I don't know if I can choose the ones that mean the most.

-snip-
:fluffle: for both of those... *and extra hugs too*

Yea.. This is tough. Especially if we're to stick with English lyrics, so what about something Swedish? - Like Asta Kask's "TVn":Nils-Bertil, han lärde sig allt av sin far
Han lärde sig att TV:n var allt för en karl
Han satt där och tittade från sex till tolv
Han satt där så ensam på sitt dammiga golv

Han lärde sig döda, han lärde sig be
Han lärde sig älska, "Vad är det med det?"
Han såg hur dom rika vältrade i bröd
Medan Afrikas folk svalt i nöd

Han blev så passiv mot allt omkring
Hans TV var det enda som betydde någonting
HANs känslor blev kalla, han tittade på allt
Ja, Även nazismen tyckte han va ballt

JA, TV:N ÄR ALLT SOM HAN HAR

Efter 40 år var Nils-Bertil nu stor
Nu var han utan både far och mor
Han satt framför TV:n vareviga kväll
Han satt där för att slippa sin frus jävla gnäll

Nils-Bertil blev gammal, han led ej någon nöd
Han kände ingen sorg fast hans fru nu var död
TV:n sa "plopp", det var proppen som gick
Förlamad satt Nils-Bertil med en iskall blick

Nu ligger han på kyrkogården två meter ner
Och TV:n har han med sig, dom skiljs aldrig mer
Istället för en gravsten, har han en antenn
På den står det ristat: "TV:n var min enda vän"

"Harlem" by Bill Withers

"Too Much Love Will Kill You" by Queen, it's the only song that makes me cry every single time i hear it. The fact that it was written and recorded only a few weeks before Freddie died makes it even more sad. It's beautiful, but heartbreaking.

for me i have 5 songs all by metallica and they are

1. bleeding me
2. the outlaw torn
3. the unforgiven
4. the unforgiven ll
5. nothing else matters

if i had to pick one it would be bleeding me

Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white, & blue
And when the band plays 'Hail to the Chief'
Ooh, they point the cannon at you
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one
I like that song. It reminds me of me.

That, and:

No fun to be around
Walking by myself
No fun to be alone
In love with nobody else

"Ain't No Right" by Jane's Addiction. Why? It's about me.

The songs that have the most meaning to me, for various reasons:
1) Die, Die, My Darling (Misfits)
2) Helena (Misfits)
3) Helena (My Chemical Romance)
4) When The Angels Sing (Social Distortion)
5) Dead Eyes See No Future (Arch Enemy)

Too many! Anything(note: I mean all songs, not a song called anything) by the Smiths, Pictures of You by The Cure (yeah, now you can beat me up), Peace Train by Cat Stevens, Don't Come Around Here No More by Tom Petty, Late Night Maudlin Street by Morrissey...can't remember them all.

Ernie, The Fastest Milkman In The West by Benny Hill - the song I lost my virginity to.*


* not strictly, or in fact at all, true... but it makes a change from naming a song about fucking Tahitan birds written by a short-sighted, alcoholic dwarf, which is how I normally answer this question. Points to anyone able to identify the song about Tahitans.

There are several songs that mean a lot to me. The ones that spring to mind first, in no particular order:

1) Here Without You by 3 Doors Down (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/3doorsdown/herewithoutyou.html) - An ex-boyfriend emailed me the lyrics to this song and said it made him think of me. He died in a car crash three months after that.

2) Asereje by Las Ketchup - Always reminds of fun times with friends the summer after I graduated from high school. To this day I don't know what the lyrics mean. :p

3) All Right Now by the Stanford band - Fun times in college. First thing I learned as a freshman was when "the jump" is.

4) Runaway by Linkin Park (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/linkinpark/runaway.htmlhttp://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/linkinpark/runaway.htmlhttp://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/linkinpark/runaway.html) - This song really struck a chord with me back when I was suffering from depression.

5) My Immortal by Evanescence (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/evanescence/myimmortal.html) - Reminds me of another ex-boyfriend.