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How often do you hear song lyrics you consider profound?

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saw this Off-Broadway.  I don't think Lea was singing......zillion years ago.  But this song is good.  Not playing hockey after this one.  

 

 

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Profound, no, but enlightening.

Early Bob Dylan

"Those not busy being born are busy dying."

 

It's Alright Ma.

 

 

2025.  It will likely not be your jam, but I like it.  And that's all that matters.  You gotta adapt to the times.  

 

 

Many songs fall into the wonderful category, and maybe a few are profound.  Different songs for most people.   Often I find poetry can be more profound.  Desert Places by Robert Frost reduced me to tears the first time I read it.

Songs that do that "I Can't Live if Living is Without You" by Nilssen (1972) as one example that springs to mind.

The starting lyrics to "Hooked on a Feeling" are awesome.   The rest of it, rubbish!    

1 hour ago, amexpat said:

In the desert you can remember your name

cuz there ain't no one for to give you no pain. 

 

I'm fond of this song with it's great harmonies and evocative chord changes (Em D6/9), but not sure it cuts the mustard when it comes to profound lyrics:

 

"there were plants and birds and rocks and things..."

 

"the heat was hot..."

14 hours ago, Screaming said:

 

When I hear this song I get goose bumps all over my body. President Trump is the Lincoln of our century. 

That was great, thanks so much! Funniest thing I’ve heard all week; almost made it through the whole seven minutes. I assume someone simply plugged some relevant prompts into Suno or some other AI song generator (country music video; Trump sycophant; guns; babes; ATVs), and voilà! Thanks for the laugh, seriously.

Seriously, there are few songs more profound than the OPs.   Perhaps one from whom is this partial lyric is close:

 

Rollin' at sea, adrift on the water
Could it be finally I'm turnin' for home?
Finally a chance to say, "Hey, I love you"
Never again to be all alone
'Cause you light up my life
You give me hope to carry on
You light up my days and fill my nights with song
 
 
14 hours ago, blaze master said:

When cover becomes more famous than the original...Trent really put his struggles into music.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI&pp=ygUQaHVydCBqb2hubnkgY2FzaA%3D%3D

 

 

When Trent Reznor first heard Cash’s version of his song, his first reaction apparently was, “It’s not my song anymore,” but I think he came to realize it was a great thing, and of course he was flattered that someone of Cash’s stature had chosen to cover his music. Both takes are amazing.

 

 

So, me and my friends in ex Yugoslavia used to actually have a lot of Western things back in the 80's. Everyone had Amstrad, Sinclair and Commodore. We also had nice audio equipment (well our parents did) and would often go shopping for records with our pocket money. I bought a lot of records that I and i still have them in canada under the Yugoslavian labels. They are quite the collectors items. One record in particular was Mike Oldfield LP Five Miles Out. I must admit that I bought it because the cover looked beautiful. But when I put in on the record player I was taken away by the lyrics even tho at that time I didn't understand much....

 

 

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I have heard some very profound lyrics in my life, but I only associate them with older songs. That might be because I don't listen to modern songs very much. Just one example of the songwriters whose songs have lyrics I consider "profound" is:

  • "How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?" 🥺-  "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan - 1963 
15 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Really. Is that all you got Mike? A typically obtuse and uninformative reply? 

 

Well, you're posting I survive lyrics and finding them "deep" or profound. IMHO it's a very cheezy, way too over played and over rated disco song.

 

Basically that song is the 70's disco version of a typical blues lyric theme.

 

She/He left me and I'm sad and blue etc etc etc

 

Your just asking for ridicule IMHO

 

Anyways, most POP for quite a long time is, by no means, anything profound. Especially todays McMusic.

15 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

How many teens have committed suicide after listening to Dark Side of the Moon?

 

only the psycho ones though   no great loss

lets not forget the legendary Fred Wedlock and this classic.  

 

"when it takes all night to do what you used to do all night..."  classic lyric

I'm just a gigolo

I ain't got nobody

Nobody care for me

There will come a day when youth will pass away

 

This is another cognitive dissonance song, where the upbeat tempo doesn't match the gloomy lyrics. 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, WDSmart said:

I have heard some very profound lyrics in my life, but I only associate them with older songs. That might be because I don't listen to modern songs very much. Just one example of the songwriters whose songs have lyrics I consider "profound" is:

  • "How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?" 🥺-  "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan - 1963 

And here's another one from Frank Zappa that is true today, if updated to include not only TVs, but all online social media:

 

I am gross and perverted 
I'm obsessed 'n deranged 
I have existed for years 
But very little had changed 

I am the tool of the Government 
And industry too 
For I am destined to rule 
And regulate you 

I may be vile and pernicious 
But you can't look away 
I make you think I'm delicious 
With the stuff that I say 

I am the best you can get 
Have you guessed me yet? 
I am the slime oozin' out 
From your TV set 

You will obey me while I lead you 
And eat the garbage that I feed you 
Until the day that we don't need you 
Don't go for help...no one will heed you 

Your mind is totally controlled 
It has been stuffed into my mold 
And you will do as you are told 
Until the rights to you are sold 

That's right, folks.. Don't touch that dial 
Well, I am the slime from your video 
Oozin' along on your livingroom floor 
I am the slime from your video 

Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go!"

One lyric that has always stuck with me from The Eagles, "Take it to the limit".

 

"You can spend all your time making money,

 

You can spend all your love making time,

 

If it all fell to pieces tomorrow,

 

Would you still be mine?"

 

 

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

This is another cognitive dissonance song, where the upbeat tempo doesn't match the gloomy lyrics.

Yes indeed but that to$$er dave lee roth deserves  no credit for the song.  Its older than he is, 

1 hour ago, WDSmart said:

And here's another one from Frank Zappa that is true today, if updated to include not only TVs, but all online social media:

Frank Zappas lyrics were on another level, To be honest it was a bit much for me and I was never a fan. However he was  also an amazing virtuoso level guitarist and a highly intelligent guy.     just a bit too weird 

4 hours ago, Quentin Zen said:

saw this Off-Broadway.  I don't think Lea was singing......zillion years ago.  But this song is good.  Not playing hockey after this one.  

 

 

looks a little like our Greta 

4 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Look up Mark Knopfler's work, both in Dire Straits and solo, unless you already have. Not much better, especially if you're talking about the UK.

Watching money for nothing as we speak, love his work

8 minutes ago, flexomike said:

Watching money for nothing as we speak, love his work

His solo work is as good as his previous work. My favorite albums are Communique, the first, Making Movies and Brothers in Arms, Solo- Sailing to Philadelphia, Tracker and Golden Heart.

23 minutes ago, flexomike said:

Watching money for nothing as we speak, love his work

Watch the concert with him and Emmylou Harris, Real Live Roadrunning.

13 hours ago, Donald Bright said:

Some 35 years ago i called in on a friend and his wife and while sitting in the lounge room talking, they had a famous operatic pieces playing in the background.  I was not taking any notice of the music until a particular piece started playing and i was transfixed with the beauty of the music and the voices.   The piece was the famous Male Duet from the "Pearl Fishers".    I had never heard it before but by the end of the duet i unashamedly had tears running down my cheeks from the sheer beauty of that piece.   I went out the next day and bought it and still love it to this day.

Strangely enough although i don't dislike opera, i have never been an operatic fan.

Do you like this? 

 

 
 
 
 
 
road out of eden lyrics
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Moon shining down through the palms
Shadows moving on the sand
Somebody whispering the twenty-third psalm
Dusty rifle in his trembling hands
Somebody trying just to stay alive
He got promises to keep
Over the ocean in America
Far away and fast asleep
Silent stars blinking in the blackness of an endless sky
Cold silver satellites, ghostly caravans passing by
Galaxies unfolding, new world's being born
Pilgrims and prodigals creeping toward the dawn
And it's a long road out of Eden
Music blasting from an SUV
On a bright and sunny day
Rolling down the interstate
In the good old USA
Having lunch at The Petroleum Club
Smoking fine cigars and swapping lives
He said, "Give me another slice of that barbecued brisket
Give me another piece of that pecan pie"
Freeways flickering, cell phones chiming a tune
We're riding to utopia, road map says we'll be arriving soon
Captains of the old order clinging to the reins
Assuring us these aches inside are only growing pains
But it's a long road out of Eden
Back home, I was so certain the path was very clear
But now I have to wonder what are we doing here
I'm not counting on tomorrow and I can't tell wrong from right
But I'd give anything to be there in your arms tonight
Weaving down the American highway
Through the litter and the wreckage and the cultural junk
Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda
Now we're driving dazed and drunk
Been down the road to Damascus, the road to Mandalay
Met the ghost of Caesar on the Appian way
He said, "It's hard to stop this binging once you get a taste
But the road to empire is a bloody stupid waste"
Behold the bitten apple, the power of the tools
But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
And it's a long road out of Eden 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Long Road Out of Eden
Song by Eagles ‧ 2007
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Moon shining down through the palms
Shadows moving on the sand
Somebody whispering the twenty-third psalm
Dusty rifle in his trembling hands
Somebody trying just to stay alive
He got promises to keep
Over the ocean in America
Far away and fast asleep
Silent stars blinking in the blackness of an endless sky
Cold silver satellites, ghostly caravans passing by
Galaxies unfolding, new world's being born
Pilgrims and prodigals creeping toward the dawn
And it's a long road out of Eden
Music blasting from an SUV
On a bright and sunny day
Rolling down the interstate
In the good old USA
Having lunch at The Petroleum Club
Smoking fine cigars and swapping lives
He said, "Give me another slice of that barbecued brisket
Give me another piece of that pecan pie"
Freeways flickering, cell phones chiming a tune
We're riding to utopia, road map says we'll be arriving soon
Captains of the old order clinging to the reins
Assuring us these aches inside are only growing pains
But it's a long road out of Eden
Back home, I was so certain the path was very clear
But now I have to wonder what are we doing here
I'm not counting on tomorrow and I can't tell wrong from right
But I'd give anything to be there in your arms tonight
Weaving down the American highway
Through the litter and the wreckage and the cultural junk
Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda
Now we're driving dazed and drunk
Been down the road to Damascus, the road to Mandalay
Met the ghost of Caesar on the Appian way
He said, "It's hard to stop this binging once you get a taste
But the road to empire is a bloody stupid waste"
Behold the bitten apple, the power of the tools
But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
And it's a long road out of Eden 

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18 hours ago, DezLez said:

Songs with lyrics that I can enjoy yes.

Profound, no.

 

Yeah, I don't think profound is the right word for the above.  Emotional, perhaps.  They're just words in a song, after all.  They have little real meaning.  We know that the singers don't really "mean" what they are saying. 

 

They aren't profound like some sort of philosophical argument or critical thinking question that challenges the way you think.

 

Perhaps SpiderMike is feeling a little wistful...

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How often do you hear song lyrics you consider profound?

 

Just yesterday, I heard a song that sounded far away.

In my head it seemed to always stay.

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

 

Suddenly.

It's not half the song it used to be.

There's a chorus that's annoying me.

Oh yesterday, came suddenly. 

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