Thank God for Music

Lyrics are interesting because we can like songs with lyrics in languages we can't understand yet thoroughly enjoy hearing them and somehow get it. For example, years before I learned to speak German I loved Nina Hagen.

Often lyrics, like poetry, evoke a feeling yet the actual words put together don't result in a clear cut, logical meaning. It's more about feeling. Music is feeling. Lyrics, that feeling in words. Here are some lyrics that came into my head. Lyrics put to their perfect companion of rhythm and beat. And let's not forget the singer, the conveyor of this feeling put to words.

Below is just a tiny dip into the abundance of  inspiring, moving, healing, hyping, romantic, powerful, trippy, political, fun, love and lust inducing lyrics that have found me over the years. (I'm sure I have left out some adjectives.)

Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel

And the people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made

Fools said I you do not know, silence like a cancer grows

(Disturbed cover is amazing)

Come as you are, Nirvana

Come as you, are as you were, as I want you to be

Eminem, Lose Yourself

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go (go)

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (yo)

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go (go)

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (yo)

(You better)

The Rain Song, Led Zeppelin

These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall; This is the wonder of devotion – I see the torch we all must hold; This is the mystery of the quotient – upon us all a little rain must fall.

Metallica, Nothing Else Matters

So close, no matter how far

Couldn't be much more from the heart

Forever trusting who we are

And nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you

Every day for us something new

Open mind for a different view

And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do

Never cared for what they know

Bob Marley, Redemption Song

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds

Have no fear for atomic energy

'Cause none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look? Ooh

Some say it's just a part of it

We've got to fulfill the Book

Won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom?

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Under the Bridge

I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day

But take me to the place I love, take me all the way

I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day

But take me to the place I love, take me all the way, yeah, yeah, yeah

(so many more bands and lyrics flood my mind, ( Alice in Chains, The Clash, Cat Stevens etc., musicals too, Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof.) So many, so many!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!