Anyone ever hear a line in a song that triggered an epiphany?

Question

One of mine was a line from "Round Here" by George Michael, the line is "Every time I try to leave this place, something inside says 'You can do better.'"

Answer 1

I wouldn't call this an epiphany, but I always, ALWAYS cry (and so skip over the song on the CD most times) to Woody Guthrie/Billy Bragg & Wilco's 'Remember the Mountain Bed.' Technically, it's about sex in the woods, but the lyrics are heartbreaking:

Do you still sing of the mountain bed
we made of limbs and leaves?
Do you still sigh there near the sky
where the holly berry bleeds?
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves:
face, breast, hips and thighs.
You smiled when I said the leaves were just
the color of your eyes.

Rosin smells and turpentine smells
from eucalyptus and pine;
bitter tastes of twigs we chewed
where tangled woodvines twine.
Trees held us in on all four sides,
so thick we could not see.
I could not see any wrong in you,
and you saw none in me.

Your arm was brown against the ground,
your cheeks part of the sky,
as your fingers played with grassy moss,
and limber did you lie.
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt,
and your knees were in the air.
Your feet played games with mountain roots
as you lay thinking there.

Below us the trees grew clumps of trees,
raised families of trees, and they,
as proud as we, tossed their heads in the wind
and flung good seeds away:
The sun was hot and the sun was bright
down in the valley below,
where people starved and hungry for life,
so empty, come and go.

There in the shade and hid from the sun
we freed our minds and learned
our greatest reason for being here,
our bodies moved and burned.
There on our mountain bed of leaves
we learned life's reason why
the people laugh and love and dream;
they fight; they hate to die.

The smell of your hair, I know, is still there,
if most of our leaves are blown.
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees
where singing seeds are sown.
Your shape and form is dim, but plain,
there on our mountain bed.
I see my life was brightest where
you laughed and laid your head.

I learned the reason why man must work
and how to dream big dreams;
to conquer time and space,
and fight the rivers and the seas.
I stand here filled with my emptiness now
and look at city and land,
and I know why farms and cities are built
by hot, warm, nervous hands.

I crossed many states just to stand here now,
my face all hot with tears.
I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream,
to bring my body here.
My history and future blaze bright in me,
and all my joy and pain
go through my head on our mountain bed
where I smell your hair again.

All this day long I linger here,
and on in through the night.
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes,
my dreams inside me fight:
my loneliness healed, my emptiness filled,
I walk above all pain,
back to the breast of my woman and child
to scatter my seeds again.

- Woody Guthrie (1944)

Answer 2

"The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death."
--Pink Floyd, Time

Not really an epiphany. Something about it just really hits me deep. Perhaps it reminds me of my mortality.

Answer 3

YES, but it's an entire verse, actually, as opposed to a line.

"Closed down the last local zoo. I'm going to win the endless war, over who kills the last koala bear, and who in death will love him more. He grabs me by the hand, drags me to the shore, and says 'maybe you don't love me, well you'll grow to love me even more' and I, well I'm not surprised."