What song changed your life?

Question

We all know that music is the tonic for the soul which one song do you feel made you better/ worse as person and how?

Answer 1

Riegning Blood by Slayer

Answer 2

You probably never heard of it . This song did really change my life.
In the Musical , " South Pacific " Lt Joe Cable sang to Liatt a Tonkinese Girl on an Island called Bali High.

The song was " Younger Than Springtime" I was ten years old and fell in love with the 17 yr old actress France Nguyen.

I needed to get to Tonga

7 years later I joined the Marine corps, I got to Japan , Vietnam the Philippines Etc. but not Tonga.

30 years after the Song I married a Filipina. Every year I watch the movie again and play that scene over and over again.

I keep telling my kids , If not for that song and movie, they would never be born.

Answer 3

I have two...
The Luckiest - Ben Folds Five
100 Years - Five for Fighting.

They both look at the intricacies of love, and just what it means to have that one special person there in your life, until the day we die, very few of us believe in everlasting love, these songs make one believe that it is possible, if you only are willing to take the person for who they truly are.

Just take a look a some of the lyrics of both you will see what i mean.

The Luckiest - Ben Folds Five

I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here
And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know
That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest
What if I'd been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?
And in a wide sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize
And I know
That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you
Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away
I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong
That I know
That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

100 Years - Five for Fighting

I'm 15 for a moment
Caught in between 10 and 20
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are

I'm 22 for a moment
She feels better than ever
And we're on fire
Making our way back from Mars

15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

I'm 33 for a moment
Still a man, but you see I have aged
A kid on the way babe
A family on my mind

I'm 45 for a moment
The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life

15 there's still time for you
Time to buy, Time to lose yourself
Within a morning star

15 I'm all right with you
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

Half time goes by
Suddenly you're wise
Another blink of an eye
67 is gone
The sun is getting high
We're moving on...

I'm 99 for a moment
Time for just another moment
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are

15 there's still time for you
22 I feel her too
33 you're on your way
Every day's a new day...

15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to choose
Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

Answer 4

I don't know about life changing, but there have been a couple that have influenced me in different ways - not so much for the lyrics, mainly because of what I was doing at the time and who I was with, so when I hear them they bring back memories - mainly happy, but some very sad.

A couple spring to mind: "Take These Broken Wings", "Mr Jones" and "Amazing Grace"

Answer 5

years ago, after my first long term girlfriend broke up with me, I was a mess for months... and then Paul Simon's album Still Crazy After All These Years came out, and this song kept me going:

I Do It For Your Love

We were married on a rainy day
The sky was yellow
And the grass was gray
We signed the papers
And we drove away
I do it for your love

The rooms were musty
And the pipes were old
All that winter we shared a cold
Drank all the orange juice
That we could hold
I do it for your love

Found a rug
In an old junk shop
And I brought it home to you
Along the way the colors ran
The orange bled the blue

The sting of reason
The splash of tears
The northern and the southern
Hemispheres
Love emerges
And it disappears
I do it for your love
I do it for your love

Answer 6

I agree with Larainsdogg no song has changed my life
only my mood
some have made me sad & happy
I danced in my kitchen today to dancing queen by Kylie
but unless some georgous guy sang to me & swept me off my feet my life would not change
but alas its to late anyway
I'm married so it would be a waste of time lol

Answer 7

I guess, spiratally, the song that would have changed my life the most would have to be "F*** It!" by Eamon. If you go through all of the classic collections, you will never find a more hopeful song than this. Trust me-listen to this song and your life will change! It is a story about how a duck finds true love within himself and with his duck lover, Gracie.

And, it says the word f*** a lot. It's funny...

Answer 8

Heavy Metal, Death Metal, and Rock in general changed my life and gave me a reason to live. But sadley i cannot pinpoint the answer to your question because that is like asking me what my favorite song or artist is. There would be too many to type.

Answer 9

I heard Karma Police by Radiohead and it changed my music taste. I used to be into crappy pop and now I love alt rock and just anything not new cuz new music sucks and it's just materialistic. Karma Police is the opposite. Thom Yorke made music for making music, not for money and I admire that.

Answer 10

Fishermans Blues by the Waterboys

It was our wedding song back in Dec......and I have had some great times with great friends dancing & singing that song.

Have a good weekend guru