The Truest Song Lyric Ever Written?

Question

I have to give credit to Fonzie here, His answer about Kansas earlier just made this idea pop into My head

I have always considered the lyrics to the Kansas song
"Dust In The Wind" to be among the truest words ever written.
I was wondering if You had any songs You felt this way about?

Answer 1

Another tough one, Darth --

For now, I am going with Van der Graff's STILL LIFE --

Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now
Dumb:
What have we become?
What have we chosen to be?
Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of
Our name-
Nothing can ever be the same:
Now the Immortals are here.
At the time it seemed a reasonable course
To harness all the force
Of life without the threat of death,
But soon we found that boredom and inertia
Are not negative, but all the law we know,
And dead are will and words like survival.

Arrival at immunity from all age, all fear and
All end...
Why do I pretend?
Our essence is distilled
And all familiar taste is now drained,
And though purity is maintained
It leaves us sterile,
Living through the millions of years,
A laugh as close as any tear;
Living, if you claim that all
That entails is breathing, eating, defecating,
Screwing, drinking,
Spewing, sleeping, sinking ever down and down
And ultimately passing away time
Which no longer has any meaning.

Take away the threat of death and all you're
Left with is a round of make-believe.
Marshal every sullen breath and though you're
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy
It's still the ring by which you hope to be
Engaged
To marry the girl who will give you forever-
It's crazy, and plainly
That simply is not enough.

What is the dullest and bluntest of pains,
Such that my eyes never close without feeling it
There?
What abject despair demands an end
To all things of infinity?
If we have gained, how do we now meet the
Cost?
What have we bargained, and what have we
Lost?
What have we relinquished, never even knowing it
Was there?

What thoughts now of holding fast the line,
Defying death and time?
Everything we had is gone,
Everything we laboured for and favoured more
Than earthly things reveals the hollow ring
Of false hope and false deliverance.

But now the nuptial bed is made,
The dowry has been paid:
The toothless, haggard features of eternity
Now welcome me between the sheets
To couple with her withered body - my wife.
Hers forever, In still life.

Answer 2

Well, there are many songs that perfectly sum-up bits of my life, and {strangely} some of the events in the story I'm writing.

But, to stick to the point for once {!}, this particular song keeps making me think of a certain war the UK & US are currently fighting :~

Child In Time ~ Deep Purple
Mond Tanz / Child In Time ~ Blackmore's Night

"Sweet child in time, you'll see the line
The line that's drawn between the good and the bad
See the blind man - shooting at the world
Bullets flying, taking toll
If you've been bad - oh lord I bet you have
And you've not been hit by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes, bow your head
Wait for the ricochet"

Though of course, you could apply those lyrics to almost any major conflict of the last 90-years.

And just in case no one understands what I mean, I think it somes up the attitudes of the polititians ~ the people who aren't actually out there having to fight. One day, it will all come back on them.

Answer 3

Quicksand, by David Bowie, from Hunky Dory. The first part of the second verse and the choruse have always resonated the most out of any songs I have ever heard.


I'm not a prophet
or a stone age man
Just a mortal
with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic
of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes
from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith

(chorus)
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes
with death's release

Answer 4

Mine wont be as good as what I see so far and yes Kansas has that great song...I have one in my head I just cant pull it up so for right now I am going to say In A Simple Rhyme by Van Halen off of Women and Childern..be back if I think of the better one:)


One that makes the hair on my neck stand up is Nazarth's Love Hurts:( great errie tune:)

Answer 5

There are many I'd love to mention that really hit home with me, but this one's a classic. Not sure how true it is, but the message in this Black Sabbath song is quite apparent:

They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well
The world is full of kings and queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
Its heaven and hell, oh well
And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
Its heaven and hell, oh no!
Fool, fool!
You've got to bleed for the dancer!
Fool, fool!
Look for the answer!
Fool, fool, fool!

Answer 6

Ohhh, good one. None of mine are probably as good as that, but the one that comes to mind first is a Whiter Shade of Pale. Ever since I was a little girl that one just seemed to reflect how I felt. The second is the Beatles: All You Need is Love.
One is how I felt, and the second was what I wanted. Luckily I have found both now.

Answer 7

John Mayer - Daughters


I know a girl
She puts the color inside of my world
But she's just like a maze
Where all of the walls all continually change
And I've done all I can
To stand on the steps with my heart in my hands
Now I'm starting to see
Maybe it's got nothing to do with me

Fathers be good to your daughters,
Daughters will love like you do,
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too

Oh, you see that skin?
It's the same shes been standing in
Since the day she saw him walking away
Now shes left
Cleaning up the mess he made

So Fathers be good to your daughters,
Daughters will love like you do,
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too

Boys you can break
You'll find out how much they can take
Boys will be strong and
Boys soldier on
But boys would be gone
without warmth from
A woman's good, good heart

On behalf of every man
Looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of her world

So Fathers be good to your daughters,
Daughters will love like you do,
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too

Answer 8

"[Tear down] the government (they don't) they don't speak for us"
Radiohead's No Surprises, the crowd-reaction to this line is so beautiful

Time is a great choice, too.

"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind." Tool's Lateralus

Chronon - i was just going to edit back with that one.
"and there are things you can't avoid you have to face them when you're not prepared to face them"
lips' Fight Test. Seems a bit corny out of context though.

Answer 9

How can we believe in heaven
Human reason counters all
Ideas of a soul society
My life is just a fragment
Of the universe and all
There must be more than I can see

...

How I wish there was heaven
All for one and one for all
A flawless soul society
Our lives are just a fragment
Of the universe and all
There may be more than we can see

Kamelot - Soul Society

So True.

EDIT: BTW Silver rose wolf, love the new avatar.

Answer 10

The lyric from When A Man Love A Women........Loving Eyes can never see. Or the other lyric from the same song Turning his back on his best friend if he put her dow.