The Most Inspirational Modern Song Lyrics
There are songs in our everyday lives that can sometimes be repetitive, yet others turn out to be very original and thought-provoking. Music has always been the art form that has been closer to the people than painting or sculpture, for example. We tend to identify with the stories that the songs tell, and their lyrics get often stuck in our heads.
The messages conveyed by the lyrics of these songs are often responsible for this, so here is our collection of great words that fit into popular melodies, thus managing to move and inspire us.
So wake me up when it’s all over, when I’m wiser and I’m older. All this time I was finding myself, and I didn’t know I was lost. | Avicii – “Wake my up”
I was fighting, but I just feel too tired to be fighting. Guess I’m not the fighting kind. | Keane – “A bad dream”
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If I’m a pagan of the good times, my lover’s the sunlight. | Hozier – “Take me to church”
Bright Lights, Big city. She dreams of love, he lives to run. | 30 seconds to Mars – “Bright Lights”
People help the people and if you’re homesick, give me our hand and I’ll hold it. People help the people, and nothing will drag you down. | Birdie – “People help the people”
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Some never try, but if anybody can, we can. | Bee Gees – “You win again”
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You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends | The National – “Mistaken for strangers”
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You’re the book that I have opened and now I’ve got to know much more. | Massive Attack – “Unfinished sympathy”
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We’re one, but we’re not the same. Well, we hurt each other Then we do it again. | U2 – “One”
Every paper that you read says tomorrow’s your lucky day | Blur – “The universal”
There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen, Anthem.
Original Photo by Chris Barbalis
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