Lyrics and songs that inspire you.

Well, title says it all. Which songs or maybe specific lyrics inspire you?


For now.. "Thinking how it used to be
Does she still remember times like these
To think of us again?
And I do."

Tangerine just kills me.




I'm sorry if that kind of thread already exists.

Hey "TheRose".

I'm going to have to represent on this one. Jimmi Hendrix. I've been pretty much going over his songs and lyrics and uncovering what they really mean and I've been blown away.
An example is one of his songs "Castles Made Of Sand"

Down the street you can hear her screaming you're a disgrace
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries. oh girl you must be mad
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green.

And so castles made of sand fall into the sea, eventually...

Ah, that just takes my breath away because it effortlessly says a lot and I love it! There's plenty more where that came from. Hendrix was a genius. And hey, they're kind of similar to your lyrics, the first verse that is...

"You shut your mouth
How can you say
I don't like things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does"

How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths. One of the best songs ever.

Country songs, honestly. So many of them are so true and honest, I can't help but be somewhat inspired.

@ziggiefred: Jimi is a legend for sure. His lyrics, his melodies, his style.. everything. You really got to love him


And as for the country songs that's so true. There are quite a lot country artists that deserve more attention!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_5Gjs0 ... ideo_title

If only she could feel my pain
But feelin' is a burden she can't sustain
So like a summer Thursday I cry for rain
To come and turn the grass to green again.

I always wanted to listen to Avenged Sevenfold, but they always sound so similar to other bands of these days.

TheRose wrote:I always wanted to listen to Avenged Sevenfold, but they always sound so similar to other bands of these days.

I always thought they were several steps above other bands of the genre. One of the best bands there is. But that's just my opinion.

"Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx83eIVkKyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2WWrupMBAE&ob=av2e

Jessie J - Who you are. The lyrics that inspire me the most from it are in my signature. Just makes me want to be proud to be me, no matter how hard it seems sometimes.

Start Of Something Good
By: Daughtry

you never know when you're gonna meet someone
and your whole wide world in a moment comes undone
you're just walking around then suddenly
everything that you thought that you knew above love is gone


you find out it's all been wrong
all my scars, don't seem to matter anymore
coz they lead me here to you


i know it's gonna take some time
but i've got to admit
that the thought has crossed my mind
this might end up like it should
i'm gonna say what i need to say
and hope to god that it don't scare you away
don't want to be misunderstood
but i'm starting to believe that
this could be the start of something good


everyone knows life has its ups and downs
one day you're on top of world
and one day you're the clown


well i've been both enough to know
that you don't wanna get in the way when its working out
the way that it is right now
you see my heart; i wear it on my sleeve
coz i just can't hide it anymore
i know it's gonna take some time
but i've got to admit
that the thought has crossed my mind
this might end up like it should
i'm gonna say what i need to say
and hope to god that it don't scare you away
don't want to be misunderstood
but i'm starting to believe that
this could be the start


coz i don't know where its goin'
there's a part of me that loves not knowin'
just don't let it end before we begin
you never know when you're gonna meet someone
don't wanna be misunderstood
but i'm starting to believe that this could be the start


coz i don't know where its goin'
there's a part of me that loves not knowin'
just don't let it end before we begin
you never know when you're gonna meet someone
and your whole wide world in a moment comes undone


i know it's gonna take some time
but i've got to admit that the thought has crossed my mind
this might end up like it should
i'm gonna say what i need to say
and hope to god that it don't scare you away
don't want to be misunderstood
but i'm starting to believe that
this could be the start of something good

Can you count albums? Because I find OK Computer inspirational, musically but not lyrically.

This Swedish Band, Broder Daniel, they sing awfully false but it's somewhat loveble and I adoooore their lyrics.




All of their lyrics inspire and get to me somehow

"Count to six and die." Although that might not have been the intention of the song, it made me think of how each year could be our last, in a sense... How each year is a possible ending ^^

Another quote, I think by Combichrist... "Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well." It just creeps me out, but is true ^^ We should enjoy as much of our life as possible.

Wisdomatch, my current WIP, was greatly inspired by Taylor Swift's Long Live. Almost all of her songs have provided me with plot bunnies <3