Life-Changing Song

[Dorienne]

Have you ever heard a song that really changed your outlook on anything--life, family, friends, etc.? Post it here, and how it made you think. I don't know if this has been done yet (I seem to have a reputation of posting things already done... ) but I'd like to see your opinions.
--d0ri

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

The song "Defying Gravity" from Wicked really inspired me in a lot of ways. It's a musical playing on Broadway in NYC right now, and if you see it, it's just wow.

At the time I had a lot of hard decisions on my mind and things I wasn't sure about and people I was having issues with, and it just kinda inspired me to look beyond that. Hard to explain.

Cool thread. props to you.

[Amanda Morrison]

"America" by Simon and Garfunkel.

"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together."
"I've got some real estate here in my bag..."
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
and walked off to look for America.

"Kathy," I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburg
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw;
I've gone to look for America."

Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces...
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy.
I said, "Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera!"

"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat."
"We smoked the last one an hour ago."
So I looked at the scenery, and she read her magazine...
and the moon rose over an open field.

"Kathy, I'm lost" I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why..."
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike -
they've all gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America...

[Mike Ciance]

Well, as i said in... actually, my last post... i want to write books. well, i've been working on and expanding one idea for a really long time, and i would always sit and think about the weak areas of the plotline and try to make them better. my ending was one thing i wanted to work on. the way i had it, once the final battle was over, it pretty much just ended, and i knew i needed a little bit more but didn't know what. The Great Disappointment by AFI inspired me to come up with the ending that i currently plan on using. of course, i can't tell you what it is .

[sanddrag]

For me it would be 100 Years by Five for Fighting

[Franchesca]

OOOOO GREAT THREAD!!

Allright, I have a few but most surely the main one is: 10,000 Miles - Mary Chapin Carpen!! To me the lyrics represent much more than what they say!!

Then: Everlong (acoustic) by Foo Fighters ... can't explain it! Its just a song that really gets to me!

A while back my sister and I got this CD "LIFE SCAPES" - Above the Clouds. The whole CD is solely instrumental ... extrmely relaxing ... but the sound of #6 'Sailboat In The Sky' makes me feel just like the name implies ... like I'm on a sailboat floating above the clouds!!

Also, DIDO -- in her "No Angel" CD songs 10 - I'm No Angel and 11 - My Life ... always seem to describe my life to the exact word!!

And finally, but surely not least ... Coldplay! My favorite band!! In the CD "Parachutes" my favorite songs are 'Yellow' and 'Trouble' and then in the CD "A Rush of Blood to the Head" -- 'Clocks' and 'A rush of blood to the head'!! Every time I hear them its like I hear it for the first time all over again!

[Collin Fultz]

anything by the BareNaked Ladies...

you don't know a great concert until you see them on stage...wow

[jonathan lall]

Originally Posted by Collin Fultz

anything by the BareNaked Ladies...

you don't know a great concert until you see them on stage...wow

Ah, another successful product of Woburn CI. Unfortunately their popularity and allegedly amazing songwriting skill hasn't resurfaced since their early days.

[Billfred]

I kinda had two.

One was "My 1st Song" by Jay-Z. It's the final cut on "The Black Album," and he raps about finishing things strong, just like when you were starting. (The song starts with a snippet of an interview with the late Notorious B.I.G., which I had in my signature for the longest of times. It is still my wallpaper.)

The other song is "Lukewarm" by New End Original. Their frontman, Jonah Matranga (hope I didn't butcher that name) of Onelinedrawing put it this way in a concert...

This is a song that's just about not selling out in any way, shape, or form.

[Joe3]

Jimmy Eat World - The Middle

[Joshua May]

The Piano Man by Billy Joel.

Just listening to the portrayal of the men in the bar is awesome.

Also, I'd have to say Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional.