Songs With The Most Powerful Lyrics Shared By Reddit Users
It has been scientifically proven that music has the power to evoke a full range of human emotions. According to researchers, listening to music has a significant effect on our moods and emotions because of brain dopamine regulation. Music can bring us joy, bring us to tears, make us laugh, make us dance, motivate us, energize us, relax us - music is a powerful thing!
Sometimes, in our favorite songs, the lyrics can be just as important as the music itself. Have you ever heard a song and it just struck a chord with you? As if you could have written it yourself?
These AskReddit users shared the song lyrics that mean the most to them.
#1. Lord Huron
"I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you."The Night We Met - Lord Huron
#2. Pink Floyd
“You are young and life is longAnd there is time to kill todayAnd then, one day, you findTen years have got behind youNo one told you when to runYou missed the starting gunAnd you run, and you runTo catch up with the sun, but it’s sinkingRacing around to come up behind you againThe sun is the sameIn a relative way, but you’re olderShorter of breath, and one day closer to death.”Time - Pink Floyd
#3. Simon & Garfunkel
“Cathy I’m lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping. I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.”- Simon and Garfunkel
"This line physically hurts me every time I hear it. It brings up old feelings I once considered beautiful but are now just a reminder that it was fleeting and it was a prelude to sadness,” one Reddit user said.
#4. She Used To Be Mine
“The lyrics of “She Used To Be Mine” from Waitress are really relatable for me, particularly the chorus:
“She’s imperfect, but she triesShe is good, but she liesShe is hard on herselfShe is broken and won’t ask for helpShe is messy, but she’s kindShe is lonely, most of the timeShe is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pieShe is gone but she used to be mine.”#5. More Pink Floyd
“Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.”- Pink Floyd
"The most hard hitting lines to me are the last two.”
#6. Queen
“Take this letter that I give you. Take it sonny, hold it high. You won’t understand a word that’s in it, but you’ll write it all again before you die.”- Father to Son, Queen
"Fantastic gem of a song.”
#7. Vienna
“You’re so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.”Vienna - Billy Joel
#8. The Eagles
“So often times it happens that we live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.”Already Gone - The Eagles
#9. Modest Mouse
“Changed my mind so much I can’t even trust it, my mind changed me so much I can’t even trust myself.”Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset - Modest Mouse
#10. The Stable Song
“I’ve been crazy, couldn’t you tell? I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell.”The Stable Song - Gregory Alan Isakov
#11. Songbird
“And I wish you all the love in the world. But most of all, I wish it from myself.”Songbird - Fleetwood Mac
#12. Real Death
“A week after you died a package with your name on it cameAnd inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secretAnd collapsed there on the front steps I wailedA backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from nowYou were thinking ahead to a future you must have knownDeep down would not include youThough you clawed at the cliff you were sliding downBeing swallowed into a silence that’s bottomless and realIt’s dumbAnd I don’t want to learn anything from thisI love you.”Mount Eerie - Real Death
#13. Lou Reed
“You made me forget myselfI thought I was someone elsesomeone good."- Lou Reed
#14. The Boxer
“In the clearing stands a boxerAnd a fighter by his tradeAnd he carries the remindersOf every glove that laid him downOr cut him till he cried outIn his anger and his shame“I am leaving, I am leaving”But the fighter still remains."Simon and Garfunkel – The Boxer
#15. Empty
“I never learned to count my blessings, I choose instead to dwell in my disasters.”Ray LaMontagne – Empty
