(Finished February 20th, 2023) Part 3 of The Best, Heartwarming, Happy and Absolutely Amazing Lyrics

Hello,

I started this blog almost three years ago, well today I decided to finish it. I'm taking advantage of all of my in-between job time.

Some of these lyrics wouldn't stand out on the blank page, but the lyrics take on a whole new meaning in the context of the songs. It's the lyrics, the music and the singer working all together that take a song to that next level.

This song describes my last job way too well. 34) The Police "Synchronicity 2":

Another working day has ended

Only the rush hour hell to face

Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes

Contestants in a suicidal race

Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance

He knows that something somewhere has to break

He sees the family home now looming in his headlights

The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache

 35) Frank Sinatra "New York, New York":

I want to wake up in a city

That never sleeps

And find I'm king of the hill

Top of the heap

These small town blues

They are melting away

I'll make a brand new start of it

In old New York

Both the song and the video are incredibly sweet. I especially love the line about "seasons out of time". I don't know that I know what that means, but still think it's very beautiful. This song rips out my heart.

 36) Terry Jacks "Seasons In The Sun":

Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die

When all the birds are singing in the sky

Now that the spring is in the air

Pretty girls are everywhere

Think of me and I'll be there

We had joy, we had fun

We had seasons in the sun

But the hills that we climbed

Were just seasons out of time

37) Cat Stevens "Peace Train"

'Cause out on the edge of darkness
There rides a peace train
Oh, peace train take this country
Come take me home again

38) Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken":

Morning has broken like the first morning

Blackbird has spoken like the first bird

Praise for the singing, praise for the morning

Praise for them springing fresh from the world

Sweet the rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven

Like the first dewfall on the first grass

Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden

Sprung in completeness where His feet pass

39) U2 "With Or Without You":

See the stone set in your eyes

See the thorn twist in your side

I'll wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate

On a bed of nails she makes me wait

And I'll wait without you

The lyrics quoted are not the most profound lyrics, but that's my favorite part of the song. Again a lot of a great song is how the lyrics, music and singer blend together. 

40) Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer":

I get it right, I kicked the habit (kicked the habit, kicked the habit)
Shed my skin (shed my skin)
This is the new stuff (this is the new stuff)
I go dancing in (we go dancing in)
Oh, won't you show for me? (Show for me)
I will show for you (show for you)
Please, show for me (show for me)
Huh, I will show for you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you (show for me)

41) Bruce Springsteen "I'm On Fire":

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby

Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley

Through the middle of my soul

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet

And a freight train running through the

Middle of my head

Only you can cool my desire

42) The Rolling Stone "Gimme Shelter":

Ooh, a storm is threatening

My very life today

If I don't get some shelter

Ooh yeah I'm gonna fade away

War, children

It's just a shot away

It's just a shot away

War, children

It's just a shot away

It's just a shot away

43) Oasis "Wonderwall":

And all the roads we have to walk are winding

And all the lights that lead us there are blinding

There are many things that

I would like to say to you, but I don't know how

Because maybe

You're gonna be the one that saves me

And after all

You're my wonderwall

44) Billy Joel "The Stranger":

Well, we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger?
Did you ever let your lover see
The stranger in yourself?

Willie Nelson singing this song shouldn't work so well. It feels like the song and Willie were made for each other. 45) Willie Nelson "Always On My Mind":

Tell me

Tell me that your sweet love hasn't died

And give me

Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied

I'll keep you satisfied

Little things I should have said and done

I just never took the time

"Forgetting you, but not the time" is so poignant. Dedicated to all those that miss their exes or let "the one" get away. 46) Green Day "Whatsername":

And in the darkest night

If my memory serves me right

I'll never turn back time

Forgetting you, but not the time

47) Keith Whitley "When You Say Nothing At All":

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me

There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me

A touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall

Now you say it best when you say nothing at all

All day long I can hear people talking out loud

But when you hold me near, you drown out the crowd

Old Mr. Webster could never define

What's being said between your heart and mine

48) Simon and Garfunkel "The Sound of Silence":

And in the naked light, I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never shared

No one dared

Disturb the sound of silence

49) Blink-182 "Adam's Song":

I never thought I'd die alone
Another six months, I'll be unknown
Give all my things to all my friends
You'll never step foot in my room again
You'll close it off, board it up
Remember the time that I spilled the cup
Of apple juice in the hall
Please tell Mom this is not her fault

"Don't put your blame on me". 

50) Rag'n'Bone Man "Human":

Maybe I'm foolish
Maybe I'm blind
Thinking I can see through this
And see what's behind
Got no way to prove it
So maybe I'm blind
But I'm only human after all
I'm only human after all
Don't put your blame on me
Don't put your blame on me

51) The Smiths "How Soon Is Now":

When you say it's going to happen now
Well, when exactly do you mean?
See, I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone

From "Rent" soundtrack. 52) "Seasons of Love":

Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes

Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments, oh dear

Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes

How do you measure, measure a year?

In daylights, in sunsets

In midnights, in cups of coffee

In inches, in miles, in laughter in strife

In five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes

How do you measure a year in the life?

53) Kenny Rogers "She Believes In Me:

While she lays waiting

I stumble to the kitchen for a bite

Then I see my old guitar in the night

Just waiting for me like a secret friend

And there's no end while she lays crying

I fumble with a melody or two

And I'm torn between the things that I should do

And she says to wake her up when I am through

God, her love is true

 54) Simon and Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair":

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,

Without any seam nor needlework,

And then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well,

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,

Which never sprung water nor rain ever fell,

And then she'll be a true love of mine.

 Also from "Rent": 55) "La Vie Boheme":

Excuse me, did I do something wrong?

I got invited, then ignored all night long

I've been trying

I'm not lying

No one's perfect

I've got baggage

Life's too short, babe

Time is flying

I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine

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