What song has good lyrics because of the idea/lesson/experience it shares?

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    In my opinion, most Mountain Goats songs. John Darnielle is an amazing songwriter, and he tackles very difficult subjects, especially in his earlier stuff. The Sunset Tree album is all about growing up with an abusive step-father, Tallahassee about a couple who fall apart, Full Force Galesburg about a small town you can disappear in, etc. Some of my favorites include “The Mess Inside” about two people that can’t find the love they lost, “No Children” about a couple that hate each other, and “Jeff Davis County Blues” about a sort of meditative experience after a breakup. I’d give it all a listen. To go even deeper, the albums All Hail West Texas and In League With Dragons have sort of companion podcast seasons (I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats) where Darnielle and Joseph Fink of Welcome to Nightvale go through each song, the inspiration, the meaning, stuff like that.

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    As I hurtle towards middle age, I find Time by Pink Floyd more and more relevant

    Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
    Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
    Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
    Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
    
    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
    
    And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
    Racing around to come up behind you again
    The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
    Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
    
    Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
    Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
    Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
    The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
    
    Home, home again
    I like to be here when I can
    And when I come home cold and tired
    It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
    Far away, across the field
    The tolling of the iron bell
    Calls the faithful to their knees
    To hear the softly spoken magic spell 
    
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    Piano Man by Billy Joel

    The whole scene it sets, the mood, it’s all just so human.

    Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness

    But it’s better than drinking alone

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    Paramore - This is why

    If you have an opinion
    Maybe you should shove it
    Or maybe you could scream it
    Might be best to keep it

    To yourself (to yourself)

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      Another one of theirs that comes to mind is “Audience of One”. An excerpt from the middle verse and chorus:

      Identities assume us. As 9 and 5 add up. Synchronizing watches to the seconds that we lost. I looked up and saw you, and I know that you saw me. We froze but for a moment… in empathy. I brought down the sky for you and all you did was shrug. You gave my emptiness a name.

      Then you ran away. Now all my friends are gone. Maybe we’ve outgrown all the things that we once loved. Run away, but what are we running from? A show of hands from those in this audience of one. Where have they gone?

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    Noah Kahan - Growing Sideways

    And I divvied up my anger into thirty separate parts Keep the bad shit in my liver and the rest around my heart I’m still angry at my parents for what their parents did to them But it’s a start

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    Duality - Set It Off

    I am good, I am evil, I am solace, I am chaos, I am human, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

    This is the motto for the whole duality album. This tells the listener to not hide who you are. Be comfortable in your own skin be you, let the song show you how to accept yourself.

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    Hero of war by rise against. -this is about the regrets of a soldier

    When I’m gone by Phil Ochs -like this one a lot.

    The globalist by muse -this one is about how an oppressed minority becomes the leading majority and nukes the whole world or something

    Landslide by Fleetwood mac (I listen to the smashing pumpkins version)

    “Oh, mirror in the sky What is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changin’ ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life?”

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    Pretty much any RVIVR song, imo. I was going to include the best set of lyrics, but I can’t decide.

    I’m partial to “goodbyes”, “cut the cord”, and “shaggy” from a lyrics+music standpoint, but find it difficult to separate the best lyrics without the music.

    Ah, well, as they say, “we’re all adults here, we can choose”

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      Wrong Way/One Way, and Big Lie, too. You’re right, it’s hard to choose just one.

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        Oh, yeah! I love those tracks too.

        Those lines in wrong way/one way: I touch the ground/send my roots deep down/try to stick around.

        And these from big lie: Everything’s changing / there’s beauty between the lies

        I’m massively indebted to the friend who introduced me to RVIVR. I think I love all of their music.

        I once was able to participate in a live stream thing Erica did on Instagram; she asked for requests, and then played mine! I was on cloud nine for months after and still get giddy thinking about it. To be fair, I think she played all the requests, but still…