OT: Songs that make you think

[Scud49]

Jefferson Airplane - "Comin Back to Me":

The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long
The winter looked the same, as if it never had gone
And through an open window where no curtain hung
I saw you I saw you Comin' back to me.......

 

[64Zcode]

 

[Ozimoto]

 

[64Zcode]

The Red Rockers cover a song about the Enola Gay - Shades Of 45.

The sky is falling,
The future calling,
Lady Armageddon's here to stay

 

[64Zcode]

Live version. Pink Floyd - Us and Them.

Us and them
And after all we're only ordinary men

 

[UHF]

Moody Blues.
Late Lament.

 

[Jackcatscal]

The Red Rockers cover a song about the Enola Gay - Shades Of 45.

The sky is falling,
The future calling,
Lady Armageddon's here to stay

The Ebola Gay is in the Air & Space annex at Dulles Airport. It’s fully restored and really beautiful.

 

[Jackcatscal]

About pacificism.

 

[UHF]

Simon & Garfunkel.
Sound Of Silence.

David Draiman as Paul Simon.
Myles Kennedy as Art Garfunkel.

Powerful cover.

 

[UHF]

Styx.
Crystal Ball.
1976.

I wonder what tomorrow has in mind for me.
Or am I even in it's mind at all.
Perhaps I'll get a chance to look ahead and see.
Soon as I find myself a crystal ball.

 

[UHF]

John Lennon.
Imagine.

Imagine all the people.
Livin' life in peace.

 

[UHF]

Kansas.
Dust In The Wind.
1977.


Now don't hang on.
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.
It slips away.
And all your money won't another minute buy.

 

[UHF]

Pink Floyd.
Dark Side of the Moon.
Time.
1973.


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.

 

[Scud49]

Blood, Sweat, & Tears - God Bless the Child:

And when you got money,
You got a lots of friends
Crowdin' 'round your door
When the money's gone
And all you're spendin' ends
They won't be 'round any more.......

 

[Scud49]

Blood, Sweat, & Tears - Sometimes in Winter:

Now you're gone girl
And the lamp posts call your name
I can hear, them
In the spring of frozen rain...

 

[ClifSpliffy]

tell me, how do i feel,
tell me now how do i feel.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

 

[ClifSpliffy]

same idea

 

[ClifSpliffy]

 

[UHF]

Genesis.
Dusk.
1970.

If a leaf has fallen.
Does the tree lie broken?

And if we draw some water.
Does the well run dry?

 

[ClifSpliffy]

of course, the answer always is


i got an old pal out west from beagle school daze, a native, original Cali girl she is, who started writing down my sayings (family tradition for at least a hundred and fiddy years -- good stuff like 'an ox has a long tongue but can't speak. this one came to me in german. lots of the hungarian ones are really funny, and wise, too. the yankee/ bobby frost ones are sum of the best. here's one, "I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed." another gem of his, "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.")
she really likes this meager contribution of mine to the list;
'u get a stiff neck looking backwards.' yup, and, ergo, i whizz on the sadness of both baker street and take the long way home. wasted energy.
life is too short.
nice sounds tho.

 

[UHF]

Alot going on in this world, love, hate, war, crime, etc. Some songs are fun, lively, good to dance to, but there are those that may have a message, make you think about things long after the song is over. Even songs of the past are relevant today, with a greater impact than when they were first released. I apologize that I don't know how to post a song or album to this forum, but I will offer my first song that I hold very dearly. I hope you will show us others that may have had an impact on you.
My offering is "Imagine" by the late John Lennon.

I think about this every day.


There will be a day with no more tears.
No more pain and no more fears.
There will be a day.
When the burdens of this place.
Will be no more.


Jeremy Camp.
There Will Be A Day.
2008.

 

[Scud49]

One more highly introspective one from the Airplane:

 

[Dove]

The Ebola Gay is in the Air & Space annex at Dulles Airport. It’s fully restored and really beautiful.

That exhibit is bleeding money.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

more bobby.
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”

ahh, the classics, mon. dey neva die.

 

[Scud49]

James Vincent - "Space Traveler":

 

[Dove]

Can't believe this one hasn't been posted...

 

[ClifSpliffy]

one moar. prolly first heard in early grammar school times, and prolly cuz i was whining aboot having a bball game at the same time as a football game, or sumthin like that.
'mit ein tooches, kannische reddin tsvai hasseness.' (phonetically)
'with one butt, u can't ride to two weddings.'
gold. choose! make a decision!

more bobby:
“Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.”
on point. yahtse!

 

[cullaville]

My kid's middle school social studies played these two songs to emphasize that even though time go by people are always questioning, seeking to make things better. This was around 2006. He thought that everyone would know the later singer but none of them would know the singer from the sixties. Kudos to my son for knowing Bob Dylan.

John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change

 

[Improviser]