Thoughts on Lyrics...Yeah they are Scattered Thoughts

I was trying to think of something to write about today...not an exciting weekend here, spent most of it in the house....zzzzz. So I started thinking about lyrics, as I listened to my IPOD, and how much I love them. It can be a song everyone else thinks is lame, but if I hear lyrics that talk to me...I am hooked.

When I first heard these words from Marie Digby, I felt like she had sung MY feelings, found a poem I had written somehow:
"The beginning, in the first weeks of class
She did everything to try and fit in
But the others they couldn't seem to get past all the things that mismatched on the surface
And she would close her eyes when they laughed and she fell down the stairs
And the more that they joked
And the more that they screamed
She retreated to where she is now"
They are powerful to me, like she felt the same feelings I have felt so often, but made them accessible to everyone. Lyrics can make you FEEL. Maybe something you never felt before, or some feeling you couldn't name. Or maybe you hear lyrics and though they weren't intended to be about what YOU hear, you interpret them as this anyway.

I have never heard a song by Jason Mraz I liked, but as soon as the beat started (yes I usually listen to music first if I like the sound) and he began to sing his words just stuck in my brain. "Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love
Listen to the music of the moment maybe sing with me
Ah la peaceful melody
Its your godforsaken right to be loved love loved love love". I like the sound of having a right to be loved. Of it being a God given right, that I am supposed to have. It gives me, personally, hope.

Then there are songs that just make points that hit home. This song called Clothes says
"Pay so much for clothes so small
Was that shirt made for me or my doll?
Is this all I get?
I looked so hot but caught a cold
I was doing just what I was told
To fit in"
How true! I look at tees they sell in the Women's section of Walmart or Target, and I am like ...yeah, if I was flat chested or an anorexic 12 year old. I love when they sing " Clothes that fit are FIIINNEEE"!

Where is The Love is a favorite song of mine, I was surprised as I only like a few songs by Black Eyed Peas and tha's usually just because of the beat, NOT the lyrics. But have you REALLY listened to the lyrics?
"But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all"
This song fills with hope for our future, that more people FEEL this way, and that they can spread these words to more and more. Wouldn't the future be a brighter place if more people felt this way, thought this way?

I know I interpret the Chantal Kreviazuk song "Feels Like Home" differently than it was intended. Pretty sure it is a love song, but when she talks of HIM, it felt to me, like she was talking about Jesus Christ. I just interpret it that way. And it could be JUST me.
"A window breaks, down a long, dark street
And a siren wails in the night
But I'm alright, 'cause I have you here with me
And I can almost see, through the dark there is light

Well, if you knew how much this moment means to me
And how long I've waited for your touch
And if you knew how happy you are making me
I never thought that I'd love anyone so much"

It just makes you think, what do some lyrics MEAN to people? Do you have songs where you KNOW they are supposed to mean something else entirely, but to you, they have always meant THIS...whatever it might be?

Or is there a song you feel someone must have taken your thoughts and feelings, to be able to write it? When Dixie Chicks (and I HATE country) song Not Ready to Make Nice came out, I was like WOW. They got how I feel when I am angry DOWN pat. I know sometimes when I get angry, it is irrational, and I WANT to stop...but while feeling that way I can't do what I know will make me feel better
"I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should"
And I have a hard time with forgiveness,so even when I forgive...I usually can't forget. So "Forgive, sounds good. Forget, I’m not sure I could.They say time heals everything,But I’m still waiting." That is pure me. I am still waiting for time to heel wounds.

SO tell me...what songs are special to you just because of the lyrics...and were they intended to be seen as YOU interpret them? I have so many more...I tried to cover a wide range, but I am seriously scattered in my thinking of this post. It seemed like a good post idea, but now...I am going to do one I think makes more sense...and is maybe more fun. This is ALL over the place. Like me!!