Song Lyrics

Songs can be so powerful. They have the ability to mirror your mood, and then multiply it many times over.

Do you have a lyric or a few lyrics that get you right down deep inside?

When I am feeling happy.

I love listening to something loud, fast, heavy or catchy, especially if I know all the lyrics and can sing along at the top of my voice, obviously this is a passtime best kept for when there are no spectators. It is also something that I am much less able to do since my thyroidectomy in July.

A really, hearty sing-a-long to such songs pumps you up and gets the blood streaking through those veins at breakneck speed as if on an endorphine overdose.


When I at the gym.

On my mp3 player I have one folder in which I copy just such music. Anything and everything that has a really steady, reasonably upbeat tempo. I call the folder 'workout' and it is what I play whilst I am at the gym. I sing along to these, in the privacy of the sound-proofed room in my head, the beat helping me to keep the pace going.

If I can just make it to the start of the next track.. please... concentrate.... keep going .... if the next track is a real belter, I can last another 5 minutes!!

I could tell you how many 'steps per minute' the beat of most of the tracks are too!! Sad I know, but a girl has to keep herself fit, and all those workouts really keep your stamina levels up so it is time VERY well spent.

When I am feeling sad.

It's the fateful old soppies I turn to. Crazy really as slow, sad songs definitely get you right inside and tug at your heart strings til you think they might break.

So often you can relate to the songwriters intended feelings and it almost always brings to mind one person. One person whom you could have written the song about, or for, even if you have to swap 'her/she' for 'him/he'.

There are many songs which provoke memories of times past.

• The typical 'Our Song', you know, the first track you ever slow danced to with your partner.
• Your favourite track from the first pop star you had a crush on, that guy that made you go weak at the knees. (OK, so that was just me then was it?)
• A song that was a favourite at school, for reasons other than you fancied the pants of the lead singer!
• The first track you ever bought on single, (uh-oh, showing my age! When I was at school we still had vinyl and I could usually only afford to buy a single and not an album).
• A track that reminds you of someone close that you have lost.
• The track you sat and cried your eyes out to when you split up with your very first boyfriend 'cos you loved him and it hurt so damn much. (Surely that wasn't just me too, come on people, own up!)

The question for this post however was a song lyric that means something, rather than a whole track. So, after racking my brains as to which track/s really get me right in the core of my being, I guess this is one of them. I sometimes wonder if someone in my past ever considered these sentiments about me:

And the thought crosses my mind, if I never wake in the morning,
would she ever doubt, the way I feel about her in my heart.
If tomorrow never comes, will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way, to show her every day, that she's my only one.
and if my time on earth were through, she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past, gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes.
~ Ronan Keating, If tomorrow never comes.

And these lyrics are my response to that person:

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,'
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

Eric Clapton ~ Tears in Heaven. Written after he lost his son in a drowning accident.

What lyrics stir strong, emotive feelings in you? All comments welcomed.