Songs/Lyrics that resonate with you

[Nathan Johnson]

Re: Sound of Silence.

I like two versions best. Nouella is one, and Puddles Pity Party the other.

[Prashun Patel]

Chase, Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson...
Second is of course my man, Billy Joel.

[Chase Mueller]

Don't believe I'm familiar with either

[Chase Mueller]

Chase, Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson...
Second is of course my man, Billy Joel.

AHHHHHH, that makes sense.
Billy Joel is up there for me, can never get tired of those pipes!

[Prashun Patel]

I always found his tunes and lyrics so cleverly and well written - well, up until "We Didn't Start the Fire".

[Eric C Stoltzfus]

Well I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "resonate with you", but yesterday the lady inside may radio sang "sometimes you just have to play the fool" at the exact moment that I realized that I had made a pretty bad screwup.

[Chase Mueller]

As I've grown older, I find lyrics more appealing when they are much more "complicated". The word I'm searching for escapes me, but I sense you get the point.

[Chase Mueller]

Eric that's pretty funny, don't you love it when reality throws cute little jokes at you?

By resonate, I mean something that really sticks with you. Something that paints a picture in your mind, or brings back memories, whether good or bad.

[John Lanciani]

Hurt, as sung by Johnny Cash;

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liars chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I will keep myself
I would find a way

[Wayne Lomman]

Sounds of Silence by Disturbed is the best rendition ever. Even Paul Simon agrees. As far as other songs that have a personal meaning, there are many. I have spent so long working away from home in remote areas that music became my companion. Here's a selection, some of which you may have heard of...

Flame Trees by Cold Chisel
No Second Prize by Jimmy Barnes
Leather and Lace by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley
Sounds of Silence by Disturbed
Great Southern Land by Icehouse
When the War is Over by Cold Chisel
You're the Voice by John Fareham
Sympathy for the Devil by Rolling Stones
Angie by Rolling Stones
We Are the Champions by Queen
Learn to Fly by Pink Floyd
When the Level Breaks by Led Zeppelin.

That will do for now. A shrink would probably have a field day with that lot as they all have specific meaning for me and all have the power to bring a tear to my eye in a good way. Cheers

[Chase Mueller]

Amazing cover. Was very fitting to add it to the end of Logan

[Chase Mueller]

I feel you, Wayne. I could write a book series about different songs that have different personal meanings to me. Lord knows a shrink would recommend an asylum if they ever got in my head. Thanks for sharing!

[Perry Hilbert Jr]

Never much liked Simon and Garfunkle, but the Lyrics to Sound of Silence seem to get me

Walkin in a Winter Wonderland also. But you have to know the backround. The author of the lyrics was a terminally ill tuberculosis patient at the West Mountain Sanitarium here in PA. He looked out on a snowy day and saw the other folks his age, strolling around with their sweet hearts and he fantasized about what it would be like to be one of them and wrote the words to a poem, Walking in a Winter Wonderland. The husband of another patient read the poem and put them to music. The author Richard Smith, died before he ever heard the song. It was first played after he died. "Later on we'll conspire, as we dream by the fire, and face unafraid, the plans that we made, walkin in a winter wonderland." Such a happy song had such a sad beginning.

[Chase Mueller]

All I can say is wow.. I never knew that about the song. Definitely gonna think of that next time I hear it. Thanks for telling us about that!

[Greg Peterson]

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand 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
Its 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 spells