What Song's Lyrics Best Describe Your Philosophy of Life?

That's a good one.. Umm that's really hard to sumarize my life to one song. I will come back to it..

I Hope You Dance! by Lee Ann Womack . I try to live like this and hope that I teach my sons to do the same!! :-)


I Hope You Dance (Lee Ann Womack featuring Sons Of The Desert)
(Mark D. Sanders/Tia Sillers)

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat
But always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small
When you stand by the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me you'll give fate a fighting chance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances
But they're worth taking
Lovin' might be a mistake
But it's worth making
Don't let some hell bent heart
Leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out
Reconsider
Give the heavens above
More than just a passing glance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always)
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)

I hope you still feel small
When you stand by the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always)
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
I hope you dance
(Where those years have gone)

(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)

Susan that is a good one...I bought that CD for my baby before she was born just for that song.

No mike I havent.


I was really caught up between Imagine by Lennon or Lunatic Fringe by Red Ryder.

Great one Joseph!!

"My Give A Damn's Busted" by Kitty

you can read the lyrics or hear the song here

http://www.kitty59.com/My-Give-A-Damns-Busted.html

Anyway by Martina McBride

You can spend your whole life buildin'
Somethin' from nothin'
One storm can come and blow it all away
Build it anyway

You can chase a dream
That seems so out of reach
And you know it might not ever come your way
Dream it anyway

(Chorus)
God is great, but sometimes life ain't good
When I pray it doesn't always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway
I do it anyway

This world's gone crazy and it's hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway
You can love someone with all your heart
For all the right reasons
And in a moment they can choose to walk away
Love 'em anyway

(Repeat Chorus)

You can pour your soul out singin'
A song you believe in
That tomorrow they'll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yeah sing it anyway

I sing
I dream
I love anyway

You guys need to watch posting the actual lyrics...someone's going to flag this for plagarism.

I never can figure that out. If you site the author and give them credit, can't you post it?

It may be kind of corny to some but I love" Let's Get Together " by The Youngbloods.
Also, "In My Life" by the Beatles.

"I'd Love to Change the World" by Ten Years After (a couple of lines I don't agree with though)

Easy Livin' lyrics---by Uriah Heap!!!!!
most of the time!!!!!


Today!!!!!:
SEEK AND DESTROY--Metallica

see my article

Ok, that was REALLY funny Joseph!! :-) Thanks for the smile.

I havent been flagged for quite awhile. Maybe if my article got flagged people would think I am more interesting than I am....huh.

Moggy how does that work? If its your comment and it is someone elses work is it still plagerism? I am interested to find out.

The Dance....Garth Brooks

Maybe this will be my chance. I haven't been flagged before! I hope that I don't get Lori flagged though!! Sorry if I do!! Do you want me to remove the lyrics??

"If They're Old Enough to Know Better (It's better to leave them alone)" by Eddie Cantor, no relation

Row on

Row on, row no another day
May shine with brighter light
Ply, ply the oars & pull away
Thou must not come tonight

Clouds are upon the summer sky
There's thunder on the wind
Pull on, pull on & homeward hie
Nor give one look behind

Bear where thou goest the word of love
Say all that words can say
Changeless affections strength to prove
But speed upon the way

Oh like yon river would I glide
To where my heart would be
My bark should soon outsail the tide
That hurries to the sea

But yet a star shines constant still
Through yonder cloudy sky
And hope as bright my bosom stills
From faith that can not die

Row on, row on God speed the way
Thou must not linger here
Storms hang about the closing day
Tomorrow may be clear

a lament found by Gail Huntington in an 1864 journal
from the New Bedford Whaler "Three Brothers"
Tune by Tim Laycock

http://bobdylan.com/songs/itsalright.html

It's Alright Ma (I'm only bleeding) - Bob Dylan


Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.

So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.

As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.

You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.

While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.



Copyright © 1965; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music

Hard to pick one. Another is "The Dirty Dozens" by Speckled Red. I used to think "I'm a Bear in a Lady's Boudoir" by Ukulele Ike was me but I'm not so sure now. These days it's "Lead Pencil Blues" by Johnny Temple. I gotta get prescription drug insurance.

Lori, your article can be flagged because of someone else's comments, that is one of the options under the flagging system. The only reason I pointed it out is because it would be a shame if you got flagged, this is a fun article.

You can only quote small portions of someone elses work and give them credit to make it not plagarism. You can't quote the whole thing, like some folks are insisting on doing here. You know how many self appointed Gather policy roam the halls here!

Fun game Lori. I'm enjoying everyone elses responses.

Live Like You Were Dying by Tim McGraw:
I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Shu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'

If I had any copyrighted songs or routines and somebody used them I'd talk to some of my friends. I don't believe in lawyers except in case of arrest.

That's the right way to do it. I got kneecapped one time in Philly because I was using this other guys jokes. I would have done the same to him.

Hmmm. When I saw the question, I started humming the perfect tune. Then my fibro fog kicked in and I completely forgot what it was. Guess that would mean my life was like..."A foggy day...in old London town..." That's older than me (and dirt, I think). Seriously. Or rather not so seriously, the next tune that came to mind was "Zippity Doo Dah." The first was something similar.

But I also usually use, "We've Only Just Begun" as my theme. Even at 55, each new day is a new beginning. A clean slate ready to be written upon or an artist's canvas waiting to be painted.

Interesting I did know that you can get flagged for things that people say in a comment but I didnt realize it was plagerism...thanks Moggy. I guess you do learn something everyday.

"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen. I like Tim Buckley's cover the best.

Also, "Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me A Mercedes Benz" - music and lyrics by Michael McClure, sung by Janis Joplin.

Jesus Don't Want me for a Sunbeam- Nirvana

Jump by Van Halen .... Might as well jump. Can't you see me standing by the record machine, if you know what I mean. ....

"32 Flavors" by Ani DiFranco -- and many others, though that's always the one that comes to mind first. (and maybe "cornflake girl" by tori amos -- "never was a cornflake girl.... hangin' with the raisin girls" -- guess you gotta hear it to understand.)

to chime in on the lyrics/flagging issue -- quoting and attributing someone's else's work in a comment or post is acceptable if it's in a larger context and your added content makes it your own. in this case, i would argue that the context of the lyrics applying to your life could count to fulfill this requirement. but it's an arbitrary call with no black and white answers.

either way, i'm not gonna flag it (i'm not sure if i've ever flagged anything anyway). though, as a general rule of thumb, i would probably stick to only quoting the pieces of a song's lyrics that are particularly relevant, rather than the whole song.

Standing Outside The Fire by Garth Brooks

Life is not tried, it is merely survived, if you're standing outside the fire.

That's easy. It's just my personal philosophy - You never know how many days you get so you've gotta love like every day may be your last.

'Cause if the sun never rises, I wanna go down in flames.
I want the last thing I hear to be you whisperin' my name.
If every moment together is time that we borrowed,
Hold me tight and love me like there's no tomorrow.

"Love me like there's no tomorrow" by Trace Atkin (off his Chrome album.)

comfortably numb pink floyd

Truckin' - the Dead.

How about a poem instead? I know, no one read poetry any more but I'd nominate Longfellow's "Psalm of Life."

Excellent choice. I'd say that song is up there for me. But I love a fan of John Lennon's, who I would like to imagine is playing in that heavenly band with all of the Beatles past...Elliott Smith speaks so much to my life's feelings, and touches the innermost spots of my soul. The songs by him that I really feel speak to me are: Pictures of Me, and Go By. But almost every song he has written really resonates well with my soul.