What are the truest lyrics you ever read?
 

Sorry if this is a little unsuited for this forum, but I really wanted to hear some sensible replies.

My suggestion is from 'Nature Boy':

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."

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Secret O' Life by James Taylor

The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time
There aint nuthin to it
Any fool can do it

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You smoked me like a cigarette
I was burned, I was cast aside
You knew what you couldn't get
So you settled for my pride

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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

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Everything counts in large amounts

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As I noted in another thread the other day,

"We're all just teenage enema nurses in bondage."

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Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue:
We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view.

Favorite by far. I don't know what it is, happiness, contentedness, I don't know, but at our core we all want the same thing. How we get there is how we are different.

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Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue:
We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view.

Favorite by far. I don't know what it is, happiness, contentedness, I don't know, but at our core we all want the same thing. How we get there is how we are different.

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(from the same song?):
She was married when we first met,
Soon to be divorced;
Helped her out of a jam I guess,
but I used a little too much force.

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i wish i didnt know now what i didnt know then

against the wind by bob seger

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Seger sometimes seems so minor, but at his best, he's one hell of a lyricist.

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Some Thought From Me

A Song About Love (amongst other things) - David Bowie - Heroes

And you
You can be mean
And I
I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers
And that is a fact
Yes we're lovers
And that is that

A Song About Addiction - Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine

boney's high on china white, shorty found a punk, don't you know there ain't
no devil, there's just god when he's drunk, well this stuff will probably kill
you, let's do another line, what you say you meet me down on heartattack and
vine.

see that little jersey girl in the see-through top, with the peddle pushers
sucking on a soda pop, well i bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-
five 'til nine, you can see a million of 'em on heartattack and vine.

A Sonf About Heartbreak - Radiohead - Thinking About You

Been thinking about you, and there's no rest,
should I still love you, still see you in bed.
But I'm playing with myself, what do you care,
when I'm not there.

All the things you've got,
she'll never need,
all the things you've got.
I've bled and I bleed to please you.

Been thinking about you.

A Song About War (or at least its what I feel the track is about) - Pink Floyd - Vera

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you
Does anybody else in here
Feel the way I do ?

A Protest Song - Whats going on - Marvin Gaye
Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

A song about love... or is it? - Lou Reed - Perfect Day

Just a perfect day
you made me forget myself
I thought I was
someone else, someone good

I have no idea what this means - Kaizers Orchestra - Kontrol Pa Kontinent

Den skal vær mann som kan gå med min hatt
Den skal vær kald som tar øve mi makt
Den skal ha nr 42 for å gå med mine sko