| Creed – What's This Life For Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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While the song clearly has religious overtones, to object to the song for the simple use of "God Damn" in it, is at best foolish and short sighted. At worst, it's socially irresponsible. This song deals with key issues facing too many people these days, young, old, healthy, sick. There are all kinds of pain in this world, and this song can help some of them get through it. As for the person who asked "who can know someone's soul?", I can. I've had the luck to be close enough to a few people in my life that I truely was able to look at them and know what was going on deep in their soul. One was when I was stationed in the Gulf, back in the early 90s, antoher was a friend back home who was going through a divorce. There were two others but these two took the time for helping them to get through what they called "the toughest time of their lives". If you open your heart to someone you can find the same kind of connection. That is what this song is trying to let people know at it's heart. That people are not alone, there are others, if only we can open our hearts and let them in, and they in turn do the same. This song is about hope, inspite of any religious overtones. |
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| The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| when looking at this song you need to take it in the context of the album as a whole. Days of Future Passed, is an album that charts a mans life across a day. Additionally, you'll find listening to the entire album that the spoken stanza at the end of the song is only a part a poem spoken in the opening song of the album, a mere reprise (more on this later). In the process of talking of a man's life they finally reach the end, the "night", the white satin spoken of is not a bed sheet as some might think, it is in fact the lining of the coffin in which we lay at the end of life, an ending that goes on "never reaching an end". This song is actually the long lament of a man looking back on his life, regretting things he didn't do, chances he didn't take, particularly of never making known his love for woman he once knew. Now, back to that bit about the spoken lament at the end, the final five lines are the same that start the album, symbolizing that our endings are the same as our beginings, or to put it another way, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust". For anyone who only knows the song, I recommend that at least once in your life, you take the time to take it all in, in full context of the entire album start to finish. It helps to put it all in perspective. | |
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