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This is a thread where you can post song lyrics that you found as being inspirational and moving.. like the lyrics I will post below speak for themselves!

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7. Hands Held High
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Music by: Linkin Park
Lyrics by: Mike Shinoda
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Turn my mike up louder I got to say something
Light weights step to the side when we come in
Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping
People on the street they panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping
Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
**** that I wanna see some fists pumping
Risk something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for
Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In their living room laughing like "what did he say?"

[Chorus]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
[End Chorus]

In my living room watching but I am not laughing
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen
World is cold the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
Ten years old it's something to see
Another kid my age drug under a jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me
Do you see the soldiers they're out today
They brush the dust from bullet proof vests away
It's ironic at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
My dad he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"

[Chorus]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen

With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[End Chorus]

Band: Sick Of It All

Song: Step Down

In the underground, integrity lies within
in the underground, image doesn't mean a thing
when the substance lacks it's plain for all to see
if the deal is right then respect is where it should be.

For the fakes and frauds it's a ******* fashion show
total compromise will have them sell their soul.
all the negative all the useless influence
all the emptiness all the violent detriment
makes no sense...

Please have more to give than fashion and images
please have more to give than fashion and images

Caught up in a trap of media crap that's no way to live
Caught up in a trap of media crap so little to give
Caught up in a trap of media crap that's no way to live
Caught up in a trap of media crap so little to give

In the underground, integrity lies within
in the underground, image doesn't mean a thing
we can do away with this negativity
it's a golden day we can force them to stepdown


(just one which came to my head, probably not the most influential to me as a person but it is very high on my list http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RkyxNa2W9o )

John Lennon - Imagine

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Win The Race

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Music by:Modern Talking
Lyrics by:Dieter Bohlen
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We can win the race...
We can win the race...



We have a dream, you'll win tonight,
Take the chance, take the chance, God is on your side,
We pray for you, you're like a hurricane,
You can win, you can win, you can win the game,
Try the impossible, we want a miracle,
And there are milion fans around,
Our dream is free, we want the victory,
The hero is back in town...

[chorus]
Oh come on, we, we can win the race,
Oh he, fights just face to face,
Oh see, he will win the game, again, again, again,
Oh come on, we, we can win the race,
Oh he, he will take the chance,
Oh, only the strong survive,
We'll stay by your side...
[end chorus]

We have a dream, we don't give up,
We can win, we can win, right from the start,
The price is high, time is on your side,
Take the chance, take the chance,
You'll win tonight,
I know you are the best, you can beat the rest,
We'll never let you down,
You have the energy, we want the victory,
The hero is back in town...


Oh you can win the race,
You'll win again, again,
Again, again, again.

Band: Disturbed
Song: Land Of Confusion

I must have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street

Now, did you read the news today?
They say the danger has gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
They're burning into the night

There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in

Oh, superman, where are you now?
When everything's gone wrong somehow?
The men of steel, these men of power
Are losing control by the hour

This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go around
Tell me why this is a land of confusion

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in

I remember long ago
When the sun was shining
And all the stars were bright all through the night
In the wake of this madness, as I held you tight
So long ago

I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know we'll never keep

There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go round
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?

Now, this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for

This is the world we live in
And these are the names we're given
Stand up and let's start showing
Just where our lives are going to

Great song jose.. That song is originally done by Genesis on the Invisible Touch album and was written by Phil Collins.. And Disturbed really rocked it out hard on their rendition of it!

Link to original verison of this song's lyrics by Collins
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/genesis/land_of_confusion.html

Yeah! Dropkick Murphys what its all about!!!

Title: If Everyone Cared
By: Nickelback

From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you’d be mine
But here we are, we’re here tonight

Singing Amen, I’m alive
Singing Amen, I’m alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We’d see the day when nobody died
And I’m singing

Amen I, I’m alive
Amen I, I’m alive

And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We’ll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen I’m alive
Singing Amen I’m alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We’d see the day when nobody died
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We’d see the day when nobody died

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We’d see the day when nobody died

We’d see the day, we’d see the day
When nobody died
We’d see the day, we’d see the day
When nobody died
We’d see the day when nobody died

Love that song!

John Cale: Hallelujah

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Baby I've been here before, I know this room
I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the Marble Arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above, all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who out drew you
And it's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah

I love that song! It's really pretty.

I would say the most song that has done that to me that really, just stood out oh there is a lot of those which changed my life for me the top is by the Best Rock artist, and best selling, besides oldies. Is NickelBack's songs keenly sings, Such as Someday, Savin' me, Far away, If everyone cared, Photograph, Who I really am, (How you remind me)
I would say for now it would be "Who I Really Am" Because to me all songs in end kind of go to this song, going to other things "I've been wrong" About things you done points of view of others in their way of seeing the world. "I've been down" Times of depression really being put down company friends, in a way of saying I lost someone and was sad depression in a single word for it. With "Never made it as a wise man." Not being smart or not enough or not being able to do what you want to do and every lyric is much like that I could go on forever about it my favorite part is "Are we having fun Yet? Yet? Yet?...Yet? No..." Because the overall thing of what everyone wants is..Fun. Right? being at ease good memories but you never seem to get there, that's me any away. I like the softer version of it then the rock one of this song well look at for your self. All the lyrics are just perfect.

"How You Remind Me"

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
Tired of living like a blind man
I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
for handing you a heart worth breaking
and I've been wrong, i've been down,
been to the bottom of every bottle
these five words in my head
scream "are we having fun yet?"

yet, yet, yet? no, no
yet, yet, yet? no, no...

it's not like you didn't know that
I said I love you and I swear I still do
And it must have been so bad
Cause living with me must have ***** near killed you

And this is how, you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how, you remind me
Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
for handing you a heart worth breaking
and I've been wrong, i've been down,
been to the bottom of every bottle
these five words in my head
scream "are we having fun yet?"

yet, yet, yet, no, no
yet, yet, yet, no, no
yet, yet, yet, no, no
yet, yet, yet, no, no...

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
Of what i really am
This is how you remind me
Of what i really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
for handing you a heart worth breaking
and I've been wrong, i've been down,
been to the bottom of every bottle
these five words in my head
scream "are we having fun yet?"
are we having fun yet?
are we having fun yet?
are we having fun yet, yet, yet, yet, yet? No...No...

((Don't call me NickelBack lover he is my most respected rock artist and I know things about him I looked into research on the band so don't call me that. Where I first heard the song was on Youtube lol here is the link if wish to hear the softer one that is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91NIi9n9o20 ))

"Valkyrie Missile"
by Angels & Airwaves

(note: there's a 2 minute intro before the singing starts, but there's kind of this dialogue which I'll put in quotes)

- "Can you hear me out there I can hear you"
+ "I got you I can hear you, over."
(drums)
-"...feels strange..."
+"We're on a mission, something new..."
-"This is the scariest thing I've ever done in my life..."
+"Who do we think we are?"
-"Angels and Airwaves? We're gonna count down from ten mega 2."
+"I can see the sun coming up on the horizon"
(instrumental part for about 20 seconds. dialogue continues, but you can't really make out what they're saying. Then singing starts)

Everyone, everyone will listen,
even if it hurts sometimes.
If you will, come and hear the message.
Everyone wants to learn to love again,
open up and come alive.
And if you will, can you hear the message?
Leave your pain on the bedroom floor again,
bring a smile to survive.
And do you think that you have it in you?
If you're here and you're all alone tonight,
then I'll give you a free ride.
Take a chance 'cause I know you want to...

If only
you'll hold on, just hold on,
I'm here and, I'm with you,
I'm here too,
I feel you,
we'll get through,
I know this,
I've seen it!
a hundred times,
a thousand times,
just one more time,
with you and I,
I'll pull you close,
and then we'll say goodbye.

(instrumental)

Got a lot oh hell of a lot to say,
even if it hurts sometimes,
and if you will, come and hear the message.
Everyone, everyone will hope and pray,
that the best will sure survive.
And if it's true, then you'll feel the message.
A perfect life for a perfect, brand new day,
and we're the next in line...
And do you think that you have it in you?
If you're here and you're curious tonight,
then I'll give you a free ride,
Take a chance, 'cause I know you want to.

If only
you'll hold on, just hold on,
I'm here and, I'm with you,
I'm here too,
I feel you,
we'll get through,
I know this,
I've seen it!
a hundred times,
a thousand times,
just one more time,
with you and I,
I'll pull you close,
and then we'll say goodbye.

(Dialogue from beginning resumes. most of the words can't be made out, except the last two:)
-"Who do we think we are?"
+"We're Angels and Airwaves"

This is from Helloween's new Album: Gambling with the Devil
Come On-Helloween

When you feel weak
When you feel small
I tell you theres a beast inside you yet unknown
When times get rough
And you´re being played
(You) y' ain't gonna flinch or run away cry like a babe

I say that you'd be so surprised seeing what is in for you
If after all you'd still deny it theres nothing I can do
listen up...
come along...

Well you can do it
There's nothing to it
When all others turn their backs on you
There is still yourself to prove it to that

You can do it
There's nothing to it
If the whole ***** world abandoned you
You´re the only one worth listening to

So, come one come on come on...
come on come on -Get on...

Now look at you
Wearing a crown
Having achieved now all your dreams in just one go
What did I say?
You got it made
Still pondering on the spiteful things of long ago?
-no!
I said that you'd be so surprised seeing what is in for you
Now after all that has been done you know what you can do
listen up...
come along...

Well you can do it
There's nothing to it
When all others turn their backs on you
There is still yourself to prove it to that

You can do it
There's nothing to it
If the whole ***** world abandoned you
You´re the only one worth listening to

So, come one come on come on...
come on come on -Get on...

come one come on come on...
come on come on -Get on...

Well you can do it
There's nothing to it
When all others turn their backs on you
There is still yourself to prove it to that

You can do it
There's nothing to it
If the whole ***** world abandoned you
You´re the only one worth listening to

So, come one come on come on...
come on come on -Get on...