Were there ever lines in songs that hit you as deep philosophy?

The Doors, Roadhouse Blues...(Jim Is A god)

You gotta roll, roll, roll

You gotta thrill my soul, all right

Roll, roll, roll, roll

To thrill my soul

You gotta beepa concha too chomp

Ko ko ko kah don-ta

Ate japoona may-jah

Bop a lula he-cho

Bop a mee-cho

He some funk, hey ride

...It's only over your head if you sink too deep. That's the beauty...it's all about what you make of life, and no one can tell you how to be you better than yourself. We Shamans are only guides to your soul, you take it from there.

Tons:

'What we once thought we had we didn't

And what we have now will never be the same

So I call upon the author to explain.'

--Nick Cave's 'We Call Upon the Author'

'If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn

They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem'

--Leonard Cohen's 'Sisters of Mercy'

'But I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must send away

We must try to find a new answer instead of a way'

--Jim Morrison (more from Zarathustra than Birth of Tragedy)

'Some women wait for Jesus, and some women wait for Cain

So I hang upon my altar, and I hoist my axe again.

And I take the one who finds me, back to where it all began,

When Jesus was the honeymoon and Cain was just the man.'

--Leonard Cohen 'Last Years Man'

I'll stop now. I think almost any Leonard Cohen could make this list. Dylan and Kobain have some good ones too.

@Wesley: 'Nobody's Fault But Mine', 1976, Presence; originally recorded by Blind Willie Johnson circa 1927-1930; Blind Willie's photograph is on the cover of Led Zeppelin II. Mine: "Don't it make you feel bad? When you're trying to find your way home you don't know which way to go? When you're going down south and there's no work to do/ And you're going on to Chicago/..." - from 'When The Levee Breaks', Led Zeppelin IV, 1971; *** originally written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. For me, Robert Plant's angstful wail of this lyric grips my soul with a firm cold hand as I visualize the dismay & heartbreak of the people devastated by the 1927 Mississippi River Flood for which this song was written. Jimmy Page's following slide guitar solo brings it emotionally home with an exclamation point.

A song usually pops into my head to remind me that I'm supposed to have emotions...example: during one of the most painful times in my life the song "I Am A Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel would absolutely stick in my brain..."...a rock feels no pain...and an island never cries".

The one that has always stood out to me is:

"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed." That is from the song "Man that you fear" by MM. If you like Nietzsche, you will like Marilyn Manson..yeah most people think that he's creepy but he writes some very deep songs.

Here's my favorite song (at least often enough to be claimed as such fairly often) ~ was lucky enough to hear it on the way home today :-)

U2 ~ One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o

The whole song. He makes a ton of good points when it comes to relationships.

from before...

So, so many....

Here's a great link:

http://www.rockwisdom.com/

I'll go with #12 on their list....

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ~ Semisonic, Closing Time

Every time I hear it I think how true...

"I've heard you say many times that you're better than no one, and no one is better than you.

If you really believe that you know you got nothing to win, and nothing to lose."

Dylan - To Ramona

"Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously,

but then again, not too many can be like you, fortunately"

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"To live outside the law, you must be honest,

I know you always say that you agree . . . . "

Dylan - Absolutely Sweet Marie

"Strangers passing in the street by chance do separate glances meet. And I am you and what I see is me"

Pink Floyd's Echoes

I think anything written by the late Kurt Cobaine is philosophical.

The Beatles "The End" has this line:

"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"