What are some good songs that provide you with a moment of clarity?

Actually that happened a couple of days ago when I was listening to the song It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) by Bob Dylan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8UqstzNlU

I especially like the lines:

"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. Do what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in."

I just think that there's a lot of people in the world that feel like that. People that have a lot of aspirations but then see them unfulfilled and end up getting jobs that they hate and become kinda disillusioned with life and the world in general

BQ: Archives Of Pain - Manic Street Preachers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUcoZba6cI

All Is Vanity - Manic Street Preachers

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

A lot of the Manics songs make me feel like that actually.

BQ2: Every time I do some spring cleaning.

Time by Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town

Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain

And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

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

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in a quiet desperation is the English way

The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again

I like to be here when I can

And when I come home cold and tired

Its good to warm my bones beside the fire

Far away across the field

the tolling of the iron bells

calls the faithful to their knees

to hear the softly spoken magic spells

In The End and Something For Nothing, both by Rush. They both make Me realize why I am alive.

A2: Closer by NIN

BA: No, I am fortunate in that I don't have an addictive type presonality.

BA2: As often as possible

Neil Young - "Don't Be Denied"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-972pm8AhQ

Contains one of my all-time favourite lyrics: "I'm a pauper in a naked disguise, a millionaire through a businessman's eyes".

Isis - "Threshold Of Transformation"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-LzfiBLuY

Listen from 4:50 until the end

A2:

The Cure - "A Forest"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZRJebBEVz0

Very disorientating.

BA: Nope

BA2: When I'm expecting company.

I was gonna say Clarity by John Mayer as well. and not just because of the title, its such a relaxing song that just makes life feel good. its the perfect song for this

There Goes My Life - Kenny Chesney - reminds me how important my daughter is to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm5DPlNCmtk

Good Stuff - Kenny Chesney - Reminds me of all thye good things in my marriage that outweighs the bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9-r5qtq2hM

I thought the same thing as Layne's answer.

Death - A Moment of Clarity.

lol

John Mayer- Clarity. Mmm irony at it's finest.

reckoner by radiohead.

it makes me see the beauty in life. everything is perfect when i listen to this song.

grizzly bear's knife, too. one of the greatest songs ever written. it makes me feel like i can do anything.

Q2:this song makes me question everything. but it woke me up.

how to disappear completely by radiohead. this performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq9t2FFh6LA

BQ: no. but i would choose knife by grizzly bear. the lyrics are perfect too. "i want you to know. when i look in your eyes..with every blow, comes another lie. you think it's alright. can't you feel the knife?"

BQ2:everyday. my minds always a mess!

Haden/Garbarek/Gismonti's rendition of Haden's "For Turiya." see below for video; it's the opening piece of the 39:07 performance.

Q2: a second vote for PiL, in my case it's for "Poptones." see below for video.

BQ: no.

BQ2: not nearly enough, I'd say...