Music Lyric Quotes
For the best music lyric quotes, look not to what they show you on MTV or on your main FM station. You’ll have to dig a little, to find the songs from all periods and all genres that will give you something meaningful that you can use to get on with your life, or even to improve your life. Good lyrics aren’t vapid, and they aren’t empty. The Britney Spears, Avril Lavignes and Miley Cyruses are okay for teeny boppers who might shirk personal responsibility for a while longer in their lives, but for the rest of us who have serious issues to grapple with and things in life that we’d like to achieve, we will look to a more diverse array of artists and across genres to find the soul food that we need.
They say the downtrodden make some of the best music, if only out of necessity, and it’s true that we will find some of the best and most uplifting lyrics that, while they may deal with the topics of heartbreak and oppression, like in the blues, they also provide comfort and the strength to go on to change one’s life for the better. Artists like Ernie Hines, who sang in the song “Our Generation” that “It’s all up to us/ Let’s do just what we must/ To straighten it out)”. He sings of the abuse of power, how the powers that be send “the people” to fight their wars, how they preach one thing and do another. A very cognizant observation when it was written back during the social turmoil of the 60s and 70s, and just as true of the situation in the United States today.
Another soul song with a killer groove and the heartfelt, positive lyrics to match, is by Raw Soul Express. With direct, uplifting lyrics, the chorus goes “The way we live/ Is what we give”. Very simple lyrics, but in the context of the overall music lyric quotes, as well as the irrepressible way they are sung, it’s guaranteed to get you moving and feeling better about life.
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