What is the best song lyrically? In meaning of the words, depth, and rythm.

that one your wrote with alistar :|

good one...

hey hey thanks man

Glass and the Ghost Children - Smashing Pumpkins

2112 - Rush

She's got the Jack-AC/DC

"Dogs" by Pink Floyd... It took me several years to understand what the lyrics meant as I first heard the song before I entered into the working world... Then the lyrics all made sense about how the corporate world works... Cynical in nature, but the lyrics really are important to know how the world works and how the mighty dollar rules all... Understanding how those in power "operate" can help you to function within any system..


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Great choice, Syd, like you, it took me a while to find out the meaning of that song. I like songs like that though, that have a bit of a shadowed meaning. The meaning of the song is there, but you have to apply the song to different situations to find it.

Imagine by John Lennon is a great song lyrically becuase it has meaning, and it won't lose it's meaning overtime, like the great compositions of Johann Strauss, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. Here, read. Yes, I compared John Lennon to the greatest composers ever, that's how highly I regard him, he's a genius, in my mind.

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 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 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

A country songwriter of some note once told me that a good song shouldn't need a pamplet to explain what it's saying...that's why it has a lyric. To me, Hal David is the best lyricist who ever did the work(he did all the Burt Baccarach stuff). His lyrics are simple and profound and most of all: they serve the melody. '' Do You Know the Way to San Jose" is one elegant example.Listen to that song and imagine being handed the melody!... but really, he never missed a beat with any song he had a hand in.

I would say Imagine is the most important song to me.... or Come As You Are (about trying to be urself etc)
Even though i'm sick of both songs

keep in mind these are just the songs I connect to with most.. and have had the biggest impact on my current prespective on life.