People Are Sharing The Most Beautiful Lyrics They’ve Ever Heard, And There’s A Tear In My Eye
On the always chatty r/AskReddit subreddit, Reddit user u/KurtsBeyond11 asked music lovers to share the single most beautiful lyric they’ve ever read or heard. Here are just some of the responses that prove music is such a beautiful art that moves us all:
1. “Well, I’ve been afraid of changing cause I’ve built my life around you.” — Fleetwood Mac – “Landslide” (Life Becoming A Landslide (Live))
2. “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky, but why, why, why can’t it be, oh can’t it be mine?” — Pearl Jam – “Black” (Ten)
3. “But there are dreams that cannot be, and there are storms we cannot weather.” — Various Artists – “I Dreamed a Dream” (Les Misérables)
6. “How wonderful life is, while you’re in the world.” — Elton John – “Your Song” (Elton John)
7. “Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows lies the seed that with the sun’s love, in the spring becomes the rose.” — Bette Midler – “The Rose” (The Rose)
8. “Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name.” — Pearl Jam – “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Vs.)
“I don’t know why, but I always thought that was hauntingly beautiful. The whole song is beautifully written for that matter, but that line really stands out for some reason.”
9. “Don’t waste your time on me, you’re already the voice inside my head.” — Blink-182 – “I Miss You” (Blink-182)
12. “Breathe out so I can breathe you in.” — Foo Fighters – “Everlong” (The Colour and the Shape)
13. “Losing love is like a window in your heart; everybody sees you’re blown apart. Everybody feels the wind blow.” — Paul Simon – “Graceland” (Graceland)
15. “But you don’t really care for music, do you.” — Leonard Cohen – “Hallelujah” (Various Positions)
17. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” — Nat King Cole – “Nature Boy” (The Nat King Cole Story)
18. “Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world. I want to be the one to walk in the sun.” —Cyndi Lauper – “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” (She’s So Unusual)
21. “Closing time, time for you to go out, to the places you will be from.” — Semisonic – “Closing Time” (Feeling Strangely Fine)
22. “When the day that lies ahead of me, seems impossible to face, when someone else instead of me, always seems to know the way, then I look at you, and the worlds alright with me, just one look at you, and I know, it’s gonna be, a lovely day.” — Bill Withers – “Lovely Day” (Menagerie)
24. “And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” — The Beatles – “The End” (Abbey Road)
25. “I woke up this morning, I don’t believe what I saw. A hundred million bottles washed up on the shore. Seems I’m not alone in being alone. A hundred million castaways. Looking for a home.” — The Police – “Message In A Bottle” (The Police: Certifiable)
27. “She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.” — Al Stewart – “Year of the Cat” (Year of the Cat)
“I just visualize this line whenever I hear it and it makes me happy.”
28. “My house of stone, your ivy grows, and now I’m covered in you.” —Taylor Swift – “Ivy” (evermore)
29. “And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations, they’re quite aware of what they’re going through.” — David Bowie “Changes” (Hunky Dory)
“It resonated with me as a kid from one side, and now as an older adult from the other.”
