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I’ve decided to spend what may very well be my last few posts here at MDB highlighting some of what I consider to be “heavy” songs: songs that really have something significant to say; that represent some kind of profound commentary on society, the human condition, life, death, and the often futile nature of our fleeting existence. This first song is what made me think of starting this thread. I already referenced it on the other thread commenced by Kimberly Ann.

I invite all of you to also contribute some of your personal selections for this category of songs. Hopefully, even if we will never agree when it comes to the religious questions discussed elsewhere on this board, we can at least benefit from each other’s recommendations on these “heavy” songs. I look forward to being “turned on” to some new music as a result of the posts that will be made on this thread.

This is the classic Pink Floyd song from The Dark Side of the Moon.

Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
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
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 quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say


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This is the final song on the final album of the 70’s era Eagles, probably the greatest song-writing American band of all time. It is an absolutely classic sad song; somewhat haunting and, to me, lyrically quite profound. I consider it the requiem to the fleeting youth of the baby boomer era.

The Sad café
- The Eagles

Out in the shiny night
The rain was softly falling
The tracks that ran down the boulevard
Had all been washed away

Out of the silver light
The past came softly calling
And I remember the times we spent
Inside the sad café

Oh, it seemed like a holy place,
Protected by amazing grace
And we would sing right out loud
The things we could not say
We thought we could change this world
With words like "love" and "freedom"
We were part of the lonely crowd
Inside the sad café

All expecting to fly
We would meet on that beautiful shore
In the sweet by and by

Some of their dreams came true
Some just passed away
And some of them stayed behind
Inside the sad café

The clouds rolled in
And hid that shore
Now that glory train
It don’t stop here no more
Now I look at the years gone by
And wonder at the powers that be
I don’t know why fortune smiles on some
And lets the rest go free

Maybe the time has drawn faces I recall
But things in this life change very slowly
If they ever change at all
No use in asking why
It just turned out that way
So meet me at midnight baby
Inside the sad café
Why don’t you meet me at midnight baby
Inside the sad café

I actually used lines from this song in a priesthood lesson regarding forgiveness. How holding a grudge against someone labels them and you and stops your progression because you are unable to forgive. I love this song, its not only rich lyrically but the music and timing and structure are amazing as well.



Live performance - The Grudge

Audio only - The Grudge

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip em to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.

Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what you will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper.

Defining, confining, sinking deeper. Controlling, defining, and we're sinking
deeper.

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Let's you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.

Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone to
Consume you till you choose to let this go.
Choose to let this go.

Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated
anchor.
Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges
into gold.

Let go.

William Schryver wrote:I’ve decided to spend what may very well be my last few posts here at MDB highlighting some of what I consider to be “heavy” songs: songs that really have something significant to say; that represent some kind of profound commentary on society, the human condition, life, death, and the often futile nature of our fleeting existence. This first song is what made me think of starting this thread. I already referenced it on the other thread commenced by Kimberly Ann.

I invite all of you to also contribute some of your personal selections for this category of songs. Hopefully, even if we will never agree when it comes to the religious questions discussed elsewhere on this board, we can at least benefit from each other’s recommendations on these “heavy” songs. I look forward to being “turned on” to some new music as a result of the posts that will be made on this thread.

This is the classic Pink Floyd song from The Dark Side of the Moon.

Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
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
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 quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say


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Wow, those songs on Dark Side of the Moon are more meaningful to me than most songs on planet earth. I remember when I was only 12 years old (1974). I was dropping acid with my older brother and tripping to Pink Floyd. How can I forget the strangeness of those experiences? Dropping acid and getting lost in the music -- meanwhile my parrents were too stupid to realize what was going on. I couldn't eat a thing and I couldn't stop laughing! Church on Sunday? Hell no!

To this day when I listen to Dark Side of the Moon there is almost a reverence for that music because it touched me in very deep ways that just moved my soul. Indeed, that album in a strange way is simply sacred. I know that sounds bad but I figure you understand, Will. At least, I hope so.

Paul O

I actually used lines from this song in a priesthood lesson regarding forgiveness.

Chuckles!

I actually used a line from Led Zeppelin's Misty Mountain Hop for a sacrament talk when I was in the singles ward in Dallas Texas.



Paul O

Paul Osborne wrote:

I actually used lines from this song in a priesthood lesson regarding forgiveness.

Chuckles!

I actually used a line from Led Zeppelin's Misty Mountain Hop for a sacrament talk when I was in the singles ward in Dallas Texas.



Paul O

I sat in sacrament one sunday and started giggling when I heard a speaker quoting lines from Rush's Closer to the Heart. Was so funny.

Man made machines make music for the man
Now machines make music while the man makes plans
A second generation, a generation lost
While the man prepares for the holocaust

Man made machines to control the days
Now machines control while the man obeys
A second generation, a generation lost
While machines prepare for the holocaust

How's that for short, sweet, and heavy?

I actually used a line from Led Zeppelin's Misty Mountain Hop for a sacrament talk when I was in the singles ward in Dallas Texas.

LOL! Which one? I love that song.

I'm guessing it was one of these....

"Hey, Boy, do you wanna score?"

"I didn't notice but it had got very dark and I was really,
Really out of my mind."

"Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see,
And Baby, Baby, Baby, do you like it?"

"If you go down in the streets today, Baby, you better,
You better open your eyes."

Grateful Dead
Attics Of My Life

In the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal.
Full of tastes no tongue can know, and lights no eyes can see.
When there was no ear to hear, you sang to me.

I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung.
Bent my ear to hear the tune, and closed my eyes to see.
When there was no strings to play, you played to me.

In the book of loves own dream, where all the print is blood.
Where all the pages are my days, and all the lights grow old.
When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me, you flew to me.

In the secret space of dreams, where I dreaming lay amazed.
When the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold.
When there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me.