De Souza admits fault one moment (“I’m sorry, I never meant to / Stay out so late, I got carried away”), then refuses the next (“Were you losing your head over something that you lost?”). By the song’s end, she sings her initial question again and again with all her migh...
Losing everything and feeling that there is no purpose left except emptiness and hopelessness that is deeply rooted in the very core of a lost soul. Remembering the hopes and dreams once believed in, and feeling them slip away into the darkness as a symbolic emotion of nothingness. By no me...
Say Something by A Great Big WorldA more recent song about a couple losing contact with each other. The piano part is very little playing but beautiful.American Pie by Don McLeanAnother song from my youth in the 80s, very popular with almost every American of my generation. It retells ...
This song, popular in the 1990s, was an anthem for change and growth. It says that the way we learn is through living, loving, losing, and bleeding. That’s what life is all about. You might not like it, you might scream about it, but it’s the only way forward. 20.Changing of...
Now that we have established music as a powerful tool when discussing emotions and memory recall, let’s look at a few songs that may help us remember good times with our lost loved ones. 1. Queen: “These Are the Days of Our Lives” This song by Queen is all about remembering the...
“Losing My Religion” The Rolling Stones Michael Putland // Getty Images The Rolling Stones Songs Over One Billion Spotify Streams: “Paint It Black” Smash Mouth Brenda Chase, Getty Images Smash Mouth Songs Over One Billion Spotify Streams: ...
Chinouriri keeps her cool as the guitars chug behind her and she spins one of the most infectious choruses out of England in recent memory. On “Never Need Me,” a call from an old flame is met with apprehension, and self-confidence: “If you can’t change, I doubt that I can ...
The song comes from deep in the Beatles’ memory. It was a well-known Liverpool seafarin’ ditty — complete with local geographic references to where the happy, larcenous hooker had plied her trade — they’d learned at a young age. 93. “Across the Universe,” Let It Be (1970) ...
16. “You’re Losing Me” (Midnights) “You’re Losing Me” begins with a heartbeat and an exhale, as if Taylor is warning us: get ready. But nothing can prepare you for “how long could we be a sad song / ’til we were too far gone to bring back to life?” The second of ...
The lyrics reveal a narrator who, once devastated at the thought of losing his partner, now finds clarity and strength in moving on. Lines like, “Well, I needed you once / But now I’m standing alone” reflect a hard-won independence that resonates with anyone who has come out the ot...