The song includes the key lines, “Youth ain’t wasted on the young/ These trips around the sun/ I needed every one/ To get where I’m standing now/ It’s an uphill road to run,” a nod to how surviving through hard times have helped give heightened appreciation of brighter days ...
Why it's about Harry Styles: "Clean," the closing track off of "1989," sums up Swift's journey of heartbreak and surviving it, having come out on the other side of the pain. When in London, Swift realized that she had been in the same city as her ex for the past two weeks and...
The song references the struggle of trying to stay alive in the rough streets of New York City. They reference multiple times how surviving each day is a victory in itself. Although we may not all be trying to survive the cities of NYC this song is very relevant to our current situation ...
In this first-person Western RPG, the player takes on the role of Courier 6, barely surviving after being robbed of their cargo, shot and put into a shallow grave by a New Vegas mob boss. The Courier sets out to track down their robbers and retrieve their cargo, a...
. This verse serves as a final rejection of the habit despite being tempted to dwell back on it. When asked more broadly about the meaning of the tune, Kiedis had to say: “It’s about surviving, starting fresh. I’ve made a mess of everything, but I have a blank slate—a canvas...
There are various stories about whom or what this song is really about, but in the end the critical undertones seem sophomoric; after all, the Beatles had been surviving on amphetamines for nearly a decade. And even hypocrisy would be okay if it were done artfully; the lyrics are among ...
Lady Gaga expressed regret over her 2013 collaboration with R. Kelly from her albumArtpopafter he was accused of sexual assault by dozens of women in the documentarySurviving R. Kelly.In a lengthy statement shared on January 9, 2018, Gaga said she would never work with him again, and annou...
and pumpkin-spice lattes. While he doesn't shy away from examining the depressing side of surviving the holiday season as an aging 20-, 30-, 40-something, Murphy does at least give a glimmer of hope to grab onto, transient and fleeting though it may be, as he refrains, "But I'm ...
“Mind Playing Tricks On Me,” 5th Ward Houston legends Geto Boys turned that trope on its head, revealing the PTSD, trauma, and horror that comes with surviving poverty in the ghetto. Scarface raps, “Day by day it’s more impossible to cope/I feel like I’m the one that’s doin...
It’s a languid, sun-drenched celebration of a former Broadway Gangster Crip surviving multiple trips to the pen. It’s a legit, Black-owned brand minted from a lifelong hustler who graduated from the corners at 13 years old. Perico’s vocal cadence brings back a Raiders-fitted Eazy E, ...