There was a question on an app about lyrics, when it came to powerful ones. YouTube has a channel that is called Reaction Therapy where he will react to songs that get suggested to him and he will give his perspective on them. Inspiration then came now this playlist from The Inscriber Magazine will deal with Powerful Lyrics.
Of note this playlist encompasses a variety of genres and lyrics covering topics from love to mental health, there is even a history lesson.
No.1: Letdown – Empty
“I’m not cold, I’m empty. Somebody heal me, hold me, make me, know me. Hate me, no one can love me.”
No.2: The Goo Goo Dolls – Name
“And now we’re grown up orphans. And never knew their names. We don’t belong to no one, that’s a shame. But you could hide beside me, Maybe for a while. And I won’t tell no one your name. And I won’t tell ’em your name.”
No.3: Rain City Drive – Talk to a Friend
“I know everything I’ve ever done wrong. That kind of memory won’t let me move on. Though there’s bound to be some things that you ain’t told me, I could never be ashamed of you homie. I wouldn’t talk to a friend the way I talk to myself. (I’m turning my life to hell).”
No.4: Badflower – Ghost
“Take the blade away from me, I am a freak, I am afraid that, all the blood escaping me won’t end the pain. And I’ll be haunting all the lives that cared for me. I died to be the white ghost, of the man that I was meant to be, yeah.”
No.5: Nothing More – I’ll Be OK
“With open hearts, despite the stakes. We take a chance on our mistakes, a brand new day, we will embrace, an open wound that heals with grace. All the fears that we will face, in this time, and in this place. When you can say, and I can say. We loved with every step we take, I’ll be ok.”
No.6: Papa Roach – Help
“I think I need help. I’m drowning in myself. Did someone turn the lights out, or is it just another dark cloud in my head? Cause I’m cut deep, my heart won’t beat. Deep down low it’s killing me. If I wanna scratch out yesterday. I’ve got so much I need to say. (I’ve got so much I need to say). I think I need help.”
No.7: Jellyroll featuring Lainey Wilson – Save Me
“I’m a lost cause. Baby, don’t waste your time on me. I’m so damaged beyond repair. Life has shattered my hopes and my dreams. I’m a lost cause. Baby, don’t waste your time on me.”
No.8: Martina McBride – Concrete Angel
No.9: Simple Plan – Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me?)
No.10: Dax Featuring Various Artists – To Be A Man
“I can’t hide myself, I don’t expect you to understand. I just hope I can explain, what it’s like to be a man. It’s a lonely road, and they don’t care ’bout what you know. It’s not ’bout how you feel
But what you provide inside that home.”
No.11: 2 Pac – Changes
No.12: Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
No.13: Fort Minor – Kenji
“Stop it, don’t look at the gunmen. You don’t wanna get the soldiers wondering, if you’re gonna run or not. ‘Cause if you run, then you might get shot. Other than that, try not to think about it. Try not to worry ’bout it being so crowded. ‘Cause someday, we’ll get out. Someday, someday.”
No.14: Dead By Sunrise – Let Down
“And the tears fall like rain, down my face again. Oh, the words you wouldn’t say, and the games you played with my unfoolish heart. Oh, I should have known this from the start. Oh, the winter and spring. Going hand in hand just like my love and pain. How the thought of you cuts deep within the vein. Brand new skin stretched across scarred terrain.”
No.15: Five Finger Death Punch – Coming Down
“Was there ever any question on how much I could take? You kept feeding me your bullshit. Hoping I would break. Is there anybody out there? Is there anyone who cares? Is there anybody listening? Will they hear my final prayers?”
No.16: Sigrid Featuring Bring Me The Horizon – Bad Life
“Some days I’m a loser, brush my teeth in the dark. Head above water in a swimming pool of sharks. Ooh, it’s hard to get up out of bed when everything is on its head. And nothing seems to make any sense. Like a Band-Aid on a bleeding heart. I fake a smile and fall apart. And no one ever knows I’m a wreck.”
No.17: Killswitch Engage – Always
“Monuments built in remembrance of me, but monuments fade, erode and decay. The memories are all that remain (all that remain). As far as east is from the west, remember. I am with you always. From the darkness of night until the morning, I am with you always.”
No.18: Demon Hunter – I Will Fail You
“I know they prey upon me. I feel them just beyond my. I will fail you. Of that I’m sure. I will remind you of the pain forevermore. And when my sins are just a memory. Faith restored. I will fail you. To the core.
No.19: Josh Groban – You Raise Me Up
“You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains. You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas. I am strong, when I am on your shoulders. You raise me up to more than I can be.”
No.20: Toni Braxton – Un-break My Heart
“Don’t leave me in all this pain. Don’t leave me out in the rain. Bring back the nights when I held you beside me. Un-break my heart. Say you’ll love me again. Undo this hurt you caused, when you walked out the door, and walked out of my life. Un-cry these tears.”
No.21: Celine Dion – It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
“If you forgive me all this. If I forgive you all that. We forgive and forget and it’s all coming back to me now.”
No.22: Jack’s Mannequin featuring Mick Fleetwood – God
“I don’t believe in magic. I don’t believe in I Ching. I don’t believe in Bible. I don’t believe in Tarot. I don’t believe in Hitler. I don’t believe in Jesus. I don’t believe in Kennedy. I don’t believe in Buddha. I don’t believe in Mantra. I don’t believe in Gita. I don’t believe in Yoga. I don’t believe in Kings. I don’t believe in Elvis. I don’t believe in Zimmerman. I don’t believe in Beatles. I just believe in me.”
No.23: The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
“And you can’t fight the tears that ain’t coming.Or the moment of truth in your lies. When everything feels like the movies. Yeah, you bleed just to know you’re alive, and I don’t want the world to see me, ’cause I don’t think that they’d understand. When everything’s made to be broken. I just want you to know who I am.”
No.24: Three Days Grace – Lifetime
No.25: My Chemical Romance – Cancer
“I will not kiss you. ‘Cause the hardest part of this, is leaving you. Now turn away. ‘Cause I’m awful just to see. ‘Cause all my hair’s abandoned all my body. All my agony. Know that I will never marry. Baby I’m just soggy from the chemo, but counting down the days to go.”
No.26: Jonathan Roy – Lost
“You’re lost in this lonely light. Trying to kill the pain you’re feeling. Lost, but I’m here tonight. Trying to chase away your demons, I’ll scream it, I mean it. Imma stand by you till you find what you’ve lost, lost.”
No.27: Smile Empty Soul – Nowhere Kids
“And what did you expect? A perfect child? Raised by TV sets. Abandoned every mile. We never get respect. Never a fair trial. No one gives a shit, as long as we smile, smile, smile.”
No.28: Linkin Park – Breaking the Habit
“I don’t know what’s worth fighting for. Or why I have to scream. I don’t know why I instigate. And say what I don’t mean. I don’t know how I got this way. I’ll never be alright. So, I’m breaking the habit. I’m breaking the habit tonight.”
No.29: Papa Roach – Last Resort
“I never realized I was spread too thin. ‘Til it was too late, and I was empty within. Hungry, feeding on chaos and living in sin. Downward spiral, where do I begin? It all started when I lost my mother. No love for myself and no love for another. Searching to find a love upon a higher level. Finding nothing but questions and devils.”
No.30: Citizen Soldier – Bedroom Ceiling
“Oh, this is so messed up. ‘Cause I trust this room more than anyone. Oh, let me spill my guts. With the only one that will never run. When I’m at my worst and I’m so ashamed. I open up and nobody stays. Oh no, am I that messed up?’Cause I trust this room more than anyone.”
No.31: Smile Empty Soul – The Other Side
“Neighbor boy runs up to me. His eyes all black and blue. I say, ‘What happened to you boy?’ said, ‘My daddy flew off the hook ’cause I was playing too loud. I guess he couldn’t hear the TV.’ He said, ‘Son, I’m a teach you a lesson’. And then he, and then he…”
No.32: Korn – Daddy
“I weep, no one hears me. It hurt, as a child. Tied down, no one hit me.”
No.33: Five Finger Death Punch – Wrong Side of Heaven
“I’m not defending. Downward descending. Falling further and further away. Getting closer every day. I’m getting closer every day. To the end, to the end, the end, the end. I’m getting closer every day.
No.34: Linkin Park – The Little Things Give You Away
“Don’t want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you. The little things give you away. But now there will be no mistaking. The levees are breaking. All you’ve ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you. And six feet underwater, I do.
No.35: Citizen Soldier – I’m Not Okay
“I wish I had a scar. Had a bruise on the surface, any kind of proof. That everything I feel is more than just some sad excuse. My life’s invisible abuse. I’m either judged or have to hide. The only symptom you can see. Is I don’t wanna be alive. I am not okay. And I need you to see it. I have so much to say. And no one to hear it.”
No.36: Light The Torch – The Safety of Disbelief
“I can never be all that you want from me. And I am broken, I will fail you constantly. Return to the way that you bleed for me. Return to the safety of disbelief.
No.37: Linkin Park – Crawling
“Discomfort, endlessly has pulled itself upon me. Distracting, reacting. Against my will I stand beside my own reflection. It’s haunting. How I can’t seem. To find myself again. My walls are closing in. (Without a sense of confidence, I’m convinced). (That there’s just too much pressure to take). I’ve felt this way before. So insecure. Crawling in my skin. These wounds, they will not heal.”
No.38: Three Days Grace – Pain
“Pain without love. Pain, I can’t get enough. Pain, I like it rough. ‘Cause I’d rather feel pain than nothing at all.”
No.39: Green Day – Wake Me up When September Ends
“Here comes the rain again. Falling from the stars. Drenched in my pain again. Becoming who we are. As my memory rests. But never forgets what I lost. Wake me up when September ends.”
No.40: Shinedown – 45
“Send away for a perfect world. One not simply, so absurd. In these times of doing what you’re told. Keep these feelings, no one knows. What ever happened to the young man’s heart? Swallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart.”
No.41: Bill Withers – Lean on Me
“We all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise. We know that there’s always tomorrow. Lean on me. When you’re not strong. And I’ll be your friend. I’ll help you carry on…”
No.42: P. Diddy featuring Faith Evans & 112 – I’ll Be Missing You
“Memories give me the strength I need to proceed. Strength I need to believe. My thoughts, BIG, I just can’t define. Wish I could turn back the hands of time. Us in the six, shop for new clothes and kicks. You and me takin’ flicks. Makin’ hits, stages they receive you on. Still can’t believe you’re gone. Give anything to hear half your breath. I know you’re still livin’ your life after death.”
No.43: Matchbox Twenty – Bent
No.44: Jazon Mraz – I Won’t Give Up
“And when you’re needing your space. To do some navigating. I’ll be here patiently waiting. To see what you find. ‘Cause even the stars they burn. Some even fall to the earth. We’ve got a lot to learn. God knows we’re worth it. No, I won’t give up.”
No.45: Citizen Soldier – Would Anyone Care
“If you’re dying inside. Sick of being alive. Let me in, let me share in your pain. From my lungs through the dark. Spoken straight from the heart. Let me give you a reason to stay.”
No.46: Luther Vandross – Here and Now
“When I look in your eyes, there I’ll see. All that a love should really be. And I need you more and more each day. Nothin’ can take your love away. More than I dare to dream. I need you.”
No.47: Celine Dion featuring Barbra Streisand – Tell Him
“I don’t think I could endure. If I let him walk away. When I have so much to say. Tell him. Tell him that the sun and moon. Rise in his eyes. Reach out to him. And whisper. Tender words so soft and sweet. Hold him close to feel his heart beat. Love will be the gift you give yourself.”
No.48: Sonny & Cher – I Got You Babe
S: “I got flowers in the spring. I got you to wear my ring. C: “And when I’m sad, you’re a clown. And if I get scared, you’re always around. So let them say your hair’s too long
‘Cause I don’t care, with you I can’t go wrong.” S: “then put your little hand in mine. There ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb.” S: “Babe.” B: I got you bae, I got you babe.”
No.49: The Replacements – Here Comes a Regular
“And everybody wants to be special here. They call your name out loud and clear. Here comes a regular. Call out your name. Here comes a regular. Am I the only one here today?”
No.50: Good Charlotte – Hold On
“Hold on, if you feel like letting go. Hold on, it gets better than you know. Don’t stop looking, you’re one step closer. Don’t stop searching, it’s not over. Hold on.”