Powerful,Meaningful,Moving Lyrics

I'd definently say:

I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you

Not exactly brilliant, but some of my favorite lyrics:

I will not give up hope
I was hooked from the start
When I noticed your kind and your powerful heart

"Too young to take over
Too old to ignore"


^^Story of my life^^

Wicked's lyrics are the perfect example of corny, cliched lyrics. Wanna get a real message? Read some Ebb or Sondheim.

jv92

wicked bashing is getting so Old

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Songanddanceman-
I don't care. When someone puts those lyrics in the category of powerful and meanigful I have to say something.

Is it warm?
Is it soft against your face?
Do you feel the kind of grace inside the breeze?
Will there be trees?

Is there light?
Does it hover on the ground?
Does it shine from all around or just from you?

Is it endless and empty,
And you wander on your own?
Slowly forget about the folks that you have known?

Or does rising bread fill up the air
From open kitchens everywhere?
Familiar faces far as you can see,
Like a family?

Do we live?
Is it like a little town?
Do we get to look back down at who we love?
Are we above?

Are we everywhere?
Are we anywhere at all?
Do we hear a trumpet call us and we're by your side?

Will I want, will I wish for all the things I should have done?
Longing to finish what I only just begun?

Or has a shining truth been waiting there,
for all the questions everywhere?
In a world of wondering suddenly you know,
And you will always know...

Will my mama be there waiting for me?
Smiling like the way she does and holding out her arms,
as she calls my name?
She will hold me just the same...

Only heaven knows how glory goes,
what each of us was meant to be.
In the starlight that is what we are...

I can see so far.

'HOW GLORY GOES' from Floyd Collins
by Adam Guettel

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Updated On: 4/5/07 at 09:18 PM

"Alone is alone. Not alive."- BEING ALIVE

There are so many others but one of the most recent that really struck me as important and wonderful:
"Thought is suspect and money is their idol and nothing is okay unless it's scripted in their bible. But I know there's so much more to find just in looking through myself and not at them."...from SPRING AWAKENING

There's this really beautiful Sondheim/Stein song called "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" that I think might have some inspiring and useful messages for your graduating class.

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I don't do sadness.
So been there.
Don't to sadness.
Just don't care. - Spring Awakening

I didn't even see the graduation speech post. I just saw the title of the thread and that was immediately the first song that came to mind. But I agree jv92, I wouldn't use those lyrics for a graduation speech. Although there is an interesting correlation with the lyrics between the afterlife and life after highschool. If you just read the lyrics with the new context in mind. Try it. It's very interesting. Still a little strange though.

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The summer's over but I'm still a girl
Cavorting in my carnival crown
From blossom to blossom my buzz like a bee
Then glance in the mirror and who do I see?
A middle-aged woman inhabiting me.
Another winter in a summer town."

My season ended a long time ago
But no one took the party tent down. .
The pink paper lanterns still twinkle in place
My young navy hero, his tender embrace
That sapphire blue ocean, oh how can I face
Another winter in a summer town?
Oh God. . Oh God. .
MYYYYYYY GGAAAWWWWDDDDDDD. .(creepiest note ever)

I get chills and a bit of teary-eyedness every time I hear those lyrics sung.

Great great song. . for a wonderful show.

~Jacob.

"I've heard it said
That people come
into our lives for a reason "

I'm not going to lie,these lyrics made me tear up the first time I heard them.