National Poetry Day is celebrated all over the world today and paying homage to some of the greatest words ever penned, we decided it was only right to list out the greatest song lyrics of all time.
Here are 30 of our absolute favourite lyrics from some of the greats… This list has inspired us to make one epic playlist.
1. Johnny Cash – One
You gave me nothing now it’s all I got.
2. Don Henley – New York Minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxGr5doGJmY&list=PLDAD2DE647CDF8C9F
What the head makes cloudy the heart makes very clear.
3. Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7RSi9V7FZM
I think I’m gonna start a revolution from my bed, ’cause you said the brains I had went to my head.
4. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear…
5. Coldplay – Fix You
High up above or down below, when you’re too in love to let it go,
But if you never try you’ll never know, just what you’re worth…
6. Foo Fighters – Best Of You
Were you born to resist or be abused?
7. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmHWBo46iow
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.
8. Alanis Morrisette – Hand In My Pocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8D5Ihe4hg
I’m broke but I’m happy, I’m poor but I’m kind…
9. Arctic Monkeys – No.1 Party Anthem
Drunken monologues, confused because, it’s not like I’m falling in love I just want you to do me no good…
10. The Waterboys – How Long Will I Love You
How long will I love you? As long as there are stars above you…
11. Janis Joplin – Me and Bobby McGee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iX-EcRKXJw
Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.
12. Frank Sinatra – My Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_YK-La0vk
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught…
13. Paolo Nutini – Coming Up Easy
In love I was created and in love is how I hope I die.
14. Badly Drawn Boy – Once Around The Block
You quiver like a candle on fire I’m putting you out…
15. U2 – With Or Without You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSdTa9kaiQ
Sleight of hand and twist of fate on a bed of nails she makes me wait, and I wait without you.
16. Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEi7GPkxfsE
Thunder only happens when its raining, players only love you when they’re playing…
17. George Michael and Elton John – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down (On Me)
I can’t light no more of your darkness.
18. Elton John – Rocketman
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife. It’s lonely out in space.
19. Bob Marley – Redemption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGgbT_VasI
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
20. Radiohead – Creep
I wish I was special, you’re so fucking special…
21. Willie Nelson – Always On My Mind
Little things I should have said and done, I just never took the time but you were always on my mind.
22. Bob Dylan – Sweetheart Like You
Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you King.
23. Luke Kelly – Scorn Not His Simplicity (Phil Coulter)
Can we understand just how he feels or have we really tried.
24. Don McLean – American Pie
Do you believe in rock n’ roll can music save your mortal soul?
25. Tracey Chapman – Give Me One Reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5BfgJWb3o
This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, But I’m too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.
26. The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
Childhood living is easy to do.
27. The Beatles – Blackbird
Blackbird singing in the dead of night take these broken wings and learn to fly, All your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise.
28. The Pogues – A Rainy Night in Soho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itG20CN0QbM
Now the song is nearly over we may never find out what it means, But there’s a light I hold before me and you’re the measure of my dreams.
29. Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Love is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
30. Elvis Presley – The Wonder Of You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A3-BFC5XPI
