What are some of the rock, pop or Catholic lyrics that you find insightful?

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"There is a candle in every soul
Some brightly burning, some dark and cold
There is a Spirit who brings a fire
Ignites a candle and makes His home

So Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the hopeless, confused and torn
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world
Take your candle, and go light your world

Frustrated brother, see how he’s tried to
Light his own candle some other way
See now your sister, she’s been robbed and lied to
Still holds a candle without a flame

So Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the lonely, the tired and worn
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world
Take your candle, and go light your world

Cause We are a family whose hearts are blazing
So let’s raise our candles and light up the sky
Praying to our Father, in the name of Jesus
Make us a beacon in darkest times

So Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the helpless, deceived and poor
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world

Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the hopeless, confused and torn
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world
Take your candle, and go light your world"

Written - I believe - by Kathy Troccoli, though I have only really ever heard it performed by South African singer Juanita du Plessis.
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Kinda neat in a special way… 🙂
 
Many songs have inspired me, but one in particular has had a real effect on how I live my life, and how I will teach my children to lead their lives.

Mama told me when I was young
Come sit beside me, my only son
And listen closely to what I say.
And if you do this
It will help you some sunny day.
Take your time… Don’t live too fast,
Troubles will come and they will pass.
Go find a woman and you’ll find love,
And don’t forget son,
There is someone up above.

[Chorus:]
And be a simple kind of man.
Be something you love and understand.
Baby, be a simple kind of man.
Oh won’t you do this for me son,
If you can?

Forget your lust for the rich man’s gold
All that you need is in your soul,
And you can do this if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.

[Chorus]

Boy, don’t you worry.
You’ll find yourself.
Follow your heart,
And nothing else.
You can do this,
If you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.

[Chorus]

Baby, be a simple, be a simple man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man

Simple Man, by Lynyrd Skynyrd
 
It’s a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken,

Perhaps they’re better left unsung.

I don’t know, don’t really care.

Let there be songs to fill the air.

Ripple in still water,

When there is no pebble tossed,

Nor wind to blow

lyrics.com/ripple-lyrics-grateful-dead.html

I would say there is a religious element to many songs by the Grateful Dead.
artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/miller.html

Saint Stephen with a rose,
In and out of the garden he goes,
Country garland in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain.

lyricsmode.com/lyrics/g/grateful_dead/st_stephen.html?escaped_fragment=#!

They customarily closed their shows with a traditional spiritual.

Lay down my dear brothers
Lay down and take your rest
I want to lay your head upon your Savior’s breast
I love you all but Jesus loves you the best
And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight

metrolyrics.com/and-we-bid-you-goodnight-lyrics-grateful-dead.html

But it’s still a bit of a mixed bag but there is some in there.
 
“Rosemary”

Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
youtube.com/watch?v=p2mUem7RLNM

Boots were of leather
A breath of cologne
Her mirror was a window
She sat quite alone

All around her
the garden grew
scarlet and purple
and crimson and blue

She came and she went
and at last went away
The garden was sealed
when the flowers decayed

On the wall of the garden
a legend did say:
No one may come here
since no one may stay
 
Here’s a new song by Delta Goodrem. Extremely Christian lyrics don’t you think?
It is called Love…thy will be done

Delta is a judge on one of those singing TV talent quest shows and has a very high profile here in Australia.

Love, thy will be done
I can no longer hide
I can no longer run
No longer can I resist the guiding light
It gives me the power to keep up the fight
Love…thy will be done
Since I have found you my life has just begun
And I see all of your creations as one
Perfect complex
No one less beautiful or more special than the next
We are all blessed and so wise to accept
Thy will love be done

Love, thy will be mine
And make me strive for the glorious and divine
I could not be more, more satisfied (satisfied…)
Even when there’s no peace outside my window
There’s peace inside
And that’s why I no longer run (I no longer run)
Love thy will be done

Love, thy will be done
I can no longer hide
I can no longer run (no….)
Love, thy will be done
Thy will love be done

No longer can I resist (no…) the guiding light (guiding light)
The light that gives me power to keep up the fight
I couldn’t be more satisfied (no…)
Even when there’s no peace outside my window
There is peace inside
And that’s why I can no longer run
Love thy will be done (thy will be done, done, done…)

Love, thy will be done
I can no longer hide
I can no longer run
Love, thy will be done
Thy will love be done

Love, thy will be done
I can no longer hide
I can no longer run (no….)
Love, thy will be done
Thy will love be done…
Thy will love be done…
Thy will love be done
 
Tears of the World

In any split second of a moment of time,
In the blink that is one single day,
The sum of the sorrow that wraps ‘round the world
Could catch every soul up and sweep them away.

As vast as the ocean, as deep as the sea
Swept up in one toxic tide
By warm salty waves the world weeps its woe
So how could it be that my own eyes are dry?

Chorus:
So open my eyes and open my heart
And grant me the gift of Your grieving
And awaken in me the compassion to weep
Just one of the tears of the world.

When God walked among us in the fullness of time
He wept tears as old as the world;
Acquainted with sorrow He took up the cup
And drank every drop of the poison that heals…

Chorus:
So open my eyes and open my heart
And grant me the gift of Your grieving
And awaken in me the compassion to weep
Just one of the tears of the world.

So comes the call of this Sorrowful Man
To set our small sadness aside.
To come now and follow no matter the cost,
To follow Him boldly and wade in the tide…

Chorus:
So open my eyes and open my heart
And grant me the gift of Your grieving
And awaken in me the compassion to weep
Just one of the tears of the world…

Words by Michael Card
 
madtom said:
Many songs have inspired me, but one in particular has had a real effect on how I live my life, and how I will teach my children to lead their lives.

Mama told me when I was young
Come sit beside me, my only son
And listen closely to what I say.
And if you do this
It will help you some sunny day.
Take your time… Don’t live too fast,
Troubles will come and they will pass.
Go find a woman and you’ll find love,
And don’t forget son,
There is someone up above.

[Chorus:]
And be a simple kind of man.
Be something you love and understand.
Baby, be a simple kind of man.
Oh won’t you do this for me son,
If you can?

Forget your lust for the rich man’s gold
All that you need is in your soul,
And you can do this if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.

[Chorus]

Boy, don’t you worry.
You’ll find yourself.
Follow your heart,
And nothing else.
You can do this,
If you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.

[Chorus]

Baby, be a simple, be a simple man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man

Simple Man, by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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YES!!
 
Wide Eyed

When I met him on a sidewalk
He was preaching to a mailbox
Down on 16th Avenue
And he told me he was Jesus
Sent from Jupiter to free us
With a bottle of tequila and one shoe
He raged about repentance
He finished every sentence
With a promise that the end was close at hand
I didn’t even try to understand

He left me wide eyed in disbelief and disillusion
I was tongue tied, drawn by my conclusions
So I turned and walked away
And laughed at what he had to say
Then casually dismissed him as a fraud
I forgot he was created in the image of my God

When I met her in a bookstore
She was browsing on the first floor
Through a yoga magazine
And she told me in her past life
She was some plantation slave’s wife
She had to figure out what that might mean
She believes the healing powers of her crystals
Can bring balance and new purpose to her life
Sounds nice

She left me wide eyed in disbelief and disillusion
I was tongue tied, drawn by my conclusions
So I turned and walked away
And laughed at what she had to say
Then casually dismissed her as a fraud
I forgot she was created in the image of my God

Not so long ago, a man from Galilee
Fed thousands with His bread and His theology
And the truth He spoke
Quickly became the joke
Of educated, self-inflated Pharisees like me

And they were wide eyed in disbelief and disillusion
They were tongue tied, drawn by their conclusions
Would I have turned and walked away
And laughed at what He had to say
And casually dismissed Him as a fraud
Unaware that I was staring at the image of my God

Nicole Nordeman
 
I Know Your Name

Who is the you that no one else can see
In your heart the lonely one afraid to be
Lost again…need a friend

You hide your soul
To keep the hurt inside
All alone your tears call out into the night
Is He there…does He care

[Chorus]
Yes, I know your name
Every prayer you pray
I’m the one who brought you to this place
The voice who sings to you
The hand that clings to you
Oh my child, I’ve always known your name
Known your name

I hold you close to me, close to heart
And this kind of love will find you
Anywhere you are.
Never fear, I am here

[Chorus]
Yes, I know your name
Every prayer you pray
I’m the one who brought you to this place
The voice who sings to you
The hand that clings to you
Oh my child, I’ve always known your name
Known your name
 
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