Below is a successive list built with lyrics that question the way we live in society. For better or for worse, I present to you my idea of the 14 best song lyrics that challenge our world. Enjoy.
1. "Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger / A brotherhood of man / Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world" in Imagine by John Lennon [September 9, 1971]
2. "I met a girl who sang the blues / I asked her for some happy news / But she just smiled and turned away / I went down to the sacred store / Where I'd heard the music years before / But the man there said the music wouldn't play" in American Pie by Don McLean [March 14, 1971]
3. "Am I a part of the cure? / Or am I part of the disease?" in Clocks by Coldplay [March 24, 2003]
4. "Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have / Before he can hear people cry? / Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows / That too many people have died?" in Blowin' in the Wind by Bob Dylan [May 1963]
5. "Open hand or closed fist would be fine / the blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine" in Cherry Wine by Hozier [September 19, 2014]
6. "And the anchorman on a TV screen / Will crack a smile in a tragedy" in The Little Things by Carlos Bertonatti [September 15, 2008]
7. "You who choose to lead must follow / But if you fall, you fall alone" in Ripple by The Grateful Dead [November 1, 1970]
8. "But if you wanna leave, take good care / I hope you have a lot of nice things to wear / But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there / Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world / It's hard to get by just upon a smile" in Wild World by Cat Stevens [September 1970]
9. "Still the rain kept pourin', fallin' on my ears / And I wonder, still I wonder who'll stop the rain" in Who'll Stop The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival [January 1970]
10. "Used to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face, / Saying, 'wake up, you need to make money.'" in Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots [April 28, 2015]
11. "Money don't grow on trees / I got bills to pay / I got mouths to feed / And ain't nothing in this world for free" in Ain't No Rest For The Wicked by Cage the Elephants [June 16, 2008]
12. "Is it not written in the music? / Is it not painted in the skies? / It's time we stopped talking about soft drinks / Started talking about our lives" in Be Good by Hothouse Flowers [March 1993]
13. "In every life we have some trouble / But when you worry you make it double / Don't worry, be happy" in Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin [September 1988]
14. "I'm 99 for a moment / And dying for just another moment / ... / Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this / When you only got a hundred years to live." in 100 Years by Five for the Fighting [November 2003]
Time runs out. Get out and live your life while it is still in the palms of your hands.
