In a world where you are surrounded by naysayers and enemies, you have to keep proving your worth and fighting for your place. In relationships, sometimes love feels like a battlefield and when oppressed, you have to fight for your freedom. So, whether you are in love, in captivity, or going through a rough patch,…
Donell Jones is an American singer-songwriter. He embarked on a music career in the mid-1990s and has continued to the present time. However, Jones is most notable because of his first two studio albums, which were released in 1996 and 1999. These provided most of his best-known songs, though that isn’t to say the rest…
Blind Melon is an American band that found success in the early 1990s. As such, they emerged around the same time grunge broke into the mainstream. However, they stood out because they were more neo-psychedelic than conventional grunge. Blind Melon released two studio albums before the untimely death of their lead vocalist Shannon Hoon in…
Arthur C. Clark said that magic is a science we do not understand. It is perhaps for this reason that we term whatever we cannot explain as magic. It could be falling in love in the most unexpected way or things falling into place in unexplainable ways. Songwriters have used the word “magic” to refer…
Leonardo da Vinci once said that water is the driving force of all nature. So, we have come to adopt the phrase, “water is life.” For creative minds, water does not have to be literal in meaning; it can carry deep metaphorical messages. Lyrics do not even have to mention water since it could be…
Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau met in high school and discovered they had a common passion – music. The two, along with other friends, partnered to form a rock band, Reset. However, Comeau left to join college and formed his band. Later on, when Bouvier disbanded Reset, he wanted to give up on music and…
The worst thing you can ever do in life is to give up because once you feel like you have nothing left to live for, suicidal thoughts start creeping into your mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld said it better; that hope is the last thing that dies in a man, and though sometimes it is…
The stars have provided inspiration for people for countless numbers of centuries. It’s easy to understand why subject matter such as this would end up in so many songs. Below are 20 of the best. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the mood to listen to a song about literally looking up at the night…
Love is the theme of many songs from every decade and music genre. Sometimes it is about the love a couple feels for each other, and sometimes a song is about how much one person loves another, but the other person does not feel the same. So, are there any songs about unrequited love? Here…