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[Strife26]

There are a fair number of songs that I like, and that have meaningful lyrics, but I don't like to keep changing my sig for them. So, I'll make a thread to discuss thought provoking and/or awesome songs. A few ground rules:

1) Keep it chill.
2) Don't talk about a new song until we're done with the old one. Else, the thread will get overly confused.
3) If you want to talk about a song, PM me with the song name and some way for me to hear it (youtube link would work nicely) as well as why you like it.





The first song I'd like to put forward is Highwayman, by the Highwaymen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VST2KKIYn50

It's sung by four of the best singers of Outlaw Country (one of the few country subsets I like).
The lyrics are the interesting idea of Eastern Reincarnation, when the singer dies at the end of each verse, he continues on to another persona. It's a comforting thought, the idea that we (our souls) will experience everything the world has to offer. The music is also nice in it's own way, and really complements the tone of the song.

[Kagus]

Heh, damn fine song it is...  We've got that CD hanging around here some place or 'nother.

Saw a video of these guys in concert, I think it was a reunion tour or something.  Quite fun to watch, looked like they were having a right old time of it.


I think of this song in more a sort of "collective soul" way, rather than individual.  So, instead of it being one soul who hops from one body to another, it's more just that although many individual highwaymen have died, the "Spirit of the Highwayman" survives.  Each of the four individuals in the song were touched by this spirit, which marked them as who they were at the roots of their personality...  And even though they died, that spirit still exists in someone, somewhere.

Although the highwayman has died, the highwaymen live on.  If you catch what I've saying, now that I've repeated myself three times with little alteration in what I'm saying...


Oh, by the way...   How exactly will you be able to tell when a song's discussion is "done with"?

EDIT:  And since I'm here, might as well nag that the picture ID game hasn't been updated.

[Vlynndar]

I have not much to say. I like the idea of while their bodies might die, the idea of them will never.

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

there is only one band that belongs in a sig on the DF forums:

http://www.killerdwarfs.com/

[Killas[SiN]]

there is only one band that belongs in a sig on the DF forums:

http://www.killerdwarfs.com/

Oh. My. God.