What's a song that has a lot of meaning to you?

Shock Therapy - Blood on Your Hands

Song on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75mEAh5_hRg&list=RD75mEAh5_hRg&start_radio=1

Lyrics: https://www.elyrics.net/read/s/shock-therapy-lyrics/blood-on-your-hands-lyrics.html

It just sums up so well why I do not deal with any religious people at all. The best they can hope for is me flipping them the bird.

Nirvana - smells like teen spirit Came out when I was at school and it has a lot of happy memories linked to it.

I feel similarly about Green Day's American Idiot, not just the song but the entire album. I didn't even listen to it that much around that time but it still takes me back and I've come to appreciate it more and more over the years, it's such a good album.
- As soon as I read the title in your comment I heard the song in my head! I used to love Green Day

I started listening to Chappell Roan a few months into my transition and her song Pink Pony Club really spoke to me because it reminds me of my own journey of finding and accepting myself. It's so queer, happy and liberating and occasionally it still makes me cry when I sing along.

I have two answers to this question.

I got the news of my father's massive stroke on a Monday while I was in the final stages of dismantling my life in Canada in preparation for my move to China. Indeed I got that news in the middle of listening to a song by Mike Oldfield that has since then been permanently associated with his death on Friday of that same week. (At 5:30 PM precisely because my father was nothing if not punctual.) It has, in effect, become my father's funeral dirge in my mind. I no longer openly weep when listening to it, but I do tear up.
When the mounting terror of the opening weeks of COVID-19 was getting to me, and after I made the conscious choice not to get evacuated from China as offered by the Canadian government (because I would have felt like a coward for abandoning SO to this unknown disease), I started to feel incredibly isolated and alone. In the middle of that I was also exploring the Chinese metal scene because, hey, I had loads of spare time and searching out obscure-to-me acts was a way to take my mind off of the terror. That's when I encountered a band that used the "English" name Zuriaake. One song in particular just connected with me musically, so I went searching for the lyrics. Then after a painfully slow process of translating them (because the lyricist/founder/vocalist of the band wrote the lyrics in Classical Chinese in the style of an ancient set of Chu elegies) the lyrics struck me like lightning. They're almost impossible to translate in a way that gets their impact across because they're very Chinese. Not just in language but in symbolism. But the lyrics absolutely nailed my encroaching depression and feeling of isolation.

As an example of what I mean, and keeping in mind that the lyrics are packed to overflowing with such symbolism, the song's title alone is, roughly, "Lorn Goose". In Chinese poetry, the wild goose often symbolizes solitude, migration, and messages from afar. A lone goose emphasizes isolation, resilience, or longing, frequently reflecting the poet’s own feelings of exile or spiritual solitude. I could not have found deliberately a poem/song that was aimed straight for my heart like this was.

That's a really interesting answer thanks ZDL. Is the song being linked to your dad more good or bad?
- It's kind of a blend.
  Good: there's always an easy way for me to remember my father.
  Bad: there's a lot of pain packed away in that song still.

"I deserve to bleed" which is about hating your body but specifically the remaster because the artist came out as trans and has a deeper voice and duettes themselves 😭😭😭😭

it's SO sweet and is the best thing in the WORLD

ITS SO DAMN GOOD

https://open.spotify.com/track/7pxz3uxxt5kU9v4gO6wHWG

It's especially meaningful to me because I'm also trans and found the song during a dark time in my life (nearly didn't make it out) and to hear the artist ALSO got better was fucking surreal

Lisa Miskovsky - Lady Stardust. My friend sent it to me before she died.

Jump Around.

Brain Stew by Green Day. It was the first song of theirs I had ever heard. I can still remember sitting on the bus on my way home hearing it for the first time when I was 11. I was a really shitty point in my life and they made it survivable.

To this day, they are still my #1 favorite and introduced me to so many good punk bands.

Taylor Swift - How Did it End

Not for the actual message of the song but for the climax of the song, especially the line "My beloved ghost and me, sitting in a tree, d-y-i-n-g" but basically the whole phrase before as well. I listened to this song a lot during the grieving for my passed cat. I could notice my brain making up my cat sitting somewhere close and looking at me from time to time, like a little ghost, caring for me. I can still "summon" her at will, obviously not really but the image of her.

And as a more light hearted one: System Of a Down - Chop Suey

Back in school i listened to a lot of rap, because i was very influenced by my older brother. That is until my friend group discovered the game Rock Band after gifting it to one friends birthday. I got obsessed with this game because it was so fun to play "instruments" and sing together with friends. Chop Suey especially really pulled me in and i eventually got really into metal through it.

Nowadays I'm always the person of my friend groups listening to the most genres on Spotify wrapped but back in school where the cool kids only listened to one genre this was a big deal. Also because it marked me getting away from my brother's influence.