For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.”Īdvice: It’s okay to reminisce about a past relationship. Tattoos and memories and dead skin on trial. Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time. "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day (1997) “So take the photographs and still frames in your mind. You scream, you learn.”Īdvice: Life is a learning process. “You Learn” by Alanis Morissette (1995) “You live, you learn. Don’t let self-doubt get in the way of believing in yourself and doing all that you’re capable of. You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger.”Īdvice: Always challenge yourself to be a better version of yourself. “You Gotta Be” by Des’ree (1994) “You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser. Be your own savior and know when to end a relationship that’s taking away the light from your life. No one's gonna drag you up, to get into the light where you belong.”Īdvice: You’re the only one who can save yourself from an unhealthy/unfulfilling relationship. 3. “The Sign” by Ace of Base (1993) “I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign. “Īdvice: Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable. Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes. (1992) “When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well, hang on. Don’t cause harm to the world and its inhabitants make it a better place for all of us instead. There are people dying if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and me.”Īdvice: Take care of all of humanity and the precious world around us. Here are 22 songs from the 90s and early 2000s with the best lyrical advice: 1. “Heal The World” by Michael Jackson (1991) “Heal the world, make it a better place for you and me and the entire human race. I may have heard these songs thousands of times as a child, but it wasn’t until I was an adult that I heard the lyrical advice they were giving me through the radio.Īfter rediscovering several songs from the 90s and early 2000s era, I’m here to share with you some of the best. Just call me a musical medium: I’m about to give you a spiritual awakening on music from the past. The lyrics have meaning as you hear them at this more mature stage.įor me, the best part of listening to songs from my youth (the 90s and early 2000s) is the fact that hearing them is like revisiting a childhood friend I looked up to someone older and wiser who was always one step ahead of me in life. You understand the chaos of the world and why Lenny Kravitz desperately desired an otherworldly escape.Īs you rediscover these songs at a later chapter in your life, they aren’t just songs you memorized as a child and proudly belted out in the car. You can now empathize with bittersweet break-up lyrics after having your heart broken. You’re capable of giving them a place within your life, making a connection to your own reality. You more than likely engaged in little to no introspection as you belted out the lyrics to “Time of Your Life” by Green Day.īut, as an adult, you hear beyond the guitar riffs and boisterous vocals you actually digest the lyrics and their meaning. For the first time, you really hear the lyrics and understand the meaning for what they are.Īs a child, most songs were just catchy rhymes you knew the words to. It isn’t just the realization that you religiously listened to it through the speakers of the childhood community swimming pool where you spent your summers, but it's also the fact that the nostalgia brings with it a sense of clarity.Īs you listen to that same song years later, you hear it much differently now than you did then. What makes rediscovering old music so grand is you not only have an album of memories already associated with a certain track and its lyrics, but you’re also able to hear it differently now that you’re older. It’s a wonderful, semi-magical feeling when you discover a new song that really strikes a chord with you a song that instantly becomes your loyal “feel good” song, or speaks volumes with how you’re feeling at that exact moment in your life.īut what’s even better than discovering new music, is rediscovering music you once knew. There’s nothing like being able to recall and recite the lyrics to a song you first heard when you were 10 years old.
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