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That's an easy one for me. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears :D

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-O3kYrDPbI

 

It's unrelentingly 80s, but the strength in this song is what it means, not what it sounds like. Message, not the music.

 

This song is a very upbeat and happy song, but the lyrics are undoubtedly dark as they describe life under a totalitarianist regime. While this sort of clash isn't uncommon in music, it's the tools they use in the lyrical structure that make it beautiful.

 

 
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you

Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most

Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you

So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you'll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it ?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
 
Even when everything is surrounded by darkness, there's always light somewhere to be found in the fold. From the storytelling element of having your freedoms stripped away from you despite sounding happy and the lyrical structure that includes that one bit of light and happy lyrics that describe always being there for someone and vice versa in spite of everything else being dark and bleak, the lyrics of this song are nothing short of pure art with a powerful message: Even when everything seems dark, there's always light to be found somewhere.

For that reason, I can say this is the most powerful song I've ever heard and one of my all time favorites.
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As much as I want to say a song from SuG, I have to go with Kizuna by Matenrou Opera. The reason is because the english lyrics of this song are soooo beautiful. Like... omg. I just can't can't over it. It's one of their most beautiful songs ever.

 

I mean just read these beautiful lyrics translated into english, and you'll see why I love it.

 

 

Close your eyes, close your eyes, and draw out just a little bit of strength. Somehow, collect it within your exhausted body,
And let your heart come to me.


We will, for just a moment in this neverending time,
Kindly keep the sound
Of the strong breath you take in the silence.


Surely, even the loneliness will someday disappear.
Surely, we will
Be able to pass through this distance and everything else
If we can cross through this sky and understand together.


You're here, and I'm here.
We're not alone. Please don't forget
The feelings we had when we held hands
And were so close together, so close together.


I don't know how long these feelings
Will continue to flow out through these tears and engrave themselves.
You don't have to be strong. Relying on each other,
Those feelings will become our small, small bonds,
And I know that we will walk on together.

 

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One of the hardest questions you could possibly ask me. I love so much music from all kinds of genres. If I had to choose it would be "Simple Man" originally by Lynard Skynard but I love the Shinedown cover much better. It's just a song that's easy to relate to for me plus I love singing along with it (something you never wanna hear lol)

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