Top 10 Songs with the Best Lyrics

I love this song. It taught me how all over the world, people were starving and dying and how much of an unfair world that we live in. Michael Jackson wanted to make a difference of our world and he wrote a beautiful song to tel you. He is telling you that when you make a difference, little by little, will always make you feel good, no matter if it is something so small as giving someone less fortunate money, to as big as giving a charity a large amount of money. Michael Jackson was a great man. He wanted to make a difference and he did. Thank you MJ.

For me, it reiterates the fact that no matter what, any change in things wether day to day or lifetimes, for the person, society, generation or world, starts with a person starting to work on his/her nature, which is the only thing that we have control of. Epitome of attempting self awareness. Shows how Mike was human but trying always to find a way to understand and better not only his place in the world but spread the knowledge of something so valuable.

I'm gonna make a change
For once in my life
It gonna feel real good
Gonna make difference
Gonna make it right..
I love this song! Michael Jackson, you're the best man in the world.. !

Very few songs can change a human's thinking, Man in the mirror is one of them. This song has great depth and you can feel that Michael is singing from the heart. You will feel a need to change every single time you here it.

Few songs capture as powerful a vision for the world as Imagine by John Lennon. If the song didn't resonate with so much people, it wouldn't be on this list. And it's still just as powerful today as it was at the time it was written. Few songs truly deserve the title of being the world's greatest song, but John Lennon wrote this song to the world. And for that, he deserves it.

Probably the best song written in the 70s, Imagine has made a massive impact on all of us. This song helped improvements in our imagination and quality of thinking, this song has shown us how the world should and should not be. This would even be better if it was together with McCartney.

"Imagine" is not just a song with powerful lyrics. It is a philoshopy for life and a strong political statement, at the same time. A radical message for a harmonious globalization and very relevant to the world today. By far, this song is number 1 for me.

Any song that gives us hope without recourse to superstition can claim to be an extraordinary song. Imagine meets this criterion, and it does so splendidly. Imagine gives life meaning.

Zeppelin belongs in the top. No contest. Stairway, Kashmir, etc. Each of their songs actually have deep, thoughtful meanings that a majority of today's music lacks. It's pure poetry that stills remains as meaningful today as it has in the past.

"Stairway to heaven" has a very very specific lyrics, and unlike a large number of songs, it's not about this universe. It figures heaven perfectly and is full of useful advices. It really makes me wonder!

For me the song all in all is a masterclass. A song for the ages. The most brilliant piece of guitar playing with some of the best lyrics ever. And as my capacity for understanding English gets better the song keeps getting better.

This song should be number one, the lyrics have so much meaning to them. The line ' Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on. ' has so much meaning to it it's incredible

This song is about the horrors of war and against a controlling government that don't have to suffer the consequences of war unlike the people. There's also a movie to go along with it that came out in the early 70's. Johnny Got His Gun.

Not only is it the lyrics that are so good, but also the tune to this song is very great too! I liked that one part when the guitar joins in the beat of the drums. It's very good

I got nervous while this list was loading cause some of these list are absolute bull, and I woulda been pissed if this wasn't on here!

Awesome song... Amazing video... Brilliant lyrics... Great drumming and guitaring. One what an asset to Metallica!

Certainly deserves to be top 3...

Bohemian Rhapsody is an example at songwriting at its finest. Personally, I think the song is about war. "I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy because I'm easy come, easy go." This is about how the government so freely uses people's lives. "So you think you can love me and leave me to die." Perhaps this is about having friendships on the battlefield and then being abandoned, or about the government not really caring if you live or die. "Spare him his life from this monstrosity." War. Also: Maybe he told his mother about killing a man because he wanted comfort because why would you do that if you killed someone illegally? I guess you might tell your mother in that situation, but it seems more likely. So yeah. I have a whole bunch of other reasons but I don't want to fill up too much space

This song actually tells a story (so I've heard)

The protagonist (we shall name him Fred) is in love with a girl, but her heart is stolen by a crime lord. Enraged, Fred kills the crime lord. He's had his revenge, but now the entire mob is after him, so he must flee the country. He says goodbye to his mother (one of the most moving goodbye's in history) and sets off in hope of escaping the mob's wrath. Unfortunately, in vain: The mob catches up with him at last. He pleads for mercy (mama mia! Mama mia! Mama mia let me go) but of course he is cruelly refused (bismillah, no! We will not let you go).

So there he was: trapped in a corner, Fred faces death at the hands of the mob. His mouth opens one more time. Does he make a final complaint? An excuse? No! He stands up tall and pulls out his gun and says, "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!? " Bang! Bang! Bang! "So you think can you love me and leave me to die!?! " Bang! Bang! ...more

This song has some of the most iconic and memorable lyrics of all time. Maybe it's not as complex and cryptic as Stairway to Heaven or Like a Rolling Stone, but when you hear those first two lines, you know you want to sing the whole song.

All of those who think that this song is lyrically poor, I advise to make a bit of research concerning them. They are way more complicated than it appears at first. Those lyrics are a masterpiece!

Although Bohemian Rhapsody is a better song in my opinion this song I definitely think this song has better lyrics. Also much better than the top 2 but I don't even like those songs much anyway.

How the ---- is this not in the top 10? This blows Breaking the Habit, Lose Yourself, and Stairway to ----ing Heaven out of the water! An explanation is actually required for why thing song should be first: No one mixes poetic lyrics and storytelling like Dylan does! On one hand, we learn about a girl's past life in the rich class. (Once upon a time, you dressed so fine...) On the other, we learn about her present day life. (Now you don't talk so loud, now you don't seem so proud, about having to be scrounging your next meal.) Of course, there are elements of surrealism, from the curiosity of "the mystery train", to "Napoleon in rags". It's the ultimate story of how even the richest of the rich can descend into poverty. Vote it into first!

There are thousands of songs with amazing one liners, hundreds of songs that are lyrical masterpieces, but there are only a handful of songwriters that consistently produce perfect poetry set to music (Dylan, Simon, Browne, et al); but Bob Dylan stands in a category all his own.

Bob Dylan is truly a legend when it comes to music and poetry, I'm surprised this song of his has not made the top tens as of yet. I also listen to Michael Jackson and John Lennon, but Bob tops them both with lyrical brilliance shining through his work.

Every word fits and flows into the next. And even with such great flow there's good meaning behind it; to never give up and always keep trying. Whenever I listen to this I just start finding myself rapping along and getting up!

This song is just worth MJ's song. Well not only this but also all other Eminem's songs. The lyrics of this song will just make you love it. Imma a fan of Shady. You will love the song. It proves that Eminem is the lyrical genius!

I don't even listen to Eminem that often, I know about three of his songs but the lyrics of Lose Yourself are really something special. Give it a try, break your stereotypes.

Listen to this before voting for all the other craps. Eminem is GOD!

It perfectly criticizes the spirit of modern society. We spend our whole lives "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day" in search of the prize of happiness we have been told about since we were children. After years of dedication to this search, "one day you find, the years have gone behind you." Have you gotten any closer to happiness? No. Have you really gained anything from your quest? Hell no! In fact, you've lost the time of your youth that you could have spent really experiencing life. "No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" because achieving success was supposed to be the race. Through society's indoctrination, nobody was there to set you on the proper path, the path that leads to happiness by way of appreciating what you have. Not what you could have had.

So where does that leave you? Well, "you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking." In your middle aged years, you desperately hope ...more

When Richard Wright sings that part: "and then one day you find, the years have got behind you, no one told you when to run; you missed the starting gun..." is always gives me goosebumps. So true and so scary that maybe today you play football next to a cemetery, but tomorrow the children will come over the fence to bring back the ball they kicked into the side of your grave...

This is the most incredible song I ever heard. First of all, I liked it for the music, of course... Incredible guitar solo, powerful bass and the mystic touch of Pink Floyd music, indefinable. I could never find the ideal words to describe Pink Floyd's music in general.

But this song in particular blew my mind when I was young, and I had the chance to experience this again when I took time to truly listen to the lyrics.

Pink Floyd usually wrote incredible texts to fit with their music, but this song is in my opinion their true masterpiece. Simply describing what we feel when we realise that the time passes, but with such poetry and magic... You can listen to it when you're depressed or when you're fine, it will always make you feel good.

Ok so much text with nothing interesting to say, so long story short:

LISTEN TO THIS MASTERPIECE PEOPLE PLEASE

Man In The Mirror is a very good song. But it's lyrics are mediocre. Queen doesn't have great lyrics either. Where is Sound Of Silence. Now those are good lyrics, not Man In The Mirror and Bohemian Rhapsody.

Simply wonderful and touching. And the voice is the wing for the words. Unfortunately most people don't really listen to what the hear in a foreign language.

It's just an amazing song. An amazing band and an amazing singer.

That was so good

This is a song through which LP teaches us that it ain't hard to let your bad habits go and get through with it... So close to my heart this song

I love this song. I am a huge lp fan and in my opinion this song has the best lyrics along with leave out all the rest.

Linkin Park is surely one of the best lyrics writer. almost all of their songs from meteora and minutes to midnight will make you cry.

All these songs have awesome lyrics but this song has the beats too.

Not even a debate. Some songs have certain verses with brilliant lyrics but THIS ENTIRE SONG (which, by the way, is over eight minutes long) is a masterpiece from start to finish. Every single line is a reference to something usually music related, if you dig deep enough. And it only gets better as it goes on. The last verse might just be the best lyrics in music history. I get chills every time I listen to it and I'm not even a religious person. This song isn't just a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. It's an entire story that covers all kinds of different musicians through the most perfectly placed references in the lyrics.

Whoever compiled this list doesn't know good music or good lyrics. This song is one of the greatest songs ever written! It tells the history of rock and roll after Buddy Holly's death. Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues and Jokerman should at least be somewhere! The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald should also be on here.

How do people vote for coldplay linkin park queen or other songs that don't even come close to live up to the standard of American Pie, Stairway to Heaven, or any pink floyd song. I'm at a loss for words at the small amount of experience people have with classics like this.

McClean's 'American Pie' is pure lyrical genius. He sings for a cause I and certainly don't stand for as, but does so in the most beautiful of ways. 'American Pie' is perhaps the greatest American song by the words.

"Now in the morning, I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own"
Fantastic song in general but that line in particular is just creates such a powerful image to me.

This song is too deep... Both in music and lyrics... It is not just about king who lose everything but something more than that... It tells that howsoecer high position we reach we have to face fall back... I think it should be number one... Awesome song ever made

This list is just wrong. Number one should be the entire pink floyd discogcraphy, followed by this, cemetaries of london, amsterdam, and white shadows (all coldplay). And then maaaybe paranoid android. Man in the mirror, Keane?!?! No. Just no.

As far as I know, this song is about a king whose lost everything. Should be #1.

This song is good but I wonder why there are no Taylor Swift songs cause according to me, she is the best lyricist... it has a lot of emotions and I just love her... she's the best!
LOVE YOU TAYLOR!

This song is very theatrical and I think it's about finding out who you are and becoming you.

I found better lyrics on my Kindergarten essays than this steaming pile of overplayed emo crap. Yeah sure it totally did help you go through suicide smh

Amy lee's songs always have a deeper meaning.

This is truly an amazing song to listen to when you are sad, and all of us feel sad sometimes. Not only are the lyrics incredible, but the music and Ben's voice is too. He gives off great emotion when he sings this song, and the lyrics hit your heart before they hit your brain because you don't have to think twice. "Dear Agony" is definitely in my top ten list of the best songs, and Breaking Benjamin is my #1 favorite band of all time.

Breaking Benjamin is literally one of my favorite band. I'm so happy ben is back to work with the band, I just hope he gets some good members, since it's only him left!

The ultimate combination of the pain and conflict that everyone must endure at some point in their lives - the most honest song I've ever had the privilege of listening to.

The whole album is well written, and the songs relate to each other in the aspect of lyrics. songs like dear agony, anthem of the angels and give me a sign are outstanding. musically, the album is great too, it has great melodies in I will not bow, crawl and without you.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss! Always brings a smile to my face, it's almost as if you can see him shrug his shoulders and play.

The part leading up to the scream always gives me the chills. I really love this song!

My favorite son, all a about the government.

This one is on the list twice...

Sleeping at Last has written some really great lyrics - poetic, memorable and touching. I'm voting for this one as a proxy for either Neptune or Two which are my particular favourites, but Saturn was the song that made me start listening

This song is one of the few songs written that simply marvel at how crazy it is we exist. Definitely some of the best lyrics ever. "I'd give anything to hear you say it one more time, that the universe was made just to be seen by my eyes."

Honestly I would say anything by Sleeping at Last. Their songs are amazing and moving and I'm in love with all of them

I would give my life for sleeping at last. And this song is truly a masterpiece.

One of the greatest songs ever!

In the bath again

A beautiful bit of ambiguity. Anyone, no matter who, where or why can listen to this song and make something of it that is deeply personal and relatable.

There are plenty of Radiohead's songs which are better than this and deserve to be in top ten.

I believe this song is amazing and, shares great emotion definitely one of my favorites.

The music is awesome, an the lyrics does full justice to it if understood properly.

This song is amazing hands down, and even when another artist like Johnny Cash did it, its hauntingly good. One of my favorites

It's like saying about my life. One of the best lyrics I've heard. Please listen the song version used in "coloumbiana" movie.

The Johnny Cash Version of this song is awesome!

This is an amazing straight forward lyrics.

The way that Brian Wilson created the saddest confession of love bearing on suicidal in history blows me away!

Best ever love song

I had some time choosing between Imagine and this song, but well, you know what I chose. I don't think a lot of people had good background knowledge of this song, which really gives it its meaning. It gives one the feeling of fearlessness and an unshaken determination.

Now this is the Queen song that should be near the top. Not Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody is a good song but it's not as meaningful as this.

This song perfectly describes how consummate Freddie was as a performer that even though he was dying of AIDS and could barely speak afterwards he sang this song in one take.In my opinion this is the best song sang by Freddie and that's saying a lottt.

The show must go on
The show must go on,
Inside my heart is breaking
My makeup may be flaking
But my smile still stays on.

If this song doesn't speak through and make you want to break out of every single regulation that society puts you through, then you're not listening.