When you well and truly love a song, you can sometimes cease to hear it for what it truly is. Misheard song lyrics can take on new forms, and ambiguous song meanings end up reinterpreted to basically ...

“And all I can do is read a book to stay awake / And it rips my life away, but it’s a great escape.” This 1992 alt-rock hit is about not being able to find the right excuses to get out of bed, ...

Many songwriters pride themselves on their lyrics. While every aspect of a song is important to the final product, listeners immediately grab onto the lyrics, putting a stressed importance on them.

“Tomorrow Never Knows” was one of The Beatles’ first psychedelic tunes, and had pretty far-out lyrics too. There are backward loops and strange lyrics, including, “Turn off your mind/ Relax and float ...

Lana Del Rey has an old soul and powerful lyric-writing skills. She's a lot more mainstream these days, but I would still consider her as a type of alternative music. Lana is known for her somber ...

It's totally normal to need a good cry sometimes, and there's nothing that does the trick quite like the best sad songs can. Hearing your favorite artists of all time singing the saddest lyrics and ...