Jimi was a Bard's Bard who made guitar mediations and sang them too.

https://genius.com/amp/The-jimi-hend...be-love-lyrics

I gave you seven children
And now you want to give them back

-BB King
"How Blue Can You Get"


PairTheBoard

You gotta see these lyrics to believe them.

https://youtu.be/yss0_6C22lE

Ain't no blood in my body, it's liquid soul in my vein
I dance on a thin line of sane and deranged
And it's all criss once I get neatly in the cipher
Chat like pickney to the piper that pied
As this natural mystic blows through the air
These lessons of life become crystal clear
Precision of my vision is ital
Separating sharks from the blessed is vital
Now I can smell a rat coming from a mile round the corner
One time I bored ya, twice you can't couf
No, we won't stop rebuke thee
You satanics, you fools can't recruit me

what does the billboard say? come and play come and play; forget about the movement. - Rage Against the Machine

And the Germans kill the Jews
And the Jews kill the Arabs
And the Arabs kill the hostages
And that is the news

And is it any wonder that the monkey's confused

He said, "Mama, Mama, the President's a fool
Why do I have to keep reading these technical manuals?"

And the joint chiefs of staff
And the brokers on Wall Street said
"Don't make us laugh, you're a smart kid."

"Time is linear
Memory's a stranger
History is for fools
Man is a tool
In the hands of the great God Almighty."

And they gave him command of a nuclear submarine
Sent him back in search of the Garden of Eden

-Roger Waters, Perfect Sense part 1

I wish I was like you: easily amused.

So, as an example, you're CNN
I mean it's story, after story, after story is bad
I won, I won
And the other thing, chaos, there's zero chaos
We are running, this is a fine-tuned mach

The goose has gotten fat
On caviar in fancy bars
And subprime loans
And broken homes
Is this the life, the holy grail?
It's not enough that we succeed
We still need others to fail

Fear, fear drives the mills of modern man
Fear keeps us all in line
Fear of all those foreigners
Fear of all their crimes
Is this the life we really want? (want, want, want, want)
It surely must be so
For this is a democracy and what we all say goes
And every time a student is run over by a tank
And every time a pirate's dog is forced to walk the plank
Every time a Russian bride is advertised for sale
And every time a journalist is left to rot in jail
Every time a young girl's life is casually spent
And every time a nincompoop becomes the president
Every time somebody dies reaching for their keys
And every time that Greenland falls in the ****ing sea is because
All of us, the blacks and whites
Chicanos, Asians, every type of ethnic group
Even folks from Guadeloupe, the old, the young
Toothless hags, super models, actors, ****, bleeding hearts
Football stars, men in bars, washerwomen, tailors, tarts
Grandmas, grandpas, uncles, aunts
Friends, relations, homeless tramps
Clerics, truckers, cleaning ladies
Ants, maybe not ants
Why not ants?
Well because it's true
The ants don't have enough IQ to differentiate between
The pain that other people feel
And well, for instance, cutting leaves
Or crawling across windowsills in search of open treacle tins
So, like the ants, are we just dumb?
Is that why we don't feel or see?
Or are we all just numbed out on reality TV?

So, every time the curtain falls
Every time the curtain falls on some forgotten life
It is because we all stood by, silent and indifferent
It's normal

- Roger Waters, Is this the life we really want?

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

-Jim Morrison

"Long may you run"

Neil Young

most influential song lyrics in US history are probably "**** THE POLICE" N.W.A

Influential sales wise, as a song and LP, but the most influential lyrics on the topic?

Perhaps...
https://youtu.be/aUeUa_oUSOo

Hate your next-door neighbour, but don't forget to say grace.

-Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction

Not sure if it translates well without hearing the disdain in his voice.

I was just a child then, now I'm only a man.

-Pink Floyd, Your Possible Pasts

Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

Nobel prize winner Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet

Especially the third line, my fav CS lyric of all

It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy
I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not
How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again
It's always been the same, same old story
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away
I know I have to go
It's not time to make a change,
Just sit down, take it slowly
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to go through
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away
I know I have to go

I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man
No, you can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need

"I want to know, have you ever seen the rain? Comin' down on a sunny day?"

"I got soul but I'm not a soldier."

I can attest to being influenced by these lyrics definitely across many decades. This version has some particular influence in my opinion for bridging the supposed generation gap. Bob Marley such a great lyrical influence. One can literally learn about others from his songs.

https://youtu.be/AebVPoV_NgY

"I'm so ****ing sick and tired of the Photoshop
Show me something natural
like ass with some stretch marks"

Kendrick Lamar subconsciously discovering Carl Rogers
Theory of the real self vs the ideal self as applied to people on social media.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence

...

It's a God-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling no
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man, look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

...

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

...

Hey-ya!

https://youtu.be/_UlhLd76IzQ

Ready for these lyrics?!