Whether it was for a little while, a long while, or still is, what powerful lyric spoke to you so strongly you made it your mantra?
For me it’s “jealous is the night when the morning comes. But, it always comes” from Morning Comes by Delta Rae - Carry the Fire (2012)
Delta Rae has dozens of powerful songs evoking various emotions, but that one gets me good.
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Just give me a reason, some kind of sign I'll need a miracle to help me this time I heard what you said and I feel the same I know in my heart that I'll have to change
Even the stars look brighter tonight Nothing's impossible I still believe in love at first sight Nothing's impossible
In the broader sense, not to be limited to love.
I feel like we all at some point have an "I heard what you said and I feel the same; I know in my heart that I'll have to change" moment. Be it from friends or family.
Then the attitude toward that revelation is covered by "nothing's impossible."
Lovely, friend.
You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find You get what you need 

Also all of the lyrics of Baz Lurhmann's Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen), but I decided that was cheating!
I'm gonna check out Delta Rae today
Ooh classic lyrics of wisdom! I know there isn't a DM feature here, but let me know what you think of Delta Rae, if you like. Obviously Morning Comes is wonderful, but these are my tippy-top songs by them (in no particular order):
Bottom of the River
Chasing Twisters
All Good People
I Will Never Die
Hands Dirty
Outlaws
Someone's been watching House 😂. "As the philosopher Jagger onge said..."
The last line from Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea always sticks with me
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all
I just checked it out. I feel like that's a very "eye of the beholder" kind of song. What does that lyric mean to you? Granted I've only heard it once now, but it seems positive and wondrous? A happy-to-be-alive kind of song?
The whole album is sort of a concept album inspired by Anne Frank, and while that's not something I think about much when listening to it I do think the context in the album is probably quite important for how the song feels, with a bit more tragedy behind it than simply being happy to be alive. That said, the line itself I guess I do take from it the idea that existence in itself is kind of a miracle, but one that's easy to lose sight of.
Oh wow, context is everything, isn't it. Life is certainly easy to take for granted.
Thomas, did you ever see Stephen Colbert's last episode of the Colbert report where he closed the series out with Holland, 1945?
"Thou shalt spell the word "phoenix" P-H-E-O-N-I-X, not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you"
Nope, I don't have any musical mantras. But i have a meme mantra to stay positive when everything collapse
For me it'll come from Josh Doyle: "I wanna do something great before I get older, there's nothing worse than being mediocre". I used that as a focus to try and do my best and not just half do things.
And whilst not a lyric I also love this whole thing from Joe Strummer and it became a mantra for me, and pretty much got me started working in the charity sector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cckNE1kBagw
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