prompts for april 2026

What are your favorite lyrics from a song and why? (Thanks Rojie!)

Sometimes I love song lyrics because they speak to whatever version of me is front and centre at the time, ie. was I young, was I in love, was I in a break-up, was I wearing rose coloured glasses.

But other songs hit me not because I can personally relate right then but I’ve felt it at some point in my life or have even maybe just experienced it through others.

First one is: Wasted Time by Eagles (I have loved the Eagles for forever and always will, fun fact, my Aunty Janice is also a big Eagles fan)

And you’re trying to remember, oh

How to start it over

You don’t know if you can

You don’t care much for a stranger’s touch

But you can’t hold your man…

Second fave lyric: Heather by Conan Gray (my kids got me into this song in 2020 and I’ll never not sing along to it, it’s actually in my favourites, I think it takes me back to high school or something, where I was NOT popular and always wishing someone would notice me)

I still remember, third of December, me in your sweater

You said it looked better on me than it did you

Only if you knew how much I liked you

But I watch your eyes as she

Walks by

What a sight for sore eyes

Brighter than the blue sky

She’s got you mesmerized while I die

Why would you ever kiss me?

I’m not even half as pretty

You gave her your sweater, it’s just polyester

But you like her better

Wish I were Heather…

Lastly, such a bitch anthem or nicer way to put it, my Independent Woman anthem. I’m not a huge Miley fan but I could listen to this song all day long: Midnight Sky by Miley Cyrus

Yeah, it’s been a long night and the mirror’s telling me to go home

But it’s been a long time since I felt this good on my own

Uh, lotta years went by with my hands tied up in your ropes

Forever and ever, no more

The midnight sky is the road I’m takin’

Head high up in the clouds

Oh

I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone, oh no

I don’t need to be loved by you

Fire in my lungs, can’t bite the devil on my tongue, oh no

I don’t need to be loved by you…