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The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard

This may be a little too deeply personal for some, so reader discretion is advised. Don't know the reason, stayed here all season. Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie. How it got here I haven't a clue.
Blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop top, cut my heel had to cruise on back home. But there's booze in the blender and soon it will render that frozen concoction that helps me hang on.

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mitchagain
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Ooh La La - Faces

"I wish that I knew what I know now...."

mitchagain
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My Head Is My Only House, Except When It Rains - Captain Beefheart
These Days - Jackson Browne
Alone But Not Alone - Rodney Crowell

+ 1 on "Working Class Hero" (Marianne Faithfull version)
mitchagain
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First off, great topic MC.

I find a lot of the songs mentioned walk a fine line between being "observational" about the human condition versus being philosophical about it, although sometimes both will happen within the same song. Both perspectives are probably valid; so, here's a couple of more observational songs:

Think For a Minute - Housemartins
Don't Interrupt the Sorrow - Joni Mitchell
mitchagain
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California - Dreams So Real

"California falls in the sea,
that's when she said she'd come back to me."
mitchagain
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Rodney Crowell - "Things That Go Bump in the Day" and "We Can't Turn Back Now" (both from "The Outsider").
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