We all know that the majority of the time, Parents are the personification of authority. As such, their image ends up being one trying to hold you down. Do you have an example of a song praising parents?
The Vandals - Sorry, Mom and Dad
http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/vandals/so...
This is pretty much in line with what I'm thinking. Mike: Links are not necessary, no worries. "I don't want no hippie pad
I want a house just like Mom and Dad"
-Suburban Home by The Descendents
And Mama Tried was originally by Merle Haggard.
Modern Lovers are also a damn good band. this is gonna sound crazy, but Insane Clown Posse has a song, called the mom song, that J speaks very highly of his mother... The first two that jumped into my head...
"Father, Mother, Son" by The Scream
"The Chosen One" by Pride & Glory
Sorry... no links.
NP: "Mr. Tambourine Man" - Bob Dylan Momma (I love you) - The Spice Girls
Momma - Boys II Men
Last Dance w/my father- Luther Vandross Mama lyrics by Godsmack
Oh mama what have I gone and done?
With all these years that I've been gone
My life changed me way too fast
I don't know if I could last
Help me find my way, and mama save me
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, oh
Oh mama if you could've only seen
Everything I've done and where I've been
If only one thing I would ask
Why did you let me grow up so goddamn fast?
Help me find my way, and mama save me
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, oh
There's nothing more that you can do
It's gone beyond what you can't help me through
An emptiness has covered me
Oh mama come and save me
Help me find my way, and mama save me
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, oh
Help me find my way, and mama save me
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, oh
There's nothing more that you can do
It's gone beyond what you can't help me through
An emptiness has covered me
Oh mama come and save me
Oh mama come and save
Oh save me... no!
Oh please mama save... i compleatly agree with matheww ICP has a really good one :D Don't cry Daddy - Elvis Presley "Surrender," by Cheap Trick
"Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird..." daddy- beyonce
walk a little straighter daddy- billy currington
i love you this much- keith urban "Old World" by the Modern Lovers comes close.
"Well the old world may be dead
Our parents can't understand
But I still love my parents
And I still love the old world
Oh, I had a New York girlfriend
And she couldn't understand how I could
Still love my parents and still love the old world
So I told her:
I want to keep my place in the old world
Keep my plave in the arcane
'Cause I still love my parents and I still love the old world
Alright"
That's the first verse.
Then "Mama Tried", I'm not sure who did the original, might be country I think, but the Grateful Dead do a decnt cover that sounds closer to rock with heavy country influence. It's about a guy in prison, doing a life term I believe, who wishes he'd listened to his mother better. I can't believe no one has mentioned 'Hymn To Her' by The Pretenders! About a mother, clearly.. | 