songs taking on a new meaning?  

well.. i havent really experienced something like this. but some songs sometimes make me realize something in me which i really dont know or which i doesnt really bother to know or something i just ignore or deny. this is embarassing but one example would be "way back into love", a soundtrack from music and lyrics the movie. the title says everything about the song and when i heard it i just felt like it was talking about me. ^__^;; i have never had a bf for a long time, the last one i got was back in college, and i keep telling myself and other people that i dont really need a bf right now and im happy being single. the song made me realized that deep inside, i'd be much happier if i can find someone to brighten up my day. ^__^;;

Yes! Mine has to do with children as well. When I was young, the song "Wild World" by Cat Stevens seemed to quite obviously be about losing a lover.

But then my daughter grew up and left home at eighteen. I can remember I was soaking in the bathtub listening to the radio like usual, and the song "Wild World" came on. Every word reminded me of my daughter leaving home, and I just sobbed all the tears I had been holding back.

Yes, it has happened to me lots of times. But most recently it has happened to me with an episode of The Simpsons. I must have watched it thousands of times and it took a completely different meaning some months ago. It's the one in which Homer goes under heart surgery. It was weird because my dad was with me and he has had some heart problems lately and he also went under surgery. It was so strange. It was not so funny anymore, but I understood the situation much better then. I don't know, I'm still shocked to see how much things change when watching them from a different point of view...

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work went from being a seeming like a whiney slushy song that sounded like he was singing the trucks don't turn, to being meaningful after my mum was hospitolised with severe manic depression after being handed prosac and tld to go and pull herself together by the doctor.

actually every time you here a song it would take on a different meaning, you are actually being observant and learning in a metaphysical way, so yes, everything changes, even the same song could take on a new meaning everyday and its good you see that.

It totally has. When my husband, then boyfriend, got a job in another town and was going to be 2hrs away I heard the song Come What May from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. I had liked the song before but with him leaving and the relationship changing it took on a whole new meaning for us. It actually was our wedding song too.

sure, i guess usually happened to me espcially when i was too depressed and upset. i love the sad songs,maybe this will heavy my depression, but after listening,, at least i will be much more relieved and comforted. hope i won't be so pessimistic:(

Of course, it's happen to me a lot! Especially when I fall in love and listen for love songs.
I remember after I fall in love in one lady, I heard the song "I don't want to miss a thing" and this song take a whole new meaning for me. I really like this song and when I was in love, it also took a new and wonderful meaning for me.

I agree with you so, and I think music can affect a lot on my, and every person life's. Every body has the type of music he loves, and whenever he listen for this certain type of music or song, he starts to feel much better, in particular after an important event that happened to him.

Shay.

I have to say that I've heard the album "The Road to Escondido" so much, and now I always think of all the happy things that has happened to me.

by the way, that album is one of those you have to listen to for a while, and it will grow better for everytime you hear it.