Results for “endurance”

Songs

The Pretenders

A live rendition of The Pretenders' elegy for lost intimacy, in which a found photograph triggers a return to grief and…

loss and memory grief disguised as anger impersonal forces vs. intimate life

Sam Cooke

A first-person account of a life lived under constant pressure — poverty, fear of death, segregation, betrayal by one's own —…

racial injustice and segregation endurance and faith mortality and doubt

D'Angelo

A prayer-like meditation on trying to hold steady inside collapse, written for a video game about the death of the American…

endurance amid chaos spiritual uncertainty frontier mythology and its end

Otis Redding

Otis Redding's rendition of Sam Cooke's civil-rights-era anthem transforms a carefully wrought protest song into a raw,…

racial injustice and endurance faith versus doubt family and disappointment

Queen

A piano ballad structured as a direct plea to a departing lover, built almost entirely on repetition rather than narrative…

romantic loss supplication and pleading possessiveness in love

Creedence Clearwater Revival

CCR's version of this traditional folk-blues song reworks a prison-labor lament into swampy rock, keeping the old imagery of…

incarceration and forced labor longing for deliverance folk mythology / superstition

Neil Young

A domestic sketch collides with a highway fantasy: the narrator remembers a diner waitress and imagines her alternate, freer…

restlessness and rootlessness domestic confinement vs. freedom idealization/myth-making