Results for “hidden strength”

Songs

Hidden Treasure

Traffic

A gentle, meditative song that treats a riverbank walk as a spiritual exercise, urging the listener toward openness and…

contemplation and inner openness nature as teacher spiritual seeking

Samson and Delilah

The Staple Singers

This is the Staples' take on an old African American spiritual, retelling the biblical Samson story as a folk ballad while a…

betrayal hidden strength divine retribution

The Devil Is in the Details

The Chemical Brothers

An instrumental cue from The Chemical Brothers' score for the film Hanna, built around texture, pulse, and slow accumulation…

surveillance and threat precision versus chaos hidden danger

The Stranger

Billy Joel

Billy Joel builds a meditation on the hidden selves everyone conceals from lovers, using the whistled melody and shifting moods…

hidden identity betrayal in relationships self-deception

Secret

Seal

Seal builds this track almost entirely from a single confession — that the speaker is a hidden part of someone else's life —…

secrecy and concealment possessive love mutual belonging

willow

Taylor Swift

willow is a courtship song that frames romantic surrender as both fate and craft, using water and tree imagery to describe a…

romantic fate versus choice yielding as strength seduction and manipulation

How Strong Is a Woman

Ann Peebles

Ann Peebles takes up a question circulating in early-70s soul and pop culture — who's stronger, men or women — and answers it in…

gender roles and power romantic devotion vs independence strength redefined through love

The Story

Brandi Carlile

Brandi Carlile's title track builds a life's worth of scars and travels into a single argument: experience is meaningless…

intimacy as validation hidden suffering behind a public self devotion and destiny

Baby I Need Your Loving

The Supremes

This is a Motown reading of the Four Tops' own hit, recast as a plea from a woman who admits her desire has tipped into…

romantic longing emotional dependency vulnerability as strength

Outdoor Miner

Wire

A deceptively sweet pop song from a band known for angular art-punk, built around the tiny natural phenomenon of a leaf-mining…

nature observation hiddenness and exposure innocence versus threat

The Music Is the Magic

Abbey Lincoln

A late-career meditation from Abbey Lincoln that treats music itself as a spiritual refuge rather than a subject to be…

music as sanctuary interiority spirituality

Richard Cory

Simon Jäger

Simon adapts Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem into a song about class envy and its blind spot: a factory worker idolizes a…

class envy the emptiness of wealth irony of appearances

Eagle When She Flies

Dolly Parton

A tribute to womanhood built almost entirely around a single controlling image: the tension between vulnerability and…

female strength and vulnerability resilience after hardship multiplicity of women's roles

Stronger Than Before

Chaka Khan

A pleading reconciliation song built almost entirely around a single promise: that a rocky past can be transformed into a more…

reconciliation vulnerability disguised as strength forgiveness

I'm Every Woman

Whitney Houston

A cover of Chaka Khan's disco-era declaration of feminine totality, reworked by Whitney Houston into a glossy, gospel-tinged…

female empowerment universality of womanhood self-possession

Ghetto Dreams

Common

Common builds a composite fantasy of a woman who fuses hood authenticity with high-end glamour, verse by verse assembling and…

idealized femininity as class fantasy hood authenticity versus upward mobility female strength shadowed by objectification

Blow Up the Outside World

Soundgarden

A song built on a paradox: a narrator who insists he's unbreakable while quietly confessing he's contemplating annihilating the…

invulnerability as self-deception depression and self-destruction isolation vs. connection

Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 3

Pink Floyd

This is the moment PinkInk's protagonist Pink completes his self-imposed isolation, rejecting comfort, chemical or human, as a…

emotional withdrawal self-destruction disguised as independence accumulated trauma

Oh, By the Way

Minnie Riperton

A brief, hazy love song built almost entirely on the tension between hesitation and disclosure, in which the singer circles the…

withheld affection self-disclosure time and delay

Still Woman Enough

Loretta Lynn

A late-career declaration of resilience, this song has Lynn taking stock of a long, hard-won life and refusing to concede any…

resilience aging and identity working-class pride

Place to Be

Nick Drake

An opening-track confession that traces a single life arc—innocence, vitality, and eventual depletion—in four spare stanzas. The…

decline and aging loss of innocence spiritual exhaustion

Roly Poly

Hank Williams

A novelty-tune portrait of a chubby, food-loving little boy, sung with affectionate exaggeration rather than any deeper agenda.…

childhood innocence rural domestic life affectionate exaggeration

One Day At a Time

Merle Haggard

This is a plainspoken gospel prayer sung from a position of exhaustion and humility, asking for the strength to survive the…

religious surrender humility and human limitation present-moment endurance

Faith

George Michael

A dance-pop declaration of self-preservation dressed up as a love song: the narrator is attracted to someone but refuses to hand…

romantic self-protection distrust of surface attraction patience versus desire

Motiv8

J. Cole

A satire dressed as a flex track: Cole raps a checklist of materialist and misogynist clichés straight from mainstream trap…

performative masculinity addiction as coping mechanism materialism and its emptiness

All for Leyna

Billy Joel

A young narrator describes a destructive, one-sided infatuation using imagery of physical danger — electrified rails, hidden…

obsessive infatuation self-destruction adolescent isolation