En Vogue
This is a socially conscious ballad built around a rain-and-cloud metaphor for spiritual and social interconnectedness. En Vogue…
interconnectedness social responsibility spiritual unity
Animal Collective
A woozy meditation on connection and the strangeness of being alive, delivered with the giddy, slightly overwhelmed voice of…
interconnectedness altered perception wonder and overwhelm
Sarah McLachlan
A gentle, almost hymn-like children's-film song that treats the mundane workings of nature -- rain, sunrise, the seasons -- as…
wonder in the everyday cycles of nature gratitude
Big Thief
A playful, riddling meditation on scale and self-acceptance, using cosmic imagery and homespun humor to ask what it would take…
cosmic perspective self-acceptance interconnectedness
A meditation on collective neglect—of the homeless, the addicted, the discarded—that refuses to let the singer stand outside the…
homelessness and addiction collective guilt memory and erasure
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli surveys global poverty and violence as symptoms of a single underlying logic he calls 'the nature of the world,'…
poverty and survival spiritual searching media distraction
Yes
A high-gloss opener to Yes's commercial breakthrough album, this song trades the band's earlier cosmic mysticism for a leaner,…
chance and fate self-deception versus self-repair resilience amid chaos