15 powerful lyrics that could've been said by a philosopher

There are some who believe that Beyonce is part of the Illuminati - claiming that many of her records, when reversed, hold a secret Illuminati message. Whether you believe this to be true or not, you can't deny that many songs these days hold some seriously intense lyrics.  

We're talking...deep life stuff. Yep, the kind of words that get you overthinking and then suddenly you're in an existential crisis. You may think you're just listening to a nice song but actually, these words are ones many a great philosopher would have spoken in their time. Singers and rappers? More like Socrates and Plato reborn!

We've picked our top 15 songs that teach us all kinds of awesome life lessons. Listen and learn. 

1. Beyonce - Best Thing I Never Had 

"What comes around goes around." 

2. Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love Of All

"If I fail, if I succeed, at least I lived how I believed."

3. P!nk - Perfect

"Change the voices in your head, make them like you instead." 

4. John Lennon - Imagine

"Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die for." 

5. Eminem - Monster

"Somebody once told me to seize the moment and don't squander it." 

6. Amy Grant - Big Yellow Taxi

"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." 

7. Paloma Faith - Black And Blue

"Wipe it off your sleeve, your superiority, don't roll your eyes my sweet." 

8. Ed Sheeran - Small Bump

"Maybe you were needed up there, but we're still unaware as why." 

9. Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston - When You Believe

"There can be miracles, when you believe. Although hope is frail, it's hard to kill."

10. Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me

"I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me."

11. Oasis - Little By Little

"We the people fight for our existence. We don't claim to be perfect, but we're free."

12. Elton John - Candle in The Wind

"Your candle burned out long before, your legend ever did."

13. Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love?

"If you only have love for your own race, then you only leave space to discriminate."

14. Labrinth - Beneath Your Beautiful

"you've built your wall so high that no one can climb it."

15. Demi Lovato - Skyscraper

"Go on and try to tear me down, I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper."