Songs With Meaning Online Quiz | Music

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1. Name this song: "Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother. She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors"

Answer: If I Die Young

This song is by the country band, The Band Perry and was released on country radio in the spring of 2010. Lead singer Kimberly Perry wrote this song and claims in an interview with country magazine, The Boot that the song isn't really about death. Its about making the best out of whatever time you have on earth, wither it be two years or a hundred years.
The Band Perry consists of Kimberly Perry and her younger brothers Reid and Neil.

2. Name this R&B song: "His health is fading and he doesn't know why, 3 letters took him to his final resting place."

Answer: Waterfalls

This song is by R&B girl group TLC. It was released in 1995 and was featured on their album, "CrazySexyCool". The song stayed at number one on the Billboard Hot 100(U.S.) for seven weeks from July 8, 1995 - August 19, 1995. The song deals with some heavy subject matter including AIDS.

The song was co-written by TLC member Lisa "Lefteye" Lopes who tragically lost her life in a car crash on April 25, 2002.

3. Name this rock song: "And the dead lay in pools of maroon below, Daddy didn't give attention, ohh, To the fact that mommy didn't care"

Answer: Jeremy

This song is by the band Pearl Jam and was released in 1992. The song is off of the bands debut album, "Ten". The song is inspired by the true story of Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas who shot and killed himself in front of his high school English class on January 8, 1991.

4. Name this song: "Even though you're gone, we still a team. Through your family I'll fulfill your dreams"

Answer: I'll Be Missing You

This song is by rapper P. Diddy(when the song was released he was known as Puff Daddy) and Faith Evans. It was released in 1997. It is in tribute to P. Diddy's late best friend and Faith Evans late husband, The Notorious B.I.G. who was shot and killed in 1997. The song features a sample from the 1983 The Police hit, "Every Breath You Take".

5. Name this heartbreaking song: "Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same,, if I saw you in heaven?"

Answer: Tears In Heaven

This song is by Eric Clapton and was released in 1992. The song is heartbreaking because it is about the death of Clapton's young son Conor who fell to his death from the window of an apartment building when he was only four years old on March 20, 1991. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. in 1992.

6. Name this song: "As I turned up the collar on, a favorite winter coat, this wind is blowin' my mind, I see the kids in the street, with not enough to eat"

Answer: Man In The Mirror

This song is by the late Michael Jackson and was released in 1988. The song is off of Jackson's seventh album, "Bad". The song is about treating everyone, including yourself with respect. An instrumental version was played at the end of Jackson's memorial service in 2009, while his casket was being carried out of the Staples Center in L.A.

7. Name this sad song: "I lifted her head, she looked at me and said, "Hold me darling, just a little while". I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss, I found the love that I knew I had missed."

Answer: Last Kiss

"Last Kiss" was orignally released by singer Wayne Cochran in 1961. It was unsuccessful chartwise. "Last Kiss" became a hit in 1999 when rock band Pearl Jam did a cover of the song. Billboard Magazine listed Pearl Jam's cover as one of the top 100 songs of 1999(In the U.S.).

The song is about a teenage boy who crashes his father's car while on a date with his girlfriend. The girlfriend dies in the boys arms after the two share their last kiss.

8. Name this song: "Did you stand there in shock at the site of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear for your neighbor? Or did you just sit down and cry?"

Answer: Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?

This song is by country singer Alan Jackson and was released in November 2001. The song is about the emotions that were going through many Americans after the tragedy of the September 11, 2001 terriost attacks on America. The song won Jackson his first Grammy award.

9. Name this song: "Even when you died, oh the press still hounded you. All the papers had to say, was that Marilyn was found in the nude"

Answer: Candle In The Wind

"Candle In The Wind" is by English singer Elton John was orignally written in 1973 in honor of movie star Marilyn Monroe, who had died eleven years earlier. The song was introduced to a new generation of fans in 1997 when it was re-written for the funeral of Princess Diana of Wales. The song reached number one in many countries and was retitled, "Candle In The Wind 97(England's Rose)".

10. Name this song: "That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres, The faith an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart. An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children: Did her best to give 'em all a better start. An' that preacher whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?" As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand."

Answer: Three Wooden Crosses

This song is by country singer Randy Travis was released in 2002. The song is off of the album "Rise and Shine". The song is about a fatal bus crash that takes the lives of 3 out of 4 of the passengers. The passengers were a preacher, a farmer, a teacher, and a hooker.

At the end of the song it is revealed that the surviving passenger was the hooker, who after the crash turned her life to God. The person telling the story of the crash in the song is the hooker's son, a preacher.

Source: Author loveormusic88

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Songs With Meaning Trivia Quiz

As a music buff, I love songs that have some kind of special meaning to them, what about you? The songs in this quiz all have meaning to them, so enjoy and good luck!

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