100 Best Songs About Words
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“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” (Proverbs 18:21)
The words we speak say a great deal about who we are. The power of words has the potential to make or break a person. Indeed, words spoken can encourage positively or impact negatively. Singers and songwriters employ creative elements associated with words to reveal a concept or idea literally or metaphorically. A great number of songs about words and their power explore diverse aspects of the heart and mind.
What Do Words Convey?
Words convey a wide range of emotions we experience in different phases of our life. Through songs musicians may narrate inspiring stories based on real events or bring to life a theatrical world of dreams and fantasies with an imaginative mindset. Different types of love songs describe the myriad ways in which words are spoken to impress a guy or girl. These songs incorporate the protagonist’s thought process about giving up on materialistic things in favor of love. Certain songs reveal the dark side of relationships when arguments and fights take the forefront.
How words said in anger affect the mind is exquisitely showcased through details in a troubled relationship. The hurt feeling that comes with certain words uttered in the heat of the moment is thoughtfully captured in songs about arguments. These songs reveal how things go wrong in love when ego takes centerstage. In certain songs, the protagonist is showcased trying to gather courage and strike a conversation with a crush. These songs present the thoughts of the protagonist in a world of dreams and fantasies.
What Do Words Symbolize?
A wide spectrum of personality traits and characteristics are symbolically brought to life with words. How communication helps a relationship blossom is explained figuratively in songs about romance. In a number of songs about happiness, the expression of words equates to a life of contentment and well-being. These songs emphasize on the using words to motivate and encourage people. The words exchanged by partners parting ways after amicably ending their relationship is brought to life through a confessional tone in songs. The situations in these songs are often portrayed with flashbacks of the past.
Certain songs about life get preachy about the message of love and feelings being conditional in accordance with the phase of life. These songs present a logical and philosophical outlook on how the words we use change in accordance with the state of mind. Certain singers and songwriters provide a humorous account of how things turn out when the wrong words are spoken at the right time or the right words are said at the wrong time. These songs are filled with lines of sarcasm aimed at someone to evoke a reaction in a funny way.
The list below showcases a collection of rock songs, pop songs, country songs, R&B songs, folk songs, hip hop songs, indie songs, alternative songs, reggae songs, disco songs, synthpop songs, new wave songs, electropop songs, jazz songs, blues songs, EDM songs, and dance songs about words. If you have a view, opinion, or song suggestion, let us know in the comments section.
10 Best Songs About Words
1. “Words”—Alesso featuring Zara Larsson
2. “More Than Words”—Extreme
3. “She’s Got a Way with Words”—Blake Shelton
4. “Words”—Bee Gees
5. “Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word”—Elton John
6. “Words Get in the Way”—Miami Sound Machine
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7. “Louder Than Words”—Pink Floyd
8. “Do I Have to Say the Words?”—Bryan Adams
9. “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth”—Meat Loaf
10. “One Word”—Baby Animals
#11—20
11. “Goodbye’s (The Saddest Word)”—Celine Dion
12. “Words”—Daya
13. “Famous Last Words”—My Chemical Romance
14. “One Word”—Kelly Osbourne
15. “Man of Your Word”—Maverick City Music featuring Chandler Moore and KJ Scriven
16. “3 Words”—Cheryl Cole featuring will.i.am
17. “Kill a Word”—Eric Church
18. “Land of a Thousand Words”—Scissor Sisters
19. “Way with Words”—Bahamas
20. “6 Words”—Wretch 32
#21—40
21. “Four Letter Word”—Kim Wilde
22. “Wrap My Words Around You”—Daniel Bedingfield
23. “The Words”—Christina Perri
24. “Wordplay”—Jason Mraz
25. “Words of Love”—Buddy Holly
26. “Louder Than Words”—David Guetta and Afrojack featuring Niles Mason
27. “Lost for Words”—Pink Floyd
28. “More Than Words Can Say”—Alias
29. “Words I Couldn’t Say”—Rascal Flatts
30. “Words As Weapons”—Birdy
31. “Word of God Speak”—MercyMe
32. “Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow (What Can I Do)”—Bullet for My Valentine
33. “If You Say the Word”—Radiohead
34. “Spoken Word”—Chase & Status featuring George the Poet
35. “Only One Word Comes to Mind”—Biffy Clyro
36. “Four Letter Word”—Beady Eye
37. “Three Words, Two Hearts, One Night”—Mark Collie
38. “Word to the Badd!!”—Jermaine Jackson featuring TLC
39. “The Words That Maketh Murder”—PJ Harvey
40. “I Meant Every Word He Said”—Ricky Van Shelton
#41—60
41. “The Word Is Love (Say the Word)”—Steve “Silk” Hurley” & The Voices of Life featuring Sharon Pass
42. “Words”—F.R. David
43. “Words As Weapons”—Seether
44. “Every Little Word”—MNEK
45. “How Many Words”—Blake Lewis
46. “Word Up!”—Cameo
47. “Words By Heart”—Billy Ray Cyrus
48. “Words Just Get in the Way”—Richard Ashcroft
49. “Only Words I Know”—Blue
50. “Word of Mouth”— Mike + The Mechanics
51. “Man of My Word”—Collin Raye
52. “Kind Words (And a Real Good Heart)”—Joan Armatrading
53. “I Give You My Word”—George Fox
54. “No More Words”—Berlin
55. “Two Words”—Kanye West featuring Mos Def, Freeway, and The Boys Choir of Harlem
56. “Words”—Doves
57. “Shakespeare’s (Way with) Words”—One True Voice
58. “Word Is Out”—Kylie Minogue
59. “Just Three Words”—A1 featuring Annie Khalid
60. “Hey Love (Can I Have a Word)”—R. Kelly and Public Announcement featuring Mr. Lee
#61—80
61. “True to His Word”—Boy Howdy
62. “The Word Is Out”—Jermaine Stewart
63. “These Words”—Natasha Bedingfield
64. “Famous Last Words of a Fool”—George Strait
65. “Word to the Mutha!”—Bell Bev DeVoe
66. “From the Word Go”—Michael Martin Murphey
67. “Say the Word”—Joel Feeney
68. “The Word Girl”—Scritti Politti
69. “Words”—The Christians
70. “The Word (L.O.V.E.)”—Rockmelons featuring Deni Hines
71. “These Are My Twisted Words”—Radiohead
72. “Words and Music”—Andy Gibb
73. “Words”—Sharon O’Neill
74. “On My Word”—Chip Taylor
75. “The First Word in Memory Is Me”—Janie Fricke
76. “Holy Word”—I’m Talking
77. “Woman of My Word”—K. Michelle
78. “Don’t Believe a Word”—Ivy
79. “In a Word”—Guy Sebastian
80. “Right Words Wrong Time”—Carly Rae Jepsen
#81—100
81. “Louder Than Words”—Craig David
82. “Three Empty Words”—Shawn Mendes
83. “Mark My Words”—Justin Bieber
84. “If I Never Say a Word”—Matthew John Corby
85. “The Cross Has the Final Word”—Cody Carnes
86. “Four Letter Word”—Jessie J.
87. “In the Words of a Not So Famous Man”—Conrad Keely
88. “A Way with Words”—Robert Plant
89. “Words”—Birdy
90. “No Words”—Sabrina Carpenter
91. “Careful with Words”—Aly & AJ
92. “Worthless Words”—Tom Chaplin
93. “Word Crimes”—"Weird Al” Yankovic
94. “Say the Words”—Usher
95. “4 Letter Word”—Diggy Simmons
96. “Can’t Find the Words”—Karina Pasian
97. “Words”—Anthony David
98. “Famous Last Words”—Ty Dolla Sign
99. “Three Words”—Sechs Kies
100. “Words Darker Than Their Wings”—Alter Bridge
Other Notable Songs About Words
- “In Your Words”—Rebecca Black
- “She Makes Dirty Words Sound Pretty”—Pierce the Veil
- “3 Little Words”—Frankmusik
- “More Than Words”—Little Mix featuring Kamille
- “Her Words Destroyed My Planet”—Motion City Soundtrack
- “Word of the Voice”—FLOW
- “One Word”—Elliot Yamin
- “Words and Guitar”—Sleater-Kinney
- “Last Words”—Ai
- “Words”—Kate Miller-Heidke
- “All My Little Words”—The Magnetic Fields
- “Never a Word”—Deep Purple
- “Twisting Words”—Milesha
- “A Word in Spanish”—Elton John
- “Sincerely Yours/Can You feel the Power of Words”—Rina Aluchi
- “Four Letter Word”—Def Leppard
- “Words Are Few”—Snoop Dogg featuring B. Slade
- “Stand on the Word”—Joubert Singers
- “Four Letter Word”—Cheap Trick
- “Words I Might Have Ate”—Green Day
- “Heaven Is a 4 Letter Word”—Bad English
- “Friend Is a Four Letter Word”—Cake
- “Action! Not Words”—Def Leppard
- “Word Around Town—Kevin Gates featuring Rich Homie Quan
- “Bodies and Words”—Silverstein
- “Words I Never Said”—Lupe Fiasco featuring Skylar Grey
- “Word on a Wing—David Bowie
- “Take My Word”—Jackie Lomax
- “Heard a Word”—Michelle Williams
- “Words (Between the Lines of Age)”—Neil Young
- “The Way With Words Is Through Silence”—A Day to Remember
- “Every Single Word”—Basement
- “Word of Mouth”–The Kinks
- “Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me)”—Paul McCartney and Wings
- “Say the Word”—Arcadia
- “Missing Words”—The Selecter
- “Erica’s Word”—Game Theory
- “The Last Words You Said”—Sarah Brightman and Richard Marx
- “Say the Word”—Namie Amuro
- “Hush…Not a Word to Mary”—John Rowles
- “If I Had Words”—Scott Fitzgerald with Yvonne Keeley
- “Have You Heard the Word”—The Fut
- “Words with the Shaman”—David Sylvian
- “Word Forward”—Foo Fighters
- “Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word”—Joan Baez
- “Those Sweet Words”—Norah Jones
- “CussWords”—Too Short
- “No Words”—Paul McCartney and Denny Laine
- “Words of Love”—The Mamas & the Papas
- “Words”—Boyzone
- “Lights Out, Words Gone”—Bombay Bicycle Club
- “(This Song’s Just) Six Words Long”—“Weird Al” Yankovic
- “F Is Not a Dirty Word”—David Peel & the Lower East Side
- “Words”—Madonna
- “Your Words”—Third Day
- “Who Wrote the Words”—Mercey Brothers
- “Every Word Means No”—Let’s Active
- “Give Me Your Word”—Tennessee Ernie Ford
- “Empty Words”—Death
- “Ego Is Not a Dirty Word”—Skyhooks
- “If I Say the Words”—BZN
- “Words”—The Monkees
- “Say the Word - I’ll BE There”—Kylie Minogue
- “Encouraging Words”—Billy Preston
- “Word Is Bond”—YG featuring Slim 400
- “Better Than Words”—One Direction
- “All the Words We Don’t Say”—Hiatus Kaiyote
- “The Word”—The Beatles
- “Passion Is No Ordinary Word”—Graham Parker
- “Famous Last Words”—Tears for Fears
- “Speak the Word”—Tina Campbell featuring Teddy Campbell
- “Word Song”—Syd Barrett
- “W4W (Word 4 Word)”—Omarion
- “Miss Teen Wordpower”—The New Pornographers
- “The Word & Sardines”—Junkyard Band
- “Wordy Rappinghood”—Tom Tom Club
- “Did You See the Words”—Animal Collective
- “In Your Words”—Lamb of God
- “Gentle Words”—Koda Kumi
- “7 Words”—Deftones
- “The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me”—Eddy Arnold
- “Words”—Sakanaction
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