Hopeful Songs

Please let it be so, despite all evidence to the contrary.

I am weirdly not really into the Beatles but I have a soft spot for this song

I’ll play.

I've always liked this one.

Idk if it's hopeful per se, but it's definitely about feeling free and at one with the earth after, well, not feeling that way

Love that song. Definitely makes me feel hopeful r5.

Beyond...

Cheesy and overplayed but damn if it doesn't work to make me feel better

weirdly one of the most hopeful songs ever.

I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise

It's gonna be...

"Shout to the Top"

Hoffnung

This Will Be Our Year by the Zombies in 1969. It had a renaissance on Mad Men and Schitt’s Creek. Charming and hopeful.

I Swallow His babies

Days Like This - Shaun Escoffery

This one usually cheers me up.

Behold...

What a sweet thread for a cold wintry night. More, more, more!!!

Especially the old ones.

Overheard a father singing this to his crying child at a supermarket. He had a surprisingly good voice and it was night and we were some of the only people there. A lovely memory.

Betty Buckley, “Hope.”

All will be well

I’m R19 and was referring to the OP’s song — oh, oh, child, things are gonna get easier 🎶

So low down and sad it almost defeats its purpose but still, hopeful in it's intentions I guess

R23 Apparently that song helped Elton John get sober, so it seems it was hopefull after all.

Yhe *other* side...

Hope springs eternal...

Do You Eat Ass?

Ernestine Anderson / Goin' to Chicago

Listen to Holiday by Madonna.

'Lost Horizon' by Shawn Phillips:

For some reason Lost Horizon makes me think of Shambala.

Chi qui ti ta!

daddy in my seat

Singin In The Rain and presented like this

I like Calling All Angels by Train.

For [R18]

More from Merrily...

Didn’t quite work out.

Howard Jones

This thread will be my go-to when I need a good cry.

Peter Gabriel was Really cute.

Love this song!

Oops posted the wrong one...here is what I nea t to post.

I knew that song at R26 had something to do with Bacharach/David like that godawful Girl Talk. Mack David must have been a mysogynist.

God Save the Qeen

I always equated Jack Hawkins with Stairway to Paradise. From The Band Wagon movie.

This is not hopeful.

Jack Buchanan (not Hawkins) was in "The Band Wagon," but I don't think that song was.

why don't you guys put the fucking title of the song in your post. We're hardly getting preview, anymore, on DL. Would be nice to see the title of the song without having to click a link every time.

Just stick up your chin and grin and say....

ABBA'S Move On

This one doesn't fit exactly since it's reflecting on the end of a relationship but it has one of my favorite go-to lyrics when I need to be inspired:

[quote]It's so strange when you're down and lying on the floor

[quote]How you rise, shake your head, get up and ask for more

[quote]Clear-headed and open-eyed with nothing left untried

[quote]Standing calmly at the crossroads, no desire to run

[quote]There's no hurry anymore when all is said and done

Alright Tonight = P. Abdul

Advice 4 The Young At Heart - T. 4 F.

Can't Stop The World = The Go-Go's

Dancing In The Streets - Bowie & Jagger

Don't Dream It's Over - Paul Young

Don't Stop Believing - Glee Cast

Don't Worry Be Happy / Winter Wonderland = Pentatonix

I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty

Living On A Prayer - B. Jovi

Never Surrender - C. Hart

Rebel Yell - B. Idol

The Warrior - Scandal

We're Not Gonna Take It - T. Sister

We Can't Go Wrong - The Cover Girls

When The Going Gets Tough - B. Ocean

You Got It - B. Raitt

You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party - T B. Boys

The Moon River - Elettrodomestico

The Snake (Come Join Us) - The Human League

Bathe In Your Blood - Dusty Smith

Not While I'm Around - A. Lansbury

Don't Stop Me Now - M. Doolittle

Toxic - M. Doolittle

"I've got to admit it's getting better / It's getting better all the time / (It can't get much worse):

Bill Withers, "Lovely Day"

WTH are some of these choices?

Cause every day invites you to find your place in the sun...

Open A New Window - A. Lansbury

Tall...

High...

I will survive

Gracias a la Vida

New World in the morning

Bright side of life

When You walk Through a Storm

R83 Here is a bigot free version =

I can see...

𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧' 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 (1973) by Chicago:

I stand corrected R48.

A Change is gonna come.

It's getting better every day

The good times are coming...

What about that great song from Dames at Sea.....Good Times Are to Stay....or whatever it's called? Perfect for this thread.

Better Together- Jack Johnson

Anybody ever see 'Beautiful Thing' (1996)?

It featured 'Make Your Own Kind of Music' (1969) by Mama Cass:

This song will make you want to go disco dancing OP! It’s a remix of the hit song, Sunny;

ELO, "Mr Blue Sky" -- but this video makes it.

Happy.

nobody will add to this? Really? You people make me sad.

Ain't...

Aretha looking and sounding spectacular. "I Dreamed A Dream"

Acknowledging the pain and then she rises above it.

How is that a *hopeful* song, r103? Her dream didn't just die...it was killed.

This thread needs some Earth, Wind & Fire:

[quote]Everyday is real, don't run from fear // 'Cause better days are very near // There are times when you're bound to cry //One more time, head to the sky

And another:

Live Your Life Be Free...

We're opening up the windows of the world...

Turn your face to the Sun...

Anything Is Possible = Debbie Gibson

It's ELECTRIC !!!

Queen Tiffany

I may be repeating myself, I don't remember. Row, Row, Row Your Boat is my favorite song of all time.

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily

Life is but a dream