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Glancing Skyward

What do you run across when you cast a glance skyward? The answer may depend on whether y'all

lean creative (e.g., poets, artists)
need to make accurate predictions (eastward.yard., meteorologists and astronomers)
rely on the skies for your livelihood (e.thousand., pilots and farmers) and/or
how preoccupied you lot are by your internal thoughts (east.g., lovers, daydreamers, and mourners).

Whereas one person may perceive big lumpy pillows of shapeshifting cotton dotting Globe's azure blanket, the next could take a more scientific approach. Perhaps they see nothing more water and ice droplets suspended in the temper.

Clouds and the sky have our long captured homo attending. Regardless of whether your mind is cloudy, you have pie in the sky ideas, or yous have your caput in the clouds, celebrate the magic higher up us with a playlist of pop, rock, and country tunes on the subject. We take a long list to first you out.

1. "Get Off of My Deject" by The Rolling Stones

The only problem with achieving a chart-topping, worldwide hitting unmarried is repeating your success. The pressure level tin be immense as everyone wants to know what'south next.

In June 1965, The Rolling Stones hitting it big with "(I Can't Go No) Satisfaction," but instead of being able to accept some fourth dimension to enjoy their first number one nautical chart-topper, the band was hounded with inquiries regarding when they would release follow-up fabric. 3 months later, this song was their response. It'due south the ring'due south way of flipping off the music establishment, telling those who were pressuring them to give it a rest.

2. "A Sky Full of Stars" past Coldplay

This 2022 electronic dance hit features a narrator professing unconditional love using the symbolism of an expansive heaven. The narrator's sweetheart is a sky full of bright stars. They represent the purity of her spirit, and light his path frontward.

three. "Clouds" by Zach Sobiech

Zach Sobiech was a singer-songwriter from Minnesota who was only 14 years old when he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a deadly bone cancer. After living with the illness for several years, doctors informed him when he was a high school senior that his cancer was last. He had less than a yr to live.

This 2012 indie-pop melody was i of the songs that Sobriech wrote to say farewell to loved ones. It describes how his end is most and before long he'll be watching from the clouds. After going viral on YouTube and entering the Billboard Pinnacle 40, "Clouds" inspired a 2022 Disney biographic film of the aforementioned name.

4. "Midnight Sky" by Miley Cyrus

Forget that provocateur Miley Cyrus is about as classy every bit a sewer rat because she just doesn't care. In this globally popular disco-tinged ditty from 2020, the former Disney darling sings well-nigh her personal liberation and evolution. Cyrus divorced Australian thespian Liam Hemsworth after less than eight months of marriage, although the couple had dated on and off for the better function of a decade.

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v. "Skyfall" by Adele

Adele released this 2012 popular number as a theme song for the James Bond movie of the same proper name. Tinged with elements of jazz, her tune describes death and rebirth. The fallen sky signifies that the narrator expects to face any number of situations together with her ally. It is them standing tall against the world. Co-written by Adele, "Skyfall" impressively won her an Academy Award, Golden World Award, and a Grammy Award. This is one more reason why Adele is Wonder Woman.

vi. "Merely a Cloud" by Lusine

With its recurring lyrics, this 2022 ambient song reflects the anxiety that is rampant in our culture today. Ane frequently seeks soothing and solace past disappearing unnoticed into a nebulous background, only every bit the narrator wishes they could do:

I wish that I was just a deject
In the sky of the light
I wish that I was just a deject
Take less shape and disappear.

The song's warped electronica adds successive layers of repetitive elements to its audio: finger snaps, claps, estimator blips, and even a laser gun thingy towards the end, before mellowing dorsum down to silence. Perhaps finally the narrator has taken shape as a cloud and evaporated after all?

seven. "Dancing in the Sky" by Dani and Lizzy

If you're like me, you probably ponder what your lost loved ones are doing in the cracking across. Have they plant peace? Do they know they are loved and missed?

Post-obit the deaths of several people they knew, Canadian twins Dani and Lizzy posted this heartfelt vocal on YouTube in 2013, and it immediately grew legs, going viral. The song succinctly conveys grief's complicated mixture of loss and hope.

The narrator misses her loved one and asks them a series of rhetorical questions about whether they are happy, complimentary, and devoid of hurting and fearfulness in heaven. Knowing that the sun shines gently on their confront in heaven brings her comfort, and she hopes that they are dancing in the sky and singing with the angels.

viii. "Wake Up in the Sky" by Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars and Kodak Blackness

Pop superstar Bruno Mars took a more active interest in hip hop a few years ago, and songs like this 2022 collaboration are the effect. Now his head is up in the clouds. With a natural language-in-cheek air, the song highlights the playboy lifestyle and having a decadently skillful time.

What's mostly up in the heaven in this ditty are the massive egos of the famous song narrators who place themselves past name throughout the track. They depict poverty-to-riches success and the love of luxury that they have become accustomed to. Additionally, as the rappers brag about existence "super fly," they barrack about their fast-paced life that includes performance-enhancing drugs like Adderall, an abundance of booze, and loose women. Bruno, come up back down to Earth!

9. "Clouds" by Imagine Dragons

Recurring threads of depression and feet announced throughout rock band Imagine Dragons' song catalog, in add-on to the theme of rejection and the struggle for personal acceptance. This 2009 song is a brilliant example, and they modified the song several times.

Being raised in a strict Mormon environment created lingering bug for the band'south atomic number 82 singer, Dan Reynolds, and it spills over into the song lyrics. The dejected narrator describes a world of missed opportunities, disappointments, and confusion. He looks around him and sees that everyone is making the all-time they can out of a miserable situation, but really, it's all pointless. The human doesn't know whether he wants to alive or dice, and as he remarks, "We're sinking to the sky," he isn't sure which style is up or down.

10. "Male monarch of the Clouds" past Panic! At the Disco

If you notice the pregnant of this 2022 alt-rock song to exist a petty cloudy, there'southward a good reason for it. The tune was completed on the day the album was due, with lyrics based on a doped-up writing session Brandon Urie had the week before wherein he spouted "verbal vomit" well-nigh Carl Sagan, the multiverse, and inter-dimensional travel. Little did Urie know that his songwriting partner was writing downward his ramblings while Urie was taking tokes. The completed song describes getting lost loftier in the clouds where the narrator flies loftier and blisses out.

11. "Blue Articulate Sky" by George Strait

If your quest for a romantic soulmate has left you stubbornly single, mayhap you lot've considered giving upward on love. But wait. Don't give up and commencement hoarding cats into your former age just yet. According to this 1996 country hit, information technology's at this low point when a dear match oftentimes takes place.

Addressing a solitary, love-hungry friend, the song narrator tells him that just equally he's about to throw in the towel, a soulmate will surprise him by dropping out of the bluish clear sky and into his life. Then he will go from a solitary bachelor to a human being shopping for engagement rings. Promise springs eternal! (Merely at that place's zippo wrong with cats.)

Demi Lovato could easily cull the path of the victim. At such a young age, she has faced sexual set on, mental disease, alcohol and drug corruption, an eating disorder, and self-harm (cutting). However, the former Disney princess recenters herself, reaffirming her identity, by claiming this 2011 self-empowerment anthem equally her ain.

The pop ballad depicts the skies as "crying" as a partner tries to tear her downward. Still, she is the high-rise edifice that valiantly fights back, determined to stand up her basis. If she is demolished, she is adamant to rising again like a bold powerful skyscraper that leaps upward towards the clouds.

13. "Mr. Blue Heaven" by Electric Low-cal Orchestra

This effervescent 1978 pop tune exudes pure joy that rain has ended, the sun is out again, and the blue sky has returned overhead. The narrator is and then tickled about the modify in weather that he addresses the blue sky as if information technology were a much-loved person, asking where it was hiding and why it stayed gone for and so long. The jubilant melody has become a signature vocal for ELO and has been used in movies, boob tube shows, and commercials, also as for major sporting events (e.g., 2012 Summer Olympics).

xiv. "The Heaven Is a Neighborhood" by Foo Fighters

This trippin' rock vocal from 2022 was inspired by frontman Dave Grohl'south hobby of stargazing as well as astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson's video, The Most Phenomenal Fact. Both Tyson'southward video and this song are a thinking man's commentary on the interconnected catholic oneness that humans share with the galaxy.

fifteen. "Scar on the Sky" by Chris Connell

A hazy melancholy clouds the worldview of the narrator in this 2007 rock track that is sheer poetry. Alluding to depression, the distressing narrator reaches out to a kindred spirit who understands his loneliness because they experience it also. Together they find a connection in spending fourth dimension together, with the narrator hoping that his friend might relieve him. Nonetheless, ultimately we tin can just salvage ourselves. Vocaliser Chris Cornell struggled with his mental health for many years before dying by suicide in 2017.

16. "Amarillo Sky" by Jason Aldean

Between the fiscal pressures and the long workdays, the farming life isn't easy, then this 2006 country song pays tribute to those who till the fields, harvest the crops, and feed the nation. By mean solar day, the nameless Texas farmer in this song works the land that was passed downwards from his begetter and grandad, and each night he prays that his dreams don't run dry underneath an Amarillo sky.

17. "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton

The daughter in this curiously chipper 2000 popular song bebops through the crowd downtown, completely zoned out and not paying attention to her surroundings. She dwells on a lost opportunity for love with someone whose memory remains vivid:

If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
Crusade you know I'd walk a yard miles
If I could just see you
If I could just hold you tonight.

The singer wrote this vocal about her own unrequited beloved feel with a man who is now a famous histrion, although she won't reveal who her crush was on.

eighteen. "Sky's the Limit" by American Authors

Count on this energetic 2022 alt-stone melody for encouragement that annihilation is achievable if you try hard plenty. The man in this vocal recounts his parents' wise counsel to not be agape of failure considering the biggest regret is in not trying at all. They repeatedly inspired the narrator by pushing him forrard: "Become live your life because the heaven's the limit." Are you allowing something to hold you lot back?

nineteen. "Airplanes" by B.o.B. (featuring Hayley Williams)

Sometimes fame comes as well hard and fast. An artist expresses a want to return to the anonymous person they previously were, back when they pursued their craft for the sheer passion of it. That's what this 2010 hip-hop/rock track is about.

The guy in the song used to thirst for fame and fortune, but now that he has a sense of taste of success—and the politics that come with it—the vocaliser wishes his life were simpler. He needs a shooting star to brand that wish come true. In the absenteeism of a shooting star, however, the homo makes do past pretending that an airplane is a star, casting his wish just in instance.

Although it's certainly a tricky vocal, it's ironic that rapper B.o.B. would express the desire to return to his Decatur, Georgia, roots. He dropped out of high school in the ninth grade, obviously in a blitz to go out the city of fewer than 25,000 people. Does he know the phrase, "You lot can never become home over again"?

20. "Clouds" by Montgomery Gentry

The grief-stricken homo in this poignant 2006 land song is addressing a dead loved one, wondering wistfully if they are resting in the clouds. He imagines that grey clouds are his loved one crying, while on sunny days he can run into their face in the billowing pockets of condensation in the heaven. It can exist comforting to imagine that lost loved ones reside in the clouds.

"Women hold up half the sky" - Mao Zedong, Former President of the People's Republic of China — "Women hold upwardly half the sky" - Mao Zedong, Erstwhile President of the Communist china

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Even More than Songs Almost Clouds and the Sky

Know a song that should be on this playlist? Make a suggestion in the Comments Department beneath!
Vocal	Artist(s)	Yr Released
21. Bullet in a Blue Sky	U2	1987
22. Even the Skies Are Blueish	Jamey Johnson	2010
23. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	The Beatles	1967
24. Sky Fits Heaven	Madonna	1998
25. Behind the Clouds	Brad Paisley	2006
26.Touch the Sky	Julie Fowlis	2012
27. Cloud Nine	Evanescence	2006
28. Impact the Heaven	Hillsong United	2015
29. Clouds	One Direction	2014
30. Wheel in the Sky	Journey	1978
31. Eye in the Sky	Alan Parsons Projection	1982
32. Blue Sky	The Allman Brothers Band	1972
33. To the Sky	Owl Urban center	2010
34. Vanilla Twilight	Owl City	2010
35. Meet Me One-half Way	Kenny Loggins	1987
36. When I Look to the Heaven	Railroad train	2003
37. Blue Sky	Hale	2005
38. From the Clouds	Jack Johnson	2010
39. Cloud Number 9	Bryan Adams	1998
40. Just a Cloud Away	Pharrell Williams	2013
41. Both Sides, Now	Joni Mitchell	1968
42. The Little White Deject That Cried	Ray and The Four Lads	1951
43. Affect the Heaven	Cedric Gervais (featuring Digital Farm Animals & Dallas Austin)	2017
44. I Can See Clearly Now	Johnny Nash	1972

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on May 06, 2021:

Mary - Thank you for the kind compliment. I recall identifying the dissimilar types of clouds in uncomplicated school and learning what they typified. I had establish it interesting. So they introduced the hybrid types and I establish it a bit perplexing at that age with the really long names. I practice wonder how much meteorologists truly geek out on this stuff and how much they just rely on computers to practise their work. Some of them seek to be all about the atmospheric condition while others are more like actors or models who present the conditions.

FlourishAnyway (author) from Us on May 06, 2021:

gyanendra mocktan - How lucky you are to have had those experiences. Thank you for sharing them here. I wish you well. Nosotros are all one under this great big heaven whether we believe information technology or non.

FlourishAnyway (author) from The states on May 06, 2021:

Adrienne - Bow wow yo yippee yay.

Mary Norton from Ontario, Canada on May 06, 2021:

Information technology's amazing how you can focus on a word or words and observe the best songs on them. I wait forwards to listening to some of these. I accept to exist outside looking at the skies, non on my computer.

gyanendra mocktan from Kathmandu,Nepal on May 06, 2021:

FlourishAniway, Your thought from your optics are so powerful. They help me sympathise the metophor of the word cloud and sky deeply.

I've been to the base of Mt.Everest several times. I've gazed at dark sky many times. In ane occasion the whole sky lit upward with stars all over my head.

But I 've never been able to describe them in the words. Mayhap I've non tried enough. Yet, my retentivity is still flooded with those rich visuals of the nights and days.

The lyrists take mastered the craft of words and they could draw the clouds in words and sangs them to add their feeling. Finally share their thoughts with the world.

Thanks

Adrienne Farricelli on May 06, 2021:

Oh how wonderful! I volition refer to this listing when I organize doggy events and will pass it on to other domestic dog trainers! Have a great weekend also!

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s. on May 06, 2021:

Adrienne - There is no shortage of topics. It does require a lot of research equally well as retention jogging. Here you continue the dog playlist:

https://spinditty.com/playlists/Dog-Lovers-Playlis...

Take a wonderful residuum of your week!

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 06, 2021:

Bill - Happy holiday

Adrienne Farricelli on May 05, 2021:

It'south astonishing how you are always able to come up up with and then many compilations of songs covering a specific theme. I am sure this requires lots of research. I couldn't even come up up with one song about clouds or the sky on my own, simply then as I read through your listing, information technology was a tada! moment. I would dear to see a list of songs nearly dogs, one day!

Bill Kingdom of the netherlands from Olympia, WA on May 05, 2021:

On vacation and non ignoring your article, but I am kind of.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 05, 2021:

Chitrangada - I'1000 glad you enjoyed this. Whether in poesy or song, clouds and sky are such a bully field of study. I was impressed at the diversity of approaches that artists took in exploring the topic.

FlourishAnyway (author) from Us on May 05, 2021:

Bill - Cheers for that suggestion. Forgot about that one! Hope the skies are sunny in your earth.

Chitrangada Sharan from New Delhi, Bharat on May 05, 2021:

Interesting introductory paragraph. Well, I wait at the clouds from a writer'south point of view. The clouds always amaze me by their irresolute shapes and movements.

I have also washed a few articles on the clouds and the sky.

Amazing list of songs, related to this theme, and thanks for telling us, that in that location are so many.

Enjoyed going through the list and reading your article.

Cheers for sharing.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from United states on May 05, 2021:

Linda - Thank you for your kind comment. I'yard glad you find value in reading even though this type of music isn't always your cup of tea.

Neb De Giulio from Massachusetts on May 05, 2021:

Another great list, Flourish. I love the topic, clouds and the sky. Another one that might make the list is "I Can See Conspicuously Now" past Johnny Nash. I always loved that vocal. Bully job as always.

Linda Crampton from British Columbia, Canada on May 04, 2021:

I enjoy learning about musicians and their work by reading your articles. Virtually of the songs that you share are new to me. I appreciate the pedagogy!

FlourishAnyway (author) from Usa on May 04, 2021:

Peggy - For some reason Jimmy is extra hungry lately and has fallen off his schedule. It'south impossible to get mad at him. He's old, obese, and is my loyal shadow. Having ever been deaf with depression vision, Jimmy finds that food is the one affair that really jazzes him, and then he's not going to miss an opportunity for early on breakfast. Like Dusty, when the tummy get rumbly information technology needs fixing.

At least these cats are/were polite about waking their people up. I have some other cat who bites my toes or runs across my body full force when I'm sleeping. What a fashion to wake up! That sweet soul spends nights in the garage as a result.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on May 04, 2021:

Pamela - I'd like to think that Zach is in a content land at present as he sings along with the everlasting vibrations of the universe.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s. on May 04, 2021:

Liz - Thanks for stopping by. I thought nearly the Pixar motion picture, "Upwardly" while writing this and listening to some of the songs.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 04, 2021:

Devika - I'm glad you lot've given a thought to them at present. Take a bright beautiful 24-hour interval with no clouds in the sky.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on May 04, 2021:

John - I had never heard of that i. Cheers for the song suggestion which I added. I bet the sky is cute down in gorgeous Australia.

Peggy Woods from Houston, Texas on May 04, 2021:

Information technology is amazing all the topics covered differently when thinking of clouds. I had to laugh when I read about your Jimmy. We used to have a cat named Dusty. Toward morning, he would look at my hubby'due south confront in bed, and my husband would wake upwardly because Dusty'southward whiskers ticked his face. Dusty was ready for his breakfast! Haha! My hubby nicknamed him "Mr. Whiskers."

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 04, 2021:

Linda - Lately my listen has been a scrap cloudy likewise considering I'm non sleeping well. I accept my sweetness old cat, Jimmy, to partially thank for that. He has developed a new addiction of pawing softly at my face up when he feels I've been resting too long, regardless of the hr.

Thanks for the song recommendation which I added. I sympathise that it won Judy Collins a Grammy. I hope you are well.

Pamela Oglesby from Sunny Florida on May 04, 2021:

This article has such a multifariousness of music types. That is a sorry story about Zach Sobiech. I had never head of him. At that place were a few others that were new to me. I am not a Miley fan. I retrieve I have heard that Rolling Stones vocal a few hundred times. :) I enjoyed exploring all these singing groups and solo singers too. Thank you, Flourish.

Liz Westwood from Great britain on May 04, 2021:

The sky and clouds are fascinating. The Beatles vocal sprang to mind first for me. I likewise idea of the DreamWorks opening scene of clouds in the sky. This is another great compilation.

Devika Primić from Dubrovnik, Croatia on May 04, 2021:

I haven't given a thought to these songs. I like listening to music and this list of songs sounds adept to me. I recall you have got a expert niche here music is ane of my best pastimes.

John Hansen from Gondwana Land on May 04, 2021:

Flourish, this was a wonderful list of songs near clouds and the sky, and about I had surprisingly never heard. I more yous may check out is the quite touching song "The Little White Cloud That Cried" originally by Jonnie Ray 1956, and later by Jamie Redfern in 1971.

Linda Lum from Washington State, USA on May 04, 2021:

Hi Flourish, I'1000 the "my mind's a bit cloudy" person on your poll. I always have half a dozen projects going at once, and always planning one more.

This was a fun listing--I surprised myself by how many I actually know. Only, the first song I thought of when I saw the title isn't in your list. Would you lot consider "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell?

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