@RolloTreadway alt hashtag for #JukeboxFridayNight is #LookingForward
Like you my partner favours music over lyrics. Some toots tonight have both the above tags and #LyricalMasterpieces, others only have two or one.

#LookingForward #LyricalMasterpieces
#JukeboxFridayNight

Let's start with one that's both:

NEMOPHILA / Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFnEYhbEAqg

I'm not crying...

見落としても
赤い印つけてきゃいい
苦しくても
次へ次へ次へ強く歩け

A translation:

Even if you miss something
You'll just note your mistakes in red
Even if it hurts
Onward, onward, onward, walk with your head held up high

(Credit & full lyrics: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/life-life.html-32)

@heyrochelle Apparently Zyk (from NZ) got to choose for tonight but I misinterpreted a post and offered a suggestion. I tend to get carried away so I started tooting #LookingForward and only switched / combined toots later in #JukeboxFridayNight theme.

I ask posters about "rules" when I can, as without them I go in many different directions, sometimes all at once. And yes, I did very much enjoy Everything Everywhere All At Once 😉

@heyrochelle that's also very much on target as #LookingForward the other (unofficial) #JukeboxFridayNight theme 😉

MACKLEMORE - "NEXT YEAR" WITH WINDSER & RYAN LEWIS ... all those optimists singing about #NextYear gonna be better than this year!!
#LookingForward
#JukeboxFridayNight
https://youtu.be/ZxO68FWeJ6k

Perhaps not a literary Masterpiece, but worthy lyrics for today. Also suits #LookingForward (not with optimism).

Villainy "Tiny Little Island"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3OBmZ3TFU

You get the feeling that you'll never see the signs
See what you want to see
You get the feeling your offspring won't survive

#JukeboxFridayNight #LyricalMasterpieces

Barry McGuire with "Eve of Destruction"
#LookingForward and hoping this prediction doesn't come true ...
#JukeboxFridayNight
https://youtu.be/fvq4rMsheJE

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
#LookingForward

https://youtu.be/VdQY7BusJNU

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
#LyricalMasterpieces
https://youtu.be/H-kA3UtBj4M

#JukeboxFridayNight

Strange Fruit sung by Billie Holiday, writen by Abel Meeropol aka Lewis Allan.
#LyricalMasterpieces #LookingForward to a time when people aren't singled out and killed for who they are seen as being
#JukeboxFridayNight
https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk

Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
#LookingForward
https://youtu.be/GKdl-GCsNJ0

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message
#LyricalMasterpieces https://youtu.be/PobrSpMwKk4

#JukeboxFridayNight

The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3

https://youtu.be/8qrriKcwvl

#LookingForward

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

https://youtu.be/Fk-4lXLM34g

#LyricalMasterpieces

#JukeboxFridayNight

If we're looking for #LyricalMasterpieces, lets not forget Leonard Cohen. A master of words. Here he sings
"Dance Me To The End Of Love"
Another sad #LookingForward to when love fades and dies .... althomy personal belief is that my legs will wear out before my love does ❤️
https://youtu.be/NGorjBVag0I

Piles of toast and broken promises
Among the books and pens and reading glasses
It seems there's no escape from the humdrum
It's over and done

If someone tried, you'd realise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
If someone cried, you'd sympathise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not
The End of the World

by the Pet Shop Boys

#LookingForward or #LyricalMasterpieces
Probably not a masterpiece, it's more a teenage tragedy
#JukeboxFridayNight.
https://youtu.be/mT58mvfq4oo

My contribution to #JukeboxFridayNight. Trying to cover #LyricalMasterpieces AND #LookingForward at the same time.

TheThe have so many lyrical gems, but this one stands out to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYgKCbFbWY

You pull back the curtains
And the sun burns into your eyes
You watch a plane flying
Across a clear blue sky
This is the day, your life will surely change
This is the day, when things fall into place

@Kay I haven't the faintest idea if there are rules or what they should be if there were any. My partner might join you with the #LookingForward theme if he can't think of enough songs for #LyricalMasterpieces.

For #JukeboxFridayNight I'm continuing with
#LookingForward rather than
#LyricalMasterpieces cos it's easier for me. Others can choose. HT @mwt
(Baby) Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult, a future that faces all of us
https://youtu.be/Dy4HA3vUv2c

@mwt why that theme? I suggested #LookingForward for #JukeboxFridayNight but I can park it for another time .... although Lyrical Masterpieces doesn't inspire me or my partner

@debe my suggestion was #LookingForward
My partner prefers that too as music is more of intrest than lyrics, but your choice for
#JukeboxFridayNight

Surely this is peak #JukeboxFridayNight #LookingForward
Zagar and Evans - In the Year 2525.

YouTube via Invidious so you aren't tracked.

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

More +ve?
"I believe that children are our future" from The Greatest Love of All by the late Whitney Houston
#LookingForward
#JukeboxFridayNight
https://youtu.be/IYzlVDlE72w