This story will blow your mind. I'm still trying to figure it out myself. Thing is I have some conditions that must be agreed to before I post:

- You have to believe everything I say. I have gone over the facts over and over in my head. What I am telling you is the absolute truth as far as I can figure it. Plus if you don't believe what I'm saying the story won't have as much impact.

- I don't want anyone telling me that I'm just imagining things. See the above point. Thing is, I'm the first person in line to laugh at religious nuts, and people who believe in UFOs, aliens, ghosts, near-death experiences, time travel, telepahy, etc. etc. etc. I hope I've built up enough credibiltiy in my time here that you won't just think I'm a nut. What I'm telling you is absolutely true.

Once enough people post here saying that they agree I'll tell you my story. What do you say?

SURE, BUT THINK YOU SHOULD JUST TELL IT ANYWAY.
you seem a confident enough bloke to deal with "knockers".

SURE, BUT THINK YOU SHOULD JUST TELL IT ANYWAY.
you seem a confident enough bloke to deal with "knockers".

Yeah, but it's also fun to build up suspense...plus I got to write up what I'm going to say.

lets hear it Bomb, i love stories and the more interesting the better. :cool:

Yeah, but it's also fun to build us suspense...plus I got to write up what I'm going to say.

ok mate ill drop by in a while then! :)

i want to read. i like stories like these.

You may enlighten me

shoot buddy, count me in the list ...

Count me in bro.

All right, I'll post this now cause I got to get to a meeting later this morning, and I want to get your reactions before I go.

Okay, so here it is:

There's a hit song that's been on the radio for a few months now that's called "Meant to Live" by a band called Switchfoot. It's a pretty awful song, but it's got those catchy hooks that make any hit single memorable. There are a couple of lines in particular that gnaw inside your head and don't get out: "We weren't meant to live for so much more, but we lost ourselves", and "We're worth more than this world has to offer". The way the lines are delivered makes them catchy. Anyway, it's a terrible song, and Christian as well, I believe. Totally not the kind of thing I listen to, though you can't escape it on the radio.

Okay, this is the weird part, and I'm telling you the truth here: I heard this song coming out of my radio about 5 years ago! I'm not kidding. I can tell you exactly where I was when I heard the song: I was my me and my wife's apartment in Montreal. Not sure if she was in the room at the time, but she doesn't remember the song or anything anyway, though she doesn't have a memory for music like I do. Anyway, I think I heard it just once, but it really stuck in my head. See, I hate sappy songs, but I'm also a bit of a sap sometimes, and songs with "meanningful" lyrics get stuck in my head easy. At the time my wife and I were going through some hard times (not with each other, but with other stuff). Those lines I mentioned earlier got in my head because it seemed to describe our situation, in an admittedly melodramatic kind of way.

Thing is I might dismiss this story if those lines hadn't stuck in my head all those years. I've recalled them from time to time for the whole 5 years before the song "really" came out. I can remember the words exactly and how they were delivered, and they sound just the way they sound in the song now. I even played with the lyrics in my head a bit, changing the second line to "We're worth more than this world has on offer". I'd say I "played" them in my head like this on average once a month for the past five years.

The song really did come out in late 2004. It was never released before that time. When I heard it again on the radio the first thing I thought was that the song had been rereleased. See, I recognized the song immediately.

So that's my story. I still can't figure it out. It's really, really strange.

Feel free to post your own theories about this here. One thing I've checked into is that there are no other songs with similar lyrics. Thing is I remember the way they were sung just as much as I remember the words, so I couldn't have made this kind of mistake.

what the hell.. about a song?? i thought it was something paranormal? im so disappointed right now. and a really bad song at that.. o man...

if u could only see my face its a face between confusion and disappointment.. wow...

what the hell.. about a song?? i thought it was something paranormal? im so disappointed right now. and a really bad song at that.. o man...

if u could only see my face its a face between confusion and disappointment.. wow...

I heard the song five years before it came out...what's not weird about that, man?

This is spooky, i dont know....cant explain everything, i felt god once

to be honest im excited to hear this. ive always been into clairvoyance and there's many cases of people seeing things way in the future but there is another term called clairaudience. this is when someone hears into the future or hears at extremley long distances. ive read alot about clairaudience but this is the first time ive ever heard a real story about it. you may have been half asleep or in some dazed state when it happend. these things usualy happen in someone's subconscience(spelling) :o nice story Bomb, you should try to look into some stuff about clairaudience.

All right, I'll post this now cause I got to get to a meeting later this morning, and I want to get your reactions before I go.

Okay, so here it is:

There's a hit song that's been on the radio for a few months now that's called "Meant to Live" by a band called Switchfoot. It's a pretty awful song, but it's got those catchy hooks that make any hit single memorable. There are a couple of lines in particular that gnaw inside your head and don't get out: "We weren't meant to live for so much more, but we lost ourselves", and "We're worth more than this world has to offer". The way the lines are delivered makes them catchy. Anyway, it's a terrible song, and Christian as well, I believe. Totally not the kind of thing I listen to, though you can't escape it on the radio.

Okay, this is the weird part, and I'm telling you the truth here: I heard this song coming out of my radio about 5 years ago! I'm not kidding. I can tell you exactly where I was when I heard the song: I was my me and my wife's apartment in Montreal. Not sure if she was in the room at the time, but she doesn't remember the song or anything anyway, though she doesn't have a memory for music like I do. Anyway, I think I heard it just once, but it really stuck in my head. See, I hate sappy songs, but I'm also a bit of a sap sometimes, and songs with "meanningful" lyrics get stuck in my head easy. At the time my wife and I were going through some hard times (not with each other, but with other stuff). Those lines I mentioned earlier got in my head because it seemed to describe our situation, in an admittedly melodramatic kind of way.

Thing is I might dismiss this story if those lines hadn't stuck in my head all those years. I've recalled them from time to time for the whole 5 years before the song "really" came out. I can remember the words exactly and how they were delivered, and they sound just the way they sound in the song now. I even played with the lyrics in my head a bit, changing the second line to "We're worth more than this world has on offer". I'd say I "played" them in my head like this on average once a month for the past five years.

The song really did come out in late 2004. It was never released before that time. When I heard it again on the radio the first thing I thought was that the song had been rereleased. See, I recognized the song immediately.

So that's my story. I still can't figure it out. It's really, really strange.

Feel free to post your own theories about this here. One thing I've checked into is that there are no other songs with similar lyrics. Thing is I remember the way they were sung just as much as I remember the words, so I couldn't have made this kind of mistake.


...cool story, and I have absolutley no theories to try and explain it.

I heard the song five years before it came out...what's not weird about that, man?

idk i guess everyone has their diff kind of weird. im more into paranormal things. its probably nothing. sometimes the mind remembers what u want to remember or what makes more sense. thats what i think it is.

idk i guess everyone has their diff kind of weird. im more into paranormal things. its probably nothing. sometimes the mind remembers what u want to remember or what makes more sense. thats what i think it is.

Right, gotcha. Sorry to disappoint you...maybe I'll have a ghost story for you next time :D .

The thing is about my story is that I'd dismiss it if I hadn't replayed the song over and over in my mind for five years. One memory of hearring the song before I would dismiss as my mind playing tricks on me, but I know I've recalled the song dozens and dozens of times.

I agree that the song sucks, too. It's not like had any say in the matter :cool: .

Are you positive there's no way the song was out before that ?
Any chance the band was some local indy-type....& the song was getting local air play ?

Not that this is as "mystical" as your experience but.....I remember seeing those guys The Proclaimers on David Letterman back in '89, doing that "500 Miles" song.......& then it became a top tenner - in 1993.

Are you positive there's no way the song was out before that ?
Any chance the band was some local indy-type....& the song was getting local air play ?

Not that this is as "mystical" as your experience but.....I remember seeing those guys The Proclaimers on David Letterman back in '89, doing that "500 Miles" song.......& then it became a top tenner - in 1993.

Yeah, that was weird when that Proclaimers song got back on the air! Anyway, I searched all over on the net for evidence that this somg came out earlier, but it doesn't look like it. I even posted on a Switchfoot message board and they had no clue either. That was a weird experience...like I said, they're a Christian rock band, so they're fans are, well...let's say "intense" to be nice.

maybe our resident musician, boxerdog can help you. man has got songs swimming around his head...

i had some thing like this too. i was sleeping i dont know if u would call it a dream but i rem looking at myself in the mirror a year later i was looking at myself in the mirror but it was the same as i dreamt it. this is the only dream that i rem fully it was bout like 5 sec but i can rem. When i was living the dream it felt really weird it felt like i had done this before

i had some thing like this too. i was sleeping i dont know if u would call it a dream but i rem looking at myself in the mirror a year later i was looking at myself in the mirror but it was the same as i dreamt it. this is the only dream that i rem fully it was bout like 5 sec but i can rem. When i was living the dream it felt really weird it felt like i had done this before
deja vu... sometimes there's glitches in the program when they update the matrix and they have to go back a little... :D

maybe they stole the lyrics from somebody else. do a lyric search

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/19/switchfoot/meant_to_live.html

Doesn't give a date that it was written but shows that you have a few words wrong.

I have heard tunes that I'm sure I wrote years ago! That REALLY fuks with you! :D

Here is a theory: you've made a mistake...

I heard the song five years before it came out...what's not weird about that, man?


**** man, i've had experiences like that, well, different but just as hard to explain, like how two people in different places are thinking about each other at the exact same moment in time and they feel it, or how when you meet somebody for the first time and you know you'll be reallly close to them

deja vu... sometimes there's glitches in the program when they update the matrix and they have to go back a little... :D


yeah, they sure have trouble with the matrix for my life, there's so many glitches i'd say the mainframe is gettin sloppy

When I make up a word and hear it in a song I get pretty pissed off. I've started so many trends like that among my friends. If any rappers start sayin, "that's clean as my butthole" I'm gonna lose it.

I wouldn't lose any sleep worrying about it, Your Weirdness.

yeah, they sure have trouble with the matrix for my life, there's so many glitches i'd say the mainframe is gettin sloppy
well, glitch me a heidi klum for one night i say!!! ...hell I'd settle for two minutes it's all I need to... damn! was I thinking aloud again??? :o

When I make up a word and hear it in a song I get pretty pissed off. I've started so many trends like that among my friends. If any rappers start sayin, "that's clean as my butthole" I'm gonna lose it.


I know what you mean, I used to work in Georgia and was saying "Bootylicious" over the mic and had been saying it for 10 years and then one day on the radio I hear the Atlanta based Destinys' Child with a hit song from a word that I made up! NO ****, I had been saying bootylicious for years and I know damn well they stole it from me!

Everytime I said it I had people cracking up and repeating it outloud, it caught on better than thought. I still have people come up to me and say they heard me saying bootylicious way before the song came out, as I had been saying it in clubs over the mic here in New Orleans as a DJ too!

No way to verify it burt I was among the first to call Wlad and Vitali "Klits" with a wink.
Way, way back on the long defunct boxing.com after I first became aware of them, I posted that a lot of heavies were gonna have a tough time "licking these Klits".

is it maybe a remake song?
have u looked into whther or not it had been previously released