Reincarnation Songs

Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground

 ["I'm so darn glad he let me try it again, 'Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then Gonna keep on tryin' 'Til I reach the highest ground"] 

Yardbirds:  Happenings Ten Years Time Ago

On "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," Keith and I were trying to write a song about reincarnation. We'd seen everything before, and it was all happening again. That was quite an interesting viewpoint, really. Meeting people along our way that we'd seen from another day. I can't remember exactly the lyric, but sort of bringing in that situation that we'd been there before. ~ Songwriter Interviews

Crosby, Nash and Young: Deja Vu

David Crosby ~ from the Guardian July 12,2008: "I'm one of those people who thinks we go round again. The Buddhists have got it right - it's a wheel and we get on and get off. I think life energy gets recycled. That's why I wrote Deja Vu. 

Highwayman: Highwayman

"Highwayman" is a contemporary country music ballad written by songwriter Jimmy Webb, about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history, a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a star ship captain.

Indigo Girls: Galileo 

Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls wrote this song. She told us: "I was talking with my friend about reincarnation, what we believe. I wanted to write a song that was upbeat, that sort of took the whole subject sort of in a lighthearted way, even though I was thinking about it very seriously. ~ Songwriter Interviews

Al Stewart: One Stage Before

One Stage Before - Writer and historian Alexander Baron writes: "This is another of Stewart's enigmatic songs, this time about reincarnation.

George Harrison: Art of Dying

The Art of Dying ~ Harrison followed Eastern religion and philosophies. One of those was reincarnation, which is described in the song's lyrics.
Marty Robbins: El Paso City 

Marty told Ralph Emery in 1977, "I was going to write a song about an airline pilot and a stewardess. They were married, see. He flew for one airline, she flew for another, and she went to El Paso. He flew over El Paso on his way to Los Angeles... He was trying to compare his love for this woman to the cowboy's love for Feleena in the song El Paso." One day Marty was flying over El Paso, and the reincarnation idea hit him. He had the song written by the time his plane landed in Los Angeles.
Ozzy Osborne: Back On Earth 

I have fallen from grace, and my ashes are scattered / No longer of passion and flesh / My flame is alive, though my wings have been shattered / They lay my body to rest / My spirit is breathing, my senses are pure / Like reincarnation, my soul will endure / Back on earth... / The spirit, it never lets go
Barenaked Ladies: It's All Been Done

I knew you before the west was won, / I heard you say the past was much more fun,
You go your way, I'll go mine, / Bet I'll see you next time,
It's all been done, it's all been done, it's all been done before,
Where or When [Various Artists]

And so it seems that we have met before
And laughed before and loved before
But who knows where or when
Van Morrison: Foreign Window

And if you get it right this time
You don't have to come back again
And if you get it right this time
There's no need to explain

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Reincarnations Songs