Songs You Relate To

[rainy_daze]

I had typed out lyrics and then my browser crashed! Annoyed, so just to let you all know the songs I had picked were ;) :

Love will tear us apart (Joy Divison), Born to be sold (Transvision Vamp) and Monsters (Something for Kate).

@Nadia: you posted Breathe me by Sia - I actually class that as the most beautifully sad/tragic/honest song I have ever heard. The first time I ever heard it, I immediately started crying at the very first line. That song is so powerful and personal to me. It overwhelms me, but I love it at the same time. Amazing music and lyrics. I am almost crying thinking about it. It's nice to know someone else in the world knows of Sia; if I ever mention her to anyone they reply "Who? I've never heard of her".

 

[Red Feather]

@Nadia: you posted Breathe me by Sia - I actually class that as the most beautifully sad/tragic/honest song I have ever heard. The first time I ever heard it, I immediately started crying at the very first line.

@rainydaze, Thanks for sharing. I totally agree. Yeah that song got me crying quite a lot this week. I love it too. I love sharing songs.

And this one helped me out a lot during my stay in the hospital. I just listened to it over and over again. The T there REALLY did NOT know how I felt. :unsure:


"Why" ANNIE LENNOX

How many times do I have to try to tell you
That I'm sorry for the things I've done
But when I start to try to tell you
That's when you have to tell me
Hey... this kind of trouble's only just begun
I tell myself too many times
Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut
That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words
That keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Tell me...
Why
Why

I may be mad
I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
And I've heard is said too many times
That you'd be better off
Besides...
Why can't you see this boat is sinking
(this boat is sinking this boat is sinking)
Let's go down to the water's edge
And we can cast away those doubts
Some things are better left unsaid
But they still turn me inside out
Turning inside out turning inside out
Tell me...
Why
Tell me...
Why

This is the book I never read
These are the words I never said
This is the path I'll never tread
These are the dreams I'll dream instead
This is the joy that's seldom spread
These are the tears...
The tears we shed
This is the fear
This is the dread
These are the contents of my head
And these are the years that we have spent
And this is what they represent
And this is how I feel
Do you know how I feel ?
'cause i don't think you know how I feel
I don't think you know what I feel
I don't think you know what I feel
You don't know what I feel

 

[Jen93]

This is how I feel about my trauma right now and my dissociative-ness /flashbacks in class. Basically, I'm getting extremely triggered in both of my classes, one of them really triggers one trauma, the other really triggers the other trauma, but I'm getting good marks- they LIKE that I'm so "introspective" and she was "moved by my analysis of the paradoxical way children are viewed."

I just wish they knew that there's more to it than just being reflective. It involves confusion, it involves sheer torture for me to give that analysis, and I can't help giving that analysis. It just happens and I wish I couldn't. I wish they knew just how much chaos is going on. Anyway, here's the song.

Nobody's side- Chess the Musical.

What's going on around me
Is barely making sense
I need some explanations fast
I see my present partner in the imperfect tense.
And I don't see how we can last
I feel I need a change of cast
Maybe I'm on nobody's side.

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It's getting harder to believe.
I know this can't continue
I've still a lot to prove
There must be more I could achieve
But I don't have the nerve to leave.

Everybody's playing the game
But nobody's rules are the same
Nobody's on nobody's side
Better learn to go it alone
Recognize you're out on your own
Nobody's on nobody's side.

The one I should not think of
Keeps rolling through my mind
And I don't want to let that go
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No contract truly signed
There's nothing certain left to know
And how the cracks begin to show!

Never make a promise or plan
Take a little love where you can
Nobody's on nobody's side
Never stay too long in your bed
Never lose your heart, use your head
Nobody's on nobody's side.

Never take a stranger's advice
Never let a friend fool you twice
Nobody's on nobody's side
Never be the first to believe
Never be the last to deceive
Nobody's on nobody's side
And never leave a moment too soon
Never waste a hot afternoon
Nobody's on nobody's side
Never stay a minute too long
Don't forget the best will go wrong
Nobody's on nobody's side.

Better learn to go it alone
Recognize you're out on your own
Nobody's on nobody's side.

 

[DecadeKTouch]

Siam Shade - 誰かの気持ちを考えたことがありますか-> translation (Have you ever thought of someone else's feelings?)

I'll just put the translated lyrics.

Have you ever thought of someone else's feelings?
Have you ever tried to stand in someone else's position?
I learned it, during the time I spent with you
I realized to have a heart that sympathizes with people
The thing I learned from you, without being able to make use of it with you
Without regrets, I'll pass it on to the next most important person I meet
I think that you will forever and ever... forever continue living inside my heart
But gradually, so, slowly your area will shrink
...good-bye

Do you ever think of someone day and night?
Have you ever loved someone desperately?
People change, just as much they've sent deep love
People can change, when they think of someone else more dearer than themselves...
The thing I learned from you, without being able to make use of it with you I do say "without regrets", but please laugh it off as my last bravado
Because I really really loved you from the bottom of my heart
Just a little regret, just a trifle, just a trifle
I just said a mean thing ...good-bye

I now sink into this sea the time I walked with you
When I fall in love with someone new,
I probably won't show the side of me I showed to you
It is because you are the only one, the only you in this world
Surely I can't love, I can't love in the same way,
as long as you are in my heart ...good-bye

This hits me straight to my heart...:cry:

 

[grandville1]

Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Epitaph
"Confusion will be my epitaph
as I cross a cracked and broken path
if we make it, we can all sit back and laugh,
but I fear tomorrow we'll be crying"

One of my favorite quotes from ELP - "confusion will be my epitaph..."

 

[zeb]

These words bring back so many memories of my trauma and loss.
Baby can I hold you- Tracey Chapman
Sorry is all that you can say
Years gone by and still
words dont come easily like sorry like sorry
But you can say baby, baby can i hold you tonight
Baby if I told you the right words at the right time would you be mine.

I love Tracey Chapman thanks for the reminder Im now playing it.

 

[Taven Carlsen]

Nine Inch Nails (started a thread recently titled "Only")

 

[AzureMind]

There's so many songs, SO MANY..I know it seems corny but..
Three Days Grace-"I hate everything about you"
Every time we lie awake
after every hit we take
every feeling that I get
but I haven't missed you yet;
every roomate kept awake
by every sigh and scream we make
all the feelings that i get
but I still don't miss you yet
only when I stop to think about it....
I...HATE...EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU...
WHY DO IIIII LOVE YOU!?
I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU
WHY?...DO I LOVE YOU...?!
YOU HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT ME!!
WHY DO YOU LOVE ME!!??

It's more than just the lyrics; it's the odd, disonant cords played that strike me the most; it's like it agitates/messages the pain/anger inside me; the 'strange' and 'painful' feelings I get when I hear them; they resonate very deeply with the anger I feel towards my dad for abusing me, for threatening to kill me the one night he was so high he hit my mom...and yet, I love him...I try to...:mad: I spent that night out at the hospital with her as she got her mouth filled with teeth...I felt useless, weak, and pathetic...I don't like men very much right now...sorry guys...:(

Three Days Grace-"Pain"
Pain, without love
Pain, I can't get enough
Pain I like it rough, because I'd rather feel pain then nothing at all...
You're sick of feeling down, your not the only one, I'll take you by the hand, and I'll show you a world you can understand,
This life is filled with hurt, where happiness doesn't work; trust me take my hand when the lights go out you'll understand....

It's what I regurgitate everyday when I wake up, and I see my mom and dad...everyday, when I feel the emptiness of my current life, and when the lights went out in my house, I DID UNDERSTAND...EVERYTHING...I wish I didn't....:mad:
Having to feel the legacy of pain that my parents gave to me, and their parents gave to them...Only I see it...Having nothing to grow on but pain and anger...

The Last one's a favorite...it's sad, but it's hopeful at the same time...the guys putting his ALL into the lyrics...I sing it pretty well, because I can relate so well to it.

Razah-"Rain"
Let the rain fall down and take me away
Because I don't wanna be without you
I can't sleep without you here
So let the rain take me away

The cords and lyrics represent my desire to reach out despite what emptiness I have, and just like his desire to put his ALL in the lyrics, I'm putting my ALL into healing my life, and reaching for someone to love...it's the child in my trying to fight against the years of conditioning of abuse, misery, and finding some hope to cling to.


but I do feel better now...wow...yea...I'm good. :)

 

[rainy_daze]

I do enjoy this thread. It's nice to know music is felt so deeply by others and can be used to express feelings. It makes me feel less alone. I have songs I really cannot listen to, they bring out tears that are just too painful - maybe one day I will be able to use them to help me heal, but for now I avoid them! On the other hand, I have songs that lift me up a bit, or songs I can focus my mind on and let go of feelings. The only song I relate to today is

Here comes the rain again (Eurythmics):

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory,
Falling on my head like a new emotion,
Here it comes again, here it comes again.

 

[CraftyCath]

I heard this on 'Scrubs' and it struck a chord.


Colin Hay
Overkill

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know I'll be alright
Perhaps it's just imagination

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away

Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation

At least there's pretty lights
And though there's little variation
It nullifies the night from overkill

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Come back another day

 

[Taven Carlsen]

Today it was "A Pub With No Beer" ;)

 

[skinnyman]

Apparat - Song Of Los

Where I'll go I'll go alone
I'll be safe - cause this is home
Took the fast lane out of here
To escape, to disappear