Songs You Relate To

[rainy_daze]

....
And a few others that just strike cords with me when I'm in a dark place sometimes. *Beware*, they may be strong listening.
- P.O.D. - Youth of a Nation

Yeah that's one of my sad songs. I think it would make anyone feel sad to listen to, it has simple but powerful lyrics. I remember hearing that for the first time and being moved, I suppose that's the only way I can describe it. I think music is a great healer, it's just knowing when to listen and when it will actually just make things worse. I love that song so about to buffer it now.

I'm on a little pop medley currently, so I've spliced some lyrics as if I wrote them ;). Old songs coming back to me. Girls Aloud "Call the shots", Nelly Futado (can't spell that) "Say it right", Kelly Clarkson "My dark side":

Just 'cause you're raising the bet and call the shots now on me -
It really doesn't phase me how you spend your time.

You either stand or you fall.
When your will is broken,
When it's slipped from your hands,
When there's no time for joking,
There's a hole in the plan...
No, you don't mean nothing at all to me.

Like a diamond from black dust
it's hard to know what can become if you give up,
So don't give up on me.
Please remind me who I really am.

(I like doing this; helps me put the feelings of the last couple of days in perspective.)

 

[rainy_daze]

Total eclispse of the heart:

I don't know what to do
I'm always in the dark...
Forever's gonna start tonight.

Once upon a time I was falling in love,
Now I'm only falling apart.

 

[Britt.f7]

Total eclispse of the heart

Haven't heard that song in forever it seems. I've always liked it.

 

[rainy_daze]

@Britt: I like to play that strong extremely loud and sing along.

 

[Loveneverfails]

Lines from Bleeding Out by Imagine Dragons

'When the day has come
That I’ve lost my way around
And the seasons stop and hide beneath the ground
When the sky turns gray
And everything is screaming
I will reach inside
Just to find my heart is beating

You tell me to hold on
Oh you tell me to hold on
But innocence is gone
And what was right is wrong

When the hour is nigh
And hopelessness is sinking in
And the wolves all cry
To fill the night with hollering
When your eyes are red
And emptiness is all you know
With the darkness fed
I will be your scarecrow

So I bare my skin
And I count my sins
And I close my eyes
And I take it in'

 

[Loveneverfails]

"These Days" -Chantal Kreviazuk

What's this life anyway?
What's it to you and me?
What's it to anyone?
Who are we supposed to be?
Make me a storybook
Write me away from here
I need a different now

Where we can wear each other for awhile
I'll len you my tears if I could borrow a smile
I'll get through tomorrow somehow today
Happy After...

Once upon these days

There's four roads to anywhere
Four ways to everything
We were unbreakable
We spoke our destiny
Let's take a moment out
Go were we never go
Let's make a new world now

Where we can wear each other for awhile
I'll lend you my tears if I could borrow your smile
We'll get through tomorrow somehow today
Happy After...

Once upon these days

Then one day we'll find
when we're looking back at this time
Wondering how we've come so far from this
When we close our eyes

What's this life anyway
What's it to you and me
What are we doing here
Who are we supposed to be
I'll take a better world
I'll take anything
I'll take our little world now

Where we can wear each other for awhile
I'll lend you my tears if I could borrow your smile
We'll get through tomorrow somehow today
Happy After...

Once upon these days

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb

 

[Whitneys story]

OK this is really old but has anyone heard Emmy Lou Harris "I Don't Have to Crawl"? Will see if I can find the words.
It is from the Mid 80's and was a crossover country and rock.

 

[rainy_daze]

... has anyone heard Emmy Lou Harris "I Don't Have to Crawl"? Will see if I can find the words.

Here they are Whitney:

When you look at me
Like you don't know me
And you talk to me
Like you've never met me

I can leave you alone if i try
If I tried I could tell you goodbye

If I wanted to
I could be long gone
And I don't have to crawl

Then you call on me
As if I should run to you
You make your move
as if I should follow you

Well I don't have to be nobody's fool
I won't make no exception of you
I don't have to be nobody's fool
I don't make no exception of you

I don't have to crawl
I can just walk away
No I don't have to crawl

I don't have to get down on my knees

I don't have to crawl
I can just walk away
No I don't have to crawl

(I am listening to music just now but I will give it a listen soon. I love these lyrics.)

 

[Red Feather]

Flinch
by Alanis Morisette


What’s it been over a decade?
It still smarts like it was four minutes ago
We only influenced each other totally
We only bruised each other even more so

What are you my blood?
You touch me like you are my blood
What are you my dad?
You affect me like you are my dad

How long can a girl be shackled to you
How long before my dignity is reclaimed
How long can a girl stay haunted by you
Soon I’ll grow up and I won’t even flinch at your name
Soon I’ll grow up and I won’t even flinch at your name

Where’ve you been?
I heard you moved to my city
My brother saw you somewhere downtown
I’d be paralyzed if I ran into you
My tongue would seize up if we were to meet again

What are you my god?
You touch me like you are my god
What are you my twin?
You affect me like you are my twin
How long can a girl be tortured by you?
How long before my dignity is reclaimed
And how long can a girl be haunted by you

Soon I’ll grow up and I won’t even flinch at your name
Soon I’ll grow up and I won’t even flinch at your name

So here I am one room away from where I know you’re standing
A well-intentioned man told me you just walked in
This man knows not of how this information has affected me
But he knows the colour of the car I just drove away in

What are you my kin?
You touch me like you are my kin
What are you my air?
You affect me like you are my air

I know you care
by Ellie Goulding

Clinging to me
Like a last breath you would breathe
You were like home to me
I don't recognize the street

Please don't close your eyes
Don't know where to look without them
Outside the cars speed by
I never heard them until now

I know you care, I know it is always been there
But there is trouble ahead I can feel it
You are just saving yourself when you hide it


Yeah, I know you care
I see it in the way that you stare
As if there was trouble ahead, and you knew it
I'll be saving myself from the ruin
And I know you care

I use to run down the stairs, to the door
and I thought you were there
To shape to the comfort of us
Two lovers loved out of love

Oh, but I know you care
I know it is always been there
But there is trouble ahead I can feel it
You are just saving yourself when you hide it


Yeah, I know you care
I see it in the way that you stare
As if there was trouble ahead, and you knew it
I'll be saving myself from the ruin

I know it wasn't always wrong
But I've never known a winter so cold
Now I don't want my hands in a coat
But I still hope
Cuz this is how things ought to have been
And I know the worst of it wasn't all that it seemed
Why can't I dream?
Do I care to dream?

Cuz I know you care
And I know you care
I know you care
I know you care
I know it's always been there

 

[rainy_daze]

@Nadia: away to listen to some Alanis now.

(I had forgotten how great this Catatonia album was until the other day. I like people who sing with their strong accents too. She has a beautiful voice and great lyrics.)

Catatonia - "Dead from the waist down"

There are lessons in defeat,
But we're dead from the waist down.
We are sleeping on our feet.

We stole the songs from birds in trees
Bought us time on easy street,
Now our paths, they never meet.
We chose to court and flatter greed, ego disposability -
I caught a glimpse, and it's not me.

(After I thought about this song, I remembered another song which fits perfectly with how I feel today.)

The Cardigans - "Erase/Rewind"

So - where did you see me go?
It's not the right way, you know.
Where did you see me go?
No, it's not that I don't know -
I just don't want it to grow.
It's not that I don't know.

I've changed my mind.
I take it back.

Erase and rewind, 'cause I've been changing my mind.

 

[Whitneys story]

Here they are Whitney:
(I am listening to music just now but I will give it a listen soon. I love these lyrics.)

Yes that is it! I have looked to buy it for years and they were not producing? If you find a link
I would love to know where. Thank You! Made My Day:D