Songs You Relate To

[Kintsugi]

I've been debating on whether or not it was appropriate to make this thread, but the more I think about it, the more I think it could be fun.

My purpose:
I wanted to create a space where we can share some of the songs we relate to in terms of PTSD/our experiences and struggles with circumstances/depression/related symptoms, and, yes, even songs that have given us hope and strength! I am sort of thinking that this would be kind of a "this is the song I'm thinking of now or today" sort of thing, so you can post the same song multiple times in a list.

My reservations/cautions:
I was hesitant to create this thread because I often find catharsis in music that might be TRIGGERING. So please be warned in advance that many of these songs will probably not be happiness and rainbows as you read.

My rules:
You may post as many song titles as you would like.
You may only post up to five lines of text for up to three songs OR one single stanza for up to three songs (don't copy and paste all of the lyrics to 15 songs).
You may post different stanzas of a single song but not in one post/consecutive posts. I am sort of thinking that this would be kind of a "this is the song I'm thinking of now or today" sort of thing, so you can post the same song multiple times.
Please give the band's name

I will start!

The Dresden Dolls
-Missed Me
-Bad Habit
-The Perfect Fit

Tool
-Prison Sex
"It took so long to remember just what happened
I was so young and vestal then
You know it hurt me
But I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
Even if the signs seem to tell me otherwise"

 

[Cheshire]

Love this idea.

I'm riding on a huge amount of anger today, so both of the songs I'm feeling right now are angry songs and directed at my ex.

A Perfect Circle
Passive
"Wake up and face me
Don't play dead 'cause maybe
Some day I will walk away and say
You f*cking disappoint me
Maybe you're better off this way."

Avenged Sevenfold
Nightmare
"You should have known the price of evil
and it hurts to know that you belong here
no one to call, everybody to fear
your tragic fate is looking so clear
it's your f*cking nightmare."

 

[Kintsugi]

A Perfect Circle
Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums

"Don't fret precious, I'm here...
Safe from pain and truth and choice
And other poison devils
See they don't give a f*ck about you
Like I do"

The Dresden Dolls
Slide
"Who are you blaming?
They're just playing!
That's a good one.
Who left the playground
A good decade before the bell rang?"

Gravity
"If you had to live with this
You'd rather lie than fall
You think I can't fly?
Well you just watch me, watch me!"

Girl Anachronism
"I'm not right now at all
There I go again! Pretending that I'll fall
Don't call the doctors! They've seen it all before
They'll say just let her crash and burn, she'll learn!
The attention just encourages her"

G Tom Mac
Cry Little Sister (WARNING: extremely triggering)

 

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Offspring - Bad Habit
Radiohead - Creep (I wish I was special... so f'ing special....)

And I've had Stevie Nick's "Trouble in Shangri-La" stuck in my head for about a week - ("You can consume all the beauty in the room, baby / I know you can, I've seen you do it")

 

[caliaviator]

My music really does explain how and what I feel, though it does drive lots of people off. It shows people I have a dark side, and that I embrace it. I'm nice when I can be, but God help you if you take advantage of that.

Psyclon Nine- Parasitic (Love the music video)
Taste the fury
That feed the devils inside
Fueled by torment

Because often whatever I take in from the outside world feeds my anger.

Psyclon Nine- Better Than Suicide

Dimmu Borgir- Puritania (Because faith in humanity is a bad investment)


Eisbrecher- Adrenalin

I don't know what will happen to me
I feel something breaking out inside me
In my body my body
A war is raging because
Deep within me, adrenaline is burning.

Exactly how I feel whenever I get my anxiety attacks. It's translated into English from German.

Deathstars- Arclight

Look at the past (it's tip top black)
A burnt life behind your own back
It will never let you go there alone
It's your flesh and bone

As much as I hate it, my past is part of me. It's tied to me no matter how much I want to get rid of it, though I am trying.

Some other songs:

Rammstein- Wo bist du?
Sirenia- The Path To Decay
Soilwork- If Possible
Hocico- The Shape Of Things To Come
Grendel- New Flesh
Psyborg Corp- Starbeam Antartica
Lights of Euphoria- Sleepwalk
Fear of Domination- Call of Schizophrenia

 

[Kintsugi]

Okay, someone's gotta do this.

Disturbed
The Sickness

"It seems you're having trouble
Dealing with these changes
Living with these changes
The world is a scary place
Now that you've woken up the demon in me"

 

[Reclusive]

Dang it. Did a lyrics search and lost my post!

Okay, so how about a Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac triple?

Kind of Woman
Gold Dust Woman ('Did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love? Is it over now, do you know how, to pick up the pieces and go home?')
Rhiannon ('She is like a cat in the dark, and then she is the darkness')

Stevie Nicks tends to write about women who are outside of reality in some way and the older I get, the more I identify. Her women never get tired and never quit seeking and never compromise themselves. Well, nearly never. LOL

 

[Kintsugi]

Stevie Nicks tends to write about women who are outside of reality in some way and the older I get, the more I identify.

I have two friends who are survivors who swear by Stevie Nicks.

The Dresden Dolls
Thirty Whacks
"30 day guarantee but they can't have meant me
After all, I was born to a childproof world
No sharp corners or glass, small objects, or plastic bags
Please, these are death to a delicate girl, there's no mystery
You should obviously go before I break everything"

 

[gidge]

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.

 

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Heart's "Dog and Butterfly"
See the dog and butterfly
Up in the air he like to fly
Dog and butterfly, below she had to try
She roll back down to the warm soft
Ground with a little tear in her eye
She had to try, she had to try
Dog and butterfly

 

[Lionheart]

Metallica The Unforgiven


New blood joins this earth
and quickly he's subdued
through constant pain disgrace
the young boy learns their rules

with time the child draws in
this whipping boy done wrong
deprived of all his thoughts
the young man struggles on and on he's known
a vow unto his own
that never from this day
his will they'll take away

what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never be
never see
won't see what might have been

what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never free
never me
so I dub thee unforgiven

 

[Reclusive]

Love that song, Lionheart!