Songs You Relate To

[Crl1983]

Madonna -Oh Father

It's funny that way, you can get used
To the tears and the pain
What a child will believe
You never loved me

[Chorus:]

You can't hurt me now
I got away from you, I never thought I would
You can't make me cry, you once had the power
I never felt so good about myself

Seems like yesterday
I lay down next to your boots and I prayed
For your anger to end
Oh Father I have sinned

[chorus]

Maybe someday
When I look back I'll be able to say
You didn't mean to be cruel
Somebody hurt you too

When you actually listen to the song it is very powerful,very moving. I first heard it as a child and throughout my life I always thought of this as my song to my father. (Even though he still makes me cry if I'm not in a dissociative state) Actually listening it triggers me now, so I have to warn that it may trigger other people who grew up with an abusive father.

 

[Kintsugi]

Well, I am done trying to enforce 5 lines or one stanza, because I have read all of these and they are manageable in length to read for the most part. So, here's my new entry, a song close to my heart.

The Dresden Dolls
Missed Me
"Missed me, missed me, now you've gotta kiss me
If you kiss me, mister, take responsibility
I'm fragile, mister, just like any girl would be
And so misunderstood, so treat me delicately

Missed me, missed me, now you've gone and done it!
Hope you're happy! In the county penitentiary
It serves you right for kissing little girls...

Say you miss me!
How's the food they feed ya?
Do you miss me?"

Coin Operated Boy
"Can you extract me
From my plastic fantasy?
I didn't think so
But I'm still convinceable
Will you persist even after
I bet you a billion dollars
That I'll never love you?
And will you persist even after
I kiss you goodbye for the last time?
Will you keep on trying
To prove that I'm dying?
To lose it I'm losing
My confidence
I want it
I want it..."

Girl Anachronism
"And you can tell by the full-body cast
That you're sorry that you asked!
You did everything you could
Like any decent person would
But I might be catching
So don't touch
You'll start believing
You're immune to gravity and stuff
Don't get me wet!
Because the bandages will all come off

And you can tell by the smoke at the stake
That the current state is critical
Well it is the little things, for instance
In the time it takes to break it
She can make up ten excuses!
'Please excuse her for the day,
It's just the way the medication makes her'"

 

[Mr. Smith]

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Under The Bridge
"Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel like my only friend
Is the city I live in, the city of angels
Lonely as I am, together we cry

I drive on her streets 'cause she's my companion
I walk through her hills 'cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy
I never worry, now that is a lie"

 

[sea]

Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking - Snow Patrol

Every second dripping off my fingertips (I could do most anything to you). Wage your war, wage your war. Another soldier says he's not afraid to die, I am scared. I'm so scared (I could do most anything to you). In slow motion the blast is beautiful. Door slam shut, door slam shut (I could do most anything to you). A clock is ticking but it's heading far away (I could do most anything to you). Safe and sound, safe and sound.

How Long? - Diane Cluck

Oh, for many how you say, words are getting in the way. Years, that's it I still decide I want to carry on. Oh, for now all I see, I walk and carry part of me. As part of me crawls on beside, I want to carry on.

Hurricane Drunk - Florence And The Machine

No home, I don't want shelter. No calm, nothing to keep me from the storm. And you can't hold me down, 'cause I belong to the hurricane, it's gonna blow us all away. I'm going out, I'm gonna drink myself to death. And in the crowd I see you with someone else. I brace myself, cause I know it's going to hurt, but I like to think at least things can't get any worse. I'm goin' out, I'm goin' out, I'm goin' out!

 

[Kintsugi]

This was popular right after I got out of my abusive relationship. It hit home so hard that I could NOT STAND to hear people sing along with me sitting right there next to them. I actually just started typing the lyrics and found it triggering, but here goes nothing...

The Red Jump Suit Apparatus
Face Down
Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now
As she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you, my friend
One day this world is going to end
As your lies crumble down
A new life she has

Face down in the dirt, she said,
"This doesn't hurt," she said,
"I've finally had enough"

 

[Mr. Smith]

Weird Al" Yankovic
White & Nerdy
"I'd like to roll with-
The gangsters
Although it's apparent I'm too
White n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white n' nerdy
I'm just too white n' nerdy
How'd I get so white n' nerdy?"

I had to put a funny song up! :D

 

[hazen]

Bob Dylan
Maggie's Farm
"Well, I try my best
to be just like I am
but everybody wants you
to be just like them"

Rage Against the Machine
Killing In The Name Of
"F**k you I won't do what you tell me
F**k you I won't do what you tell me
F**k you I won't do what you tell me
F**k you I won't do what you tell me"

I should sing that last one at karaoke. Good to get that off my chest!

 

[Kintsugi]

Right back at you, Sir Smithalot! :P

Geto Boys
Damn It Feels Good to Be A Gangsta (You can't tell me I don't relate to this--tee hee. Also, censored from racial slurs)
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
A real gangsta-a*s man plays his cards right
A real gangsta-a*s man never runs his f*cking mouth
Because real gangsta-a*s men don't start fights

Looove the Rage, Hazen.

The Dresden Dolls
Necessary Evil
"Hey! I'm
Fine
You are saying nothing
But your tongue is getting blacker all the time
This is a necessary evil
Same with highways, gas stations, and people
I remember golden years
When all this was a mystery and
You could write a letter then
Or god forbid come visit me...
Can you find yourself without me?
Come on find yourself without me"

Eminem
Till I Collapse (These stanzas are really really long...tried to cut it up)

Till I collapse from spillin' these raps long as you feel 'em
Till the day that I drop you'll never say that I'm not killin' 'em
Cause when I am not, then I'ma stop pinning 'em
And if I am not hip hop, then I'm just not Eminem...
You're coming with me, feel it or not
You're gonna fear it like I show you
The spirit of God lives in us
You hear it a lot, lyrics that shock
Is it a miracle or am I just product of pop fizzling up?
For sizzle my whizzle, this is the plot, listen up
You bizzles forgot, slizzle does not give a f*ck!

Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Knock Three Times (Skinny Kinda Way)

Knock three times on your coffin if you want my love
Twice on the pipe if the answer, the answer is no (no, no)

She put up with all the taunts
All the nasty things they'd say
She'd smile and pretend to ignore them
But she'd stored it all away...
She was so cute in a
why-don't-you-get-out-and-see-the-sun kinda way...
Kinda way, kinda way, kinda
Weighed not much more than the mice
And the skeletons that run across my floor

 

[incongruent]

She don't love herself no more
Won't be nobody elses whore
Noone like him spoke before-
now he's gonna take her to the seashore.

..
Death is the cousin of sleep-
just close your eyes
count sheep and breathe deep.
Think about the sound of relief that surrounds you-
you were already gone before I found you.

Atmosphere- Bleed Slow

 

[Kintsugi]

This one is for my best friend and I.

Streetlight Manifesto
A Better Place, A Better Time

And it hurts too much to stand by
You've gotta stop and draw the line
Everyone here has to choose a side tonight
The moment of truth is haunting you
Don't forget your family regardless what you choose to do
You can't decide, and they're all screaming,
"Why won't you?" I'll start the engine
But I can't take this ride for you
I'll draw your bath and I'll load your gun
But I hope so bad that you'll bathe and hunt

Here's to Life

Vincent Van Goh why do you weep?
You were on your way to heaven but the road was steep
And who was there to break your fall?
We're guilty one and all

And I don't know much but I do know this
With a golden heart comes rebel fist
But I can't help agreeing with those that would not quit

And it makes me sick when I think of it
All my heroes could not live with this
And I hope you rest in peace because with us you never did
And K.D.C., you were much too young!
And you changed my life
But I draw the line at suicide
Here's to life!

 

[LaurenRose]

Hodges
My Side of the Story

Cold wind blows, I am shivering
My body aches as my heart is breaking
Why is life making me hollow?
Why is happiness casting me in the shadows?
In the shadows.

Hold on, don't turn and walk away
Save me
And I cried these words but nobody came

I'm all alone, running scared
Losing my way in the dark
I tried to get up, stand on a prayer
But I keep crashing down hard
This is my side of the story
Only my side of the story
Nobody cares, nobody's there, no one will hear
My side of the story

Emptiness its all around me
I try to catch my breath
I barely survive and I
Cant go on and I come undone
and there's Nothing left in me

 

[LaurenRose]

Puddle of Mud
She F*cking Hates Me

Met a girl, thought she was grand
fell in love, found out first hand
went well for a week or two
then it all came unglued

In a trap, trip I can't grip
never thought I'd be the one who'd slip
then I started to realize
I was living one big lie

She f*cking hates me
trust
she f*cking hates me
la la la love
I tried too hard
and she tore my feelings like I had none
and ripped them away

She was queen for about an hour
after that shit got sour
she took all I ever had
no sign of guilt
no feeling of bad, no

that's my story, as you see
learned my lesson and so did she
now it's over and I'm glad
'cause I'm a fool for all I've said