Songs You Relate To

[Kintsugi]

Its amazing how personal songs can get. I feel like I'm sharing some of my deepest thoughts and feelings here just by saying what songs are close to my heart.

This made my night, Hazen! This is the best thing I could have hoped for in this thread.

 

[Cheshire]

Pink Floyd
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.

 

[Kintsugi]

K's Choice
Quiet Little Place

In this quiet little place,
I can't imagine what it's like to be back home
Where they care about what time it is
And spend their days answering the phone

And now everything I feel
Whether it's fiction or it's real
It's so much clearer
Like the color of this life
It seems more dangerous than bright
But I don't fear her

Everything for Free

I don't know who you are
But you seem very nice
So will you talk to me?
Shall I tell you a story
Shall I tell you a dream
They think I'm crazy
They don't know that I like it here
It's nice in here I get
Everything for free

Tired

Quiet time is underrated
I still can't stand to be alone
It might be why I'm so instable
Barely able to hold on

And I just don't feel right
But I'm always very tired

Show me where you found your faith
And does it help you sleep at night?

Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze, I feel your chill
As I inhale the urge to kill
All my emotions...

Mr. Freeze, I hear no sound
As I focus on the amount
Of my emotions
I ask you please
Take the lead or let me bleed
Mr. Freeze

My temperature is really low now
You're here but you're not welcome any longer...

I will release Mr. Freeze

 

[lovelybat]

Wow, I love this thread!

Music has been such a comfort for me in the worst phases of my life. I have many songs that I identify with, and I'm pretty psyched to see that a bunch of them have already been posted (awesome taste, y'all :D).
I can't listen to Slide by The Dresden Dolls anymore, but damn, it's a good song with an understated power to it.

Here are some that I've been thinking about lately:

K's Choice

Virgin State of Mind

Where can I run to, where can I hide
Who will I turn to now I'm in a virgin state of mind
Got a knife to disengage the voids that I can't bear
To cut out words I've got written on my chair
Like do you think I'm sexy
Do you think I really care
Can I burn the mazes I grow
Can I, I don't think so

Mother Mother
Sleep Awake

Lie awake
I sleep awake
I sleep with one hand on my .45, the other 'round my baby's waist

Lie awake
I sleep awake
I go to bed with all my lights turned on
so I don't slip away
I stay awake

TV on the Radio

Tonight

Life deals a measly portion
Light on good friends and fortune
It's chipped you away inside,
and drawn all your blinds
Concealed it all from sight


Man, there are so many! I'll keep it to just these for now, though.

 

[alixipain]

Pantera.. Shedding Skin
I don't want you to look at me while I'm shedding
Skin. I can't afford for you to see what's inside me.
I'd rather shoot myself than have you watch me. I
Feel you'd steal my skin to try and wear me.
I was betrayed, one more day of my short life. You were
Carried away. You had no shame. To suffocate my being.
I was me, but you weren't you. You were sticking to me like
a scab...so I peeled you away, and bled for days. Then
Stepped out of myself.
I'm shedding skin, changing within, I'm falling in.
Through swollen eyes, I dreamed you died, caught inside.
I'm shedding skin, spreading thin, severed stem.
I created the end, I'm killing a friend. I'm shedding my skin.
I don't think you belong in here, I feel I'm sick. Don't ask because
You know damn well where I've been. I've kept a simple
Woman through the thick and thin. But I've found the guts
to sever from my Siamese twin.
I throw you away. Everyday. A dead part of life. Strangling
back. Seething black. In between my longing for torture.
Blood on my face that came from your face. The mix
Of kissing and bleeding. I put you away. I shut you away.
I pissed you away. I threw you away.
I'm shedding skin, changing within, I'm falling in.
Through swollen eyes, I dreamed you died, caught inside.
I'm shedding skin, spreading thin, severed stem.
I created the end, I'm killing a friend. I'm shedding my skin.
You're f*cking, and sucking. You're friendless. It's endless.
Your flower has soured. It's endless. You're friendless.
It's harder. And stronger. But no one's been inside you longer.
Or harder. Or deeper. To get you off, you need the fear.
It's never love. Bloody touch. Broken wrist. Needle rust.
Choking throat. Swallowed teeth. Head f*ck. No peace.
I'm shedding my skin to peel you off of me.
You've got to love me.
Ornament. Shrunken head. Playtoy. Snake strike. Poisonous.
Syphillis. Drenched me. Soaked me.
I'm shedding my skin to drain you out of me.
You've got to hate me.

Bio-Hazard.. True Strength
The pain creeps in every day,
And you're trying your best not to feel this way,
Some days up and some days down,
Swimming in misery, you're starting to drown
Looking for answers to impossible questions,
Searching in your mind in new dimensions,
Feeling so alone and you've been thinking,
"I'm better off dead than alone here, sinking!"

Searching for the light and looking inside,
To find out where your true strengths hide.

Going on and on this pain has got to cease,
Living like an animal full of disease,
Further inspection now you're looking inside,
To find out where your true strengths hide,
You're looking around for some higher power,
To get you through this darkest hour,
All those years of pain are now coming through,
Those cracks in your mind are nothing new to you.

You're starting to slip to a whole new level,
The metal of a gun pressed against your temple,
One in the chamber, maybe one in your head,
You can pull the trigger, and your mind'll turn red,
What about the things that you never did?
Getting straight, get a life, maybe having kids?
Is a moment's pleasure really worth the cost,
Of looking back on your life and all the things you lost?

Don't know my future, with my past behind,
I'm now reborn new hopes to find,
Free from restraints that held me down,
The cycle of hate that comes around.

 

[danc21]

Citizen Cope- Sideways
"These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me"

Muse- Time Is Running Out
"Our time is running out
can't push it underground
cant stop it screaming out"

Korn- Somebody, Someone
"I can't stand to let you in
I'm just watching you
And I don't know what to do
Feeling like a fool inside
Feeling all the lies you hide
Thought you were my friend
Seems it never ends"

Bloc Party- So Here We Are
"I made a vow, to carry you home
If you fall sick, if you pass out"

Biffy Clyro- Machines
"Crazy as it sounds you wont feel as low as you feel right now
At least that’s what I've been told by everyone
I whisper empty sounds in your ear and hope that you won’t let go
Take the pieces and build them skywards

Cause I've started falling apart I’m not savouring life
I've forgotten how good it could be to feel alive"

 

[Kintsugi]

I'm pretty psyched to see that a bunch of them have already been posted

Don't be shy to re-post or to post a different section of a song!

I can't listen to Slide by The Dresden Dolls anymore, but damn, it's a good song with an understated power to it.

I stopped listening to that song for five years. I listened to it for the first time again last week... three times. I cried. But it is a very good song. I've been wanting to post it here in full, but I'm not even sure I could do that. Plus, I hand-type all of these, and it is sometimes a very emotional process (which is partially why I do it).

K's Choice

Someone else listens to K's Choice! There are not a lot of people willing to look into Belgian bands. >.<

Here's a string on self-destruction for me...

Triggering

K's Choice
I'm Not an Addict

I'm not an addict, it's cool
I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side
It's not a habit
Maybe that's a lie

The Dresden Dolls
Bad Habit

Biting keeps the words at bay
Tending to the sores that stay
Happiness is just a gash away
When I open up familiar scars
Pain goes shooting like a star
Comfort hasn't failed to follow so far...

Oh, and anyone can see the signs
Mittens in the summertime
Thank you for your pity,
You are too kind...

And no one cares if your back is bleeding
They're concerned with their hair receding
Looking back it was all maltreating
Every thought that occurred misleading
Makes me want to give myself a beating

Poppa Roach (Yeah this is an oooold one)

Last Resort

Cut my life into pieces
This is my last resort

Suffocation
No breathing
Don't give a f*ck if I cut my arm
Bleeding
(some sick guitar)

 

[Mr. Smith]

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Opium Tea

"I'm a prisoner here, I can never go home
There is nothing here to win or lose
There are no choices needed to be made at all
Not even the choice of having to choose

Well, I'm a prisoner here, yes, but I'm also free
Cause I am what I am and what will be will be
I'm a prisoner here, yeah, but I'm also free
And I smile and I sip my opium tea."

 

[sea]

Get Miles - Gomez

I love this city man but this city's killing me, sitting here in all this noise man I don't get no peace. The cars below my street take me away piece by piece, gonna leave everything I know gonna head out toward the sea. Gonna leave this city man gonna head out toward the sea. Get miles away, get miles away, get miles away. I love this planet but this planet's killin me, sit here in all this grass man, the sweat comin from my palms take me away piece by piece. Gonna leave everything I know gonna head to the galaxy, gonna leave this planet man gonna head to the galaxy. Get miles away, get miles away, get miles away.

Clinically Dead - Chad VanGaalen

Clinically he was dead but the motor inside his head was still working. So they plugged him into a machine and let his brain dream. There's another prank call, in the middle of the night. There's a silver white moon and it still shines bright, and it's another prank call, so why don't you put up a fight, and dream on? Dream on.

Sink - Brand New

How darkly the dark hand met his end, he was withered and bony exposed for a phony. But we heed the last words that he penned "Haste to disgrace the traitor, do not wait 'til later", I don't think that you've got to pretend. I see God in birds and Satan in long words. If you call, then I'm coming to get you, if you call, then I'm coming out. If you call, then I'm coming to get you. You want to sink, so I'm going to let you. If you call, then I'm coming to get you, if you call, then I'm coming to get you. You want to sink, so I'm going to let you. At dawn the fire snuck into your bedroom, now I'm falling asleep to forget you.

Many Lives - Final Fantasy

Hey Timothy I wish for clairvoyance, I want to see my wife and kids. How I would live, how I would die (son you should, son you should). It's out of frame, it's self-absorption, I want to learn from my mistakes before they can scare me away from the drugs (son you should). I picture a man who misses his father, he never learned to cook for himself and spends all his time on his waistline (Son you should invest), a picture a man who lives in the past. He keeps a book of photographs, of his younger self, clairvoyant self (son you should invest!)

The Sun Is Often Out - Patrick Wolf

So life has blessed you with a gift boy, that you've gone and thrown away. And with it your whole future, and left behind your family. Throwing flowers in the river prayers are being said you are missed. Throwing flowers in the river where your body cold was found, you are missed, missed. Now I sit down here at low tide and I wait for the peregrines. "Stephen this is where I live now, and I have overcome my demons." I've grown out of that thinking that would not let me live or give, I've thrown my flowers in the river, tears been shed, you are missed. And the poem reads, I remember the days, they told me that the Sun, the Sun is often out. Why didn't you know that the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun is often out (I wish I'd known you better)

Bat's Mouth - Bat For Lashes

She is kind, he is free, full of knowing. She is sure, she is sure. The caves of mouths are bears bellies and the air in between is spewing comets, and the dancing centaur queen flies past her tiny tiny teeth. He is kind, she is free, wants to show him. She is sure, she is sure, she is sure, she is sure. Find him in her bat's mouth, he is singing in her bat's mouth, he is shaking and dancing in her bat's mouth. Getting tired and sleeping in her bat's mouth, and she's holding him tight in her bat arms, she is wrapping him up in her bat arms, and she's thanking her Mother-sea, "Thank-you mother-sea for letting him see the sea in me".

 

[incongruent]

I contemplate how much more I can survive
But- I'm alive so I should be content
Then tell why the hell my whole world is bent
I was sent to make and frustrate the population
In between the alcohol and the copulation

Atmosphere- A girl named hope. (I listen to way too much Atmosphere these days. It used to be Blue October and the Dresden Dolls.)

When I was nine i learned survival, taught myself not to care. I was my single good companion- taking my comfort there.

Pity the child who has ambition, knows what he wants to do. Knows that he'll never fit the system- others expect him too.

Pity the Child- Chess the musical

Smoking your first cigarette
Coughing and getting sick
Making an experience
Childhood cruel.

Many too expensive drugs
Temptation irresistable
All regrets are meaningless
Childhood cruel
Childhood cruel

Childhood cruel

Childhood Cruel- ?

 

[Angus McGee]

Just heard this one, and it fits.

Walk by Faith - Jeremy Camp

Would I believe you when you would say
Your hand will guide my every way
Will I receive the words You say
Every moment of every day

[chorus]
Well I will walk by faith
Even when I cannot see
Well because this broken road
Prepares Your will for me

Help me to win my endless fears
You've been so faithful for all my years
With one breath You make me new
Your grace covers all I do

yeah, yeah , yeah, yeah, yeah, ya

[chorus]

Well I'm broken- but I still see Your face
Well You've spoken- pouring Your words of grace

[chorus x2]

Well hallelujah, hallelu
(I will walk by faith)
Well hallelujah, hallelu
(I will walk by faith)

I will walk, I will walk, I will walk by faith
I will, I will, I will walk by faith

 

[jasmin]

If there is one thing good my psychotic mother introduced to me it was Janis Joplin.. heavy past association for me but she is SO intense!

Janis Joplin
Kosmic Blues

Time keeps movin' on,
Friends they turn away.
I keep movin' on
But I never found out why
I keep pushing so hard the dream,
I keep tryin' to make it right
Through another lonely day, whoaa.

Black Sabbath
Tomorrow's Dream

Well I'm leaving tomorrow at daybreak
catch the fastest train around nine
Yes I'm leaving the sorrow and heartache
because it takes me away from my mind
Send me love and I may let you see me
Send me hopes that can spin in my head
But if you really want me to answer
I can only let you know when I'm dead

Butthole Surfers
22 going on 23

I enjoy your show and I've been trying
To get through for quite a while
Well, we're glad you kept trying
Umm, I have this problem, last July, I was assaulted sexually
And ever since then, I've been having trouble sleeping

How old are you?
I'm 22 going on 23
Medicine, counseling, anxiety, sleep programming
Medicine, sleep programming
Anxiety, counseling, medicine, sleep
Programming, depression, anxiety