Songs You Relate To

[Stacie]

Hi all, this is my first post beside the intro, but I feel that for a very long time, this song could actually have put into words what I myself could not. It is from the album The Wall, by Pink Floyd. I really don't want to bring anyone's mood down, but this thread really meant something to me.


Comfortably Numb (Waters)

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

I have become comfortably numb.

O. K.
Just a little pin prick.
There'll be no more AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe its working. Good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

 

[Kintsugi]

In the interest of appreciating life, some more Tool.

Para-bolic: to throw beyond.

Tool

Parabola

We barely remember
What came before this
Precious moment
Choosing to be here
Right now
Hold on, stay inside this
Holy reality
This holy experience
Choosing to be here in

This body
This body holding me
Reminding me that I am not alone
This body
This body holding me
Is eternal all this pain is an illusion

Alive!

Disposition

Mention this to me
Mention anything
Mention this to me
"Watch the weather change"

Reflection
(Looooong seductive, enthralling intro)

I've come curiously close to the end, down
Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole
Defeated, I concede and
Move closer
I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness
How pitiful

It's calling me

In my darkest moment, fetal and weeping
The moon tells me a secret--my confidant
As full and bright as I am
This light is not my own and
A million light reflections pass over me

 

[jasmin]

This is something that has effected me tremendously since I first heard them. Swans. Literally EVERYTHING in their absurd diverse repertoire has penetrated to my core and continues to keep doing so! But it is so so so intense, sometimes I cannot handle/bear it. Primal, moving, violent, beautiful, chaotic and everything under the sun. They came to Melbourne this year but I could not get across to see them... oh the disappointment!! Jarboe is one of the best female vocalists to ever set foot on this wide turning world and Gira is just such an honest and magnificent human being. ARGH love SO MUCH!

Swans
Blood on your hands

There's blood on your hands, baby.
Baby, there's blood on your hands.
Mama's gonna get even with you.
Mama's gonna get you back.
When all the blood's washed over you
mama will never forget.
Mama loves you too much, baby.
Mama loves you too much to cry.
Mama loves her darling boy.
She'll hold you close in her arms.
Mama's gonna wash his sweet body.
Mama loves you too much to cry.
Mama loves you too much, baby.
Mama loves you too much to cry.

 

[Crl1983]

Garbage-Silence Is Golden:

If I am silent then I am not real
But if I speak up then no one will hear
If I wear a mask there's somewhere to hide

Silence is Golden
I have been broken
Safe in my own skin
So nobody wins

If I raise my voice will someone get hurt
And if I can't feel then I won't get touched
If no truths are spoken then no lies can hide

Silence is golden
I have been broken
Something was stolen
Safe in my own skin

 

[Crl1983]

Poe-Dolphin:

There's a broken beam inside of the big big bridge
I guess that whole thing is caving in
Maybe it is time I learn how to swim
I'll be a dolphin, I'll be a dolphin

Sometimes I think I'm breaking down
And other times I think that I'm fine
But something got into my engine
It slowed me down
Now I gotta turn this whole thing around

I'm gonna be a dolphin

There's not a lot I believe anymore
I mistrust everything that I'm longing for
There's not a lot that I know anymore
But I know if good bridge is burning
You gotta be a dolphin

There may be a lot I don't know anymore
But I know if I don't swim
I'm already drowning
'Cause a broken bridge
Is a broken bridge

 

[incongruent]

I'm sick of the voices that are in my head-
I've taken the ride and I've danced with death,
I had nine lives, and I've got one left.
...
I never thought I'd need someone's help
(I don't need you.)
Cause I can handle it all, do it by myself,
I'm never alone until I hit rock bottom.
...
papa roach

 

[LaurenRose]

Tired Pony
I am a Landslide

All the troubles that I know
Look to me like great and heavy stones
And all I want to do is slowly push and pull
Till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they roll
Till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they roll

If all the sadness's I know
Look to me like sheer steep slopes of snow
And all I want to hear is thunder in my ears
Till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they roll
Till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they roll

'Cause I am a landslide waiting to fall
I'm a landslide, don't you know?
I throw out my arms wide and in my heart I know
It was always to be so
I'm a landslide, don't you know?

All the distances I know
Feel just like the shapeless oceans cold
And all I wanna do is to hang around with you
Till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they roll
Till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they rock, 'till they roll

 

[LaurenRose]

Nine Inch Nails
Hurt

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

 

[Sqweak]

Broke-Natalia Kills:

Don't want you're money No dirty promise
Don't want the memories that echo in my head
You left me stranded caught you red handed
You tore my heart out left me here for dead

If I'm giving, I'm giving up
I'm empty handed you took enough

But if I had a dime for every single time you ever made me cry I'd be a millionaire
If I had a dime for every single time I should of said goodbye I'd be a millionaire
But I don't don't cuz you left me Broke
But I don't don't cuz you left me Broke

My love is priceless can't buy my time back
So let's forget all our regrets and keep the change
You don't define me only remind me
I'd rather beg then live that lie with you again

 

[Sterre]

Sorry entertainer- Daniel Johnston​

Where the wind blows
That's where I go
Where the moon is
That's where I am
And when I just
Have a problem
Always hoping the wind will blow me away again
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
Drove those demons
Out of my head
With an organ and a pencil full of lead
And when I'm dead
I'd like to have it said
He drove those demons out of his head
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
Now the curtain parts the stage
It's the dawn of a new and exciting age
And I'm free
Free at last
Like a monkey out of its cage
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer

The story of an artist- Daniel Johnston

Listen up and I'll tell a story

About an artist growing old

Some would try for fame and glory

Others aren't so bold

Everyone, and friends and family

Saying, "Hey! Get a job!"

"Why do you only do that only?

Why are you so odd?

We don't really like what you do.

We don't think anyone ever will.

It's a problem that you have,

And this problem's made you ill."

Listen up and I'll tell a story

About an artist growing old

Some would try for fame and glory

Others aren't so bold

The artist walks alone

Someone says behind his back,

"He's got his gall to call himself that!

He doesn't even know where he's at!"

The artist walks among the flowers

Appreciating the sun

He does this all his waking hours

But is it really so wrong?

They sit in front of their TV

Saying, "Hey! This is fun!"

And they laugh at the artist

Saying, "He doesn't know how to have fun."

The best things in life are truly free

Singing birds and laughing bees

"You've got me wrong", says he.

"The sun don't shine in your TV"

Listen up and I'll tell a story

About an artist growing old

Some would try for fame and glory

Others aren't so bold

Everyone, and friends and family

Saying, "Hey! Get a job!"

"Why do you only do that only?

Why are you so odd?

We don't really like what you do.

We don't think anyone ever will.

It's a problem that you have,

And this problem's made you ill."

Listen up and I'll tell a story

About an artist growing old.

Some would try for fame and glory

Others just like to watch the world.

 

[Sterre]

Lazy bones- Soul Coughing

When all the limbs are numb and clean,
and you're in transit, dream to dream,
I'll drift there to meet you, lazybones.

When all the world has lain and sank,
and money sleeps inside the banks,
I'll drift there to meet you, layzbones.

Cameraman sways to remember how the eye dances,
drunkenness is a hand-held
scrambling down Delancey
I come stumbling;
well I hear you had to take a shine
and firing at random, I hear the rays fell upon mine.

Cool you, Miss Amaze, with a handful of water
trucks encircling, bearing down, coming louder.
If I could stay here, under your idle caress
and not exit to the world and phoniness and people.

When all the noise has left your head
will someday you rise off the bed?
I'll be there to lift you, lazybones.

 

[AngelaMarie]

Bob Seger: "We got tonight". My all time favorite song.

I know it's late,
i know your weary.
I know your plans don't include me.
Still here we are.
Both of us lonely.
Longing for shelter from all that we see.
Why should we worry?
No one will care, girl.
Look at the stars...so far away.
We've got tonight...who needs tomorrow.
We've got tonight babe...why don't u stay?

Deep in my soul.
I've been so lonely.
All of my hopes fading away.
I've longed for love like everyone else does.
I know I'll keep searching, even after today.

So, there it is girl.
I've said it often.
And here we are.
What do u say?
We've got tonight, who needs tomorrow, we've got tonight, babe. Why don't you you stay?

I know it's late.
I know your weary.
I know your plans don't include me.
Still here we are.
Both of us lonely.
Both of us lonely.

We've got tonight.
Who needs tomorrow?
Let's make it last.
Let's find a way.
Turn out the lights.
Come take my hand, girl.
We've got tonight, girl.
Why don't you stay?

When I was listening to this song I was 14-15 years old. I was hiding in my room from bio-grandma and dreaming of romance and how someone might say this to me someday. Sigh..oh innocence!!