Songs You Relate To

[Venator]

Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of The Psychic Wars

You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
I've been living on the edge so long
Where the winds of limbo roar
And I'm young enough to look at
And far too old to see
All the scars are on the inside
I'm not sure if there's anything left of me

[Chorus]
Don't let these shakes go on
It's time we had a break from it
It's time we had some leave
We've been living in the flames
We've been eating up our brains
Oh, please don't let theses shakes go on

You ask me why I'm weary, why I can't speak to you
You blame me for my silence
Say it's time I changed and grew
But the war's still going on dear
And there's no end that I know
And I can't say if we're ever...
I can't say if we're ever gonna to be free

...

You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars
My energy's spent at last
And my armor is destroyed
I have used up all my weapons and I'm helpless and bereaved
Wounds are all I'm made of
Did I hear you say that this is victory?

Don't let these shakes go on
It's time we had a break from it
Send me to the rear
Where the tides of madness swell
And been' sliding into hell!
Oh, please don't let these shakes go on

[PS: I always heard the line "Did I hear you say that this is victory?" as "Dare you say that this is victory?" but it still works]

 

[LaurenRose]

Pink Floyd
"On The Turning Away"

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"
It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord

Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerised as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night
No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away

 

[Venator]

I'm on an upswing today...

The Crüxshadows - Cruelty


[Excerpt]

..No hand to scribe of sinking sickness I have seen,
no face to judge until you've been the monster I have been,
to hunger is noble, where beauty is silent sleep,
my hunger is noble, but my pain is driven deep.

Your cruelty and consequence cannot eliminate this relevance
Your selfishness, your hatefulness cannot take away my immanence
Your cruelty and consequence cannot eliminate this relevance
Your selfishness, your hatefulness cannot take away my innocence from me...

 

[Sqweak]

Acid Annie-Natalia kills

Acid Annie don't be bitter for the rest of your life
He can hurt you, don't deserve you, no he can't make it right
Your guilty gun's on the ground
Put your apology down
Take your own medicine now
Call me psychotic or numb
I'm just a product of love
So thanks for showing me how...

 

[Tosh]

Unwell by Matchbox 20
All day
Staring at the ceiling
Making friends with shadows on my wall
All night
Hearing voices telling me
That I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for something
Hold on
I'm feeling like I'm headed for a
Breakdown
I don't know why
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know, right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired
I know, right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be
Me
Talking to myself in public
Dodging glances on the train
I know
I know they've all been talking 'bout me
I can hear them whisper
And it makes me think there must be something wrong
With me
Out of all the hours thinking
Somehow
I've lost my mind
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know, right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired
I know right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be
I been talking in my sleep
Pretty soon they'll come to get me
Yeah, they're taking me away
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know, right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy I'm just a little impaired
I know, right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be
Hey, how I used to be
How I used to be, yeah
Well I'm just a little unwell
How I used to be
How I used to be

 

[Sqweak]

P!nk- Save my life

She's back on drugs again
Even though she knows it ain't right
She can't even call up her friends
And say "help me save my life"
She's so ashamed of herself that she's come full circle
Nobody understands what it's like to
Be this girl
So she disappeared, and she
Wasn't clear, and she
Didn't say where she was going

 

[Kintsugi]

The Toadies
Possum Kingdom

Make up your mind
Decide to walk with me
Around the lake tonight
Around the lake tonight
By my side

I'm not gonna lie
I'll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I'll show you my dark secret

I'm not gonna lie
I want you for mine
My blushing bride
My lover, be my lover
Don't be afraid
I didn't mean to scare you
So help me Jesus

I can promise you
You'll stay as beautiful
With dark hair
And soft skin
Forever

Make up your mind
And I'll promise you
I will treat you well
My sweet angel
So help me Jesus

Do you wanna die?X9
I will treat you well
My sweet angel

Re-posting this

VAST (Visual Audio Sensory Theatre)
ˆPretty When You Cry

You're made of my river, baby
You're made of my sin
And I can't tell where your lust ends
And where your love begins

I didn't wanna hurt you, baby
I didn't wanna hurt you
I didn't wanna hurt you but
You're pretty when you cry

And the moon gives me permission
And I enter through her eyes
She's losing her virginity
And all her will to compromise

I didn't really love you, baby
I didn't really love you
I didn't really love you, but
I'm pretty when I lie

I didn't mean to f*ck you, baby
I didn't mean to f*ck you
I didn't mean to f*ck you, but
You're pretty when you're mine

The Deftones
Change

I've watched you change
To a fly
You were on fire
I watched a change
In you
It's like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So alive

I've watched you changed
So I took you home
Put you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed...

I give you the gun
Blow me away

Shiny Toy Guns
When They Came for Us

Why are all the robots so sad?
We're not in trouble anymore anyway
And no more synthetic fighting
They stopped the lightning after today

When they took the beach that day
They stole the children, and took them away
And I miss everyone
But most of all the little ones
And their shiny toy guns

She Wants Revenge
Black Liner Run

Run, run, run,
Would you wear that black liner, baby?
Run run run, run run run

I've read your every entry
I read your secrets and didn't sleep
They say they'll never let me see your face
Wish me luck then laugh at the sad case...

She never leaves her room but she's real sweet
Got her own style, leaves her windows real wide
Crosses her fingers for so many years
Mascara runs through the tracks of her tears

Still, it's nice to wish
If he'd understand
This could never be
Still he's making plans

I caught a death when I signed on
I saw your pictures and couldn't eat
I swear that you were sent here just to tease
And you smile back in between asterisks

My heart is on my sleeve when I write you
These things that lead to dead
And surely they excite you
Or did you know?
Is it you're typing blindly
Choose a public place, darling
Won't you let me find thee

He leaves cats' eyes after poems
So she knows he is speaking
When she's reading them alone
She's waited eagerly but will she embrace
In bloodied hands,
Her new lover's face?

Run, run, run would you wear that black liner, baby?
Still it's nice to wish...

 

[Cthulhu]

Mesh -You Didn't Want Me

This is why I'm alone tonight
This is why I've got no appetite
For fighting and biting.
For lying and sniping
For talking of one thing,
And doing another
Blaming each other
I never thought I'd sacrifice this much for you
I never meant to jeopardise my fun for you

Because you didn't want me
You never cried for me at all
You didn't love me
You were too far above me
Then you watched me take the fall

Here is why I now contemplate
Here is why I should celebrate
No more hurting and using.
The spitting and bruising
Breaking a promise,
Saying I'm sorry
Pretending to worry
I never thought I'd have to take this much from you
I wish I'd never used this precious time on you

Because you didn't want me
You never cried for me at all
You didn't love me
You were too far above me
Then you watched me take the fall

 

[sea]

Take Back The City - Snow Patrol

No need to put your words into our mouth, don't need convincing at all. I love this place enough to have no doubt. It's a mess, it's a start, it's a flawed work of art, your city your call, every crack, every wall. Pick a side, pick a fight and get your epitaph right. We can sing till you drop cause the fun just never stops! I love this city tonight, I love this city always. It bears its teeth like a light and spits me out after days, but we're all gluttons for it, we know it's wrong and it's right. For every time it's been hit, take back the city tonight.

My Body Is A Cage - Peter Gabriel

My body is a cage, that keeps me from dancing with the one I love, but my mind holds the key. I'm standing on a stage of fear and self doubt. It's a hollow play, but they clapped anyway. My mind holds the key. I'm living in an age that calls darkness light though my language is dead, still the shapes fill my head. I'm living in an age whose name I don't know, though the fear keeps me moving, still my heart beats so slow. My body is a, my body is a cage. My body is a cage, oh my mind. My mind holds the key. My body is a cage, we take what we are given, just because you've forgotten doesn't mean you're forgiven. I'm living in an age that screams my name at night, when I get to the doorway there's no one in sight. I'm living in an age, that realizes I am dancing with the one I love, but my mind holds the key. You're standing next to me, my mind holds the key. Set my spirit free, set my spirit free. Set my body free.

Out Of My Hands - Dave Matthews

Out on my window ledge, I don't feel safe, wanna stay looking down on you. It's out of my hands for now, it's out of my hands for now. I can't just walk away, be nice to walk away but I don't feel safe, get away, all the way up here. Said, it's out of my hands for now. It's out of my hands for now. Oh it is, down from here, and down from here. I said, start to feel insane, betrayed out on my window ledge. Now our finest hour arrives, see the pig dressed in his finest fine. And all the believers stand behind him and smile, as the day lights up with fire. Let me in, let me in.

No Child Of Mine - PJ Harvey

I have no time for hate or love, hey child you're so full of woe. I have no time for hate or lyin', hey child you're no child of mine.

He Dreams He's Awake - Stars

Sunrise oh sunrise when will you ever come? Sunrise oh sunrise, when will the night be gone? It won't let me go. It won't let me go.

Annihilation - A Perfect Circle

From dehumanization to arms production, for the benefit of the nation or it's destruction? From dehumanization to arms production, to hasten the nation towards it's destruction. Power is power, the law of the land, those living for death. Will die by their own hand. Life's no ordeal if you come to terms. Reject the system dictating the norms. From dehumanization to arms production, to hasten the nation towards it's destruction. Power is power, the law of the land, those living for death will die by their own hand. Life's no ordeal if you come to terms. Reject the system, dictating the norms from dehumanization to arms, production. To hasten this nation towards it's destruction. It's your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice: Peace or annihilation?

God Help Me - Emilie Autumn

Am I guilty or am i just waiting around, for the tide to come in so the truth can come out? And if I had a dollar for every time, I repented the sin and commit the same crime, I'd be sitting on top of the world today. God help me, just maybe I'll learn to help myself, speak to me. Don't leave me, he's burning me. Won't you shine in my direction, and help me? Won't you lend me your protection, and help me? Places everyone, this is a test, throw your stones, do your damage, your worst, and your best, and the world is a judge but that doesn't compare to what I do to myself when you're not there. And if I had a dollar for every time, I repented the sin and commit the same crime, I'd be sitting on top of the world today.

 

[Cthulhu]

Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease

I'm not going down on my knees
Begging you to adore me
Can't you see it's misery
And torture for me

When I'm misunderstood
Try as hard as you can
I've tried as hard as I could
To make you see
How important it is for me

Here is a plea
From my heart to you
Nobody knows me
As well as you do
You know how hard it is for me
To shake the disease
That takes a hold of my tongue
In situations like these

Understand me / Understand me / Understand me / Understand me

Some people have to be
Permanently together
Lovers devoted
To each other forever

Now, I've got things to do
And I've said before
That I know you have too
When I'm not there
In spirit I'll be there

Here is a plea
From my heart to you
Nobody knows me
As well as you do
You know how hard it is for me
To shake the disease
That takes a hold of my tongue
In situations like these

Understand me / Understand me / Understand me / Understand me
...

 

[Kintsugi]

Stick with me here. I have no idea how to break up Eminem's flawlessly metered lines, and his album The Show basically saved my life last year. :D Here's to my senior project. Replace "rapping" with "writing" and "mother" with "brother."

Eminem
Cleaning Out My Closet

All this commotion emotions
Run deep as oceans exploding
Tempers flaring from parents
Just blow 'em off and keep going
Not taking nothing from no one
Give them hell as long as I'm breathing
Kicking ass in the morning
And taking names in the evening
Leaving with the sour taste of vinegar in they mouth
See they can trick 'em
But they'll never figure me out
Look at me now
I bet you're probably sick of me now
Ain't you, momma?
I'ma make you look so ridiculous now

[I'm sorry momma
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to make you cry but tonight
I'm cleaning out my closet]X2

I've got some skeletons in my closet
And I don't know if no one knows it
So before they throw me inside my coffin and close it
I'm going to expose it...

My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't
Till I grew up now I blew up
It makes you sick to your stomach, doesn't it?

Eminem and Dr. Dre
Business

Marshal, sounds like an SOS
Holy unlyrical lyrics, Andre, you're f**kin' right!

You're about to witness hip-hop
In its most purest most rawest form,
Flow almost flawless
Most hardest, most honest know artist...

Gotta move fast,
Gotta perform miracles
Gee wilikers, Dre,
Only bad syllables
Look at all the bullsh*t
That goes on in Gotham
When I'm gone time to get ridda these criminals
So skip to your loo while I do
What I do best
You ain't even impressed no more
You're used to it
Flows through it
Nobody close to it
Nobody says it but still
Everybody knows this sh*t
The most hated on out of all those who sing
And hated on in eighty songs [pages!]
He exaggerated it all so much
There's no such thing...

It just means so much more to so much more
People when I'm rapping and you know what for
The show must go on
So I'd like to welcome y'all to Marshall and Dre's
Carnival

...And never even see me blink
Never see me busting a sweat
People stepping over people
Just to rush to the set
Just to get to see an MC
Who breathes so freely
Ease over these beats
And be so breezy
Jesus, how can sh*t get be so easy?
...Can't leave rap alone
The game needs me

 

[lovelybat]

I've always felt like an 'outsider' in this life, a feeling that I know y'all are all too familiar with. This song speaks to me on the level of having neither the ability nor true desire to conform to what society 'expects' of me. Being sort of separated from the mainstream by PTSD has always made it very easy for me to see what an oppressive charade things are. A society conducive to abuse.
This song speaks to my isolation, the painful memories/feelings that I'm constantly trying to escape and my struggle with (and loathing for) the expectation to blend in and appear 'normal' while I carry this burden around.

Soundgarden
Boot Camp

I must obey the rules
I must be tame and cool
No staring at the clouds
I must stay on the ground
In clusters of the mice
The smoke is in our eyes
Like babies on display
Like angels in a cage
I must be pure and true
I must contain my views
There must be something else
There must be something good

Far away
Far away from here
Far away
Far away from here
Far away
Far away from here
Far away
Far away from here
And I'll be here for good

For good

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The instrumentation for this song is awesome, too. Love Soundgarden :].