Songs You Relate To

[Deleted member 1860]

Sia

Elastic Heart

And another one bites the dust
Oh why can I not conquer love?
And I might have thought that we were one
Wanted to fight this war without weapons

And I wanted it, I wanted it bad
But there were so many red flags
Now another one bites the dust
Yeah, let's be clear, I'll trust no one

You did not break me
I'm still fighting for peace

Well, I've got thick skin and an elastic heart,
But your blade it might be too sharp
I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard,
I may snap and I move fast
But you won't see me fall apart
'Cause I've got an elastic heart

I've got an elastic heart
Yeah, I've got an elastic heart

And I will stay up through the night
Let's be clear, won't close my eyes
And I know that I can survive
I'll walk through fire to save my life

And I want it, I want my life so bad
I'm doing everything I can
Then another one bites the dust
It's hard to lose a chosen one

You did not break me
I'm still fighting for peace

Well, I've got thick skin and an elastic heart,
But your blade it might be too sharp
I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard,
I may snap and I move fast
But you won't see me fall apart
'Cause I've got an elastic heart
[3x]

I've got an elastic heart



Awesome video. Go check it out on Youtube.

 

[Kintsugi]

An "oldie" but in my head today.

Garbage
Shut Your Mouth

Welcome
We love you
We hate you
We love you
We need you
We want you
We wish we were like you
They say you're a saint
You're a whore
You're a sinner
That he had you
Made you
He can't live without you
Would you confess if we asked
That you nurture the urge
To declare that it's time
To settle down with a man of your own
You want
A baby
A family
A piece of security
Shut

Shut your mouth
Try not to panic
Just shut your mouth
If you can do it
Just shut your mouth
If you can do it
Just shut your mouth

What's your opinion
Of the dark situation
In our land here
Our guest here
Of course you'll be nice here
How do you feel about
God and religion
Are you good people
Bad people
Guess it doesn't matter people

Your place
My place
Make her bring that famous face
You got some
You want some
You wanna let me get you some
We know your music
But of course we never buy it
It's too fake man
Right man
We don't give a f*cking damn

Just shut your mouth
Try not to panic...

I hear you say it
Play it smart girl
Win the game love
Give 'em what they wanna see
And you could be a big star
You could go far
Make a landmark
Make a shit load

Shut your mouth
Try not to panic...

I wanted to say something
Oh, shut your mouth
I wanted to say something
Just shut your mouth...

 

[Hansgrohe]

Shinedown - Devour

Take it and take it and take it and take it and take it all
Take it and take it and take it, until you take us all
Smash it and crash it and thrash it and trash it, they're only toys

Try it, you'll like it, don't hide it, don't fight it, just let it out
Steal it and shoot it and kill it, or take another route
Take it and take it and take it, you know they're only toys

Devour, devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour, devour
It's your final hour
Devour, devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour, devour
What a way to go

You want it, you want it, you want it, you want it? Well here it is
Everything, everything, everything isn't so primitive
Take it and take it and take it and take it and take it all

Nobody, nobody wants to feel like this
Nobody, nobody wants to live like this
Nobody, nobody wants a war like this

Devour, devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour, devour
It's your final hour
Devour, devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour, devour
What a way to go

What a way to go!

Diving down
Round and round
Diving down
Round and round

Devour, devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour, devour
It's your final hour
Devour, devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour, devour
What a way to go
Devour, devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour, devour
It's your final hour
Devour, devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour, devour
What a way to go

What a way to go!

 

[Kintsugi]

Dresden Dolls
Bad Habit

Biting keeps your 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

And you might say it's self-indulgent
You might say it's self-destructive
But, you see, it's more productive
Than if I were to be healthy

And pens and penknives take the blame
Crane my neck and scratch my name
But the ugly marks
Are worth the momentary gain
When I drive a sharpened object in
Choirs of angels seem to sing
Hymns of hate and memorandum

And you may say it's self-indulgent
You might say it's self-destructive
But, you see, it's more productive
Than if I were to be happy

And sappy songs about sex and cheating
Bland accounts of two lovers meeting
Make me wanna give mankind a
Beating

And you might say it's self-destructive
But, you see, I'd kick the bucket
Sixty times before I'd kick the habit

And as the skin rips off
I cherish the revolting thought
That even if I'd quit
There's not a chance in hell I'd stop
Oh, anyone could see the signs!
Mittens in the summertime!
Thank you for your pity
You are too kind

And you might say it's self-inflicted
But, you see, that's contradictive
Why on earth would anyone practice self-destruction?

And pain opinions are sitcom-feeding
They don't know that their minds are teething
Makes me wanna give mankind a
Beating

I've tried bandages and sinking
I've tried gloves and even thinking
I've tried vaseline
I've tried everything

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 wanna give myself a
Beating

 

[Kintsugi]

This goes out to all those supporters out there and to those who tried to fix me.

A Perfect Circle
Sleeping Beauty

Delusional
I believed I could cure it all
For you, dear
Coax or trick or drive or
Drag the demons from you
Make it right for you, Sleeping Beauty
Truly thought
I could magically heal you

You're far beyond a visible
Sign of your awakening
Failing miserably to rescue

Sleeping Beauty

Drunk on ego
Truly thought I could make it right
If I kissed you one more time to
Help you face the nightmare
But you're far too poisoned for me
Such a fool to think that I can wake you from your slumber
That I could actually heal you

Sleeping Beauty
Poisoned and hopeless

You're far beyond a visible
Sign of your awakening
Failing miserably to
Find a way to comfort you

Far beyond a visible sign of your awakening
Hiding from som poisoned memory

Sleeping Beauty...

 

[moonbeam]

Breaking Benjamin - I will not bow

 

[jaccat]

Quiet- from Matilda the musical

Have you ever wondered, well I have
About how when I say, say red, for example,
There's no way of knowing if red
Means the same thing in your head
As red means in my head, when someone says red!

And how if we are travelling at almost the speed of light
And we're holding a light
That light will still travel away from us
At the full speed of light, which seems right in a way.

What I'm trying to say, I'm not sure
But I wonder if inside my head
I'm not just a bit different from some of my friends.
These answers that come into my mind unbidden,
These stories delivered to me fully written!

And when everyone shouts like they seem to like shouting
The noise in my head is incredibly loud!
And I just wish that they'd stop, my dad and my mum
And the telly and stories would stop just for once.

I'm sorry, I'm not quite explaining it right.
The noise becomes anger and the anger is light
And it's buring inside me would usually fade,
But it isn't today!
And the heat and the shouting
And my heart is pounding
And my eyes are burning
And suddenly everything, everything is...

Quiet
Like silence, but not really silent.
Just that still sort of quiet
Like sound of a page being turned in a book
Or a pause in a walk in the woods.

Quiet
Like silence, but not really silent.
Just that nice kind of quiet
Like the sound when you lie upside down in your bed,
Just the sound of your heart in your head.

And though the people around me
Their mouths are still moving.
The words they are forming
Cannot reach me any more!

And it is quiet.
And I am warm.
Like I've sailed
Into the eye of the storm.

 

[myheart]

'Heroes' by Peter Gabriel. (There are a few versions of this song. I mean the one from the movie 'Lone Survivor'.)

 

[holdenmonty]

for me the song that I can relate to the most when my PTSD is kicking my butt is Crawling by Linkin Park and mainly the chorus but the whole song is great.

Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

And the bridge I can really relate to

To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

 

[Anrish]

I'm relating to "Neue Helden" by Letzte Instanz (last resort - a German band) a lot this moment. The title means "new heroes", I'll try my best to translate it for you. The lyric rhymes in the original....:p

Your eyes are closing, lost in time and space
A shadow - soulless - stands against you
Fog engulfes your lfe, your heart stops beating
If you don't fight now, when will you dare?

Do you run, do you fight, do you stop,
did the world lose you?
Do heroes need a master,
is a hero to be born?
Do you run, do you fight, do you stop,
did the fear defeat you?
You loses only a battle,
not by a long stretch the war.
Heroes need a strength
which lies deep in your soul.

The shadow seems so large, it grows in your fear.
But it's only so big because you can see him.
If you see the shadow in front of you, there's light behind you
and it covers your back, that's why don't be frightened.

Do you run, do you fight, do you stop,
did the world lose you?
Do heroes need a master,
is a hero to be born?
Do you run, do you fight, do you stop,
did the fear defeat you?
You loses only a battle,
not by a long stretch the war.
Heroes need a strength
which lies deep in your soul.

A heart can persist against steel, against a power.
Heroes are not born, especially not over night
No power is invincible, rarely only in one battle.
If you lose, rise again
that what makes a hero.

 

[Deleted member 10686]

Right now in therapy I'm dealing with the induced suicide of my step kids mom. I'm planning on sharing this song with my therapist, it's really beautiful.

Puscifer-horizons

Dust devil swept you away
It's still not real
Ash and urn and silence

Dust devil swept you away
My recollections are all that's left of you
Swirl and sway without me

Dust devil swept you away
Whirling playful dancing
What's left of you is
Ash and urn in this silent
Horizon

 

[jaccat]

30 pills, by Lester J Allen.

This song describes the events of the singer's attempted suicide by overdose as a teenager. Here's the last two verses:

I'm sorry
To be the guy
Who tried to leave you on your own
In a world that's all full of goodbyes

It's just things clamber
Onto my weighty heart
And I don't know how to try
But I will start to...