Songs You Relate To

[Deleted member 28986]

"Better" by Regina Spektor

[...]

Born like sisters to this world
In a town blood ties are only blood
If you never say your name out loud to anyone
They can never, ever call you by it

[...]

You're getting sadder, getting sad
Getting sadder, getting sad
And I don't understand
And I don't understand

But if I kiss you where it's sore
If I kiss you where it's sore
Will you feel better, better, better?
Will you feel anything at all?

Will you feel better, better, better or
Will you feel anything at all?
Will you feel anything at all?
Anything at all?

[...]

 

[Over the rainbow]

Emile Sande
"Read all about it"
You've got the words to change a nation
But you're biting your tongue
You've spent a life time stuck in silence
Afraid you'll say something wrong
If no one ever hears it how we gonna learn your song?
So come on, come on
Come on, come on
You've got a heart as loud as lions
So why let your voice be tamed?
Maybe we're a little different
There's no need to be ashamed
You've got the light to fight the shadows
So stop hiding it away
Come on, come on
I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it, oh
At night we're waking up the neighbours
While we sing away the blues
Making sure that we're remembered, yeah
Cause we all matter too
If the truth has been forbidden
Then we're breaking all the rules
So come on, come on
Come on, come on,
Let's get the TV and the radio
To play our tune again
It's 'bout time we got some airplay of our version of events
There's no need to be afraid
I will sing with you my friend
Come on, come on
I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it, oh
Yeah, we're all wonderful, wonderful people
So when did we all get so fearful?
Now we're finally finding our voices
So take a chance, come help me sing this
Yeah, we're all wonderful, wonderful people
So when did we all get so fearful?
And now we're finally finding our voices
Just take a chance, come help me sing this

 

[Anrish]

"Ich bin Ich" (I am I) by Rosenstolz (rose pride) - again, I try my best to translate it in English

Do I still belong here
Or am I already out?
Time takes the next flight
Tried to chase after it
Was just born yesterday
And can walk since lately
lost my balance
but can still stand straight

There's so much rage in my head
I couldn't sleep yesterday night
That you were there, felt good to me
Please don't ask any questions
Because I would only regret
To twist myself on you
Was certainly not faithful all the time
But I did never betray you

That is me
Thas is me
That's my only fault
That is me
Thas is me
That is me
That is my only fault

I'm now
I'm here
I'm I
That is my only fault
I'm now
I'm here
I'm I
That is my only fault

I don't have to find myself now
Just can't allow to lose myself
Was just born yesterday
And can walk since lately
lost my balance
but can still stand straight

I'm now
I'm here
I'm I
That is my only fault
I'm now
I'm here
I'm I
That is my only fault

We're now
We're here
We're we
That is our only fault
We're now
We're here
We're we
That is our only fault

Do I still belong here?

 

[theotherside]

Ball and Chain
by
Social Distortion

"Well it's been ten years and a thousand tears
And look at the mess I'm in"

 

[holdenmonty]

For me today it's This Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace

I can't escape this hell
So many times i've tried
But i'm still caged inside
Somebody get me through this nightmare
I can't control myself

So what if you can see the darkest side of me?
No one will ever change this animal I have become
Help me believe it's not the real me
Somebody help me tame this animal

 

[Kintsugi]

Two, in order of the album wherein they appear.

Tool
The Grudge

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate
Desperate to control all and everything
Unable to forgive the scarlet letterman

Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and
Grip 'em to the lonesome ends
Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Terrified of being wrong
Ultimatum prison cell

Saturn ascends
Choose one or ten
Hang on or be humbled again

Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and
Grip 'em to the lonesome end
Saturn ascends, comes round again
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten
Ignorant to the damage done

Wear the grudge like a crown
Desperate to control
Unable to forgive
And sinking deeper

Defining.
Confining.
Controlling.
And we're sinking deeper.

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Lets you choose what you will or will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone
Or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child
Light an innocent

Saturn comes back around
Lifts you up like a child
Or drags you down like a stone
To consume you till you

Choose to let this go

Give away the stone
Let the ocean take and
Transmute this
Cold and fated anchor
Give away the stone
Let the waters kiss
And transmute these leaden anchors
Into gold
Let go


Tool
The Patient

A groan
Of tedium escapes me
Startling the fearful
Is this a test?
It has to be
Otherwise I can't go on

Draining patience
Drained vitality this
Paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old

But I'm still right here
Giving blood
Keeping faith
And I'm still right here

Wait it out
Gonna wait it out
Be patient

If there were no reward to reap
No loving embrace to see me through
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away
By now

Gonna wait it out

If there were no desire to heal
A damaged and broken man along
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away
By now

And I still may
(Sigh)
And I still may

Be patient
I must keep reminding myself of this

And if there were no rewards to heal
No loving embrace to see me through
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away
And I still may

 

[Kintsugi]

Pretty Balanced
Simon's Sleeping

She has eyes closed
She has fever
As her hands flick
Cross her stomach
She is dreaming
She is breathless
As her sweat beads
On her forehead

Simon's sleeping on the floor
What's she dreaming?
Simon's sleeping on the floor
What's she dreaming?
Simon watched eyelids as projections flicker there
I don't wanna wake her,
But her whispers sorta scare me

There's a green hill
There's a beech tree
There's a window
That can see me
There's a rain cloud
There's an ocean
I am moving
Without motion

Simon's sleeping on the floor
What's she dreaming?
Simon's sleeping on the floor
What's she dreaming?
Simon watches eyelids as projections flicker there
I don't wanna wake her
But her whispers sorta scare me

Simon's clawing fingers out
Doesn't know it's still without
Face is latticed with her hair
Reaches out but nothing's there
Shake her, wake her up, I try
I can only watch her lie

Simon watches eyelids as projections flicker there
I wan't wanna wake her
But her whispers sorta scare me

 

[ihateusernames]

This is such a wonderful thread! Just wanted to say that. Not much I could add right now that isn't already here.

 

[Deleted member 28986]

"Fix You" by Coldplay

When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

[…]

 

[Recovery4Me]

Rihanna- FourFive Seconds Feat.Paul McCartney & Kanye West
www.metrolyrics.com/four-five-seconds-lyrics-rihanna.html
video found there & on vevo

"I think I had enough
I might get a little drunk.
If I say what's on my mind
I might do a little time

Woke up an optimist
Sun was shinin', I'm positive.
Then I heard you was talkin' trash
Hold me back, I'm 'bout to spaz"
>>>>
"If I go to jail tonight
Promise you'll pay my bail
See they want to buy my pride
But that just ain't up for sale
See all of my kindness
Is taken for weakness

Now I'm FourFiveSeconds from wildin'
And we got three more days 'til Friday
I'm tryna make it back home by Monday mornin'
I swear I wish somebody would tell me
Ooh, that's all I want "

 

[MariaMars24]

This song is by Ayumi Hamasaki "Song for XX" (considered the Queen of j-pop/Japanese Madonna). I am into Japanese Pop. I listened to this song when I was 18. It's a very moving song. This song is about her father who left her when she was 3 months old.

Translation/video on youtube (watch?v=TeJcG3Pd-As)

Why am I crying?
Why am I lost?
Why did I stop?
Please tell me
When will I grow up?
How long can I stay a child?
Where have I come running from?
Where am I running to?

I had no place to live. I couldn't find one.
I don't know if I could have any hope for the future.

They always said I was a strong child.
They praised me, saying "you must be strong to not cry."
I didn't want those words at all.
So I pretended not to understand.

Why are you laughing?
Why are you by my side?
Why are you leaving me?
Please tell me.
When did you become strong?
Since when have you felt weakness?
How long must you wait
for the day you understand to come?

The sun is rising. I must go soon.
I can't stay in the same place forever.

You will someday be betrayed by your trust in people.
I thought it was the same as being rejected.
At the time I didn't have that kind of strength.
I definitely knew too much.

They always said I was a strong child.
They praised me, saying "you must be strong not to cry."
The more people said things like that,
the more even laughing became agony.

I was born alone. I'll go on living alone.
I thought that surely that kind of life is appropriate.

 

[Owl.]

Gotta go with what appears to be a favorite band in here, although I don't think this particular one's been posted yet, but it's been my link to (relative) sanity all week, so before the neighbors call the cops on me because this stuff is LOUD, here goes:

Linkin Park
Lying From You
(Meteora, 2003)

When I pretend everything is what I want it to be
I look exactly like what you had always wanted to see
When I pretend, I can't forget about the criminal I am
Stealing second after second just 'cause I know I can but
I can't pretend this is the way it'll stay I'm just
(Trying to bend the truth)
I can't pretend I'm who you want me to be, so I'm
(Lying my way from you)

[.]

I remember what they taught to me
Remember condescending talk of who I ought to be
Remember listening to all of that and this again
So I pretended up a person who was fittin' in
And now you think this person really is me and I'm
(Trying to bend the truth)
But the more I push the more I'm pulling away 'cause I'm
(Lying my way from you)

[.]

This isn't what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me
Like this.

(You)

No turning back now
(I wanna be pushed aside so let me go)
No, no turning back now
(Let me take back my life I'd rather be all alone)
No, turning back now
(Anywhere on my own 'cause I can see)
No, no turning back now
(The very worst part of you)
(The very worst part of you is me)