Your Song Of Life.

[Anrish]

Great thread and lots of great pieces!

@Trauma: I agree with you. Metal is the best - and you're from my personal favourite country of metal. :singing: :hug:

Kamelot - Hunter's Season

Fiddler's Green - Stay by my side

Dir en Grey - Cage (this song almost destroyed me when I was a teen, it was too destructive, too deep...but now I can listen to it again.)

Raphael - Akikaze no Rhapsody (japanese: Rhapsody of the autumn's wind, they were my personal angels of healing)

Tschaikowsky - Swan Lake

...and now all my songs from Saltatio Mortis which kept me alive for the last two years. They're a German folk rock band, so I will translate the titles. They were the first ones who made me move again. (If anyone is interested in the lyrics and needs translation, I can do so. ;))

Eulenspiegel (owl glass) - this song gives me courage to speak my mind

Der Kuss (the kiss) - ...my longing for just this one and only kiss. :cry:

Prometheus - I love the legend, I love the character...and I love knowledge and the fire. This song makes me feel alive and it's their best when they play a gig.

Lebensweg (path of life) - a touching song which tells the story of all of us in its unique way.

Dessous le pont de Nantes (under the bringe of Nantes) - it's an old French song, but it's so full of life and joy!

 

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@Anrish

For the past year I've mostly been on folk punk, irish bands mostly, got into metal 3 months ago with the concert of a scottish band Alestorm.

 

[Karen12]

"Saint Agnes and the Burning Train," an instrumental piece by Sting. Odd title aside, there's a sense of resilience and buoyancy in it - at least that's what I hear. It's quietly persistent. It endures without tumbling under, it might stumble now and then but there's a definite note of hopefulness.

 

[Glara]

John Lennon "How"

 

[Glara]

And as a supporter Adele's version of "Make You Feel My Love"

 

[Deleted member 27340]

@Anrish METALHEADS WILL TAKE OVER \m/
That's our biggest cultural export product and we're really proud of it :D Personally I'm more into heavy and thrash than black and death, but some stuff from Norway is actually pretty cool.

@Glara I just learned that song with my vocal coach.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Skillet - Monster
Lifehouse - Quasimodo

 

[myheart]

Michael Card - Joy in the Journey
There are others, (if you want to know, let me know!), but they are all Christian CDs that help me to keep on keeping on!

 

[Changing4Best]

I listen to a Christian radio station online and that is the best way for me to feel good, I think.

 

[Wastinglight]

This is the soundtrack to my recovery from GAD:

Drive by Incubus

It's about overcoming fear. I consider my GAD to be basically "fear of life". I imagine many PTSD folks can relate in some way to that notion too.

I try to listen to it every time my anxiety start getting on top of me. Plus, Incubus is just a really good band!

 

[Ronin]

Nancy Sinatra - Friday's Child
I have a long standing thing with people dear to me I want it played on my funeral, for that 'whom they'll forget to bury' line. All in all lyrics? Yup, that's pretty much me.

 

[DissociativeJunkie]

I was just going to make a post like this! Awesome! My songs:

Losing A Whole Year - Third Eye Blind

Because I feel like it could be about me. To a T. And the person suffers depression and is borderline. "When I talk I hear the Prozac". "Finding your place with queer pierced teens in cyberspace". Maybe not now, but that was me when I was younger. "When you're not on the defense you're on the attack"...that is very borderline. Father leaving you with no love. My dad never really told me he loved me.

Shimmer - By Fuel

This is me 100%...being the singer and the woman he's singing about too. "Short of stable" is me everyday. "And All she intends and all she keeps inside, isn't on the label" ...that's me too. He sings about being unable to forget the past. Lavender is one of my favorite scents. "Reality escapes her" is ME. Omg. So me. I've never been entirely in touch with reality.

But...the song that has always been my song, since I was 16. The first song I performed on guitar and learned at summer camp, was No Rain by Blind Melon.

The singer talks about being depressed and using books for an escape, and questions his sanity. I've struggled with depression since I was 14, and have been borderline since around that age too. It's a fun song to sing, and I find myself singing it in the shower all the time.

The last song is What's Going On by 4 Non Blondes.

This is me being angry at the institution and yearning for a social non-violent revolution to make society better. I feel like it vocalizes my personal struggles, not specifically with mental illness, but with a minimum wage job and social issues. How society is pretty damn insane. With a degree in sociology, I particularly love this song.