What song/songs describe you best?

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just put a video of the song or songs and say something about why it fits you
my song is pain by three days grace because i have repressed so many negative emotions that most of the good one have gone too, so now only about a 3th of the time i have emotion, the rest of the time is just numbness/blank
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud4HuAzHEUc&list=AL94UKMTqg-9DYSrQgO0D0LbMJYWjLTl8y&index=9&feature=plcp[/youtube]

Monster, by Kanye West.

I have had moments like this, when i was engaged in one of my interests.

Just being lost in what you do, an instinct, a natural state, an unexplainable extension of yourself THAT reaches out........tapped from a source which simply appears.

In no way do i compare myself with the brilliance of this man but i think i can identify with what it's like to.....simply make your own special kind of music.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4zh-KGabq4&feature=related[/youtube]


TheSunAlsoRises

Helplessness Blues by the Fleet Foxes. I think it's something we all could relate to.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me

But I don't, I don't know what that will be
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

What's my name, what's my station, oh, just tell me what I should do
I don't need to be kind to the armies of night that would do such injustice to you
Or bow down and be grateful and say "sure, take all that you see"
To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls and determine my future for me

And I don't, I don't know who to believe
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

If I know only one thing, it's that everything that I see
Of the world outside is so inconceivable often I barely can speak
Yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself
What good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else?

And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf
I'll come back to you someday soon myself

I haven't found a song that's completely me because what catches me about songs is the other person's POV... I can still take songs and relate to them from my own POV, but I know that's not what they're about. A lot of Oasis, a lot of Echo & The Bunnymen, some Manic Street Preachers, and others songs. I've listened to a lot of CDs, it's actually becoming hard for me to remember which songs I identify with, only that it's definitely not just one song. And if I tell people entire albums or whatever define me, no one's going to check them.

Bad apple-David Willcox

^ I was really searching my head to think about a song to describe my thoughts on the macro scale too... Sometimes I feel like I have too much of a selection. But I can see your point about Faster! It's definitely not one of the most cryptic songs to understand either, I always thought the message was quite clear.

I'm Not Like Everybody Else - The Kinks

I can't post my favourite video to that song any more, because the owner changed the title to F-Off C**ts.

Man in black By Johnny Cash is as close as I found for me.
http://youtu.be/aUXkDrZ1z2k

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

I decided on this, firstly because I love this song, secondly because it's definitely my favourite off Ian's solo career... At least until Pro Patria Mori comes out. There isn't a specific line or idea in this song that describes me, but the atmosphere of it, which is what the Bunnymen and Ian have always been about anyway:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8N9BQuLsh0[/youtube]

Chevelle
"Send The Pain Below"

I liked having hurt,
So send the pain below where I need it,
You used to beg me to take care of things,
And smile at the thought of me failing.

But long before, having hurt,
I'd send the pain below,
I'd send the pain below.

Much like suffocating,
Much like suffocating,
Much like suffocating,
(I'd send the pain below...)
Much like suffocating,
(I'd send the pain below...)

You used to run me away,
All while laughing.
Then cry about that fact,
'til I returned.

But long before, having hurt,
I'd send the pain below,
I'd send the pain below.

Much like suffocating,
Much like suffocating,
Much like suffocating,
(I'd send the pain below...)
Much like suffocating,
(I'd send the pain below...)
Much like suffocating.

I can't feel my chest,
Need more, drop down,
Closing in.

I can't feel my chest,
Drop down.

I liked, having hurt.
So send the pain below,
So send the pain below,
(Much like suffocating) [I liked]
So send the pain below,
(Much like suffocating) [Having hurt]
So send the pain below,
(Much like suffocating)
So send the pain below,
(Much like suffocating)
So send the pain below.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-cg50W2_ic[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc[/youtube]
4 Non Blondes

What's Up Lyrics

Twenty-five years I'm alive here still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man
For whatever that means

And so I cry sometimes
When I'm lying in bed Just to get it all out
What's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar.

And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's going on?

And I say: HEY! yeah yeaaah, HEY yeah yea
I said hey, what's going on?

And I say: HEY! yeah yeaaah, HEY yeah yea
I said hey, what's going on?

ooh, ooh ooooooooooooooooh
ooh, ooh ooooooooooooooooh

and I try, oh my god do I try
I try all the time, in this institution

And I pray, oh my god do I pray
I pray all sanctity
For a revolution.

And so I cry sometimes
When I'm lying bed
Just to get it all out
What's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar

And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's going on?

And I say, hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what's going on?

And I say, hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what's going on?

And I say, hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what's going on?

And I say, hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what's going on?

ooh, ooh ooooooooooooooooh ooooooooooooooooh

Twenty-five years I'm alive here still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
for a destination
mmh mh

This first one perfectly describes the way I lost feeling and became numb for a number of years until I met someone who woke me back up to life.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hvrzk4kdXI&feature=related[/youtube]

But then I kind of returned to a numbness and now I relate to this one. It's just so simple and beautiful I don't think anything needs to be said about it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qYSIzOdP7Y[/youtube]