I've got to cheat and name a whole album, Green by R.E.M. I've felt so utterly attached since I first heard it, and only somewhat recently I realized the whole thing screams ND. I relate to each and every song in a specific, intense way.
Tbh I identify with most of R.E.M.'s catalog, especially their early- and mid-period work. Their debut album alone (Murmur) is flush with themes of troubled communication, just like my life. ^_^
Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid I'm still standing after all this time Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah
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28 Jul 2020, 6:32 pm
I have two and they may appear very different from each other in genre but I feel like they have some overlapping themes of being an outsider and knowing that you are on your own.
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30 Jul 2020, 2:14 pm
My theme song, er, isn't a song. This piano piece and I go way back- the only recordings I have on it are both on cassette, and I must have played it (badly) hundreds of times as a teenager. Even though I write songs myself, I can't think of any song that means as much to me. Brahms: Intermezzo in A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78OO5v0lNtI
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12 Aug 2020, 9:42 pm
Tragedy's child, born into cruelty and crooked form. The hateful twist of rejection bends my heart. Powers volatile, lightening awakes in a rising storm. The doors to hope and ascension creak apart. In the shards of the broken mirror many faces are shorn. In the agony I have been reborn! Torn apart to become a living work of art. Chaos kindled in my burning heart. Tear the creaking doors apart!
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13 Aug 2020, 12:54 am
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13 Aug 2020, 3:07 am
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17 Sep 2020, 7:20 pm
Consequence Free by Great Big Sea
Wouldn't it be great If no one ever got offended Wouldn't it be great To say what's really on your mind I've always said That all the rules are made for bending And if I let my hair down Would that be such a crime
[Chorus] I want to be Consequence free I want to be Where nothing needs to matter I want to be Consequence free Just sing Nananananananana Oh, nananananananana
I could really use To lose my Catholic conscience Cause I'm getting sick Of feeling guilty all the time I won't abuse it Yeah, I've got the best intentions For a little bit of anarchy But not the hurting kind
[Chorus]
I couldn't sleep at all last night Cause I had so much on my mind I'd like to leave it all behind But you know it's not that easy Oh, for just one night
Wouldn't it be great If the band just never ended We could stay out late And we would never hear last call We wouldn't need to worry About approval or permission We could slip off the edge And never worry about the fall
[Chorus]
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17 Sep 2020, 8:08 pm
Probably “Flood” by Tool.
Lyrics don’t start until about four minutes in.
“Here comes the water...
All I knew, all I believed Are crumbling images that no longer comfort me Scramble to reach higher ground Order and sanity, something to comfort me
I take what is mine, hold what is mine, Suffocate what is mine, bury what’s mine Soon the water will come and claim what is mine I must leave it behind and climb to a new place now
This ground is not the rock I’d thought it to be
Thought I was high, thought I was free Thought I was there, divine destiny I was wrong This changes everything
Running away, running away...
I take what is mine, hold what is mine Suffocate what is mine, bury what’s mine Soon the water will come and claim what is mine I must leave it behind and climb to a new place
Water rising up on me, said water rising up on me Thought the sun would come deliver me But the truth has come to punish me instead
Ground breaks downright under me Cleanse and purge me in the water”
Not literal water, though, the only three literal floods I’ve had to deal with are toilet overflows (one at home when I was a kid and one when I was a janitor at a department store) and the one time my dad forgot he was filling an empty fish tank in the basement and left the water running overnight.
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