Do certain songs remind you of "you"? I was reading a post by another person on this forum and realized that I was not alone. Some songs really make me relate to how I feel. The song that is me is:

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

CHORUS
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here no there

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

CHORUS

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same

Anyone else have songs that they relate their feelings/trauma to?

Portabella-I've considered that 'my song' for a long time. It blew my mind when I saw hit here. There's so much in it that I relate to.

Thanks for posting this.

I used to make poetry myself, but all in Russian, so I guess no one here can understand it :biggrin: Which is good, since my poems were sretty scarry. Some people loved it, though: an especially interested guy made a web site about it.
I do not remember all lyrics from the English sonfs I love, but can lkist them.
System of the Down: I Cry When Angels Deserve to Die
System of the Down: Beyond the Staple Center you can See America
System of the Down: Airiels
Green Days: Wake Me Up When September Ends
Green Days: On the Boulivard of Broken Dreams
Metallica: Unforgiven
Unknown guy, I hear him often on the raduo: I Can't Escape Myself

Portabella, Thanks so much for posting! Had heard this song, I believe, but never could understand all the words.

A few nights ago, I was listening to Norah Jones' first CD, Come Away With Me. One song rang out: "Seven Years." Part of the lyric is this:

"...a little girl / with nothing wrong / is all alone".

It made me melt, recalling how I loved, as a child and pre-teen, to wander away from humans and into forests, fields, oceans, dunes, lakes...being alone in that way was not really being alone...I felt saturated with the life of our world. And strangely safe among other creatures, before the gaze of their eyes.

And speaking of safety...these songs are also for our warriors and veterans, our rescue personnel, our cops (I use the term with huge affection), all the cream of the human-integrity-and-courage crop...everyone who serves on a front line, a life-and-death line...

...ah! they're about all of us

In that spirit...I've thought of some songs that may touch you in a similar place...somewhere, despite all the wounding, that feels young, curious, engaged with the world and all its wonder...somewhere you belong. ...Somewhere you are safe.

Norah Jones, "Seven Years."

Lou Rawls, "God Bless the Child." Combine that velvet voice with an elegant jazz trio and some of the most ethically piercing lyrics I've ever heard. Will strike the core of anyone who came from a family that "had it all"...yet tossed you the crumbs. It's a song that sees so clearly...

George Michaels, "Mother's Pride." I weep with this song. For anyone who is, knows, loves a soldier...

Annie Lennox, "Into the West." This gorgeous lament is laced with light. It is a song that I've consoled myself with since my best friend died last year. She's woven through it... "Into the West" closes the Lord of the Rings film trilogy...

Loggins & Messina, "House at Pooh Corner." Now this is the sweet spot of childhood. "You'd be surprised / there's so much to be done / Count all the bees in the hive / Chase all the clouds from the sky..." I hope so much that we all had at least one moment like that...

Mark Isham, "Flames" (from the Crash soundtrack). "Flames" accompanies a harrowing, transcendent scene in the film...two characters collide, again...there is such turbulence...through which these two people are transformed. Every extreme of every emotion we can feel roars through them...and the music is everything a prayer can be...

John Lennon, "Imagine." What a child-sage John was at heart. So simple, so illumed. All you need is love... "Imagine" accompanied the final scene of the 1984 film The Killing Fields. You want to see the fullness of friendship? Go there.

...I've got some more songs, but right now the sun is bathing my balcony (and my cats ), and I must receive some rays...



What are your faves like this?...