Ever listen to a song and notice it mirrors your life? If so which one>?

[Phlosphr]

I was on my way to school this morning and right as I pulled into the parking lot Bob Seger kicked on the radio with Turn the Page and I noticed that it mirrored a time in my life when I was on the road a lot.

On a long and lonesome highway
East of Omaha
You can listen to the engine
Moanin’ out as one long song

But your thoughts will soon be wandering
The way they always do
When you’re riding sixteen hours
And there’s nothing much to do
And you don’t feel much like riding
You just wish the trip was through

Well, you walk into a restaurant
Strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
As you’re shaking off the cold
You pretend it doesn’t bother you
But you just want to explode

I was going to Graduate school in Arizona, I was driving back and forth from AZ to Connecticut. It’s amazing how a song can come so close to situations in your life. When I got in my office this morning I downloaded the song and listened to it again…It’s on right now actually…and I see that Bob could not have written that song had he not experienced the road like that. The description is perfect.

So anyone ever have a song mirror a situation in their lives?

[Crusoe]

Hotel California, although I don’t like to think about those steely knives anymore.

[Liberal]

All the Nasties

When I first heard it, I thought I was being spied upon.

[Phlosphr]

Reading those Lyrics Lib is quite insightful. Being a big Elton John fan myself makes it ever more sagacious.

[DeVena]

At the point just before Hubby asked me to marry him, in those deep dark days of debating Is He The One?, this song come on the radio. And I will always owe Nina Simone a debt of gratitude.

The More I See You is the song and the lyrics helped show me the way I felt, specifically…

Can you imagine,
How much I love you?
The more I see you,
As years go by,
I know the only one
for me can only be you.
My arms won’t free you,
and my heart won’t try.

[Ludovic]

Messages, by OMD:

And every day you send me more.
What makes it worse is it’s a plan of yours,
to ensure I won’t forget.

At the time I was first introduced to the song, a good online friend of mine was distancing herself from me, but kept IMing me to check up on me, both because she was a drama addict and, I am convinced, to make me remember what could have been.

[toque]

There was a time not too long ago when “These Days”, as sung by Nico, hit way too close to home.

[ultrafilter]

“Lifetime Piling Up” by the Talking Heads.

[FilmGeek]

Strangely enough, most anything by Alanis Morrisette.

[interface2x]

I Can’t Imagine How It Hurts by mesh.

Someone very close to me (emotionally, yet lived far away) experienced a terrible tragedy and I felt awful that I couldn’t do anything about it.

Here is some of it:

I can’t imagine how it hurts
I can’t begin to find the words
And all the things I’ve ever done
Seem like nothing now

And in the nightmares, you run away
You’ll always come to the same decision
When the feelings tear like they won’t repair
But we’ll break it together, I swear
We’ll break it, I swear

…

I can’t imagine it happening
I close my eyes, but it won’t go away
I can’t imagine it happening
I tell myself that it’s so far away

I hate myself that you’re so far away
I hate myself that you’re so far away

[Uvula_Donor]

Deacon Blues by Steely Dan

[ianzin]

Song: “Time” by Pink Floyd, from DSOTM

Whose life: pretty well everyone’s, self included, until I decided to do something about it.

That is one quality piece of songwriting. I won’t write out the lyrics here, Board policies an’ all, but if you have read the lyrics, and can get hold of them, may I suggest you do so. And enjoy the same shudder of recogntiion as everyone else who has ever given it a good listen.

[JohnBckWLD]

I’m An Adult Now, by the Pursuit of Happiness:

(Snipped excerpts)

Well, I don’t hate my parents
I don’t get drunk just to spite them
I’ve got my own reasons to drink now
Think I’ll call my dad up and invite him
I can sleep in till noon anytime I want
Though there’s not many days that I do
Gotta get up and take on that world
When your an adult it’s no cliche it’s the truth…
I can’t even look at young girls anymore
People will think I’m some kind of pervert
Adult sex is either boring or dirty
Young people they can get away with murder…
I can’t take any more illicit drugs
I can’t afford any artificial joy
I’d sure look like a fool dead in a ditch somewhere
With a mind full of chemicals
Like some cheese-eating high school boy…

[silenus]

“The Pretender” by Jackson Browne.

<sigh>

[Lynn_Bodoni]

“Paradise by the Dashboard Light” by Meatloaf.

[Violin_D_Ingrate]

When I was thinking about leaving my husband, inspiration came, strangely enough, from a Fiona Apple song, “Get Gone”

‘How many times can it escalate
Till it elevates to a place I can’t breathe?
And I must decide, if you must deride
That I’m much obliged to up and go’

and

‘F*ckin go-
Cuz I’ve done what I could for you, and I do know what’s
Good for me and I’m not benefiting’

[The_Mad_Hermit]

**ianzin, ** you stole my song!

I used to be like that, but with the changes in my life recently I’m more inclined to say that another Pink Floyd tune would be more appropriate: One of These Days.

I must agree with you about the song being incredible. I really like the intro, with the simple beat and the bass guitar/keyboard riffs.

[Baker]

“Those Were the Days, MY Friend”

[lucky_henry]

silenus got it half right. Both “The Pretender” and “Running On Empty” by Jackson Browne adequately sum up my life.

[blasphmer]

Well I’d say movies better reflect it (* Never been kissed/10 things I hate* ) but as for songs I’m awaiting a “creature of the night” and * I want you to want me* . The ole Blasphmer is tired of being a hermit nerd and is trying to adapt socially to this modern world of wimmin.