# Ever listen to a song and notice it mirrors your life? If so which one\>? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469 "2003-10-09T12:46:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/41 "2003-10-11T06:38:18Z")
Sigh. _For No One_ off the Beatles’s Revolver. Here’s a snipplet: > [@](#): > > But in her eyes you see nothing. > No sign of love behind the tears > cried for no one. > A love that should have lasted years! ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/42 "2003-10-11T08:05:54Z")
_The Tourist_ by Radiohead. At one point last year, I was very stressed out (I had to mark a bunch of 1st year university assignments, I had exams of my own coming up in a few days, and I had some pretty nasty problems with flatmates). Then I heard the chorus of _The Tourist_. > [@](#): > > Hey man, slow down, slow down. > Idiot, slow down, slow down. That song probably saved me from a nervous breakdown. Also, I am going to have to agree with Pink Floyd’s _Time_. In fact, the entire _Dark Side of the Moon_ album is made up of songs that either describe people’s lives (_Time_ and _Eclipse_) or the world in general (_Money_ and _Us And Them_). I’m sure that at some point, I’ve identified with each and every song on that album. (By the way, if anyone here doesn’t own a copy of _Dark Side Of The Moon_, then they MUST go and buy a copy right now. You heard me, right now. Why are you still reading this post? Go and buy it, goddammit!) ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/43 "2003-10-11T16:53:44Z")
You mean there are people who _don’t_ own Dark Side? ---
**Author:** ![Omikawaii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Omikawaii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omikawaii)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/44 "2003-10-11T18:17:31Z")
I would have to say… “Wuthering Heights” By Kate Bush. Heathcliff… It’s me… your Cathy, I’ve come home, I’m so cooold… Let me into your windoooow… ---
**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/45 "2003-10-11T19:27:32Z")
“Prodigal” by Porcupine Tree. Well, the first verse and chorus anyway. I don’t watch much TV, so other parts of the song don’t really fit. > [@](#): > > I don’t know whose side I’m on > I don’t think that I belong round here > If I left the stage would that be wrong ? > [@](#): > > Rain keeps crawling down the glass > The good times never seem to last > Close your eyes and let the thought pass ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/46 "2003-10-11T20:10:57Z")
Yeah, actually. I spent plenty of time angsting over _Nobody’s Girl_ by Bonnie Raitt… I won’t bother linking to the lyrics. Too embarassing. But…in retrospect, it was still pretty relevant at the time. Usually it’s pretty much _Good Intentions_ by Lyle Lovett. It’s more me, rather than mirroring my life…but I’m a housewife, yo. \ It’s one of those days When those great ideas they just seem to fall out on you And they always fall the greatest when you’re falling all alone It makes for a good day for some serious reflection And massive rationalization For contemplating the future of the future And the last of the past And wondering if you could ever forgive me darling All the trouble that I put to you And if I could forget all those questions That I never asked \ Heh. And it’s got a sweet, low downbeat and is kinda low-key funky, and that works too, I suppose. Man, am I an ego-monster or WHAT? ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_in\_SoCal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Michele\_in\_SoCal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michele_in_SoCal)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/47 "2003-10-11T20:54:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wolfian \* > \*\*… _For No One_ off the Beatles’s Revolver… \*\* I consider that song one of the saddest ever. So sorry that you had ocassion to relate! The song that mirrored my life at one crazy point was when my best friend stole my boyfriend (early '70s) and I heard _Triad_ by Crosby, Stills, and Nash: [snippet] I want to know how it will be Me and her or you and me You both stand there with your long hair flowing Your eyes alive, your minds are still growing Saying to me what can we do now that we Both love you – I love you too I don’t really see, why can’t we go on as three [/snippet] YIKES! ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/48 "2003-10-11T20:59:32Z")
I just started teaching this year and can’t seem to shake the sinking suspicion that I’m on the receiving end of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall”… 😉 **interface2x** – eep. I’ve been there. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/49 "2003-10-11T21:19:36Z")
Poe, “Haunted.” I have had my few mixed up moments in the past, and there’s one in particular that I am continually being haunted by/breaking away from. (Most specifically a liason that may-or-may-not have eventually become sexual/a relationship had it continued, with an exceedingly creepy, disturbed, and utterly screwed up person, who I feel guilty about not dragging out of his self-induced insanity). In some ways, I have to be constantly torn away from the memories of this person, though–aside from a few mentions on these boards and my secret livejournal–I seldom mention much about him. In particular, these lyrics: \And I’m haunted By the lives that I have loved And actions I have hated I’m haunted By the lives that wove the web Inside my haunted head\ \“Come here No I won’t say please One more look at the ghost Before I’m gonna make it leave Come here I’ve got the pieces here Time to gather up the splinters Build a casket for my tears”\ ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/50 "2003-10-12T00:43:34Z")
The Beatles “She’s Leaving Home.” That’s not a song you hear on the radio every day, and I’d been thinking of it the day I left home, and surprisingly I did hear it on the radio that day. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/51 "2003-10-12T02:00:27Z")
I’m thinking **Annie Waits** by Ben Folds: > [@](#): > > Headlights crest the hill > Who will be the one forever more? > Annie, I could be… > If we’re both still lonely when we’re old > Annie waits for the last time > Just the same as the last time > _ **Annie waits…but not for me** _ Or just about anything by Counting Crows. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/52 "2003-10-12T02:14:10Z")
“Tangled Up in Blue” by Bob Dylan. Most of the scenes he describes parallel scenes from my life. ---
**Author:** ![emacularius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@emacularius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacularius)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/53 "2003-10-12T02:21:13Z")
“Snowball in Hell” by They Might Be Giants “If it wasn’t for disappointment, I wouldn’t have any appointment.” ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/54 "2003-10-12T03:11:11Z")
Two tracks on Ani Difranco’s _To the Teeth_ hit pretty hard during a rather complicated break-up. [Soft Shoulder](http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/A/Ani%20Difranco/Ani%20Difranco%20-%20Soft%20Shoulder%20lyrics.htm) and the song immediately following it, [Wish I May](http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/A/Ani%20Difranco/Ani%20Difranco%20-%20Wish%20I%20May%20lyrics.htm) can both still make me tear up. They were so close to how I was feeling. In particular, from _Wish I May_: It takes a stiff upper lip Just to hold up my face I gotta suck it up and savor The taste of my own behavior I am spinning with longing Faster then a roulette wheel This is not who I meant to be This is not how I meant to feel And from _Soft Shoulder_: And they missed fate’s appointed rendezvous And then a whole lotta time went by And finally they were done Worshipping the landscape And they put down their hands And moved into the sky And they had barely said hello And it was time to say goodbye Goodbye… Of course, as soon as I saw the title of this thread I had to go rip the scab off that particular hurt by putting on that cd and listening to them. ---
**Author:** ![cletus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cletus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cletus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-listen-to-a-song-and-notice-it-mirrors-your-life-if-so-which-one/206469/55 "2003-10-12T05:09:02Z")
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