A couple years ago, when my wife and I were going through a difficult time, I happened to hear Peter Gabriel’s Secret World. I had heard it before, but it never seemed so close as it did on that day. Though (thankfully) those troubled times are long-passed, I still feel a remarkable affinity for that song. It’s become my favorite Peter Gabriel song, because I found that he captured something so perfectly in it.
When I was about thirty, I heard the song Secret Gardens by Judy Collins for the first time. I put my head down and bawled like a kid. Still can’t hear it without crying.
Pretty much any song on “Jagged Little Pill” by Alanis Morrissette, but especially “Not the Doctor” as I always seem to attract men who expect me to fix them!
“This Year’s Love” by David Gray, because no matter how many bad relationships I have I remain convinced that the next one will be the one that’s worth the heartache.
And at the minute, one by The Lighthouse Family - the name escapes me at the minute, but one verse in particular:
“Remember as a girl, you had a picture of the world,
And you’d think of all the great things you would find.
But the truth is 9 to 5, and the struggle to survive,
Ain’t exactly what you had in mind”.
is so true to my life that it’s really depressing.
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*Originally posted by 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.
Whoa, That song was on my mind a lot when I was in Arizona too. I had pretty much lost hope of ever getting over my emotional problems and was just focused on getting through the days. It’s gotten a lot better since then but i can still remember staring up at that dead empty sky.
Hmm, too angsty?
On a more serious note, “My Back Pages,” by Bob Dylan.
“I was so much older then.
I’m younger than that now.”
I’ve never worried too much about the rest of the bizarre imagery in that song, but that chorus line describes me to a ‘T’. And I prefer the '92 tribute version by George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roger McGuinn et al, because they livened it up a lot.
Annie, by Our Lady Peace. That song stunned me the first time I heard it, and all these memories come back when I think about it, not that I want to remember them… http://www.lyricsdir.com/o/our-lady-peace/annie.php
Yeah…I had a really bad time for most of school…depressed and suicidal at ten is not good…thank goodness stuff got better eventually…or maybe I’m just used to it now…
May I contribute a song that reminds me of someone else? Thief, by the same band. I can’t listen to that without crying…my sister died of a brain tumor at nine, after living with severe cerebral palsy, and that song was what I had them play at her funeral…
*She married when she was 20, she thought she was ready.
Now she’s not so sure. She thought she’d done some livin’, now she’s just wonderin’ what she’s livin’ for.
And she’s feeling that there’s something more.
Is there life out there?
So much she hasn’t done?
Is there life beyond her family and her home?
She’s done what she should, should she do what she dares?
She doesn’t wanna leave, she’s just wonderin is there life out there?*
I’ll also have to second that Garbage song for a huge portion of my life. The only time i felt in tune with everything was when circumstances were miserable.
