The verses about the singer’s mother and father in “Alone Again, Naturally” match those of my parents pretty closely. OTOH, I was never stood up at the altar, nor contemplated jumping off a building.
I’m at the end of a teaching year and it has been a tough one. My 15th. I put on Aimee Mann the other day and these lyrics came out:
Not the kids, mind you. Parents and admin. sometimes make me feel this way.
Summer will recharge me.
I am a rock, I am an island… and a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries.
I’ve always identified with the song Mary Jo by Belle & Sebastian. It’s lovely but melancholy.
Dunno, but I know the girl in the music video “Rio” is winking at me.
Jet City Woman by Queensryche. (For all of you who thought my screen name was an abbreviation for Jesus Christ, lol)
I’ve also always associated the song Desperado by the Eagles with my dad. He lives a very lonely, isolated life by choice (but I think it’s undiagnosed manic/depressive illness). He’s never really been a happy man.
There are plenty of break up songs that seemed to apply to me at the time.
“Already Gone” by the Eagles was a memorable one.
‘Stars’ by Grace Potter. It certainly describes my losses.
Edie Brickelle, “What I Am.” Oh my god, I think we are soulmates.
I also kinda related to “Misunderstood” by Ronnie Lane & Pete Townshend. Or “Misunderstood” by anybody really (Animals, Lil Wayne)
After a particularly bad breakup some years back, the ones I listened to over and over were Love Has No Pride by Bonnie Raitt, and Most Of The Time, by Dylan.
I always wanted a man made of Hercules and Cyrano.
OK, this one’s easy, it’s definitely the Kinks’ Too Much On My Mind. This has been a constant problem for me my whole life. I think by now I have learned to live with it, but at the time I heard the song for the first time, when I was about the same age as Ray Davies when he wrote it, I instantly thought: “That’s me”. And it still is.
Good answer, Al’s Dog! I hate to be the only one opening a vein in this thread. I mean, I hoped others would come clean and turn the thread into a confessional. We’re all [del]friends[/del] strangers with nobody in common IRL. It’s a safe-ish place.
That’s not the Desperado I know. I thought Linda Ronstadt and The Eagles did the same:
“Don’t you try the Queen of Diamonds, boy,
She’ll beat you if she’s able,
The Queen of Hearts is always your best bet.
Well,it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table,
But you only want the things that you can’t get,
Desperado…
I love that song, and I never heard the lyrics you have, different songs?
Oh well, I think having too much on one’s mind is no great confessional around here, but rather a requirement :D.
The last song on Eagles’ Desperado album is Dueling Dalton/Desperado (reprise), which I quoted. Click here.
'80s hit Nowhere Girl by B-Movie.
“Nowhere girl you’re living in a dream,
Nowhere girl you stay behind the scenes,
Nowhere girl you never go outside,
Nowhere girl 'cause you prefer to hide.”
Perfect soundtrack to the life of a lonely, alienated teen. And now a lonely middle aged woman :o
Yikes; sorry to be so gloomy.
“Dr. Jimmy” from Quadrophenia by The Who. That song was my anthem in college and still is on really bad days.
Thanks!
As I’ve gotten older, Classical Gas has become appropriate.