# Songs That Hit a Little Too CLose To Home **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752 "2001-06-14T03:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/21 "2001-06-15T04:09:08Z")
“The Addams Family” TV theme song sums it up pretty well for me. :eek: And also, “It’s Been Done Before” by Bare Naked Ladies: "Alone and bored, on a 30th-century night, Will I see you, on ‘The Price Is Right’? Will I cry? Will I smile? As you run down the aisle, It’s all been done, It’s all been done, It’s all been done before." I really like both songs, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Joyfulgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Joyfulgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joyfulgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/22 "2001-06-15T05:35:38Z")
**In Liverpool** by **Suzanne Vega** _In Liverpool On Sunday No traffic On the avenue The light is pale and thin Like you No sound, down In this part of town Except for the boy in the belfry He’s crazy, he’s throwing himself Down from the top of the tower Like a hunchback in heaven He’s ringing the bells in the church For the last half an hour He sounds like he’s missing something Or someone that he knows he can’t Have now and if he isn’t I certainly am_ [Click me for clicking enjoyment!](http://lenny.dyadel.net/suz.htm#aaac) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/23 "2001-06-15T05:51:42Z")
Lately, I’ve been listening to Too Much Time, by Captain Beefheart, obsessivly. It pretty much describes where I am in my life right now to a level that is, frankly, scary. I got too much time, I got too much time, I got too much time to be without love In my life, I got a deep devotion, Wide as the sky and deep as the ocean Every war that’s waged makes me cry, Every bird that goes by makes me high. Sometimes when it late, I heat up some stale beans, Open up a can of sardines, Eat crackers and dream About somebody to cook for me I got too much time, I got too much time, I got too much time to be without love ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/24 "2001-06-15T05:55:36Z")
**Wishing That - Jann Arden** \*and when i held you you would almost always hold me down and you could see through everything i said i was falling and you said not to fall on you i’ve bitten every finger 'till it bled wishing that you loved me too wishing that you loved me too wishing that and when i kissed you you would almost always kiss me back but i could tell your mind was with someone else so my hands are folded neatly on my lap and i am picturing your body as i ask myself if you love me too wishing that you love me too wishing that listen to my nervous laughter sunken deep inside my heart my lips are dry i’m teary eyed for you my love harken all you fallen angels help me find a place to rest my head is pounding here beneath the weight of this i’m wishing that and you know me oh you know me more than anyone and when i hear your voice everything i’ve done disappears from memory oh my darling come and save me tell me i’m the one you’re dreaming of tell me that you love me too wishing that you love me too wishing that you love me too wishing that you love me too wishing that you love me too wish that i’m wish that i’m wishing that….wishing that\* Ahh I’m out of that now. So very happy. ---
**Author:** ![FEotU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@FEotU](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FEotU)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/25 "2001-06-15T09:11:20Z")
“I Am A Rock” by Simon & Garfunkel (pick a line, any line…) ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/26 "2001-06-15T10:00:14Z")
**Born To Fly** by Sara Evans So I confessed my sins to the preacher, About the love I’d been praying to find “Is there a brown-eyed boy in my future” He said “Girl you got nothin’ but time” But how do you wait for heaven? And who has that much time? And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know you were born to fly? Or Leean Womack’s **I hope you dance** Livin’ might mean taking chances but they’re worth taking Lovin might be a mistake but it’s worth making. Don’t let some helping heart make you bitter When you come close to selling out, reconsider Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. I find that country music often has the best “cheezy” songs that let me get all introspective. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/27 "2001-06-15T11:43:59Z")
“Beyond the Sea” by Bobby Darin (referring to **Fierra** ) “She’s Got Issues” by The Offspring (referring to the Ex) ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/28 "2001-06-15T12:26:03Z")
When my wife died five years ago, this Garth Brooks song (written by Tony Arata) seemed to sum it up: \*\*The Dance \*\* Looking back on the memory of The dance we shared 'neath the stars alone For a moment all the world was right How could I have known that you’d ever say goodbye And now I’m glad I didn’t know The way it all would end the way it all would go Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain But I’d’ve had to miss the dance And when I fell in love again after a lonely time, this Tish Hinojosa song was so appropriate that we played it at our wedding: **Who Showed You the Way to My Heart** Tell me- how did you know just where to find me? I thought I left love far behind me, So, who showed you the way to my heart? Some say love comes and goes and it’s a fool’s play But something tells me that you’re here to stay Who showed you the way to my heart? What was it I didn’t see? Who showed you how to believe? I couldn’t say where I’ve been You taught me living again. I know love finds a place to grow and then waits For those who take it slow, but even so- Who showed you the way to my heart? Vida, tu eres mi hogar, me senda Quisiste caminar y ya que estás El fuego in mi corazon Antes que en yo si Yo en amor desde ti Como supiste encontrar Mi en la oscuridad Tell me- how did you know just where to find me? I thought I left love far behind me, So, who showed you the way to my heart? El camino a mi corazon Who showed you the way to my heart? ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/29 "2001-06-15T14:44:46Z")
Let’s see. “Good Intentions” by Lyle Lovett is my theme song. I’m not a Richard Marx fan anyhow, but one of my best friends in high school told me “Hold On To the Nights” was her song to my boyfriend. Which I thought was sweet. Until I found out she’d been sleeping with him for three months…and I listened very carefully to the lyrics. Madonna’s “Beautiful Stranger” came out when I was pregnant with my last kid. Not very exciting, but I don’t usually angst to music…or if I do, it’s a sort of free-floating angst. “Oh my god…‘Dancing Queen’…BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!” You know…anything’ll do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/30 "2001-06-15T18:09:26Z")
Well, right now, _Nothing Else Matters,_ (I love that song), but I also have a rather unusual habit of reinterpreting the lyrics to songs until they fit given situations in my life. _Running on Faith,_ by Eric Clapton, almost a year ago. I was reeling from the breakdown of a relationship, I’d just managed to barely pass my freshman year, and I had been unable to get cast in a single production for the past six months or so. The song fit. Oh, another good one. After getting home from my high school Prom (me? Prom? a year ago I would have laughed at myself), I heard _Wonderful Tonight_ (Clapton again) on the radio. It was three in the morning, I’d had a wonderful time, and once again, the song fit. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/31 "2001-06-15T21:48:30Z")
Dan Hill’s **Hold On** So you flung your fist high in the air But the world remained the same And all the demonstrations Filtered out through graduations And the times that were a-changin Never changed Freedom takes on new meaning When you have a family of five And peace and revolution Dissolve in their own solutions When you’re fighting for your life just to survive It’s then you’ve gotta Hold on To what you believe in Hold on Don’t let it fade Still you’ve gotta Be strong Find yourself a reason You’ll never change the word but just the same You’ve gotta hold on stronger each and every day Hmmmm. Better go listen again…I need some inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/32 "2001-06-15T22:54:23Z")
I had been dumped and backstabbed by my girlfriend and (then) best friend and I was at one of the lowest points in my life. These two songs summed up my feelings _exactly_ and I associate them so much with that period that I still feel a bit weird when I hear them. Nobody’s Side from the musical **Chess** …Everybody’s playing the game But nobody’s rules are the same Nobody’s on nobody’s side Better learn to go it alone Recognize you’re out on your own Nobody’s on nobody’s side The one I should not think of Keeps rolling through my mind And I don’t want to let that go No lover’s ever faithful No contract truly signed There’s nothing certain left to know And how the cracks begin to show! Never make a promise or plan Take a little love where you can Nobody’s on nobody’s side Never stay too long in your bed Never lose your heart use your head Nobody’s on nobody’s side… and Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart (_as I interpreted them at the time_) …And I need you now tonight And I need you more than ever And if you _were_ only hold_ing_ me tight We’ll be holding on forever And we’ll _We’d_ only be making it right Cause we’ll _would_ never be wrong together We can take it to the end of the line _The lack of_ Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time I don’t know what to do and I’m always in the dark We’re living in a powder keg and giving off sparks I really need you tonight Forever’s gonna start tonight Forever’s gonna start tonight Once upon a time I was falling in love But now I’m only falling apart There’s nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart… Fenris, who got over it, but man…first loves and first betrayals suck. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/33 "2001-06-16T00:49:50Z")
**Suit Your Style** - Hunters & Collectors: Sometimes I get the feeling you forget that I’m a friend I just with that you’d remember We wouldn’t have to go through this again So hold your head a little higher I wanna see the fire in your eyes I don’t believe that you’ve lost your desire That ball and chain it doesn’t suit your style ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752/34 "2001-06-16T07:29:03Z")
One song that gets me is: 5 1/2 Minute hallway - Poe I live at the end of a five and a half minute hallway but as far as I can see you are still miles from me in your doorway… but there’s only so far i can go when youre living in a hallway that keeps growing i think to myself, five more minutes and i’ll be there inside your door but there’s more to this story than i’ve been letting on… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-a-little-too-close-to-home/68752.md?page=1)