# What music has saved your life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2005, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-has-saved-your-life/335895 "2005-12-16T10:56:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-has-saved-your-life/335895/21 "2005-12-18T10:30:05Z")
A song that’s got me through a few rough times and is somewhat of a theme song of mine is Meatloaf’s _Rock 'N Roll Dreams Come Through._ Here’s one relevant bit from the chorus: > [@Meatloaf/Jim Steinman](#): > > I’ll treasure your love > I never want to lose it. > You’ve been through the fires of hell > And I know you’ve got the ashes to prove it. More recently, when I was laid off and my life had completely fallen apart, there was a Top 40 song whose lyrics ran > [@](#): > > I yelled out when I heard thunder, > But I’m down to one last prayer > And will it let me stay? Let me stay? > > Hold me now. > I’m six feet from the edge and I’m thinking > Maybe six feet ain’t so far down. That’s pretty much how my life felt and I wasn’t sure my prayers were strong enough to sustain me. There’s one other new song which has sustained me and, in a way, become a prayer when someone I know is having a crisis and I’m feeling a bit limited in what I can do. It’s Three Doors Down _Calling All Angels_, especially the bit which runs, “I won’t give up / If you don’t give up.” CJ ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-has-saved-your-life/335895/22 "2005-12-18T21:08:54Z")
High School (and freshmen year of college)- Smoking Popes “Born to Quit” and “Destination Failure”. The song Pretty Pathetic off Destination Failure actually to the letter describes my break up withg my high school girlfriend. College- Tom Waits. I prefer the bluesy and boozey stuff over the recent bing bang boom stuff. Currently- The Decemberists. They get me through me anything. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-has-saved-your-life/335895/23 "2005-12-18T21:15:23Z")
Blur - _Parklife_. Yeah, really. That poppy little album got me where I am in life today. I’m not the greatest I can be, but I’m in a happy place, and still working on it. I owe it all to Parklife. Nothing else even comes close. ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-has-saved-your-life/335895/24 "2005-12-19T00:55:41Z")
I had a hard breakup a year and a half ago. Van Morrison’s _Astral Weeks_ got me through six months or so of depression. What an emotional album. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-has-saved-your-life/335895/25 "2005-12-19T02:20:23Z")
> [@MerryMagdalen](#): > > I mean it in the literal and figurative sense… > > For me, it was the Sisters of Mercy album “Floodland” and the Cocteau Twins’ “Blue Bell Knoll.” > > Listening to those two albums got me through a really rough few weeks, in which I felt suicide was a reasonable alternative. I didn’t go through with it, because I would get up and make myself dance, or listen to one of those two albums (tapes, actually…they’re more portable). > > Has anyone else had a similar experience? Knowing about, and liking, They Might Be Giants when I was a kid, when no one else at my school knew who they were or would have liked them if they did, made me feel like I had something one-up on everyone else when everything else I thought about my life at the time would have made me feel kind of worthless. Look, I was a kid. You know how kids are. Then, a couple of years later, hearing “Ana Ng” for the first time made me realize how sorrow and goofiness can be put together. This helped my personality cohere at a critical stage in my development. Hey, I was still a kid. I do still dig TMBG though. -FrL- [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-has-saved-your-life/335895.md?page=1)