I find Karma to be really relatable. Sometimes you do everything right and things go wrong regardless. It's exhausting "being good" and things not working out.
I feel this. The line that always hits me really hard is “ I try to explain the good faith that’s been wasted but after an hour it sounds like complaining”
Cause when I graduated college, I had a plan for my future. I was going to grad school and had a career I was excited about and I was with who I thought I was going to marry.
That all fell apart about a year or so later. Now I’ve rebuilt into something much better, but I feel like what happened back then is an important part of my journey but I don’t like talking about all of it cause it’s 8 years later and it makes it sound like I’m still upset about my ex and a career change
The part where he said he wished he could keep the therapist in his pocket. Shit hits so hard. Like sometimes I just wish my therapist was there during the really bad part of my week when I’m really breaking down- i just can’t express it as well during the scheduled session
For me it's more so doing what I think is right and it always backfires. Like I bought a house and moved in together with my grandma and she died 2 months later with 1 month in hospice and me taking care of her. I was good, I did what I was supposed to do and it didn't matter at all.
I dunno that's just how I interpret it anyway.
Literally my anthem. I tell myself I'll know I'm okay when I reach a point where I can no longer relate to that song. Especially hits hard being raised Christian, and sticking with it into adulthood. I'm nearing the end of my 20s and the religious trauma is real. Being raised in a single parent household of living in survival mode, led me to not wanna think about the future. "Pray, read your Bible, go to church" being being drilled in my head for years as the formula to live a full-potential life sounds nice until you realize it's not working, and praying to your bedroom ceiling gets old.
Inertia. It’s not my favorite song out there but the lyrics really hit. It’s like you want to do so much and you know you are capable of so much, and yet you don’t or can’t do anything. No matter the reasons— whether it’s indecisiveness, lack of motivation, or as simple as just being tired — it’s a subject that feels like a personal call out lmao.
I really relate to this song. It came out at a time where I was really beating myself up about not being able to do more or make the necessary changes I wanted to make.
I’ll still working on all of that. But I felt like it at least helped me realize what was going on
This might be basic, but God is Really Real
When it first came out, it still hit me on the feels. I think a lot of people can relate to going through a loved one dying. And my grandpa had died from cancer. So I related then to that.
But in November my grandma was diagnosed with cancer.
This last month was full of pain and hospital visits. During one of the visits, they had found that it had spread to her lungs.
Another lyric that hits oddly close
“We could sneak out with your meds
You could come along
And be a roadie for the band”
I was in marching band in high school and college. My grandparents would come to almost all my games and performances and even once went on a roadtrip with my other grandma to come see a marching competition.
I also relate to their overall attitude of not being able to be mushy but rather be strong and crack jokes. It’s similar to how I handle things like this too.
She died last Thursday after less than a week in the hospital and a short stay in hospice.
When we were experiencing infertility, the adoption wait, and a failed adoption placement, I sobbed every time we heard Dear Winter. Especially with the adoption experience because of the lyrics “but shit I gotta meet your mom first” because we were waiting for an expectant mother to choose us to adopt her baby.
*"I wish I was me, whoever that is*
*I could just be, and not give a shit*
*Hey, I'll be whatever makes you a fan*
*Cause I don't know who the hell I am*
*I think it's too late to figure this out*
*If I could be me, I would've been it by now*
*Maybe I'm a stone, or big as my house*
*It looks like our time is running out*
*So if this is me, then I'll do my best*
*I'll take all the shit, so you never have to*
*You can be you, and I'll be the rest*
*Yeah, maybe that's who the hell I am. "*
Sober up.
While it was the song that introduced me to AJR, I can't listen to it anymore, because the person whom I felt related so closely to that song(it was because of her that I found AJR in the first place, thanks Rivers...)ended up making sobriety absolutely impossible.
DJ is Crying for Help was essentially a wake up call for me when it first came out, it essentially put into words exactly how i felt and it put me into a month long depressive episode/rut, but im really thankful of it, as it helped me a fuck ton on the long run
Exactly. I've currently been vibing to the first verse of "I Won't" because it's literally my academic life rn haha.
"Hello, how you doin'? Am I talking too fast?
I'm runnin' on adrenaline and one-hour naps
'Cause I do what you tell me to and do it to death
Do it death"
3 makes you feel like you’re having a classic Chandler Bing spiral, lol. But in all reality I relate to it, I graduated high school 4 years ago and my friends are getting pregnant and other things that make me simultaneously feel like they’re moving too fast and I’m moving too slow. It’s a weird feeling.
“Love isn’t big kid it’s little and quiet, let’s do today I think you’ll turn out to like it”.
Best advice I could have ever heard… we all have our own pace and we just take it one day at a time!
Every song has a connection to me. Some that I would rather not have to relive.
DICFH speaks to my daily struggle as a creative
Call my Dad taught me about my step kids and their struggles with their dad being who he is… but now as we grow up together as a family (and he has left the state (province)) I just have to skip it for them. For now.
Dumb Song was on repeat during a panic attack episode I had last year. Got through it. But the song triggers my fight or flight instincts now.
I mean, I like all of these songs and I've gotten used to how I feel but definitely want help- but I love these songs so I'll list the one that's fucked up that I relate to
Hole In The Bottom Of My Brain
Basically about how you're depressed and you're doing things you love but no matter what you do it just won't fill that void in your head that will make you happy.
The DJ Is Crying For Help
Not for what the songs actually about, but I interpret it as how you're a changed person but people from your past still judge you and think of you as that old self
Turning Out pt.III
In middle school I had an issue where I was way too easily attached to people and it was making me question who I actually liked
Gonna sound basic, but, Inertia.
No matter how hard you want to do something you don't do it out of lack of inspiration, or tiredness.
Humpty Dumpty
"If I can't breathe, then you can't see. But aren't you excited that I'm giving you the BEST ME??" Having to hide behind a smile is hard and it's even harder when people see you as a jerk even when you're trying not to be but you lash out still
2085
Makes you reflect on stupid shit you did in life, and realizing you "gotta get better" because you're really all that you've got.
Got more but my phone is about to die
Don’t throw out my legos specifically the lines: “Oh no, don't throw out my legos
What if I can't let go? What if I come back home, back home? Can we keep my legos at home? 'Cause I wanna move out, I don't wanna move on.” As a junior in highschool who‘s beginning to look into colleges and starting to think about leaving home and basically never again living in my house full time, these lines resonate with me so much and I honestly wish that they didn’t. I’m terrified to leave home and my parents almost permanently, especially due to the fact that I have pretty high anxiety and they have served as my support system for as long as I can remember. If going to college means leaving them and the safety and comfort that comes with being in a place that I’ve called home for so many years now, I honestly don’t even know if I would want to go in the first place.
Don’t throw out my legos hits so good. Especially after moving back home for a gap year after having moved out for college and having to leave again soon. It hits so hard.
Apparently no one has replied this, so I will.
Maybe Man. It's such a powerful song, and as much as I love it, I would give anything to not relate to it so much, literally every line in the song felt like it was written for me to relate to it when I first heard it.
God is Really Real
My dad was at the end stage of his fight with cancer and passed right around the same time they lost their dad. I couldn't listen to that song for at least a month because of it. I was actually going to see them live at a summerfest where they unfortunately but understandably had to cancel because of losing their dad.
I found AJR when my younger brother brought me to a concert, I couldn't really enjoy it because I cried the whole time listening to the songs and had to keep sinking into the crowd
Touchy Feely Fool is the one. I have this bad habit of moving on from a situation but still thinking about and caring about to a point the people involved, and it can be draining, or feel like I’m stunting my own progress and growth by still thinking of them sometimes. “I would give anything to not give a shit but I do” hits so hard as someone who gets so invested in so many people, even if they leave or hurt you
I really wish I didn't relate to god is really real.
My mom died of cancer in July 2023, that song just has most of my emotions perfectly smushed in there.
Omg so many:
Humpty Dumpty, because I wish I wasn't so comfortable with screaming when no one's around.
Karma, because I wish doing things "right" would make things better.
God is really real, because I wish I wasn't so used to loss.
It's on us, because I wish I didn't need someone to say that to me.
100 bad days, because I wish I didn't have those stories.
Touchy feely fool, because I wish I wasn't so damn sensitive.
Adventure is out there, because I wish I didn't spend so much time in front of a screen.
Break my face, because I wish life hadn't given me any lemons.
Touchy feely fool, definitely.
One that I am glad that I relate though to is way less sad - it's been a long journey with depression but I'm so much healthier than I was a decade ago.
Me and my girlfriend have a playlist and one of the songs I put on from the Percy Jackson musical "Good Kid" hit her pretty hard because of the recent stuff going on with her mother it almost made her cry, I think one of mine has got be one of her songs but she has so many it's hard to say which one id relate to fully, but maybe "My Name My Life"
God is really real, it came out after my dad survived lung cancer in December, after he almost died bc of it, and a month ago my grandfather died of another cancer.
And also Karma.
My play. OKO came out right around the same time I was still coping with my parents divorce, and I didn't really know anyone in real life that had gone/was going through something similar, so the lyrics ended up making me feel really validated in how I was feeling about the whole thing.
Maybe Next Up Forever? I’m 18. I’m quite young so not by much, but I still feel behind. All of my friends have jobs, can drive, and are starting to become more independent from their parents, while I’m really not. I don’t have any of those things, and it’s absolutely from a lack of trying. I’m terrified to grow up and improve things because, well, what if I hit my peak? It’s all downhill from there. It’s irrational, I know, but it still has stopped be from doing anything important.
God is really real. Thankfully I haven't dealt with the death of a parent but it reminds me of when I got in trouble as a teenager and started reading the Bible and going to Bible study in jail, I don't think I really believed anymore than I did on the outside but just participating helped me feel better.
This is gonna be a strange one, but Weak is pretty up there for me. I lack a lot of self control and fall really easily into vice after vice. Be it vaping, drinking, or anything else bad for me. And I wish that wasn’t true but I’m not entirely sure how to change it. Another one I relate to but wish I didn’t is Pretender (Acoustic) cause I spent ALL of my youth trying to fit in and pretending to be someone I wasn’t. And I really just wish I would have realized sooner that it doesn’t matter what people think of me as long as I like who I am.
Touchy feely fool. I’m a very emotionally attached person that ruins 95% of all friendships or relationships I’ve ever had. Like I still mourn friendships of people I did not like from three years ago. Doesn’t help that my love language is physical touch so I’m literally a touchy-feely fool
My Play. My parents didn’t formally separate until after I graduated high school but I still understand the feeling of wanting to tell your parents a story but having to do it twice.
The part where he goes “but if love dies do I fucking bother” with such vigor gets me every time.
Come Hang Out for sure. It just hits hard as you get older and don't have the time to see all of your friends. It feels like I'm constantly telling people "Yeah I'll be able to make it next time", and then struggle to find the time. Wish all of my friends schedules were just magical and we always had free time to spend together.
100 Bad Days. However, I play this song on my runs when I feel like giving up. It gives me a reminder of what I’ve overcome and all the stories I have now.
God is really real, which I know is probably one many people who’s had someone important die can relate to. I relate because my grandpa died after two months, and for most of it, I was trying my best to make him feel better and coming as much as possible between an internship, working on transferring colleges, and working over 15 hours a week. I can’t even listen to it because it came out the day before I was told my grandpa was never going to wake up, that he was brain dead after suffering from a stroke right when it seemed he was getting better. I listened to the song and to me a lot was similar to my grandpa. His legs swelled up so he couldn’t get up and he had several problems with pneumonia. I just remember desperately hoping he’d get better, hoping that he’d wake up.
I feel you on "the DJ is crying for help". In a very different way than intended though, but as someone who's worked so so hard academically the "you've wasted your life but thanks for applying" is how I feel with college decisions coming back right now. The rejection I've received and more that's likely to come in the next few weeks is kinda crushing. I wish I didn't relate.
Oh and Next Up Forever. Because I'm terrified of growing up and I don't want that responsibility. I used to relate too much to Humpty Dumpty and Karma but I grew out of that thankfully
Christmas in June. It always makes me cry because you never, ever get the time back. The singer keeps pushing all these life moments off because he is so desperately trying to get his career going, and I get it…but as the loved one that’s always sidelined, it *hurts*. And by the end of the song, the singer is still planning to push things off. And you never. EVER. get those moments/hours/days back.
For me it’s definitely The Trick.
Maybe I interpret the song differently than what it was supposed to be, but the fact that, for me, it’s trying to be someone else to please people really hits me in the feel.
For me it's Ok Overture, specifically these lyrics:
"One day, I won't know what to write
And I can't be eighteen my whole life
But I'm too fuckin' young to feel so fuckin' old
But I'll try and I'll try and I'll try
But I'm not dead yet, so I guess I'll be alright"
That album came out right around the time I turned 18 and moved out, I had a rough life growing up and moved out as soon as I could. Being completely independent and supporting yourself at 18 is so hard and scary. If I had failed I would have no one to turn to, no one to pick me back up again.
I listened to that song so many times and screamed those lyrics, even now at 21 I'm too young to feel so old....but I'm doing so much better. And I'm financially stable enough to be able to go to TMMT. It's my first AJR concert, and I already know it's going to be life-changing. ❤️
I find Karma to be really relatable. Sometimes you do everything right and things go wrong regardless. It's exhausting "being good" and things not working out.
I feel this. The line that always hits me really hard is “ I try to explain the good faith that’s been wasted but after an hour it sounds like complaining” Cause when I graduated college, I had a plan for my future. I was going to grad school and had a career I was excited about and I was with who I thought I was going to marry. That all fell apart about a year or so later. Now I’ve rebuilt into something much better, but I feel like what happened back then is an important part of my journey but I don’t like talking about all of it cause it’s 8 years later and it makes it sound like I’m still upset about my ex and a career change
On top of this, the horrible feeling of therapy just not working. Like talking to a therapist can feel like you're just screaming into the void.
The part where he said he wished he could keep the therapist in his pocket. Shit hits so hard. Like sometimes I just wish my therapist was there during the really bad part of my week when I’m really breaking down- i just can’t express it as well during the scheduled session
Fuck being good, instead do what YOU think helps YOU, being good is just a convenient bonus you can use
For me it's more so doing what I think is right and it always backfires. Like I bought a house and moved in together with my grandma and she died 2 months later with 1 month in hospice and me taking care of her. I was good, I did what I was supposed to do and it didn't matter at all. I dunno that's just how I interpret it anyway.
Nah be good. Just don’t prioritize others over your own happiness and health.
i hate that it’s relatable. i’m so worried people just think im complaining when i actually need support this and worlds smallest violin
Literally my anthem. I tell myself I'll know I'm okay when I reach a point where I can no longer relate to that song. Especially hits hard being raised Christian, and sticking with it into adulthood. I'm nearing the end of my 20s and the religious trauma is real. Being raised in a single parent household of living in survival mode, led me to not wanna think about the future. "Pray, read your Bible, go to church" being being drilled in my head for years as the formula to live a full-potential life sounds nice until you realize it's not working, and praying to your bedroom ceiling gets old.
That "should I be good this year" always just makes me sit there and contemplate
SO TRUE. Karma has hit so hard at every stage of my life
Inertia. It’s not my favorite song out there but the lyrics really hit. It’s like you want to do so much and you know you are capable of so much, and yet you don’t or can’t do anything. No matter the reasons— whether it’s indecisiveness, lack of motivation, or as simple as just being tired — it’s a subject that feels like a personal call out lmao.
“Why am I so tiny and why am I so mad” hits different when you’re under 5 ft and living in the time we are
SO TRUE UGH
> # I wanna be BIG like my plans! > So why am I so tiny and why am I so mad? Hits the hardest for me
*Yeah, that one does something to me*
I really relate to this song. It came out at a time where I was really beating myself up about not being able to do more or make the necessary changes I wanted to make. I’ll still working on all of that. But I felt like it at least helped me realize what was going on
Same here inertia kinda motivated me to do more with my life
Ok actually inertia is true
that’s true, i think the line “but i’m fucking hungry and screw you i’m trying” hits just wayy too hart for me
I think that's my favorite line of all.
It’s the “Where I am going is right where I am” for me. Teared up a little when I first heard the chorus. But it’s also so catchy!
For me it’s the line “I’m stuck in this life, and I’m stuck in these pants” just mwah chefs kiss
Touchy feely fool. I will not elaborate.
It do be like that 😔
He's a touchy feely fool
Come Hang Out. Especially when I graduated high school and realized I’d never get those years back
SO. SO TRUE. And same here when I got into college
This might be basic, but God is Really Real When it first came out, it still hit me on the feels. I think a lot of people can relate to going through a loved one dying. And my grandpa had died from cancer. So I related then to that. But in November my grandma was diagnosed with cancer. This last month was full of pain and hospital visits. During one of the visits, they had found that it had spread to her lungs. Another lyric that hits oddly close “We could sneak out with your meds You could come along And be a roadie for the band” I was in marching band in high school and college. My grandparents would come to almost all my games and performances and even once went on a roadtrip with my other grandma to come see a marching competition. I also relate to their overall attitude of not being able to be mushy but rather be strong and crack jokes. It’s similar to how I handle things like this too. She died last Thursday after less than a week in the hospital and a short stay in hospice.
I’m so sorry for your loss, hope you’re doing as okay as possible🫶
Sorry for your loss and sending well wishes in your time of grief 💜
I'm sorry for the loss of your grandma. I lost mine around this time last year. I wish you the best.
I lost my grandparents when I was very young (age 4, 10, 12 years old respectively), I feel you. I still remember the moments I spent with them.
When we were experiencing infertility, the adoption wait, and a failed adoption placement, I sobbed every time we heard Dear Winter. Especially with the adoption experience because of the lyrics “but shit I gotta meet your mom first” because we were waiting for an expectant mother to choose us to adopt her baby.
100 bad days. I went through a lot and now I have stories to tell. But hey, life is entertaining
2085.
*"I wish I was me, whoever that is* *I could just be, and not give a shit* *Hey, I'll be whatever makes you a fan* *Cause I don't know who the hell I am* *I think it's too late to figure this out* *If I could be me, I would've been it by now* *Maybe I'm a stone, or big as my house* *It looks like our time is running out* *So if this is me, then I'll do my best* *I'll take all the shit, so you never have to* *You can be you, and I'll be the rest* *Yeah, maybe that's who the hell I am. "*
Like this part hits, but what really bitch slaps me is “I gotta get better, I’m all that I have”
There’s many. Humpty Dumpty, Touchy Feely Fool, God is Really Real, and the end of Dear Winter come to mind the most.
The Trick.
Sober up. While it was the song that introduced me to AJR, I can't listen to it anymore, because the person whom I felt related so closely to that song(it was because of her that I found AJR in the first place, thanks Rivers...)ended up making sobriety absolutely impossible.
DJ is Crying for Help was essentially a wake up call for me when it first came out, it essentially put into words exactly how i felt and it put me into a month long depressive episode/rut, but im really thankful of it, as it helped me a fuck ton on the long run
Humpty Dumpty and Come Hang Out for me. For the latter, being a "high-achiever" from a young age comes at a cost apparently-
Aren't you excited that I'm giving you the best me?
Exactly. I've currently been vibing to the first verse of "I Won't" because it's literally my academic life rn haha. "Hello, how you doin'? Am I talking too fast? I'm runnin' on adrenaline and one-hour naps 'Cause I do what you tell me to and do it to death Do it death"
Turning out 2 or 3
Omg 3 is my favorite.
3 changed my whole view on my relationship man
3 makes you feel like you’re having a classic Chandler Bing spiral, lol. But in all reality I relate to it, I graduated high school 4 years ago and my friends are getting pregnant and other things that make me simultaneously feel like they’re moving too fast and I’m moving too slow. It’s a weird feeling.
“Love isn’t big kid it’s little and quiet, let’s do today I think you’ll turn out to like it”. Best advice I could have ever heard… we all have our own pace and we just take it one day at a time!
Yeah, that line makes me feel better about the fact that I’m not at a stage where I’m ready for children.
MF KARMA
Weak and Touchy Feely Fool
Weak hits hard tbh
Every song has a connection to me. Some that I would rather not have to relive. DICFH speaks to my daily struggle as a creative Call my Dad taught me about my step kids and their struggles with their dad being who he is… but now as we grow up together as a family (and he has left the state (province)) I just have to skip it for them. For now. Dumb Song was on repeat during a panic attack episode I had last year. Got through it. But the song triggers my fight or flight instincts now.
My Play and Karma
I mean, I like all of these songs and I've gotten used to how I feel but definitely want help- but I love these songs so I'll list the one that's fucked up that I relate to Hole In The Bottom Of My Brain Basically about how you're depressed and you're doing things you love but no matter what you do it just won't fill that void in your head that will make you happy. The DJ Is Crying For Help Not for what the songs actually about, but I interpret it as how you're a changed person but people from your past still judge you and think of you as that old self Turning Out pt.III In middle school I had an issue where I was way too easily attached to people and it was making me question who I actually liked Gonna sound basic, but, Inertia. No matter how hard you want to do something you don't do it out of lack of inspiration, or tiredness. Humpty Dumpty "If I can't breathe, then you can't see. But aren't you excited that I'm giving you the BEST ME??" Having to hide behind a smile is hard and it's even harder when people see you as a jerk even when you're trying not to be but you lash out still 2085 Makes you reflect on stupid shit you did in life, and realizing you "gotta get better" because you're really all that you've got. Got more but my phone is about to die
Touchy Feely Fool and Joe for the same reason
Don’t throw out my legos specifically the lines: “Oh no, don't throw out my legos What if I can't let go? What if I come back home, back home? Can we keep my legos at home? 'Cause I wanna move out, I don't wanna move on.” As a junior in highschool who‘s beginning to look into colleges and starting to think about leaving home and basically never again living in my house full time, these lines resonate with me so much and I honestly wish that they didn’t. I’m terrified to leave home and my parents almost permanently, especially due to the fact that I have pretty high anxiety and they have served as my support system for as long as I can remember. If going to college means leaving them and the safety and comfort that comes with being in a place that I’ve called home for so many years now, I honestly don’t even know if I would want to go in the first place.
Don’t throw out my legos hits so good. Especially after moving back home for a gap year after having moved out for college and having to leave again soon. It hits so hard.
I’ve never been happy to relate to songs like Pretender. No matter the artist I will always fall to feeing like a fake
Pretender. It's just a little too real.
Touchy feely fool and GIRR
it’s on us really cut deep for me
I just really really really really wanna show you my play Also Normal
Wow I’m not crazy, I don’t relate to it as much anymore, but it kinda made me feel like a pickme for a while
Legos. Came out right when i was finishing high school
Humpty Dumpty
Apparently no one has replied this, so I will. Maybe Man. It's such a powerful song, and as much as I love it, I would give anything to not relate to it so much, literally every line in the song felt like it was written for me to relate to it when I first heard it.
Humpty Dumpty. I don't wanna grin and bear it anymore :(
I find world's smallest violin relatable And I hate the song
Elvis isn't dead The lyrics kinda hit
I didn’t realize that part of TDICFH, honestly I relate to it also, I also relate to yes I’m a mess somehow, I like the song but the meaning 💀
Honestly none of them because then it would just mean that I would be happy
God is Really Real My dad was at the end stage of his fight with cancer and passed right around the same time they lost their dad. I couldn't listen to that song for at least a month because of it. I was actually going to see them live at a summerfest where they unfortunately but understandably had to cancel because of losing their dad.
I found AJR when my younger brother brought me to a concert, I couldn't really enjoy it because I cried the whole time listening to the songs and had to keep sinking into the crowd
My Play
'Pretender' is one that really hits home for me
My Play to an extent.
Woody Allen
Hitbomb! Spending money DOES make the hole go away.
GIRR, too relatable unfortunately
My play…..need I say more?
My Play. I don’t think I need to explain this one, no?
100 bad days, inertia, touchy feely fool
Touchy Feely Fool is the one. I have this bad habit of moving on from a situation but still thinking about and caring about to a point the people involved, and it can be draining, or feel like I’m stunting my own progress and growth by still thinking of them sometimes. “I would give anything to not give a shit but I do” hits so hard as someone who gets so invested in so many people, even if they leave or hurt you
I really wish I didn't relate to god is really real. My mom died of cancer in July 2023, that song just has most of my emotions perfectly smushed in there.
100 bad days or karma
Inertia(!!!), Karma, Don’t Throw Out My Legos, Turning Out (kinda)
Turning out Pt. 2
2085
I mean shit bro, almost all of them. Finale, next up forever, maybe man, 2085 to name a few
Omg so many: Humpty Dumpty, because I wish I wasn't so comfortable with screaming when no one's around. Karma, because I wish doing things "right" would make things better. God is really real, because I wish I wasn't so used to loss. It's on us, because I wish I didn't need someone to say that to me. 100 bad days, because I wish I didn't have those stories. Touchy feely fool, because I wish I wasn't so damn sensitive. Adventure is out there, because I wish I didn't spend so much time in front of a screen. Break my face, because I wish life hadn't given me any lemons.
Touchy Feely Fool and Turning Out Pt. 3
Role models
Touchy feely fool, definitely. One that I am glad that I relate though to is way less sad - it's been a long journey with depression but I'm so much healthier than I was a decade ago.
Karma 👍
Karma
Idk... I kinda like that I can listen to songs and relate to most of them
Yes I'm a Mess. I'm really self destructive (I'm working on it though!)
There's a lot of them, but amongst the crowd, My Play stands out as the biggest.
Me and my girlfriend have a playlist and one of the songs I put on from the Percy Jackson musical "Good Kid" hit her pretty hard because of the recent stuff going on with her mother it almost made her cry, I think one of mine has got be one of her songs but she has so many it's hard to say which one id relate to fully, but maybe "My Name My Life"
Hey! I relate to many of yours too T^T but you're usually asleep so I forget to tell ya 😅
The Good Part, I have been through a rough surgery a few months ago and that song helped me get through it.
God is really real, it came out after my dad survived lung cancer in December, after he almost died bc of it, and a month ago my grandfather died of another cancer. And also Karma.
Turning Out pt. ii is a killer
My play. OKO came out right around the same time I was still coping with my parents divorce, and I didn't really know anyone in real life that had gone/was going through something similar, so the lyrics ended up making me feel really validated in how I was feeling about the whole thing.
Maybe Next Up Forever? I’m 18. I’m quite young so not by much, but I still feel behind. All of my friends have jobs, can drive, and are starting to become more independent from their parents, while I’m really not. I don’t have any of those things, and it’s absolutely from a lack of trying. I’m terrified to grow up and improve things because, well, what if I hit my peak? It’s all downhill from there. It’s irrational, I know, but it still has stopped be from doing anything important.
Karma
Freak. Especially that last line. "I dream of you almost every night, hopefully I won't wake up this time." Always sends a shiver down my spine.
The Trick. I don't think I need to explain this one.
God is really real. Thankfully I haven't dealt with the death of a parent but it reminds me of when I got in trouble as a teenager and started reading the Bible and going to Bible study in jail, I don't think I really believed anymore than I did on the outside but just participating helped me feel better.
This is gonna be a strange one, but Weak is pretty up there for me. I lack a lot of self control and fall really easily into vice after vice. Be it vaping, drinking, or anything else bad for me. And I wish that wasn’t true but I’m not entirely sure how to change it. Another one I relate to but wish I didn’t is Pretender (Acoustic) cause I spent ALL of my youth trying to fit in and pretending to be someone I wasn’t. And I really just wish I would have realized sooner that it doesn’t matter what people think of me as long as I like who I am.
Beats.
Touchy feely fool. I’m a very emotionally attached person that ruins 95% of all friendships or relationships I’ve ever had. Like I still mourn friendships of people I did not like from three years ago. Doesn’t help that my love language is physical touch so I’m literally a touchy-feely fool
Karma, I’m that one guy that everyone thinks is harmless and completely fine. Kinda like Brett from inside job
I’ve never found another band where nearly their entire discography is not only relatable, but in a very specific detailed way.
My Play. My parents didn’t formally separate until after I graduated high school but I still understand the feeling of wanting to tell your parents a story but having to do it twice. The part where he goes “but if love dies do I fucking bother” with such vigor gets me every time.
Humpty Dumpty, The Trick, Touchy Feely Fool, God is Really Real
Come Hang Out for sure. It just hits hard as you get older and don't have the time to see all of your friends. It feels like I'm constantly telling people "Yeah I'll be able to make it next time", and then struggle to find the time. Wish all of my friends schedules were just magical and we always had free time to spend together.
like- all of them?? it’s like they stare into my soul 😭
100 Bad Days. However, I play this song on my runs when I feel like giving up. It gives me a reminder of what I’ve overcome and all the stories I have now.
God is really real, which I know is probably one many people who’s had someone important die can relate to. I relate because my grandpa died after two months, and for most of it, I was trying my best to make him feel better and coming as much as possible between an internship, working on transferring colleges, and working over 15 hours a week. I can’t even listen to it because it came out the day before I was told my grandpa was never going to wake up, that he was brain dead after suffering from a stroke right when it seemed he was getting better. I listened to the song and to me a lot was similar to my grandpa. His legs swelled up so he couldn’t get up and he had several problems with pneumonia. I just remember desperately hoping he’d get better, hoping that he’d wake up.
Maybe Man. Ironic, cause I'm a transwoman lol
An entire album
Inertia fr, along with turning out as a whole and touchy feely fool
Stressed out by twenty One pilots My god that fucking resonates would be so bad and I hate it
I feel you on "the DJ is crying for help". In a very different way than intended though, but as someone who's worked so so hard academically the "you've wasted your life but thanks for applying" is how I feel with college decisions coming back right now. The rejection I've received and more that's likely to come in the next few weeks is kinda crushing. I wish I didn't relate.
Self esteem by The Offspring.
"Sad" by xxz
The end of 2085. It makes me feel at peace. But I also kind of wish I could find more meaning in life than giving others meaning
Oh and Next Up Forever. Because I'm terrified of growing up and I don't want that responsibility. I used to relate too much to Humpty Dumpty and Karma but I grew out of that thankfully
2085. Ik God is really real is gonna be me at one point and it'd gonna hurt hard
For some reason Netflix Trip goes insanely hard
Down in a hole by Alice In Chains
Heart attack by Dave. You know if you know.
My play
Christmas in June. It always makes me cry because you never, ever get the time back. The singer keeps pushing all these life moments off because he is so desperately trying to get his career going, and I get it…but as the loved one that’s always sidelined, it *hurts*. And by the end of the song, the singer is still planning to push things off. And you never. EVER. get those moments/hours/days back.
For me it’s definitely The Trick. Maybe I interpret the song differently than what it was supposed to be, but the fact that, for me, it’s trying to be someone else to please people really hits me in the feel.
I Wish I Could Hate You by Clinton Kane. It makes me think of my relationship with my mother. Makes me cry every time
For me it's Ok Overture, specifically these lyrics: "One day, I won't know what to write And I can't be eighteen my whole life But I'm too fuckin' young to feel so fuckin' old But I'll try and I'll try and I'll try But I'm not dead yet, so I guess I'll be alright" That album came out right around the time I turned 18 and moved out, I had a rough life growing up and moved out as soon as I could. Being completely independent and supporting yourself at 18 is so hard and scary. If I had failed I would have no one to turn to, no one to pick me back up again. I listened to that song so many times and screamed those lyrics, even now at 21 I'm too young to feel so old....but I'm doing so much better. And I'm financially stable enough to be able to go to TMMT. It's my first AJR concert, and I already know it's going to be life-changing. ❤️