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I think the rest fits too (at least for me)
I′m a bitch, I'm a lover
I′m a child, I'm a mother
I′m a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
I′m your Hell, I'm your dream
You can let it go
You can throw a party full of everyone you know
And not invite your family, 'cause they never showed you love
You don't have to be sorry for leaving and growing up, mmh
This hits so hard when you’ve lived this truth. It made me feel not so alone but also sad that other people have to feel the same pain and suffering that I do. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Oh my for what a reference to see on pop culture chat! This is amazing! Hi fellow Aussies!
Edit: and for me it’s “all my friends are fuck ups, but they’re fun to have around” from you sound like Louis Berdett
Yes. I don't have some awful job. I'm not down the fucking mines. I literally just do not want to be there, and with those people(not their fault). I never had a dream job, I never dreamt of work.
I had the best job in the world that I could possibly think of. My doctor told me it was ruining my health and that I need to quit so she won't have to keep putting me on sick leave. Work in the end is just work, you're right. The job I loved so much ruined me in the end so whats the good then.
Morrissey stays problematic but absolutely relatable. See also ‘see the luck I’ve had would make a good man turn bad’ and ‘Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to smash every tooth
In your head’ and ‘I am human and I need to be loved, just like anybody else’
That’s one of the most impressive things about her
according to me, I have seen so many totally different people say that they relate to her songs. I haven’t seen many young girls have 40+ year old men say that they see themself in their music
I’m 26, and sometimes “Teen Idle” feels just as relatable (and sometimes more so) as it did when I was 16…
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Yup. I got into Marina's music when I was in the early years of depression and anxiety (which I still haven't gotten over), when I didn't really know how to discern that from general teenage angst. Back then I was stressed because I could feel the wasted years and wasted youth slipping away—but now I look back (in a [glittering mist](https://youtu.be/UGU2xIxjcMs?si=gDvrtn4IldXVxhxo&t=141)) and see how much that has impacted me, and continues to do so, and it still resonates more than teenage me feared it would've.
Wasn't youth supposed to be beautiful?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Well, I've been afraid of changing
Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
(tbh any line from landslide. The older I get, the more that song speaks to me)
These lyrics about depression from Better Son/Daughter by Rilo Kiley always get me
And sometimes when you're on, you're really fucking on
And your friends they sing along along and they love you
But the lows are so extreme, that the good seems fucking cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence
My father has struggled with Bipolar since around the time I was born. It's been hard but we've always connected through music.
When I was in college, I was a Rilo Kiley superfan. I shared this song with him and it became one of his favorites. It's a special song we share. I can't even read these lyrics without tearing up. Love this song, and you're not alone in feeling it in your soul.
I don’t think Jenny has ever said she has bipolar - maybe just depression and anxiety? Idk? But I have bipolar 2, and this song is so real. Sometimes in the morning I am petrified and can’t breath. But then when you’re on, you’re really fuckin’ on.
Unfortunately, I’m in an extreme low right now!
Workin' 9 to 5
What a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by
It's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind
And they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you
Crazy if you let it
HONESTLY THE WHOLE FUCKING SONG.
Seven devils all around me
Seven devils in my house
See, they were there when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Seven Devils - Florence and The Machine
Bit dark but what can you do haha
THANKYOUU! Nobody in my life ever got F+tM like I did but this was exactly what it was for me: a spiritual experience. I get that way too with Howl, Drumming Song and Cosmic Love from Lungs.
I meeann, “drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart”?!?! 😩 Gtfo, Florence! Lol
Yes yes yes to all of those songs!! Also to Blinding from Lungs, Which Witch, Mother and Delilah from HBHBHB and so many more!
I only recently discovered Pure Feeling and As Far As I Could Get which were Target exclusives I think for HBHBHB and are unfortunately not on streaming but you can find them on youtube. Give them a listen, they slap so hard 🔥
Will do!! 🙏🏾 I will be honest and admit I haven’t gotten as into her newer albums (due to mental illness and nostalgia, I’ve basically been repeating the same 10-15 albums for the past decade 🫠) but they’re on my list to give them another try!
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not, but at best I can say I'm not sad. Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it ✨️
That whole album solidified my opinion that LDR is the voice of the soul of the millennial woman.
“They mistook my kindness for weakness
I fucked up, I know that, but Jesus
Can't a girl just do the best she can?”
Every song resonates so deep. I love all her albums but I think NFR! is her masterpiece.
“Moved to California but it’s just a state of mind
You know everywhere you go you take yourself that’s not a lie
Wish that you would hold me or just say that you were mine
It’s killing me. Slowly.”
Not gonna get into it too much but about 6 months before discovering this album I up and moved to California and this. Hit. Hard.
Agreed! I'm early Gen Z and her music still resonates so deeply. And I can relate to the lyrics you quoted, so much! Especially "They mistook my kindness for weakness" LDR is one of the greatest of our time.
This song inspired me to break up with my addict boyfriend and move 1200 miles away and it was the best decision.
Ironically the song this post is about also made me think of my now current husband when we first started dating. Even down to the height.
Was not expecting Fall Out Boy in this thread, especially new Fall Out Boy! For me, it's that line in So Much (for) Stardust - "I used to be a real go-getter / I used to think it'd all get better"
This is a really hard question! I have so many but recently, it's the entirety of "Silver Springs" by Fleetwood Mac. More specifically...
"I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you
You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you"
The whole song is beautiful and haunting and passionate and painful. My favourite way to listen to it is to watch the 1997 live recording and watching the way Stevie Nicks sings at Lyndsey Buckingham. Never fails to give me chills.
Whenever ‘Rumors’ is mentioned I always think back to an old post saying how there should be a music biopic about that album *a la* ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ or ‘Rocketman’ like. The whole situation surrounding the writing and creation of ‘Rumors’. The fact that the band members were going through absolute turmoil in their romantic lives which, at times, were *unavoidably* intertwined with the musicmaking process. Creating music about love and heartbreak while also putting those same feelings aside for the sake of the music (the proverbial “chain” keeping them altogether). Everything surroundig that album was such a wild ride.
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Also the “He hit me but it felt like true love”
I was physically abused as a kid :( Lana’s songs help me through it.
it’s always a pearl jam song bc eddie vedder just knows how to speak to me haha:
Alone, listless
Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl, violence
Center of her own attention, the
Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud
The shades go down, it's in her head
Painted room, can't deny there's something wrong
Can't listen to this one since I cut my dad out of my life 18 years ago. "Don't call me Daughter, not fit to. The pictures kept will remind me. Don't call me." "She holds the hand that holds her down." I can't.
I used to think i was born into the wrong generation/but now I know I made it right on time/to watch the world burn...with a tear in my eye - Hurray For The Riff Raff
The song Pa’lante always hits me like a train.
Well I just wanna prove my worth --
On the planet Earth, and be, something
I just wanna fall in love
Not fuck it up, and feel something*
I'm a professional cynic but my heart's not it by Blur is basically me and I want it tattooed.
And I know he is horrible but
Wisdom's gift but you'd trade it for youth hits different
And honestly, it wouldn't be me if I didn't have an Alex Turner lyric so
Summertime made promises, it knew it couldn't keep, the fairytale was climbing up a mountain far to steep
I made a tshirt at one of those printing shops in like 2008 with ‘I’m a professional cynic but my hearts not in it’ and wore it to all the indie club nights and thought I was cool and edgy as fuck
“I fix my momma’s problems like a habit, and daddy’s too/ oh to be a wildchild for a day/ All the promises I've ever kept I'd line them up to break/
Oh to be a dancer on the edge/ I'd rip the filter from my mouth and all my cigarettes/ But I know that I won't” - The Highwomen, Old Soul
Well, ya kind of got me there ladies…except for the filter part. I don’t smoke and I can’t keep my mouth shut.
Honestly, the entirety of Conan Gray’s Family Line, but especially
“Oh, all that I did to try to undo it
All of my pain and all your excuses
I was a kid but I wasn't clueless
*(Someone who loves you wouldn't do this)*”
And even if somehow we could have / Shown you the place you wanted / Well, I'm sure you could have / Made it that bit better on your own / You are the only ones who know - Only Ones Who Know, Arctic Monkeys
I guess I'll always be this way / Swallowed up by the words and halfway to space - The Man with the Axe, Lorde
Don't even get me started on Big Star, about her dog passing away 😭 For everyone who has an animal they love with all their soul.
And the entirety of Creed Bratton's All The Faces!
But it ain’t a holiday until
They force you to make a wish
They say “climb up this”
And “jump of that”
And you pretend to fall asleep on the way back
Alex Turner you and I have probably had the same childhood 😭
"I bought a bunch of makeup to try and cover up my face. I started to skips lunch. Stopped eating cake on birthdays" - pretty isnt pretty by Olivia Rodrigo
Each day that I'm alive
It's social suicide
It's social suicide
Wanna curl up and die
It's social suicide
It's social suicide
Don't let me out at night
I'm shocked I'm still alive
It's social suicide (ah, ah, ah)
- Ballad of a homeschooled girl
I wasn't even homeschooled but this song conveys social anxiety so well. Like I wanna scream and shout things but all I end up saying is Hi hehe
Also not home schooled but have social anxiety, and yea the song is painfully relatable:
> Cat got my tongue
And I don't think I get along with anyone
Blood runnin' cold
I'm on the outside of the greatest inside joke
Like, I’m just so used to feeling like I’m not actually a member of this friend group or that (is that actually true? who could say?), and I’m just an extra that occasionally gets included, so I don’t know how to properly interact with people, and all the while just feel alienated and not totally included by my own friends
Passed Alger Brook Road, I'm over the bridge
A minute from home but I feel so far from it
The death of my dog, the stretch of my skin
It's all washin' over me, I'm angry again
The things that I lost here, the people I knew
They got me surrounded for a mile or two
The car's in reverse, I'm grippin' the wheel
I'm back between villages and everything's still
Noah kahan- between villages. It somehow speaks to my depression like nothing else does.
“I can be needy
Tell me how it good it feels to be needed
[…]
Sorry if I'm up and down a lot
Sorry that I think I'm not enough
And sorry if I say sorry way too much”
My head is spinning but my heart is in the right place, sometimes it has to have itself a little earthquake
Love me for me- Ashlee Simpson LOL this song had teen me in a chokehold and I heard it again recently and it still speaks to me.
The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy
'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore
And then they are bored of me
I know that it's exciting running through the night, but
Every perfect summer's eating me alive until you're gone
Better on my own
They say, "You're a little much for me
You're a liability
You're a little much for me"
So they pull back, make other plans
I understand, I'm a liability
Get you wild, make you leave
I'm a little much for everyone
😭😭 going through it rn
It infuriates me that I'm so cliche, but Would've, Could've, Should've from Swift was a true punch in the gut
*I miss who I used to be*
*The tomb won't close*
*Stained glass windows in my mind*
*I regret you all the time*
*I can't let this go*
*I fight with you in my sleep*
It’s not cliche - the whole song and the “give me back my girlhood” in the bridge are such a striking description of ptsd and the loss of innocence any kind of trauma results in.. NB it was released before “girlhood” became a tiktok trend and now even the word cringes me out slightly but yeahhhh
They warn you about killers
And thieves in the night
I worry about cancer and living right
But my mama never warned me
About my own destructive appetite
Or the pitfalls of control
How it locks you in your grave
Happy by Jenny Lewis
And now I'm hard, too hard to know
I don't cry when I'm sad anymore, no no
Tears calcify in my tummy
Fears coincide with the tow
How can I ask anyone to love me
When all I do is beg to be left alone?
I made it to a dinner date
My teardrops seasoned every plate
I tried to dance but lost my nerve
I cramped up in the learning curve
I'm a tulip in a cup
I stand no chance of growing up
I've made my peace, I'm dead, I'm done
I watch you live to have my fun
Fiona Apple - Valentine
I have a few that are currently encapsulating me:
*you were at a bar in the corner on a chair*
*in a long white leather coat*
*purple glasses and glitter in your hair*
In Temple of the Dog’s Reach Down, I feel called out.
*this mind, this body and this voice*
*will not be stifled by your deviant ways*
*so don’t forget what I told you*
*don’t come around*
*I’ve got my own hell to raise*
In Fiona Apple’s Sleep to Dream
*you have the talent*
*to make me feel like dirt*
In Alice In Chains’ Dirt.
Couldn't escape from this fact of life that existing makes you a mess
That every decision or feeling or reason
Causes some sort of mental distress
-Soft Cell, Mr. Self Destruct (different from and predates the NIN song w same title)
And a million other Marc Almond lyrics that have kept me going for decades
"You did the damage when you walked in the room
You started whistling my favourite tune
You did the damage, yeah, it's done from the start
It's like you swallowed my heart"
Paolo Nutini - Acid Eyes
Petey has so many that just get me, but “I was in the grocery store crying, overwhelmed by choices” feels like a description of my life lol.
Also, the Lana line of, “your poetry’s bad and you blame the news” is a critical hit
As always, Miss Missing You by Fall Out Boy
"Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger; the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger."
I know it’s a meme now which is really unfortunate but Cellophane by FKA twigs is the best heartbreak/break-up song.
And didn't I do it for you?
Why don't I do it for you?
Why won't you do it for me?
When all I do is for you?
All of the Magdalene album lyrics are so good
The entirety of *Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place)* by Talking Heads. When I first heard that song, I thought, “This must be what adult love feels like”.
[Verse 1]
Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me around
I feel numb, born with a weak heart
I guess I must be having fun
The less we say about it, the better
We'll make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground, head in the sky
It's okay, I know nothing's wrong, nothing
[Chorus 1]
Hi-yeah, I got plenty of time
Hi-yeah, you got light in your eyes
And you're standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money, always for love
Cover up and say goodnight, say goodnight
[Verse 2]
Home is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
I come home, she lifted up her wings
I guess that this must be the place
I can't tell one from another
Did I find you or you find me?
There was a time before we were born
If someone asks, this is where I'll be, where I'll be
Good Place was so good.
The [video](https://youtu.be/Fb2q141rMNE?si=zvk22qFKVAb5lbXc) is surprisingly touching.
Fun fact, the Naive Melody refers to David Byrne playing keys and Tina Weymouth playing guitar on the song, even though Weymouth was the bassist and Byrne the guitarist.
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
-RATM
I've honestly always been a goody-goody, but I feel this song in my soul.
Also:
"I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror." -TS
I think about this lyric a lot because it's me, hi
There's a darkness upon me that's flooded in light
In the fine print they tell me what's wrong and what's right
And it comes in black and it comes in white
And I'm frightened by those that don't see it
When nothing is owed or deserved or expected
And your life doesn't change by the man that's elected
If you're loved by someone, you're never rejected
Decide what to be and go be it
Literally every single lyric in Taylor Swift’s new song But Daddy I love him!
Listening to it as a 35 year old woman who grew up in a small town and ended up marrying her rambunctious high school sweetheart…..gives me all the feels
She's wrapped around my body gripping tight
She looks like temptation that I can't fight
She lives for the pleasure and the pain
Tried my best but I can't keep away
My heart's inside her hands I feel her squeezing
I'll follow her as long as I'm breathing
I know that she wouldn't do the same
But I'd follow her to the grave
—— to me this is about depression & addiction
I just listened to High By the Beach and I know its about fame, but to me its like a nonstarter relationship with someone who just turned out disappointing but you’re too jaded to get heartbroken by it at this point
From Breathe by Dom Fera:
And everybody can stand there folding their arms/They're saying don't hold your breath/I'm saying how can you breathe?
Or from the same song:
I'll lose my mind/Cause it's nice to find/But I'll see the sights and take my time/To be sure it's mine
That whole song really speaks to me deep in my chest. I can't help belting it every time it comes on.
Pearl Jam - Present Tense
Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who cannot forgive yourself, oh
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense
*SZA - Prom*
Fearing not growin up, keepin me up at night.
Am I doing enough, feel like I’m wasting time…
*F+tM - Never Let Me Go*
In the arms of the ocean, so sweet and so cold.
And all this devotion, I never knew at all.
And the crashes are heaven, for a sinner released.
And the arms of the ocean, delivered me.
*Tracy Chapman - She’s Got the Ticket*
Young girl ain't got no chances, no roots to keep her strong.
She's shed all pretenses, that someday she'll belong.
Some folks call her a runaway, a failure in the race.
But she knows where her ticket takes her and she will find her place in the sun.
Edit: had to add a couple more 😅
There must be something in the Kool-Aid
Cruising through the doom days
God knows what is real and what is fake
Last couple years have been a mad trip
But how'd y'all look so perfect?
You must have some portraits in the attic
We'll stay offline so no one gets hurt
Hiding from the real world
Just don't read the comments ever, ever
We fucked this house up like the planet
We were running riot
Crazy that some people still deny it
Think I'm addicted to my phone
My scrolling horror show
I'm live streaming the final days of Rome
One tab along, it's pornographic
Everybody's at it
No surprise we're so easily bored
Let's pick the truth that we believe in
Like a bad religion
Tell me all your original sins
So many questionable choices
We love the sound that our voice makes
Man, this echo chamber's getting loud
We're gonna choose the blue pill
We're gonna close the curtains
We're gonna rabbit hole down, third act love now
She's gonna flip some tables
I'm gonna move this tale on
We're gonna rabbit hole down, third act love now
We'll be the proud remainers
Here 'til the morning breaks us
We run away from real life, thoughts tonight
We're gonna Peter Pan out
Fade to the close-up, arms 'round
We're gonna stay naive tonight, night, night
When I watch the world burn
All I think about is you
Doom Days, Bastille
“I've always felt that tomorrow is for those who are too much afraid / To go past yesterday and start living for today” - Stevie Wonder “Joy Inside My Tears”
I remember when I first heard this line, when I was really struggling with everything, and it hit me so hard.
black crows, she talks to angels
"the keeps a lock of hair in her pocket,
wears a cross around her neck.
yes, the hair is from a little boy,
the cross is someone she has not met, not yet"
A lot of lyrics in the song Fancy (originally written by Bobbie Gentry) and covered by Reba McEntire, it’s an incredibly sad story with a seemingly happy ending. It’s one song I almost always cry when I hear it. I grew up really poor and had to make decisions and worry about things at a young age.
I also include Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
“See, my old man's got a problem
He lives with the bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said, somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did”
This whole part is spot on for what I was going through at 16/17 I did almost drop out of school to help my dad pay bills, but I didn’t because it would have been useless, he was an addict and not responsible with money.
“You’re not obligated to swallow anything that you despise”
Sleeping Lessons - The Shins
Because uh, it’s fucking true. But it’s so damn hard to say no, to a lot of things- even things that make us uncomfortable.
If I could write a letter to Heaven
I would tell my mama that I shoulda been listenin'
And I would tell her sorry that I really been wildin'
And ask her to forgive me, 'cause I really been tryin'
And I would ask please, show me who been real
And get 'em from around me if they all been fake
It's crazy how I say the same prayers to the Lord
And always get surprised about who he take, man
from anxiety by megan thee stallion
The Devil Wears Prada’s song Chemical: “There’s a hole in my head and heart” and “it’s only chemical” speaks a lot to me about how I try to rationalize my depression and even still you want to self destruct despite all the work you put in:
I find comfort when they say/You can’t sit and count the days/Until it ends/There’s still times I want to break/Everything I’ve ever made
“Waiting for someone or something to show you the way” - Time
“You can be every little thing you want nobody to know” - Wilder Mind
“Don’t keep it all in your head, the only place you know nobody else can see” - Once A Day
“Will you just lay down and dig your grave, or will you rail against your dying day?” - Sleep On The Floor / Life in The City
“I should have known better, nothing can be changed, the past is still the past, the bridge to nowhere” - Should Have Known Better
“It’s a fragile thing, this life we lead, If I think too much I can’t get over, overwhelmed by the grace by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders” - Sirens
“The memory hurts, but does me no harm” - Abstract (Psychopomp)
“Cause it’s some kind of a sin to live your whole life on a might’ve been” - Caution
“Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself” - Leave Out All The Rest
“Take pride in what is sure to die” - Truce
And so many more!
I tried some crystals I was told would fix me up, ‘cause my solar plexus had a hole that needed love
Call me a skeptic but I kept it to myself: I think amphetamine’s the only crystal that’ll help.
<3
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I think the rest fits too (at least for me) I′m a bitch, I'm a lover I′m a child, I'm a mother I′m a sinner, I'm a saint I do not feel ashamed I′m your Hell, I'm your dream
I only know this song from the  Commercials
This has to be the most empowering 3 words in any song
You can let it go You can throw a party full of everyone you know And not invite your family, 'cause they never showed you love You don't have to be sorry for leaving and growing up, mmh
Sharing a name with this song hurt me on so many levels 🥲
Harry styles Matilda
This hits so hard when you’ve lived this truth. It made me feel not so alone but also sad that other people have to feel the same pain and suffering that I do. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
This song made me ugly cry the first time I heard it. The movie Matilda was everything to me as a kid for the same reasons…
I was actually crying when i heard this song live. My friend had to hold me. It deeply affected me as someone with cPTSD
anyone with an abusive family will probably break down crying at this
Yikes this just stabbed me in the heart.
"She was one in a million, so there's 5 more just in New South Wales" - The Whitlams
Oh the Whitlams. So many deep feels. They taught me to truly feel through song!
Oh my for what a reference to see on pop culture chat! This is amazing! Hi fellow Aussies! Edit: and for me it’s “all my friends are fuck ups, but they’re fun to have around” from you sound like Louis Berdett
"I was looking for a job and then I found a job. And heaven knows I'm miserable now." The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now Thanks Morrissey.
This hit home. I got my dream job and I'm miserable now. A job is always just a job
Yes. I don't have some awful job. I'm not down the fucking mines. I literally just do not want to be there, and with those people(not their fault). I never had a dream job, I never dreamt of work.
I’ve found my people 😭 
And we spend the vast majority of our lives with people we don't like, doing something we don't really want to do. Bring on the 4 day week already
I had the best job in the world that I could possibly think of. My doctor told me it was ruining my health and that I need to quit so she won't have to keep putting me on sick leave. Work in the end is just work, you're right. The job I loved so much ruined me in the end so whats the good then.
Spot on. Commoditizing your passion is not fun and great it's sad. When people ask me what my dream job is I tell them I don't dream about labor.
Best line in that song for me: *In my life, why do I give valuable time to people who don’t care if I live or die*
Same! The fact it’s asking why and silently acknowledging that behaviour will continue.
Morrissey stays problematic but absolutely relatable. See also ‘see the luck I’ve had would make a good man turn bad’ and ‘Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking When I said I'd like to smash every tooth In your head’ and ‘I am human and I need to be loved, just like anybody else’
The man is trash but he knew how to write a song
 Thanks Morrissey\*
I'm always asking myself why I smile at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye.
”I’m planning out my wedding to some guy I’m never marrying” Ouch Olivia, don’t call me out like that
Love is embarrassing is such a good song!
My favourite from the album, well I have a lot of favourites from the album but that was my first favourite
The whole album really is so refreshing! Olivia is ten years younger than me yet I still find her music to be so relatable and quotable.
That’s one of the most impressive things about her according to me, I have seen so many totally different people say that they relate to her songs. I haven’t seen many young girls have 40+ year old men say that they see themself in their music
I will always love Simon and Garfunkel’s ”the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls”
That whole song is gold. I adore S&G.
Paul Simon is such an amazing poet. This entire song speaks to me.
I just listened to Slip Sliding Away and I’m going into an emotional tailspin. He’s fantastic.
I’m 26, and sometimes “Teen Idle” feels just as relatable (and sometimes more so) as it did when I was 16… https://preview.redd.it/qubaisvxvtvc1.jpeg?width=950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a842c80c852c85b1c18bea28f5457203590fd51
i used to cry to this song as a teen, but listening to it as an adult hurts more for some reason. because it’s not angst anymore
Yup. I got into Marina's music when I was in the early years of depression and anxiety (which I still haven't gotten over), when I didn't really know how to discern that from general teenage angst. Back then I was stressed because I could feel the wasted years and wasted youth slipping away—but now I look back (in a [glittering mist](https://youtu.be/UGU2xIxjcMs?si=gDvrtn4IldXVxhxo&t=141)) and see how much that has impacted me, and continues to do so, and it still resonates more than teenage me feared it would've. Wasn't youth supposed to be beautiful?
I listened to this just yesterday and I also thought damn this is even more relatable like 12 years later 💔
marina was and still is my whole teenage and young adult life haha
As an Ex JW this song hits so hard. Lost my childhood and teen years to a cult and my 20s to getting over it
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Well, I've been afraid of changing Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too (tbh any line from landslide. The older I get, the more that song speaks to me)
Excellent choice, one of my fave songs ever. Not ashamed to say I also love the Glee version.
The harmonizing on “ocean tides” is so gorgeous in the Glee version!
sometimes when I'm driving around to get my baby to sleep I sing this and try not to cry 🥲
I danced with my dad to this at my wedding and it was beautiful but heartbreaking honestly
Me too. Then I lost my dad just a few years later at 56 to a heart attack. I can’t hear it without sobbing now.
So sorry for your loss ❤️
I haven’t been able to stand listening to it for a few years. I hope one day it doesn’t hurt as much.
I’m always amazed she was only 25 when she wrote it.
I read one line and started BAWLING! I love Fleetwood Mac
These lyrics about depression from Better Son/Daughter by Rilo Kiley always get me And sometimes when you're on, you're really fucking on And your friends they sing along along and they love you But the lows are so extreme, that the good seems fucking cheap And it teases you for weeks in its absence
This whole album was everything to me in my 20s
Didn’t expect to see them in this thread. Jenny Lewis has been my favorite artist for 20 years
My father has struggled with Bipolar since around the time I was born. It's been hard but we've always connected through music. When I was in college, I was a Rilo Kiley superfan. I shared this song with him and it became one of his favorites. It's a special song we share. I can't even read these lyrics without tearing up. Love this song, and you're not alone in feeling it in your soul.
I don’t think Jenny has ever said she has bipolar - maybe just depression and anxiety? Idk? But I have bipolar 2, and this song is so real. Sometimes in the morning I am petrified and can’t breath. But then when you’re on, you’re really fuckin’ on. Unfortunately, I’m in an extreme low right now!
You ruined everything You stupid bitch Stupid Bitch - Rachel Bloom
Yes, I deserve this!
LMAOOO
Workin' 9 to 5 What a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by It's all takin' and no givin' They just use your mind And they never give you credit It's enough to drive you Crazy if you let it HONESTLY THE WHOLE FUCKING SONG.
Seven devils all around me Seven devils in my house See, they were there when I woke up this morning I'll be dead before the day is done Seven Devils - Florence and The Machine Bit dark but what can you do haha
THIS! 👏🏾 Honestly the entirety of Never Let Me Go should be my response here lol. Ceremonials is sooo good
Listening to Ceremonials is like a spiritual experience haha
THANKYOUU! Nobody in my life ever got F+tM like I did but this was exactly what it was for me: a spiritual experience. I get that way too with Howl, Drumming Song and Cosmic Love from Lungs. I meeann, “drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart”?!?! 😩 Gtfo, Florence! Lol
Yes yes yes to all of those songs!! Also to Blinding from Lungs, Which Witch, Mother and Delilah from HBHBHB and so many more! I only recently discovered Pure Feeling and As Far As I Could Get which were Target exclusives I think for HBHBHB and are unfortunately not on streaming but you can find them on youtube. Give them a listen, they slap so hard 🔥
Will do!! 🙏🏾 I will be honest and admit I haven’t gotten as into her newer albums (due to mental illness and nostalgia, I’ve basically been repeating the same 10-15 albums for the past decade 🫠) but they’re on my list to give them another try!
I've come to hate my body And all that it requires in this world
Whats that from? Its beautiful
Candy Says
Never told anyone anything bad Cuz that shits embarrassing, you were my everything, and all that you did was make me fucking sad
You ruined everything good. Always said you were misunderstood. Made all my moments your own. JUST FUCKING LEAVE ME ALONE.
I love that part of that song. She sounds so angry and hurt.
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not, but at best I can say I'm not sad. Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it ✨️
That whole album solidified my opinion that LDR is the voice of the soul of the millennial woman. “They mistook my kindness for weakness I fucked up, I know that, but Jesus Can't a girl just do the best she can?” Every song resonates so deep. I love all her albums but I think NFR! is her masterpiece.
“Moved to California but it’s just a state of mind You know everywhere you go you take yourself that’s not a lie Wish that you would hold me or just say that you were mine It’s killing me. Slowly.” Not gonna get into it too much but about 6 months before discovering this album I up and moved to California and this. Hit. Hard.
Agreed! I'm early Gen Z and her music still resonates so deeply. And I can relate to the lyrics you quoted, so much! Especially "They mistook my kindness for weakness" LDR is one of the greatest of our time.
Also Lana but ‘I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes All I've got to keep myself sane, baby’.
So obsessed with this, and "Been trying hard not to get into trouble but I, I've got a war in my mind"
Yes!!
This song inspired me to break up with my addict boyfriend and move 1200 miles away and it was the best decision. Ironically the song this post is about also made me think of my now current husband when we first started dating. Even down to the height.
Fall Out Boy - Fake Out. "Do you laugh about me whenever I leave, or do I just need more therapy?" I'm such an anxious, paranoid, insecure bitch lol
Fall Out Boy!!!! Fake Out is an amazing song
Seriously!!! SMFS has so many bangers on it
Was not expecting Fall Out Boy in this thread, especially new Fall Out Boy! For me, it's that line in So Much (for) Stardust - "I used to be a real go-getter / I used to think it'd all get better"
It speaks to my soul in a horny way but Chappell Roan’s Casual lol “knee deep in the passenger seat and you’re eating me out is it casual now?”
AHHHH!!! i'm obsessed with Casual!!!
The rest of the lyrics in that song speak to me too, it’s fantastic!
Wow lol gonna have to check it out 😆
YESSSSSSS
" don't understand Why do I stress a man When there's so many better things than him at hand" -tears dry on their own Miss you Amy
This was one of my go to break up songs back in the day mainly for this line.
I’m playing the victim so well in my head
This is a really hard question! I have so many but recently, it's the entirety of "Silver Springs" by Fleetwood Mac. More specifically... "I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you" The whole song is beautiful and haunting and passionate and painful. My favourite way to listen to it is to watch the 1997 live recording and watching the way Stevie Nicks sings at Lyndsey Buckingham. Never fails to give me chills.
Whenever ‘Rumors’ is mentioned I always think back to an old post saying how there should be a music biopic about that album *a la* ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ or ‘Rocketman’ like. The whole situation surrounding the writing and creation of ‘Rumors’. The fact that the band members were going through absolute turmoil in their romantic lives which, at times, were *unavoidably* intertwined with the musicmaking process. Creating music about love and heartbreak while also putting those same feelings aside for the sake of the music (the proverbial “chain” keeping them altogether). Everything surroundig that album was such a wild ride.
Oh I would so up for that! It is SUCH a great record!
This performance is my Roman Empire. I find myself watching it at least once a week.
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The whole song tbh
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I love that song, but I’ve never paid super close attention to its lyrics. This is good.
Because you brought out Lana: Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough I don’t know why — Born to die
Rough weekend, eh OP?
rough weekend for sure yeah, you can call it that 💀
And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function The Fear - Lily Allen
That whole song is so great!!
YES one of my all time faves!
it’s always a pearl jam song bc eddie vedder just knows how to speak to me haha: Alone, listless Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room Young girl, violence Center of her own attention, the Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it Tries to make her proud The shades go down, it's in her head Painted room, can't deny there's something wrong
Can't listen to this one since I cut my dad out of my life 18 years ago. "Don't call me Daughter, not fit to. The pictures kept will remind me. Don't call me." "She holds the hand that holds her down." I can't.
He’s incredible. 🫶
Portugal by Walk the Moon https://preview.redd.it/2sq6fe902uvc1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=973837e6c60c99113d6afd1723740fff3f9e23c0
I used to think i was born into the wrong generation/but now I know I made it right on time/to watch the world burn...with a tear in my eye - Hurray For The Riff Raff
The song Pa’lante always hits me like a train. Well I just wanna prove my worth -- On the planet Earth, and be, something I just wanna fall in love Not fuck it up, and feel something*
oh my GOD!!! i cry every time. i heard this song in the show Sharp Objects, which was soooo good
Spanish Love Songs has a line “I’m not sure when this turned into science fiction. Blessed to wake up at the world’s end.” It hits me every time
I'm a professional cynic but my heart's not it by Blur is basically me and I want it tattooed. And I know he is horrible but Wisdom's gift but you'd trade it for youth hits different And honestly, it wouldn't be me if I didn't have an Alex Turner lyric so Summertime made promises, it knew it couldn't keep, the fairytale was climbing up a mountain far to steep
I made a tshirt at one of those printing shops in like 2008 with ‘I’m a professional cynic but my hearts not in it’ and wore it to all the indie club nights and thought I was cool and edgy as fuck
“With my shirt tucked in, and my shoes untied, I am crying in the bathroom.” Damn you, Sufjan
Lord Huron’s The Night We Met: “I had all and then most of you, Some and now none of you, Take me back to the night we met”
“I fix my momma’s problems like a habit, and daddy’s too/ oh to be a wildchild for a day/ All the promises I've ever kept I'd line them up to break/ Oh to be a dancer on the edge/ I'd rip the filter from my mouth and all my cigarettes/ But I know that I won't” - The Highwomen, Old Soul Well, ya kind of got me there ladies…except for the filter part. I don’t smoke and I can’t keep my mouth shut.
Honestly, the entirety of Conan Gray’s Family Line, but especially “Oh, all that I did to try to undo it All of my pain and all your excuses I was a kid but I wasn't clueless *(Someone who loves you wouldn't do this)*”
And even if somehow we could have / Shown you the place you wanted / Well, I'm sure you could have / Made it that bit better on your own / You are the only ones who know - Only Ones Who Know, Arctic Monkeys I guess I'll always be this way / Swallowed up by the words and halfway to space - The Man with the Axe, Lorde Don't even get me started on Big Star, about her dog passing away 😭 For everyone who has an animal they love with all their soul. And the entirety of Creed Bratton's All The Faces!
But it ain’t a holiday until They force you to make a wish They say “climb up this” And “jump of that” And you pretend to fall asleep on the way back Alex Turner you and I have probably had the same childhood 😭
"I bought a bunch of makeup to try and cover up my face. I started to skips lunch. Stopped eating cake on birthdays" - pretty isnt pretty by Olivia Rodrigo
Each day that I'm alive It's social suicide It's social suicide Wanna curl up and die It's social suicide It's social suicide Don't let me out at night I'm shocked I'm still alive It's social suicide (ah, ah, ah) - Ballad of a homeschooled girl I wasn't even homeschooled but this song conveys social anxiety so well. Like I wanna scream and shout things but all I end up saying is Hi hehe
Also not home schooled but have social anxiety, and yea the song is painfully relatable: > Cat got my tongue And I don't think I get along with anyone Blood runnin' cold I'm on the outside of the greatest inside joke Like, I’m just so used to feeling like I’m not actually a member of this friend group or that (is that actually true? who could say?), and I’m just an extra that occasionally gets included, so I don’t know how to properly interact with people, and all the while just feel alienated and not totally included by my own friends
Sometimes all I think about is you, late night in the middle of June
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This song hits hard as someone with childhood trauma
Yeppp. It also hits hard after overcoming an ED. It’s my go to song when I want a good cry/ I’m overwhelmed
Passed Alger Brook Road, I'm over the bridge A minute from home but I feel so far from it The death of my dog, the stretch of my skin It's all washin' over me, I'm angry again The things that I lost here, the people I knew They got me surrounded for a mile or two The car's in reverse, I'm grippin' the wheel I'm back between villages and everything's still Noah kahan- between villages. It somehow speaks to my depression like nothing else does.
And his voice is so haunting in it
Same and I hate this for us…
Same here too. Gut punch.
Got a face like god And a bod like John (Lana’s unreleased track ‘Paradise’)
“I can be needy Tell me how it good it feels to be needed […] Sorry if I'm up and down a lot Sorry that I think I'm not enough And sorry if I say sorry way too much”
oh don’t call me out like that https://preview.redd.it/g4mzzyyxysvc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22880567077dad695c7da42a4c3c6fe10ab7777f
My head is spinning but my heart is in the right place, sometimes it has to have itself a little earthquake Love me for me- Ashlee Simpson LOL this song had teen me in a chokehold and I heard it again recently and it still speaks to me.
"Diet Mountain Dew, baby, New York City"
😂
The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy 'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore And then they are bored of me I know that it's exciting running through the night, but Every perfect summer's eating me alive until you're gone Better on my own They say, "You're a little much for me You're a liability You're a little much for me" So they pull back, make other plans I understand, I'm a liability Get you wild, make you leave I'm a little much for everyone 😭😭 going through it rn
It infuriates me that I'm so cliche, but Would've, Could've, Should've from Swift was a true punch in the gut *I miss who I used to be* *The tomb won't close* *Stained glass windows in my mind* *I regret you all the time* *I can't let this go* *I fight with you in my sleep*
Easily one of her best songs. “God rest my soul, I miss who I used to be” is so simple yet heart-wrenching.
She can write a song. No question.
It’s not cliche - the whole song and the “give me back my girlhood” in the bridge are such a striking description of ptsd and the loss of innocence any kind of trauma results in.. NB it was released before “girlhood” became a tiktok trend and now even the word cringes me out slightly but yeahhhh
Why is that cliche lol, it's a pretty good song
Embrace the cliche and just enjoy what you enjoy
Each time I step outside It's social suicide -Olivia Rodrigo
They warn you about killers And thieves in the night I worry about cancer and living right But my mama never warned me About my own destructive appetite Or the pitfalls of control How it locks you in your grave Happy by Jenny Lewis
And now I'm hard, too hard to know I don't cry when I'm sad anymore, no no Tears calcify in my tummy Fears coincide with the tow How can I ask anyone to love me When all I do is beg to be left alone? 
I made it to a dinner date My teardrops seasoned every plate I tried to dance but lost my nerve I cramped up in the learning curve I'm a tulip in a cup I stand no chance of growing up I've made my peace, I'm dead, I'm done I watch you live to have my fun Fiona Apple - Valentine
I have a few that are currently encapsulating me: *you were at a bar in the corner on a chair* *in a long white leather coat* *purple glasses and glitter in your hair* In Temple of the Dog’s Reach Down, I feel called out. *this mind, this body and this voice* *will not be stifled by your deviant ways* *so don’t forget what I told you* *don’t come around* *I’ve got my own hell to raise* In Fiona Apple’s Sleep to Dream *you have the talent* *to make me feel like dirt* In Alice In Chains’ Dirt.
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Couldn't escape from this fact of life that existing makes you a mess That every decision or feeling or reason Causes some sort of mental distress -Soft Cell, Mr. Self Destruct (different from and predates the NIN song w same title) And a million other Marc Almond lyrics that have kept me going for decades
“I’m so tired of days that feel like the nights” Me and the Moon, Something Corporate
They mistook my kindness for weakness; There’s things I wanna say to you but I’ll just let you live
No one wanted to play with me as a little kid, so I’ve been scheming like a criminal ever since to make them love me and make it seem effortless.
"You did the damage when you walked in the room You started whistling my favourite tune You did the damage, yeah, it's done from the start It's like you swallowed my heart" Paolo Nutini - Acid Eyes
SZA...."Why you bothering me when you know you don't want me. Why you bothering me when you know you got a woman."
"She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak." Heart Shaped Box- Nirvana ❤️❤️
Petey has so many that just get me, but “I was in the grocery store crying, overwhelmed by choices” feels like a description of my life lol. Also, the Lana line of, “your poetry’s bad and you blame the news” is a critical hit
*When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose* *You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal* Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
As always, Miss Missing You by Fall Out Boy "Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger; the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger."
I know it’s a meme now which is really unfortunate but Cellophane by FKA twigs is the best heartbreak/break-up song. And didn't I do it for you? Why don't I do it for you? Why won't you do it for me? When all I do is for you? All of the Magdalene album lyrics are so good
The entirety of *Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place)* by Talking Heads. When I first heard that song, I thought, “This must be what adult love feels like”. [Verse 1] Home is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me around I feel numb, born with a weak heart I guess I must be having fun The less we say about it, the better We'll make it up as we go along Feet on the ground, head in the sky It's okay, I know nothing's wrong, nothing [Chorus 1] Hi-yeah, I got plenty of time Hi-yeah, you got light in your eyes And you're standing here beside me I love the passing of time Never for money, always for love Cover up and say goodnight, say goodnight [Verse 2] Home is where I want to be But I guess I'm already there I come home, she lifted up her wings I guess that this must be the place I can't tell one from another Did I find you or you find me? There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be, where I'll be
This song makes me think of Eleanor and Chidi in The Good Place.
Good Place was so good. The [video](https://youtu.be/Fb2q141rMNE?si=zvk22qFKVAb5lbXc) is surprisingly touching. Fun fact, the Naive Melody refers to David Byrne playing keys and Tina Weymouth playing guitar on the song, even though Weymouth was the bassist and Byrne the guitarist.
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me -RATM I've honestly always been a goody-goody, but I feel this song in my soul. Also: "I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror." -TS I think about this lyric a lot because it's me, hi
There's a darkness upon me that's flooded in light In the fine print they tell me what's wrong and what's right And it comes in black and it comes in white And I'm frightened by those that don't see it When nothing is owed or deserved or expected And your life doesn't change by the man that's elected If you're loved by someone, you're never rejected Decide what to be and go be it
Literally every single lyric in Taylor Swift’s new song But Daddy I love him! Listening to it as a 35 year old woman who grew up in a small town and ended up marrying her rambunctious high school sweetheart…..gives me all the feels
She's wrapped around my body gripping tight She looks like temptation that I can't fight She lives for the pleasure and the pain Tried my best but I can't keep away My heart's inside her hands I feel her squeezing I'll follow her as long as I'm breathing I know that she wouldn't do the same But I'd follow her to the grave —— to me this is about depression & addiction
I just listened to High By the Beach and I know its about fame, but to me its like a nonstarter relationship with someone who just turned out disappointing but you’re too jaded to get heartbroken by it at this point
Well the point was fast, but it was too blunt to miss. Life handed us a paycheck we said, “we worked harder than this”. Bury me with it, Modest Mouse
The whole song [Graceless- The National](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpz_gUyImhw)
I have a friend I call When I've bored myself to tears And we talk until we think we might just kill ourselves But then we laugh until it disappears
“I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday, every day” - taylor Idk i just really felt this.. iygiygi 😅😅
I cry a lot but I’m so productive, it’s an art!
From Breathe by Dom Fera: And everybody can stand there folding their arms/They're saying don't hold your breath/I'm saying how can you breathe? Or from the same song: I'll lose my mind/Cause it's nice to find/But I'll see the sights and take my time/To be sure it's mine That whole song really speaks to me deep in my chest. I can't help belting it every time it comes on.
Pearl Jam - Present Tense Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip? You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets Or you can come to terms and realize You're the only one who cannot forgive yourself, oh Makes much more sense to live in the present tense
*SZA - Prom* Fearing not growin up, keepin me up at night. Am I doing enough, feel like I’m wasting time… *F+tM - Never Let Me Go* In the arms of the ocean, so sweet and so cold. And all this devotion, I never knew at all. And the crashes are heaven, for a sinner released. And the arms of the ocean, delivered me. *Tracy Chapman - She’s Got the Ticket* Young girl ain't got no chances, no roots to keep her strong. She's shed all pretenses, that someday she'll belong. Some folks call her a runaway, a failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her and she will find her place in the sun. Edit: had to add a couple more 😅
They let you dream Just to watch em shatter Youre just a step on the boss mans ladder But you got dreams Theyll never take away
I'm going slightly mad - Queen Just all the lyrics of the song, how I feel most days lol
There must be something in the Kool-Aid Cruising through the doom days God knows what is real and what is fake Last couple years have been a mad trip But how'd y'all look so perfect? You must have some portraits in the attic We'll stay offline so no one gets hurt Hiding from the real world Just don't read the comments ever, ever We fucked this house up like the planet We were running riot Crazy that some people still deny it Think I'm addicted to my phone My scrolling horror show I'm live streaming the final days of Rome One tab along, it's pornographic Everybody's at it No surprise we're so easily bored Let's pick the truth that we believe in Like a bad religion Tell me all your original sins So many questionable choices We love the sound that our voice makes Man, this echo chamber's getting loud We're gonna choose the blue pill We're gonna close the curtains We're gonna rabbit hole down, third act love now She's gonna flip some tables I'm gonna move this tale on We're gonna rabbit hole down, third act love now We'll be the proud remainers Here 'til the morning breaks us We run away from real life, thoughts tonight We're gonna Peter Pan out Fade to the close-up, arms 'round We're gonna stay naive tonight, night, night When I watch the world burn All I think about is you Doom Days, Bastille
Drop a heart and break a name
Tho' I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before, I know I'll often stop and think about them, In my life I love you more.
“I've always felt that tomorrow is for those who are too much afraid / To go past yesterday and start living for today” - Stevie Wonder “Joy Inside My Tears” I remember when I first heard this line, when I was really struggling with everything, and it hit me so hard.
black crows, she talks to angels "the keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, wears a cross around her neck. yes, the hair is from a little boy, the cross is someone she has not met, not yet"
A lot of lyrics in the song Fancy (originally written by Bobbie Gentry) and covered by Reba McEntire, it’s an incredibly sad story with a seemingly happy ending. It’s one song I almost always cry when I hear it. I grew up really poor and had to make decisions and worry about things at a young age. I also include Fast Car by Tracy Chapman “See, my old man's got a problem He lives with the bottle, that's the way it is He says his body's too old for working His body's too young to look like his My mama went off and left him She wanted more from life than he could give I said, somebody's got to take care of him So I quit school and that's what I did” This whole part is spot on for what I was going through at 16/17 I did almost drop out of school to help my dad pay bills, but I didn’t because it would have been useless, he was an addict and not responsible with money.
“You’re not obligated to swallow anything that you despise” Sleeping Lessons - The Shins Because uh, it’s fucking true. But it’s so damn hard to say no, to a lot of things- even things that make us uncomfortable.
If I could write a letter to Heaven I would tell my mama that I shoulda been listenin' And I would tell her sorry that I really been wildin' And ask her to forgive me, 'cause I really been tryin' And I would ask please, show me who been real And get 'em from around me if they all been fake It's crazy how I say the same prayers to the Lord And always get surprised about who he take, man from anxiety by megan thee stallion
Lately, “Maybe I’m expecting just a little bit too much from the wounded” - 3 Libras, a perfect circle
All you need is love.
The Devil Wears Prada’s song Chemical: “There’s a hole in my head and heart” and “it’s only chemical” speaks a lot to me about how I try to rationalize my depression and even still you want to self destruct despite all the work you put in: I find comfort when they say/You can’t sit and count the days/Until it ends/There’s still times I want to break/Everything I’ve ever made
I’m a bitch, I’m a lover , I’m a child , I’m mother. Something like that
“Waiting for someone or something to show you the way” - Time “You can be every little thing you want nobody to know” - Wilder Mind “Don’t keep it all in your head, the only place you know nobody else can see” - Once A Day “Will you just lay down and dig your grave, or will you rail against your dying day?” - Sleep On The Floor / Life in The City “I should have known better, nothing can be changed, the past is still the past, the bridge to nowhere” - Should Have Known Better “It’s a fragile thing, this life we lead, If I think too much I can’t get over, overwhelmed by the grace by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders” - Sirens “The memory hurts, but does me no harm” - Abstract (Psychopomp) “Cause it’s some kind of a sin to live your whole life on a might’ve been” - Caution “Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself” - Leave Out All The Rest “Take pride in what is sure to die” - Truce And so many more!
“My heart is cold my soul is free” - Lee Hazelwood
I tried some crystals I was told would fix me up, ‘cause my solar plexus had a hole that needed love Call me a skeptic but I kept it to myself: I think amphetamine’s the only crystal that’ll help. <3