A song that really speaks to you

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A song that really speaks to you

Postby Mahotsukai_Hanajima » Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:30 pm

Hello. Just wondering, what songs really speak to you? Really get your emotions flowing? Make you cry/smile/laugh/brood, w/e.

For me id have to say probably "Hello" by Evanescence. It was written for Bonnie Lee, Amy Lee's sister, because she had died when she was little. It really gets me thinking what it would be like if my sister had died, and it makes me cry, but i actually like a good cry. Im quite Morbid most of the time, or at least act like i am. It also gives me lots of tragic story inspirations. And drawing inspirations. I have so many things in my folders that my couselur could get me sent to an insane asylum for. ~Shannon
~Boredom~
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:32 pm

I'm in a strange mood, so I'll actually take this topic seriously for a change.

Dream Theater's "Learning to Live" (lyrics) is probably the only song that's lifted me out of my dark spells more than once. Shit happens, and you've gotta move past it.
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Postby +Tokyo_Neon_Nightmare+ » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:18 pm

I am currently feeling.. Bleh?

Nitzer Ebb - Hear Me Say
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Postby shizzled_nizzle » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:25 pm

I would have to say Our Lady Peace - Thief. It's so incredibly sad, it was about a girl who died of a brain tumour. The music video is also so simple, yet so beautiful. Awesome song =)
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Postby Iamshadowkiller » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:16 am

Beto Vazquez Infinity-Sadness in the Night (with Tarja)

This song will speak to you in one way or another...it is a very sad song, yet beautifully sad....it doesn't just try to bombard you with sad words to get your tears going, but rather expresses this real emotion and sense of loss...

"to stay with him beyond this life, run accross the sky, let me see the sun again...let me die give me the light, I'm waiting for him to knock on my door to release my pain..."

:cry:

Now for a song that will lift me up from even the darkest moods..

Lost Horizon-Sworn in the Metal Wind

"If you're broken, remember, you got faith within us!
Take now your next deep breath and revive
your old strength!!"

\m/>_<\m/

/end :cry: :lol:
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Postby trinigal » Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:56 am

Gary Jules-Mad World

That song always gets to me :(
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Re: A song that really speaks to you

Postby pink_hedgehog » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:45 pm

Mahotsukai_Hanajima wrote:For me id have to say probably "Hello" by Evanescence.
I listened to that song when I learned my friend died in a car accident. I listened to it for like 2 weeks straight, that song means a lot to me, Im not a huge fan of the band anymore but that song really touched me.

Ok I have a few..
Not enough - Flaw
Not enough - OLP (Theif is a fantastic song too)
When Im gone - 3 doors down
Broken wings - Alterbridge
Amazed - Lonestar (for the record: I hate country except this song)
Texas - Unloco
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Postby MetalWolf » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:55 pm

Shame by Rollins Band
Your Number Is One by Rollins Band
nearly any song from the Rollins Band
I´m a lone wolf ligger
But I ain´t no pretty boy
I´m a backbone shiver
and I´m a bundle of joy - Motorhead
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Postby Catatonik » Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:52 pm

Nobody's Here by Devin Townsend

That song gets me everytime
I fear the little people.
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Postby prettysoldiersailormoon » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:30 pm

Any of the Harry Potter songs. They have happy/sad/angry/indifferent/whatever. There is always a song that speaks to me no matter what mood I'm in.
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Postby requiett » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:58 am

Rob Dougan - Born Yesterday
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Postby older_gohan » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:02 pm

Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon
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Postby genestarwind21122 » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:01 pm

Songs that have really spoken out to me:

My Sacrifice - Creed
Don't Stop Dancin' - Creed
Broken Wings and Open Your Eyes - Alterbridge
Spirit Never Dies - Master Plan

The reason Don't Stop Dancin' it really hits me hard as I typed in my video profile. The song described exactly how I felt but I knew what I had to do and it was a hard and troubling time.

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http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=94224
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Postby Otohiko » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:35 pm

I think "speaking to" does not have to be just on the emotional level, and perhaps better off not just on the emotional level.

Most recently, some of DDT's music has been massively effective on me. I would even take the first 3 songs of their 2002 album "Edinochestvo-1" as excellent examples ("Kogda Edin [When you are one]", "Poet", "Rabochiy Kvartal [Working Quarter]").

DDT's work, primarily Shevchuk's lyrics, has had 3 important 'speaking-to' effects: bringing me to better terms with the idea of letting go, bringing me to better terms with to better terms with the idea of not letting go, and bringing me to better terms with my nationality and culture - which I fervently tried to escape for the last six or so years.

The effect of 'speaking to' by DDT can be measured by the fact that it had seriously knocked me out emotionally for a period of about 2-3 months, and caused more permanent effects elsewhere.

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Otherwise, David Sylvian will be one of the artists whose songs have consistently 'killed' me, in a way I can't quite explain.

And of course, I think my encounter with King Crimson material was more than 'speaking to'. That music blew my head off, not for a definite period, but to a large extent - permanently. This might sound like an exaggaration, but it isn't. Contact with that music had put me in contact with things I hadn't thought of before, and had led to a complete changeover in my internal architecture and external approach to life. Some pieces, mostly instrumentals like 'Fracture', in excercises of active listening caused not only emotional reactions and changes in ways-of-thinking, but even very real, almost physical sensations. If I were religious, I would probably say that the music "put the fear of God in me".

'Speaking to'? I guess so :roll:
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Postby kornrocker1489 » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:43 pm

i gotta say Dido "this land is mine" is a song that really catches me in the midst of doing something busy. like seriously this song is very unique.
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