Lyrics/songs that kept you going

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What are the lyrics/songs that speak to you - those that you've turned to in difficult moments of personal struggle (either because you found understanding there and/or encouragement to keep going)?
 
I'm not a huge Grimes fan, but I like her recent single and quoted part of it in my signature:

I shot myself yesterday
got to heaven anyway
think I might regret it now
tie my feet to rocks and drown​


For various reasons, that's not an entirely inaccurate description of my life trajectory (at least how I'm interpreting it). Deliberate self destruction and abandoning myself to nihilism only to wake up and discover I got everything I ever wanted. Except I'm still me, so I put the gun back in my mouth from time to time. It's a dichotomy I'll always wrestle with.


There are a lot of lyrics I could write about, including one from the NIN concert you posted. I actually made a similar thread to this one time. You and I would probably get along well.
 
Korg said:
For various reasons, that's not an entirely inaccurate description of my life trajectory (at least how I'm interpreting it). Deliberate self destruction and abandoning myself to nihilism only to wake up and discover I got everything I ever wanted. Except I'm still me, so I put the gun back in my mouth from time to time. It's a dichotomy I'll always wrestle with.
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Yes, I can relate to this in a way.

Korg said:
There are a lot of lyrics I could write about, including one from the NIN concert you posted. I actually made a similar thread to this one time. You and I would probably get along well.
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It would be also good to have a thread on books with similar topic.
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Hi @PapillonT – It depends on what the personal struggle is. There are songs I tie to all major life events, songs that are my theme songs, and songs that inspire me and motivate me. There are so many, from so many genres, that I can't list them.


Korg said:
I'm not a huge Grimes fan, but I like her recent single and quoted part of it in my signature:
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Grimes grew on me like a fungus. It started with one song, now I like many (not all) of her songs.
 
 
On a real note tho, the catharsis this song gave (and still gives) me over the years probably prevented me from doing anything too terrible
 
It's more ranges of songs along an album. It makes more sense to refer to the latter:

In our Wake - Atreyu
Asking Alexandria - Asking Alexandria
The Sin and the Sentence - Trivium
Imaginary Enemy - The Used
 
“You've got the words to change a nation
But you're biting your tongue
You've spent a life time stuck in silence
Afraid you'll say something wrong
If no one ever hears it how we gonna learn your song?
So come on, come on
Come on, come on
You've got a heart as loud as lightning
So why let your voice be tamed?
Maybe we're a little different
There's no need to be ashamed
You've got the light to fight the shadows
So stop hiding it away
Come on, come on
I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it, oh
Oh oh oh

At night we're waking up the neighbors
While we sing away the blues
Making sure that we're remembered, yeah
'Cause we all matter too
If the truth has been forbidden
Then we're breaking all the rules
...”
 
“When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be
...”
 
“I'd like to teach the world to sing
Hope when you take that jump
You don't fear the fall
Hope when the water rises
You built a wall
Hope when the crowd screams out
They're screaming your name
Hope if everybody runs
You choose to stay
Hope that you fall in love
And it hurts so bad (Yeah)
The only way you can know
You gave it all you had
And I hope that you don't suffer
But take the pain
Hope when the moment comes,
You'll say
I, I did it all
I, I did it all
I owned every second that this world could give
I saw so many places, the things that I did
Yeah with every broken bone
I swear I lived
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
Hope that you spend your days
But they all add up
And when that sun goes down
Hope you raise your cup
I wish that I could witness
All your joy and all your pain
But until my moment comes
I'll say
I, I did it all
I, I did it all
I owned every second that this world could give
I saw so many places, the things that I did
Yeah with every broken bone
I swear I lived
...”
 
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