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January 2, 2008 at 9:35 pmPost count: 1“Fix You” by Coldplay has been in my head for a while now…
January 2, 2008 at 11:01 pmPost count: 6@Dan Dare 1623577 wrote:
“Fix You” by Coldplay has been in my head for a while now…
Same here! I really listened to the lyrics a few days ago. I wonder if the song is referring to a higher power? Awesome song.
January 3, 2008 at 12:25 amPost count: 1My Old Addiction
by K. D. LangMy old addiction
Changed the wiring in my brain
So that when it turns the switches
Then i am not the sameSo like the flowers toward the sun
I will follow
Stretch myself out thin
Like there’s a part of me that’s already buried
That sends me out into this windowMy old addiction
Is a flood upon the land
This tiny lifeboat
Can keep me dry
But my weight is all
That it can standSo when I try to lean just a little
For just a splash to cool my face
Ahh that trickle
Turns out fickle
Fills my boat up
Five miles deepMy old addiction
Makes me crave only what is best
Like these just this morning song birds
Craving upward from the nest
These tiny birds outside my window
Take my hand to be their mom
These open mouths
Would trust and swallow
Anything that came alongLike my old addiction
Now the other side of day
As the springtime
Of my life’s time
Turn’s the other wayIf a swan can have a song
I think I know that tune
But the page is only scrawled
And I am gone this afternoon
But the page is only scrawled
And I am gone this afternoonJanuary 3, 2008 at 4:48 amPost count: 1painkiller by Pendulum (Noisia remix)
truthful and the bass is literally a killa!!
January 3, 2008 at 5:51 amPost count: 18“Tightrope”-Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Ball and Chain”-Social Distortion
“Bad Luck”-Social Distortion
“Story of My Life”-Social Distortion
“Joey”-Concrete Blonde
“I Feel All Right”-Steve Earle
“South Nashville Blues”-Steve EarleMany more, but these are what come to mind right now.
January 8, 2008 at 5:49 pmPost count: 425“Travelin Thru” by Dolly Parton…One of my all time favs
“The Women In My Life” by Holly Near [favorite line is “And she throws the drink away”
January 8, 2008 at 6:53 pmPost count: 2Wow – some great songs/great idea, now I have something to keep me busy for awhile – I got a new iPod for Christmas.
One song that just hits home, see verse 2. The lead singer wrote it about his battle with mental illness and alcohol.
Blue October – “Hate Me”
Mother: Hi Justin! This is your mother it is 2:33 on Monday afternoon. I was just calling to see how you were doing. You sounded really uptight last night, it made me a little nervous, and a little, well it made me nervous, but it sounded like you were nervous too. I just want to make sure you are really okay and wanted to see if you were checking in on your medication too. You know I love ya. Take care honey, I know you’re under a lot of pressure. See ya. Bye Bye!
(Verse 1)
I have to block out thoughts of you, so i don’t loose my head
They crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed
Dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I’m alone
Playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home
There’s a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain
An ounce of peace is all I want for you, Will you never call again?
And will you never say that you love me just to put it in my face
And will you never try to reach me, it is I that wanted this(Chorus)
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you
Hate me and wait, yeah wait for it to swollow
Hate me so you can finally see whats good for you(Verse 2)
I’m sober now for 3 whole months, it’s one accomplishment that you helped me with
The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing that I won’t touch again
In a sick way I want to thank you for holding my head up late at night While I was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight
You never doubted my warped opinoins on things like suicidal hate
You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take
So I’ll drive so f
far away that I’ll never cross your mind
And do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind(Chorus)
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you
Hate me and wait, yeah wait for it to swollow
Hate me so you can finally see whats good for you(Verse 3)
And when the sad hard eyes say bye to you and wave
Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I have made
And like a baby boy I never was a man
Until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand
And then I found out I can’t make it go away, just make it stop
Come back and shine just like it used to be
And then she whispered “How could you did this to me?”(Chorus)
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you
Hate me and wait, yeah wait for it to swollow
Hate me so you can finally see whats good for you, for you, for you, for you…January 9, 2008 at 2:00 amPost count: 2Sandbox – thanks for the idea and good thing I had the afternoon off to start my own soundtrack.
A few I just added to my list:
Eagles – Life in the Fast Lane
Counting Crows – Have you seen me lately
Bob Seger – Real Mean Bottle (about his own battle w/alcoholism)
Blues Traveler – 100 years
The Replacements – Can’t Hardly Wait
Tom Petty – Mary Janes Last Dance
Travis – Pipe Dreams
Metallic – Whiskey in the Jar
REM – Everybody Hurts
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Disturbed – Down with the Sickness
Creed – Higher
Grateful Dead – Truckin’
CSN – Wasted on the Highway
Oasis – Champagne Supernova
War – Spill the Wine
Train -HopelessJanuary 9, 2008 at 4:15 amPost count: 6I was listening to an old Sting CD the other day (The Soul Cages) and the words to Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot jumped out at me even though I had listened to it a million times (funny how this happens):
“Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot”
Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He’ll guide you wellWhen you’re down and they’re counting
When your secrets all found out
When your troubles take to mounting
When the map you have leads you to doubt
When there’s no information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know wellLet your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He’ll guide you wellWhen the doctors failed to heal you
When no medicine chest can make you well
When no counsel leads to comfort
When there are no more lies they can tell
No more useless information
And the compass spins
The compass spins between heaven and hellLet your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He’ll guide you wellAnd your eyes turn towards the window pane
To the lights upon the hill
The distance seems so strange to you now
And the dark room seems so stillLet your pain be my sorrow
Let your tears be my tears too
Let your courage be my model
That the north you find will be true
When there’s no information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know wellLet your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you upon your way…January 20, 2008 at 11:18 amPost count: 1@yankinholland 668259 wrote:
I’ve recently discovered the band Dream Theater. The drummer and primary lyricist, Mike Portnoy, is putting his current 12-step recovery onto “vinyl” (yes that phrase effectively dates me) over the course of several albums.
Peace!
I was hoping I’d find a reference to DT here!! I’m soo happy.
DT has been like the soundtrack to my life. Their music was a huge part of me getting off the meth 12 years ago, and the AA suite Mike is working on is simply moving. I remeber back about 5 years ago when I started to realize I was also an alcoholic, and though I had heard the song “The Glass Prison” hundereds of times, I distincly remember it moving me to tears one day. I think that’s the day I knew. Why it took this long to finally get with the program is a mystery, but I will always have Mike Portnoy to thank for opening my eyes. Here are the lyrics to “The Glass Prison” If you can, you should listen to the song, it’s a brilliant piece of music.
I. REFLECTION
Cunning, Baffling, Powerful
Been beaten to a pulp
Vigorous, Irresistable
Sick and tired and laid low
Dominating, Invincible
Black-out, loss of control
Overwhelming, Unquenchable
I’m powerless, have to let goI can’t escape it
It leaves me frail and worn
Can no longer take it
Senses tattered and tornHopeless surrender
Obsession’s got me beat
Losing the will to live
Admitting complete defeatFatal Descent
Spinning around
I’ve gone too far
To turn back roundDesperate attempt
Stop the progression
At any length
Lift this obsessionCrawling to my glass prison
A place where no one knows
My secret lonely world beginsSo much safer here
A place where I can go
To forget about my daily sinsLife here in my glass prison
A place I once called home
Fall in nocturnal bliss againChasing a long lost friend
I no longer can control
Just waiting for this hopelessness to endII. RESTORATION
Run – fast from the wreckage of the past
A shattered glass prison wall behind me
Fight – past walking through the ashes
A distant oasis before meCry – desperate crawling on my knees
Begging God to please stop the insanity
Help me – I’m trying to believe
Stop wallowing in my self pity“We’ve been waiting for you my friend
The writing’s been on the wall
All it takes is a little faith
You know you’re the same as us all”Help me – I can’t break out this prison all alone
Save me – I’m drowning and I’m hopeless on my own
Heal me – I can’t restore my sanity aloneEnter the door
Desperate
Fighting no more
Help me restore
To my sanity
At this temple of hopeI need to learn
Teach me how
Sorrow to burn
Help me return
To humanity
I’ll be fearless and thorough
To enter this temple of hopeBelieve
Transcend the pain
Living the life
Humility
Opened my eyes
This new odyssey
Of rigorous honestySerenity
That I never knew
Soundness of mind
Helped me to find
Courage to change
All the things that I can“We’ll help you perform this miracle
But you must set your past free
You dug the hole, but you can’t bury your soul
Open your mind and you’ll see”Help me – I can’t break out this prison all alone
Save me – I’m drowning and I’m hopeless on my own
Heal me – I can’t restore my sanity aloneIII. REVELATION
Way off in the distance I saw a door
I tried to open
I tried forcing with all of my will but still
The door wouldn’t openUnable to trust in my faith
I turned and walked away
I looked around, felt a chill in the air
Took my will and turned it overThe glass prison which once held me is gone
A long lost fortress
Armed only with liberty
And the key of my willingnessFell down on my knees and prayed
“Thy will be done”
I turned around, saw a light shining through
The door was wide open:c029:
January 25, 2008 at 2:04 pmPost count: 5Along with “Hate Me” that Aweda mentioned Blue October has some other intense songs about addiction:Overweight, X Amount of Words, Chameleon Boy, Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek.
January 26, 2008 at 12:53 pmPost count: 2This song just has me in tears everytime.
The words mirror my life and probably many of you on this forum.
PAPA ROACH LYRICS
“Scars”
I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut
My weakness is that I care too much
And my scars remind me that the past is real
I tear my heart open just to feelDrunk and I’m feeling down
And I just wanna be alone
I’m pissed cause you came around
Why don’t you just go home
Cause you channel all your pain
And I can’t help you fix yourself
You’re making me insane
All I can say is[Chorus:]
I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut
My weakness is that I care too much
And our scars remind us that the past is real
I tear my heart open just to feelI tried to help you once
Against my own advice
I saw you going down
But you never realized
That you’re drowning in the water
So I offered you my hand
Compassions in my nature
Tonight is our last stand[Chorus]
I’m drunk and I’m feeling down
And I just wanna be alone
You shouldn’t ever come around
Why don’t you just go home?
Cause you’re drowning in the water
And I tried to grab your hand
And I left my heart open
But you didn’t understand
But you didn’t understand
Go fix yourselfI can’t help you fix yourself
But at least I can say I tried
I’m sorry but I gotta move on with my own life
I can’t help you fix yourself
But at least I can say I tried
I’m sorry but I gotta move on with my own life[Chorus x2]
January 26, 2008 at 12:59 pmPost count: 2Heres the video to the above song.
January 28, 2008 at 12:42 pmPost count: 55a good song for recovery:
ít’s in my eyes by minor threat
January 28, 2008 at 8:21 pmPost count: 23the beast in me-johnny cash
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