PINK~~~SOBER
I don’t wanna be the girl who laughs the loudest
Or the girl who never wants to be alone
I don’t wanna be that call at four o’clock in the morning
‘Cause I’m the only one you know in the world that won’t be home

Aahh, the sun is blinding
I stayed up again
Oohh, I am finding
That’s not the way I want my story to end

I’m safe
Up high
Nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party’s over?
No pain
Inside
You’re my protection
But how do I feel this good sober?

I don’t wanna be the girl who has to fill the silence…
The quiet scares me ’cause it screams the truth
Please don’t tell me that we had that conversation
When I won’t remember, save your breath, ’cause what’s the use?

Aahh, the night is calling
And it whispers to me softly, “come and play”
Aahh, I am falling
And if I let myself go, I’m the only one to blame

I’m safe
Up high
Nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party’s over?
No pain
Inside
You’re like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober?

I’m comin’ down
Comin’ down
Comin’ down
Spinnin’ round
Spinnin’ round
Spinnin’ round
Looking for myself.. Sober

Comin’ down
Comin’ down
Comin’ down
Spinnin’ round
Spinnin’ round
Spinnin’ round
Looking for myself.. Sober

When it’s good, then it’s good, it’s so good, ’till it goes bad
Till you’re trying to find the you that you once had
I have heard myself cry
Never again
Broken down in agony
And just trying to find a friend

I’m safe
Up high
Nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party’s over?
No pain
Inside
You’re like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober?

I’m safe
Up high
Nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party’s over?
No pain
Inside
You’re like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober?

How do I feel this good sober?

I’ve found a lot of songs – awesome thread! Just thought I add a couple ones that I didn’t see. They don’t all relate directly to addiction, but they’ve helped me.

Used to Get High – John Butler Trio
“Escape, can’t wait all trying to get away
From this place man that we’re feeling
Can’t deal, can’t feel what’s real
All trying to conceal all this time we’re stealing
No doubt, the route you’re on
Can’t find the clout that you’ve been needing
‘Til then my friend you must contend
With the monster that you’re feeding”

Kettle’s On – The Feeling (AlAnon)
“Can’t you see you’re in the wrong place
Will you please face it and come home
When I think about you’re sweet face
I can’t wait for you to come home
I can see you got a real taste for that champaigne but its all gone
Come home, the kettle’s on”

Time to Pretend – MGMT
My favorite part is “I’ll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I’ll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I’ll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I’ll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.”

Dead and Gone – T.I.
“No more stress, now I’m straight, now I get it, now I take
Time to think, before I make mistakes just for my family’s sake
That part of me left yesterday
The heart of me is strong today
No regrets I’m blessed to say
The old me dead and gone away”

Right Now – Van Halen
”Don’t wanna wait ’til tomorrow
Why put it off another day?…
Come on turn, turn this thing around”

I Don’t Want To Be – Gavin DeGraw
“I don’t want to be
Anything other than what I’ve been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I’m tired of looking ’round rooms
Wondering what I’ve got to do
Or who I’m supposed to be
I don’t want to be anything other than me”

Shackles – Mary Mary
“In the corners of mind
I just can’t seem to find a reason to believe
That I can break free
Cause you see I have been down for so long
Feel like the hope is gone
But as I lift my hands, I understand
That I should praise you through my circumstance

Take the shackles off my feet so I can dance
I just wanna praise you
I just wanna praise you
You broke the chains now I can lift my hands
And I’m gonna praise you
I’m gonna praise you”

Stories (Down to the Bottom) – TobyMac
“We’ve been down to the bottom
Stories we got ’em, when we hit rock bottom
If you been there put your hands in the air
To let the lost know that someone cares
Cause we’ve been down to the bottom
Stories we’ve got ’em, when we hit rock bottom
If you been there put your hands in the air
And let somebody know that the Most High cares”

I’m not perfectly sure the song I latched on to recently is about recovery even after studying the lyrics, but somehow I got the sense that the “Blah blah” was a way of describing the emptiness of drinking, or maybe the hollow excuses we make for using libations to be merry. Anyway, hearing this song the first time and my quitting happened almost simultaneously, and it’s become a bit of a pet song to me that I associate with my feeling of success (through quitting). It’s from the album Keep It Simple, by Van Morrison.

Behind the Ritual

Drinking wine in the alley, drinking wine in the alley
Making time, drinking that wine
Out of my mind in the days gone by

Making time with Sally, drinking that wine
In the days gone by, talking all out of my mind
Drinking that wine, talking all out of my mind

Spin and turning in the alley, spin and turning in the alley
Like a Whirling Dervish in the alley, drinking that wine
Drinking wine, making time in the days gone by

Boogie woogie child in the alley
Drinking that wine, making time, talking all out of my mind
Drinking wine in the days gone by, behind the ritual

Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
In the days gone by, drinking that wine
Making time, drinking that wine way back in time

Spin and turn and rhyme in the alley
Spin and turning, making up rhymes, talking all out of my mind
Talking that jive, drinking that wine in the days gone by

Drinking wine in the alley, drinking that wine
Making time, talking all out of my mind
Drinking that wine making time in the alley

Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
You find the spiritual, you find the spiritual
Behind the ritual in the days gone by

Drinking wine in the alley, drinking wine in the alley
Making time, talking all out of my mind
Drinking that wine in the days gone by, days gone by

Spin and turn talking that jive
Spin and turn talking that jive all out of our minds
Drinking that sweet wine
Making time, making time in the days gone by

Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
Drinking that wine making time in the days gone by

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Behind the ritual, making time in the days gone by

In the days gone by, in the days gone by
Drink that wine, making time
Getting high in the days gone by, drinking that wine

Getting high behind the ritual
Getting high behind the ritual
Drinking that wine in the days gone by

Behind the ritual, behind the ritual
Behind the ritual, behind that spiritual
In the days gone by drinking that wine and getting high

So high behind the ritual, so high behind the ritual
So high in the days gone by
Drinking that wine making time, making time

Stretching time, stretching time
Drinking that wine, stretching time
Stretching time in the days gone by behind the ritual

Behind the ritual
Behind the ritual

Listening to Johnny Cash period is always good ;-P…but my fav has always been Sunday Mornin Comin down…which actually Kris Kristofferson wrote…

I also love The Wanderer with Cash and U2..

Well, I recall a couple from years ago that were supposedly symbolic of heroin addiction or use.

A Horse with No Name – America
Chestnut Mare – The Byrds (beautiful song)

Best ones I’ve heard ‘recovery related –
Carry On Wayward Son – Kansas
The Wall – Kansas (supposedly their journey with the steps)

The Wall

“I’m woven in a fantasy,
I can’t believe the things I see
The path that I have chosen now
Has led me to a wall
And with each passing day I feel a little more like something dear was lost
It rises now before me,
A dark and silent barrier between,
All I am, and all that I would ever want be
It’s just a travesty,
Towering, marking off the boundaries my spirit
Would erase
To pass beyond is what I seek
I fear that I may be too weak
And those are few who’ve seen it
Through to glimpse the other side,
The promised land is waiting like a maiden that is soon to be a bride
The moment is a masterpiece,
The weight of indecision’s in the air
It’s standing there, the symbol and the sum of all that’s me
It’s just a travesty,
Towering, blocking out the light and blinding me
I want to see
Gold and diamonds cast a spell,
It’s not for me I know it well
The riches that I seek
Are waiting on the other side
There’s more that I can measure in the treasure of the love that I can find
And though it’s always been with me,
I must tear down the Wall and let it be
All I am, and all that I was ever meant to be, in harmony
Shining true and smiling back at all who wait to cross
There is no loss”

Robby Steinhart and Kerry Livgren from Kansas were supposedly in recovery. Livgren left the group and went on to create spiritual solo tapes.

And of course, Aerosmith, “It’s Amazing”

“It’s amazing
With the blink of an eye
You finally see the light
It’s amazing
That when the moment arrives
You know you’ll be alright
It’s amazing
And I’m saying a prayer
For the desperate hearts tonight.”

I didn’t read through to see everything posted but I have a recovery playlist on my iPhone that consists of:

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul To Squeeze (this is the soundtrack to my rehab experience I must have listened to this a thousand times during those 28 days)

Seether – Fine Again

Boyce Avenue – Because Of You (Ne-Yo Cover)

Linkin Park – Breaking The Habit

Green Day – Restless Heart Syndrome

Boys Night Out – Reason Ain’t Our Long Suit

Boys Night Out – Get Your Head Straight

John Butler Trio – Used To Get High

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow (Hey Oh)

Third Eye Blind – My Time In Exile

Third Eye Blind – God Of Wine
“Every thought that I repent, there’s another chip you haven’t spent
And we’re cashing them all in, where do we begin
To get clean again, I wanna know, can we get clean again?”

Bright Eyes – We Are Nowhere And It’s Now

Bright Eyes – Cleanse Song *** (Probably my favorite recovery song. You need to hear this)
Don’t forget what you’ve learned all you give is returned
And if life seems absurd, what you need is some laughter
And a season to sleep, and a place to get clean
Maybe Los Angeles, some place no one’s expecting
On a detox walk through a Glendale Park
Over sidewalk chalk, someone wrote in red ‘Start Over’
So I muffled my screams on an Oxnard Beach
Full of fever dreams that scare you sober
Into saltless dinners”

Bright Eyes – Coat Check Dream Song

Jimmy Eat World – Drugs Or Me

Jimmy Eat World – Pain

Hey every body. I’m glad to see more people interested in songs about addiction/recovery.
I need some help finding a song.
Now I heard this song while I was high and on the verge of becoming sober. I heard it on Night with Alice Cooper but I cant for the life of me find a Alice Cooper song that sounds like it.

The main verse was talking about how the artist was afraid of being sober because he was never sober around his wife.

“will you love me if Im sober” This is a line I remember.

If anyone has any ideas please post them

THANKS!

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