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July 13, 2016 at 3:30 amPost count: 6Man I love this thread. :MusBand:
July 18, 2016 at 1:16 amPost count: 13The Drugs Don’t Work: Verve
Sonnet: Verve
Weeping Willow: VerveBorn Again: Richard Ashcroft and the United Nations of Sound
Let My Soul Rest: Richard Ashcroft and the UNOS This Thing Called Life: see above
Glory: see aboveBreak the Night with Colour: Richard Ashcroft solo
The Verve and Richard Ascroft our great therapy and can help you get through the rough times.:lala
July 18, 2016 at 10:22 amPost count: 1Alkaline Trio – “Blue in the Face”
It’s about time that I came clean with you
I’m no longer fine, I’m no longer running smooth
I thought that I found myself under something new
Just one more line I repeat over and over again
‘Till I’m blue in the face with a choking regret
Because I talk in circles ’round you on my bed
Can’t say I blame you one bit when you kept it all inside
When you left that night
It’s about time that you got sick of me
No longer fun, and so far from interesting
I thought that I found me a cure for feeling old
Just one more line to keep me sleeping loudly and cold
In disgraced with a shameful regret
As I talk in tongues to myself in my bed
Can’t say I blame you one bit when you kept it all inside
When you left that night
And all that followed fell like mercury to hell
Somehow we lost our heads for the last time
And all that followed fell like mercury to hell
Somehow we lost our heads for the last time
And I don’t dream since I quit sleeping
And I haven’t slept since I met you
And you can’t breathe without coughing at daytime
And neither can I
So what do you say?
Your coffin, or mine?Matt Skiba “Good F*cking Bye”
So you broke down, trying to leave town
I broke down crying on your return
You left me feeling hopefull
I’ll never see your face again
Your made for a bad lover’s liver
You stole all the covers and busted my head
You made me such an as*hole
I wish we’d never met
I’m tired of being bored
I’m through with the headaches
Hiding my hands that tremble like earthquakes
Under the table, under the daytime sky
Good-f*cking-byeAnd when you lose hope
It’s hard to cope
Watching the tyranny with sober eyes
The daybreak and sunset
All hours in between are spent murdering time
You made for a bad lover’s liver
You stole all the covers and ****** up my head
You made me such an as*hole
I wish we’d never met
I’m tired of being bored
I’m through with the headaches
Hideing my hands that tremble like earthquakes
Under the table, under the daytime sky
Good-f*cking-bye
Good-f*cking-bye
Good-f*cking-byeJuly 24, 2016 at 2:00 amPost count: 10@ManicPanic 2650446 wrote:
Was introduced to this song in rehab by an employee there, love it, beautiful song.
Joan Osborne
Crazy BabyDon’t put out the light, the light,
the light, the light, the light,
the light, the light, the light,
the light, the lightRelish is one of my favourite albums! I feel like people wrote her off because of the over-popularity of One of Us. The album is actually very bluesy, not so much pop-y. Crazy Baby was a great song. St.Theresa is another song about addiction on the record.
July 24, 2016 at 2:21 amPost count: 9The modern leper by frightened rabbit
A cripple walks amongst you
All you tired human beings
He’s got all the things a cripple has
Not working arms and legs
And vital parts fall from his system
And dissolve in Scottish rain
Vitally he doesn’t miss them
He’s too effed up to care
Well, is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper
On his last leg
On his last leg
Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times
And still can’t work out why
You see, I’ve got this disease I can’t shake
And I’m just rattling through life
Well, this is how we do things now
Yeah, this is how the modern stay scared
So I cut out all the good stuff
Yeah, I cut off my foot to spite my leg
Well, is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper
On his last leg
Well, I am ill
But I’m not dead
And I don’t know which of those I prefer
Because that limb which I have lost
Well, it was the only thing holding me up
Holding me up
Well, I’m lying on the ground now
Walking through the only door
Well, I have lost my eyesight
Like I said I would
But I still know
And that is you in front of me
And you are back for even more of exactly the same
Well, are you a masochist to love a modern leper
On his last leg
And you are not ill
And I’m not dead
Doesn’t that make us the perfect pair?
Just you and me
We’ll start again
And you can tell me all about what you did today
What you did todayJuly 24, 2016 at 6:07 pmPost count: 9Fleet Foxes- He Doesn’t know why
Penniless and tired, with your hair grown long
I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong
Memory is a fickle siren song
I didn’t understandIn the gentle light as the morning nears
You don’t say a single word of the last two years
Where you were when you reached the frontier
I didn’t understand, noSee your rugged hands and a silver knife
Twenty dollars in your hand makes you hold so tight
All the evidence of your vagrant life
My brother you were gone.And you will try to do what you did before
Pull the wool over your eyes
For a week or more
Let your family take you back to your original mindThere’s nothing I can do
There’s nothing I can do
There’s nothing I can say
There’s nothing I can say
I can sayJuly 24, 2016 at 6:28 pmPost count: 9Modest Mouse- The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
Here we go
Got dirt, got air, got water
And I know you can carry on
Shrug off short-sighted false excitement
And oh, what can I say?
Have one, have twenty more “one more”s
And oh, it does not relent
The good times are killing me
Kick butt buzz-cut dickheads who didn’t like what I said
The good times are killing me
Jaws clenched tight we talked all night
Oh, but what the hell did we say?
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
Fed up with all that LSD
Need more sleep than coke or methamphetamines
Late nights with warm, warm whiskey
I guess the good times they were all just killing me
Got dirt, got air, got water
And I know you can carry on
The good times are killing me
Enough hair of the dog to make myself an entire rug
The good times are killing me
Have one, have twenty more “one more”s
And oh, it does not relent
The good times are killing me
****-kicker city slickers who all wanted me dead
The good times are killing me
Get sucked in and stuck in late nights
With more folks I don’t know
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing me
The good times are killing meJuly 24, 2016 at 8:14 pmPost count: 9Interpol- Rest my chemistry
I haven’t slept for two days
I’ve bathed in nothing but sweat
And I’ve made hallways
Scenes for things to regret
My friends they come
And the lines they go by
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistry
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistryI live my life filled with no pain
Just some rage and three kinds of yes
And I’ve made stairways
Such scenes for things that I regret
Oh, those days in the sun
They bring a tear to my eye
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistry
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistryBut you’re so young
You’re so young
You look in my eyes
You’re so young, so sweet, so surprisedI see a sign, it says �okay�
Gotta take a ride, just recline in the faraway
Got to take some time to realize
That my friends they come
And the lines they go by
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistry
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistryBut you’re so young
You’re so young
You look in my eyes
You’re so young, so sweet, so surprised
You look so young
Like a daisy in my lazy eyesSo tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistry
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistry
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistry
Tonight I’m gonna rest my chemistryJuly 24, 2016 at 8:20 pmPost count: 9Julian Plenti ( lead singer of interpol’s solo project) -Only if you run
I’ve had my frustrations about the pains of daily life
I’ve tasted degradation and found the lace and candle light
But we have the weights, we have the measures of our days and nights
I’ve had my frustrations, but now, I’ve found my placeAnd you will make it
But only if you runThese lonely dedications I’ve found, they bring me peace and light
When three-fold applications of doubt surround my fate, you might say
We have the weights, we have to wage an assault on what it is
‘Cause harmless medications abound, and you’re not sickYou will make it
But only if you runSurprise
Surprise
Surprise
SurpriseYou will make it
But only if you runJuly 31, 2016 at 3:06 amPost count: 2Welllll . . . I went through the whole thread.
I wanted to post a few titles that nobody else has mentioned. There were many of your entries I mentally gave a nod to, but I didn’t want to make any duplicates no matter how much I liked the song.
I’ve also not posted lyrics. You guys will find those if you’re curious.
These are songs about (my) addiction:
Blaze’s Blues by Townes Van Zandt (Notes: I think no list like this is complete without a Townes Van Zandt song or two. I picked this one because it sounds like me talking BS when I used to get drunk.)
Fall off the Wagon by 44 Long (Notes: This is what my alcoholism felt like. Here is a You Tube video featuring the song as a tribute to Jim Morrison.)
Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode (Notes: This song, to me, is all about addiction and what it feels like. The intoxicant pretty much became my personal Jesus, and that was hard to let go of.)
These are songs about (my) recovery:
Colorful by The Verve Pipe (Notes: I think it’s a love song, but I like the part where he talks about “this loser’s living fortunate.”)
I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You by Colin Hay (Notes: Again, I think this is probably a love song, but I took other stuff from it. He’s talking about the aftermath of a breakup and how he’s coping. And that’s what recovery is like for me.)
The World I Know by Collective Soul (Notes: This reminds me of recovery because he’s talking about looking at the world as though he’s not a part of it. Recovery for me has been a bit about learning to view the world again, taking into consideration how I fit into it.)
Amsterdam by Coldplay (Notes: This song makes me cry every time I hear it. It’s about both my addiction and my recovery. It’s about being at that precipice, the place where I decided I had to quit or die.)
Midnight Rider by The Allman Brothers (Notes: This might seem like it doesn’t work, but it’s the words “And the road goes on forever” that make it work for me.)
And that’s my contribution. I am not sure why I wanted to share so much, but I’m glad I did.
August 1, 2016 at 3:38 amPost count: 1Just one more addition that I don’t think I saw in the posts:
“Times of Trouble” by Temple of the Dog
August 1, 2016 at 7:31 pmPost count: 86Sunday Morning Sidewalk By The Infamous Johnny Cash!!
All time fav!
Love Pancake xo
August 3, 2016 at 10:03 amPost count: 6The Death of Me by City and Colour, seriously if you don’t even listen to the song just read these lyrics it’s awesome
Do I have nothing good left to say?
Do I need whiskey to start fueling my complaints?
People love to drink their troubles away.
Sometimes I feel that I’d be better off that way.‘Cause maybe then I could sleep at night.
I wouldn’t lie awake until the morning light.
This is something that I’ll never control.
My nerves will be the death of me, I know.
I know, I know.So here’s to living life miserable.
And here’s to all the lonely stories that I’ve told.
Maybe drinking wine will validate my sorrow.
Every man needs a muse and mine could be the bottle.Maybe then I could sleep at night.
I wouldn’t lie awake until the morning light.
This is something that I’ll never control.
My nerves will be the death of me, I know.Finally, I could hope for a better day.
No longer holding on to all the things that cloud my mind.
Maybe then the weight of the world wouldn’t seem so heavy.
But then again I’ll probably always feel this way.At least I know I’ll never sleep at night. (Sleep at night)
I’ll always lie awake until the morning light. (Til the morning light)
This is something that I’ll never control.
My nerves will be the death of me.
My nerves will be the death of me.August 12, 2016 at 7:21 pmPost count: 4Love K’s Choice ‘not an addict’ — makes me well up with tears evrytime I hear it in the car with my wife in the passenger seat. I used to think ‘if she only knew how it is….”
November 11, 2016 at 9:47 pmPost count: 1Here is a couple more:
Cold–The Day Seattle Died–About the deaths of Layne Staley of Alice In Chains and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
Bullet For My Valentine—The Last Fight–The acoustic version is better
Sixx AM–Accidents Can Happen
I have a bunch more and as I weed them out of the 10,000 songs on my computer I will post them up here
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