NationStates Jolt Archive

Post a song that stirs your emotions. It can be any emotion. Songs that take you to mental and emotional states you rarely/never have been in.

I'm going to post My Immortal by Evanescence. When I hear that song my mind, my emotions, and even my face become silent and still. I don't actually listen to the song by my own will, my brother keeps playing it over and over again, we have thin walls, and I can't help but listen.


my immortal
i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
and though you're still with me
i've been alone all along

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come

"I was born by the river
In a little tent
And just like the river
I've been running ever since

It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change gonna come
Oh, yes it is

It's been too hard living
But I'm afraid to die
I don't know what's up there beyond the sky

It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change gonna come
Oh yes it will

Then I go to my brother
I say brother help me please
But he winds up knocking me
Back down on my knees

There's been times that I thought
I wouldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh, yes it will"

Listen to it, his voice adds so much emotion to it.

Az Yet-Last Night

Last night, you were so into it
You told me secrets that
You never told a soul
You were so nervous and
Yet oh so comfortable
As we explored your image of love

I drank your wine as you taste mine
I kissed your lips you felt my body slip
Into your soul
I almost cried cuz it was so beautiful

1 - Last Night I was inside of you
Last Night while making love to you
I saw the sun, the moon, the mountains and the rivers
I saw heaven when I made sweet love to you

Last night there was no believing it
It was so special

And so very innocent
We talked of memories
Our favorite fantasies
As we explored our visions of love

Deep in the night
Right by the fireside
You felt my candlelight in your soul
You felt incredible
I started to explode
I almost cried cuz it was so beautiful

Repeat 1

Sunlight, red roses
The scent of you it calms the heart
The sight of you I fall apart
Moonlight, the things we noticed
Oh we're in love
That's when it comes
and I'm so, I'm so in love

Repeat 1 until fade

Very nice song, and a very nice album too! :)

"Disarm", by the Smashing Pumpkins
"Disarm you with a smile
Cut you like you want me too
Cut that little child
Inside of me and such a part of you

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love - I send a smile over to you

Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my voice
What's a boy supposed to do
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love - I send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you"

Anger
Brand New - Seventy Times Seven

Back in school they never taught us
what we needed to know
Like how to deal with despair
or someone breakin your heart
For twelve years I've held it all together
but a night like this is beggin to pull me apart
I played it quiet left you deep in conversation
I felt uncool and hung out around the kitchen
I remember I kept thinking
that I know you never would
And now I know I want to kill you
like only a best friend could

Everyone's caught on to everything you do
Everyone's caught on to...

As if it happening wasn't enough
I got to go and write a song
just to remind myself how bad it sucked
Ignore the sun, covers over my head
Wrote a message on my pillow that says
"Jesse, stay asleep in bed"
Don't apologize (I hope you choke and die!)
Search your cell for something which to hang yourself
They say you need to pray
if you want to go to heaven
But they don't tell you what to say
when your whole life has gone to Hell!

Everyone's caught on to everything you do
Everyone's caught on to...
Everyone's caught on to
(and I can't let you let me down again)
everything you do
Everyone's caught on to...
(and I can't let you let me down again)

So is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with
Cause I've seen more spine on jellyfish
I've seen more guts on eleven-year-old kids
Have another drink and drive yourself home
I hope there's ice on all the roads
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt
and again when your head goes through the windshield

Is that what you call tact?
You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back
So let's end this call and end this conversation
And is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with
Cause you left the frays from the ties you severed
when you say "best friends" means friends forever

Is that what you call a getaway?!!
Tell me what you got away with!!
Cause I've seen more spine on jellyfish!!
I've seen more guts on eleven-year-old kids!!
Have another drink and drive yourself home!!
I hope there's ice on all the roads!!
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt
then when your head goes through the windshield!!

(I can't let you let me down again)
Everyone's caught on to everything you do
(and I can't let you let me down again)
Everyone's caught on to...
(I can't let you let me down again)
Everyone's caught on to everything you do
(and I can't let you let me down again)
Everyone's caught on to...

Disenfranchisement
Desaparecidos - Hole In One

A man at the bank said lets not talk percentages,
fourteen hour days, still two mortgages.
you asked the state for aid, they gave you an ad campaign. that didn't help.
you took your family to join in the urban sprawl.
you can't see the stars as well but you're near the mall.
you can't stand no more, in line at the convenient store. its way too long.
you used to work your land, fed a thousand mouths.
now you eat their shit for the money now.
emptied your heart to fill your bank account.
well I should talk im just the same...buy my records down at the corporate chain
I tell myself I shouldn't be ashamed...but i am.
adolescence made her an activist. now shes the one who does all the lecturing.
now its cold, she's on the table more, the dream is dead.
wont eat their food or wear their clothes, always wants to know
where her money goes. well we shell it out for filling up her nose.
so run it up I'll run my mouth nevermind the shit that i sing about cause
I'd sell myself to buy a fucking house.
12,000 square foot. 4 car garage. tennis courts swimming pool and a backyard.
I don't know, it can seem like a lot.
thats why i pay someone to clean it up. to clean it up. my big house.

Sadness
Jimmy Eat World - My Sundown

I see it around me, I see it in everything.
I could be so much more than this.
I said my goodbye's this is my sundown.
I'm gonna be so much more than this.
With one hand high, you'll show them your progress.
You'll take your time, but no one cares.
No one cares.
I need you to show me the way from crazy.
I wanna be so much more than this.
With one hand high, you'll show them your progress.
You'll take your time, but no one cares.
With one hand high, you'll show them your progress.
You'll take your time, but no one cares.
No one cares.
I could be so much more than this.
No one cares.
I wanna be so much more than this.
No one cares.
I could be so much more than this.
No one cares.
I wanna be so much more than this.
No one cares.
I wanna be so much more than this.
No one cares.
I wanna be so much more than this.
Good Goodbye, lovely time
Good Goodbye, tinsel shine
Good Goodbye, I'll be fine
Good Goodbye, good goodnight.

"Freak On A Leash"

Something takes a part of me.
Something lost and never seen.
Everytime I start to believe,
Something's raped and taken from me... from me.
Life's got to always be messing with me. (You wanna see the light)
Can't they chill and let me be free? (So do I)
Can't I take away all this pain. (You wanna see the light)
I try to every night, all in vain... in vain.
Sometimes I cannot take this place.
Sometimes it's my life I can't taste.
Sometimes I cannot feel my face.
You'll never see me fall from grace
Something takes a part of me.
You and I were meant to be.
A cheap fuck for me to lay
Something takes a part of me.
Feeling like a freak on a leash. (You wanna see the light)
Feeling like I have no release. (So do I)
How many times have I felt diseased? (You wanna see the light)
Nothing in my life is free... is free
Chorus

Boom na da mmm dum na ema
Da boom na da mmm dum na ema

GO!
So...fight! something on the... dum na ema
Fight...some things they fight
So...something on the... dum na ema
Fight...some things they fight
Fight...something of the... dum na ema
No...some things they fight
Fight...something of the... dum na ema
Fight...some things they fight

[Chorus]

Part of me...
Oh...

Husker Du - No Reservations


I hear some news, I read the words
It's different every day
I get my thoughts from a letter that's lost
That someone threw away

It says, "don't give up, 'cause you can't give away"
The thought's appreciated
Now at the best you've second-guessed
And never should you have waited

*Never changes, the things I feel inside
Sit by a lake and cry
Like a shingle on a roof in a windstorm
Should I let loose and fly*

An overpass and some corn in a field
Fat birds on the line
Dented guardrail, immaculate bumper
Protecting your design

A broken-down shack and a pond in the back
Laundry out to dry
Some of them barren, and some of them whole
All of them have no time

*Never changes, the things I feel inside
Sit by a lake and cry
Like a shingle on a roof in a windstorm
Should I let loose and fly*

Come along with me
Come along with me
Come along, come along with me

We'll go to places that we have never seen
And if we're together, we'll have a happy time
'Cause I've got no reservations, no


The tone, as well as Bob Mould's hopeless yet optimistic vocals, make this song what it is. You really have to hear it to know what I'm talking about. A truly great song by any means, and one I'll be keeping for the rest of my life.

Moi Aussie with 'disarm'

also:
Gigi d'Agostino - "I'll fly with you"
The lyrics really dont do it, you have to listen to the vocals and the music, but here they are:

I still believe in your eyes
I just dont care what you've done in your life
Baby I'll always be here by your side
Dont leave me waiting too long please come by
IIIII IIII IIIIIIIIIII still believe in your eyes
there is no choice I belong to your life
because I I live to love you someday
you'll be my baby and we'll fly away
and i'll fly with you.


Something like that, some errors perhaps.
But again, you have to hear it. Gigi D'agostino - I'll fly with you. If you have nice bass speakers it is best I think.

The killers' "mr brightside" or something like that is quite a nice piece also.



Now i'm falling asleep
and she's calling a cab
while he's having a smoke
and she's taking a drag

and they're going to bed
and my stomach is sick
and its all in my head
but
she's touching his chest now
he
takes
off
her
dress
now

let
me
go

I just can't look
it's killing me
and
ta-
king
con-
trol.

"Who Named the Days?", by Arab Strap
"I never slam the door these days
then again, i’m never here.
And you know where to find me
with my oldest friend I hold so dear.
Who named the days?
Who named this mess?
I don’t care what she says;
I need to get out less.
Me and him go back a long way
and his advice has always been shite.
But he knows how to make me laugh,
I’ve never bothered if he’s right.
Who named the days?
Who named this mess?
I don’t care what she says,
I need to get out less.
But sometimes when I’m with him
I just stop being me.
And he knows,
on my own,
I could never be
the man he’s always wanted me to be.
He makes me treat girls like shit.
He makes me lie to them and use them.
I think he loves to watch me playing games
and he loves to watch me lose them."

Waiting--Green Day
I've been waiting a long time
For this moment to come
I'm destined
For anything...at all
Downtown lights will be shining
On me like a new diamond
Ring out under the midnight hour
Well, no one can touch me now
And I can't turn my back
It's too late ready or not at all

I'm so much closer than
I have ever known...
Wake up

Dawning of a new era
Calling...don't let it catch you falling
Ready or not at all
Well, so close enough to taste it
Almost...I can embrace this
Feeling....on the tip of my tongue

I'm so much closer than
I have ever known...
Wake up
Better thank your lucky stars... say hey, hey

I've been waiting for a lifetime
For this moment to come
I'm destined for anything at all

Dumbstruck
Color me stupid
Good luck
You're gonna need it
Where I'm going if I get there...
At all....

Wake up
Better thank your lucky stars....

"Disarm", by the Smashing Pumpkins *Nods Head*

Maori Battalion
Ake! Ake! Kia Kaha E!

In the days that have now gone
when the Maoris went to war
They fought and fought until the last man died
for the honour of their tribe
And so we carry on
the conditions they have laid
And as we go on day by day
You will always hear us say...


Maori Battalion march to victory
Maori Battalion staunch and true
Maori Battalion march to glory
Take the honour of the people with you
We will march, march, march to the enemy
And we'll fight right to the end.
For God! For King! And for Country!
AU - E! Ake, ake, kia kaha e!



A loyal band of Maoris
Sailing from New Zealand
To win us freedom and peace
Marching shoulder to shoulder onward
And we will shout again
Ake aka kia kaha e
Haere tonu haere tonu ra
Kia - o - ra Kia - o - ra


Maori Battalion march to victory
Maori Battalion so very staunch
Maori Battalion march to glory
Be living expression of the honour of the people.
We will march to the enemy
Put them to flight at the end.
For God! For King! And for country!
AU - E! Forever and ever be strong!

Now is the hour

Now is the hour, when we must say goodbye.
Soon you'll be sailing far across the sea.
While you're away, oh, then, remember me.
When you return, you'll find me waiting here.

Sunset glow fades in the west.
Night o'er the valley is creeping.
Birds cuddle down in their nest
Soon all the world will be sleeping.

Now is the hour, when we must say goodbye.
Soon you'll be sailing far across the sea.
While you're away, oh, then, remember me.
When you return, you'll find me waiting here.

Kasino - Thinking about yesterday

things don't really matter like they used to do / I can't sleep at night but I don't think of you / remember back when I had so much to lose / so much to prove / but I still keep your letters in the back of my room / I've still got those faded pictures of you / told myself for so long 'cause I wish it was true / I should be over you / but I'm thinking about yesterday / used to be so special / used to walk so tall / used to tell myself / that I could have it all / but I used to come running every time that you called / you made me feel so small / but I still keep your letters in the back of my room / I've still got those faded pictures of you / told myself for so long 'cause I wish it was true / I should be over you / but I'm thinking about yesterday


put that with the music...brings back very real memories :(

Someone found the future as a statue in a fountain at
Attention looking backward
In a bowl of water wishes with a blue songbird on his
Shoulder who keeps singing over everything

Everything means nothing to me

I picked up the song and found my picture
In the paper the reflection in the water shouted
"are you men still trying to salute
People from a time when he was
Everything he's supposed to be?"

Everything means nothing to me

Dear God - XTC

Dear god,
Hope you got the letter,
And I pray you can make it better down here.
I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer,
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet,
’cause they don’t get enough to eat

From god,
I can’t believe in you.

Dear god,
Sorry to disturb you,
But I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears,
And all the people that you made in your image,
See them fighting in the street,
’cause they can’t make opinions meet,
About god,
I can’t believe in you.

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!

Dear god,
Don’t know if you noticed,
But your name is on a lot of quotes in this book.
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
And all the people that you made in your image,
Still believing that junk is true.
Well I know it ain’t and so do you,
Dear god,
I can’t believe in,
I don’t believe in,

I won’t believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners,
No devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You’re always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it’s the same the whole world ’round.
The hurt I see helps to compound,
That the father, son and holy ghost,
Is just somebody’s unholy hoax,
And if you’re up there you’ll perceive,
That my heart’s here upon my sleeve.
If there’s one thing I don’t believe in...

It’s you,
Dear god.


Good Times Bad Times- Led Zeppelin

In the days of my youth
I was told what it means to be a man,
Now I’ve reached the age
I’ve tried to do all those things the best I can.
No matter how I try,
I find my way into the same old jam.

*good times, bad times,
You know I had my share;
When my woman left home
For a brown eyed man,
Well, I still don’t seem to care.

Sixteen: I fell in love
With a girl as sweet as could be,
Only took a couple of days
Till she was rid of me.
She swore that she would be all mine
And love me till the end,
But when I whispered in her ear
I lost another friend, oooh.

* chorus

I know what it means to be alone,
I sure do wish I was at home.
I don’t care what the neighbors say,
I’m gonna love you each and every day.
You can feel the beat within my heart.
Realize, sweet babe, we ain’t ever gonna part.

Placebo - the bitter end

Since we're feeling so anaesthetized
In our comfort zone
Reminds me of the second time
That I followed you home

We're running out of alibis
On the second of May
Reminds me of the summer time
On this winters day

See you at the bitter end
See you at the bitter end

Every step we take that's synchronized
Every broken bone
Reminds me of the second time
That I followed you home

You shower me with lullabies
As you're walking away
Reminds me that it's killing time
On this fateful day

See you at the bitter end
See you at the bitter end
See you at the bitter end
See you at the bitter end

From the time we intercepted
Feels alot like suicide
Slow and sad, going sadder
Arise a sitting mine

(See you at the bitter end)

I love to see you run around
And i can see you now
Running to me
Arms wide out

(See you at the bitter end)

Pearl Jam-Indifference, makes me feel really sad sometimes

I will light the match this mornin’, so I won’t be alone
Watch as she lies silent, for soon night will be gone
Oh, I will stand arms outstretched, pretend I’m free to roam
Oh, I will make my way, through, one more day in hell...
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make, yeah...

I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
Oh, I’ll keep takin’ punches until their will grows tired
Oh, I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind hey,
I won’t change direction, and I won’t change my mind
How much difference does it make
Mmm, how much difference does it make...how much difference...

I’ll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
How much difference (2x)
How much difference does it make (2x)

The most emotional song that I know of is imaginary, which is also by Evanescence. Realy any song from them is going to be both emotional and poetic.

The song that creeps me out the most is Hey foxymophandlemama, that´s me also by pearl jam. Never listen to it before you go to sleep unless you want to be seriously distressed.. golly its a disturbing track

don't you want people to love you?
my spanking, that's the only thing i want so much...
spanking, that's the only thing i want so much...
that's the only thing i want so much...
don't you want people to love you?
my spanking, that's the only thing i want so much...
that's the only thing i want so much...
why is that better than being hugged?
why is that better than being hugged?
because you get closer to the person...
closer to the person...
why is that better than being hugged?
because you get closer to the person...
closer to the person...
just like a person having sex feels cared for...
we wanna be loved, so we have sex together...
and they feel loved about that...
and this is the way it makes me feel...loved...
i want it, i dream about it, i think about it, i want it...
just like a girl wants sex with a boy, you know?
it's the way i'll always be probably...
my last one was born in the system...
see, they're stupid, very stupid, those people over there...
they're stupid...
these people are so below mentality, honest to god, really...
you know what i mean, he got the nerve to bug me...
you know what i mean, he got the nerve to bug me...
this mentality, honest to god, really...
you know what i mean, he got the nerve to bug me...
honest to god, really...
you know what i mean, he got the nerve to bug me...
bug me...bug me...he got the nerve to bug me...
everything seems so eight ball...
everything seems so eight ball...
and i, i don't know if that's my imagination, but, umm...
hey foxymophandlemama, that's me...
and i don't know if that's my imagination, but, umm...
hey foxymophandlemama, that's me...
hey foxymophandlemama, that's me...
think they got me...
hey foxymophandlemama, that's me...hmm...
hey foxymophandlemama, that's me...
...know if that's my imagination, but, umm...
hey foxymophandlemama, that's me...
she prides herself on her cleaning habits...
she prides herself on her cleaning habits...
hey foxymophandlemama, that's me...
she prides herself on her cleaning habits...
she prides herself on her cleaning habits...
it's a lovely stupid mop, it is...
there's something really screwey about no streaking...
is it any old dumb mop? it streaks...
come on mop, no streaking mop...
i don't mind mop the floor, my mop streaks, i don't like it...
it's not me, it's the mop...
come, i bought some new mops...
go away you stupid, dumb old sponge mop...
i don't believe it...now the floor looks beautiful...
i don't believe it...now the floor looks beautiful...
i don't believe it...old sponge mop...
dumb old sponge mop...
dumb old sponge mop...
old sponge mop...
dumb old sponge mop...
you're right, this mop's stupid...
dumb old sponge mop...
i don't believe it...now the floor looks beautiful...
that's why they call me mophandlemama...
now the floor looks beautiful...
that's why they call me mophandlemama...
that's why they call me mophandlemama...
that's why they call me mophandlemama...
in two weeks, before she could see herself not dressed...
the twenty-third of may...you know she disturbed no one today...
the manager told her to completely forget...
if you ever go to bed, i'll kill you...
do i tell the whole world that i'm mentally ill?
go to the papers...yeah, why not?
drum roll...
i want to show them that i can walk on my own without hands of
theirs...
and, i can still fantasize, but i keep it to myself...
keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
i think i deserve to be loved, don't you?
very much so...
think i deserve to be loved...
keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
i think i deserve to be loved, don't you?
...to be loved, don't you?
but i keep it to myself...
keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
i think i deserve to be loved, don't you?
and, i can still fantasize, but i keep it to myself...
keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
i think i deserve to be loved, don't you?
very much so...
do you ever think that you would actually, really kill yourself?
well, if i have thought about it real, uhh, real deep...
yes, i believe i would...
i have thought about it real, uhh, real deep...
yes, i believe i would...
and, i can still fantasize, but i keep it to myself...
keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
...that i can walk without hands of theirs...
and, i can still fantasize, but i keep it to myself...
keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
i think i deserve to be loved, don't you?
...that i can walk without hands of theirs...
and, i can still fantasize, but i keep it to myself...
keep it to myself...keep it to myself...
i think i deserve to be loved, don't you?
very much so...
do you ever think that you actually would kill yourself?
well, if i have thought about it real, uhh, real deep...
yes, i believe i would...

This is a metal balled, by Sonata Arctica (http://www.sonataarctica.info/) , named Tallulah. Even metalheads like me cry when listening to this song!

Remember when we used to look how sun sets far away?
And how you said: "this is never over"
I believed your every word and I guess you did too
But now you're saying : "hey, let's think this over"

You take my hand and pull me next to you, so close to you
I have a feeling you don't have the words
I found one for you, kiss your cheek, say bye, and walk away
Don't look back 'cause I am crying

I remember little things, you hardly ever do
Tell me why
I don't know why it's over
I remember shooting stars, the walk we took that night
I hope your wish came true, mine betrayed me

You let my hand go, and you fake a smile for me
I have a feeling you don't know what to do
I look deep in your eyes, hesitate a while...
Why are you crying?

Tallulah, It's easier to live alone than fear the time it's over
Tallulah, find the words and talk to me ,oh, Tallulah,
This could be... heaven

I see you walking hand in hand with long-haired drummer of the band
In love with her or so it seems, he's dancing with my beauty queen
Don't even dare to say you hi, still swallowing the goodbye
But I know the feelings still alive- still alive

I lost my patience once, so do you punish me now
I'll always love you, no matter what you do
I'll win you back for me if you give me a chance
But there is one thing you must understand.

:p

Listen to it!

Its the song that probably best fits my ex's view of me. The live version fucking rocks.

Shihad - Bitter

Wrapped up spat out in your self doubt
Should I rip my heart out
Pack it up and send it to you
Things said in anger
Said for gain
Said to cut down
I'll never hear again
Well a part of me sees it all too clear
But another part still yearns
For the safety, for the comfort
But our hate outgrew our love and ate it

I can see it started years ago
And I recognise your pain
But I can't forget the innocence
That you've taken from me
Now I see you
But I can't hear you

No - I can't hate you
No - And I don't want to break you down
There's just some things that I want to tell you
Now that you're not hear to drown me out
I've just got to break through

I collect the poison as it spills from your mouth
Savour the taste so that I may work you out
When affection becomes affliction
Let it go

Been watching for far too long
Far too long to get this wrong
I've got the scars to prove it
Snap straight back and I'm here to use it
Delay the memory of the facts and what's outside
Left with your mind, the only place to hide
'cause your so bitter inside

Requiem aeternam (from the Rutter Requiem)


Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine:

et lux perpetua luceat eis.


Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion,

et tibi reddetur votum in Ierusalem:


exaudi orationem meam,

ad te omnis caro veniet.


Kyrie, eleison!

Christe, eleison!

Kyrie, eleison!

Some of this is pretty disappointing if translated, but some of it is nice enough, and it is the sound that is important for the most part.

Boys dont cry - the cure


I would say I’m sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time
I’ve said too much
Been too unkind
I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try and
Laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
’cause boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry

I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness
Plead with you
But I know that
It’s too late
And now there’s nothing I can do

So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to
Laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
’cause boys don’t cry

I would tell you
That I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it’s no use
That you’ve already
Gone away

Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more

Now I would do most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just
Keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
’cause boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry

This is a metal balled, by Sonata Arctica (http://www.sonataarctica.info/) , named Tallulah. Even metalheads like me cry when listening to this song!

<snip fantastic song>

Listen to it!

I never thought I'd find another Sonata Arctica fan on here! :p I adore that song. I think "Last Drop Falls" is more emotional but thats because of things it reminds me of :(

ONE DAY

I've seen that look somewhere before
your sorrow is like an open door
you've been this way for much too long
somebody must have done you wrong
But one day the sun will shine on you
turn all your tears to laughter
one day your dreams may all come true
one day the sun will shine on you
I've seen that look so many times
I know the sadness in your eyes
your life is like a wishing well
where it goes, only time will tell
Say goodbye to the lonely nights
say goodbye to the northern lights
say goodbye to cold north winds
say goodbye to the autumn leaves

NUMB

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
I don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes

OCTOBER

I can't run anymore,
I fall before you,
Here I am,
I have nothing left,
Though I've tried to forget,
You're all that I am,
Take me home,
I'm through fighting it,
Broken,
Lifeless,
I give up,
You're my only strength,
Without you,
I can't go on,
Anymore,
Ever again.

SUNSHINE

Made a wish, I can dream
I can be what I want to be
Not afraid to live my life
And fulfil my fantasies

Sunshine through my window
That's what you are
My shining star
Sunshine
Making me feel like
I'm on top of the world
Telling me I'll go far

Reaching out, for the highs
You inspired me to try
I felt the magic inside
And I felt that I could fly

SAY ANYTHING (sent to me by a close friend)

I used to know the sound
of a smile in your voice
but right now
all I feel
is the pain of the fighting
starting up again

All the things we talk about
You know they stay on my
All the things we laugh about
they’ll bring us through it every time

Don't say a word
I know you feel the same
just give me a sign
say anything say anything

please don’t walk away
I know you want to stay
just give me a sign
say anything say anything

Some say that
Time changes
Best friends can
Become strangers

but I don’t want that
no not for you
if you just stay with me
we can make it through

so here we are again
the same old argument
and now I'm wondering
if things will ever change
when will you laugh again
laugh like you did back then

TRY

Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
I'm all I'll ever be
But all I can do is try

All of the moments that already passed
We'll try to go back and make them last
All of the things we want each other to be
We never will be

TORN

Well you couldn’t be that man I adored
You don’t seem to know, don’t seem to care what your heart is for
But I don’t know him anymore
There’s nothing where he used to lie
My conversation has run dry
That’s what’s going on, nothing’s fine I’m torn

I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel
I’m cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed into something real
I’m wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
You’re a little late, I’m already torn

So I guess the fortune teller’s right
Should have seen just what was there and not some holy light
To crawl beneath my veins and now
I don’t care, I have no luck, I don’t miss it all that much
There’s just so many things that I can’t touch, I’m torn

HURT

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

LONELY GIRL
I can remember the very first time I cried
How I wiped my eyes

and buried the pain inside
All of my memories - good and bad - that's past
Didn't even take the time to realize
Staring at the cracks in the walls
Cause I'm waiting for it all to come to an end
Still I curl up right under the bed

Cause its taking over my head all over again
Lying awake watching the sunlight

How the birds will sing

As I count the rings around my eyes

Constantly pushing the world I know aside
I don't even feel the pain,

I don't even want to try
Oh, nothing is ever enough


YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME

You do something to me - something deep inside
I’m hanging on the wire - with love I’ll never find
You do something wonderful - then chase it all away
Mixing my emotions - that throws me back again

Hanging on the wire, I’m waiting for the change
I’m dancing through the fire, just to catch a flame-
And feel real again.

You do something to me - somewhere deep inside
I’m hoping to get close to- a peace I cannot find-

Dancing through the fire- just to catch a flame
Just to get close to, just close enough-
To tell you that

You do something to me-something deep inside

Everyday is Like Sunday - Morrisey
---------------------------------
Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon - come armageddon!
Come, armageddon! come!

Everyday is like sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard :
How I dearly wish I was not here
In the seaside town
...that they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come - nuclear bomb

Everyday is like sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

Trudging back over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
(and on your face...)
(on your face ...)
(on your face ...)
(on your face ...)

Everyday is like sunday
Win yourself a cheap tray
Share some greased tea with me
Everyday is silent and grey

Lacrimosa - Darkness

my heart, my love
one word, and gone
to stay, i will
believe, and pray
to see, to feel
to hear, to be and gone
how can i get close to you?
how can i the foolish one?

beauty can't be seen but only kissed
i have so much love to give
but where are you and how to be reached?

can i talk, can i speak?
and can i lay my head on you?
can i choose and can i say
i love you!!!

darkness surrounding me
my head hangs low
your arms are far
your breath takes me
besides i am in love
i'm loving you but you
so far from me i'm holding out
your words your face your breath
your touch your heart should cover me
but all you do is watching me
so i dismiss the grace of you
and far beyond the darkness grows
which leads me back to all my roots
the longing and the pain
in darkness and disgrace
the longing and the pain
in darkness and disgrace

beauty can't be seen but only kissed, but only kissed
i have so much love to give
but where are you and how to be reached?

beauty can't be seen but only kissed, but only kissed
i have so much love to give
but where are you and how to be reached?
how to be reached?
how to be reached?

I thought the future held
a perfect place for us
That together we would learn to be
the best that we could be
In my naivety I ran
I fell and lost my way
Somehow I always end up falling over me

And one day
I woke to find
The future had no place
for me
I was unwanted in a world
that with my hands I helped build
Where once was honesty and pride
I now stand broken and alone
Just a shadow
of what I was meant to be

They say that "Time will heal"
"The truth shall set us free"
Well that depends
on what it is
that you choose to believe
In this prison made of lies
We see what it is we want to see
And find comfort in this
broken hall of dreams

Does anybody feel
the way I do?
Is there anybody out there?
Are you hearing me?

I believe in you
Will you believe in me?
Or am I alone
in this hall of dreams?

I believe in you
You believe in me
But I have no trust
in anything
Somehow I'm always
always falling over me

Somehow I'm always
I'm always falling over me
It's colder than before
The seasons took all they had come for
Now winter dances here
It seems so fitting don't you think?
Dress the ground in white
And grey

It's so quiet I can hear
My thoughts touching every second I spent
Waiting for you
Circumstances affords me
No second chance
To tell you
How much I've missed you

My beloved do you know
When the warm wind comes again
Another year will start to pass
And please don't ask me why I'm here
Something deeper brought me
That I need to remember

We were once young and blessed with wings
No heights could keeps us from their reach
No sacred place we did not soar
Still greater things burned within us
I don't regret the choices that I've made
I know you feel the same

My beloved do you know
How many times I stared at clouds
Thinking that I saw you there
These are feelings that do not pass so easily
I can't forget what we claimed was ours

Moments lost though time remains
I am so proud of what we were
No pain remains
No feeling
Eternity awaits
Grant me wings that I might fly
My restless soul is longing
No pain remains
No feeling
Eternity awaits

Moments lost though time remains
I am so proud of what we were
No pain remains
No feeling
Eternity awaits
Grant me wings that I might fly
My restless soul is longing
No pain remains
No feeling

Eternity awaits
.

Why do people copy song lyrics? Who reads them? The real emotions in a song are carried in the music. Unless you hear the song, no amount of lyrics-reading wil give you an idea of the feelings.

Here's a list for you.

1. Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings
2. Björk - Hyper-Ballad
3. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
4. The Gathering - Saturnine
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect
6. The Smiths - How Soon is Now
7. U2 - One
8. PJ Harvey - This Mess We're In
9. Mùm - Awake on a Train
10. The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
11. Björk - Jóga
12. Led Zeppelin - D'yer Maker
13. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
14. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
15. Aghora - Anugraha

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
2. U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
3. Mùm - Green Grass of Tunnel
4. Michael Nyman - Big My Secret
5. The Gathering - The May Song
6. Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky
7. Sigur Rós - Njósnavélin
8. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
10. U2 - Acrobat
11. Björk - Pagan Poetry
12. The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
13. Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
14. U2 - With or Without You
15. Shpongle - Crescent Suns
16. Opeth - The Drapery Falls

Smashing Pumpkins - In the Arms of Sleep
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday, Mofo, Please
Tori Amos - Winter, Phantom
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
The Gathering - Eléanor, In Motion #1, The Earth is My Witness
Björk - Unravel, Bachelorette, Enjoy, Undo, I've Seen It All
PJ Harvey - Beautiful Feeling
Aghora - Kali Yuga, Frames
The Smiths - I know It's over,
Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine, Comfortably Numb
The Beatles - For No One, Eleanor Rigby, Let It Be, Good Day Sunshine, Within You Without You
Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar, Ágætis Byrjun, Ný Batterí
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song, No Quarter
Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Elton John - Your Song
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Opeth - Face of Melinda
Radiohead - Karma Police
Steve Vai - For The Love of God, Boston Rain Melody
Megadeth - In my darkest hour
Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Shpongle - Crescent Suns
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Eva Cassidy - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

Simon and Garfunkel- Kathy's Song, America

The Eels - Guest List

Are you one of the beautiful people
Is my name on the list
Wanna be of the beautiful people
Wanna feel like i'm missed

Hey you with the walkie talkie
I know my clothes are not right
I wish i had my own walkie talkie
That reached to god every night

Everyone needs to be somebody
Everyone needs to find someone who cares
But i don't know if you know what i mean
'cause i'm never on your list

Are you one of the beautiful people
Am i on the wrong track
Sometimes it feels like i'm made of eggshell
And it feels like i'm gonna crack

Everyone needs to be somebody
Everyone needs to find someone who cares
But i don't know if you know what i mean
'cause i'm never on your list

Uncle Tupelo - Black Eye

he had a black eye
he was proud of
like some of his friends
it made him feel somewhere outside
of everything and everywhere he'd been

like his brothers
he emptied himself
and played it safe
like their father
he wanted to remember
but he almost always
forgot what he was gonna say

black eye
black eye

when he realized
that this one was here to stay
he took down
all the mirrors in the hallway
and thought only of his younger face

black eye
black eye

Uncle Tupelo - Fatal Wound

don't the lights look empty
when the streets are bare
almost as empty
as the look you give me
when I'm the only one

and it's a long one
so it brings you down
so say you have nowhere else to go
and nothing to do
so you hang around
you hang around

but you wait around until
you've received that fatal wound

columns of sunlight
and glorious cities
oceans of opportunity
and all your decisions seem ancient

but you wait around until
you've received that fatal wound

U2 - One

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you
Now you got someone to blame

You say
One love
One life
When it’s one need
In the night
It’s one love
We get to share it
It leaves you baby
If you don’t care for it

Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without

Well it’s too late
Tonight
To drag tha past out
Into the light
We’re one
But we’re not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come tor raise the dead
Havew you come here to play jesus
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it’s all I got
We’re one
But we’re not the same
We hurt each other
Then we do it again

You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can’t be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should

One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers

One life
But we’re not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other

One

One.


I should probably add: there are a hell of a lot of songs I find 'emotional'. These are just a few. None are by Radiohead, you might note.

Quite possibly the saddest song I've ever heard...

I hear the bustle of an airport in the background and I think of the girls I was with for 5 and a half years and asked to marry, she said yes, but 2 years later it ended.

Anna Lisa by Prozzak

Is it really over
Anna-Lisa
Seems that we've grown older
and time has beat us
seems I've forgotten who to be
you took the better part of me
my heart, my soul, my sweetest memories
you're my identity

Boxes line our hallway
where laughter used to be
empty house surrounds me
and echos our history
I wrack my brain
to find a way
to bring us back to yesterday
my love, my life, my childhood fantasy
still everything to me
my Anna-Lisa

Looking out this window
almost seeing
you pull in the driveway
and kiss me so casually
if I knew then
what I know now
I would have changed your mind somehow
my hopes, my dreams, my future family
that's what you took from me
my Anna-Lisa

Desperado - The Eagles
Lately - Stevie Wonder

Springtime is here, and the wind from the south
Blows strong and warm to clean out your house
The sun has arisen and the lies that were told are
Driven outside with the freezing cold
I can remember a spring just like this
I was nineteen years old
Now the time is sorely missed
The first year that I left my mother’s house
Out to make my way in this world somehow

I can’t believe how the times they have changed
All the dreams that came true still seem so far away
I remember the days sittin’ on the front porch with
The sun beatin’ down in my neighborhood
I’d sit out all night singin’ songs to the moon
Or try and get some sweet honey back to my bedroom

My friends they were few but to me they were true
All we was trying to do was just to make it through
Always thought for the future, but we shouldn’t have cared
All the best things in life we shared them right there

So to all those old friend God be with them
I wish, I wish I could see you again
In the same corner bar where it all started from
Dig your plow so deep now the stars have all gone
So wherever they shine may it be warm and bright
Out to ease my mind on this worried night
It all seemed so simple and good tidings I send
I’ll never forget that one year that we spent

Isn't any song emotional? Seems to me that creation of virtually any kind involves an emotional element, whether expressed or not.

I know I'm gonna draw fire for this, but it also occurs to me that what passes for "emotional" in recent years is far more whiny than it is anything else. Don't get me wrong, modern music is perfectly capable of sincerity (Nick Drake, Belle & Sebastian, etc.), but all of these "emotional" songs seem to have lost love in common and the vast majority have lyrics.

I challenge you to listen to Henryk Gorecki's 2nd Symphony without some kind of sadness welling up within you. A song with a sad or morose lyric that gets bludgeoned by whining or overamped guitars loses some of its punch.

Fair is fair, though, so I'll list a few of mine (THANKFULLY without printing the lyrics...some of these examples are really trite). These are just opinions, folks, nowhere do I claim to be right -- just me.

XTC -- "Your Dictionary", "Dear God", "The Last Balloon", many others
HARRY CHAPIN -- "Bummer", "WOLD", "Taxi", "Halfway to Heaven"
TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY -- "As Yet Untitled"
BILL HICKS -- "Chicks Dig Jerks"
ORFF -- "Carmina Burana"
BEETHOVEN -- Symphony #3 "Eroica"
MOZART -- Symphony #41, Requiem, "Ave Verum Corpus"
BRAHMS -- Symphony #2
SHOSTAKOVICH -- Symphony #10
ROGER MILLER -- "Husbands and Wives" esp. as covered by Ringo Starr
HOLST -- The Planets: "Mars, Bringer of War" and "Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity"
HANS ZIMMER -- "Mother Africa"

So there's more to an emotional song than frustrated love. That's all.

Drinking for 11, by the Mad Caddies.

I'm too lazy to write out lyrics.

In Flames - "Bottled"

I really don't have anything to say
Just pass me by
Don't ask me the same questions
Just deny I'm there

Like the time around me
This room is filled with nothing
Fell awkward in a place with many
Leave this space to me

I channel the pain through this
The paper, the pen, your eyes
To stare into what's next
It frightens me
No control, no reward
I'm in circles again

Still and breathless
I don't care what's behind
To you I look for energy
To catch my breath again

The world looks old to me
Tonight I drink myself sober
Soon this could be over
Tale a picture of the pale

New morning knocking
Feels just like always
Pen down my regrets
I reach to you again

I channel the pain through this
The paper, the pen, your eyes
To stare into what's next
It frightens me
No control, no reward
I'm in circles again

---

Nine Inch Nails - "I'm Looking Foward to Joining You, Finally"

As black as the night can get
Everything is safer now
There's always a way to forget
Once you learn to find a way how

In the blur of serenity
Where did everything get lost?
The flowers of naivete
Buried in a layer of frost

The smell of sunshine
I remember sometimes

Thought he had it all before they called his bluff
Found out that his skin just wasn't thick enough
Wanted to go back to how it was before
Thought he lost everything
Then he lost a whole lot more

A fool's devotion
Swallowed up in empty space
The tears of regret
Frozen to the side of his face

The smell of sunshine
I remember sometimes

I've done all I can do
Could I please come with you?
Sweet smell of sunshine
I remember sometimes