I’m a girl drawn by music. Drawn by lyrics. Drawn by emotion.
On Monday I shared Daughter as part of my weekly Music Monday post but I’m not done sharing. Because I haven’t been able to pull my ears away, hardly stopping to listen to anything else.
Because of the music. Because of the lyrics. Because of the emotion that they bring up. This is music that makes me feel something. And feel something powerful.
I don’t expect anyone to understand.
Regardless, I want to share some of the lyrics. If you read, listen and open your heart, you can’t tell me music doesn’t make you feel something.
Youth
Shadows settle on the place, that you left.
Our minds are troubled by the emptiness.
Destroy the middle, it’s a waste of time.
From the perfect start to the finish line.
And if you’re still breathing, you’re the lucky ones.
‘Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs.
Setting fire to our insides for fun
Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong
The lovers that went wrong.
We are the reckless,
We are the wild youth
Chasing visions of our futures
One day we’ll reveal the truth
That one will die before he gets there.
And if you’re still bleeding, you’re the lucky ones.
‘Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone.
We’re setting fire to our insides for fun.
Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home,
It was a flood that wrecked this…
… and you caused it…
… and you caused it…
… and you caused it…
Well I’ve lost it all, I’m just a silouhette,
A lifeless face that you’ll soon forget,
My eyes are damp from the words you left,
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest.
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest.
And if you’re in love, then you are the lucky one,
‘Cause most of us are bitter over someone.
Setting fire to our insides for fun,
To distract our hearts from ever missing them.
But I’m forever missing him.
And you caused it,
And you caused it,
And you caused it
Medicine
Pick it up, pick it all up.
And start again.
You’ve got a second chance,
you could go home.
Escape it all.
It’s just irrelevant.
It’s just medicine.
It’s just medicine.
You could still be,
what you want to,
What you said you were,
when I met you.
You’ve got a warm heart,
you’ve got a beautiful brain.
But it’s disintegrating,
from all the medicine.
from all the medicine.
from all the medicine.
Medicine.
You could still be,
what you want to,
What you said you were,
when you met me.
You could still be,
what you want to.
What you said you were,
when I met you.
when you met me.
when I met you.
Ooooooooo…
Ooooooooo…
Landfill
Throw me in a landfill
Don’t think about the consequences
Throw me in the dirt pit
Don’t think about the choices that you make
Throw me in the water
Don’t think about the splash I will create
Leave me at the altar
Knowing all the things you just escaped
Push me out to sea
On a little boat that you made
Out of the evergreen that you helped your father cut away
Leave me on the tracks
To wait until the morning train arrives
Don’t you dare look back
Walk away
Catch up with the sunrise
‘Cause this is torturous electricity
Between both of us and this is
Dangerous ’cause I want you so much
But I hate your guts
I hate you
So leave me in the cold
Wait until the snow covers me up
So I cannot move
So I’m just embedded in the frost
Then leave me in the rain
Wait until my clothes cling to my frame
Wipe away your tear stains
Thought you said you didn’t feel pain
Well this is torturous electricity
Between both of us and this is
Dangerous, ’cause I want you so much
But I hate your guts. I want you so much
But I hate your guts.
Well this is torturous
Electricity between both of us
And this is dangerous ’cause I want you so much
But I hate your guts
I want you so much but I hate your guts
What songs makes you feel something?
I love getting lost in music when things are out of order. Thank you for sharing.
I totally hear you about music making you feel emotions. it doesn’t do it quite the same as it used to, but there are songs that still bring me back to different spaces and times. specifically, jimmy eat world. I can’t listen to it without thinking of everything between college boyfriend and myself. the album “clarity” was ours, and i remember him playing “kill” on his acoustic guitar constantly in our bedroom. it still brings tears to my eyes because i remember how much pain he caused me, and how true some of those lyrics became when we were going through the breakup.