Songs that You Identify With, Music to Cope

The Decemberists "The Infanta."

https://youtu.be/nFlTBJdpy5A

 

Lied vom Scheitern lyrics + English translation

This song really gets to me. I can't say I have the attitude in the song but I wish I did. It's all about being yourself, except it's not all glurgy about it like some songs are. (I guess it's better if you know German as the translation reads kind of strangely but my German isn't good enough to do another one.) The video is linked at the bottom and is totally unrelated but pretty funny.

 

Fix You - Coldplay
Runaway Train - Tom Petty?
LOTS of stuff by Ryan Cassata.

 

I literally have a whole playlist titled "Songs that Speak to Me"-- it's like this thread was made for me! :lol:

Well, here they are:

• Jason Mraz- "I Won't Give Up"
• Snow Patrol- "Chasing Cars"
• Eminem- "Lose Yourself"
• James Blunt- "You're Beautiful"
• Disturbed- "The Sound of Silence" (cover)
• MercyMe- "Beautiful"
• Danny Gokey- "Tell Your Heart to Beat Again"
• Rascal Flatts- "What Hurts the Most"
• Gavin DeGraw- "Not Over You"
• X Ambassadors- "Unsteady"
• Citizen Way- "When I'm With You"
• Tim McGraw- "Humble and Kind"
• Michael Bublé- "Haven't Met You Yet"
• MercyMe- "Dear Younger Me"
• Alison Krauss and Union Station- "Moments Like This" (from the soundtrack to Twister)
• Anna Kendrick- "On the Steps of the Palace" (from the soundtrack to Into the Woods)
• Goo Goo Dolls- "Iris"

As you can see, I like a little bit of everything

 

What About Me by Moving Pictures
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times by The Beach Boys

The song I used to always cope to as a teen was In My Room by the Beach Boys.

 

I listen to a lot of twenty one pilots.

A few of the ones that hit me the hardest are "Fake you Out" "Ode to Sleep" and "Guns for Hands" I really relate to them because they are about self harm, suicide and stuff and the band tries to relate to everyone who has been through all that stuff in their songs. So me.

~Nic ^_^

 

2 that have always stood out for me are "Building A Mystery" by Sarah McLachlan.The lyrics are like a puzzle on first listen but the more and more I listen to the song I relate to it in so many ways and the other would be "Gone Away" by The Offspring which I listen to whenever I am thinking of my late mother. the lyrics hit me now more than they did back in 1997 when the song first came out.The song is all about loss and coping with it the best you can and it is such a powerful song

 

Let Down by Radiohead, it's pretty sad and it reminds me a ton of "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, which just pushes it over the depressing edge.

People as Places as People, Life Like Weeds, and Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset are all songs by Modest Mouse which I connected with; among many others. The lyrics on Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset really struck me, because at the time it was what I was thinking and feeling in song form.

 

Off the top of my head, I can say the following songs listed has helped me cope with the death of my partner, two of my best friends and my father:

1. Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father
2. Monica - Angel Of Mine
3. Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You
4. John Lennon - Imagine
5. Aaliyah - I Miss You
6. Tamia - Officially Missing You

 

-Dead Hearts by Stars
-King by Lauren Aquilina
-Sick of it by Skillet

For example

 

There ain't a song to identify me but when the BS becomes too much, the only thing that helps me relax and later calmly deal with the BS is making my own music on my computer. Here are 4 of my best songs which are also my favorite and I'm listening to them at the moment.

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[YOUTUBE]ZCLaIGLQnL8[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]jpmZYeSzaQo[/YOUTUBE]

 

Die Ärzte (and Farin Urlaub as solo) have really strange videos but they always make me laugh. Farin Urlaub - Dusche is another funny video and song.

I listen to almost every genre out there but hip-hop is has gotten me through some truly awful times in my life, it is my coping music.

• Sean Strange - Cardiac Rhythm (English)
• Jean Grae - Keep Livin (English)
• Bushido - Mitten Im Leben (German)
• Bushido - Alles Wird Gut (German)
• Fintelligens - Jos Mahdollista (Finnish)
• DJ Polarsoul - Tuhat jääpiikkii (feat. Juju & Tommishock) (Finnish)
• Melinda Wrede - En Värld Som Den Här (Swedish)

 

Alexis' "Coping" Music:

All Me - Drake
Somebody Else - The 1975
RIP To My Youth - The Neighbourhood
Johnny Boy - Twenty One Pilots
December - Neck Deep
Atlas - Man Overboard
Deserve It - Big Sean

 

As depressing as it is, Hollywood Undead's "Bullet" is one of the most intense songs I identify with, and it leaves me with a weird "warm and fuzzy" feeling when I hear it in retrospect.

 

firework-katy perry.................and roar by same person......I feel so empowered