This world, it turns on the thought of you dead.
- local H, misanthrope.
If you want, a second to breathe, I’ll give you all of my love, give you all that you need
- Sjowgren, seventeen
And on a more serious note, really the whole song, but here’s the refrain, with my amateur translation. I’m not a native English speaker, so the question marks mark the parts that I leave to your interpretation.
世界で一つの 輝く光になれ
私でいい
私を信じてゆくのさ
遠回りしても 守るべき道を行け
私でいい
私の歩幅で生きてくのさBecome a shining light in this world
I’m good enough
I’m going to start believing in myself
Walk the way that I know I should stay true to, even if it takes me on detours
I’m good enough
I’m going to start living with my paceBeautiful, by Superfly
I’ve been living with recidivating depression for a few years now and this song helps.
I will never bow to you
Like you will never bleed for me
Rule number one in life
Never be the number two
Maybe I will never be all the things that I want to be Now is not the time to cry Now’s the time to find out why
I was just listening to these guys this morning.
I absolutely love Oasis
The way they layer guitars is brilliant. The first 20 seconds of Roll With It are an example. Four different guitar sounds come in one after the other at 0, 7 and 20 seconds. At 20 seconds it’s both an acoustic and electric together. Pure class.
I love the vibe of this lyric telling me to enjoy my ordinary life.
This is your life, it’s all been ordinary
Until you find all you’re worth
Then you find your life is all but something ordinary
And you’re longing for home
Your gonna find yourself at homeThe Buzzhorn - Ordinary
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Pink Floyd - Time
I was lucky to hear this words when I was young. I think they made me a little more conscious of how I live.
I heard them when I was a kid but being in a non-english speaking country, I didn’t understand them. When I could understand them, I didn’t “listen” to them (as in I didn’t pay attention), when I did start to actually listen to them, I was already old and it hit me in a not very positive way lol.
But hey, thats life.
That question is too hard, so I will just answer with the latest lyrics I brought up to anyone - was listening to Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, not a lyrical powerhouse. But the very beginning is one of the best beginnings -
“And I’d give up forever to touch you” is such a strong opening.
Usually for me it’s more a combination of the lyrics and delivery, not just the words.
“Calling all friends and people I met on the way down
Calling all friends and people I don’t even know
Calling on high I want to believe there’s a way now
I’m too tired to pretend I don’t want to be alone”- Low Stars
I like to remind myself it’s ok to reach out for a connection to other people.
- Low Stars
And I’m not dead yet so I guess I’ll be alright
In “Way less sad” by AJR
At the moment?
I’m not searching the sky for a reason to live 'Cause I found beauty right here and found the passion to give So let me give you my heart, let me give you my tears Let me give you my life, let me give you my fears
I’ve always interpreted it as someone finding an alternative to suicide, by helping those around them.
How violent is hope
Love only knows
The Pogues - Pont Mirabeau
Let the products sell themselves
Fuck advertising commercial psychology
Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed
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But our land isn’t free
So I work my youth away
In the place of a machine
I refuse to be a slave
Shit from an old notebook and This ain’t no picnic both by minutemen
Will nicht immer alles müssen was ich kann Eine Hand in den Sternen, die andere bietet Getränke an. Ich kann mit allen zehn Füßen in zwanzig Türen Und mit dem elften in der Nase Ballette aufführen
Aber wenn ich könnte wie ich wollte würd ich gar nichts wollen. Ich weiß aber das alle etwas wollen sollen.Wir sind Helden
Translation:
I don’t always want to have to what I can
One hand in the stars the other one is offering drinks
I can stand with all my ten feet in twenty doors
And with the eleventh up my nose I can perform balletts
But if I could how I wanted, I wouldn’t want anything. Though, I know that everybody has to want something.Between the Bars by Elliott Smith is a beautiful but sad song about alcohol addiction. These lyrics about how it robs you of potential while at the same time making you feel like anything is possible really hit home for me.
Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do
You won’t but you might
The potential you’ll be
That you’ll never see
The promises you’ll only make
Bottles and Bones, Califone What Sara Said, Death Cab for Cutie Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead
Those come to mind as great, “poetry with music” songs, but there are many more.
