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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/20/2008 7:10:25 AM | By far the most uplifting and motivating song in history and the piece I always depend on when it feels like the weight of the world is on my shoulders is The Oscar Meyer Weiner Song:
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner
That is what I'd truly like to be
Cause' if I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner
Everyone would be in love with me.
Doesn't that bring tears to your eyes and make you want to confront your issues head on? | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/20/2008 8:52:47 AM | Healing songs for my fractured soul:
"Stone Blind Love" Tom Waites
"Mocking Bird" Tom Waites
"Bring It on Home to Me" Sam Cooke
"I Confess" English Beat
"Jole Blon" Harry Choates version but The Flatlanders' will do also.
"Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" Grateful Dead version
"I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day" The Pogues
"Something in the Way" Nirvana
"Don't Let It Bring You Down" Neil Young
"Joe Harper Saturday Morning" Van Morrison
Songs of strength for when I am sick of wallowing in it:
"Idiot Wind" Bob Dylan
"Good" Better Than Ezra
"Rub Up, Push Up" Justin Hinds and the Dominoes
"Walk Between the Raindrops" Donald Fagen
"Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms" Bluegrass traditional
"Pissing in a River" Patti Smith
"Don't Look Back in Anger" Oasis
"Clean Break" Talking Heads
"I Go to Rio" Peter Allen
"Dead Flowers" Rolling Stones
If there is somebody out there who likes even one of these songs, we probably would have lots to talk about. | |
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emmy4u
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Joined: 9/24/2007
Msg: 244 | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/20/2008 9:23:01 AM | This is more of a bridging song but:
After All by Dar Williams
Go ahead, push your luck
Find out how much love the world can hold
Once upon a time I had control
And reigned my soul in tight
Well the whole truth
It's like the story of a wave unfurled
But I held the evil of the world
So I stopped the tide
Froze it up from inside
And it felt like a winter machine
That you go through and then
You catch your breath and winter starts again
And everyone else is spring bound
And when I chose to live
There was no joy
It's just a line I crossed
It wasn't worth the pain my death would cost
So I was not lost or found
And if I was to sleep
I knew my family had more truth to tell
And so I traveled down a whispering well
To know myself through them
Growing up, my mom had a room full of books
and hid away in there
Her father raging down a spiral stair
'Til he found someone
Most days his son
And sometimes I think
My father, too, was a refugee
I know they tried to keep their pain from me
They could not see what it was for
But now I'm sleeping fine
Sometimes the truth is like a second chance
I am the daughter of a great romance
And they are the children of the war
Well the sun rose
With so many colors, it nearly broke my heart
It worked me over like a work of art
And I was a part of all that
So go ahead, push your luck
Say what it is you gotta say to me
We will push on into that mystery
And it'll push right back
And there are worse things than that
Cause for every price
And every penance that I could think of
It's better to have fallen in love
Than never to have fallen at all
'Cause when you live in a world
Well it gets into who you thought you'd be
And now I laugh at how the world changed me
I think life chose me after all | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/20/2008 8:55:13 PM | To get over a current Breakup I always listen to:
1- Butterfly by Mariah Carey
2- Let It Flow by Toni Braxton
To Energize I listen to:
1- Someday by Mariah Carey
2- Behind these Hazel Eyes by Kelly Clarkson
3- Wasn't Man Enough for Me by Toni Braxton (great workout song too..especially when the ex is with someone new already! Gets the anger out!) | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/21/2008 5:36:15 PM | I have found one that exemplifies completely ME:
Bruised but not broken.....Joss Stone
"Bruised But Not Broken"
Been alot that I've been through
I cried a tear a time or two
Baby, you know I cried some over you, yeah
Had my heart kicked to the ground
Love ripped me up and tore me down, baby
But that ain't enough to break me
Cuz I'll rise above it
And I'll pick myself up
And I'll dust the pain off my heart
[CHORUS]
And I'll be alright
And I'll love again
And the wounds will mend
I'm bruised but not broken
And the pain will fade
I'll get back on my feet
It's not the end of me
My heart is still open
I'm bruised but not broken
Been alot of tears stained nights
I thought the tears were here for life, baby
The hurt came on and held on tight, yeah
Took a chance, I took a fall
Love broke my heart and shattered all my dreams
But I won't be down on my knees
Cuz I'll rise above it
And I'll pick myself up
And I'll shake the rain out of my heart
[CHORUS]
And I'll be alright
And I'll love again
And the wounds will mend
I'm bruised but not broken
And the pain will fade
I'll get back on my feet
It's not the end of me
My heart is still open
I'm bruised but not broken
Gonna pick my heart up
Take my life back
Shake the hurt away
Pull myself together, put the pieces back in place
I learned love's so hard
Love left my soul scarred
I was shattered inside
[CHORUS]
And I'll be alright
And I'll love again
And the wounds will mend
I'm bruised but not broken
And the pain will fade
I'll get back on my feet
It's not the end of me
My heart is still open
I'm bruised but not broken
This has become my little anthem....it is perfect!! | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/22/2008 4:48:10 PM | pain by three days grace
touch toomuch ac/dc
six feet from the edge creed
everlong (aucustic) foo fighters
your beatiful james blunt
behind blue eye limp bizkit
blurry & she hates me puddle of mudd
outside staind | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/23/2008 9:54:53 PM | There are individual songs and then there are music styles. When it comes to coping with life in its many manifestations, there is no better tonic than the blues. It is often stereotyped but the blues encompasses all emotions and the sadder songs of loss and pain performed by a master of the form can have a cathartic effect on the listener. As one of the three kings of the blues (Albert King) once said, "if ya don't dig the blues, ya got a hole in your soul."
'Nuff said
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/23/2008 10:37:22 PM | [3. Isn't "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor?]
yes, Indeed it is... Now I sing karaoke, and you can always tell when a woman is pissed at her man when she gets up and belts out that particular song;)lol
I will survive is a song for when u r truly feeling bi*chy and want the world to know it, lol. | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/23/2008 10:48:12 PM | well, when I am feeling beat-down romantically, Walk on By for some odd reason, comforts me, if for no other reason than to let him know the good thing he just lost.
Sort of like misery loves company
sung by my man Isaac Hayes
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by
Make believe that you don't see the tears
Oh just let me grieve
In private 'cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
Oh baby, walk on by
Mmm
I just can't get over losing you
So if I seem broken in two
Please walk on by, walk on by
Foolish pride is all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
You put the hurt on
You socked it to me, momma
When you said goodbye
So please walk on by
Make believe you never see the tears I cry
So do me a favor and walk on by
So I'm beggin' you to walk on by
Oh yeah
Make believe you never see the tears I cry
So I'm beggin' you, I'm beggin' you to walk on by
Make believe you never see the tears I cry
Oh, there's no dirt in my eye
Oh no
Smoking don't you me cry no no no (???)
It's the hurt you put on me, yeah
I don't want you to see this man cry
So please walk on by
Oh mama, mama, walk on by
 Chelle | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/25/2008 4:26:41 AM | Following my pity party, I like to listen to Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers; if that dont make you feel better, dunno what else could. (anybody feeling sad email me and I'll set you up with some old school gospel from my collection -- guaranteed to ease some of your pain)
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Posted: 2/25/2008 6:06:21 AM | cd1:
Beth Gibbons: Mysteries
Billy Holliday: Moonlight in Vermont
Dropkick Murphys: Fields of Athenry
Flogging Molly: The Wrong Company (its short but oh so bittersweet)
Johnny Cash: The Streets of Laredo (well nearly any Johnny Cash will work but its my favorite for this type of thing
Smashing Pumpkins: Lily(My One and Only)
Social Distortion: Bad Luck
Portishead: Undenied(again, nearly any Portishead song will do but i like this one) for this
For so bare is my heart, I can't hide
And so where does my heart, belong
Now that I've found you
And seen behind those eyes
How can I
Carry on
cd2:
Daft Punk: Harder, Better, Faster Stronger
Daft Punk: Too Long
Flogging Molly: Seven Deadly Sins
Nirvana: Drain You
Pink Floyd: Have a Cigar (Its called riding the gravey traaaaaain!)
Smashing Pumpkins: Soma
Transplants: Crash and Burn
Violent Femmes: 36-24-36
Social Distortion: Live Before You Die
So close your eyes and embrace your memories (your memories)
Leave your troubles and your worries far behind (so far behind)
Stop contemplating and start celebrating
Yeah you gotta live before you die | |
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Mame7
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Joined: 9/7/2006
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| YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE!!!! ENJOY IT....
Posted: 2/25/2008 6:20:35 AM | PLEASE just SKIP the first CD and make the second. Unless this just happened to you 'yesterday' don't even take any more time to MOURN or even make that first disc and instead go straight to the second, it's all you need because NO one person is worth that much time or energy if it's really ''over''. Don't wallow in it nor deliberately make yourself more miserable. Another bus always comes along in 5 minutes because the world is full of TOO many people for you to encourage yourself to feel even worse with music too! Music is supposed to make us feel BETTER.....>
Take only the GOOD memories with you from ANYTHING in life and forget the rest because that's what usually happens in the long run anyway, so skip right to that and drop the 'middleman', so to speak. Make every effort to SKIP the pain, and move on with the help of everything that's available including other people to distract yourself with and just keep BUSY.... and you'll breeze through it. YOU and only you are in control of your OWN mind and what you fill it with!...>
There's one song [among several others] that is my favorite to lift my spirits about ANYTHING in my life, NOT necessarily a relationship, [I make that the EASIEST issue, no reason not to if anyone disappoints or disenchants me, that's THEIR loss] and I have a whole CD of that one song and every rendition of it running throught it with nothing else on there, that I blast on my stereo throughout the house when feeling down.... AND also a 'tape' before that from long ago that I made too. It's the song from ""La Cage Aux Folle"", but I never thought of the song from a Gay perspective [since I'm not gay], and didn't even know what it was from when first hearing it, and I'm sure you all know the song.....>
It's ''I AM WHAT I AM'' and it's all you need to get through ANY situation in life or the simple 'blues' when anything's getting you down. I have another whole tape of a different variety of uplifting songs for that purpose for other issues in my life that hit me [not relationships particularly, but sometimes other things can be even worse, because one woman or man does NOT define your life..... you were whole without them before, and will be again.... [actually you still are but don't realize it yet] so forget that first mourning/pain CD, don't waste your time on it and go straight to making the 2nd one! Below is my favorite uplifting song. It goes far beyond 'strength'. I even looked up the lyrics for you with laptop problems that took FOREVER so hope it was worth it.....>
Anyone who's never heard it MUST hear Gloria Gaynor singing it though.... to get the full impact. It will blow you away....>
[I also do love ''It's A Wonderful World'', which someone pasted the lyrics of on the first page of this thread.... but you have to hear the music of that, because it adds to the pathos, and so does this one below. I listened to "Wonderful World'' in the Hospital and looked out at the snow every day in Central Park on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and it got me through a stillbirth WITHOUT wallowing in that either. Ok, here's my other favorite below. You can use the words to symbolize and personify anything in your own life that pertains to you, and know you're the best you can be in ANY situation and that YOU decide your worth..... NOT someone else who may have dumped you! That's THEIR problem, not yours. That was MEANT to happen to free you to find someone ELSE who's better around the corner. It's a gift.....>
I AM WHAT I AM ... Gloria Gaynor
I am what I am
I am my own special creation.
So come take a look,
Give me the hook or the ovation.
It's my world that I want to take a little pride in,
My world, and it's not a place I have to hide in.
Life's not worth a damn,
'Til you can say, "Hey world, I am what I am."
I am what I am,
I don't want praise, I don't want pity.
I bang my own drum,
Some think it's noise, I think it's pretty.
And so what, if I love each feather and each spangle,
Why not try to see things from a diff'rent angle?
Your life is a sham 'til you can shout out loud
I am what I am!
I am what I am
And what I am needs no excuses.
I deal my own deck
Sometimes the ace, sometimes the deuces.
There's one life, and there's no return and no deposit;
One life, so it's time to open up your closet.
Life's not worth a damn 'til you can say,
"Hey world, I am what I am!" | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/25/2008 5:48:13 PM | "Yesterday" by Foreigner ......I thought I new you well but all this time I could never tell...how could I let u walk away,I'd give anything to have u here we me......But now I stand alone with my pride fighting back the tears I never let myself cry ..CHORUS..But that was yesterday and today life goes on,no more hiding in yesterday's worldbecause yesterday's GONE!!!Good bye yesterday it's over and done somewhere I know that deep in my heart yesterday will live on.    | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/25/2008 8:14:55 PM | Lullaby (Good Night My Angel) - Billy Joel
Good night my angel time to close you eyes
And save these questions for another day
I think I know what you've been asking me
I think you know what I've been trying to say
I promised I would never leave you
And you should always know
Where ever you may go
No matter where you are
I never will be far away
Good night my angel now it's time to sleep
And still so many things I want to say
Remember all the songs you sang for me
When we went sailing on an emerald bay
And like a boat out on the ocean
I'm rocking you to sleep
The water's dark and deep
Inside this ancient heart
You'll always be a part of me
Goodnight my angel now it's time to dream
And dream how wondeful your life will be
Someday your child will cry and if you sing this lullaby
Then in your heart there will always be a part of me
Someday we'll all be gone
But lullabies go on and on
They never die, that's how you and I will be | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/27/2008 12:57:07 PM | ok:mourning/pain-(reflection/healing)-short list
"wake me up when september's gone"-green day
"right side, wrong bed"-smashmouth
"heart of the matter"-"new york minute"-don henley
"the last resort"-"wasted time"-eagles
"nobody home"-pinkfloyd
"last time-this time"-jim croce
"wishing you were here"-"critic's choice"-chicago
"so far away"-carole king
"for no one"-"let it be""i me mine"-beatles
"lookin out for #1"-BTO(that's right)
strength-(we're talkin crank it up here)
"smash"-the cd-offspring
"club me"-the cd-offspring(good luck finding this one)
"americana"-the cd-offspring
"listen"-"someday"-chicago
"hot for teacher"-"I'll wait"-"House of Pain"-van halen
"summertime blues"-"hello L.A., bye bye birmingham"-blue cheer
"let it ride"-BTO
"heard it on the X"-"TUSH"-"cheap sunglasses"-zztop
"insomnia"-the cd-green day
"fool for the city"-"home in my hand"-foghat
"are you gonna be my girl"-jet
list by no means complete,earplugs optional,aspirin a necessity. | |
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| Best songs for strength and for mourning/pain
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:09:31 PM | | wow lots of great songs on here but the ones i find for heartache are american girl- tom petty / bad love- eric clapton/ fool in the rain- led zepplin/ still the same- bob seger and the silver bullet band for songs of encouragement anything by eminem (crazy i know)/ yeah-usher, lil jon, ludacrious / don't stop believin'-journey/margaritaville-jimmy buffet/ and for really oldies somewhere over the rainbow-judy garland. hope it was good selections | |
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