As the title says…which song still haunts you emotionally? Any why? A (freely accessible) link might greatly bring your point across.
Mine would be: (Typhoon - “Empiricist”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E328pIZWFM
The lyrics go deep and it just touches me. No otherwise special attachment.
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Best I Am - Flaw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fnKCrI6VZjE
Not even a parent, just kinda reminds me of things I should remember but always seem to forget.
Sia - Breathe Me (mainly because of Six Feet Under)
Honorable mention to Dan Folgelberg - Same Old Lang Syne.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
It’s not intrinsically emotionally gripping, but my dad loved the heck out of that album and it evokes memories of him singing along and dancing to it.
For me, it’s a song about missing him.
Pearl Jam - Release Had a difficult, complicated relationship with my father. He passed away with a lot of stuff between us left forever unsaid.
[Verse 1]
I see the world, feel the chill Which way to go, windowsill I see the words on a rocking horse of time I see the birds in the rain
[Verse 2]
Oh, dear Dad, can you see me now? I am myself, like you somehow I’ll ride the wave where it takes me I’ll hold the pain, release me
[Verse 3]
Oh, dear Dad, can you see me now? I am myself like you somehow I’ll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me I’ll open up, release me Release me, release me, ah, release me
I still remember listening to Changes by Tupac and Talent for the first time while I was waiting for the bus downtown to head home.
At the time hiphop and rap as a whole was something I hated, but there was something that really stood out about this one track the person across the shelter from me was blasting. The lyrics hooked me from the get go:
"I see no changes, wake up in the morning, and I ask myself Is life worth living, should I blast myself? I’m tired of bein’ poor…"
I didn’t grow up with the best surroundings, and it felt like a gut punch having a song played by a random stranger on their speaker speak to my experience like that. Followed later with:
"I see no changes, all I see is racist faces Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races We under, I wonder what it takes to make this One better place, let’s erase the wasted"
I feel when I was younger I was really insensitive to racial issues, and part of that was owed to circumstances that were unique to myself that I was still dealing with the effects of, but listening to the whole song and the genuine nature of the lived experiences told in the lyrics really helped me see things through another lens that I’m still thankful for today. This part especially helped me do some self-reflection and realize that I was in part misplacing my hate on entire groups of people rather than those who specifically wronged me, and that all I was doing was damaging potential friendships I could have with people who were no different from myself outside of physical characteristics.
Feels weird being open about this, and I know that it’s really odd for someone to say a song of all things got them to change some racist thoughts they held, but I was a teenager at the time with a shitty life in and out of the house, and while it’s no excuse, it was hard to be rational when all you felt was anger at the world and didn’t know where the hell to aim it.
I feel when I was younger I was really insensitive to racial issues,
Isn’t that the beauty? We didn’t even have a concept of “race” as kids. We develop that. As kids everyone is literally the same thing. Just looks a bit different.
But i hear you. And i don’t think it’s weird, that tupac gave you the nudge to ponder. As a teeny you most likely only listened to yourself or maybe some idol-figures. So you actively listened to tupac with your mind not just your ears. Makes total sense to me.
What a luck, you listened to him and not some of those fuckbitches-begangsta-blingbling-imbeciles of today 😁
Queen ’39
"In the year of ’39
Came a ship in from the blue
The Volunteers came home that day, and they bring good news
Of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weight
For the Earth is old and grey
Little darling, we’ll away but my love this cannot be
For so many years are gone
Though I’m older but a year
Your mother’s eyes from your eyes cry to me”
The reality of deep space travel.
Apollo 440( with Billy Mackenzie) - Pain in any Language
It’s a beautiful, depressing song and Billy Mackenzie’s vocals are just haunting. A girl I was hopelessly in love with introduced me to the song, so that adds to its effect on me…
Apollo 440( with Billy Mackenzie) - Pain in any Language
It’s a beautiful, depressing song and Billy Mackenzie’s vocals are just haunting. A girl I was hopelessly in love with introduced me to the song, so that adds to its effect on me…
Apollo 440( with Billy Mackenzie) - Pain in any Language
It’s a beautiful, depressing song and Billy Mackenzie’s vocals are just haunting. A girl I was hopelessly in love with introduced me to the song, so that adds to its effect on me…
Mah’s Joint by Jon Bellion. my grandfather has dementia, so this song always hits me so hard.
Mount Eerie’s album, A Crow Looked at Me, is crushing. Phil Elverum’s wife died shortly after their first child was born. It’s a raw grief album. I listen to this when I need a good cry. https://youtu.be/-1UyUsz0A-A?si=3JY1CLXZIxxKxDl6
Frightened Rabbit’s “Modern Leper” also hits me in the chest.
Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times
And still can’t work out why
You see, I’ve got this disease
I can’t shake and I’m just rattling through life
Betty by Hot Mulligan.
The song is about the death of a beloved pet.
She used to sleep tucked in a tiny ball. Used to listen when I’d sing her favourite song. Held her fingers so she’d wake with me. Get drunk and sink into the couch for TV.
Couple years you couldn’t go outside. But as long as she was here then I would be just fine. Had a cough, it made me nervous then. Thought it would pass by the time winter met its end, oh.
Doctor said, “It doesn’t go away”. Nothing left to do but hope and medicate. Held her fingers so she’d wake with me. Get drunk and stay awake for days, I’d watch her breathe.
Got her ashes from the vet today. I can’t look at them or find the proper place. She used to sleep tucked in a tiny ball. Used to listen when I sang her favourite song, oh.
You’re my boy blue!!
Porter Robinson - Goodbye to a World It’s a fun song since it’s electronic and dance. There’s not even many lyrics, but at the same time it manages to be a very emotional song. It genuinely makes you feel like you’re at the end of a world.
The absolutely achingly long build up invokes such strong tension and vivid mental imagery of the end of some fantastical world, the end of a story. And then the final chorus hits like a truck: the final, thunderous cry of a world at its end. Then all is stripped away and you’re left with a half-broken voice singing the same refrain, and it’s truly over.
Porter Robinson is a musical storytelling genius!
A Different Kind Of Human by AURORA
The song resonates with me so deeply, feeling like I don’t belong anywhere, as an autistic/trans/lesbian individual. The idea of “my people” arriving in a mothership and warmly embracing me for all that I am, and taking me somewhere I belong, is enough to make me well up just thinking about the song.
Lovely song! And hey, don’t separate yourself from “those people” by being “your people”. I, for example, separate “good” from “bad” people. Couldn’t care less about their level of neuro-divergence, genitals or preference :)
