Music

[Annegirl]

I found these to be healing songs.

https://soundcloud.com/vashti-awaiz/sweet-girl-5

https://soundcloud.com/vashti-awaiz/beautiful-2nd-recording

https://soundcloud.com/vashti-awaiz/ebony-in-the-shadows

[dag7519]

New to the boards, but a big fan of music as a healing tool, even if it only serves as a lancet for the pain. I haven't seen this posted on any of the other boards but Comes and Goes in Waves by Greg Laswell is eerily spot on for my experience with CPTSD.

"Comes And Goes (In Waves)"
By Greg Laswell

This one's for the lonely, the one's that seek and find
Only to be let down time after time
This one's for the torn down, the experts at the fall
Come on friends, get up now, you're not alone at all

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

And this part was for her
And this part was for her
This part was for her
Does she remember?

It comes and goes in waves

This one's for the faithless, the ones that are surprised
They're only where they are now regardless of their fight
This one's for believing if only for it's sake
Come on friends get up now love is to be made

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

And this part was for her
And this part was for her
This part was for her
Does she remember?

It comes and goes in waves, I
Am only led to wonder why
It comes in goes in waves, I
Am only led to wonder why
Why I, why I try

This is for the ones who stand
For the ones who try again
For the ones who need a hand
For the ones who think they can

It comes and goes in waves, I
Am only led to wonder why
It comes and goes in waves, I
Am only led to wonder why
Why I, why, why I try

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

[Talisien]

My theme tune..I play a dragon in my role play online...I find this stirring and powerful..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P0ChcQaVkU&nohtml5=False

[Talisien]

My new theme tune - Beautifully Broken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2566PfI2VGw

[Errorzone]

Agalloch is a good band for people who've suffered so much that they start to view their sadness as kind of cathartic and beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVobP7DegY

[Dutch Uncle]

 

[woodsgnome]

This has probably always been near the top of those songs that make up my 'recovery tunes'. I guess we all know those troubles, and hope to discover that "the finest hour...is the one that comes between the edge of night and the break of day; ...when the darkness rolls away."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Kn3j7o2yY

ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE
I've been walkin' in my sleep
Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say
I just turned around and they've gone away

I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know
And it was one that happened so long ago

It's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide

Now, I heard the owl a-callin'
Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question and I replied
But he's gone across the borderline

He's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide

The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
It's when the darkness rolls away

And it's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide
And it's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
It's where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide

[Errorzone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3tmC2f3t0

Now is the time for me to rise to my feet
Wipe your spit from my face
Wipe these tears from my eyes

Now is the time for me to rise to my feet
Wipe your spit from my face
Wipe these tears from my eyes

I've got to take my life back
One chance to make it right
I've gotta have my voice be heard
And bring meaning to this life

Cause I've trusted for nothing
I've been led astray
I've been tried and tested
But I won't accept defeat
Now I've done things I regret
And its time to reverse the rules
I just want to make good on
All the promises that I have made

I will be
I will be... I will be heard
I will be... I will be heard

Now is the time for me to rise to my feet (I will be heard)
Wipe your spit from my face
Wipe these tears from my eyes (I will be heard)

Through the worst we prevail
So our voices will be heard
Through the worst we prevail
So our voices will be heard
Through the worst we prevail
So our voices will be heard
Through the worst we prevail
So our voices will be

Now is the time for me to rise to my feet
Wipe your spit from my face
Wipe these tears from my eyes

Now is the time for me to rise to my feet
Wipe your spit from my face
Wipe these tears from my eyes

I've got to take my life back
One chance to make it right
I've gotta have my voice be heard
And bring meaning to this life

Cause I've trusted for nothing
I've been led astray
I've been tried and tested
But I won't accept defeat
Now I've done things I regret
And its time to reverse the rules
I just want to make good on
All the promises that I have made

I will be
I will be... I will be heard
I will be... I will be heard

Now is the time for me to rise to my feet (I will be heard)
Wipe your spit from my face
Wipe these tears from my eyes (I will be heard)

I will be

[TwinCinema]

This thread's been inactive for a while but I'd like to start it again with a song that's been tremendously helpful for me.
For those whose dysfunctional past has left them with a fierce inner critic and self-sabotaging tendencies, like myself, it's very comforting.
Author Nick Hornby summed up why exactly this song is so great:
"it manages to convey an earned optimism and compassion through the filters of truth and a sort of conversational sarcasm; it talks to you, and to sarcastic, compassionate people just like you, and me, because there aren't many of us apparently (although God knows why, seeing as sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable)."

"Hey Self Defeater" - Mark Mulcahy

"Never mind overjoyed, just start with happy
There's no more silent nights and no more horrid fights
Just get a new place and put a thousand miles
Between you and your wrong impressions

And OK, that's my opinion; not everybody else agrees
Hey self defeater
You're underrated by yourself so quit looking down

And you need attention, you really do
And I know that it's yesterday that you're blowing away
And something so sugarcoated like you
Shouldn't have to try just to satisfy

And OK, that's my opinion; not everybody else agrees
Hey self defeater
You're underrated by yourself so quit looking down

And what's over you has come over me
Drive around and you walk around
Wishing and thinking, wishing and thinking
I think that you think too much

OK, that's my opinion; not everybody else agrees
Hey self defeater
You're underrated by yourself so quit looking down
You're underrated by yourself so quit looking down
You're underrated so quit looking down and look up"