Music

[Annegirl]

I love this song and Lenka,
These songs help me and also the songs I write.

Here's the link for one of Lenka's songs.

http://youtu.be/elsh3J5lJ6g

Anyone else got music and songs that help them?

[bheart]

I really like that song Annegirl and never heard it before.  Thanks for sharing it.

I love music and after finding out this year that I had CPTSD I listened to this song a lot.


Sara Bareilles - Brave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4

[Annegirl]

Hey Bheart that's so cool, I loved it,! it's one I have also never heard. Surprisingly because it has so many views.
Thanks so much for sharing it 

[schrödinger's cat]

I used to listen to Sunday Bloody Sunday for a while. It's about a massacre, not about abuse, but there was something I could relate to in the stance - it's not aggressive, nor sad and despondent, but it's still full of emotions, and it talks clearly about the facts without sugar-coating them AND talks about unity and non-aggressive forms of reactions, too. ... Or I'm reading too much into it, that's also possible.

[Annegirl]

SC this sounds like a really great song! Has a lot of wisdom in it, it sounds.

[keepfighting]

One of my favorite pick-me-up songs is "A piece of sky" by Barbara Streisand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT7R-QCrhtg

When she (the film persona) talks to her late father who had always encouraged her to be herself despite conventions I always imagine that my father were like that - encouraging me to expore my possibilities.

[spryte]

One of my friends recently posted this:
"Music is Magic.
And I don't mean that metaphorically. Quite literally, music IS Magic. How else can you explain something that's so arbitrary and relative to an individual's taste, existing for no other reason than to exist, having such a profound effect on the world? It shapes lives, influences everything from politics to art... And yet it has no ability to physically alter the world by itself.
I think it's because, in part anyway, it alters the perceptions of the world. And that CAN change everything."

Music is magic. Music is imminently healing - which is also magic. I've used music more times than I can count to keep my sanity throughout my healing journey.

And because I've been processing a lot of chaotic and angry feelings lately, I've finally "gotten" what heavy metal music can do. I'm not a metal head (everyone else I know is) and I'm still very picky with what I like and don't like...but there are times, when I am feeling like a hurricane inside that nothing else comes close to externalizing that feeling with a beat other than something heavy.

Right now, I am digging on a song by a band named Gojira.
It's called Esoteric Surgery

Lyrics:
You have the power to heal yourself

All illness can be healed
the cell regenerates
disambiguated situation
There is a secret code
in the structure of the mind
You have the power to heal yourself

Flesh bodies mute and blinded
roaming uncertain, lost
infected misinformed
Releasing a black enormous insect
out from the chest
archaic form disease

Esoteric surgery a dissection of the soul
Unsuspected precise power
on the wounded astral body
projected beam of light

All illness can be healed
the cell regenerates
disambiguated situation
There is a secret code
in the structure of the mind
You have the power to heal yourself

Suspended floating in empty spaces
Descending swift like a fire running down
Obstruction disintegration life force
overcoming all circumstances
Release the pain

[JoannaSunshine]

Wow Spryte, I really like the quote from your friend about music being magic. I had never really thought of it like that before. Music used to be one of my main coping mechanisms when I was younger. I would blast my stereo in the bathroom as I got ready for work each morning and sing and dance my heart out. That was how I ensured I would have a good day. I love to sing, it's just such an amazing feeling to match a pitch and create a beautiful harmony. I think it's one of the best feelings in the world.
I have lost touch with that routine, and become a little more insecure about people hearing me sing than I used to. Right now I don't even have a stereo I can keep in my bathroom. I feel like part of the reason I may be struggling more with difficult emotions may be that I'm not listening to music or singing much lately. I need to change that.
I agree Spryte, rock music can be very cathartic to listen to if you want to get out some anger/frustration/rage. I used to listen to a lot of punk rock, which isn't always so heavy. A lot of the songs lyrics are tongue in cheek and actually pretty fun. I always found that kind of music to be uplifting. Lately I listen to female vocalists, when I do get around to putting music on that is. I love Brandi Carlile, she has been my favorite in recent years. I also recently discovered Lenka Annegirl, and I really like her music too. This is the song that turned me on to Lenka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpvlr_kG6U
Last Winter I had made plans to join some sort of local music group. I looked into becoming part of a choir, but there aren't too many options in my area. I could join the local chapter of the Sweet Adelines, but they have membership dues/$ for costumes/$ for travel to competitions and I don't think I can afford it. Besides a cappella barbershop quartet style music really isn't my thing. Perhaps I should start looking into this again. I'm sure I can find someone to make music with in this town. Music has been such an important part of my life, my identity and my healing process. I need to make sure I don't just let it go by the wayside.
Here's a few more songs I wanted to share.
Brandi Carlile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxyT27xRH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNmo8I4dEQE

The Wailin' Jennys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UNT3poCd6U

[Kizzie]

So I went to my first (funky) African drumming class yesterday and what an absolute hoot for my IC!! She laughed and grinned and wailed on the drums and just had a really good time. 

[spryte]

Kizzie - that sounds like a lot of fun! Whenever my boyfriend takes me to the music store (he's a guitarist and bassist) I am always drawn to the percussion section. Maybe I need to buy myself a drum, lol.

Another song that I have really been connecting to over the last year...it's gone on repeat for hours at a time a lot...

Eminem - Beautiful Pain

I can feel the heat rising
Everything is on fire
Today's a painful reminder of why
We can only get brighter
The further you put it behind ya
And right now I'm on the inside
Looking out, cause

[Hook: Sia]
I'm standing in the flames
And it's a beautiful kind of pain
Setting fire to yesterday
Find a light, find a light, find a light
Standing in the flames
And it's a beautiful kind of pain
Setting fire to yesterday
Find a light, find a light, find a light

[Verse 1:]
Yesterday was the tornado warning, today is like the morning after
Your world is torn in half.
You wake and let's wait to start the morning process
Rebuilding and you're still a work in progress.
Today is a whole new chapter, it's like an enormous *.
The thunderstorm has passed ya.
Your weather didn't poke his eyes out with the thorn bush that you used to smell the roses.
Stopped to inhale, can't even tell your nose is stuffed.
So focused on the bright side.
Then you floor the gas pedal and hit the corner fast,
The more asserted, never looking back, may hit the curb,
But everyday is a new learning curve as you steer through life.
Sometimes you might not wanna swerve but you have to to avert a disaster.
Lucky, no permanent damage,
'Cause they hurt you so bad.
It's like they murdered your * and threw dirt on your casket,
But you returned from the ashes.
And that hurt that you have, you just converted to gasoline,
And while you're burning the past, standing at inferno and chant

[Hook: Sia]

[Verse 2:]
So familiarize what having to swallow this pill is like
It happens all the time, they take your heart and steal your life
And it's as though you feel you've died because you've been killed inside
But yet you're still alive which means you will survive
Although today you may weep because you're weak and
Everything seems so bleek and hopeless
The light that you're seeking, it begins to seep in
That's the only thing keeping you from leaping off the motherfreaking deep end
And I'm pulling for you to push through this feeling
And with a little time that should do the healing
And by tomorrow you may even feel so good that you're willing
To forgive them even after all that * you been put through.
This feeling of resilience is building.
And the flames are burning quick as fire would through this building you're sealed in
But you're fireproof, and flame retardant you withstood it.
And as you climb up to the roof you're just chillin' and you look down
'Cause you're so over them you could put the heel of your foot through the ceiling.

As time passes, things change everyday
But wounds, wounds heal
But scars still remain the same
But tomorrow today's gone down in flames
Throw the match, set the past up ablaze

So feel the fire beneath your feet
As you barely even perspire from the heat
Exhale deep and breathe a sigh of relief
And as you say goodbye to the grief
It's like watching the walls melt in your prison cell
But you've extinguished this living *
Still a little piece of you dies, you scream

[Hook: Sia]

[Sia:]
I feel the burn, watch the smoke as I turn rising,
A phoenix from the flames
I have learned, from fighting fights, that weren't mine
Not with fists, but with wings that I will fly

[Hook: Sia]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8CQToLDaho

[Annegirl]

I really like it bheart. Thank you for sharing it!  

[JohnnyBoy]

I used to listen to Sunday Bloody Sunday for a while. It's about a massacre, not about abuse, but there was something I could relate to in the stance - it's not aggressive, nor sad and despondent, but it's still full of emotions, and it talks clearly about the facts without sugar-coating them AND talks about unity and non-aggressive forms of reactions, too. ... Or I'm reading too much into it, that's also possible.

Sunday Bloody Sunday my all time favorite U2 song is about the Easter Uprising in 1916 by the Irish Republican Army against the English lol so I m Irish....among other things

[Shadowlight]

Music has been my meditation for as long as I can remember. 
I love the Sunday Bloody Sunday nod, but In The Name Of Love gets my vote in the U2 zone.

Here is a song lyric from a very calming source: Bob Marley

When the whole world lets you down
And there's nowhere for you to turn,
'Cause all of your best friends have let you down, do-o-own.
Then you try to accumulate,
But the whole world is full of hate,
So all of your best starts just drift into space.

I know a place where we can carry on.
I know a place where we can carry on.
We can carry on, we can carry on,
we can carry on, we can carry on.

And there is people like you, people like me
People need to be free.
And there's a place in the sun
Where there is love for everyone,
Where we can be, yeah.

I know a place where we can carry on.
I know a place where we can carry on.
We can carry on, we can carry on,
We can carry on, we can carry on.

Whe-e-e!
When the whole world let you down
And there's nowhere for you to turn,
'Cause all of your best friends, a-they have let you down, down-own-own.
Then you try to accumulate,
But the whole world is full of hate,
So all of your best starts just drift into space.

I know a place where we can carry on.
I know a place where we can carry on.
We can carry on, we can carry on,
We can carry on, we can carry on,
We can carry on, we can carry on,
We can carry on, we can carry on.
(fadeout)



Read more: Bob Marley - I Know A Place Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[KayFly]

I miss our music threads! I meant to post this song the other day but I was on my way out the door. I had the song stuck in my head all morning and it is so...beautiful. I love Jason Mraz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l74d1fmZbw

Enjoy. Have a wonderful day!

[GettingThere]

An overt anti-Narcissist rock anthem 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-_lz7wkoU

Part of the chorus:
"He can't resist the paranoid delusions of a narcissist
It doesn't matter anyways cause he's a self fulfilling prophesy
Of make believe"