Let's hear it for the music!

[Dutch Uncle]

Music can be so soothing for me. In a whole range of emotions. In fact, sometimes I have a tune in my head, and only when I play the song I know why it's in my head.

So, I'd like to start a thread in which we can post songs to share, or just to remind ourselves of what it means to us.
Happy, sad, inspiring, soothing, opening the floodgates of grief... Anything goes.

If you want and feel like it, share a bit of your story with us.


It's probably superfluous to mention this, as music is one of the few forms of communication that so directly speaks to/touches our emotions, but here it goes:

***probable triggers***

[Dutch Uncle]

I'll kick of with this song of Rush, the Canadian (prog/symphonic-)rock veterans, still going strong!

I got to know this band in my puberty/adolescense when I became part of a close-knit group of friends. Two of the bunch of 7 or 8 I still see regularly (30 years down the road), and we are dear and close friends. We've shared our ups and downs (there have been more ups, thank heavens  ), and already then this song had a great impact on me.

I'm pretty sure quite a few of you can relate to the lyrics: Life is an awkward adventure...
It's my wish that you all find as much comfort in the lyrics as I do, however much they speak of the 'struggle' I'm so familiar with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5RSv52g6U

"Vital Signs"

Unstable condition
A symptom of life
In mental and environmental change
Atmospheric disturbance
The feverish flux
Of human interface and interchange

The impulse is pure
Sometimes our circuits get shorted
By external interference
Signals get crossed
And the balance distorted
By internal incoherence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a mood lifter
Everybody need reverse polarity
Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to deviate from the norm

An ounce of perception
A pound of obscure
Process information at half speed
Pause, rewind, replay
Warm memory chip
Random sample, hold the one you need

Leave out the fiction
The fact is, this friction
Will only be worn by persistence
Leave out conditions
Courageous convictions
Will drag the dream into existence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a soft filter
Everybody need reverse polarity
Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to elevate from the norm...

[DaisyMae]

Music (and the TV) were my first therapists.  I could drown out the world and escape in the lyrics and the melodies.  Over the last several years, I have not had time to listen to music or watch TV, go to movies to drown out everything else and fantasize I was somewhere else, someone else.  Workaholism consumed me, it was my only mechanism for disassociating and dealing with everything and everyone else around me.  I lost all other interests in life, including music, comedy / shows on TV, or movies. 

My T suggested that I get back in to listening to music. I did.  I found that I like change and to try new things in the world of music and food.  I like to experience the sounds and tastes of different cultures.  I drive my spouse crazy with it.  Anyway, guess I am getting soft as I age as far as listening to music.  I started listening to the new music and one that I really related too was One Republic / Songwriter Ryan Tedder.  Their CD Dreaming Out Loud is a permanent fixture in my car.  I also like Bleachers / Jack Antonoff and Ed Sheeran.  All 3 are amazing young song writers but Ryan's lyrics are the ones that I relate to the most.

One of the first things my T told me was that there was not going to be anyone to rescue me, that I had to save myself.  So the song Someone to Save You on the Dreaming Out Loud playlist holds a lot of meaning for me in my journey to rediscover myself and to find happiness and joy in life.  See the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUH-k4E1Cys

LOL, DM

P.S.  - The song Stop and Stare (also on the Dreaming Out Loud) playlist also helps me calm down.  It is about anxiety and depression and it helps me feel like there is someone else with me in the same place as I am and that I am not dealing with the same struggle alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPaGvHmi5NA

[Dutch Uncle]

Thanks for sharing that, DaisyMae 

So glad you re-found your appetite for music!

[Dutch Uncle]

A nice soothing pop/jazzy song by Jamie Cullum.

For those moments I'm really happy in my solitude, and know it's OK that way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLOglnjC6iY

"All At Sea"

I'm all at sea
Where no-one can bother me
Forgot my roots
If only for a day
Just me and my thoughts sailing far away
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to
All at sea
I'm all at sea
Where no-one can bother me
I sleep by myself
I drink on my own
Don't speak to nobody
I gave away my phone
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to
All at sea
Now I need you more than ever, I need you more than ever, now
You don't need it every day
But sometimes don't you just crave
To disappear within your mind
You never know what you might find
So come and spend some time with me
We will spend it all at sea
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to
All at sea

[DaisyMae]

HI Dutch,

I have been out of the music scene for quite some time.   I love Jazz and Blues and I have never heard of this guy.  This is a great song.  I also checked out his version of Pure Imagination.  It is amazing.  An adult version of the song I used to just close my eyes too and dream that I was far, far away.  I will definitely have to download some of his tunes.  Thank you for the song and the link!

DaisyMae, 

[Dutch Uncle]

This is awesome.

Made me cry: music unites!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE#t=52

[DaisyMae]

Thank you Dutch Uncle!  I love this song and the video is very uplifting, it is awesome to see so many unite.

DM

[Dutch Uncle]

This  is a very special song to me. I can't tell why.
It's in a folder in my music library called "dissonants".
Does it touch a nerve with regard to dissociation?
Does it feed into and/or quench my "cognitive dissonance" ?

I can't tell.
But it touches me deeply.
Soothing in all it's apparent 'disharmony'.

It's instrumental. Just music.
By Duke Ellington (with Charlie Mingus and Max Roach), from 1962, before I was even born.
Fleurette Africaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGowJd-eJOM

[Lifecrafting]

The very first time I heard this song, Bomb the World by Michael Franti, it resonated with me on two levels, first being for the reason it was written - to speak towards peaceful relations between countries. Secondly, it spoke to me of my own judgments toward others and how my actions/reactions created, at the very least, disharmony.

My mantra for a long time was I can bomb the world to pieces but I can't bomb it into peace.


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

Thanks Dutch Uncle for creating Let's Hear It For The Music! I like it!

[KayFly]

This is a great idea!! Thanks Dutch Uncle!!    I love that you like Jamie Cullum too!! I love his work!

I am a singer songwriter and music is a huge part of my life.  I haven't produced much of anything lately. Sometimes I have huge creative spurts, sometimes I have writers block for years.  But music is where I am safe to take the tragedy in my life and turn it into something beautiful.  Its one of my favorite outlets!

Right now, I am in a phase of stemming so much inspiration from so many new, and old artists. I'm in a huge music discovery phase, but I am also in a huge stage of grieving in my life. One year ago, I estranged myself from my birth family due to child abuse. I cry a lot lately, especially when I hear a song that really resonates with my situation and I feel like with symbolisms in music, it opens up room for different interpretations.  This song by Ben Harper called Amen Omen, is one of those.  I came across it recently, and I found it to be very healing, and relative to my situation and to my healing.


"Amen Omen"

What started as a whisper,
Slowly turned in to a scream.
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen.
I don't know where you came from
And I dont know where you've gone.
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn

Amen omen,will I see your face again?
Amen omen,can I find the place within
To live my life without you?

I still hear you saying
"All of life is chance,
And is sweetest,is sweetest when at a glance"
But I live,
I live a hundred lifetimes in a day.
But I die a little
In every breath that I take.

Amen omen,will I see your face again?
Amen omen,can I find the place within
To live my life without you?

I listen to a whisper,
Slowly drift away.
Silence is a loudest,
Parting word you never say.
I put I put your world
Into my veins
Now a voiceless sympathy
Is all that remains.

Amen omen,will I see your face again?
Amen omen,can I find the place within
To live my life without you?

Amen omen,can i find the strength within



My favorite lyric in this song is:
Silence is a loudest,
Parting word you never say.

I like this video where he performs live with The Innocent Criminals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vezcynJ3ICU

<3

[Dutch Uncle]

Lifecrafting and KayFly, thanks for sharing these songs and your associated stories.

Heartwarming! 

[Dutch Uncle]

Something I aspire to.
I do have difficulty grasping it though...

But you gotta see this man blow the Horn! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mtaZ7eoLqs

Devil May Care- by Raul Midón

No blues for me
I'm happy as I can be
I learn to love and to live
Devil may care

No cares and woes
Whatever comes later goes
That's how I'll take and I'll give
Devil may care

When the day is through,
I suffer no regrets
I know that he who frets,
Loses the night
For only a fool,
Dreams he can hold back the dawn
He is wise to never tries to revise
What's past and gone

So live love today, let come tomorrow what may
Don't even stop for a sigh,
It doesn't help when you cry
That's how I live and I'll die
Devil may care

When the day is through,
I suffer no regrets
I know that he who frets,
Loses the night
For only a fool,
Dreams he can hold back the dawn
He is wise to never tries to revise
What's past and gone

So live love today, let come tomorrow what may
Don't even stop for a sigh,
It doesn't help when you cry
That's how I live and I'll die
Devil may care

Writer(s): Bob Dorough, Terrell P.Kirk Jr Copyright: Sincere Music Co.

[KayFly]

Haha!! That's crazy Raul Midon can make a perfect horn!! I love his voice and style.

And I love this song he does with Jason Mraz.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TAK5jy0zW_I

Thanks for sharing DutchUncle. This brought me back to some happy memories.

[Dutch Uncle]

Great song, KayFly.

When you posted Ben Harper's song, It reminded me of this gem, a duet with Vanessa de Mata.

I often cry when I hear this one (I have a weak spot for Portuguese, so that helps as well):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSTWcsU91ZY

Vanessa Da Mata - Boa Sorte (Good Luck) lyrics
(feat. Ben Harper)

É só isso
Não tem mais jeito
Acabou, boa sorte
Não tenho o que dizer
São só palavras
E o que eu sinto
Não mudará
Tudo o que quer me dar
É demais
É pesado
Não há paz
Tudo o que quer de mim
Irreais
Expectativas
Desleais

That's it
There's no way
It's over, good luck
I've nothing left to say
It's only words
And what l feel
Won't change

Tudo o que quer me dar / Everything you want to give me
É demais / It's too much
É pesado / It's heavy
Não há paz / There is no peace
Tudo o que quer de mim / All you want from me
Irreais / Isn't real
Expectativas / Expectations

Desleais
Mesmo se segure
Quero que se cure
Dessa pessoa
Que o aconselha
Há um desencontro
Veja por esse ponto
Há tantas pessoas especiais

Now even if you hold yourself
I want you to get cured
From this person
Who advises you
There is a disconnection
See through this point of view
There are so many special
People in the world
So many special
People in the world
In the world
All you want
All you want

Tudo o que quer me dar / Everything you want to give me
É demais / It's too much
É pesado / It's heavy
Não há paz / There's no peace
Tudo o que quer de mim / All you want from me
Irreais / Isn't real
Expectativas / That expectations

Desleais

Now we're falling
Falling, falling
Falling into the night
Into the night
Falling, falling, falling
Falling into the night
Bom encontro é de dois
Now we're falling
Falling, falling
Falling into the night
Into the night
Falling, falling, falling
Falling into the night

edit: better lyrics, the previous one looked like Cyrillic