Lyrics that speak to your soul.

Mirror
by Lil Wayne and Bruno Mars

"Mirror on the wall,
Here we are again.
Through my rise and fall,
You've been my only friend.
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here,
Talking to each other again?"

When I listened to this song, particularly this part, I just cried. It is definitely what is in my mind. I was very depressed at that time. I am under fire from my family and relatives' homophobic comments just because I said something good about a gay celebrity. That time was a very dark time.

 

So many songs! The latest is probably:

Doubt
by Mary J. Blige

"I made it to the end,
I nearly paid the cost.
I lost a lot of friends,
I sacrificed a lot.
I'd do it all again,
'Cause I made it to the top."

Because I feel my life is finally on the right track. I lost my two longest friendships (had been friends with both for over a decade) in the process. I lost some family too, but it was soooo worth it. I would do it over and over again if I had to.

I think a lot of people here can relate to this. Probably even more than I.

 

Amy Winehouse's "Love is a Losing Game"

Though I battled blind
Love is a fate resigned
Memories mar my mind
Love is a fate resigned

Over futile odds
And laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame
Love is a losing game ​

Amy's voice is beautifully haunting and her songwriting has always captured me like no other artist has.

 

Amy Ray "Rural Faggot"

"I know you want to change the truth, we were made by nature's fools.../ And you go down to the city/And laugh at the faggots/Until the girls look pretty and until you feel strong/... By this time next year you'll know you're queer/ it'll all be okay/ it'll all be clear"

Having struggled with internalized homophobia I shed a tear the first time I heard this song.

 

McDahmers - Macabre
The Ketchup Was Blood
The Mustard Was Pus
Inside The Closet
Was Pickled Private Parts

Mcdahmers-Isn't Your Kind Of Place
Mcdahmers-It's Not A Happy Place
Mcdahmers-He'll Boil Off Your Face
Mcdahmers-You'll Never Leave His Place

The Nuggets Were Testicles
The Mayo Was Cum
The Burgers Were Biceps
That He Ate With Condiments

Mcdahmers-It's Not Your Kind Of Place
Mcdahmers-It's Not A Happy Place
Mcdahmers-He'll Boil Off Your Face
Mcdahmers-You'll Never Leave His Place

Menergy - Patrick Cowley
Menergy...Menergy...Menergy...

The boys in the barroom
Living it up,
Shootin' off energy.

The guys on the sidewalk
Workin' it out,
Talkin' 'bout Menergy.

Menergy...Menergy...Menergy...

The boys in the back room
Laughin' it up,
Shootin' off energy,
The guys in the street talk checkin' you out,
Talkin' 'bout Menergy.

Menergy...Menergy...Menergy..

The boys in the bedroom
Lovin' it up,
Shootin' off energy,
We all know the feelin'
It's no mistery,
Talkin' 'bout Menergy.

Menergy...Menergy...Menergy...

 

The 9 lines that sum up my life so well:

Rush - Subdivisions.

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out

 

Avenged Sevenfold - "Chapter Four"

Give me your hand, (conceived and born was one of light),
blood is spilt and man will follow.
Infernal man, (rain and dark, the other born black night),
punishment too great to bear

Raise your head and taste the courage,
(the one of light),
Fall from grace, unholy night.
I've come here to kill you,
won't leave until you've died...

To keep it condensed:
I'm hard on myself. Sometimes, harder than I should be. I forget to love myself, and often times give it to cynical criticism. It can feel like a raging war between being positive and negative, but ideally I'd like to be able to say, I've killed the voice that tells me, I'm not quite good enough to have love. Unfortunately, that voice can be pretty damn convincing at times.

 

I've got gadgets and gizmos a plenty
I've got whozits and whatzits galore
You want thingamabobs? I've got twenty!
But who cares? No big deal,
I want more
Disney - Part Of Your World Lyrics

The bold part.

 

For whenever I feel like a failure/underachiever, which is frequently. :/

Vienna
Slow down you crazy child
You're so ambitious for a juvenile
But then if you're so smart tell me,
Why are you still so afraid?

Where's the fire, what's the hurry about?
You better cool it off before you burn it out
You got so much to do and only
So many hours in a day

But you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want
Or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through
When will you realize... Vienna waits for you?

 

Take Me To Church - Hozier​

Spoiler

My lover's got humour
She's the giggle at a funeral
Knows everybody's disapproval
I should've worshipped her sooner

If the heavens ever did speak
She's the last true mouthpiece
Every Sunday's getting more bleak
A fresh poison each week

"We were born sick," you heard them say it

My church offers no absolutes
She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom."
The only heaven I'll be sent to
Is when I'm alone with you

I was born sick
But I love it
Command me to be well
Aaay. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[Chorus 2x:]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover's the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice

Drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course
That's a fine-looking high horse
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starving faithful

That looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work

[Chorus 2x:]

No Masters or Kings
When the Ritual begins
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean
Ooh oh. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[Chorus 2x:]

The RED Bold part conveys my heart and feelings...
i never alone but i always felt so lonely
arfff

PS: i don't believe in god anymore, but since its a song's lyric i leave the "god" word there.

 

Born this way
By: lady gaga
It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up
'cause you were born this way, baby
***
My mama told me when I was young
We are all born superstars
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir

"There's nothing wrong with loving who you are"
She said, "'Cause he made you perfect, babe"
"So hold your head up girl and you'll go far,
Listen to me when I say"

[Chorus:]
I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way
Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

[Post-chorus:]
Oh there ain't no other way
Baby I was born this way
Baby I was born this way
Oh there ain't no other way
Baby I was born this way
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Don't be a drag ‒ just be a queen [x3]
Don't be!

[Verse:]
Give yourself prudence
And love your friends
Subway kid, rejoice your truth
In the religion of the insecure
I must be myself, respect my youth

A different lover is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-M (Hey hey hey)
I love my life I love this record and
Mi amore vole fe yah (Love needs faith)

[Repeat chorus + post-chorus]

[Bridge:]
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen
You're black, white, beige, chola descent
You're Lebanese, you're orient
Whether life's disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied, or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
'cause baby you were born this way

No matter gay, straight, or bi,
Lesbian, transgendered life,
I'm on the right track baby,
I was born to survive.
No matter black, white or beige
Chola or orient made,
I'm on the right track baby,
I was born to be brave.
****
I love this song!!

 

Evanescence: My Immortal

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I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

You used to captivate me by your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face—it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice—it chased away all the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

[Chorus]

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

This has always been the song that touches my soul in the deepest most emotional sense! I love Amy Lee! Evanescence are my favourite band ♥ x

 

Andy Black - They Don't Need To Understand


What made me tough almost killed me
At least that's how I remember the story
Over the years I've forgotten how it was
But I survived and I won't walk down
The same old road that they all followed
It only leads to a life not meant for me

 

Bizarre Love Triangle
New Order

Lyrics

Every time I think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine
But it's a problem I find
Living a life that I can't leave behind
But there's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of the fool won't set you free
But that's the way that it goes
And it's what nobody knows
Well every day my confusion grows

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say

I feel fine and I feel good
I'm feeling like I never should
Whenever I get this way
I just don't know what to say
Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday
I'm not sure what this could mean
I don't think you're what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say



I know a guy, and for some time had kinda known he was either gay or bisexual. He was always my friend and still is today, super cute btw, but back in the day when I was pushing my sexuality deep into the corners he would always argue against me. I kinda knew he was right in what he said, but I was so religiously stubborn I'd still condemn everything. I was really torn and it was so frightening to come to terms with my sexuality and he was very open minded about everything. He could say what I wanted to but I couldn't. This song when used in that context speaks to me. It illustrates the indecision I faced and how he helped to shatter my less than desirable view of the world.

 

Reflection from Mulan--more specifically the Swedish version--explains how I feel almost every single minute of every day.

Here's a video with translation for all those non-Swedes out there.
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Two of them. First (only half-serious),

Birdplane - The Axis of Awesome
I'm more than a bird
I'm more than a plane
I'm a birdplane

A part of me is a bird
The other part is a plane
See my feathers
Hear my engines
My beak
And my hydraulic extensions

I wish that I could cry
And fall upon my beak
Find a way to lie
And pretend I'm not a freak

It may sound insane
It might be absurd
But I'm a plane and I'm also a bird


Quite obvious how I interpret that one, I guess. My gender stuff.



Second,
Skyscraper - Demi Lovato
You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper


Speaks to my personality a lot.


Music means so much to me, I could put 10 more here, but that's enough for now.

 

So many lyrics. I'll just put the two that's been stuck in my head lately.
This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race (Fall Out Boy)
All the boys who the dance floor didn't love
And all the girls whose lips couldn't move fast enough
Sing, until your lungs give out
This ain't a scene, it's a g*d d*mn arms race

Everyone Is Gay (A Great Big World)
If you're gay then you're gay
Don't pretend that you're straight
You can be who you are any day of the week
You are unlike the others
So strong and unique
We're all with you

If you're straight well that's great
You can help procreate
And make gay little babies
For the whole human race
Make a world we can live in
Where the one who you love's not an issue

'Cause we're all somewhere in the middle
And we're all just looking for love to change the world
What if the world stops spinning tomorrow?
We can't keep running away from who we are

 

I don't even know myself at all
I thought I would be happy by now
The more I try to push it
I realize – gotta let go of control

It's just a spark
But it's enough to keep me going
And when it's dark out, no one's around
It keeps glowing

Every night I try my best to dream
Tomorrow makes it better
Then I wake up to the cold reality
And not a thing is changed

And the salt in my wounds isn't burning anymore than it used to
It's not that I don't feel the pain, it's just I'm not afraid of hurting anymore
And the blood in these veins isn't pumping any less than it ever has
And that's the hope I have, the only thing I know that's keeping me alive

Last Hope - Paramore

The song talks about going through difficult times and having faith you’ll come out alive, well and perhaps better than ever on the other side. The line "I thought I would be happy by now" really gets me because that is exactly what I thought.

The whole song Twenty Eight by The Weeknd also describes how I feel. To me it is about feeling vulnerable. I've been listening to it for about a month practically nonstop.