| The Whitlams – The Curse Stops Here Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song always gives me goosebumps. It remnds me to hold on when I'm having a tough time. | |
| The Whitlams – Cries Too Hard Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song has always been about self harm to me, and then I discovered that it really *was* written about that. | |
| Garth Brooks – The Storm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| For me, it's about someone who entered a relationship against the better judgement of her family, and it shattered. All around her lie the broken pieces of everything she had, and she's got to let go and move on. All her friends kept her strong in the beginning, but it's been a while and they figure she's doing okay so they've faded away, but she's still struggling to make it out the other side. | |
| Moving Pictures – What About Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think they were pretty much one hit wonders here, too. Sad, 'cause this is an incredible song. | |
| Evanescence – Hello Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Interesting! I'm inclined to go with the sister's death since that's been backed up several times on the first page (haven't read further yet, sorry if this has been taken back or anything). However, the first time I heard this song I was so sure it was about multiplicity (MPD/DID). I think that in my heart, that's what this song will always be about to me, no matter what the actual facts of it are. :) The first couple of lines are pretty much the same meaning no matter whether you believe the sister's death or just depression theories. "Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to...Hello... " Her subconcious has split in two, thus creating "someone to talk to". This is a new 'voice' or view. "If I smile and don't believe Soon I know I'll wake from this dream " If she keeps smiling, then the trauma and/or the split won't be real. "Don't try to fix me I'm not broken " Not all multiples are nonfunctional, and even those that are don't necessarily need to be "fixed" back into "one". "Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide... Don't cry... " This is the second voice again. She or he is now in control, living the life after the trauma, so the first voice can continue the "lie" that it's all a dream. "Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping " The first voice realises that her past is real. "Hello, I'm still here, all that's left Of yesterday.. " The second voice again. She's reassuring the first voice that she (1st voice) isn't alone, and that the past is now the past. |
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| Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Whatever the true meaning is, I always relate to this song. I always hear it as the viewpoint of a person who as a child, was molested by a stranger; and as an adult runs into that stranger while out somewhere. |
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| Garth Brooks – Your Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I don't think the lines "it was your song that made me sing / it was your voice that gave me wings" necessarily mean an actual song. I always thought of it as a metaphor for the other person's presence in their life. | |
| Sarah McLachlan – Angel Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I know people have placed the actual meaning of the song, but to me 'Angel' will always relate to self injury. I'm fairly certain that's not why she wrote it, but that's what it will always mean to me. "there's always one reason to feel not good enough and it's hard at the end of the day" Most people who self injure deal with at least one form of depression. Others have already made the depression connections to these lines, so I won't bother saying more here. "I need some distraction" Could be distraction from the urges, or could be distraction from the pain - thus the act. "oh beautiful release memory seeps from my veins" So many times I've heard that line and recalled times I've self injured to escape from my past... "you are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie" Self harming can help me to slide away from reality somewhat. Sometimes it'll make a person dissociate and lose track of everything. "and the storm keeps on twisting you keep on building the lie that you make up for all that you lack" To me these lines are about the pain that continues to grow while a self injurer continues the "I'm fine" lies, and the lies about how their injuries/scars occured. "it don't make no difference escaping one last time it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees" Once you've done it once, you can tell yourself it's okay to do it one more time. Nobody will notice, it will make it no harder to quit... any number of little lies that you tell yourself to feel better about doing it again. It's easier to keep self harming than to quit. |
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