Which specific song truly reflects you?

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I checked to see if there was already a thread on this, but it doesn't seem to be. But if there is, someone can post the link.

So here goes:

Which song (not songs) do you think best reflects who you are as a person/an individual? Not a genre, type of music or artist, but a particular song (including music and lyrics)?
 
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Welcome to my secret lair on Skullcrusher Mountain
I hope that you've enjoyed your stay so far
I see you've met my assistant Scarface
His appearance is quite disturbing
But I assure you he's harmless enough
He's a sweetheart, calls me master
And he has a way of finding pretty things and bringing them to me

I'm so into you
But I'm way too smart for you
Even my henchmen think I'm crazy
I'm not surprised that you agree
If you could find some way to be
A little bit less afraid of me
You'd see the voices that control me from inside my head
Say I shouldn't kill you yet

I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it
What's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?

I'm so into you
But I'm way too smart for you
Even my henchmen think I'm crazy
I'm not surprised that you agree
If you could find some way to be
A little bit less afraid of me
You'd see the voices that control me from inside my head
Say I shouldn't kill you yet

Picture the two of us alone inside my golden submarine
While up above the waves my doomsday squad ignites the atmosphere
And all the fools who live their foolish lives may find it quite explosive
But it won't mean half as much to me if I don't have you here

You know it isn't easy living here on Skullcrusher Mountain
Maybe you could cut me just a little slack
Would it kill you to be civil?
I've been patient, I've been gracious
And this mountain is covered with wolves
Hear them howling, my hungry children
Maybe you should stay and have another drink and think about me and you

I'm so into you
But I'm way too smart for you
Even my henchmen think I'm crazy
I'm not surprised that you agree
If you could find some way to be
A little bit less afraid of me
You'd see the voices that control me from inside my head
Say I shouldn't kill you yet
I shouldn't kill you yet
I shouldn't kill you yet
 
WOW...thats a huge request...I think Im gonna go with Digital Ghost by Tori amos...it fits me best most days

"Digital Ghost"

It started as a joke
Just one of my larks to see
If somehow I could reach you so

I swam into your shores
Through an open window
Only to find you all alone

Curled up with machines
Now it seems you're slipping
Out of the land of the living

Just take a closer look
Take a closer look
At what it is that's really haunting you

I have to trust you'll know
This digital ghost
But I fear there's only so much time
'cause the you I knew is fading away

Hands lay them on my keys
Let me play you again
I am not immune to your net

Find me there in it
I won't go even if in
Your heart only beats ones and O's

Switch you on my friend
Pull you from that rip current
But only you can fight against this

Take a closer look
Just take a closer look
At what it is that's really haunting you

I have to trust you'll know
This digital ghost
But I fear there's only so much time
'cause the you I knew is fading away

Fading
Fading
Away

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My grown up Christmas List

Even though I'm not an adult yet and it's October. The spelling is kind of bad but oh well.

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Perfume Tree - Flooded
Genre: Ambient/IDM

This is mostly for the sound. It starts off as very loose, nondescript, and uncertain. Then it slowly, but quickly builds into a torrent of sound that is very rapid, exacting, and detailed, with great depth to it. It almost seems like two songs in one once the shift occurs, but it is all one song. This exactly parallels how my mind works, and how I more often then not feel.

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Ria said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlZUlcV_Fg

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bISJ2zi1zQ

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

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6RJOpqPD1k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdOCNW79iHs




Mostly the last song I think. I really can relate to that one.
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I see you Maria.

And that's a great song. I've never heard of it before now, "Apparitions"--cool name too.

You took one I was going to post too. "Vincent" is such a great song, and so sad. I learned it on guitar at one time. I'll have to think on this one.
 
Dido: Honestly Ok
I just want to feel safe in my own skin,
I just want to be happy again
I just want to feel deep in my own world
But I'm so lonely
I don't even want to be with myself anymore
On a different day,
if I was safe in my own skin,
then I wouldn't feel lost and
so frightened
But this is today and I'm lost in my own skin
And I'm so lonely
I don't even want to be with myself anymore
I just want to feel safe in my own skin,
I just want to be happy again.


On some days it's my song...
 
hmmm....a song that reflects me. The first time I heard Danse by Debussy, I heard something in it that was akin to deja vu. This is the song that gave me strange dreams about the geometric worlds of Minkowski.


It's as if my feelings and the music share the same resonance frequency, and they magnify each other until I explode within, and soar the heights of beauty.

Note the shifts in mood and tempos, and the way in which it is open to interpretation. It can be heavy and foreboding, or light and ethereal...just like me.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFGqMzLPig
 
Tool - Reflection
I have come curiously close to the end, down
Beneath my self indulgent pitiful hole.
Defeated I concede and move closer. I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness.
How pitiful. It's calling me

And as I pull my head out - I am without one doubt
Don't want to be down here - Soothing my narcissism
I must crucify the ego - Before it's far too late
I pray the light lifts me out
Before I pine away.

So crucify the ego - Before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so - Negative and blind and cynical

And you will come to find - That we are all one mind
Capable of all that's - Imagined and all conceivable

Just let the light touch you - And let the words spill through
Just let them pass right through - Bringing out our hope and reason.
Before we pine away.
~*~

Tool - Lateralus
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines

I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral

With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been
~*~

Tool - Forty-six & Two
I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own
confused and insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in.
I wanna feel the changes coming down.
I wanna know what I've been hiding in

My shadow. My shadow.
Change is coming through my shadow

I wanna feel the change consume me,
Feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured within.

I choose to live and to - Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn and love and to - Cry, kill and die and to
Be paranoid and to - Lie, hate and fear and to
Do what it takes to move through
 
They change all the time. Currently: Porcupine tree - Baby Dream In Cellophane

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I've been in limousines. I've seen inside your dreams. It's raining there. Try not to stare.
 
Great responses.
 
I had to think about this one, music is very important to me. I choose three:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94

This was me when I was younger. The lyrics are in the descripton. I have probably listened to this song more than any other song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n-6uyMV9-0

This is how I have tried to live my life. The lyrics are in the video. She is an Angel, I've seen her twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnLTuOj2G9Y

This is where I am at now (sometimes). The lyrics are in the description. These guys are awsome writers.

And this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOeLX4B55s&feature=related
 
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Questingpoet said:
I had to think about this one, music is very important to me. I choose three:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94

This was me when I was younger. The lyrics are in the descripton. I have probably listened to this song more than any other song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n-6uyMV9-0

This is how I have tried to live my life. The lyrics are in the video. She is an Angel, I've seen her twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnLTuOj2G9Y

This is where I am at now (sometimes). The lyrics are in the description. These guys are awsome writers.

And this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOeLX4B55s&feature=related
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I love the last one... 3 doors down are awesome writer indeed!

The middle one was very cool... I wish I could find that belief myself tho. Would be nice. sigh.. :)
 
Depeche Mode Somebody... Album Some Great Reward. It is my all time favorite Album of theirs. The songs all speak to me as a whole and I love the fact that Martin Gore is singing this song.

I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone who'll stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
Shell get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
Shell hear me out
And wont easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact shell often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me
Aaaahhhhh....

I want somebody who cares
For me passionately
With every thought and
With every breath
Someone who'll help me see things
In a different light
All the things I detest
I will almost like
I don't want to be tied
To anyone's strings
I'm carefully trying to steer clear of
Those things
But when I'm asleep
I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
Ill get away with it
Aaaahhhhh....
 
IndigoSensor said:
Perfume Tree - Flooded
Genre: Ambient/IDM

This is mostly for the sound. It starts off as very loose, nondescript, and uncertain. Then it slowly, but quickly builds into a torrent of sound that is very rapid, exacting, and detailed, with great depth to it. It almost seems like two songs in one once the shift occurs, but it is all one song. This exactly parallels how my mind works, and how I more often then not feel.

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This. Was. Amazing.
Have you ever heard of Steve Roach?.. you might like this musician. He makes a true transcendence of music, life and thoughts are transformed into a single river of perception.
 
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I took it a bit literally when the OP asked for the song that describes you the most. Lyrics-wise, and to some degree, melody-wise, these two songs accurately sum up who I am. I alternate between big picture thinking, hopes, dreams, standing in there for someone and telling them they're going to be all right.... and then get hung up on "the little things."

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Child, don't you worry
It's enough you're growing up in such a hurry
Brings you down, the news they sell ya
To put in your mind that all mankind is a failure

But nobody knows
What's gonna happen tomorrow
We'll try not to show
How frightened we are

If you'll let me, I'll protect you
However I can

You've got to believe
It'll be alright in the end
You’ve got to believe
It’ll be alright again

Fighting because we're so close
There are times we punish those who we need the most
No we can't wait for a savior
Only got ourselves to blame for this behavior

And nobody knows (nobody knows)
What's gonna happen tomorrow
We try not to show (try not to show)
How frightened we are

It would seem lonely
If you were the only
star in the night

You've got to believe
It'll be alright in the end
You've got to believe
It'll be alright again

And nobody knows
What's gonna happen tomorrow (nobody knows)
So don't let go
Now we've come this far

Hold my hand please
Understand me
You're never alone

We've got to believe
It'll be alright in the end
(Nobody knows)
We've got to believe
It'll be alright my friend
So don't let go

And yes we believe
It'll be alright again
Don’t let go

And then, on a bad day....

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(sorry for the idiot quality)

Have you heard the news?
Bad things come in twos
But I never knew 'bout the little things

Every single day
things get in my way
someone has to pay

for the little things

And I'm through with the stories
And I'm sick of my shoes
And the walking and the talking it's got nothing to do
with the final solution
It's a box full of tricks
And I'm through with repairs when there's nothing to fix
when there's nothing to fix
when there's nothing to fix
And it all comes down to.... you-u-u.

Let the headlines wait
Armies hesitate
I can deal with fate
but not the little things

Armageddon may
Arrive any day
I can't get away
from the little things

With a pile of cares
And a bucket of tears,
I could look at the sunlight
And I feel no fear.
With a mountain of maybes
And some Icarus wings,
And I'm armed with delusions
And one little thing,
And that one little thing,
And that one little thing,
And it all comes down to you.

Have you heard the news?
Bad things come in twos
But I never knew 'bout the little things
Every single day
things get in my way
someone has to pay for the little things
 
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Melancholy - still my desire for thy precious tragedian wine...

Sweep me away, into the vale of thine!
Where sorrow's strong and so is joy.

Melancholy - still my desire, O let my heart by thee inspire...

O fill the air with thy sweet scent,
let thy light, thy star crescent.

Wherever she dwells I will bid a farewell sigh
For she dwells with beauty - beauty that must die
And deep inside me I will wait for her return
To her enchanting, awe-inspiring flame I'll yearn

O lust and rueful thought be mine,
My soul enhanced, desires...
Melancholy - my heart is thine

Empyrium - Ode to Melancholy
 
AhSver said:
This. Was. Amazing.
Have you ever heard of Steve Roach?.. you might like this musician. He makes a true transcendence of music, life and thoughts are transformed into a single river of perception.
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As of several months ago, I concider Perfume Tree to be my favorite band. I love every single one of their songs. The sound speaks to me in so many ways on such a deep level.

I have heard of Steve Roach's name before, but I have not looked into his works. Judging by the last.fm genre tag, I might get into it. I will look into him in the future :)
 
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