Your transition theme song

[Berliegh]

It's a great day to be alive- Travis Trit
I'm moving on- (I believe it's done by) Rascall Flats

Love Always,
Heather Rose.

Great song......'A great day to be alive' written by Daryl Scott....

[soldierjane]

Rocket, by the Smashing Pumpkins... I've always loved the lyrics and the video with the kids building a rocket in front of the unsuspecting adults. It reminds me of how people will dismiss our claims of being different at first and only when they see us taking to the stars do they pay attention.

[katy19]

i have no idea why, but Killer queen by Queen.  it just describes a mysterious girl.

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[Laurie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckom3gf57Yw&list=RDCD-E-LDc384&index=5

"The Unforgiven" lyrics
Metallica Lyrics

"The Unforgiven"

New blood joins this earth,
And quickly he's subdued.
Through constant pained disgrace
The young boy learns their rules.

With time the child draws in.
This whipping boy done wrong.
Deprived of all his thoughts
The young man struggles on and on he's known
A vow unto his own,
That never from this day
His will they'll take away.

What I've felt,
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown.
Never be.
Never see.
Won't see what might have been.

What I've felt,
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown.
Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

They dedicate their lives
To running all of his.
He tries to please them all –
This bitter man he is.

Throughout his life the same –
He's battled constantly.
This fight he cannot win –
A tired man they see no longer cares.

The old man then prepares
To die regretfully –
That old man here is me.

What I've felt,
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown.
Never be.
Never see.
Won't see what might have been.

What I've felt,
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown.
Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

[Solo]

What I've felt,
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown.
Never be.
Never see.
Won't see what might have been.

What I've felt,
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown.
Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

You labelled me,
I'll label you.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

You labelled me,
I'll label you.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.

[Tommie_9]

Jackson Browne - Alive in the World

Just a few lyrics from the song. The link is provided below. I listen to it every day and cry every time I listen to it.

..."I want to live in the world, not inside my head..."

..."I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be counted..."

..."I want to live in the world, not behind some wall..."

..."Who among his harbors the fantasy of breaking out, and taking [her] chances alive in the world.."

..."To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world, to open my eyes and finally arrive in the world..."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P775crQIwo

[Doreen]

When i had GCS over in thailand in 2001, they had this song playing on the TV over and over... and it sank in with how appropriate it really was.  To this day, it brings a smile to me.

[Chloe]

Always loved the movie 'Orlando'  youtube and lyrics are thread here.

            Times have changed, we don't have to live a life of loneliness & isolation anymore, WE CAN NOW HAVE IT ALL! Orlando used time to distance herself from her past but of course we do not have that luxury and must use understanding thru enlightenment instead, with hopefully acceptance following thereafter. Surely certain differences eventually cost her dearly, but only by choice and that which she wasn't really seeking in the first place.

       She, for there can be no doubt about her sex, is visiting the house she finally lost for the first time in over a 100 years.
       She does still have some natural advantages of course. She is tall and slim with a slightly androgynous appearance that many females at the time aspired.
       Then her upbringing. She has lived for 400 years and hardly aged a day and because this is England, everyone pretends not to notice.
       But she is changed she is no longer trapped by destiny. And ever since she let go of the past she found her life is beginning

"             Thus Queen Elizabeth bestows Orlando's long life upon him ("Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old . . .") whereas in the book it remains unexplained. And Orlando's change of sex in the film is the result of his having reached a crisis point—a crisis of masculine identity. On the battlefield he looks death and destruction in the face and faces the challenge of kill or be killed. It is Orlando's unwillingness to conform to what is expected of him as a man that leads—within the logic of the film—to his change of sex. Later, of course, as a woman, Orlando finds that she cannot conform to what is expected of her as a female either, and makes a series of choices which leave her, unlike in the book, without marriage or property—and with a daughter, not a son.   "

[Bari Jo]

I totally missed this thread.  It's great, a lot of good transition songs.  I can't believe mine wasn't mentioned yet.  This song spoke to me when it first came out in a way I can't explain.  It was like a secret I couldn't tell anyone.  I've listened to this like a billion times.  Every time I hear it I think of my transition, how I will survive and win.

Bari Jo



Muse "Survival"

Race, life's a race
And I am gonna win
Yes, I am gonna win

And I'll light the fuse
And I'll never lose
And I choose to survive
Whatever it takes

You won't pull ahead
I'll keep up the pace
And I'll reveal my strength
To the whole human race

Yes I am prepared
To stay alive
And I won't forgive,
Vengeance is mine
And I won't give in
Because I choose to thrive

Yeah, I'm gonna win!

[guitar solo]

Race, it's a race
And I'm gonna win
Yes, I'm gonna win

And I will light the fuse
I'll never lose
And I choose to survive
Whatever it takes

You won't pull ahead
'Cause I'll keep up the pace
And I'll reveal my strength
To the whole human race

Yes I'm gonna win

[guitar solo]

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Win! Win! Win! Win!

Yes I'm gonna win!

[DawnOday]

Tom Petty  I won't back down. RIP my friend. I don't know Tom Petty but he has been my friend for over thirty years. Just like Robin Williams. They were in my home so often it was like visiting with friends.

[The Flying Lemur]

I'll go with Dar Williams' "When I Was A Boy"



I won't forget when Peter Pan came to my house, took my hand
I said I was a boy; I'm glad he didn't check.
I learned to fly, I learned to fight
I lived a whole life in one night
We saved each other's lives out on the pirate's deck.
And I remember that night
When I'm leaving a late night with some friends
And I hear somebody tell me it's not safe, someone should help me
I need to find a nice man to walk me home.
When I was a boy, I scared the pants off of my mom,
Climbed what I could climb upon
And I don't know how I survived,
I guess I knew the tricks that all boys knew.
And you can walk me home, but I was a boy, too.

I was a kid that you would like, just a small boy on her bike
Riding topless, yeah, I never cared who saw.
My neighbor come outside to say, "Get your shirt, "
I said "No way, it's the last time I'm not breaking any law."
And now I'm in a clothing store, and the sign says less is more
More that's tight means more to see, more for them, not more for me
That can't help me climb a tree in ten seconds flat

When I was a boy, see that picture? That was me
Grass-stained shirt and dusty knees
And I know things have gotta change,
They got pills to sell, they've got implants to put in, they've got implants to remove
But I am not forgetting
That I was a boy too

And like the woods where I would creep, it's a secret I can keep
Except when I'm tired, except when I'm being caught off guard
I've had a lonesome awful day, the conversation finds its way
To catching fire-flies out in the backyard.
And I tell the man I'm with about the other life I lived
And I say now you're top gun, I have lost and you have won
And he says, "Oh no, no, can't you see
When I was a girl, my mom and I we always talked
And I picked flowers everywhere that I walked.
And I could always cry, now even when I'm alone I seldom do
And I have lost some kindness
But I was a girl too.
And you were just like me, and I was just like you.

[OU812]

I am amazed - mind-blown amazed - that this song has not yet been posted yet.
It's about as close as you can come to explicitly describing transition, without doing so.
Pretty revolutionary for 1983.



I remember Johnny, hey
Johnny come lately
I remember her shoes like a ballerina
A girl called Johnny who
Changed her name when she
Discovered her choice was to
Change or to be changed
I remember a girl called Johnny
Black as hell and white as a ghost
"Don't talk about life or death"
She said I've had enough of both
A girl called Johnny who was not scared
They'd have torn her to pieces but
Who would dare?
I remember a girl called Johnny
The train came to town, boy she got on it
With no looking back, with not a word
If she said goodbye, well I never heard
But the noise goes on
The noise, the jazz
And the truth is in somebody else's hands
And the house that a girl called johnny built
Is now just ashes and sand

------

As for myself, I listened to this next song often enough when I transitioned.
One particular verse stands out:

"You get one look,
I'll show you something that the knife took,
A bit too early for my own good,
Now let's not speak of it again."

After an initial orchi, my family was freaked out.
I did it to change the gender marker legally,
but it was still a difficult thing even for me,
because I still felt incomplete,
and didn't want them to turn their backs on me forever.

[JennyBear]

    While I wish I could say it was a song by Transwoman frontperson led group Against Me, I just don't know their music enough. So, gonna have to go with Shania Twain's "Man, I feel like a woman."

HUGS!

[Bari Jo]

I love this topic, since I'm so musically oriented.  I have started making a list of songs that have always reminded me of GD, or transition.  Here's another of mine.  Trigger warning, this is a tear jerker for us transgender fill.



Anouk - Time Is A Jailer

No one can hear me, 'cause no one is around
But I still hear your whisper in the dark
I know I can go, I know I can leave when ever I please
But time is a jailer for me
A face in the window, looking inside
But no one else sees it, I know
And now that you've found that the years have changed
What the ending will be
Time's just a jailer for me
I shut out the light
Alone in the dark
This time of night
Is the hardest part
I still hear the sound of your heels on the floor
I wait for the sound of your key in the door
But it's only the sound of nothing at all and so it must be
That time is a jailer for me
Time's just a jailer for me

[Susan]

Normally I don't participate in threads like this, but gotta throw in this selection for your enjoyment!



And yes this song applies to me as well It could be you as well!

I am showing my 80's TV creds here

Look at what's happened to me
I can't believe it myself
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world
It should have been somebody else

Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me

Just like the light of a new day
It hit me from out of the blue
Breaking me out of the spell I was in
Making all of my wishes come true

Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me

This is too good to be true
Look at me falling for you
Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me

Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me

Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me

Songwriters: Mike Post / Stephen G Geyer
Believe It or Not lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

[Sarah_P]

Normally I don't participate in threads like this, but gotta throw in this selection for your enjoyment!



And yes this song applies to me as well It could be you as well!

I am showing my 80's TV creds here

LOL! I love that song. I used to love that series when I was little, too!

[Siobhan Amanda]

Born a girl, manic street preachers.

Do I look good for you tonight
Will you accuse me as I hide
Behind these layers of disguise
In the mirrors of my own happiness
I've loved the freedom of being inside
Need a new start and a different time
Something grows in the space between me
And it's twisting and changing this fragile body
And I wish I had been born a girl instead of what I am
Yes I wish I had been born a girl and not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
The censorship of my skin
Is screaming inside and from within
There's no room in this world for a girl like me
And place...

[ghoulified g]

The chorus of Daughter by Pearl Jam always gets me
I feel like I posted it somewhere already but I don't know if I did... Well, sorry if I did, but it would have been a while ago and I'm overtired and I wanna ramble about music so here you goooo

Don't call me daughter
Not fit to
The picture kept will remind me

The song as a whole (I think) is about a girl with learning difficulties (dyslexia?) disowning her family cause they didn't help or understand her, but that chorus. I got really dysphoric one night and blasted the song when I was in the shower, it made me feel a lot better. I listen to bootlegs a lot and Daughter's a fun one usually cause it gets covers/other songs tagged on the end, one night in 1998 they did Roam by The B-52s (that night also had an amazing sarcastic rant about saving the flag at the expense of the planet during a Neil Young cover) and that was half the reason I listened to Rock Lobster when it popped up in a spotify playlist... The other reason being that I love planes

And I'll mention Red Light Green Light by the Wellwater Conspiracy here cause I really like it and I'm trying to learn to play it on guitar by ear cause the band has zero tabs on the internet
struggles of enjoying obscure music I guess
It's not trans related but man do I love this band

[Roll]

It's got energy, deals with overcoming, and most of all... uhhh... I dunno, I just like it.




And here's another one that is crazy super relevant lyrics! (I'm obsessed with it courtesy of the Lost season 2 opening.)

[Roll]

Believe it or not, George isn't at home, please leave a messssssaaage at the beep. I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone. Wheeeeeeeeere could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home.

[Toni]

I'm sitting here reading this whole thread and listening to some classical music and some of these lyrics just touch me so much I can hardly type because of the tears in my eyes.  Would likely not have happened several years ago.  But for me one simple song that brings a smile to my face and lifts my spirit is old, as am I.  It's Johnny Nash, "I can see clearly now".  Love the concertina.  Toni