Song Therapy

[kisschittybangbang]

This is more something I'm curious about... What are songs that help all of you get through the hard parts of life? Of transition? Losing someone? What's your therapy?

Music speaks to all and I figure it's a way for people to connect. Post the song lyrics that touch you beyond the words that they are on the surface.

[tekla]

Always like the words that bob dylan wrote, he has them all on his web site, bob dylan dot com and all that.  The stuff that Robert Hunter wrote (he wrote lyrics, Jerry Garcia wrote the music) touches me deeply as it always has a very human edge to it.  But really its the music more than the words that really bring me to a new space, stuff like Chopin or John Coltrane takes me there.

[ToriJo]

This is more something I'm curious about... What are songs that help all of you get through the hard parts of life? Of transition? Losing someone? What's your therapy?

When I get down about people's preconceived ideas of who should love who, what people should look like, how they should fit gender roles, I like to listen to Ray Boltz, "Don't tell me who to love".  It reminds me that - despite being in a marriage that not every state would recognize - that I'm not the first to be in that situation, and, ultimately, I'm on the right side of history for following my heart.

Blind Melon, "No Rain", because I like the video.  Everyone has a place in the world.

Garth Brooks, "Standing Outside the Fire". "Life is not tried, it is merely survived, if you're standing outside the fire."

[Ruby]

Thanks for asking. I guess I've sung this song about 100 times since transition began:
Side of the Road ~ Lucinda Williams
You wait in the car on the side of the road
Lemme go and stand awhile, I wanna know you're there but I wanna be alone
If only for a minute or two
I wanna see what it feels like to be without you
I wanna know the touch of my own skin
Against the sun, against the wind

I walked out in a field, the grass was high, it brushed against my legs
I just stood and looked out at the open space and a farmhouse out a ways
And I wondered about the people who lived in it
And I wondered if they were happy and content
Were there children and a man and a wife?
Did she love him and take her hair down at night?

If I stray away too far from you, don't go and try to find me
It doesn't mean I don't love you, it doesn't mean I won't come back and
stay beside you
It only means I need a little time
To follow that unbroken line
To a place where the wild things grow
To a place where I used to always go

Love,
Ruby

[Nero]

Thanks for asking. I guess I've sung this song about 100 times since transition began:
Side of the Road ~ Lucinda Williams
You wait in the car on the side of the road
Lemme go and stand awhile, I wanna know you're there but I wanna be alone
If only for a minute or two
I wanna see what it feels like to be without you
I wanna know the touch of my own skin
Against the sun, against the wind

I walked out in a field, the grass was high, it brushed against my legs
I just stood and looked out at the open space and a farmhouse out a ways
And I wondered about the people who lived in it
And I wondered if they were happy and content
Were there children and a man and a wife?
Did she love him and take her hair down at night?

If I stray away too far from you, don't go and try to find me
It doesn't mean I don't love you, it doesn't mean I won't come back and
stay beside you
It only means I need a little time
To follow that unbroken line
To a place where the wild things grow
To a place where I used to always go

Love,
Ruby

oh my mother used to have that one on all the time. Beautiful.