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... something that made me happy, or

... told you something about me, or

... resonated with me, or

... described who I really am.

How about you?

Here's mine  :)

Impossible Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGzqbEeVWhs#)

I guess I would have one of two.

Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJL4UGSbeFg#)

Or

I Am Woman - Helen Reddy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4xpDuf84A#)

Janus- Skin Deep

He wakes up to find
All of these things
That blur the line
Between wrong and what's right.
And his mood forgets
Yesterday's events
And he starts to repeat
That I am none of these things

I'm not the choices you've made
Or mistakes you will make
I am none of these things
They just go skin deep.

I am understand so much more than you
Can see underneath these things are just skin deep.
I am understand so much more than you
Can see underneath all of these things are just skin deep.

Why do you think
All of these things
Mean something to me
When all I see
Is just the fashion we keep
And the cars that we need clean

This makes me repeat
I'm not the choices you've made
Or mistakes you will make
I am none of these things
They just go skin deep.

I am understand so much more than you
Can see underneath these things are just skin deep.
I am understand so much more than you
Can see underneath all of these things are just skin deep.

This just goes skin deep this just goes...

I am understand so much more than you
Can see underneath these things are just skin deep.
I am understand so much more than you
Can see underneath all of these things are just skin deep.

I am
So much more than you can see underneath
All of these things are just skin deep.

(I couldn't find a decent video)

Or

Incubus- Drive

http://youtu.be/TLLvuzsx4sY

Since I came out my theme tune has been "To be free" by Mike Oldfield.

Mike Oldfield - To be free (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBsh8QmnSz8#)

This song normaly makes me happy but the opening verse sums my life up perfectly right now:

You Find Yourself Alone, Sometimes
Without A Home, No Protection
You Don't Know Which Way To Go
You're Lost, No Direction

This has been my theme song from the first day. 

I'm Not a ->-bleeped-<-ing Drag Queen! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSn01MLcUXA#)


Took me a bit to figure out how to have the video in the post.

Janet, I love the parody of the famous Robert Palmer video!  :D

Well, this is not exactly a happy song, at least to me, but it really has been the one song, that I've played over and over for past twenty years. Hopefully someday I can change my theme song into a more happier one.

Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue

Little Girl Blue, Janis Joplin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Fzql-3_zM#)

I like to think it's this one.

Joan Jett - Bad Reputation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAQXg0IdfI#)

Two, one to describe transitioning itself to those who don't know what its like, and the other to be true to yourself and who you are meant to be (and personally cos I love Pink Floyd!).

Harder Than You Think [OFFICIAL VIDEO] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCx5Std7mCo#)

Pink Floyd - Shine on You crazy Diamond (Full Song - HQ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7bbgsyzKc#)

Well, don't know about a life theme song, but this has certainly been my theme song over the past several weeks. It perfectly illustrates my mood and my most pressing problem:

Linkin Park - Crawling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9OhYroLN0#)

For those who can't handle the screaming:

Quote"Crawling"


[Chorus:]
Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming/confusing
This lack of self-control I fear is never ending
Controlling/I can't seem

[Bridge:]
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

[Chorus]

Discomfort,endlessly has pulled itself upon me
Distracting/reacting
Against my will I stand beside my own reflection
It's haunting how I can't seem...

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

Okay, if I have a 'life' theme song, it's probably this:

George Thorogood And The Destroyers - I Drink Alone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzqQst-Sg8#)

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Can't really say wht would be my "overall" theme but if I had a driver's license and a car, this would be my driving theme song:

Tenacious D - Car Chase City (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jucyBQAaakY#)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gVPkaZykK4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gVPkaZykK4)

Because I like to make everything as awesome as possible.

A surprising amount of this song relates to me:

"Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw#)

White nerd!  :laugh:

I'm a brown latina nerd.  :P

Quote from: DianaP on February 16, 2013, 04:33:39 PM
White nerd!  :laugh:

I'm a brown latina nerd.  :P

Maybe you could parody Weird Al's parody?

Lately, "Do it Anyway" by Ben Folds Five

Ben Folds Five "DO IT ANYWAY" f. Fraggle Rock [Official Video] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEyrfFwf3rI#)

Sorry for the bump, but this is my theme song:

Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are - Place in Line (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMJuKchT9A#)

I'm living in this line
  I know my place, could think of no way
  Of edging along in a loser's race
  The line was moving slowly
  Day by night
  Everybody's shuffling on to keep a place in the line

  Nine long years I've been in line
  Getting nowhere there is no reason
  For this line I don't care.
  Everybody's standing in the burning sun
  Everybody's shuffling on keeping a place in the line

  Don't you think we're gonna make it
  We've got a place in line
  We're gonna make it some time
  Somehow

Most definately "Highway to Hell". >:-)

A month ago, it would've been this (talk about self-delusion, why am I here?):

You're a lonely little girl
But your Mommy & your Daddy don't care
You're a lonely little girl

The things they say
Just hurt your heart
It's too late now
For them to start
To understand
The way you feel
The world for them
Is too unreal
For you're lonely, lonely, lonely,
Lonely little girl
Oh, baby, poor baby . . .

Every night you sit in your room
Right by your radio
Reading your books
Pictures of the idol you love

The words that he sings
The way that he looks
In a picture on the wall
There's a tear in his eye

Dead,Jail or Rock n Roll by Michael Monroe

Must I really decide upon only one? x) I'd probably have a different one for every mood. Knowing me though most of them probably wouldn't have words. That's the way I often have all my music arranged on my iPod. A sad playlist, a happy playlist, an angry playlist, etc.

Some examples of some that the general populous might know I guess would be...

-Roads Untraveled by Linkin Park for a sad song...

-Rhythm of Love by Plain White T's for a happy song...

-Just Like You by Three Days Grace for an angry song...

Granted those are just a few of the emotions we all get and surely one would get tired of the same ones eventually. ^_^ but music is like reading a book. If the reader/listener connects with it and makes it their own, it becomes theirs.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Macho, macho man
I gotta be a macho man
Macho macho man
I gotta be a macho

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Mine is Rolling Stones/Melanie 'Ruby Tuesday' which a dear friend said could have easily been written about me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agH2gJqimU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agH2gJqimU)

She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter 'cos it's gone
While the sun is bright, or in the darkest night
No one knows
She comes and then she goes

[CHORUS]
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who is gonna hang a name on you?
And when you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you

Don't ask her why she needs to be free
She's gonna tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained to a life
Where nothing's gained and
Nothing's lost
At such a cost

[CHORUS]

There's no time to lose I heard her say
You've got to catch your dreams before they run away
Dying all the time
You lose your dreams, and you
Might lose your mind
Is life unkind?

[CHORUS]

[CHORUS]

The life of a lonely fat freak is not the best life. Getting laughed at (because i'm ugly and fat?). Luckily Frank Zappa wrote several songs that celebrate being a freak. This is one of my favorites and definitely shows my attitude:

We are the other people
We are the other people
We are the other people
You're the other people too
Found a way to get to you . . .

Do you think that I'm crazy?
Out of my mind?
Do you think that I creep in the night
And sleep in a phone booth?

Lemme take a minute & tell you my plan
Lemme take a minute & tell who I am
If it doesn't show,
Think you better know
I'm another person

Do you think that my pants are too tight?
Do you think that I'm creepy?
Better look around before you say you don't care
Shut your fsckin' mouth about the length of my hair
How would you survive
If you were alive
->-bleeped-<-ty little person?

We are the other people
We are the other people
We are the other people
You're the other people too
Found a way to get to you

We are the other people
We are the other people
We are the other people
You're the other people too
Found a way to get to you

Do you think that I love you . . .
Stupid & blind?
Do you think that I dream through the night
Of holding you near me?

Lemme take a minute & tell you my plan
Lemme take a minute & tell who I am
If it doesn't show
Think you better know
I'm another person

No doubt about it! It WAS my theme song in the 1960s when I was trying  to figure all this out. My world and my life didn't make sense and everything was screwed up.

White Rabbit

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call to
Call Alice
When she was just small

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving
low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the doormouse said;
"Feed YOUR HEAD...
Feed your head"

Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0#)

I don't wanna be her
I just wanna be little old me
Shouldn't have to think
Who am I supposed to be today

And what gave you the right
To tell me who I should be?
What gave you that right?
'Cause I, I feel lovely the way that I am
(...)

Lovely, Sarah Haze

Will I live tomorrow?
Well I just can't say.
Will I live tomorrow?
Well, I just can't say.

But I know for sure
I don't live today.

No sun coming through my windows,
Feel like I'm sitting at the bottom of a grave.
No sun coming through my windows,
Feel like I'm sitting at the bottom of a grave.

I wish you'd hurry up 'n' rescue me
So I can be on my mis'rable way

I don't live today;
It's such a shame to waste your time away like this.

Will I live tomorrow?
Well, I just can't say.
Will I live tomorrow?
Well, I just can't say
I know for sure
I don't live today.

This one has been my favourite theme song ever during those long years spent in total confusion and self-denial - even when I had no idea what GD was and that it existed - I was still getting the idea ;).

MIKE OLDFIELD - TO FRANCE

Taking on water, sailing a restless sea
From a memory, a fantasy
The wind carries into white water
Far from the islands don't you know you're

Never going to get to France
Mary Queen of chance, will they find you?
Never going to get to France
Could a new romance ever bind you?

Walking on foreign ground, like a shadow
Roaming in far off territory
Over your shoulder stories unfold
You're searching for sanctuary, you know you're

Never going to get to France
Mary Queen of chance, will they find you?
Never going to get to France
Could a new romance ever bind you?

I see a picture
By the lamp's flicker
Isn't it strange how
Dreams fade and shimmer?

Never going to get to France
Mary Queen of chance, will they find you?
Never going to get to France
Could a new romance ever bind you?

I see a picture
By the lamp's flicker
Isn't it strange how
Dreams fade and shimmer?

Never going to get to France
Mary Queen of chance, will they find you?
Never going to get to France
Could a new romance ever bind you?

Never going to get to France
Never going to
Never going to get to France
Never going to
Never going to get to France
Never going to

to france mike oldfield (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QXxozXsDZY#)

It depends.  My life theme changes as my life's circumstances shift.  As of now, I would say the 8th String Quartet by Dmitri Shostakovich.  I love the piece, but never wanted it to be my life's theme music,lol. 

Changes, visible changes
Sky looking so forlorn
It looks like the world's been born
On one more rainy day

Trying to see the sunlight
My heart's crying out loud
I try to see through the clouds
On one more rainy day

One more rainy day
Once again my mind is grey
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day

Sun starts shining on through
New day a day with you
It's strange what sun can do
On one more rainy day

One more rainy day
Once again my mind is grey
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day

&

April is a cruel time
Even though the sun may shine
And world looks in the shade as it slowly comes away
Still falls the April rain
And the valley's filled with pain
And you can't tell me quite why
As i look up to the grey sky
Where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
I'll cry, say that I don't know

Maybe once in a while I'll forget and I'll smile
But then the feeling comes again of an April without end
Of an April lonely as they come
In the dark of my mind I can see all too fine
But there is nothing to be done when I just can't feel the sun
And the springtime's the season of the night

Grey sky where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
I'll cry, say that I don't know
I don't know

&

You're lazy just stay in bed
You're lazy just stay in bed
You don't want no money
You don't want no bread

If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw
If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw
You don't want to live you don't want to cry no more

Well my trying ain't done no good
I said my trying ain't done no good
You don't make no effort no not like you should

Lazy you just stay in bed
Lazy you just stay in bed
You don't want no money
You don't want no bread

&

take a look at
  these dirty hands
  take a look at this face these blazing eyes
  do you see me as a broken man
  tell me
  are you really that blind

  you got yourself a load of trouble now
  you got yourself a bad deal
  you say i've got a bad attitude
  how d'you think i feel

  you got me locked in a paper cage
  you think i'm chained up but i'm just tied down
  step aside get out of my way
  i won't hurt you i had enough being pushed around

  you got yourself a load of trouble now
  you got yourself a bad deal
  you say i've got a bad attitude
  how d'you think i feel

  don't want a number
  i got a name
  take a look at my face
  talk about a bad attitude
  things have got to change

 >:-)Steppenwolf - Born to be wild 1969 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWRypqz5-o#) :angel:

Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries

Think I need to change my answer:
Everything Reminds Me Of My Therapist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCwYve87iKA#)

Note to Self...pretty sure its by bullet for my valentine. Aaaand almost easy by a7x. 'i'm not insane I'm not insane *insane laughter*'. Definitely me.

Depending on my mood.

ULTIMATE EAGLES - Hotel California (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gMwoSx2qk#)

Journey - Faithfully (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMD8hBsA-RI#)

Quote from: peky on July 16, 2013, 06:35:27 PM
>:-)Steppenwolf - Born to be wild 1969 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWRypqz5-o#) :angel:

I posted that one in my Beat Club thread. Hehe.

Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band - You Keep On Moving (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VvmpsRAHac#)
(more because of the title, but the music also fits. The lyrics? I don't know.)
You keep on moving
Far away far away
You keep on moving
Far away far away
Everyday wheels are turning
And the cry still returning

Dawn will soon be breaking
The day has just begun
You put your arms around me
Like a circle 'round the sun
Dance across the seasons
To a place that no one knows
Where angels fear to tread

& a song that encapsulates my current overall mood. Take a look at the lyrics:

Deep Purple - Sail Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0EydhI_m90#)

If you're driftin' on an empty ocean
with no wind to fill your sail,
the future, your horizon,
it's like searchin' for the Holy Grail.
You feel there's no tomorrow
as you look into the water below.
It's only your reflection
and you still ain't got no place to go.

Time will show,
when, I don't know.

Sail away tomorrow,
sailin' far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
I'll be there someday yea-yea-yeah yea-ye-yeah.

Oh, woman, I keep returnin
to sing the same old song.
The story's been told, now I'm gettin' old.
Tell me,where do I belong?
Feel like I'm goin' to surrender,
hard times I've had enough.
If I could find a place to hide my face,
I believe, I could get back up.

Time will show,
when, I don't know.

Sail away tomorrow,
sailin' far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I'll be there someday yea-yea-yeah yea-yea-yea-yeah.

Sail away tomorrow,
sailin' far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I'll be there someday yea-yea-yeah yea-yea-yea-yeah.

Sail away tomorrow,
sailin' far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I'll be there someday yeah yeah yeah yea-yea-yeah yeah yeah yeah.

My personal soundtrack:
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Eels - My Timing Is Off
Belle and Sebastian - To Be Myself Completely
Math and Physics Club - Darling, Please Come Home
Andrew Bird - Heretics
Cougar - Merit
Malcolm Middleton - We're All Going to Die
Pixies - Hey
My Morning Jacket - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Part II
Vampire Weekend - Exit Music (For A Film) (Radiohead cover)
Clinic - Distortions
Magnetic Fields - Why I Cry
Radiohead - Follow Me Around
Sigur Ros - Danarfregnir og jaroarfarir
Joy Division - Disorder
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Origin of Love

(some songs missing, pulled from an old youtube playlist)

More than a theme song, I'm afraid.

Tommy Bolin - Wild Dogs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73_EyMCt4s#)

Come to think of it, this might be my theme song:

This baggage handcuffed to my wrists
I drag it everywhere I go
Sometimes I fight you with my fists
But if I knew which way was home

Before the karma cut me loose
Would bring me whisky and my water
Sometimes I get the blues
Though I know I shouldnt oughta
That's where I'd go

Run down ghost trail, no chance of love
No sign of life, just wild dogs howlin in the night
Oh, that's what I like

Before the karma cut me free
I'm sick of my own company
Sometimes I miss the boat
Most times I miss my home
That's where I'd go
If I new which way was home

Run down ghost trail, no chance of love
No sign of life
Just wild dogs howlin' in the night

Hear 'em howl...

Probably "Super Villain" by P5K or "I.M. Rumpelstizchen" by Megaherz although the second has some lines that don't fit. "Fieber" by Oomph! could also work.
"Pas Assez Loin" by AqME fits too.

Under and Over it by Five Finger Death Punch
Do I care if you hate me,do you wanna know the truth?
C'est la vie adios good riddance ****you

This one. Without a doubt.

Blue Eyes - Within Temptation (Lyrics) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrPKTVehCPw#)

It changes every few years, but right now it's Chocolate, by Snow Patrol.
Not everything fits, but a lot of it fits really really well.

This could be the very minute
I'm aware I'm alive
All these places feel like home

With a name I'd never chosen
I can make my first steps
As a child of 25

This is the straw, final straw in the
Roof of my mouth as I lie to you
Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean
I didn't enjoy it at the time

You're the only thing that I love
It scares me more every day
On my knees I think clearer

Goodness knows I saw it coming
Or at least I'll claim I did
But in truth I'm lost for words

What have I done it's too late for that
What have I become truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask...this time

My themesong would be Not A Pretty Girl by Ani DiFranco

Ani Difranco-not a pretty girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oLuoZJB79Y#)

And In or Out also by Ani DiFranco:

Ani DiFranco - In or Out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNgLFL8hqmI#)

KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See (Larger Than Life Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9AEoUa0Hlso#)

Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall.  Although most people know it from "The Devil Wears Prada", I first heard it on the 2007 "So You Think You Can Dance".  The start of my admision.....

Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm

Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me

I feel like walking the world
Like walking the world
You can hear she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
She fills up every corner like she's born in black and white
Makes you feel warmer when you're trying to remember
What you heard
She likes to leave you hanging on her word

Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me

And she's taller than most
And she's looking at me
I can see her eyes looking from a page in a magazine
Oh she makes me feel like I could be a tower
A big strong tower
She got the power to be
The power to give
The power to see

Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me

Kia Ora Jamie,

"I can see clearly now" Jimmy Cliff's version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jsw_r0hILQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jsw_r0hILQ)

"It's gonna be a bright, bright, sunshiny day!"

Metta Zenda :)