Do you have any song where those lyrics are just too relate-able to your life to where you just decide that song will be your theme song?

For instance, mine would be

"Hello, you, how was the rest?
You made it through, but nevertheless
I got you out on a wire.
You be love and I'll be a liar.

Tell it all and fill up the air,
But make it loud cause nobody's there
And nobody's there
And nobody's there

[Chorus:]
Stop, turn, take a look around
At all the lights and sounds.
Let them bring you in.
Slow burn, let it all fade out,
Pull the curtain down.
I wonder where you've been?

Make it new, but stay in the lines.
Just let go, but keep it inside.
Smile big for everyone,
Even when you know what they've done.
They gave you the end but not where to start;
Not how to build, how to tear it apart.

So tell it all and fill up the air,
But make it loud 'cause nobody's there
And nobody's there
And nobody's there

[Chorus]

I've got a way to work this out,
I've got a way and you know how.

I've got a way to work this out,
I've got a way and you know how.

I've got a way to work this out,
I've got a way

I've got a way to work this out,
I've got a way and you know how.

I've got a way to work this out,
I've got a way

I've got a way to work this out,
I've got a way and you know how.

I've got a way to work this out,
I've got a way

Stop, turn, take a look around
At all the lights and sounds.
Let them bring you in.
Slow burn, let it all fade out,
Pull the curtain down.
I wonder where you've been?

[Chorus]

You earned everything you found,
And painted faces frown.
I'll say I knew you when..."

I find these lyrics relatable to me, especially in the second verse, where I've dealt with lots of hypocrisy and bigotry in my life and the emotions I've felt would be represented in this song if I were to write them down, especially with the tone of the instrumentals in the back that provides a cynical mood that I would feel at any given time.

i dont know if a single song can sum up my life, but the nearest top 3 would probably be;

Seether - Fake it (trigger warning; contains cursing and the word rape afew times)

tears for fears - Mad World


and these last two are a tie;

Martin O'donnell - One Final Effort/ other halo videogame music

breaking benjamin - blow me away (feat. valora) (the instrumental was featured in either the first or second halo, and thus, imo, it counts as 'other halo music')

the song thought u were better than that by cbmc really became a sort of anthem for me affter a bad friend breakup

Ever After by Marianas Trench is the first one that comes to mind. It's a song that makes be think about returning to my hometown after transitioning. After the point where I decided I wouldn't hide anymore.

Apologies, I'm not myself but I can guarantee
That when I get back, you won't believe
That you knew me well
Don't want to think about it
I'm ***'in tired of getting sick about it
So stand back up and be a man about it
And fight for something, fight for something, fight for something

In the beginning it's like describing me as I was, before I even discovered I'm trans*. With all the anxiety, and feeling wrong somehow and not knowing why. Then describing the return, when everybody will be surprised because most of them would never have had an inkling that I was transgender. And the rest is rather self-explanatory with getting sick of hiding, and fighting for the need to be myself.

Another line in that song is "Face the Music when it's Dire." It reminds me to keep going when things get hard, it's what I thought to myself when I was sitting in the car, terrified about telling anyone. I had to just do it. When I left my coming out letter I was actually wearing my concert t-shirt that said those particular words. I plan to have it tattooed on the inside of my left arm. (Appropriately, I plan to have some kind of subtle emphasis on the letters F, T, M.)


My Love designated Porcelain by Marianas Trench (Yes, they are one of my favorite bands) as my sort of "coming out song."



I was sitting in my car with her in the moments before I was preparing to go home and leave the letter for them, terrified. I didn't want to do it, I wanted to just run. I knew they would never kick me out, but I was still scared as hell. She told me later that she was thinking of this part of the song in particular:

Oh, when your heart releases,
You won't fall to pieces
You'll let those old diseases lie
Oh, and your heart releases,
You won't fall to pieces
And your breath comes crashing in
Like perfect porcelain

Those are the most significant ones. I listen to Ever After probably every time I drive back home.

WITHOUT A DOUBT! One song summed up my fawked up childhood perfectly:



"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
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 dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head

Both of them are by Diamond Rings. "I'm Just Me" (because gender; "I'm no son or daughter"), or "Wait & See" (because I don't know what I'm doing with my life).

Walk On - Neil Young

"Before the Dawn" by Turning Point
and
"On a Good Day" by Oceanlab/Above and Beyond

Twisted alone in the cold of regret
Off in my mind where I smoke cigarettes
And ashes fall gently on a big pile of debt
That I'm doomed to forgive, but I'm Damned to forget

I told you I'd hold you, I'd always be there,
But you say there's no way, that I ain't got a prayer
Just remember one day that I offered my hand
When your big golden idol collapses to sand

Ten thousand memories play through my brain
Each one a burden and each passing blame
But what good 's a life that's been trampled by shame
When it cuts like a knife and it binds like a chain?

I told you I'd hold you, I'd always be there,
But you say there's no way, that I ain't got a prayer
Just remember one day that I offered my hand
When your big golden idol collapses to sand

You know how it kills me when you turn away
Visions burn of your eyes on judgement day
And damn, girl, you know that it just goes to say
You may have the style but you ain't got The Way.

I told you I'd hold you, I'd always be there
But you say there's no way, that I ain't got a prayer
And I tell you it's He'll, but you don't seem to care
With a smile on your face and a flower in your hair.


A.O.Z.--Damn, girl; 2008.