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Old 10th October 2008, 17:23
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Snow Patrol - Spitting Games



I broke into your house last night
And left a note at your bedside
I'm far too shy to speak to you at school
You leave me numb and I'm not sure why

I find it easier to sit and stare
Than push my limbs out towards you right there
My heart is bursting in your perfect eyes
As blue as oceans and as pure as skies

I struggle for the words and then give up
My heads up with the birds on the t-hut
A little piece of mind that I know better
That the plain disgrace of all my letters

After that the floodgates opened up
And I fell in love with everyone I saw
Please take your time I'm not in any rush
And it's in everything I ever write

It's not as if I need the extra weight
Confused enough by life so thanks a lot
Lonely written words for company
Just raise the roof this once and follow me
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Old 11th October 2008, 01:44
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what a cool and interesting thread....
i have mine but they arn't really lyrics, basically they are sounds by artists. My two without thought and without a doubt are:
'Maplebee', and 'Bat for lashes'.
Its very deep sounding and pretty, but very scary thoughtful. I seriously don't recommend them for anyone who likes chart music!.
I doubt anyone would have any interest. But if you ever want music to play with your mind and emotions, and remind you of dark honest beauty, then they will ;P
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Old 11th October 2008, 09:30
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Great thread, although I haven't read all of them yet. As already mentioned 'I am a rock' is the first one I thought of. Kris Kristofferson's 'Sunday mornin' coming down' is very poignant and Johnny Cash covered it very well, just reading the words doesn't create the same effect as hearing the sadness in his voice but here 'tis anyway;

Well I woke up Sunday morning,
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

I'd smoked my brain the night before,
On cigarettes and songs I'd been pickin'.
But I lit my first and watched a small kid,
Cussin' at a can that he was kicking.
Then I crossed the empty street,
'n caught the Sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken.
And it took me back to somethin',
That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way.

On the Sunday morning sidewalk,
Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cos there's something in a Sunday,
Makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothin' short of dyin',
Half as lonesome as the sound,
On the sleepin' city sidewalks:
Sunday mornin' comin' down.

In the park I saw a daddy,
With a laughin' little girl who he was swingin'.
And I stopped beside a Sunday school,
And listened to the song they were singin'.
Then I headed back for home,
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'.
And it echoed through the canyons,
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

On the Sunday morning sidewalk,
Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cos there's something in a Sunday,
Makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothin' short of dyin',
Half as lonesome as the sound,
On the sleepin' city sidewalks:
Sunday mornin' comin' down.


Johnny Cash also covered this one but I don't know who did it originally, it's called Nobody;

When life seems full
Of clouds and rain
And I'm full
Of nothin' but pain
Who soothes my thumpin', bumpin' brain?
Nobody

When Wintertime comes
With its snow and sleet
And me with hunger
And cold feet
Who says "Here's two bits, go and eat"?
Nobody

Well, I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
And until I get something from somebody, sometime
I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time

When Summertime comes
All warm and clear
And my friends see me
Drawin' near
Who says "come on in and have a beer"?
Nobody

Well one time when things was
Lookin' bright
I started to whittlin' on a stick one night
Who said "Hey! That's dynamite!"?
Nobody

Mmmm, I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
And until I get something from somebody, sometime
I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time

I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
And until I get something from somebody, sometime
I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time
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Old 11th October 2008, 10:51
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Tom Waits - Hope I don't fall in love with you

stretching the link to SA maybe but I empathise with the missed opportunity due to shyness and lack of confidence;

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you
'Cause falling in love just makes me blue,
Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see,
I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.
Well the room is crowded, there's people everywhere
And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown, take that frown and break it,
Before the evening's gone away, I think that we could make it,
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.
I can see that you are lonesome just like me, and it being late,
You'd like some some company,
Well I've had two, I look at you, and you look back at me,
The guy you're with has up and split, the chair next to you's free,
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.
Now it's closing time, the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout.
Turn around to look at you, you're nowhere to be found,
I search the place for your lost face, guess I'll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you.
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Old 7th July 2009, 15:49
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Restless Heart Syndrome by Green Day

I've got a really bad disease
It's got me begging
On my hands and knees
Take me to the emergency
'cause something seems to be missing
Somebody take the pain away
It's like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
So send me to the pharmacy
So i can lose my memory
I'm elated
Medicated
Lord knows i tried to find a way to run away

I think they found another cure
For broken hearts and feeling insecure
You'd be surprised what i endure
What makes you feel so self-assured?

I need to find a place to hide
You never know what could be
Waiting outside
The accidents that you could find
It's like some kind of suicide

So what ails you is what impales you
I feel like i've been crucified to be satisfied

I'm a victim of my symptom
I am my own worst enemy
You're a victim of your symptom
You are your own worst enemy
Know your enemy

I'm elated
Medicated
I am my own worst enemy
So what ails you is what impales you
You are your own worst enemy

You're a victim of the system
You are your own worst enemy
You're a victim of the system
You are your own worst enemy
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Old 7th July 2009, 17:04
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House with no door
by
Van der Graaf Generator

There's a house with no door and I'm living there
at nights it gets so cold and the days are hard to bear inside.
There's a house with no roof, so the rain creeps in,
falling through my head as I try to think out time.
I don't know you, you say you know me, that may be so,
there's so much that I am unsure of ...
You call my name, but it sounds unreal, I forget how I feel,
my body's rejecting the cure.

There's a house with no bell, but then nobody calls;
I sometimes find it hard to tell if any are alive at all outside.
There's a house with no sound; yes, it's quiet there ...
there's not much point in words if there's no-one to share in time.
I've learned my lines, I know them so well, I am ready to tell
whoever will finally come in
Of the line in my mind that's cold in the night, it doesn't seem right
when there's that little dark figure running ...

There's a house with no door and there's no living there:
one day it became a wall ... well I didn't really care at the time.
There's a house with no light, all the windows are sealed,
overtaxed and strained NOW NOTHING IS REVEALED BUT TIME
I don't know you, you say you know me, that may be so,
there's so much that I am unsure of ...
You call my name, but it sounds unreal, I forget how I feel,
my body's rejecting the cure .....
Won't somebody help me ...
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Old 7th July 2009, 19:19
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KateK
For those darker SA moments

Pulp - The Fear

This is our "Music from A Bachelors Den" -
the sound of loneliness turned up to ten.
A horror soundtrack from a stagnant water-bed
And it sounds just like this.
This is the sound of someone losing the plot -
making out that they're okay when they're not.
You're gonna like it,
but not a lot
and the chorus goes like this:

Oh baby,
here comes the fear again.
The end is near again.
A monkey's built a house on your back.
You can't get anyone to come in the sack
and here comes another panic attack
Oh here we go again.

So now you know the words to our song,
pretty soon you'll all be singing along.
When you're sad, when you're lonely
and it all turns out wrong.
When you've got the fear.
And when you're no longer searching
for beauty or love -
just some kind of life
with the edges taken off.
When you can't even define what it is that you're frightened of
this song will be here.

Oh baby,
here comes the fear again.
The end is near again.
If you ever get that chimp off your back.
If you ever find the thing that you lack
but you know you're only having a laugh
and here we go again.
Until the end.
Yeah, that was pretty much the first song I thought of. It's a brilliant tune as well and the lyrics are kind of witty, if depressing when written down.

Also, Accept Yourself by The Smiths:

Every day you must say
So, how do I feel about my life?
Anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
When will you accept yourself?
I am sick and I am dull and I am plain
How dearly I***8217;d love to get carried away
Oh, but dreams have a knack of just not coming true
And time is against me now...
Oh, who and what to blame?
Oh, anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
When will you accept yourself, for heaven***8217;s sake?
Anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
Every day you must say
Oh, how do I feel about the past ?
Others conquered love - but I ran
I sat in my room and I drew up a plan
Oh, but plans can fall through (as so often they do)
And time is against me now...
And there***8217;s no-one left to blame
Oh, tell me when will you ...
When will you accept your life? (the one that you hate)
For anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
Every day you must say
Oh, how do I feel about my shoes?
They make me awkward and plain
How dearly I would love to kick with the fray ...
But I once had a dream (and it never came true)
And time is against me now... Time is against me now...
And there***8217;s no one but yourself to blame
Oh, anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
Anything is hard to find; for heaven***8217;s sake!
Anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes
When will you accept yourself?


........you could put most of the Smiths lyrics into this thread and they'd fit quite well I'd imagine.

EDIT: Someone already posted it in here, missed that first time through. Apologies.
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Old 8th July 2009, 00:09
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not really an SA song but there is a line in the song Love Gets Dangerous by Billy Bragg which i love:

When we meet in the street
My terror is complete
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Old 10th July 2009, 14:24
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I'm finding it so hard
To communicate with you
I'm finding it so hard
To show myself to you
Cause these feelings
Won't go away
God give me the strengh
To get over this
So I won't keep my love in here
I'm finding it so hard
To see reasons with you
I'm finding it so hard
To show my love to you
Cause these emotions
Come out of here
God give me the power
To love again
So I could fill my heart again
I'm finding it so hard
To make my life with you
I'm finding it so hard
To let myself be with you
Cause this selfishness won't go away
I lock myself up when you're with me
So free me
So I can love again
Just free me
I'm finding it so hard
To communicate
With you
I'm finding it so hard
To show myself
To you
Cause these emotions
Come out of here
I lock myself up when you're with me
When you're with me
Girl:
Did you phone
Over me my love
Over me
Tell me why
Did you phone
Over me my love
Over me
Tell me why
Did you phone
Over me my love

Archive Finding It So Hard lyrics
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Old 10th July 2009, 15:08
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Thi is ' The web' by Marillion,

not really a song about SA but suited my mood of isolation and lonliness as a teenager stuck in my room, back in the early 80's





The rain auditions at my window, its symphony echoes in my womb
My gaze scans the walls of this apartment
To rectify the confines of my tomb

I'm the cyclops in the tenement, I'm the soul without the cause
Crying 'midst my rubber plants, ignoring beckoning doors
Clippings from ancient newspapers lie scattered cross the floor
Stained by the wine from a shattered glass
Meaningless words, yellowed by time, faded photos exposing pain
Celluloid leeches bleeding my mind
You've finished playing hangman, you've cast the fateful dice
Advice, advice, advice me
This shroud will not suffice

And thus begins the web

Attempting to discard these clinging memories
I only serve to wallow in our past
I fabricate the weave with my excuses
Its strands I hope and pray shall last
Oh please do last

The flytrap needs the insects, ivy caresses the wall
Needles make love to the junkies, the sirens seduce with their call
Confidence has deserted me, with you it has forsaken me
Confused and rejected, despised and alone
I kiss isolation on its fevered brow
Security clutching me, obscurity threatening me
Your reasons were so obvious
As my friend have qualified, I only laughed away your tears
But even jesters cry

I realise I hold the key to freedom
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads
The time has come to make decisions
The changes have to be made
I realise I hold the key to freedom
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads
The time has come to make decisions
The changes have to be made

Now I leave you, the past does have it's say
You're all but forgotten a mote in my heart
Decisions have been made, decisions have been made
I've conquered my fears, the flaming shroud

Thus ends the web
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Old 11th July 2009, 02:51
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i don't kno if this has been posted yet as im too lazy to click back thru 11 pages. but songs by James Blunt especially tears in rain and same mistake- that song is excellent for describing depression and anxiety i think.
"There is no place I cannot go
My mind is muddy but
My heart is heavy does it show
I lose the track that loses me
So here I go "

also the whole undiscovered CD by james morrison. esp 'pieces don't fit anymore'. i could relate to the entire CD...it was good knowing someone else thought this way too!
also once when i was little is good too....
Yeah I could dream more then
Yeah I believe more then
That this world
could only get better
Yeah I was free more then
I could pretend more then
That this life could
only show me good times
Once, when I was little
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Old 11th July 2009, 04:07
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at a party he was waiting
looking kind of spooky and withdrawn
like he could be underwater
the mighty mother with her hundred arms

swept all aside
I hate to walk behind other people's ambition
I saw you waiting
saint like with your warning
leave alone, you don't belong here

he got nervous, started whistling
every thought a ricochet
did you notice, well I wondered
what's the worst thing I could say

and I froze up and sighed
you remind me of someones daughter
I forgot her, I forgot her name ashamed
go home and live with your pain
leave alone, leave alone'cause
you know you don't belong
you don't belong here

and when I go don't you follow
leave alone, leave alone'cause
you know you don't belong
you don't belong here
slip out quiet, nobody's looking
leave alone, you don't belong here


Elliott Smith - No Name no. 1
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Old 11th July 2009, 11:38
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Laces
at a party he was waiting
looking kind of spooky and withdrawn
like he could be underwater
the mighty mother with her hundred arms

swept all aside
I hate to walk behind other people's ambition
I saw you waiting
saint like with your warning
leave alone, you don't belong here

he got nervous, started whistling
every thought a ricochet
did you notice, well I wondered
what's the worst thing I could say

and I froze up and sighed
you remind me of someones daughter
I forgot her, I forgot her name ashamed
go home and live with your pain
leave alone, leave alone'cause
you know you don't belong
you don't belong here

and when I go don't you follow
leave alone, leave alone'cause
you know you don't belong
you don't belong here
slip out quiet, nobody's looking
leave alone, you don't belong here


Elliott Smith - No Name no. 1
I love this song
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Old 11th July 2009, 12:32
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Sole - Bottle Of Humans
'suicide Song'
not strictly about Sa,and not everyones cuppa as is an indie rap song....

My phone rang, I converse with the busy signal
Why can't they let me die in pieces?
I don't want any more food or condolences, let my people go
Burn off this useless flesh and make meals of my pestilence
Lessons are my tournaquets
maybe I've seen too much and not had enough
Either way, this is my last entry forever
Please don't let my children read this


I was meditating when I wrote this
the first time by interrupted by my screaming walls
Hard to concentrate in my 7 x 12 cell
Everyone watching my every move
Even with these shrouds, I feel naked
The windows talk to me and tell me that I ought to leave
Only one way out the door, it's too risky
Someone might not see me, be careful


We used to paint, the canvas made me feel alive
Oh how they marveled at the spectacle I made of myself
I made it for them, but it was really communication to conjure up through Forever immortalized, carbon dioxide chokes me
and I fear no man but my shadow
There are a lot of things I've learned not to say outloud
If my parents were still alive, they'd still be proud

Sometimes I imagine myself as a loss
The leftover remains of a cast-away god
If I'm homeless, there's no Earth
Someday I'll be famous, and you can put that on my birth
My word is worth the demons that raped my being,
childhood didn't happen

I was made as this, my walking prison
Guarded by my life on a limb, mood swings
Enjoying my whim, take it for what it seems and much more
Must find maker, how am I? and who did I?
And how did I wake up on this bench covered in mud?

Taking a shower won't aleve my stress
I can't even lift my brush to paint my long-awaited good-bye
Yet I'm feeling optimistic, relatively
this is my testimony and it tests the past miserably

Why do I keep dying in public places?
The medication should take two hours to take affect
But last time, I was killed eating my last meal
It's embarassing and I die inside

This is my favorite rock
I come here to think about all the things that make me
This is my favorite poem
I wrote this before I died last time
These are my favorite friends
they don't talk much and probably aren't even listening

This is my favorite place
so I hope that I don't last here too long

The other night, I was doing my everyday things
trying to find a girl to take to my apartment
She's beautiful and clearly cares for me
She likes my work, and wants to understand what fuels my art
We lay side-by-side
happy knowing that there was only thirty minutes left of this to endure
She spoke typical things and gave of herself freely
I started freaking out as I convulsed during oral sex
Concerned for me, she held me
and I laugh at those tears, for a while

The next day, I was still dead and she had joined me
How honest I recall of how she gave of herself freely
As I drank my orange juice, I began to study all of her beauty
We danced and made love for hours

Talked about important things and how our children would grow up and die also
And how futile it was until we finally fell in love
I'll never be alone again and she will never leave me

I've forgotten why I write these things down
Even as I write this
I'm realizing how useless it is to put ideas to words
water to wine, stupidity and valor
The streetlights I pray to and the gutters I fish in
My wife is no longer good at sex, her body doesn't speak to me
and I'm getting sick of her attitude

There's other fish in the sea
and I haven't stopped breathing for three days
I hope everything is alright

Today I downed 90 miligrams
After 20 i could feel the head rush
I raced to my gallery roof
Gazing at the beauty that we always take for granted
Its my opening night
Spinning
Everyone will be there
Whos anyone to bear witness to my newest latest and greatest work
I'm a comet human cannibal swan dive never has the air been so clean
I inhale and exhale to become one my ends on the sidewalk

A vivid display of a 170 pounds of blood sweat and tears
Critique away
But my greatest work is in the pavement
I made it for you

This is my favorite formance
And i hope nobody ever bites it
This is what i've been working up to all along
Finally alone at last

This is my favorite person and she will always be with me in spirit
These are my favorite words
I hope i don't have anything left to say
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Old 12th July 2009, 14:29
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indecision is a curious thing
it can turn your charity into sin
hesitation or the blink of an eye
can make your truth feel just like a lie

what if you were raised to feel naturally grateful
guilty
what if you were raised to feel naturally grateful

repetition as a way of life
it's a safe way out
but a long hard fight
isolation is a means to an end
it's amazing how fast
you'll forget your friends


what if you don't have what it takes to be humble
worthy
what if you don't have what it takes to be humble

feed your head
save your breath
because one of these days
because one of these days
why must I feel I'm the one
who must show you the way
who must show you the way

feed your head
save your breath
because one of these days
you might need it
why must I feel I'm the one
who must show you to make you believe it

any fool can see that I'm a bad example
if the only advice I bring
is to chew on your food
and save your string

maybe I don't have what it takes to be humble
worthy
maybe I don't have what it takes to be humble

feed your head
save your breath
because one of these days
you might need it
why must I feel I'm the one
who must show you to make you believe it

feed your head
save your breath
because one of these days
because one of these days
why must I feel I'm the one
who must show you to make you believe it
to make you believe



this is a song called 'ames' by the bluetones.Its an album track from their album'return to the last chance saloon' ( great album in IMHO but slaughtered by the critics). When I first heard it - in particular the bits I have highlighted - I couldnt believe how it summed up how I felt/feel. Surely the writer of this song suffered from social phobia or I am completely misinterpreting the lyrics?
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Old 12th July 2009, 14:38
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A-ha - Did Anyone Approach You?


You never look up
You never look back
You never say anything based on fact
You've got issues going way back
You never say 'hi'
You never say much
You never make an effort to stay in touch
I've got this feeling something happened here
Something happened here

Did anybody feel you?
Did anybody deal you?
Did anybody make you do some things now?
Did anyone approach you?
Did anybody coach you?
Did anybody tell you what to say now?
Hopeless - it's not hopeless
Doubtful - but not hopeless at all

You never looked up
You never look back
You never did anything in between
Are things black and white with you
You never believed
You never belonged
Never made milestones to call your own
I've got this feeling something happened here
Something happened here

Did anybody hide you?
Did anybody fight you?
Did anyone decide to do some harm now?
Did anybody read you?
Did anybody bleed you?
Did anybody feed you lots of junk now?
Hopeless - it's not hopeless
Doubtful - but not hopeless
Hopeless - it's not hopeless
Doubtful - but not hopeless at all
Hopeless - it's not hopeless
Doubtful - but not hopeless at all

Something happened here
Something happened here
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Old 14th July 2009, 10:45
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vapourtrail
elliott smith - no name #1


at a party he was waiting
looking kind of spooky and withdrawn
like he could be underwater
the mighty mother with her hundred arms
swept all aside
i hate to walk behind other people's ambition
i saw you waiting
saint like
with your warning
leave alone
you don't belong here
he got nervous
started whistling
every thought a ricochet
did you notice?
well i wondered
what's the worst thing i could say?
and i froze up and sighed
you remind me of someones daughter
i forgot her
i forgot her name ashamed
go home and live with your pain
leave alone
leave alone 'cos you know you don't belong
you don't belong here
and when i go
don't you follow
leave alone
leave alone 'cos you know you don't belong
you don't belong here
slip out quiet
nobody's looking
leave alone
you don't belong here
that's exactly what I thought when I first heard this song <3
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Old 14th July 2009, 10:57
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also the whole undiscovered CD by james morrison. esp 'pieces don't fit anymore'. i could relate to the entire CD...it was good knowing someone else thought this way too!
also once when i was little is good too....
Yeah I could dream more then
Yeah I believe more then
That this world
could only get better
Yeah I was free more then
I could pretend more then
That this life could
only show me good times
Once, when I was little
I like that song. Good choice

Also, I think Wonderful World in particular has some lyrics that describe how it feels living with social anxiety well:

I've been down so low
People look at me and they know
They can tell something is wrong
Like I don't belong
Wanna be like them
But I'll mess it up again
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Old 20th October 2009, 22:28
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The song that has always hit home for me is People Are Strange by the Doors

People are strange when youre a stranger
Faces look ugly when youre alone
Women seem wicked when youre unwanted
Streets are uneven when youre down
When youre strange
Faces come out of the rain
When youre strange
No one remembers your name
When youre strange
People are strange when youre a stranger
Faces look ugly when youre alone
Women seem wicked when youre unwanted
Streets are uneven when youre down
When youre strange
Faces come out of the rain
When youre strange
No one remembers your name
When youre strange
When youre strange
Faces come out of the rain
When youre strange
No one remembers your name
When youre strange
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Old 20th October 2009, 22:33
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The song that has always hit home for me is People Are Strange by the Doors

People are strange when youre a stranger
Faces look ugly when youre alone
Women seem wicked when youre unwanted
Streets are uneven when youre down
When youre strange
Faces come out of the rain
When youre strange
No one remembers your name
When youre strange
People are strange when youre a stranger
Faces look ugly when youre alone
Women seem wicked when youre unwanted
Streets are uneven when youre down
When youre strange
Faces come out of the rain
When youre strange
No one remembers your name
When youre strange
When youre strange
Faces come out of the rain
When youre strange
No one remembers your name
When youre strange
god i always am humming this tune,i prefer the echo and the bunnymen version though
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Old 20th October 2009, 22:37
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god i always am humming this tune,i prefer the echo and the bunnymen version though
I don't think I have ever heard that version, will have to check it out!
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Old 20th October 2009, 22:41
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Totally agree with the Doors, I'm having that for my funeral! (not soon I hope!)
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Old 20th October 2009, 23:35
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I like that song. Good choice

Also, I think Wonderful World in particular has some lyrics that describe how it feels living with social anxiety well:

I've been down so low
People look at me and they know
They can tell something is wrong
Like I don't belong
Wanna be like them
But I'll mess it up again

yes he is good isn't he! thats another good one too.....he really writes from the heart.

soul asylum runaway train is good altho its prob more to do with depression

"CHORUS
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here no there

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded


I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it "

i don't kno if ive already mentioned this song but matchbox 20, unwell

"Talking to myself in public
Dodging glances on the train
I know
I know they've all been talking 'bout me
I can hear them whisper
And it makes me think there must be something wrong
With me
Out of all the hours thinking
Somehow
I've lost my mind"
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Old 21st October 2009, 19:50
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Waiting for today to happen - Lightning seeds

The usual dreams, the usual schemes
Same lost feelings, same bad day dreams
Only unreal and delirious, out of breath and out of luck

Sometimes, when I wake up slowly
Paralysed by the fears within me
Waiting for today to happen
Waiting for a vague impression
Waiting for today to happen
Waiting here with nothing but disaster

Nailed tight in his bed forever
Turn out the lights tomorrow, whatever

I'm so hung over with sleep
All I want to do is dream and dream and dream
Just lie down and never leave
Put myself here at your knees

Sometimes, when I wake up slowly
Paralysed by the fears within me
Waiting for today to happen
Waiting for a vague impression
Waiting for today to happen
Waiting here with nothing but disaster

Nailed tight in his bed forever
Turn out the lights tomorrow, whatever
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Old 21st October 2009, 19:52
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Not ready yet - Eels

There's a world outside
And I know, cause I've heard talk
In my sweetest dreams
I would go out for a walk
But I don't think I'm ready yet
I'm not feeling up to it now
I'm just not that steady yet
And I don't need you telling me how
There's some happiness
And my stone face cracks again
Maybe sometime sooner or later
But I don't think I'm ready yet
I'm not feeling up to it now
I'm just not that steady yet
And I don't need you telling me how
So if I leave my room
Don't you tell me to lighten up
Maybe sometime sooner or later
But I don't think I'm ready yet
I'm not feeling up to it now
I'm just not that steady yet
And I don't need you telling me how
I don't need you telling me how
I don't need you telling me how
I don't need you telling me how
I don't need you telling me how
I don't need you telling me how
I don't need you telling me how
I don't, I don't need you telling me how
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Old 25th October 2009, 19:28
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Can't believe no-ones mentioned Radiohead, the depressives best friend, especially Creep.

Lyrics to follow.....

When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so ****in' special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts,
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice
when I'm not around
You're so ****in' special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here, ohhhh, ohhhh

She's running out again
She's running out
She run run run run...
run... run...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so ****in' special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't belong here...
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Old 25th October 2009, 19:43
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Slint - 'Don, Aman'..... A bit obscure maybe. It's from their album 'Spiderland' which is one of my all time favourites.

Don stepped outside.
It felt good to be alone.
He wished he was drunk,
Thought about something he had just said,
And how stupid it had sounded
He knew he should forget about it
and decided to piss, but he couldn't...
(A plane passed silently overhead, the streetlights, and the buds on the trees and the night, were still.)

It finally came, he took a deep breath.
It made him feel strong, and determined,
To go back inside.

The light.
Their backs.
Their conversation.
The couples, romancing, so natural.
His friends stare,
With eyes, like the heads of nails.
The others.
Glances.
With amusement,
With evasion,
With contempt.
So distant,
With malice,
For being a sty
In their engagement,
Like swimming underwater in the darkness,
Like walking through an empty house,
Speaking to an imaginary audience,
being watched from outside, by no-one
(A song without a key)
He could not dance to anything.

Don left,
And drove,
And howled,
And laughed,
At himself.
He felt he knew what that was.

Don woke up,
And looked at the night before.
He knew what he had to do.
He was responsible.
In the mirror,
He saw his friend.
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Old 25th October 2009, 21:32
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Joy Division - Isolation:

Mother I tried please believe me,
I'm doing the best that I can.
I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through,
I'm ashamed of the person I am.

Joy Division - Decades:

Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders,
Here are the young men, well where have they been?
We knocked on the doors of hells darker chamber,
Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in,
Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying,
We saw ourselves now as we never had seen.
Portrayal of the trauma and degeneration,
The sorrows we suffered and never were free.
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Old 25th October 2009, 22:45
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This song really gets to me as some of the lyrics really hit home how I'm feeling.


*Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same*

I believe I can see the future
Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again
That might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
Now I never make a sound

I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around

Oh, no

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I can feel their eyes are watching
In case I lose myself again
Sometimes I think I'm happy here
Sometimes, yet I still pretend
I can't remember how this got started
But I can tell you exactly how it will end

I'm writing on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping someday you might find
Well I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind
I'm still inside here
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could have been any other way
But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do


(Apologies if this has been mentioned already, there's 11 pages of thread and my PC is being a slowcoach tonight!)
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Old 25th October 2009, 22:46
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Joy Division - Isolation:

Mother I tried please believe me,
I'm doing the best that I can.
I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through,
I'm ashamed of the person I am.

Joy Division - Decades:

Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders,
Here are the young men, well where have they been?
We knocked on the doors of hells darker chamber,
Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in,
Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying,
We saw ourselves now as we never had seen.
Portrayal of the trauma and degeneration,
The sorrows we suffered and never were free.

I notice a lot in Joy Division songs for sure. ***9829;
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