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To ask which song changed your life?

18 replies

HaworthInBloom · 06/04/2023 16:00

For me, 'White Wedding' by Billy Idol completely changed my life from 'bad' to 'good', in particular the lyric :

"Look for something LEFT in this world"

Over to you ⬇️

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Olinguita · 06/04/2023 16:02

Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up) by Florence and the Machine

JuneBridie · 06/04/2023 16:04

Come Live With Me Heaven 17.

Neededanewuserhandle · 06/04/2023 17:03

Cunts are still running the world by Jarvis Cocker

LittleMG · 06/04/2023 18:07

Billie Jean by Bruce Springsteen opened up a whole
new world of music

PervyMuskrat · 06/04/2023 18:08

Bother by Stone Sour

determinedtomakethiswork · 06/04/2023 18:19

LittleMG · 06/04/2023 18:07

Billie Jean by Bruce Springsteen opened up a whole
new world of music

Do you mean Bobby Jean?

worried4698643 · 06/04/2023 18:23

If your going through hell - Rodney Atkins

It's my go to song when life kicks you in the balls and i am need of a pick me up and refocus.

Thingsthatgo · 06/04/2023 18:36

Under the Bridge by RHCP. I was a squeaky clean teen but that song changed me!

heidbuttsupper · 06/04/2023 18:40

Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode

BeautifulWar · 06/04/2023 18:49

Landslide, Fleetwood Mac.

OnlyFannys · 06/04/2023 18:51

Sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann. So much great advice

GalileoHumpkins · 06/04/2023 18:52

Meat is Murder by The Smiths.

nomoremerlot · 06/04/2023 19:00

Bridge over troubled water

Played at both my very troubled sisters funerals.

So sad, so apt.

😞

Lincslady53 · 06/04/2023 19:14

Forgetful Heart by Dylan. Was not much of a fan, even though I grew up in the 60s, but went to see him at Blackpool in 2013, I had just turned 60, and this song blew me away. I didn't know it before the concert, but it got me listening more intently to his back catalogue, watching documentaries, reading books. I know of no other artist who writes and sings songs that are relevant to my age. Seen him 3 more times since and very few days go by without me listening to him. He is 82 next month, and has just played the first gig of the Japanese leg of his world tour. He is incredible and his music has helped me cope with the challenges of getting older, and starting to lose those close to me through age and disease.

BertieBotts · 06/04/2023 19:14

Funny premise - I don't know that any song has changed my life.

But I do remember a moment, I was sitting in my living room, DH (then bf) was there, some of his friends, our mutual friends were there. I was about 2 years out from an emotionally abusive headfuck relationship, on my own with DS1 who would have been about 2 or 3 at the time. I had been going through a really strange period where it was like during the relationship, I'd blocked out every emotion and forgotten how to relate to people (because my ex had forbidden me from having any friends except his friends) so it was almost like I was learning to have emotions again. I used to walk to Blockbusters and rent a different 3 films every week and watch them and just cry or laugh or whatever it was.

Anyway I was sitting at this party, NYE I think, and the Foo Fighters came on:

It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again

And then when my cousin died in 2020, one of the songs that came up and made me think of her was Kate Rusby's Hunter Moon. It caught me originally because of the lyrics:

The end of the day will come soon
And the stars in my lonely sky,
Are infinite bright,
And the stars know my soul will fly,
They're holding it tight.

But towards the end of the song there's the lyric:

For she's the sun, I'm only the moon.

It made me think that my cousin was such a brilliant, vibrant person, she was so loved and everyone was so shocked and upset when she died. But she was also the kind of person who surrounded herself by other brilliant people. Basically everyone that I ever met who loved her was brilliant as well, it made me think about the nature of the moon reflecting back the sun's light, and whether my cousin was the light that sent brilliance back to all those people, or whether she was a moon that was reflecting everyone else. It made me resolve to try to be both as well. To be a light to inspire others, but also to try and be more like anyone that I admire and reflect their light back into the world. If my lovely cousin can't be here any more then at least there are all these people in the world who she did touch and she did light up when she was here.

Anyway it turns out the song is actually meant to be about the moon being in love with the sun Grin but I prefer my meaning.

coffeecookie · 06/04/2023 19:15

GalileoHumpkins · 06/04/2023 18:52

Meat is Murder by The Smiths.

Yes me too!

That and 'One Way' by The Levellers.

anxiousatnight · 06/04/2023 19:26

The Scientist, Coldplay

"Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be this hard"

Struck a chord with me after my after my sister died following long illness. We knew it would be tough, but we could never have predicted how tough.

roselune · 06/04/2023 19:30

Pedestal by Alanis Morissette made me realise something really important about an unhealthy relationship I was clinging onto.

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