A song to express your feelings

[lookingforme]

At this hour, I find myself particularly vulnerable because I am heavily sleep deprived, and my brain can't really process. I have been awake for 21 hours and 12 minutes straight after a string of nights of only a few hours' sleep. I don't feel well, nor do I feel sleepy. So, I am listening to the soundtrack of my life entitled "Walkabouts" and right now, the perfect song to describe what I am feeling (at least the chorus of it) is Madness by Muse. Has anyone ever felt like they could communicate more if they did it through the songs that already exist? I challenge us to have a conversation consisting of song quotes.

So, dedicated to my depression; here I go...

Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad mad mad...Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad mad mad....Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad mad mad...Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad mad mad...I, I can't get these memories ooout of my mind, and some kind of maaaadness has started to evolve. Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad mad mad...Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad mad mad... And I, I tried so hard to let you go-ooo, but some kind of maaaadness is swallowing me whole, yeah....Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad mad mad...Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mad mad mad...I have finally seen the light. And I have finally realized, what you mean....

Ooh oh oh

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[Croix]

Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge over troubled waters" (1969)

something we all need at times, I think the last chorus is the best

[Eagle Ray]

Really lovely lyrics Croix 🙏

For me again it’s Something Good Coming by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. It’s about sensing and finding hope through heartbreak and loss. It really resonates for me and helps me keep going.

[Croix]

I like Something Good Coming, even hte title is a boost, however time for a change of pace:

Ravel's Bolero - an affirmation of personal worth

-C (who changed his mind)

[Eagle Ray]

Ah, yes, there is something very fortifying about Bolero. What a great piece of music. You just inspired me to watch Torvill & Dean’s winning Olympic ice skating performance to Bolero from 1984. It’s still the most beautiful ice skating performance I have seen - two people totally in sync and so expressive and flowing. I remember a comedy spoof at the time someone did of it performing with a dummy on the ice that they were throwing about in an humorous fashion and was just trying to find it but couldn’t.

[Ggrand]

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Long Time Gone…

Croix Bridge over Troubled Waters…is one of my favourite song…

[sbella02]

I can also vouch for Bridge over Troubled Waters, great song with a beautiful message.

[Croix]

"It's a rich man's world" AꓭBA (1976)

just seen a medical bill 😢

[Croix]

"If you're going to San Francisco wear some flowers in your hair" Scott McKenzie. (1967)

A dream for many far away from home

[smallwolf]

might have said this one before...?

land of confusion by genesis

[Croix]

"Take Five" (1959), Dave Brubeck

The combination of the background beat with the virtuosity of the saxaphone gives a lift and carries one away on a welter of notes.