The difference in songs..

[ItBeThatWay27]

Do you ever listen to songs and not actually HEAR them until something happens in your life and it is almost like the song is NEW to you? Or vice-vera, do you have songs that you completely connect with and then things change and it's almost as if the song has gone stagnant? This happens to me sometimes. I can listen to a song 200 times and enjoy it but then one day if something in my life changes, the song will impact me in a way I have never known it to before. I am just curious if that happens to anyone else here and if they care to share songs or stories..

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[never.alone]

Well this may not be exactly what youre talking about but I was in love with the band death cab for cutie and then after a good friend found out and started going crazy over them too i just started to hate the band, and the singers voice too. It sucks...

[DreamsLast]

YES!! I had been going through this difficult time a couple years ago. I was realizing that life isn't that fairy tale that our parents tell us about and get us to believe. I kept waiting and waiting but nothing like that ever happened. It was a hard time dealing with the stark reality that this world has become. Before this happened I had heard GAIW but didn't really FEEL IT until later when I was going through this phase of sorts. The song felt totally different to me, and I really 'got it' for the first time!

The same could be said for the first time I fell in love, when I met my husband. For the first time all of those sappy love songs that used to annoy me made sense!!!

[Eibhlin]

I really like this song by Natalie Merchant, off her Ophelia album

Life Is Sweet

It's a pity
It's a crying shame
He pulled you down again
How painful it must be
To bruise so easily
Inside

It's a pity
It's a downright crime
It happens all the time
You want to stay little daddy's girl
You want to hide from a vicious world
Outside
Don't cry
You know the tears will do no good
So dry your eyes

Oh, your daddy
He's the iron man
Battleship wrecked on dry land
Your mamma
She's a bitter bride
She'll never be satisfied
Do you know?
And that's not right

But don't cry
You know the tears will do no good
So dry your eyes

Oh, they told you life is hard
Misery from the start
It's dull
It's slow
It's painful

But, I'll tell you life is sweet
Inspite of the misery
There's so much more to be grateful

Well, who do you believe?
Who will you listen to?
Who will it be?
'Cause it's high time that you decide
In your own mind

I've tried to comfort you
I've tried to tell you to be patient
They are blind
And they can't see

Fortune gonna come one day
They're all gonna fade away
Your daddy, the war machine
and
Your momma, the long and suffering
Prisioner of what she can not see

For they told you life is hard
Misery from the start
It's dull
It's slow
It's painful

But, I'll tell you life is sweet
Inspite of the misery
There's so much more to be grateful

So, who will you believe?
Who will you listen to?
Who will it be?
Because it's high time that you decide
It's time to make up your own
your own state of mind

Oh, they told you that life is long
Be thankful when it's done
Don't ask for more
be grateful

But, I'll tell you life is short
Be thankful
Because before you know
It will be over
'Cause life is sweet
Life is, oh, so very short
Life is sweet
And life is, oh, so very short
Life is sweet

And life is sweet
And life is sweet


it's really good to listen to when life really seems to suck
and that's about as emotional as I will get

[ROBARE]

Kind strange when hear song so much and never read in to it just hum along, then one day the words have alot of bite.So yes it happens to me too!! As for a story I'll have to think about it tonight.I know theres one some where. I'll see if I can find it!

[louloublu]

Definitely. I had it about Goodbye Alice In Wonderland. I mean I had been listening to the song for almost a year but all of a sudden it really got through to me about leaving your childhood behind but not you innocence (to me at least). I never analyse songs that much I listen to them, I prefer to absorb them and all of a sudden the meaning becomes apparent whether it's a week, a month, or a year later.

[Veilingmeat]

Interesting subject Gary....heh, funny i looked in this thread numerous times and could'nt think of jack turd too mention :tongue:
Mind you...my mind was awash with moment & thought on this the past couple of days....and why i never came up with this earlier???.
My Grandad 'Eenrico Abramo Rizzi' (R.I.P) a proud Italian passed away about 3 years ago now and he was a fanatic 'Luciano Pavarotti' fan! he loved 'Oh Sole Mio' and 'La Donna e Mobile (Rigoletto)' with a PASSION real Italian vigor....at his funeral procession we played 'Nessun Dorma' his favourite and despite the amount of times i'v listened too that song, even now typing i feel a lump in my throat...a song that has a place in my heart always not only as a masterpeice but i someway an emotional scar in memory of my Grandfather i guess...for some strange reason it never fails to put a tear in my eye!!! maybe also its the Italian blood within me! I mean i knew the song had been around since the world cup in the 90's...always liked it, but now i love it, and just become a right ole soppy mess :P

[ItBeThatWay27]

yep, Marc, Christie, everyone that's exactly what I meant by that. And Jess I feel ya there... not really with Death Cab, but other bands I have just dropped b/c people drove them into the ground... however I havent listened to Death Cab in quite some time since my friend told me they were an emo band and even though I think thats BS I have stopped listening but not contiously... I didnt decide to, just happened and now that you brought up DCFC.. it made me think of it...