On music

As anyone who has ever been in any kind of relationship that comes to a premature end, or just plain end. Music is the bane of and rising platform of the person afterwards. I had a crushing moment leaving her apartment when I turned on my mp3 player, the normally trusted muse of my internal mental mechanics, to discover that all but Led Zeppelin had betrayed me by wearing Jen colored glasses.

On the upside, once you've rid yourself of the barbed musical numbers that serve only the lost loved one, you can again find solace in specific songs, depending on what your like. I'll endeavour to bring to mind the songs that helped me out. Now they fit into multiple categories, which further bleed into the states of recovery, I'll try and make it all make sense;

Angry-ish

Artist/Song

Jet/Cold Hard Bitch
Song about a guy whose obssessed with a woman whose bound to use him

Burning Brides/Heart Full of Black
Song about a guy who gets used, and decides to become a jerk. Favored line of th song "I made a promise by the side of the road, that I would bury my god damn halo"

Danko Jones/Play the blues
Centers around the fact that if you want to play the blues you should get a

Everclear/California King
Song about an ex going through a make-over and the boyfriend not believing it and thinking that they're trite.
"I will find you in the crowded room, I will knock you off your feet, I will burn you just like teenage I will eat you just like meat" The way he sings it as well is great, glistening with vitriole.


Depressing but good
Sometimes you just want to wallow in your sorrow and/or loss etc. These songs are great for that.

Jeff Buckley/Despite the Tears
A man who comes home to a dear john letter, and who refuses to stop loving the woman. Favored Line "And he knew that he'd love her forever and a day" also "he knew that a part of him was dying"

Beck/Missing
About missing something/someone. Favored lines "I dragged all that owned, down the dirt road to find you" also "I prayed heaven today...bring its hammer down on me" also "I need you out of my head, because I can't think with you in it" also "my shoes worn out and used, they can't take me much farther" also (chorus) "something always takes the place of missing pieces you can take an put together even though you know there's something missing" also "the guns of her mind aim a line straight mine" also "I can see her hollow eyes" also "can't believe these tears are mine, I give them to you to keep away in a box"

Big Wreck/Blown Wide Open
About being ambushed by feelings you thought you'd consciously settled
"So I'm all surrounded by the things I thougtht I'd put away" also "so the mess is drawing forces, I thought I hear them say, come out with your hands up so we can blow you away, and I walk out the door get blown wide open, by the things I'd put away"

The Cult/Painted on my heart
About a guy who was moving on, but can't because he loves her.
"I thought you'd be out of my mind, and I'd finally found a way to learn to live without you, I thought it was just a matter of time till I had a hundred reasons not to think about you, but its just not so, and after all this time, I still can't let go, I've still got your face, painted on my heart, etched upon my memory, and I've got your kiss still burning on my lips, the touch of the fingertips, this love so deep inside of me"

The Yea yea yea's/Pin
Great song about lamenting about dating, going through the motions of it. I enjoyed the metaphor of pushing in a pin to the similarity of dating, each time you go out, pushing in the pin
"Things are feelin thin" also "I'd like to sleep with him, pushin in the pin"

The yea yea yea's/Maps
Great song about love lost.
"Pack up, I'm a stray" also "wait, they don't love you like I love you"
The video helps but, she sings the lines with a lot of feeling and the video her and the band are performing in front of a crowd that's barely even noticing that they're playing. She is wearing bright red lipstick, and just looks so sad...adds a lot weight to it. Not to mention the entire song has a great bass line and some really nice heavy drums.

Bob Dylan/Don't think twice it's alright
Classic, if you don't know this song...I hope you've been living somewhere remote for a long time or you should be certified mentally disabled.
"and it ain't no use in turnin on your light babe, the light I've never known, and it ain't no use in turnin on your light babe, I'm on the dark side of the road" also "and I wish there was something you would do or say, try and make me change my mind and stay" also "I'm a thinkin and a wonderin and walkin down the road, I once loved a woman, a child I am told, I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul" also "so long honey babe, where I'm bound I can't tell, goodbye is too good a word babe, so I'll just say fare thee well" also "I ain't sayin you treated me unkind, you coulda done better but I don't mind, you just kind of wasted my precious time, but don't think twice it's alright"
I think dylan managed to squeeze ninety percent of the good/bad relationship ending stuff into this one song, and I think if I was a musician I'd be a little peeved at the fact that he took so many meanings and hoarded them thusly so early on in musics lifetime.

Hopeful

Wolf Parade/I'll believe in anything
"Give me your eyes, I need sunshine, your blood your bones your voice and your ghost, we've both been very brave, walk around both legs" also "I'll believe in anything, and you'll believe in anything, if I can get the fire out from the wire, I'd share a life and you'd share a life, if I can get the fire out from the wire, I'd take you were nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn" also "I can take another hit for you, and I could take away your trips from you, and I could take away this all from your eyes"