Songs for avoidants

daytimedreamer wrote:Lately, I have been listening to a song called John Q Lonely by Maia Sharp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v55VFoXCncs

Lyrics:
When I first shook hands with John Q. Lonely
We're sitting in a room that held him only
He said don't feel bad I'm just a regular guy

My life is the way that I want it
With nobody else's writing on it
Don't have to waste my time living a lie

You see people like you are never complete
Without a ring on your finger, a dog at your feet
A house on a suburban street named after a tree

Not me

I go to work each day in a little white cube
Come home each night and sit in front of the tube
No one to tell me what to do or say

Cause those distractions I don't need them
What could I love more than freedom?
Something you don't have can't slip away

All the people like you, you cry and you cry
When you find out love's just a four-letter lie
You say, "without her, who am I supposed to be?"

You worry about me?

On his fiftieth birthday John bought a cupcake
Almost wished that he had a namesake
But thought better of that before he blew out the flame

And on this day unlike any other
Just for a moment he imagined his mother
He thought to himself I could have taken her name

All the people like me who spare their regret
Foolishly giving more than we get
We're not stupid enough to let somebody in

Not me, not again

Love it. Thanks for sharing this!

Greenday - Longview

Sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on
I change the channels for an hour or two
Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit
I'm sick of all the same old $#%^
In a house with unlocked doors
And I'm f*cking lazy

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like sh*t

Peel me off this Velcro seat and get me moving
I sure as hell can't do it by myself
I'm feeling like a dog in heat
Barred indoors from the summer street
I locked the door to my own cell
And I lost the key

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like sh*t

I got no motivation
Where is my motivation?
No time for the motivation
Smoking my inspiration

Sit around and watch the phone, but no one's calling
Call me pathetic, call me what you will
My mother says to get a job
But she don't like the one she's got
When masturbation's lost its fun
You're f*cking lazy

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored
I'm going blind
And loneliness has to suffice
Bite my lip and close my eyes
I was slipping away to paradise
Some say, "Quit or I'll go blind."
But it's just a myth

Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne

Well, I couldn't tell you
Why she felt that way
She felt it every day

And I couldn't help her
I just watched her make
The same mistakes again

What's wrong, what's wrong now?
Too many, too many problems
Don't know where she belongs
Where she belongs

She wants to go home
But nobody's home
That's where she lies
Broken inside

With no place to go
No place to go
To dry her eyes
Broken inside

Open your eyes
And look outside
Find the reasons why

You've been rejected
And now you can't find
What you've left behind

Be strong, be strong now
Too many, too many problems
Don't know where she belongs
Where she belongs

She wants to go home
But nobody's home
That's where she lies
Broken inside

With no place to go
No place to go
To dry her eyes
Broken inside

Her feelings she hides
Her dreams she can't find
She's losing her mind
She's falling behind

She can't find her place
She's losing her faith
She's falling from grace
She's all over the place, yeah

She wants to go home
But nobody's home
That's where she lies
Broken inside

With no place to go
No place to go
To dry her eyes
Broken inside

She's lost inside, lost inside
Oh oh
She's lost inside, lost inside
Oh oh, oh

Portilloizay wrote:Anyone whos listened to Nick Drake knows what time it is.

awww yeah. haha this. nick's music is beautifully sad

like that song someone posted earlier in the thread - HOLE - Dying. very morose

David Gray - This Year's Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-tp0JZvUA

This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
And I've been waiting on my own too long
But when you hold me like you do
It feels so right
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feeling like you can't go on

Turning circles when time again
It cuts like a knife oh yeah
If you love me got to know for sure
Cos it takes something more this time
Than sweet sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
And when you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last
This years love had better last

So whose to worry
If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Don't you know this life goes on
And won't you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last
This years love had better last
This years love had better last
This years love had better last

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGO60xoEkZw
Soul Search - Reasonable Doubts

It's so hard, to turn the tide
When you've become, everything you once despised
My life is going down the steepest slope
The future looks bleak, with no signs of hope

And i just
CAN'T SEE
All the good things
THAT YOU SEE
Somewhere something, went wrong
Im just not that ######6 strong

Behind these four walls, there is no hope
I harvest my failures, i just couldn't ###$ cope
My will is shackled, they've thrown away the key
Unfortunately, i can't escape what they've built for me

And i just
CAN'T SEE
All the good things
THAT YOU SEE
I'll just keep doing work
Forgive me...IT'S WHAT I WAS TAUGHT

Never the right things
I never know what to do or say
Never the right things
There's always something in my way
Never the right things
The intolerable weight stays the same
Now the fog has lifted
And settled in my head
It's all...IN MY HEAD x2
It's all just...IN MY HEAD

who here also listens to hardcore?

People are Strange, by The Doors

People are strange when you're a stranger.
Faces look ugly when you're alone.
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted.
Streets are uneven when you're down.

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain.
When you're strange
No one remembers your name.
When you're strange,
When you're strange,
When you're...strange.

Check out Sopor Aeternus.

I Drink Alone - George Thorogood

I drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
I drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
You know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

Every morning just before breakfast
I don't want no coffee or tea
Just me and good buddy Wiser
That's all I ever need
'Cause I drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

The other night I laid sleeping
And I woke from a terrible dream
So I caught up my pal Jack Daniel's
And his partner Jimmy Beam
And we drank alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

The other day I got invited to a party
But I stayed home instead
Just me and my pal Johnny Walker
And his brothers Black and Red
And we drank alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

My whole family done give up on me
And it makes me feel oh so bad
The only one who will hang out with me
Is my dear old granddad
And we drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself

What?!?! No Metallica?!?!

(though, it's better suited for SPD)

++Wherever I May Roam++

(And the road becomes my bride)

And the road becomes my bride
I have stripped of all but pride
So in her I do confide
And she keeps me satisfied
Gives me all I need

And with dust in throat I crave
Only knowledge will I save
To the game you stay a slave

Roamer, wanderer
Nomad, vagabond
Call me what you will

But I'll take my time anywhere
Free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll redefine anywhere

Anywhere I roam
Where I lay my head is home

(And the earth becomes my throne)

And the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one

And my ties are severed clean
Less I have the more I gain
Off the beaten path I reign

Roamer, wanderer
Nomad, vagabond
Call me what you will

But I'll take my time anywhere
I'm free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll never mind anywhere

Anywhere I roam
Where I lay my head is home

But I'll take my time anywhere
I'm free to speak my mind
And I'll take my find anywhere

Anywhere I roam
Where I lay my head is home
I say!

But I'll take my time anywhere
I'm free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll redefine anywhere

Anywhere I roam
Where I lay my head is home

Carved upon my stone
My body lie, but still I roam,
Yeah yeah!

Wherever I may roam
Wherever I may roam
Woah

Wherever I may roam
Wherever I may roam
Yeah!

Wherever I may wander, wander, wander
Wherever I may roam

Yeah, yeah, wherever I may roam

Yeah, yeah, wherever i may roam
Wherever I may roam
Wherever I may roam