dark music and survival

dark music and survival
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jesse7

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When I was growing up, I listened to a lot of heavy metal music especially Guns N Roses, Metallica, AC/DC and other bands with dark lyrics that emphasize anger, hate, oblivion, and hopelessness. Now that I look back I see that listening to such bands allowed me to feel the pain that I was enduring at the time even when crying, anger, and other emotional release was forbidden. "The no-feel rule" is quite common I hear in all dysfunctional families. If it weren't for those few moments when I listened in and felt anger, frustration, hatred, and sadness, would I likely have more problems to deal with today? After all, just listening to the music allowed me to somewhat feel my pain. Some would no doubt think that heavy metal can only cause more harm than good but I think anyone who has gone through the hell that I have can appreciate songs like "Fade to Black," for example, since we know first hand what it is to live this song:

Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this cant be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now hes gone

No one but me can save myself, but its too late
Now I cant think, think why I should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye

Jesse
 
I bought "Ride the Lightning" on LP when it first came out in 84'. It was one of the first bands that the "Punkers" and "Metalheads" could agree to listen to. LOL

I still have some passion for the same type of music, because I look for music to invoke certain feelings, and I can't get that if I'm listening to softer stuff.

I think that it helped us channel the inner anger that we felt but could not effectively release.
 
I LUUURVE For Whom the Bell Tolls. And Escape. And Ride the Lightning.

/wishes he could play the strat like the cool kids could.
 
Jesse,

I never thought of that, but of course you are right. I remember going upstairs and putting on Hendrix and just listening to the wild emotional guitar riffs and letting myself slide away.

Much love,
Larry
 
Originally posted by Hauser:
I still have some passion for the same type of music, because I look for music to invoke certain feelings, and I can't get that if I'm listening to softer stuff.
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Hauser,

Like you, I find the music breaks through some of the numbness whenever I'm experiencing extreme emotional detachment.

Jesse
 
My defining moment was seeing Deep Purple perform Black Night, and Black Sabbath performing Paranoid on the same edition of Top of the Pops! That's where my love of rock music really took a hold!

I've grown attached to many bands along the way, but one of the most meaningful to me in recent years is Hell is for Heroes and their album Neon Handshake!

Slow Song - Hell is for Heroes:

Come Down to my Level
And Share this cold with me
the space once filled Heavy
with loss now Lies empty

I tried to run but I got stung
A thousand times rolled into one
the ache still burns with every word
I broke to find the trust again

Come down to my heaven
and Share this Warmth with me
We'll bleed here together
and Lick our wounds better

I tried to run but I got stung
A thousand times rolled into one
the ache still burns with every word
I broke to find the trust again
I'll take the sting and close the door
On everything that I became
I close my eyes to see your Face
It holds me up and knocks me down

I tried to run but I got stung
a thousand times rolled into one
the ache still burns with every word
I broke to find the trust again
Ill take the string and close the door
on everything that I became
I close my eyes to see your face
it holds me up and knocks me down

You Knock Me Down
you knock me down
you knock me down
you, knock, me down


Best wishes ...Rik
 
Pat Benatar's Hell is for Children did it for me.

They cry in the dark, so you cant see their tears
They hide in the light, so you cant see their fears
Forgive and forget, all the while
Love and pain become one and the same
In the eyes of a wounded child
Because hell
Hell is for children
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldnt have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh

Its all so confusing, this brutal abusing
They blacken your eyes, and then apologize
Youre daddys good girl, and dont tell mommy a thing
Be a good little boy, and youll get a new toy
Tell grandma you fell off the swing

Because hell
Hell is for children
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldnt have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh

No, hell is for children

Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children

Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children

Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children

Hell is for children
Hell is for children
 
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