If they made a movie about your life what songs would you pick for the soundtrack?
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February 1st, 2011
Pick songs that say something about you and your experiences or, if you prefer, songs that are indelibly linked in your mind to a certain time. Elaborate as you will. Dates and key events could be added but are not necessary!
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Paul Anka song, sang by Frank Sinatra, MY WAY
Song is explains itself and describes me.
Was my graduation song and thought it described me back then and still does.
Well except for the part of being a man.
This for the beginning, this for the middle, and this for the end.
Start
Superman (It’s Not Easy)
soldier nsfw
Shit Hits the Fan nsfw
Blow me away
Like Toy Soldiers nsfw
So Cold
Run Rabbit Run nsfw
kryptonite
Meet the Creeper nsfw
I don’t know the name of the song
Join me in Death
end
@Pandora my high school graduation song was Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf. We thought we were so cool and going to live forever and save the world.
I don’t do songs. But this improvisation is something I could listen to over and over. Then there’s Paul Winter’s Icarus, a tune I have probably listened to thousands of times and I never get tired of it. There are also a few of my pieces, but those aren’t available anywhere. They were played and then gone. I hope this is acceptable, since if I had to do songs, I wouldn’t have anything at all. I just don’t understand words in songs. Never have. Probably never will.
—@bk Yeah, that sucks. Then you wake up the next morning and go, NOW WHAT? Its like waking up in a strangers bed the next morning after too many drinks. Not that I personally know that. (The bed and stranger part. LOL) But the next day you do wonder, what do you do now.—
@Pandora I love the song. I think it was appropriate for me then, and now too just in different ways!
Wundayatta, I love both of those songs. But I don’t understand about not wanting or appreciating words in songs from someone who is so good with words. I suppose it means you want the music to transcend words and express what words cannot.
Lies – Evanescence
Knock you down – Keri Hilson
Hello – Evanescence
Michael Bublé – Home
Etc, etc, etc.
The Bitch is Back…. just joking :-D I will have to think some more. That was the first thing that came to my mind.
MsLizzy Can’t wait to see what the finale is :)
@Earthgirl I don’t want words in songs because I can’t catch the words. if I do understand some of the words, I find them very distracting. Music works on me differently. The melodies are what I pay attention to and what move me.
Also, my memory is for shit. I can’t remember words. Maybe one line of a song or a poem, but nothing after that—except for the odd exception like “The Night Before Christmas.”
the words to “For a Dancer” are so beautiful and poetic!!! How could anyone not like that song? I ask you!
Oh undoubtedly this would take centre stage. Pretty unoriginal I know, but oh so true :¬)
I’m sorry. It’s just too frustrating. I can pick up maybe 60% of the words, give or take. But all it takes is one or two words in the middle of a phrase, and the whole phrase becomes meaningless. The only phrase I think I truly understood was “death” and not understanding it.
I have always been like this, but it is worse now that I’m in my 50s. If I’m in a room, trying to talk to someone, and there is any other noise source—people talking, music, TV—I can’t do it. I put my hand on my ear and cup it towards the person I’m talking to, and that helps, but I’m still saying “What?” All the time. I feel like I’m being totally annoying making everyone listen to everything twice, and sometimes three times or even more. I need one of Maxwell Smart’s Cones of Silence. It’s just so much easier online.
So I don’t do songs. I sing. But I don’t do songs.
Wundayatta My father had the same kind of hearing loss. Have you had your ears tested? There are good hearing aids that are much less conspicuous than the old ones. For now, here are the lyrics of “For a Dancer” by Jackson Browne
Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don’t remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought you’d always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you’re nowhere to be found
I don’t know what happens when people die
Can’t seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It’s like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can’t sing
I can’t help listening
And I can’t help feeling stupid standing ’round
Crying as they ease you down
’cause I know that you’d rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(there’s nothing you can do about it anyway)
Just do the steps that you’ve been shown
By everyone you’ve ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another’s steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you’ll do alone
Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don’t let the uncertainty turn you around
(the world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you’ll never know
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