Music

Yeah, I know, you don't hear from me for weeks then twice in one day. Let's just say I'm bored tonight and have reached that "bitching" phase of my depression. So shut-up about it and read...or not. Whatever.

Anyhoo, this next installment deals with music.

Whether I'm happy, sad, angry, whatever...music is always the one constant. I guess you could say I have ecclectic taste. Everything from Mozart to Patsy Cline to Tool to Mindless Self Indulgence to Stevie Wonder to Korn to Broadway musical soundtracks to Peter, Paul, & Mary to Odis Redding to Marilyn Manson...and beyond.

At the moment my attention has been drawn to my depressing tastes. I heard 5 songs on the radio today that made me say, "Shit, this certainly seems to match my mood lately." So they're my top 5 for this week, along with some lyric snippits that I felt a certain kindrid to.

5. Chevelle "Closure"

"Like a leach,
I hold on as if we belonged,
To some precious pure dream.
Cast off, you've seen what's beneath,
Now fail me."

4. Tool "Imagine" (I know Lennon's original was about hope, but the way Tool does it, makes you want to slit your wrists. An AMAZING remake.)

"Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today..."

3. Korn "The Wall" (Another remake makes this week's list. I have always loved this song...hell, this whole album. Again, one fucking incredible remake.)

"I don't need no arms around me
I don't need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I need anything at all
No don't think I'll need anything at all"

2. Jimmy Eat World "Pain"

"I don't feel the way I've ever felt.
I know
I'm gonna smile and not get worried.
I try but it shows.

Anyone can make what I have built.
And better now
Anyone can find the same white pills
that take my pain away."

1. Green Day "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (I have to admit that I've never been a big fan of Green Day, but this song really hits a nerve with me and has become one of my new favorites.)

"I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And where I walk alone

Read between the lines of what's
Fucked up and every things all right
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I'll walk alone"

And that's that. My top 5 for the week.

Well, I'm outta work in about 15 minutes or so. Till next time...