SO, that music gave me chills for its beauty.
I love that you started this thread and I'm taking it as an invitation to add some heartfelt American blues.
Here is my favourite:
It's kind of an anthem for Out of the Storm.
Thanks for chiming in guys! This is what I had in mind for the thread. ❤️
Nadayana - Nine
I love this song by Lewis Capaldi; not just the music itself, but what it represents for me. In the video he isn't left to crash and burn during a Tourette's episode; instead, the community around him carries him and the song forward.
That's the image that moves me - not just surviving, but being held as you struggle. That's what finding community here at OOTS has felt like for me too: a place where we don't have to face the hard parts alone, where we're carried a bit when we can't carry ourselves. 💛
https://youtu.be/ZdEbPkD2KYc?si=XMpD2tfMocdnMrH8
Chart, TheBigBlue
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TheBigBlue
A friend had told me about this, but I didn't understand what she was telling me. It sure landed with the video and your explanation. What a beautiful moment. ❤️
Lamb - Gorecki [Extended]
Around the time I got severely depressed, I discovered a Dutch radio show. It centered around the darkest of music out there. Recognition. Albeit not in direct relationship with another human being. A universe opened up to me. It was before the internet was around, and the show pulled me through for many years. One name that continued to be played by the host was Coil. They made an indelible impression.
Two decades later, I was at the end of my rope. One song that was stuck in my mind at the time was a tribute to Coil by Yann Tiersen and others. The vulnerability in it reflected my state perfectly. I was at the verge of a breakthrough. But those don't feel like it. They feel like the end is near. It was in a sense. For whom I had become.
People may have different ideas about heart opening music. To me it isn't necessarily solely a pleasant experience. The opening of the heart is indiscriminate. It is radically inclusive. Radically honest. Innocent.
Just now, another decade later, I tracked the song down in a wave of nostalgia. It still moves me to tears. But all is well. Yes this too.
This Immortal Coil - Red Queen
Now you've absorbed it into your system
Now that you've allowed it to be true
Now that you've neutralized it, made it safe, made it yours
Now that you've been photographed, recorded
What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
Is it so unsafe when you are
Insecure in the space where you are?
Is it so, really so
Is it more real?
Is it more yours?
Is it more yours?
Is it more real, for you
Than it is for him or me?
And the people who perceive it
Repeat it, distort it, improve it, update it
Slightly change it
And these people believe it
And write it all up for you
And is it more real?
And is it more real?
Does it make it more yours
Now you're recorded as having said it?
And being seen and done it
People have been seen to take notice
So empty
Is it so awful to be seen to feel and fail?
Overheard and noted to authenticate his story
An unsafe male trait
You know what they say
That empty vessels ring true, like bells
Make the most noise
The ink is still wet
In this case, the medium is not
Is it so unsafe when you are
Insecure in the space where you are?
Is it so, really so, unsafe you can't let
Let go?
Is it so unsafe when you are
Insecure in the space where you are?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you gonna do?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you gonna do?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?
What are you going to do if they don't believe you?