As the title says…which song still haunts you emotionally? And why? A (freely accessible) link might greatly bring your point across.

Mine would be: (Typhoon - “Empiricist”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E328pIZWFM

The lyrics go deep and it just touches me. No otherwise special attachment.

  • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    11·
    10 months ago

    “Do it for her” from Steven Universe. If you haven’t watched the series. I won’t ruin it.

    Likewise, “Leaves From the Vine” from ATLA

  • MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org
    7·
    10 months ago

    Wings for Marie pt 1 and 2 by Tool. It’s a 17 minute pair of tracks so there’s no expectation of you, dear random reader, to slog through it, but it’s very meaningful to me. It is haunting and beautiful though.

    Part 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNTo34xOwoM

    Part 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJq9y9xPKWs

    I lost my mother unexpectedly and when I was rather young (mid 20’s).

    As a little relevant back history of the lead singer, he was at odds with his mother when she was alive but she passed of cancer. My take on the song is that this is an ode to her.

    My mother was mentally ill and we never had a good relationship, but after that loss I spent a lot of time thinking about all that was strong and good in her. And I miss her still, despite everything. This song evokes those feelings and still brings me to tears to this day.

    Edit: updated formatting a bit and the links. The parts 1 and 2 video I found worked fine via ddg but the direct link didn’t seem to work, so changed to links to the individual songs.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Thanks man. And i will totally listen to it. I actually prefer loooong songs.

      Sorry about your mom.

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      The absolutely achingly long build up invokes such strong tension and vivid mental imagery of the end of some fantastical world, the end of a story. And then the final chorus hits like a truck: the final, thunderous cry of a world at its end. Then all is stripped away and you’re left with a half-broken voice singing the same refrain, and it’s truly over.

      Porter Robinson is a musical storytelling genius!

  • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    A Different Kind Of Human by AURORA

    The song resonates with me so deeply, feeling like I don’t belong anywhere, as an autistic/trans/lesbian individual. The idea of “my people” arriving in a mothership and warmly embracing me for all that I am, and taking me somewhere I belong, is enough to make me well up just thinking about the song.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Lovely song! And hey, don’t separate yourself from “those people” by being “your people”. I, for example, separate “good” from “bad” people. Couldn’t care less about their level of neuro-divergence, genitals or preference :)

  • Binzy_Boi@lemmy.ca
    6·
    10 months ago

    I still remember listening to Changes by Tupac and Talent for the first time while I was waiting for the bus downtown to head home.

    At the time hiphop and rap as a whole was something I hated, but there was something that really stood out about this one track the person across the shelter from me was blasting. The lyrics hooked me from the get go:

    "I see no changes, wake up in the morning, and I ask myself Is life worth living, should I blast myself? I’m tired of bein’ poor…"

    I didn’t grow up with the best surroundings, and it felt like a gut punch having a song played by a random stranger on their speaker speak to my experience like that. Followed later with:

    "I see no changes, all I see is racist faces Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races We under, I wonder what it takes to make this One better place, let’s erase the wasted"

    I feel when I was younger I was really insensitive to racial issues, and part of that was owed to circumstances that were unique to myself that I was still dealing with the effects of, but listening to the whole song and the genuine nature of the lived experiences told in the lyrics really helped me see things through another lens that I’m still thankful for today. This part especially helped me do some self-reflection and realize that I was in part misplacing my hate on entire groups of people rather than those who specifically wronged me, and that all I was doing was damaging potential friendships I could have with people who were no different from myself outside of physical characteristics.

    Feels weird being open about this, and I know that it’s really odd for someone to say a song of all things got them to change some racist thoughts they held, but I was a teenager at the time with a shitty life in and out of the house, and while it’s no excuse, it was hard to be rational when all you felt was anger at the world and didn’t know where the hell to aim it.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      I feel when I was younger I was really insensitive to racial issues,

      Isn’t that the beauty? We didn’t even have a concept of “race” as kids. We develop that. As kids everyone is literally the same thing. Just looks a bit different.

      But i hear you. And i don’t think it’s weird, that tupac gave you the nudge to ponder. As a teeny you most likely only listened to yourself or maybe some idol-figures. So you actively listened to tupac with your mind not just your ears. Makes total sense to me.

      What a luck, you listened to him and not some of those fuckbitches-begangsta-blingbling-imbeciles of today 😁

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
    5·
    10 months ago

    Depressing songs? That’s my expertise. I’ll try to keep it short:. Off the top of my head:

    Richard Ashcroft - The Drugs Don’t Work - Lyric: “'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls
    I’m coming too, just like you said. You leave my life, I’m better off dead”

    Kate Bush - This Woman’s Work - about a woman (almost) dying during childbirth. Think most people can relate to the thought of their mother (or mother of their children) dying. (And if that’s not you, internet hugs. Sorry, if that’s all I can offer you.)

    Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Mark Almond isn’t the best singer, this sounds like a cheesy 80s song about a break-up… and then the chorus hits. Anger and bitterness seem to mask true pain.

    Regina Spektor - Becoming All Alone Again - Key lyrics: “Why doesn’t it get better with time?
    I’m becoming all alone again.”

    The Knife - Is it still light outside? - a cheery song about the doctor coming for a visit after something happened.

    Bowie and Mercury = Under Pressure - Aftersun version - Key lyric: “Why can’t we give love one more chance? Why can’t we give ourselves one more chance?” and “this is our last dance” - in this version Bowie never gets to finish the lyric. Love doesn’t get one more chance. The movie’s equally depressing.

    Pink Floyd - High Hopes - about regret and growing old. Key lyric: “Running before time took our dreams away, leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground to a life consumed by slow decay”. Obviously Pink Floyd has other great songs, I chose one of them.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      Excellent picks mate! Didn’t even know “say hello, wave goodbye” and already loving it. How could I’ve missed that one… Thanks for the Bowie/Queen-factoid. Didn’t know either. Love it in a hating way.

  • sgibson5150@kbin.social
    5·
    10 months ago

    Sia - Breathe Me (mainly because of Six Feet Under)

    Honorable mention to Dan Folgelberg - Same Old Lang Syne.

  • Remmock@kbin.social
    5·
    10 months ago

    Lauren Shigihara - Everything’s Alright
    https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nIZxh_nc64w

    The lyrics by themselves tell a story, but this song is the capstone to indie game To The Moon, which is an emotionally devastating tale. The theme of being near each other despite all else going wrong (thus making it all okay) was what made it my wife’s song of choice to sing to our son while he was in the NICU. I cannot hear this without my emotional state falling apart.

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Oh fuck, To The Moon and Everything’s Alright will always make me cry like a newborn.

      I have a feeling that when Deltarune is finished in its entirety and we finally have the “full” version of Don’t Forget by Laura Shigihara, it’ll be similarly heartbreaking and warm

  • araquen@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Queen ’39

    https://youtu.be/kE8kGMfXaFU

    "In the year of ’39

    Came a ship in from the blue

    The Volunteers came home that day, and they bring good news

    Of a world so newly born

    Though their hearts so heavily weight

    For the Earth is old and grey

    Little darling, we’ll away but my love this cannot be

    For so many years are gone

    Though I’m older but a year

    Your mother’s eyes from your eyes cry to me”

    The reality of deep space travel.