victory is an illusive whore

Let me explain.

Anyone who knows me knows that I love music. Many, many kinds. I love happy music and lovey music and sad music and depressed music and everything in between. There really seems, though, to be a certain "type" of music that really shakes something inside me.

When I was in high school, KP called it "music to slit your wrists by". Let me state that I was not, nor have ever been, suicidal in any way. There is just something about intense music that crawls under my skin and lives inside me for a while. It doesn't make me get depressed or want to lash out at the world or anything, it just kind of lets me get lost for a while. Musica s therapy, I guess. Sometimes I just need to be rocked by someone else's words and emotions.

Maybe you understand and maybe you don't. I thought I'd share some of the songs that make me want to turn the volume up as loud as I can stand it and slip away into someone else's world for a while...

Tori Amos / Code Red

"what you've taken/ i would have given freely"

Dave Matthews / #41

"i will go in this way/ and i will find my own way out/ i won't tell you what to be"

Alice in Chains / Nutshell

"we chase misprinted lies/ we chase the path of time/ and yet i fight this battle all alone/ no one to cry to/ and no place to call home"

Enigma / Sadness

Dave Matthews / The Stone

"i was just wondering if you'd come along/ hold up my head when my head won't hold on"

Tori Amos / Northern Lad

"girls you've got to know when it's time to turn the page/ when you're only wet because of the rain"

U2 / Love is Blindness

"love is blindness/ i don't want to see/ won't you wrap the night/ around me"

Red Hot Chili Peppers / Soul To Squeeze

"take me to the river/ let me on your shore/ i'll be coming back baby/ i'll be coming back for more"

Dave Matthews / Stay or Leave

"remember we used to dance/ everyone wanted to be/ you and me"

Comments

[jenn shurkus]

any day you post tori on your blog.. is a happy day :)

[JLS]

DAAAAAAAAAAAVE!!