I know that there have been times where we've discussed songs that really evoke how therapy can feel. I think I've found one that my T could probably really relate to.

Mood Rings

"First she's Jekyll, than she's Hyde, at least she makes a lovely pair."

Heh. My therapy-esque songs are all depressing, I'm afraid. And by people like Richard Shindell - Songs like "You Stay Here", and "A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress". WARNING: These songs make me cry. I don't cry. Like, ever. Ever? Ever. Not in therapy. Not at home. Not at movies. Although there doesn't seem to be a video of "Things That I Have Seen," which is the one that gets me.

And Dar Williams. Though her song, "What Do You Hear in These Sounds", is at least _way more_ upbeat than - well, than anything Shindell has written. Or heard. And it's actually about going to therapy!

Wynne,
I wasn't able to listen to as much as I would have liked yet, but wow, from what I heard, you just made ITunes some money. And that's all I need more music to make me cry!

Have I mentioned I'm a water spout. I cry like you wouldn't believe. I mean, at commercials sometimes. My kids watch me during emotional movies to see when it starts. In 2 years do you know how many sessions I've had that I HAVEN'T cried? Two, count them two. I'm waiting for my T to apply a tissue surcharge to my sessions. So I just hope you can live with yourself knowing you've added to that?

Thanks, I love finding a new artist, and Richard Shindell sounds like he's right up my alley. I haven't listened to the Dar Williams yet, but I will.

AG

Applause to you AG for finally starting the therapy song thread. When you posted the title to this thread I was expecting to find a link to "Just Another Manic Monday" LOL.

Okay... so my therapy songs are as follows....I don't know how to do that neat trick of typing in the name of the song in the link though... sorry.

You Are My Anchor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyiqch4uYUg

Answer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-J2qcZLQQc

There You'll Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmxILVVoRGA

Because You Loved Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmxILVVoRGA

I'll Stand by You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmxILVVoRGA

I guess that's it for now. Anyone else have "therapy songs"? Please share.

True North

I listened to the Dar Williams song and immediately went to Itunes and bought it. How incredible, she expressed something that was so
difficult to express, Thanks!

True North, I've been playing "Answer" constantly for the last few months usually crying through the whole thing. Good choice!

AG

Okay, so it's a Tuesday afternoon. But while Dar Williams and Richard Shindell are for my good days, the band that's put out the song that reminds me of therapy on my bad days is definitely The National: "Secret Meeting". The recording isn't awesome, and the inputs need more balance, but this movie's the one with the clearest vocals, and it's the lyrics and the singer's voice that get me. The album recording is a lot...quieter, with more muted instrumentals.

I guess it's not a good sign that one of my favorite songs has the refrain:

"I think this place is full of spies
I think they're onto me
Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you
Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room
I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
And now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain."



....and my other fave of theirs, for similar days, is Apartment Story. Guess it's also not so awesome, with a solid refrain of

"We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us
do whatever the TV tells us
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days
We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us
do whatever the TV tells us
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz."

But I likes it.

Okay, so it's Wednesday afternoon now instead of Monday morning...and almost a year since anyone posted on this thread. Anyway I've been browsing through the older threads and just wanted to say, I LOVE the song and video for "What Do You Hear In These Sounds" and am learning to play it on my guitar. I haven't listened to all the other songs yet and I'm also going through another thread called Music lists. Anyway thanks everyone who has contributed to these threads. I love music and many times it's the only way to reach me.

I didn't know there was a song thread either, but my ringtone lately has been "Say" by John Mayer. Yes, the chorus is repetitive, but that is the message I need to hear in my mind every time I fear opening up in a session.

LYRICS
Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations

Say what you need to say [x8]

Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you'd be better off instead,
If you could only . . .

Say what you need to say [x8]

Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over
You'd better know that in the end
Its better to say too much
Then never say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open

Say what you need to say [x24]

quote:

Originally posted by echo:
I LOVE that Dar Williams song. "And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think. That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink." I actually almost quoted this to my P last session!

I finally got around to listening this Dar song too and I totally agree. I can't stop playing it over and over again. I've not heard of her before, but I think I'm a new fan.

Blind Melon's "No Rain" has been going through my head the last couple of days. I love it when she finds her fellow "bees".

Sarah Mclachlan's "Angel" is another one of my favorites.

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The two songs that make me think about my psychiatrist every time I hear them are both by Lady Antebellum. One is "I Run To You" and it makes me think of him cause it talks about when bad things happen running to him. And the other one is "I Need You Now". That one describes it so well because I always promise not to call too much and in the song its says I know I said I wouldnt call but I couldnt help, and one part talks about it being 1am and drunk and calling just cause you need him now.

They are both on youtube and two of my favorite songs... of course I like any songs that me think of my P. And I listened to the Dar Williams song the other day and have been playing it over and over again since then. I LOVE IT!

Love the addition of new songs to the list. My current favorites are Halo by Beyonce which makes me think of my sessions ("remember those walls I built, well baby they're tumbling down, they didn't put up a fight, they didn't even make a sound. I swore I'd never let you in, but I never really had a doubt..."). The other is All I Need by Within Temptation when she pleads, "make my heart a better place". Both resonate deeply with me.

TN

Just discovered this song and I think it's beautiful so I wanted to share it.

Crystal Ball by Pink

Drinking wine and thinking bliss is on the other side of this
I just need a compass and a willing accomplice
All my doubts that fill my head are skidding up and down again
Up and down and round again, down and up and down again.

Oh, I've had my chances and I've taken them all.
Just to end up right back here on the floor.
To end up right back here on the floor.

Pennies in a well, a million dollars in the fountain of a hotel.
Fortune teller that says maybe you won't go to hell.
But I'm not scared at all...hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm...
Of the cracks in the crystal, the cracks in the crystal ball.

Sometimes you think everything is wrapped inside a diamond ring
Love just needs a witness and a little forgiveness
And a halo of patience and a less sporadic pace
And I'm learning to be brave in my beautiful mistakes.

Oh I've felt that fire and I've been burned
But I wouldn't trade the pain for what I've learned
I wouldn't trade the pain for what I've learned.

Pennies in a well, a million dollars in the fountain of a hotel.
Fortune teller that says maybe you won't go to hell.
But I'm not scared at all...hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm...
Of the cracks in the crystal, the cracks in the crystal ball.

Irony, irony, this hate and love, hate and love
What it does to me, what it's done to me.
What is done...done

Pennies in a well, a million dollars in the fountain of a hotel.
Broken mirrors and a black cat's cold stare,
Walk under ladders on my way to hell, I'll meet you there.

But I'm not scared at all, hmm...I'm not scared at all...
Of the cracks in the crystal, the cracks in the crystal ball.

Here are a couple of Nina Simone songs I love - one I posted on a different thread but I thought I'd stick it here - sorry if you've already seen it.

This one grounds me and reminds me of what I have when I'm feeling like crap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ

and this one I watch when I need a cry. it hears all heartbreak and it nurses me through it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5ZE3N8cxU

Thanks, Jones, for sharing this! What a remarkable, beautiful, talented, expressive woman. Her rendition of "Feelings" made me cry and laugh at the same time. Wow.