Our theme tonight will be the all too depressing songs that talk all about failed relationships. Why they fail, how it feels when they fail, who made it fail and so on and so on. There is not a single soul that hasn’t been involved in a failed relationship of some sort so I am pretty damn sure everyone has a song inside somewhere that stirs up those old feelings of how shitty they felt when it all went down. Another list we are doing because we are just miserable bastards that love everyone to share in that misery! Especially around the holidays!! And I bet you thought we were going to go with a Christmas theme this time huh?? NO FREAKIN WAY!! Random Acts of Music doesn’t dig Christmas tunes and wish they would all just go away! Bah freakin humbug! Get depressed and spend the holidays pissy like us!! Merry Christmas all!
Cold War Kids- Hang Me Up to Dry
The title of this one almost says it all. There are some relationships that you get into that you continue to torture yourself with until you just can’t take it anymore! This song is all about that kind of thing and the feelings that come with the frustration of it. A slight throw back to the seventies, this song has a very nostalgic feel that I really love. The voice and the chorus are just downright contagious to me! I had never even heard of this band before, just happened to catch it on internet radio one day and I was instantly hooked. I have been in one too many relationships that have made me relate to this song all too well. When he wails about that former lover and how they have “wrung me out too, too, too many times” I am right there with him! Makes me feel a little sad, but empowered at the same time because it’s not an ultra depressing song. It has a point, and that point is that it is over and it needed to be over and it is time to move on! If only real life was like this!!
Thursday – Signals Over the Air
A personal song of mine, Thursday kinda runs the gammut from emo to emo as hell… While not a very diverse band, they are GREAT at what they do. From the honest and poetic lyrics to the masterful guitar work, just a great band all around. This song is no exception… Keeping with the seemingly relationship specific lyrics yet still that same car accident theme carried on from songs like Cross out the Eyes and Understanding in a Car Crash, it’s a great metaphor to think of a failed relationship… From the sudden deep inhale of that “oh shit” moment when you see the headlights in your lane or see that things aren’t savable in your relationship… To that moment of impact where you’re flung against the dashboard or everything with your “other half” comes crashing down at once and all the wind remaining in your lungs is knocked out of you… To those moments afterward where you’re just laying in the wreckage wondering if you’ll ever make it out… Shattered Glass, broken lives and mascara gets washed away by windshield wiper blades…. Just a great song to wallow in your failures to, or when the chorus hits it’s a great song to yell the lyrics as loud as you can “when you say my name, i wanna split it from your lips and hide like whispers in the rain”… Enjoy it or don’t.
Energy to Try- Justin Furstenfeld
This ranks right up there as one of my favorite songs of all time. Justin from Blue October has done a few songs solo that I wish like hell would show up on one of their CDs because they are fantastic! This is definitely one of them. It makes me tear up every damn time. There is just something about the way this man sings that would make a stone statue squirt a few. If you don’t feel something after hearing this one I really don’t know what in the hell is wrong with you! Another intensely relatable song to me, this one talks about how sometimes you just have to give up on love, even when you don’t want to. It is very possible to just run out of energy to do so with some people because it seems as if all of your efforts are pointless. Justin and a guitar, that is all he needs. That is what I call talent. What I wouldn’t have given to have been able to be at this show! I would have given one of Diddle’s testicles for sure!! LOL! I’m sure he would have given it to me too, cuz otherwise he’d just wake up in some dirty hotel room in a bathtub full of ice with it missing anyways!
Atreyu – The Crimson
First of all… Leave my balls outta this, Joint… They did nothing to harm you!
That being said… I would give one of Joint’s tits to see these guys live… Another great song for relationship failure, not because it’s great to wallow in all day… But more along the lines of it great to imagine the fact that your girl fucked up and NOW YOU’RE A VAMPIRE!!!!!! Seriously…. That is what this song is about… I’m not joking…
“Will you still kiss me the same when you taste my victem’s blood”
Honest to God lyric from this song. I need not say more… Go find the lyrics and laugh along with me… and if you’ve recently had a woman treat you wrong, listen to this shit and imagine eating her??? I guess???
Rehab- Rhianna
I’m not usually a fan of pop music or any kind of bubblegum type songs, but this one really caught me off guard. I get made fun of for being a fan, but I really couldn’t give a shit! The lyrics to this song remind me so much of my last ex and the way things ended between us and they way that I felt that it almost makes me cry. Rhianna does have a really pretty voice in this song as well and I catch myself singing with it a lot. Although this song kinda makes me feel like walking into traffic on my bad days, it is just great in reminding me why I am single. It seems like a lot of relationships start off like the two people involved are best friends and things are perfect, but when things start to go sour it can be impossible to leave because love really can feel like a drug. A really good, but really bad drug. Kind of like I imagine heroin would be like, not that I ever intend on finding out. I’ll just listen to this song to get the same effect! Cuz, as I have said before, me and D just don’t support drug use!! LOL!!!!!!!!!! Drugs are bad mmmmkay??
Chameleon Boy – Blue October
Intensely personal, like most Blue October songs are… Although this one, Justin admits is about substance abuse it’s easy to translate into a relationship failure son, especially if you manage to relate both relationship failure and substance abuse in the same breath… So curl up with your old photo album, get under a blanket DONT FORGET THE KLEENEX and have yourself a good cry while thinking about that girl you managed to let slip away when you knew she was the one… Then after that, get your pansy ass up and go do something about it! You can’t cry all your life, wussy. GOGOGOGOGO
Something I Can Never Have- Nine Inch Nails
This just might be the definitive relationship failure song. Quite possibly one of the most depressing songs I’ve ever heard as well. I freakin love Trent Reznor and this song just evokes failure and loss. Reznor’s eventual downright screaming about something he can never have just breaks me down. Makes me feel like I am in the same spot, whether I am single or not, and feel like the biggest failure in all the world. This is one to listen to alone, unless you are comfortable crying in front of people. Or condensating as Diddle likes to put it! It is pretty funny how someone as hardcore as Trent can turn into such a sniveling pussy in a matter of minutes though! I do love the sensitivity he shows which proves he might just be a human instead of a god. Who would have thought?
Saves the Day – Through Being Cool
Okay, so some of my relationship failure songs are more funny than anything… But good lord, Joint is the MASTER of sad music, and after listening to her songs I kinda wanna eat a lighbulb or something… So heres a cool RF song for ya… It’s a little sophmoric, and again kinda emo, but at the same time, if you’ve ever lost a girl to a dude named Nick, this shit is for you, son. Just listen to the opening line, lol… It’s awesome… and the part “Niiiiiick why are you such a prick?”… Also hilariously awesome… Just sit back and have some fun here cause that’s a big part of getting over whatever person screwed you over to begin with… Just enjoy yourself.
Mexico- Incubus
A song that goes out to all of the selfish assholes everywhere! Seems like far too many men and women take their lovers for granted and just treat them like total shit. I love this song because even though it is sad, it is still a big “fuck you” to all of the people who take others for granted. It points out all of the flaws that these people constantly show in a light everyone can see. Brandon Boyd’s voice is angelic as usual in this acoustic great. Another great song that only really needs a man and a guitar but still manages to say more than enough. So many lines in this song hit too close to home with me being a victim of far too many men overlooking my actual greatness. And yeah, I am bold enough to say I’m great! I am also bold enough to not give a shit what anyone else thinks either! However I still manage to feel unfortunately and this song makes me feel more than I’d like most days!
Well, thats the relationship failure songs… Sorry it’s taken so long for an update but it’s the holiday season dammit, chill!!! We’re back and better than ever now with regular updates comming as long as circumstances allow! Stay tuned…
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