It's amazing how songs I loved have a whole new meaning now. Here is another of my old favorites that is harder to listen to now. It's a Pearl Jam song from their "Vitalogy" CD.<p>"Nothingman"<p>once divided...nothing left to subtract...
some words when spoken...can't be taken back...
walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking...
future's above...but in the past he's slow and sinking...
caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...
nothingman...
nothingman...
isn't it something?
nothingman...
she once believed...in every story he had to tell...
one day she stiffened...took the other side...
empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
one just escapes...one's left inside the well...
and he who forgets...will be destined to remember...
nothingman...
nothingman...
isn't it something?
nothingman...
oh, she don't want him...
oh, she won't feed him...after he's flown away...
oh, into the sun...ah, into the sun...
burn...burn...
nothingman...
nothingman...
isn't it something?
nothingman...
nothingman...
coulda' been something...
nothingman...
oh...ohh...ohh...

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by StillCan'tBelieveIt:
<strong>It's amazing how songs I loved have a whole new meaning now.</strong><hr></blockquote><p>I know the feeling... I couldn't listen to the Beatles for the longest time... which really stunk because I had the entire collection, on vinyl. And it seemed like every song on the radio was written with "us" in mind.<p>The BEST thing I did was discover some kind of totally new music. I'm now a techno junkie... it's great, barely any words [img]images/icons/grin.gif" border="0[/img] Oh and the XW hated it [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] ... of course, now we're back together and listening to the Bealtes again... she still hates my techno, but she deals with it since I listen to her 70's disco. <p>Good luck!<p>TTFN - JB

I feel ya on this one too! It seems like every song on the radio right now just says to get over it, that relationships aren't important. The newest one I've heard has a line in it that says "I pick my friends over you" over and over. I just hear that song and hope my H isn't listening to it too and getting any ideas.<p>I too have found a new love of Techno and house music. I pop in one of my Techno CD's in my car, turn it up as loud as I can (which my H did put a really nice system in my car before he left, I wonder if that was a guilt gift?) and just drive. I also love my Enya CD, that's my quit time CD. Pop that one in here at home, light some candles, and zone out. Also I have found some enlightenment from my Creed CD too.

Well, this morning I finally had the courage to listen to one of my favorite songs I had been avoiding. It's another Pearl Jam, "black" off of their TEN album. I had been avoiding it since D-day. The end of the song really hits home:<p>"And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...
All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll ever be...yeah...<p>I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine"<p>
I did okay, I didn't cry, but my eye's are a little watery.

I just read your bio StillCan'tBelieveIt - I'm in the same boat with my H - he would rather live his life at the clubs and party, and have his cake and eat it too.<p>I'm moving forward, I'm leaving tomorrow to move 300 miles away. I found a website about quarter-life crisis. I'm almost 26, my H is 27, and this has shed alot of light on things for me. I just pray every night that God give my H maturity, and direct him back on the path that is right. I wish you luck, and now really wish I had my old Pearl Jam 10 CD! I'm thinking about making another CD for my H and mailing it to him, but I know, I'm suspossed to be in no contact, but there are so many songs out there that express the way I'm feeling right now, and if there is one thing in this world that can get through to my H, it's music.

Go and get that TEN cd, there are so many great songs on it. Black, Release ("I'll ride the wave where it takes me; I'll hold the pain...Release me...)
and Alive (I hurt, I'm still Alive). My WW and I love the same music, so I might make a CD for her.