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Are there any songs written specifically about SA?

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#1 ·
Or that you interpret that way?
 
#2 ·
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? comes to mind.

Indeed much of the songs by The Smiths and Morrissey seem to have SA or SA-like undercurrents running through them.

Ask by The Smiths is another that comes to mind that indeed seems more or less directly SA related.

The Smiths/Morrissey are good if you're feeling depressed :p
 
#64 ·
I agree about The Smiths and Morrissey. I love listening to Morrissey sing, I always feel he knows just how i'm feeling, which makes me feel a little less alone in the world.

Also The Ting Tings "That's not my name" reminds me of myself. I'm that quiet that people tend to forget i'm there, and do forget my name. I spent my whole time in junior school being called David by my teachers. I never corrected them, just sat quietly thinking "but my name is Steven".
 
#4 ·
Yup I know a couple songs that come to mind ill just put 2 down let me know if you want to know more...

This one is about social phobia, and anxiety.Its called the unnamed feeling by metallica. heres the video .I listen to this song when im having a panic attack in class lol yea I know sad. It calms me down alot though.

This one is just about not letting SA get the best of you.Its by jimmy eat world called, the middle.

Let me know if you liked them or not..:D
 
#6 ·
Anything by JIMMY EAT WORLD basically....the middle is a great one. Also, Just tonight, 23, always be, A PRAISE CHROUS, let it happen, here it goes. Lots more just cant think. Check em out. LOVE THEM!
 
#7 ·
haha, i just heard the middle by Jimmy Eat World tonight for the first time in years and didn't get that it could be related to SA
someone here posted this song a while back
Jordan Pruitt-outside looking in

I think it's pretty accurate about SA.
 
#8 ·
Stone Sour - "Through the Glass"

At least, I think so.
 
#27 ·
Through the glass is actually about the whole Scene, and vanity thing, not really about SA :). But Stone Sour actually has song written specially about SA. Guess what, it's called Socio :). It's kinda relief to think that this great guy, Corey (also singer in extreme metal bad Slipknot) can have, and understand this condition. Here is a quote from interview where he explains this song:

Q: Another great track is "Socio" - a lot of teeth in that song. There's that lyric in there "Freedom in a cage/No sun and too much rage." What's the background on this song? What brought you to this one?

Corey: That song is much more about a medical condition than it is about any social commentary. It's actually about social anxiety attacks, which I didn't experience until I got sober 3 years ago. At the time, my system was completely weak and I was in all of these social situations, and all of a sudden, I was light-headed, tunnel vision, couldn't breathe, my chest felt like someone was stabbing me, and I'd never felt that before.

It's a paralyzing thing. It's one of those things that when you feel it, you know you've got it. When I was writing the lyrics for that song, I was like, "You know what? I'm really onto something with this subject matter." Because of the fact that a) it's something I've experienced, so I know what I'm talking about, b) I know a lot of people who have dealt with it. But at the same time, it's something that worries me. In the last 6 or 7 years, more people are having these attacks and more people are having these medical conditions out of nowhere. They haven't had them their whole life, and then all of a sudden, 6 years, 5 years, 4 years ago they start having them. And it almost makes me like, "What the hell is going on here?" /B]

I've read and seen a bunch of interviews with him, and he is such a great, honest guy, and i have a massive respect for him.
 
#12 ·
I totally forgot about that one. I remember hearing this on the radio and thinking "wow, this sounds eerily similar to what I'm going through".

All day
Staring at the ceiling
Makin' friends with shadows on my wall
All night
Hearing voices telling me
that I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for something
Hold on
Feeling like I'm headed for a breakdown
and I don't know why

Well I'm not crazy
I'm just a little unwell
I know right now you can't tell
But stay a while and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy
I'm just a little impaired
I know, right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be

Me,
talking to myself in public
And dodging glances on the train
And I know
I know they've all been talkin' bout me
I can hear them whisper
And it makes me think there must be something wrong with me
Out of all the hours thinkin
Somehow I've lost my mind


:um
 
#17 ·
Don't know if they were written about SA specifically, but these do it for me:

Nick Lowe - Cracking Up ()
"everybody's all around me shaking hands and saying howdy"

Tom Petty - Finding Out ()
I love the line: "I've had enough of all this hardcore loneliness... I don't think pain is so romantic"

Badfinger - Day After Day ()

Weezer - In the Garage () or pretty much anything off the blue album...

Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me ()
Listen to the lyrics

Hank Williams - Lost Highway ()
 
#22 ·
Well, this one sounds an awful lot like it's about suffering from SA and loneliness:

Metallica - The Unforgiven


Funny thing is, I heard that song a whole buncha times when my father used to play it in the car whenever we'd go places and it was one of my favorites, but I never really listened to the lyrics or what they meant. I didn't know what it was called back then, but I found it again some several years later and now it's still one of my favs.

Well, this one isn't about SA, but it somehow makes me feel better when I'm feeling down from SA:

Disturbed - The Night


This one isn't SA either, but I like to listen to it during those rare moments when I'm actually feeling kinda good:

Ferry Corsten - Beautiful
 
#23 ·
for me it's

tool - cold and ugly

i don't know if the song is really about SA, though. i don't really know what maynard is talking about in most of their songs^^
 
#25 ·
This song is about drugs. But i feel like it could be seen as social anxiety related perhaps. Its a cool song, and i like it.



We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...oooh...
Oooh...oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I cant be my own
Id feel better dead

Oooh...oooh...
Oooh...oooh...
 
#48 ·
Alice in Chains!, yes!. A lot of their songs are dark and although not really about SAD, some of them can be interpreted that way. Don't Follow is my favorite AIC song.

I think "Hero in Me" by Jeffrey Gaines is about our experience with SAD.

He's lived as long as he possibly can
Given the circumstance.
Because he's protected himself from the world
He never gave it a chance, and he says

Here in my security
I've put a limit on my self-potential and my possibility.

She's seen these walls and they never change
Everything's in its place.
Her relationships so neatly arranged
Down to religion and race, and she says

Here in my security
I don't make a move unless my friends approve, I do what's expected of me.

And as I grow older, and there's so much that I do not know…
I'm drawn to those who are older, and go where no one dared to go.

And I Sleep, and I dream of the person I might have been, and I'll be free again
And I Speak, like someone who's been to the highest peaks, and back again
And I Swear, that my grass is greener than anyone's, until I believe again
Then I Wake, and the dream fades away and I face the day and I realize
That there's got to be some hero in me, there's got to be some hero in me,
there's got to be some hero in me, there's got to be some hero in me.

They've been suppressing their every desire,
They do nothing on a whim
She's lost her sparkle and he's lost the fire
Their future looks very dim, and I say

Here in my security
I've simply let myself go out, develop a cold dependency

And as I grow older, and so many places that I have not been…
Time is tapping my shoulder, I hope its never too late to begin.

And I Sleep, and I dream of the person I might have been, and I'll be free again
And I Speak, like someone who's been to the highest peaks, and back again
And I Swear, that my grass is greener than anyone's, until I believe again
Then I Wake, and the dream fades away and I face the day and I realize
That there's got to be some hero in me, there's got to be some hero in me,
there's got to be some hero in me, there's got to be some hero in me
 
#26 ·
Modern Chemistry - Motion City Soundtrack. It's definitely about anxiety and can be interpreted to be about pretty much any kind of anxiety disorder.

I believe in medication and I believe in therapy
And I believe in crystal light.
Cause I believe in me, yeah.
It's so uplifting, **** yeah!

I barely have the motivation
They say I suffer from a lack of seratonin synapses
They happen too infrequently for me
To be functioning properly

I took the pills
I took the advice
The panic stopped
But still, I'm not right
Racing thoughts and wasted time
It's the same old story-line
This is my nursery rhyme
And it goes:

I believe in medication and I believe in therapy
And I believe in crystal light.
Cause I believe in me, yeah.
It's so uplifting, **** yeah!

I'm barely off the medication
And now the walls are closing in again
I can't breathe and I can't bleed
Will you be my alibi?
Tell them that I truly tried
To give in.
 
#28 ·
Who you really think is
Watchin while you sleepin?
Why won't you believe in... me... me...
What you think is makin me
Anxious ain't just satan we
Oh ****, pray to God, and be free... free

ANXIETY!
It freaks me out
IT'S DRIVIN ME!
It creeps me out
INSIDE OF ME!
Can't keep me out
I'm GOING! GOING! GONE! GONE!
ANXIETY!
It freaks me out
IT'S DRIVIN ME!
It creeps me out
INSIDE OF ME!
Can't keep me out
I'm GOING! GOING! GONE! GONE!

When I'm alone in my room, sometime I stare at the wall
In the back of my mind, I hear my conscience call
Tellin me I need a gun, just in case of a brawl
I can block em, block em all
Shoot em up till them fall
Something ****ed up going on inside of me
Can't believe the hold it's got on me, it's gotta be
Temporary, cause this **** I'm feel is very scary
I think little pills is necessary
Cause I can't tell what I am any more, an animal, from Amittyville
Be a man and take a stand and he will
Do something bout it... Cause often I'm thinkin bout offin me
Yellin to the coffin but hell is gonna be costin me
Cause of the crazy crazy world, and this crazy girl
That I'm made this way, this way I'm gon stay
In limbo, limbo now. How low can you go?
Paranoid, sleeping with my gun, now I think you know it's

ANXIETY!
It freaks me out
IT'S DRIVIN ME!
It creeps me out
INSIDE OF ME!
Can't keep me out
I'm GOING! GOING! GONE! GONE!
ANXIETY!
It freaks me out
IT'S DRIVIN ME!
It creeps me out
INSIDE OF ME!
Can't keep me out
I'm GOING! GOING! GONE! GONE!

I feel like a ****in maniac in public...
I feel like a ****in maniac in public...
I feel like a ****in maniac in public...
If you creep up in Krizz house, yo *** ain't gon be walking out

Who you really think is
Watchin while you sleepin?
Why won't you believe in... me... me...
What you think is makin me
Anxious ain't just satan we
Oh ****, pray to God, and be free... free

Psycho, miko, schizo, get yo fits
Too many hits to make you slit your wrists
Give me three and balance me till he challenge me, sort of iffy
Somethings really wrong with the son of your uncle ippy
So who did this to me? If you got more to give, then give it to me
This blue balloon is like a prison to me
Cause I can't sit with my back to the door no more
Give me a minute in the place and I'm packin the five after the four
Kinda like how I do it in his face
You can not wake me up without waking me up swinging, swinging
I'm livin livin, my dreams are so vivid, what's the meaning?
This world ain't safe for my seed, ain't a place for my species
The heebies, the jeebies, is giving me

ANXIETY!
It freaks me out
IT'S DRIVIN ME!
It creeps me out
INSIDE OF ME!
Can't keep me out
I'm GOING! GOING! GONE! GONE!
ANXIETY!
It freaks me out
IT'S DRIVIN ME!
It creeps me out
INSIDE OF ME!
Can't keep me out
I'm GOING! GOING! GONE! GONE!

I feel like a ****in maniac in public...
I feel like a ****in maniac in public...
I feel like a ****in maniac in public...
If you creep up in Krizz house, yo *** ain't gon be walking out.

 
#29 ·
Nothing to Lose by Billy talent.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1917287

Need more friends with wings
All the angels I know
Put concrete in my veins
I'd always walk home alone
So I became lifeless
Just like my telephone

There's nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There's nothing to gain
But the days don't seem to change

Never played truth or dare
I'd have to check my mirror
To see if I'm still here
My parents had no clue
That I ate all my lunches
Alone in the bathroom

There's nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There's nothing to gain
But the days don't seem to change
There's nothing to lose
My notebook will explain
There's nothing to gain
And I can't fight the pain

Teach us that it's just a phase
When I grow up my children
Will probably do the same
Kids just love to tease
I know it put me under ground
At seventeen

There's nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There's nothing to gain
But the days don't seem to change
There's nothing to lose
My notebook will explain
There's nothing to gain
And I can't fight the pain
There's nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There's nothing to gain
But the days don't seem to change
There's nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There's nothing to gain
And I just died today
 
#30 ·
Not specifically songs to do with social anxiety.. but there are a few Belle and Sebastian songs that are about being lonely or the odd one out.. not about anxiety so much, but definitely social alienation. And they aren't too dark or depressing;
Fox in the Snow; Funny Little Frog; Mary Jo; Expectations; I Don't Love Anyone;
 
#31 ·
Not for SA, but here's a good one for depression:

"Hate My Life" by Theory of a Deadman

So sick of the hobos always begging for change
I don't like how I gotta work and
They just sit around and get paid
I hate all of the people who can't drive their cars.
*itch you better get outta the way
Before I start falling apart

I hate how my wife is always up my ***
She always wants to buy brand new things
But I don't have the cash.

I hate my job, all of my rich friends
I hate everyone to the bitter end.
Nothing turns out right There's no end in sight
I hate my life!

How come I never get laid nice guys always lose.
How could she have another headache
There's always some kind of excuse
I still hate my job, my boss is a dick
"I don't get paid nearly enough
To put up with all of your *hit"

I hate my job, all of my rich friends
I hate everyone to the bitter end.
Nothing turns out right There's no end in sight
I hate my life!

I hate that I can't tell when a girl's underage,
You know, I tell her she's a nice piece of ***,
Then her daddy punches me in the face

So if you're pissed like me
*itches, here's what you gotta do
Put your middle fingers up in the air
Go on and say "FU!"

I hate my job, all of my rich friends
I hate everyone to the bitter end.
Nothing turns out right There's no end in sight
I hate my life!

So much at stake, can't catch a break
I hate my life
No, it's nothing new hear "it sucks to be you"
I *uckin hate my life
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/theoryofadeadman/hatemylife.html

I heard it for the first time on the way to work yesterday...almost drove off the road! :lol
 
#32 ·
Wallflower

Wallflower by Priscilla Ahn...I liked it.

do you see
standing there in the corner
i was alone, i always am at these big parties
watching you watching everybody
wishing i was more outgoing
wishing i was just a pretty wallflower

i'm not here, no one sees me -- wallflower
i'm by myself, please excuse me

but there you were, standing in your own corner
your eyes were wide, tired, fading just like mine
we could be the best of friends i'm sure of it
but i'm too shy to cross this crowded room besides

wallflower
i'm not here, no one sees me -- wallflower
i'm by myself, please excuse me

help me leave this corner of the room
i'm reaching out to you
cause i've got things i could talk to you about
we could be wallflower friends
to the end -- wallflower friends
to the end, i'm sure of it

wallflowers
we're not here, no one sees us -- wallflowers
we're together please excuse us
 
#33 ·
Napalm Death - "Impressions"
(From the album "From Enslavement to Obliteration")

A shroud of insecurity
Surrounds me every move
Actions reflect
Upon the response they receive

A sense of insecurity
Prevents my instincts being followed
Fear lies in my openness
Meeting rejection from the crowd

Why should I feel trapped?
Why should I hold back?
Why can't I...break free?
 
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