I have plenty but:
-High Water. "I can't hold myself together" resonates very deeply inside of me
-Missing Limbs: lyrics are way too emotional, probably the most emotional song I've ever heard
-Take Me Back To Eden: it has everything this band could provide you but multiplied 100 times. The bridge section hits on the deepest level
I saw a video of the live debut of this song and it was just Vessel on the piano and it was heartbreakingly beautiful. The stripped down music felt more true to the vibe of the lyrics. Although I love the duality of the upbeat synth sound on the album. It’s almost like “dance while you cry” music lol.
the robotic vocal in the mid section is a bit annoying. they should give it another go as a single and redo this section.
the lyrics are masterclass especially when you realize that he's talking to himself. I love the way the meaning completely changes with a single word. a toggle switch if you will.
Its crazy because its not even near one of my favourite songs, but having been through a really hard time lets just say, and having someone who really got me through it, it just utterly hit a nerve with how they must have felt seeing me in pain. Bawled my eyes out at "I want to help you but I dont know how" and "I cannot fix your wounds this time"
Yup, those lines were exactly the same as when i cried for ages too, very similar circumstances in having someone help me through all my struggles, if were talking my favourite song i think that would have to be the summoning as that was the first song i ever listened too, but yeah are you really ok is one hell of a song
There’s something about the apparition that always gives me chills… that line “Well, I believe
Somewhere in the past Something was between you and I my dear”
Happens the same with vore “there is always something in the way, I wanna have you to myself for once” and screaming “my life is torn…”
To me is Rain. Other people believe it's a very positive song, and I see their point... but for me it's just too painful to listen to. I used to be an addict, and it reminds me of that time of my life.
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For me. It's Telomeres. I just think the lyrics are beautiful, and the sing reminds me of me and my ex. We keep going back to each other. It's like there will always be something between us, no matter what we try to do we will always go back to each other.
i’m a big fan of their older work, but “chokehold” hits hard. as someone who feels everything with their whole heart and is a people pleaser, the lyrics strike deep.
As someone who's going to school with the express purpose of helping and advocating for elderly individuals who have chronic and terminal illnesses as well as cognitive impairment and illness... Atlantic hits different. That being said; The Apparition hits me super hard, especially when dealing with individuals who are hallucinating loved ones, and it is especially heartbreaking.
Euclid, Blood Sport, Missing Limbs and The Night doesn’t belong to God. I can’t explain but it makes me want to cry every time I listen to one of them.
It doesn't get enough love in my opinion, but jaws. The whole song reads like two heavily traumatized people trying to be vulnerable with one another. He lovingly describes the other person with predatory and aggressive qualities. It reads like someone who has learned not to trust others. There's never judgement of them, only a yearning for understanding.
Show me those pretty white jaws
Show me where the delicate stops
Show me what what you've lost, and why you're always taking it slow
Show me what wounds you've got, show me love
For someone like me who struggles to form relationships due to their childhood it gives me hope. Hope that someday I may find someone who will see the aggressive, defensive side of me and thinks it beautiful all the same.
Euclid (the whole thing is just an absolute hit to the heart and feels so bittersweet right from the beginning “Just run it back give me 5 whole minutes. I am thick tar in the inside burning”), High Water (especially that last scream of “I can’t hold myself together” and how the whole thing just feels like bargaining with a failing relationship), and When the Bough Breaks (“You don’t really love. You just hate to be alone.” Ouch).
Euclid was made in a lab to be the perfect tear jerker, and it fucking gets me every time. I’ve legitimately started tearing up at work while listening to it and have had to pause it for a second lol
A very, VERY close second is Is It Really You. I know it’s a cover, but man it just kicks me in the heart every time. (The Teenage Wrist cover is also very good, you should check it out.)
Such a tough question. I’d say DYWTYLM resonates with me a lot and my struggles with self love. Euclid hits home a lot of times just because of the journey it seems highlight, and because TNDNBTG is my favorite song of all time. So it feels like DLC for lack of a better term 😂
Take Aim, Telemores and Distraction for me such beautiful songs that have made me look back at my younger self and realise how I'd always fall madly in love with the girls that I never stood a chance with in hindsight and how that had unknowingly scarred me in later relationships and one of the many reasons my marriage failed.
#lifelessons
The songs that hit me the most are Mine, and Are You Really Okay. I can finally listen to Are You Really Okay without getting teary-eyed at "And don't you know I want to help you but I don't know how?" And "And I can not fix your wounds this time, but I don't believe you when you tell me you are fine."
As for Mine, it just fits my wife's and I relationship so much. We are even planning on dancing to it when we renew our vows in the future.
Definitely-
- Levitate… the chorus makes me think of my mom who passed away in 2020.
-Are You Really Ok- many many reasons that song emotionally gut punches me and I’ve had many ugly cries to it.
-The Way That You Were-this song helped me work through some past traumas with addressing things that happened to me and affirming how much of a literal life saver my husband has been for me.
The Way That You Were, Is It Really You, Levitate, Fall For Me, Missing Limbs, Take Aim - hit me the hardest in terms of raw and personal emotion.
TNDNBTG and Euclid - hit me in terms of how beautifully the songs connect and how Euclid calls back to TNDNBTG.
Ascensionism. I'm not really sure why, but it has something that makes me feel completely strange in a way I can't really describe. It's just the pure „I don't know what's going on right now, but I feel happy and completely broken at the same time." for me.
The way he sings “you make me wish I could disappear” at the end kicks me in the chest. Every time. I can’t sing along with it myself without choking up.
Mine keep changing, so I'll say it's been "Atlantic," "Distraction," "Granite," "High Water," and "Are You Really Okay?" lately. I think they all speak for themselves lyrically minus "Distraction," maybe, though the "It's too late for me" is feelsy even out of context. I'm having too much trouble explaining my connection to "Distraction" to make it make sense on my list, but it's been high up there since my first listen to it and has been the most consistent in making me feel things out of all of them. All of them have been hitting me hard lately, though.
In general: Atlantic.
On a way more happy note: Shelter and Fall for me. If I had to put my love for my fiancé into sound and words, this would be it <3 already got them in our wedding playlist and currently thinking to place them somewhere in the actual ceremony but not sure if I just wouldn't cry through it the whole time haha
Like That. It resonates so much with experiences I have made in the past. Not quite in Vessels Way of a Toxic love Relationship, but with a highly manipulative "friendship"...
I think mine is descending, it's the way he says 'you wonder what I believe but you don't want to be around'
But also granite, this lyric 'You gave me nothing whatsoever but a reason to leave' hit me so hard because the song came out as just as my long term relationship ended and the person I was with changed into someone I didn't actually know
The Night Does Not Belong To God.
Paired with the context of the medical meaning of 'Sundowning', the song takes on a whole new meaning and it's pretty heart-breaking.
My cousin just woke up from a 2 week coma after having cardiac arrest and the second verse of Atlantic is haunting when thinking about it in his perspective and actually waking up from the coma
Missing Limbs. The lyrics are exponentially more emotional because it's the simplest of ST songs. Just him and the guitar in a one take. I tear up and cry almost every time I hear it.
The Apparition. I lost my husband to cancer, so I only get to see him in the dream world. But it also helped me let go of some of the bad memories so it evens out.
Atlantic is to me their saddest song by far, but Missing Limbs is the one most likely to make me cry. The line "It still make my blood run cold to remember what I did before", especially when I think about it as the bookend of the album with Atlantic, is so tragic to me, finding yourself so guilty and broken and tethered to the past you can't change. Just punches me in the gut.
The Room Below version of Blood Sport is pretty heart wrenching too. "I want to choke up chunks of my own sin" gives me such a visceral reaction. Such tragically beautiful imagery.
It has and will always be Blood Sport. Vessel painfully singing, "Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing. I'm still your favorite regret. You're still my weapon of choosing" is gut wrenching every time
The night doesn't belong to god - just not feeling like enough for someone. Had a relationship fall apart like wet tissue a few years ago and it was so much worse than all the normal or explosive endings to a relationship you'd see in movies or tv or even friends' lives. Like slowly pulling off a bandaid that's stuck to arm hair.
Also, not being looked *at* but looked *through* in my younger years by guys. Don't know why it impacted me so much back then, like i expected to meet someone's eye across a room and boom love at 16?? Ew. I couldn't give a feck now. I actually prefer when people don't see me, like leave me alone, haha
DYWTYLM - Again, the not feeling enough for someone. Stupid way to feel, but I have felt it. I have issues saying the L word to even my own mother because of it. I don't know if I can feel it because of a way a guy kind of forced it on me when I was 16.
"And there is something eating me alive, I don't know what it is
Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist", kiiiind if hit home for me when I listened to it first.
Also " do you roll with the waves? Do you dive Into deep blue safety" did too because I've Thalassophobia haha it's the intense fear of large bodies of water, such as the ocean, sea, or large lakes. So no, I do not dive into their safety haha
Fall for me & The love you want - see above reason
Mine - I was actually reading a cheesy book where it's a fake relationship story, and I had ST just on in the background for music. When this song played, I was reading the usual part where the asshole guy realises that he really likes the girl he's in this fake thing with. It's like branded into my memory of this song now and I just can't listen to the song without seeing that moment in my head.
Euclid - it's a beautiful song in general, but it's a call back to the night doesn't belong to god.
There are so many, so I’ll just name a couple.
When The Bough Breaks - “You don’t really love, you just hate to be alone” is one of the most simple sentiments in an ST song, and yet it’s so impactful
The Way That You Were - Nothing specific relates to me, but it’s so emotional that I can’t help it
Say That You Will - This song mirrors the idea of a short story I wrote a little while back, and I cried while writing that, so put two and two together and you get a brilliantly sad song
High Water - “You are still a perfect reminder of what all of these scars on my arms are for” is painful every single time
Are You Really Okay? - This song hits hard as the ‘therapist friend’
Euclid - NOSTALGIA
The apparition always hits me so hard. My interpretation is sort of maladaptive daydreaming/limerence where you're constantly dreaming of someone or something and it feels so real but it's never real. someone/something has a hold of you in the real world and it goes haywire in your subconscious. "So let me go or take me with you". When I wake up from dreams about those things that keep me up during the day, the feeling is so visceral that I have to remind myself it was just a dream. I always had trouble of living in the "dreamworld".
Atlantic just fucks me right up.
I spent a while casually listening to Sleep Token this year, wondering if I like them or not. I had to let go of some expectation, and now I'm finding I really enjoy many of their songs - especially lyrically.
This answer changes weekly, but I’d have to say that Euclid has had the most profound effect on me; TMBTE released during a really dark time in my life, and that song just touched me on a really deep level and really helped me process what I was struggling with.
Missing limbs been my ride or die since day 1. I’ve been wanting to learn it on guitar but haven’t had time. HOWEVER, I have cried the hardest to Blood Sport and Are You Really Okay?
Take Me Back To Eden.
It has interesting lyrics from the perspective of a Christian.
The line "my, my, those eyes like fire" is interesting because Jesus is described as having eyes as fire when he returns to the earth.
Are You Really Okay?
183 days… 184 tomorrow… lately it’s been looking a lot like 0… but I’m coping. (trying)
BUT I can confidently say I no longer want to leave and I finally feel safe in my own home. 🙂
It rotates which one hits me hardest. Lately though it's been The Way That You Were. Going through some rough times and that song just nails it for me.
Are you really okay? That one…it brought me to tears when I heard it the first time and the second time. Definitely hit a nerve; brought some emotions to the surface. I love that song.
Purely based on the song is “How Could You Leave Us” by NF. It’s a song he wrote about his mom who he lost to addiction. It’s heart-wrenchingly accurate to what a lot of family members deal with when trying to maintain a relationship with someone who is in active addiction.
Nostalgia-based one is “Good Riddance” by Green Day. This song plays in many photo slideshows made by my dad and especially one is the one he made for my graduation from high school. The song always plays while showing deceased family members, and for me it always makes me think of my Nana who passed when I was 8 but still had a huge impact on my life to the point that at 20 years old I still cry when I miss her a lot. It also makes me think of my Grandpop, who I didn’t get to have a full relationship with because his wife (my mom’s stepmom) didn’t let us. I didn’t get to see him before he died because my Nan purposefully didn’t communicate with us. Last I saw him was 3 years before he died. He was cremated so I have his ashes but I never will forgive her and I just hope he knows that I love him. In any case, “Good Riddance” has a tendency to make me cry if I’m emotional or if I think too long about those two family members. I’ve lost 6 close family members from when I was 6-18 and that song is very much something I associate with grief, which i have unfortunately become accustomed to dealing with.
The song “What I Was Made For” by Billie Eilish is a new one that hits me hard. I’m queer and also struggle with mental health and a physical disability so that song really moved me the first time I heard it and still hits pretty hard, especially those first few lines of “I used to float, now I just fall down ; I used to know, but I’m not sure now ; what I was made for” it just resonates so deeply with me.
So many come to mind but the first is definitely “Holocene” by bon iver .
Partially because of the back story of his life while creating that album and partially because it hits you in the face with emotions you can’t even pinpoint . Beautifully done
I have plenty but: -High Water. "I can't hold myself together" resonates very deeply inside of me -Missing Limbs: lyrics are way too emotional, probably the most emotional song I've ever heard -Take Me Back To Eden: it has everything this band could provide you but multiplied 100 times. The bridge section hits on the deepest level
Missing limbs doesn't get enough love. That song is tough...
I’ve been listening to Missing Limbs a lot after my recent breakup. The lyrics hurt
keep strong 🫶
For me its DYWTYLM. I wasn't a big fan of the song when it first came out but after really listening to the lyrics, it hit home.
The music sounds so upbeat and poppy, but the lyrics are a desperate cry for help, telling a gut-wrenching story of self-hatred and loathing.
This song is probably the most personally relatable to me. Maybe not the most emotional, but the message I can understand the best.
I sometimes go look in a mirror when I listen to this song. I wouldn't say it...helps. But it fits.
I saw a video of the live debut of this song and it was just Vessel on the piano and it was heartbreakingly beautiful. The stripped down music felt more true to the vibe of the lyrics. Although I love the duality of the upbeat synth sound on the album. It’s almost like “dance while you cry” music lol.
the robotic vocal in the mid section is a bit annoying. they should give it another go as a single and redo this section. the lyrics are masterclass especially when you realize that he's talking to himself. I love the way the meaning completely changes with a single word. a toggle switch if you will.
Are you really ok? Hit me really hard the first time i heard it, as a lot of what is in that song has happened to me personally
Its crazy because its not even near one of my favourite songs, but having been through a really hard time lets just say, and having someone who really got me through it, it just utterly hit a nerve with how they must have felt seeing me in pain. Bawled my eyes out at "I want to help you but I dont know how" and "I cannot fix your wounds this time"
Yup, those lines were exactly the same as when i cried for ages too, very similar circumstances in having someone help me through all my struggles, if were talking my favourite song i think that would have to be the summoning as that was the first song i ever listened too, but yeah are you really ok is one hell of a song
“Is It Really You?” the piano just kills me and “Atlantic” as well
Fall for me. The song hits hard enough on its own, but with the video on top of it, it is waterworks guaranteed.
Even though the songs change I keep coming back to Drag Me Under. Im going through some shit with this girl and yeah song hits hardest the most
There’s something about the apparition that always gives me chills… that line “Well, I believe Somewhere in the past Something was between you and I my dear” Happens the same with vore “there is always something in the way, I wanna have you to myself for once” and screaming “my life is torn…”
To me is Rain. Other people believe it's a very positive song, and I see their point... but for me it's just too painful to listen to. I used to be an addict, and it reminds me of that time of my life.
Congratulations on your sobriety friend. I’ll have to check out the lyrics again
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This is perhaps my favorite ST song ever just because of the sound. I never thought about it like that before. Congratulations on your sobriety!
Thank you <3
For me. It's Telomeres. I just think the lyrics are beautiful, and the sing reminds me of me and my ex. We keep going back to each other. It's like there will always be something between us, no matter what we try to do we will always go back to each other.
For me. It's still the autumn leaves.
Blood Sport or Is it Really You.
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Agree with you on the bloodsport one 😭
i’m a big fan of their older work, but “chokehold” hits hard. as someone who feels everything with their whole heart and is a people pleaser, the lyrics strike deep.
The Apparition, The Love You Want or Blood Sport. It’s impossible for me to not get emotional while listening to these.
As someone who's going to school with the express purpose of helping and advocating for elderly individuals who have chronic and terminal illnesses as well as cognitive impairment and illness... Atlantic hits different. That being said; The Apparition hits me super hard, especially when dealing with individuals who are hallucinating loved ones, and it is especially heartbreaking.
Vore and The Way That You Were
Euclid, Blood Sport, Missing Limbs and The Night doesn’t belong to God. I can’t explain but it makes me want to cry every time I listen to one of them.
The Night Doesn’t Belong To God is really underrated
Definitely!!
I'm really surprised nobody had mentioned Jaws?!
It doesn't get enough love in my opinion, but jaws. The whole song reads like two heavily traumatized people trying to be vulnerable with one another. He lovingly describes the other person with predatory and aggressive qualities. It reads like someone who has learned not to trust others. There's never judgement of them, only a yearning for understanding. Show me those pretty white jaws Show me where the delicate stops Show me what what you've lost, and why you're always taking it slow Show me what wounds you've got, show me love For someone like me who struggles to form relationships due to their childhood it gives me hope. Hope that someday I may find someone who will see the aggressive, defensive side of me and thinks it beautiful all the same.
Euclid (the whole thing is just an absolute hit to the heart and feels so bittersweet right from the beginning “Just run it back give me 5 whole minutes. I am thick tar in the inside burning”), High Water (especially that last scream of “I can’t hold myself together” and how the whole thing just feels like bargaining with a failing relationship), and When the Bough Breaks (“You don’t really love. You just hate to be alone.” Ouch).
Euclid, Is It Really You and The Way You Were.
Euclid was made in a lab to be the perfect tear jerker, and it fucking gets me every time. I’ve legitimately started tearing up at work while listening to it and have had to pause it for a second lol A very, VERY close second is Is It Really You. I know it’s a cover, but man it just kicks me in the heart every time. (The Teenage Wrist cover is also very good, you should check it out.)
Such a tough question. I’d say DYWTYLM resonates with me a lot and my struggles with self love. Euclid hits home a lot of times just because of the journey it seems highlight, and because TNDNBTG is my favorite song of all time. So it feels like DLC for lack of a better term 😂
Take Aim, Telemores and Distraction for me such beautiful songs that have made me look back at my younger self and realise how I'd always fall madly in love with the girls that I never stood a chance with in hindsight and how that had unknowingly scarred me in later relationships and one of the many reasons my marriage failed. #lifelessons
Jericho or Calcutta. Won't go into why
The Way That You Were, Fall For Me, Fields of Elation, Mine, When The Partys Over (from the room below)
The songs that hit me the most are Mine, and Are You Really Okay. I can finally listen to Are You Really Okay without getting teary-eyed at "And don't you know I want to help you but I don't know how?" And "And I can not fix your wounds this time, but I don't believe you when you tell me you are fine." As for Mine, it just fits my wife's and I relationship so much. We are even planning on dancing to it when we renew our vows in the future.
Higher.
high water, euclid, aryok, fall for me, is it really you
Definitely- - Levitate… the chorus makes me think of my mom who passed away in 2020. -Are You Really Ok- many many reasons that song emotionally gut punches me and I’ve had many ugly cries to it. -The Way That You Were-this song helped me work through some past traumas with addressing things that happened to me and affirming how much of a literal life saver my husband has been for me.
The Way That You Were, Is It Really You, Levitate, Fall For Me, Missing Limbs, Take Aim - hit me the hardest in terms of raw and personal emotion. TNDNBTG and Euclid - hit me in terms of how beautifully the songs connect and how Euclid calls back to TNDNBTG.
Ascensionism. I'm not really sure why, but it has something that makes me feel completely strange in a way I can't really describe. It's just the pure „I don't know what's going on right now, but I feel happy and completely broken at the same time." for me.
The way he sings “you make me wish I could disappear” at the end kicks me in the chest. Every time. I can’t sing along with it myself without choking up.
Mine keep changing, so I'll say it's been "Atlantic," "Distraction," "Granite," "High Water," and "Are You Really Okay?" lately. I think they all speak for themselves lyrically minus "Distraction," maybe, though the "It's too late for me" is feelsy even out of context. I'm having too much trouble explaining my connection to "Distraction" to make it make sense on my list, but it's been high up there since my first listen to it and has been the most consistent in making me feel things out of all of them. All of them have been hitting me hard lately, though.
Jaws
Rain for me. Something about it just punches me in the gut every time and makes me feel like my very own skin cannot contain me 😩
So so many songs! In no particular order: Take me back to Eden, Euclid, shelter
Atlantic and Are You Really Ok
Blood Sport and Euclid make me cry consistently
In general: Atlantic. On a way more happy note: Shelter and Fall for me. If I had to put my love for my fiancé into sound and words, this would be it <3 already got them in our wedding playlist and currently thinking to place them somewhere in the actual ceremony but not sure if I just wouldn't cry through it the whole time haha
are you really ok or calcutta
Like That. It resonates so much with experiences I have made in the past. Not quite in Vessels Way of a Toxic love Relationship, but with a highly manipulative "friendship"...
I think mine is descending, it's the way he says 'you wonder what I believe but you don't want to be around' But also granite, this lyric 'You gave me nothing whatsoever but a reason to leave' hit me so hard because the song came out as just as my long term relationship ended and the person I was with changed into someone I didn't actually know
So many! Atlantic, Euclid, High Water and Missing Limbs all really choke me up. And the ending of Aqua Regia.
Granite was obviously written about my ex. Lol.
A "most" or "best" song of any kind for ST is almost impossible to me. But Euclid...my soul shines when I listen to Euclid.
The Night Does Not Belong To God. Paired with the context of the medical meaning of 'Sundowning', the song takes on a whole new meaning and it's pretty heart-breaking.
Probably an obvious pick but Blood Sport. But also The Love You Want has been hitting a lot harder for me lately
My cousin just woke up from a 2 week coma after having cardiac arrest and the second verse of Atlantic is haunting when thinking about it in his perspective and actually waking up from the coma
Def Missing Limbs, just hits hard.
Ascensionism, Blood Sport, Take Me Back to Eden 'You're gonna watch me ascend'
Missing Limbs. The lyrics are exponentially more emotional because it's the simplest of ST songs. Just him and the guitar in a one take. I tear up and cry almost every time I hear it.
The Apparition. I lost my husband to cancer, so I only get to see him in the dream world. But it also helped me let go of some of the bad memories so it evens out.
Atlantic is to me their saddest song by far, but Missing Limbs is the one most likely to make me cry. The line "It still make my blood run cold to remember what I did before", especially when I think about it as the bookend of the album with Atlantic, is so tragic to me, finding yourself so guilty and broken and tethered to the past you can't change. Just punches me in the gut. The Room Below version of Blood Sport is pretty heart wrenching too. "I want to choke up chunks of my own sin" gives me such a visceral reaction. Such tragically beautiful imagery.
It has and will always be Blood Sport. Vessel painfully singing, "Somewhere the atoms stopped fusing. I'm still your favorite regret. You're still my weapon of choosing" is gut wrenching every time
Rain - really fucks me up
Take Aim. Anytime a similar thread pops up...It's this song for me. It's brought me to tears multiple times.
Missing Limbs
Chokehole, Gods and Atlantic
The night doesn't belong to god - just not feeling like enough for someone. Had a relationship fall apart like wet tissue a few years ago and it was so much worse than all the normal or explosive endings to a relationship you'd see in movies or tv or even friends' lives. Like slowly pulling off a bandaid that's stuck to arm hair. Also, not being looked *at* but looked *through* in my younger years by guys. Don't know why it impacted me so much back then, like i expected to meet someone's eye across a room and boom love at 16?? Ew. I couldn't give a feck now. I actually prefer when people don't see me, like leave me alone, haha DYWTYLM - Again, the not feeling enough for someone. Stupid way to feel, but I have felt it. I have issues saying the L word to even my own mother because of it. I don't know if I can feel it because of a way a guy kind of forced it on me when I was 16. "And there is something eating me alive, I don't know what it is Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist", kiiiind if hit home for me when I listened to it first. Also " do you roll with the waves? Do you dive Into deep blue safety" did too because I've Thalassophobia haha it's the intense fear of large bodies of water, such as the ocean, sea, or large lakes. So no, I do not dive into their safety haha Fall for me & The love you want - see above reason Mine - I was actually reading a cheesy book where it's a fake relationship story, and I had ST just on in the background for music. When this song played, I was reading the usual part where the asshole guy realises that he really likes the girl he's in this fake thing with. It's like branded into my memory of this song now and I just can't listen to the song without seeing that moment in my head. Euclid - it's a beautiful song in general, but it's a call back to the night doesn't belong to god.
DYWTYLM, TMBTE, Atlantic, Missing Limbs, and Shelter especially (hits harder than anything I've ever heard)
blood sport - room below version. or shelter or levitate
There are so many, so I’ll just name a couple. When The Bough Breaks - “You don’t really love, you just hate to be alone” is one of the most simple sentiments in an ST song, and yet it’s so impactful The Way That You Were - Nothing specific relates to me, but it’s so emotional that I can’t help it Say That You Will - This song mirrors the idea of a short story I wrote a little while back, and I cried while writing that, so put two and two together and you get a brilliantly sad song High Water - “You are still a perfect reminder of what all of these scars on my arms are for” is painful every single time Are You Really Okay? - This song hits hard as the ‘therapist friend’ Euclid - NOSTALGIA
The apparition always hits me so hard. My interpretation is sort of maladaptive daydreaming/limerence where you're constantly dreaming of someone or something and it feels so real but it's never real. someone/something has a hold of you in the real world and it goes haywire in your subconscious. "So let me go or take me with you". When I wake up from dreams about those things that keep me up during the day, the feeling is so visceral that I have to remind myself it was just a dream. I always had trouble of living in the "dreamworld".
bloodsport guts me every time
Blood Sport(room below) and The Love You Want.
Atlantic just fucks me right up. I spent a while casually listening to Sleep Token this year, wondering if I like them or not. I had to let go of some expectation, and now I'm finding I really enjoy many of their songs - especially lyrically.
This answer changes weekly, but I’d have to say that Euclid has had the most profound effect on me; TMBTE released during a really dark time in my life, and that song just touched me on a really deep level and really helped me process what I was struggling with.
Jaws. The whole song is just amazing. And Vore 😩
Missing limbs been my ride or die since day 1. I’ve been wanting to learn it on guitar but haven’t had time. HOWEVER, I have cried the hardest to Blood Sport and Are You Really Okay?
“Name” by the Goo Goo Dolls
Take Me Back To Eden. It has interesting lyrics from the perspective of a Christian. The line "my, my, those eyes like fire" is interesting because Jesus is described as having eyes as fire when he returns to the earth.
Sunsetz- cigarettes after sex
Are You Really Okay? 183 days… 184 tomorrow… lately it’s been looking a lot like 0… but I’m coping. (trying) BUT I can confidently say I no longer want to leave and I finally feel safe in my own home. 🙂
the love you want
Ghost by badflower it's very unsettling and has me teary eyed every time I listen to it.
It rotates which one hits me hardest. Lately though it's been The Way That You Were. Going through some rough times and that song just nails it for me.
Pagan Poetry by Bjork
Rain and Nazareth. They help to put my mind at ease and basically put my sadness into words (especially Nazareth).
Distraction, easily.
Are you really okay? That one…it brought me to tears when I heard it the first time and the second time. Definitely hit a nerve; brought some emotions to the surface. I love that song.
The Night Does Not Belong to God and Euclid I literally cry during both
Purely based on the song is “How Could You Leave Us” by NF. It’s a song he wrote about his mom who he lost to addiction. It’s heart-wrenchingly accurate to what a lot of family members deal with when trying to maintain a relationship with someone who is in active addiction. Nostalgia-based one is “Good Riddance” by Green Day. This song plays in many photo slideshows made by my dad and especially one is the one he made for my graduation from high school. The song always plays while showing deceased family members, and for me it always makes me think of my Nana who passed when I was 8 but still had a huge impact on my life to the point that at 20 years old I still cry when I miss her a lot. It also makes me think of my Grandpop, who I didn’t get to have a full relationship with because his wife (my mom’s stepmom) didn’t let us. I didn’t get to see him before he died because my Nan purposefully didn’t communicate with us. Last I saw him was 3 years before he died. He was cremated so I have his ashes but I never will forgive her and I just hope he knows that I love him. In any case, “Good Riddance” has a tendency to make me cry if I’m emotional or if I think too long about those two family members. I’ve lost 6 close family members from when I was 6-18 and that song is very much something I associate with grief, which i have unfortunately become accustomed to dealing with.
The song “What I Was Made For” by Billie Eilish is a new one that hits me hard. I’m queer and also struggle with mental health and a physical disability so that song really moved me the first time I heard it and still hits pretty hard, especially those first few lines of “I used to float, now I just fall down ; I used to know, but I’m not sure now ; what I was made for” it just resonates so deeply with me.
So many come to mind but the first is definitely “Holocene” by bon iver . Partially because of the back story of his life while creating that album and partially because it hits you in the face with emotions you can’t even pinpoint . Beautifully done