Bare with me on this one which is related to my faith - it's also a song that quickly became a favourite of my cousin who is absolutely not Christian, and I oddly don't associate them too heavily with my faith so much as the emotions that I feel the artist had when he put together these lyrics and this song. Not just a feeling of sadness, but a feeling of concession. For me, it's particularly a feeling I get when I feel defeated, demoralised, destroyed. The closing 'verse' of sorts is a plead with God, life or anything that one makes when this happens, just begging to have their world torn apart, to just crash. If anything, the first four lines dictate the entire situation that the person finds themselves in, and they feel that all that can be done at this point is to take their world apart and to wish for everything they know to just be shattered so they can just start fresh, despite knowing that can't simply happen and that life isn't that simple.
Anyway, the lyrics.
(SPOILER)I am the only one to blame for this
Somehow it all ends up the same
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride
I flew too high and like Icarus I collide
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
to give and die
To turn away and not become
Another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves
More deeply than the oceans
More abundant than the tears
Of a world embracing every heartache
Can I be the one to sacrifice
Or grip the spear and watch the blood and water flow
To love you - take my world apart
To need you - I am on my knees
To love you - take my world apart
To need you - broken on my knees
All said and done I stand alone
Amongst remains of a life I should not own
It takes all I am to believe
In the mercy that covers me
Did you really have to die for me?
All I am for all you are
Because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart
I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
And wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nails that still remain
More and more I need you now
I owe you more each passing hour
The battle between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago
So steal my heart and take the pain
And wash the feet and cleanse my pride
Take the selfish, take the weak
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
The sin-soaked heart and make it yours
Take my world all apart
Take it now, take it now
And serve the ones that I despise
Speak the words I can't deny
Watch the world I used to love
Fall to dust and thrown away
I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
So wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nails that still remain
So steal my heart and take the pain
Take the selfish, take the weak
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
Take my world apart, take my world apart
I pray, I pray, I pray
Take my world apart
Beyond that song... it largely depends on the mood. If I'm sad I might be in the mood for slow songs, depressing songs, angry songs or fast songs. Sometimes I intentionally try to pick myself up with happy music, which can work on occasion. What I listen to will, inevitably, be down to the situation I find myself in. Art in Me, Konstantine, Sad Songs, Hurt, Hallelujah, Aeris' Theme, This Could Be Love, Girls Like You, Superhuman, Sick Cycle Carousel, I Think About You, Oopsy Daisy, Canto Della Terra, Why Does Love Do This To Me, Sukiyaki, Sunrays and Saturdays, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Born Slippy... it really does vary a lot.
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