[MusicLover82]

What is your favorite poem or song that you relate to your bipolar that makes you feel better about your condition? Post the entire thing in the comments if it will fit. Let's share some inspiration!

[MusicLover82]

I turned this poem into a song years ago, and I should sing it for myself more often. It's very emotional for me and it really hits home that I feel there is a purpose in what I go through, so I can connect more deeply with others.

"Song of the Nations" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Out of night and alarm,
Out of darkness and dread,
Out of old hate, grudge and distrust,
sin and remorse, passion and blindness,
shall come dawn and the birds,
shall come slacking of greed, snapping of fear.
Love shall fold warm like a cloak round the shuddering earth, till its woes cease.

After terrible dreams,
After crying in sleep,
Grief beyond thought, twisting of hands,
tears from shut lids wetting the pillow,
shall come sun on the wall,
shall come sounds from the street, children at play.
Bubbles too big blown, and dreams filled too heavy with horror shall burst
and in mist fall.

Sing then, you who were dumb!
Shout then, into the dark!
Are we not one?
Are not our hearts hot from one fire, and in one mold cast???
Out of night and alarm,
Out of terrible dreams,
Reach me your hand!
This is the meaning of all that we suffered in sleep:
The white peace of the waking.

[MusicLover82]

Nobody?

[LadyShadow]

Hey!

Sorry no one answered your thread. I have a song that relates a lot to what I go through in regards to finding a mate. The lyrics might be triggering to some so beware.


Gasoline
Halsey

Are you insane like me?
Been in pain like me?
Bought a hundred dollar bottle of champagne like me?
Just to pour that motherf***er down the drain like me?
Would you use your water bill to dry the stain like me?

Are you high enough without the Mary Jane like me?
Do you tear yourself apart to entertain like me?
Do the people whisper 'bout you on the train like me?
Saying that you shouldn't waste your pretty face like me?

And all the people say
You can't wake up, this is not a dream
You're part of a machine, you are not a human being
With your face all made up, living on a screen
Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline

I think there's a flaw in my code
These voices won't leave me alone
Well my heart is gold and my hands are cold

Are you deranged like me?
Are you strange like me?
Lighting matches just to swallow up the flame like me?
Do you call yourself a f***ing hurricane like me?
Pointing fingers cause you'll never take the blame like me?

And all the people say
You can't wake up, this is not a dream
You're part of a machine, you are not a human being
With your face all made up, living on a screen
Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline

I think there's a flaw in my code
These voices won't leave me alone
Well my heart is gold and my hands are cold

[OctobersBlackRose]

Right now my favorite song is "Your Hell is Here" by Solar Fake

Lyrics:

Turning to the next page of your diary
It’s blank and virgin white
All the lines are blurred, you swim on melted paper
Drowning false delight
You don’t need to breathe, your eyes are clear
But where’s your hope
To come up again and face the truth
The lies in life

Your hell is here
You’re fighting monsters to get the constancy out of your head
But your hell, my dear, is feeding oceans
With your devotion to flood your sick world

You’re pouring with the ink onto the background
It’s just like a waterfall
The shapes are drawn so fast, but letters never talk or say a word at all
You still sit there, the words are gone that should pronounce
The uncut truth about your life, the lies in life

Your hell is here
You’re fighting monsters to get the constancy out of your head
But your hell, my dear, is feeding oceans
With your devotion to flood your sick world

I really relate to this song and lyrics, I feel it describes what goes on in my head, and living with mental illness...

[OctobersBlackRose]

Another song is "Sweet Pandemonium" by the name HIM

Lyrics:

Today tomorrow seems so far away
And the wait in vain, yeah
So safe, in the blinding light of love unchained
In yesterday's grave, yeah

The truth that could set souls free
Is buried within sweet pandemonium
Concealed by disbelief
The riddle stays veiled in sweet pandemonium

Afraid that everything remains unchanged
In this fragile dream, yeah
Ashamed of the shattered remains
Of promises made, yeah

The truth that could set souls free
Is buried within sweet pandemonium
Concealed by disbelief
The riddle stays veiled in sweet pandemonium

Drained by the anger and grief
Fazed by the envy and greed
The secret cries for a release
The lucidity hidden deep in sweet pandemonium

The truth that could set souls free
Is buried within sweet pandemonium
Concealed by disbelief
The riddle stays veiled in sweet pandemonium

Again I relate to the lyrics and how it describes what goes on in my head, and living with mental illness...

[SvanThor]

"While We Sleep" by Insomnium

When your heart gives out and your love collapses
When the hand that never lets go is there no more
When you reap and sow only throe and resentment
When there's no one else but you to blame it for

When all you ever wish for is to go back once more
When all you ever wish for is to change it all
When all you feel is remorse, pain and regret
When you dwell in the past unable to move on

And we drift far away in our dreams
Gather further distance while we sleep
Build a wall of glass thick and deep
We hear but choose not to listen

And we drift far away in our dreams
Gather further distance while we sleep
Still the bridge is enflamed with fire
Leave all the love we had behind

When you realize that your life is a one-way road
When you realize that there's no point of return
When you understand that you can't go back anymore
When you understand you can only move onwards

And we drift far away in our dreams
Gather further distance while we sleep
Build a wall of glass thick and deep
We hear but choose not to listen

And we drift far away in our dreams
Gather further distance while we sleep
Still the bridge is enflamed with fire
Leave all the love we had behind

Slow down
We need to slow down
We need to slow down so I can catch you

We need to slow down so I can catch you
We need to slow down so you can catch me
We need to slow down so I can catch you
We need to slow down so you can catch me
Slow down

what if by emilie autumn.

(and no, i am not writing every single lyric to that song in here), even though i probably could make it fit..

poem wise i like if by rudjard kippling. i heard a lovely version once- a lady saying the poem over a musical background (samuel barber's adagio for strings). i just think it's lovely

oh, and i really do like dr seus.

i know, i'm such a kid