Sometimes music is more than just a few notes and chords. Some songs represent the bookmarks of our lives. They speak to us when we can’t speak for ourselves, and sometimes they say the things we’re not eloquent enough to express without a little help.

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If you’re feeling brave and the exhibitionist in you is feeling a little stifled, send your songs and stories to us at editor@audioholicmedia.com. We will post them here. For the world to see.

Written by Timothy Walker:

This folksy ballad exhibits some of the qualities, which for me are paramount in songwriting—well, mostly the importance of well-written lyrics. I believe that before Dylan is a musician, he is a poet. His lyrics are simply inundated with vivid imagery and wonderful poetry.

I believe “Blowin’ In the Wind,” to be an enduring accomplishment and monument which speak to the importance of potent lyrics. The lyrics of many of Dylan’s songs ask us to imagine—to see things—beautiful, and tragic things. It is the music that helps us feel, and the words which help us see. The beautiful union of music and poetry is certainly sacred and powerful. It is the duty of the songwriter to imagine—to see things— and cause people to wonder. Dylan does this wonderfully.

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Some songs are more than just a few notes and chords.
We remember this every time we’re in love, every time we get dumped, and every time we feel inspired to post the lyrics of a song as our new MySpace headlines. (Whether you’ve acted on it or not, don’t judge. You’ve been there.)

Some songs represent the bookmarks of our lives. They speak to us when we can’t speak for ourselves, and sometimes they say the things we’re not eloquent enough to express without a little help.

This is where we expose your secrets.

If you’re feeling brave and the exhibitionist in you is feeling a little stifled, send your songs and stories to us at editor@audioholicmedia.com. We will post them here. For the world to see.

There’s no doubt that it takes a little bit of crazy to really express it.

There’s something in the song “Selah” by Lauryn Hill that helps to calm whatever insanity is sometimes brewing under the surface. More than once in the song, she pleads, “please save me from myself” and I know exactly what she means. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies; our own harshest critics. If we could get out of own way(s), life would be a better place.

In the second verse, she asks, “How beautiful is fruit still in denial of its roots?” and it hits home in ways that help me to understand what “Killing Me Softly” is really all about. Later in the same verse, she humbly realizes that her pride has gotten the best of who she really is in the lyric, “Selfishly addicted to a life that I depicted, conflicted because it’s not reality.” Sometimes we get so caught up in projecting a certain image of ourselves that at some point we realize that even our best friends don’t really know us at all.

“Selah” tends to find me when I most need it. If Lauryn Hill really is as crazy as the media wants us to believe her to be, this song reminds me that one person’s craziness can end up being someone else’s saving grace.

- Raechel Pond

Some songs are more than just a few notes and chords.
We remember this every time we’re in love, every time we get dumped, and every time we feel inspired to post the lyrics of a song as our new MySpace headlines. (Whether you’ve acted on it or not, don’t judge. You’ve been there.)

Some songs represent the bookmarks of our lives. They speak to us when we can’t speak for ourselves, and sometimes they say the things we’re not eloquent enough to express without a little help.

This is where we expose your secrets.

If you’re feeling brave and the exhibitionist in you is feeling a little stifled, send your songs and stories to us at editor@audioholicmedia.com. We will post them here. For the world to see.

“Skin Horse” by the Melvins

you cannot grasp the effect of this song simply by reading the lyrics..i’ve been listening to it for 2 years and i am still realizing things about it.

it is split into two parts..the first two stanzas being the first part and the third stanza being the second part. the beginning sounds like a pop rock, feel-good song while the second part sounds like a lullaby and the singer’s voice is distorted to sound like a baby.

i was working at CD Warehouse the first time i heard it. my immediate reaction was to smile because it sounded so ridiculous with the infantile vocals, and i thought it was just for the sake of being weird..

the first time i actually listened to the lyrics, this line caught my attention: “in time it will all be over, it’ll be good.” and i thought, ‘its about suicide….or death in general’

i listened to it again, really trying to pay attention to the lyrics around that part of the song and i picked up something else: “..but i’m old and i’m getting older…knew i would.” this reminded me of a very specific event in my life when my best friend and i were hanging out for the last time before we went to separate colleges in different states. the central thought of our conversation was this: “dude this might be the last time we get stoned together”. at the time, that’s all it meant..but as time passed i understood what we were really talking about..

from then on, whenever i listened to it, the line “…knew i would..” really affected me because the singer/songwriter (Buzz Osborne) is nostalgic, thinking about having fun as a kid…but now he’s older and his time is running out. it makes me so sad because i KNEW I WOULD be in his shoes one day, looking back and wishing i had more time..

finally i took the time to read the lyrics and got stuck on this: “later days finally coming on to take me away…little place near the holy one…and let’s run.”

“later days”= the end of his life…”finally comin’ on to take me away”= death is inevitable and he’s been waiting for it….”little place near the holy one”= some form of the after life…. “and lets run”= let’s hurry up and die.

all this time i had paid no attention to the first part of the song because i was so enthralled by the end of it.. i read the lyrics: “he’ll chance the overload when it’s all about the end.”= suicide by overdose.

the next line that caught my attention was this: “wishin’ i was at the where dull razors all began”…my immediate reaction was to think that he wished he had fresh/sharp razors to cut his wrists with.. but maybe it means he wishes he could go back to when he was young and happy, before he started entertaining thoughts of suicide..

“everyone is shifting all around his agonize”= he feels like everyone around him is happy and he is the only one in emotional agony.

“shoulder only angel seven, half of every golden an.. on those that really help me, time unveils”= this has something to do with reaffirmations to the people in his life who were good to him and who believed in him..

“ty regarding visionary”= referring to the opening line of the song…ty represents something that is imaginary or unreal.

this song makes me cry when i listen to it because i relate to it soo much. i have had all of these feelings in the past so i cry out of empathy.

i also cry out of happiness because i know that “in time it will all be over, it’ll be good.”

- Seaver Hudson

[Lyrics:]

Ty plays the battle fold though bastardly
Follow said criminal in the form of his hand
He’ll chance the overload when it’s all about the end
Maybe the size and soul will settle in
Everyone is shifting all around his agonize
Can’t make the sort of sound this and dust could sanitize
Gonna see in Earth all edge

Wishing I was at the where dull razors all began
Shoulder only angel seven half of every golden an
on those who really help me time unveils
Ty regarding visionary

Give it all to me. I didnt’ wanna be
Singled out for the fire, you little tangy
Make a mind to make a friend. Give it up toenail
Too old for that. buy me a big one
To say what’s real, your not the boss of me
Meet my old man, he’s just a funny
He makes more than you will, take it away
I’ve got the only wisdom. we’re still friends
In time it will all be over, it will be good
But i’m old and i’m getting older, knew i would
Later days finally coming on to take me away
Little place near the holy one, and let’s run

Some songs are more than just a few notes and chords.
We remember this every time we’re in love, every time we get dumped, and every time we feel inspired to post the lyrics of a song as our new MySpace headlines. (Whether you’ve acted on it or not, don’t judge. You’ve been there.)

Some songs represent the bookmarks of our lives. They speak to us when we can’t speak for ourselves, and sometimes they say the things we’re not eloquent enough to express without a little help.

This is where we expose your secrets.

If you’re feeling brave and the exhibitionist in you is feeling a little stifled, send your songs and stories to us at editor@audioholicmedia.com. We will post them here. For the world to see.

Written by Kristi Jo:

There are so many songs that pull at my heart strings. So many songs that have been stamped into various moments of my life. Some with a positive stamp and others with stamps of heartbreak and hurt. That’s the beauty of music and lyrics. Together the power of a song never ceases to amaze me.
When it comes to appreciating good songs, I can never narrow it down to a single choice. However, right now I’ve chosen one that in all honesty, I wish I’d written.

In my opinion “Why” by Annie Lennox is simple, intelligent and beautiful. For me, as a songwriter her lyrics are something to marvel at. They are so vunerable and honest, I can only hope to someday reach the level of freedom she has achieved in my own songwriting.

One of my favorite lines is “Why can’t you see, this boat is sinking”. It’s such a sad way of admitting that maybe it’s just not worth fighting for. This song is a cry for help, a confession and not only do the lyrics lay it all on the line, the music accompaniment is equally truthful. The chorus is only ONE WORD! Sometimes for those uncertain and hurtful moments your life, the ones where songs like “Why” will forever be stamped in your memory I suppose one word is all you need.

My advice for you: Wait until night time, light a few candles, and turn this song on and enjoy. Thank you, Annie.

-Kristi Jo-

[Lyrics:]
How many times do I have to try to tell you
That I’m sorry for the things I’ve done
But when I start to try to tell you
That’s when you have to tell me
Hey… this kind of trouble’s only just begun
I tell myself too many times
Why don’t you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut
That’s why it hurts so bad to hear the words
That keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth
Tell me…
Why
Why

This is the book I never read
These are the words I never said
This is the path I’ll never tread
These are the dreams I’ll dream instead
This is the joy that’s seldom spread
These are the tears…
The tears we shed
This is the fear
This is the dread
These are the contents of my head
And these are the years that we have spent
And this is what they represent
And this is how I feel
Do you know how I feel ?
’cause i don’t think you know how I feel
I don’t think you know what I feel
I don’t think you know what I feel
You don’t know what I feel

[Editors Note: We love Kristi Jo and were shameless about begging her to write this for us. We will also shamelessly plug her MySpace page and shamelessly beg you to love her just as much as we do.}

Some songs are more than just a few notes and chords.
We remember this every time we’re in love, every time we get dumped, and every time we feel inspired to post the lyrics of a song as our new MySpace headlines. (Whether you’ve acted on it or not, don’t judge. You’ve been there.)

Some songs represent the bookmarks of our lives. They speak to us when we can’t speak for ourselves, and sometimes they say the things we’re not eloquent enough to express without a little help.

This is where we expose your secrets.

If you’re feeling brave and the exhibitionist in you is feeling a little stifled, send your songs and stories to us at editor@audioholicmedia.com. We will post them here. For the world to see.

This song will out me right now. I’m a closet Meat Loaf fan. Or, I should say I am a Jim Steinman / Meat Loaf fan. Together they made music that still makes me roll up the windows and perform stage in the middle of the freeway. I was a sophomore in high school when I heard this song on the radio. Like every 15 year old male, I was pining after a beautiful girl who made me want to perform rock opera for her. Years later I can listen to this song and remember every thought and feeling and note and pitch of her. That is my moment of truth.

Justin Almeida
United States Peace Corps