I was talkin' with a friend and she commented that "Losing My Religion" by REM seems to be her current theme song.
Got me thinkin' about that... if RfM had a soundtrack, what song(s) would you choose to be on it?
Go ahead and post lyrics too, if ya like! Just thought this would be a fun one to mull over.
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Mine would probably be "Closer To The Edge" by 30 Seconds To Mars:

I remember the moment I tried to forget
I lost myself, is it better not said
I'm closer to the edge.
It was a thousand to one and a million to two
Time to go down in flames and I'm taking you
Closer to the edge

[Chorus:]
No I'm not saying I'm sorry
One day maybe we'll meet again
No I'm not saying I'm sorry
One day maybe we'll meet again
No no no no

Can you imagine a time when the truth ran free?
The birth of a song, the death of a dream
Closer to the edge.
This never ending story
Paid for with pride and fate
We all fall short of glory
Lost in our fate

[Chorus][x2]
No no no no, I will never forget
No no, I will never regret
No no, I will live my life
[Chorus]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who.

"Minority" - Green Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueE6z01uHsE

I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority

I pledge allegiance to the underworld
One nation under dark
There of which I stand alone
A face in the crowd
Unsung, against the mold
Without a doubt
Singled out
The only way I know

'Cause I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority

Stepped out of the line
Like a sheep runs from the herd
Marching out of time
To my own beat now
The only way I know

One light, one mind
Flashing in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts
"For crying out loud", she screamed unto me
A free for all
Fuck 'em all
You are your own sight

'Cause I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority

One light, one mind
Flashing in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts
"For crying out loud", she screamed unto me
A free for all
Fuck 'em all
You are your own sight

'Cause I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority

be the minority
I want to be the minority
be the minority
I want to be the minority

The words sum up the exmo experience, "you" being the church and it's members:


I know I can't take one more step towards you
Cause all that's waiting is regret
And don't you know I'm not your ghost anymore?
You lost the love
I loved the most

And I learned to live, half-alive
And now you want me one more time

Who do you think you are?
Runnin' round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
So don't come back for me
Who do you think you are?

I hear you're asking all around
If I am anywhere to be found
But I have grown too strong
To ever fall back in your arms

And I learned to live, half-alive
And now you want me one more time

Who do you think you are?
Runnin round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
So don't come back for me
Who do you think you are?


Dear, it took so long just to feel alright
Remember how to put back the light in my eyes
I wish I had missed the first time that we kissed
Cause you broke all your promises
And now you're back
You don't get to get me back

Who do you think you are?
Runnin' round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
So don't come back for me
Don't come back at all


Who do you think you are?

Who do you think you are?



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yakety sax


http://www.ajsmidi.com/allsongs_1/yaktysax.html

I also like Born Free. Super song for RfMers.

"I want to break free" by Queen. It's just a fun song. I like to dance around to it in the mornings while I'm drying my hair, wearing only my (non-mo) underwear.

I'm really learning to enjoy these simple pleasures in life!

Yeah, I know it has nothing to do with recovery or religion or Mormonism but come on! That was a great song!

And hearing him sing it live is even better!!!

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I'm not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I'm still waiting

I'm through with doubt
There's nothing left for me to figure out
I've paid a price
And I'll keep paying

I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and
I don't have time to go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
'Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can't you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don't mind sayin'
It's a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Sayin' that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and
I don't have time to go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
'Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and
I don't have time to go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
'Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I'm not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I'm still waiting

REM. Losing My Religion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NF1msrXA5M

Ending with - You've gotta fight for your right to party!

Love em

Briggy

I think most appropriate for me would be;

Eyes of a Child

by the Moody Blues.

Listen to the Sound,
The child awakes.
Wander all around,
The child awakes.

Now,in his life,
He never must be lost,
No thought must deceive him,
in Life he must trust.

(chorus)
With the eyes of a child
you must come out and see
that your world's spinning round
and through life you will be
a small part of a hope
of the love that exists
with the eyes of a child, you will see

Look, for far away, new life awakes
Time, it has no day, new life awakes
Here is your dream, and now how does it feel
no words will go with you, and now, what is real?

(chorus)
with the eyes of a child,
you must come out and see
that your world's spinning round
and through life you will be
a small part of the hope
of the love that exists
with the eyes of a child, you will see

Part II

I'm gonna sit and watch the web,
that you will build this day
Give me a thread of love to weave
its yours to show the way
and everything will be as you will see in the light.

(chorus)
With the eyes of a child,
you must come out and see
that your world's spinning round
and through life you will be
a small part of the hope
of the love that exists
in the eyes of a child
you will see



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Mad World - Tears for Fears or Gary Jules

All around me are familiar faces
worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very very, mad world, mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very very, mad world, mad world
Enlarge your world, mad world

Another One Bites The Dust

Snow...I love that!

History of Utah, by Camper Van Beethoven

No God's a Man, by Gentle Giant

Close to the Edge, by Yes

Sheep, by Pink Floyd

Blazing Apostles, by Bebop Deluxe

Hendrix, "Let the Good Times Roll."

Beatles, "Baby You're a Rich Man".

http://vimeo.com/7710460

I need someone a person to talk to
Someone who'd care to love
Could it be you could it be you
Situation gets rough then I start to panic
It's not enough it's just a habit
Hey kid your sick well darling this is it

You can all just kiss off into the air
Behind my back I can see them stare
They'll hurt me bad but I won't mind
They'll hurt me bad they do it all the time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time

I hope you know this will go down
On your permanent record
Oh yeah well don't get so distressed
Did I happen to mention that I'm impressed

I take one one one cause you left me and
Two two two for my family and
3 3 3 for my heartache and
4 4 4 for my headaches and
5 5 5 for my lonely and
6 6 6 for my sorrow and
7 7 for no tomorrow and
8 8 I forget what 8 was for and
9 9 9 for a lost god and
10 10 10 10 for everything everything everything everything

You can all just kiss off into the air
Behind my back I can see them stare
They'll hurt me bad but I won't mind
They'll hurt me bad they do it all the time
Yeah yeah,yeah they do it all the time
Yeah yeah,yeah they do it all the time
Do it all the time
Do it all the time
Do it all the time time time
Yeah yeah they do it all the time

Gotta have the ending song from "Life of Brian" on it!

Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it...
Life's a laugh and death's a joke...

How has this one not been mentioned...

The Used - Liar Liar (burn in hell)

Hasa Diga Eebowai!

"I Don't Have To Live This Way" by Alison Krauss and Union Station.

I'm Free by The Who.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRD_gIoVOmY

Except I don't want anyone followin' me.



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Runaway by linkin park

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/09/136054170/first-listen-cast-recording-the-book-of-mormon#playlist

Or find NPR's recording of the Book of Mormon, the Musical soundtrack. Priceless. All the words there. If you can't access it, the soundtrack will be available on iTunes June 12.
"Joseph Smith the American Prophet"
"Two by Two"

Good Girls Don't The Knack
(At least that's what they want you to think.....)

She's your adolescent dream,
Schoolboy stuff, a sticky sweet romance.
And she makes you want to scream,
Wishing you could get inside her pants.
So, you fantasize away.
And while you're squeezing her, you thought you heard her saying...

"Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, (well she'll be telling you)
Good girls don't, but I do."

So, you call her on the phone
To talk about the teachers that you hate.
And she says she's all alone,
And her parents won't be coming home til late.
There's a ringing in your brain,
Cause you could've sworn you though you heard her saying...

"Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, (well she'll be telling you)
Good girls don't, but I do."

And it's a teenage sadness
Everyone has got to taste.
An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
Til she's sitting on your face.

You're alone with her at last,
And you're waiting til you think the time is right.
Cause you've heard she's pretty fast.
And you're hoping that she'll give you some tonight.
So, you start to make your play,
Cause you could've sworn you thought you heard her saying...

"Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, (well she'll be telling you)
Good girls don't, but I do."

And it's a teenage sadness
Everyone has got to taste.
An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
Til she's sitting on your face.

Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, (well she'll be telling you)
Good girls don't, but I do...