What Is Your Favourite "Live" Song? What is its significance to you?
By Malyck
@Malyck (3425)
Australia
September 9, 2007 10:49am CST
For me, 'I Alone', off their album 'Throwing Copper' is the most significant to me and my life.
I always listened to it, and would sing it until I cried because I felt strangely attached to it. And I would often sit outside and sing it to my pet Boxer, Hudson.
Strangely enough, I was listening to this song when I got the phonecall while I was visiting a friend, to say that Hudson was found dead in my backyard.
I was devastated, and now the song has even more significance to me, and has such a deeper meaning. It's both beautiful and painful.
What is your favourite song of Live's, and why?
Malyck.
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8 responses
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
10 Sep 07
Wow, you have such a different experience with that song. I always thought it sounded possessive and self important.
I love the song Lightening Crashes. I loved it even before I knew it was about abortion. The first time I heard it was so poignantly beautiful. I think it could also be about giving up a baby for adoption.
It has renewed meaning now that I have my baby. I had a difficult two day birth and almost lost him as his heart rate dropped dramatically from the Pitocin. Almost had a crash c-section. I can put myself in this mother's place, having a baby, what it would be like to lose one. If I had lost Robert, I would have been devasted. Geez, I'm crying now imagining that.
I can hear the words in my head now....there was an ER episode when one of the semi-regular characters gives birth to a baby that isn't alive and everyone urges her to hold it - just once and that episode just made me cry so much. I was pregnant so the idea of this was the most awful thing I could think of.
Live is a talented band and Throwing Copper an excellent album.
I just read the lyrics to I alone and they are beautiful.
Especially - to with what I was talking of before, "to cradle this baby in space..." Again what if holding my baby were just a thought a wish after he had gone....I can imagine myself imagining holding him....as maybe you did with your puppy!
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
10 Sep 07
It's actually awesome to hear your initial thoughts on the song, because I've only ever had my experience with it - I can actually understand those aspects of listening to it, even though I'd never considered them.
=]
Wow, you and Robert must have the most amazing bond - deeper even than the normal 'mother-child' connection. You stayed strong for one another =D
It's beautiful, and I have to say, inspiring.
*Pats your back & extends a tissue'd hand*
When I had a little pregnancy scare a few months ago, I couldn't handle watching tv or listening to half of my music. It made me feel too emotional =P
I don't know how Alex handled being around me, crying and red all the time =D
Losing a baby you intend to keep is so much more than aborting, it would be absolutely heartbreaking, and I know I would blame myself or think there was something wrong with me =/
My favourite lyric in I Alone:
"Fear is not the end of this"
It's been one of my life mottoes through the hard and fearful times, and it's one of the things that kept me going.
=D
SnoogsBubba is so darn cute!
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
10 Sep 07
Hudson - was that Hudson? - is very cute as well. I cried after he was born from the CD Songs for Your Inner Child because some of those were right on for what I wished for him. And so many songs.
I also cried when I had to put my cat, Pork Bun to sleep when pregnant - I would cry whenever I would sing a song I used to sing to him - he used to think I was singing to him - no its not that bad of singing) and would always come and cuddle.
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
11 Sep 07
I can't imagine what a scare like that would mean and be like for you. On the one hand - what would you do - you have so much to do before even deciding if you want kids of your own - and what if you did have a little Bubba inside? You being you would love him even when he was just a twinkle in your eye.
@genuinesqueak (325)
• Australia
10 Sep 07
'I Alone' would have to be my most favourite also.
An ex boyfriend used to play it to me, but even now it sticks in my head.
Do you know what that other song... 'lightening crashes' is about? I think its a lovely song, but am always confused and always try guessing at what it is about. I'm a little unsure whether it's meant to be a sad song or a happy one. I'm guessing though that it is a sad one.
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
10 Sep 07
Lightning Crashes is also one of my most favourite songs ever, as well as of theirs.
I actually do know what it's about, too, as I have a Live version, where they say what it's all about to them.
"When we first wrote this song, I thought it was about living and dying, but now I see it's about rising and falling", before dedicating it to a passed on friend.
=D
So it's a mixture of both good and bad/sad and happy, I suppose =D
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
10 Sep 07
Yeah, I definitely get the whole mother/generation of females thing, but I think it's definitely about all people.
I love how 'real' music is all about interpretation. You might take a song to mean something completely different to the artist, but it is real and meaningful to you.
That's why it's one of my favourite things ever =D
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
11 Sep 07
Wow, that's more than I ever knew about it, you little bundle of learning and teaching =D
Also known as joy and awesome!
Doesn't it just show how songs are open for interpretation as we want them to be at a point in time?
=D
(I should be at school, but I'm missing first period because I'm tired and sore from the 5km walk to and from the kid's school.)
=D
@ArsonCuff (3114)
• United States
14 Jun 08
I too would choose I ALONE as their best. It is a bold and powerful romantic statement overall Great stuff.
@jason1287 (151)
• United States
20 Feb 08
i have to say every single song on throwing copper. i cant narrow it down. great band
@kneeshka123 (392)
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11 Sep 07
You have me a little confused with this question. I am not sure whether you are asking what my favourite live song is or whether there is a band called lives and you mean my favourite songh of theres.
So I answer it like this.
I have not a clue who Lives may be never heard of them
As for my favourite and meaningful live song it has to be Bob Marley's Redemption Songs, which goes like this:
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
Coz non of us can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Coz none of them can stop the times
How long shall they kill our prohets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfil the book
Oh won't you help me sing
These songs of freedom
It's all I ever had
Redemption songs, redemption songs
@kneeshka123 (392)
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11 Sep 07
You have me a little confused with this question. I am not sure whether you are asking what my favourite live song is or whether there is a band called lives and you mean my favourite song of theres'.
So I answer it like this:
I have not a clue who Lives may be - never heard of them
As for my most favourite and meaningful live song it has to be Bob Marley's Redemption Songs, which goes like this:
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
Coz none of us can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Coz none of them can stop the times
How long shall they kill our prohets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfil the book
Oh won't you help me sing
These songs of freedom
It's all I ever had
Redemption songs, redemption songs
