How has music helped you out in a rough situation?

Music from film scores saved me. Orchestral and classical music are very powerful music that captures every emotion you're holding. Plus visual stimulus from the film helped. Back to music, I'm not into lyrics. I have my own interpretation of the songs through its structure. I just dig the lyrics when coincidentally I'm on that exact moment and listening to that exact song meaning.

When I broke up with my ex, I listened to a bunch of different songs to make myself feel better back in college especially anything from the late 70s to 80s. For perseverance, two songs I listen to is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk and Keep On by D Train. Another is Sly and the Family Stone's Thank you for letting me (be myself again). Earth, Wind,and Fire songs and Stevie Wonder songs cheered me up too.

In 2004, my life got turned upside down. My fiance put our engagement "on hold," I graduated college with absolutely no career prospects, I was supposed to move in with the aforementioned fiance where he lived while he finished school but since we were no longer engaged I moved in with my mom in the middle of my parents' divorce. Things were not going exactly as I would have like and then a bomb hit. The man I was waiting to marry, who was supposed to be coming back to me, to make things work, told me he had a new girlfriend. I went numb. If I learned anything from the whole experience it would be, given the choice between hurting and being completely numb, I'd chose the pain every time. Being numb is so much worse. Somewhere in all of that, I found a song called Kennedy by Kill Hannah. It's not a terribly poignant song, it has no grandiose poetic message, it's simply a young man envying the American Kennedy family dynasty and wishing to be one of them. But something in the music, something in the singer's unique voice brought me back to life. I found more songs from the band, as well as a couple of other bands that I'd been a fan of but not really "hard core" - AFI and Something Corporate - and through the music, I started to feel again. I didn't feel better, not right away, but I could feel. Their music made the numbness subside and I began to hurt and I hurt for a long time after that but to me, after not feeling anything, hurting was the best feeling in the world. And I still go, primarily, to those three bands whenever I need to feel better or to destress. "It was the songs that saved my life."

Music plays an important role in my life when times become unfair. I always listen to good old songs to soothe my broken heart and frustrations. Usually I listen to the music of Barry Manilow, Michael Learns to Rock, James Ingram and John Denver, their songs are soft, touchy, sentimental and mild I don't have to worry for my eardrum to explode.lol! Lately I undergone a traumatic experience about love, so I listen to Kenny Rogers song to ease the pain, and there's one song i love listening right now, You're my Tattoo by Jordin Sparks it is very wonderful that my heart seemed find a peaceful place at last.