So what songs helped during your exit?

mavie

Maybe I am just reading more into things now than before, but I'm seeing the world differently now....these songs helped

"Marching Bands of Manhatten" - Death Cab for Cutie

I wish we could open our eyes
To see in all directions at the same time
Oh what a beautiful view
If you were never aware of what was around you

"Never Know" - Jack Johnson Knock knock on the door to door
tell ya that the metaphor is better than yours
and you can either sink or swim
things are looking pretty grim
If you dont believe in what this one feeding
Its got no feeling
So I read it again
and again and again
Just seems the same
so many different names
our hearts are strong our heads are weak
We'll always be competing never knowing "Never Know" - Jack Johnson We don't really need to find reason
Cause out the same door that it came well its leaving its leaving
Leaving like a day that’s done and part of a season
Resolve is just a concept that's as dead as the leaves
But at least we can sleep, its all that we need
When we wake we will find
Our minds will be free to go to sleep

Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

This is only 2 albums!

It's exciting and scary to wake up from my 28 year slumber.

AK - Jeff

All sorts of music helped the march out for me. I listened to a lot of 'Christian' music. Rock and roll too. Celtic and Christmas music. Basically anything that helped me to un-think the Watchtower restrictive thinking.

Jeff

Mastodon

Not music, but there is a movie called 'Equilibrium' which helped me things differently. Don't be misguided by the DVD cover, the movie is really good with Christian Bale (Batman Begins). It has to do with a future society where anything that causes feelings or emotions was erradicated and people had to take a drug everyday to keep them from feeling. i saw these movie before my exit, but when I saw it again after I left i went like: "Holy Shit". It's right on the money. Anyone formerly associated with the WTS shoul watch it.

serotonin_wraith

An album called Six by Mansun (still my favourite!) came out not long after I was free, and these lyrics seemed personal to me-

Serotonin

With this method that I have found

I’m redressing all I know

I can change the amount of god

That wraps around me

Cancer

You preach elastic

To your jagged flock

In an eerie passion for self-flattery

I’m emotionally raped by jesus

I’m emotionally raped by jesus now

But I’m still here

Yes, somehow I’m still here

What now of my faith

Just a desperate exercise to limit pain

I am weak

I’m emotional and sensitive and frail

In need of some love

Six

And you see, I kind of shivered to conformity

Did you see the way I cowered to authority

You see, my life, it's a series of compromises anyway

It's a sham, and i'm conditioned to accept it all, you see

(more) than I had before

(more) than I've presently got

(more) than I'll ever use up

(more) than I really need

(more) than I had before

(more) than I could possibly spend

(more) than I'll ever use up

(more) than I really need

It's more than I can spare

My religion is caged

Safe from progress, purgatory I know

How does this affect me

Emotionally affect me

Will they let me go

Equilibrium imbalanced again

Life, it's a compromise anyway

And it's a sham, and i'll accept it all

Calliope

one song that recently reminded me of my exit, and brought tears to these brown eyes of mine:

U2 "Bad"

If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If I could throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay
See you walk, walk away
Into the night
And through the rain
Into the half-light
And through the flame

If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day

Oooh oooh, oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh...

To let it go! And so to fade away
To let it go!
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping, oh no, no, no

If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Bruised silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes

Oooh oooh, oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh...

If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would
Let it go

This desparation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation

Let it go
And so fade away
To let it go, oh yeah
And so fade away
To let it go, oh No
And so to fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping oh no no

mavie

one song that recently reminded me of my exit, and brought tears to these brown eyes of mine:

U2 - Bad

Bono has a way with his voice that just pierces into your soul. That song is a classic.

HadEnuf

Hmmmmmmm...Losing My Religion?

Mulan

I would have to say John Lennon's "Imagine". It just says it all.

freedomlover

Right now at this point in my exit (almost a year into leaving) this song really hits me.

Mason Jennings
"Jesus are you real"

did we make you up?
is salvation what you want or
is faith enough
do you know where im bound
or who i am
are you just a word i use but dont understand,

Standing like a statue in the sea
ina little truckstop in tennessee
and bombs are crashing down in waves
on a giant tv screen
and i am struck! i cannot move!
to make it stop what can i do
people are dying in their beds
while this flag flies over my head.

jesus are you stronger than a loaded gun
im beginning to believe your not the only one
strong enough to show your love
strong enough to give
strong enough to go through hell
strong enough to live

and all night i sat with you
in a darkened hospital room
and nurses checked in by the hour
i was made aware of a higher power
and how this fragile life is not ours to keep but ours to give,
what in the world am i gonna do
if anything should happen to you

refrain
and all i do is doubt you god
all i do is love you god
all i do is question you
what else can i do?
this world was never solid ground
the past is coming back around
all i do is search for you,
what else can i do?
and when i say i search for you
i mean i search for peace
i search for hope
i search for love
and one day for realease

jesus my life does not feel the same
new things happen everyday
things i cant explain
but i am not a man of faith
im a man of truth
but is this feeling in my heart
is this feeling proof

when you do not know, you know
when you know, you do not know
and when you think you do you die
and when you do not think you grow
are we left here in the dark
or are we left here in the dark
it seems to me that both are true
and its up to us to know whats right

refrain

god give me strength to accept the things
that i just can not know
and even when i lose control i will not let you go

tetrapod.sapien

here's my list of the time from: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/27/89570/1.ashx

take it with me - tom waits

come on up to the house - tom waits

shooting star - bob dylan

imagine - john lennon

old man - neil young

one of these days - neil young

the weight - the band

by this river - brian eno

wild world - cat stevens

tom trauberts blues - tom waits

hallelujah - jeff buckley

ooh la la - the kinks

bird on a wire - leonard cohen

needle in the hay - elliot smith

yesterday - the beatles

don't know why - norah jones

my favorite chord - the weakerthans

i have more now, but at the time i DA'd, that was what i was listening to. one album i have been listening to a lot lately is the new Damien Marley - Welcome to Jamrock. SO wicked!

ts

So what songs helped during your exit?

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