I wanted to hear her sing this post-transition, and it's still just as visceral. This song always slays me. It's so close to home; I love how it perfectly hits the nail on the head, but in a non-judgemental way. When I was using, and working at an agency, if I had a client who liked any kind of music besides terrible top 40 or R&B, I'd change the room's radio station. This song was still popular at the time, and was on heavy rotation on the modern rock stations. I should have known better. If I was with a client, and this song came on, it took every fiber of my being to not cry. I was in my late 20's/ early 30s, wired to the tits, working in the sex industry. It was like she was singing about me. I'm clean 5 years and 2 months, now. It seems we've all gone through many changes in the last decade. Funny how that happens, huh?
@imagine pithy name here: I felt the exact same way about this song. It was 2008 and I was just starting down my road of addiction and going through withdrawals and trying to get clean over and over and every time this song came on it felt like my theme song. That’s when the artist has done an excellent job; when their music just gets inside of you and makes you feel the song was written just for you. Congrats on the clean time that is awesome. I know you posted a year ago but I hope you are still on the right path. It took me almost 13 years of hell to get my act together but I have put almost a year and a half of sobriety together. It wasn’t easy and no one who hasn’t actually been there can ever understand it. So I wish you the very best.
@@jamesm2359 congratulations!!! 1.5 yrs is amazing, especially when you have those days where you're just hanging on my your fingernails. I'm still clean from my DOC. 6 years; on the 17th it'll be 6 yrs and 3 months. I drink occasionally, and I'm *still* on methadone, but that's always been the case, besides the first 6 months, when I didn't touch anything except my prescription napsauce. But for me? That's clean. I can take or leave alcohol, and I'm just suuuuuuper slowly dropping my juice dose, when I'm feeling strong and up to it. Thanks for the rad reply!!! Stay safe, strong, and healthy, James.
@@imaginepithynamehere4257 I was on methadone before and the only reason I got off it was because I went to prison for five months. I cold turkey detoxed off 70mgs. It wasn’t nearly as bad as regular dope sick but it lasted for forty damn days. But I’m sure it would’ve been different had I just dropped slowly off it. I currently take subutex that is prescribed and I also occasionally drink as well. I’m kind of an oddity addict. To me, pot is pot, alcohol is alcohol, heroin is heroin. I’m not like most addicts I know that if they drink then it’s like a lightbulb going off “time to go get heroin, or time to smoke some crack!” I never had a problem with alcohol. Still don’t. If someone were to say I could never touch a drink again I’d be fine with that. But I could never promise I’d never use again even though I have decent clean time and a lot going for me now. I don’t care about legal stuff like methadone or suboxone or subutex, if you are staying off the drugs and taking them as prescribed and not abusing them then that’s what it takes for you to stay clean. Everyone is different. Would I like to be completely off the subs? Sure. Is that the place I’m at currently in my life, no. And at least we both are smart enough to recognize that because I know plenty of people who jumped the gun trying to get clean off everything, even methadone or subs and they relapsed every time. Nothing wrong if you need it the rest of your life because you are alive and it keeps you from going back to the dark side. Diabetics take insulin every day. Addiction is a disease. Someone people need the medicine, some don’t. I don’t judge.
@@jamesm2359 dude, that was super beautiful of you to take the time to write this. Thank you. I feel the same about everything, and I can't even fathom going CT off juice!! *Shudder*. I mean, is it as bad as say, cold turkey from benzos? Probably not. But it still lasts **MONTHS** which I'm NOT prepared to face right now. I'ma just keep slowly dropping. I want to kick my 20 year old ass for going on the program, and not just toughing it out, but you hit that wall, where, you just can't stand to he sick anymore. It's like anything: there's a quota. I'm the same way: having a couple bitch beers with my friends is fine. I'm lucky enough to have not flipped that switch of, "omg my guard is lowered an inch; let's go get whacked on dope, gunts!!!" I consider myself blessed, however: I try not to fuck around too much, as I know that switch is sneakily sensitive. One day it's beers with your buddies, the next it's all badness, no radness. You're wearing a stained wifebeater, and you're making your shirt live up to its name. I've witnessed some HARSH, rank alcoholism in my days, and apparently, my Mom's dad was that kinda guy. I mean, I christened his ex-wife, my Nanny, "The Grandmonster", and I'm sure a lot of her not-rad traits came from being married to a crazed, abusive boozehound. He died a decade before I was born, but the stories I hear from everyone: my Mom, Aunt, Uncle, and The Grandmonster (who had her demons, but was just a human trying to make her way though a seriously fucked up world, and I don't bear her any ill will...the name is just too perfect to abandon).I digress. I've been looking into subcutaine (name/spelling? The Shot) and it looks amazing from here. However, there's this pesky matter of the napsauce to conquer, first. So I may as well stay in the lane vi chose, and continue to slowly drop off this liquid misery. It beats the fuck out of the alternative; I'd rather drink prescribed misery than have to hustle my ass to a piece of beef jerky, just chasing a high I'll never experience again. That ship has *LONG* since sailed for me. Anyway. Thanks again. That was killer
man i saw them at gateway city days before everything went into lockdown. straight up the best show i have ever been to, wouldn't have changed a thing except for maybe not going front row for that one. the majority of the shows i've been to have been at small venues but to say we were packed like sardines would be an understatement. aside for looking back with slight horror at the things we were really out here doing right before everything went to shit, i still think that was one of the best nights of my life. i love this band so much.
Haha, I was also at that show, I’m trying to relive it via RUclips right now. It was one of the best nights of my life too, and it was the last truly happy night I had for like a year and a half. Knowing what we know now it sure was risky, but I wouldn’t change anything for the world!
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She's amazing.
I wanted to hear her sing this post-transition, and it's still just as visceral. This song always slays me. It's so close to home; I love how it perfectly hits the nail on the head, but in a non-judgemental way.
When I was using, and working at an agency, if I had a client who liked any kind of music besides terrible top 40 or R&B, I'd change the room's radio station. This song was still popular at the time, and was on heavy rotation on the modern rock stations. I should have known better.
If I was with a client, and this song came on, it took every fiber of my being to not cry. I was in my late 20's/ early 30s, wired to the tits, working in the sex industry. It was like she was singing about me.
I'm clean 5 years and 2 months, now. It seems we've all gone through many changes in the last decade. Funny how that happens, huh?
@imagine pithy name here: I felt the exact same way about this song. It was 2008 and I was just starting down my road of addiction and going through withdrawals and trying to get clean over and over and every time this song came on it felt like my theme song. That’s when the artist has done an excellent job; when their music just gets inside of you and makes you feel the song was written just for you. Congrats on the clean time that is awesome. I know you posted a year ago but I hope you are still on the right path. It took me almost 13 years of hell to get my act together but I have put almost a year and a half of sobriety together. It wasn’t easy and no one who hasn’t actually been there can ever understand it. So I wish you the very best.
@@jamesm2359 congratulations!!! 1.5 yrs is amazing, especially when you have those days where you're just hanging on my your fingernails.
I'm still clean from my DOC. 6 years; on the 17th it'll be 6 yrs and 3 months.
I drink occasionally, and I'm *still* on methadone, but that's always been the case, besides the first 6 months, when I didn't touch anything except my prescription napsauce. But for me? That's clean. I can take or leave alcohol, and I'm just suuuuuuper slowly dropping my juice dose, when I'm feeling strong and up to it.
Thanks for the rad reply!!! Stay safe, strong, and healthy, James.
@@imaginepithynamehere4257 I was on methadone before and the only reason I got off it was because I went to prison for five months. I cold turkey detoxed off 70mgs. It wasn’t nearly as bad as regular dope sick but it lasted for forty damn days. But I’m sure it would’ve been different had I just dropped slowly off it. I currently take subutex that is prescribed and I also occasionally drink as well. I’m kind of an oddity addict. To me, pot is pot, alcohol is alcohol, heroin is heroin. I’m not like most addicts I know that if they drink then it’s like a lightbulb going off “time to go get heroin, or time to smoke some crack!” I never had a problem with alcohol. Still don’t. If someone were to say I could never touch a drink again I’d be fine with that. But I could never promise I’d never use again even though I have decent clean time and a lot going for me now. I don’t care about legal stuff like methadone or suboxone or subutex, if you are staying off the drugs and taking them as prescribed and not abusing them then that’s what it takes for you to stay clean. Everyone is different. Would I like to be completely off the subs? Sure. Is that the place I’m at currently in my life, no. And at least we both are smart enough to recognize that because I know plenty of people who jumped the gun trying to get clean off everything, even methadone or subs and they relapsed every time. Nothing wrong if you need it the rest of your life because you are alive and it keeps you from going back to the dark side. Diabetics take insulin every day. Addiction is a disease. Someone people need the medicine, some don’t. I don’t judge.
@@jamesm2359 dude, that was super beautiful of you to take the time to write this. Thank you. I feel the same about everything, and I can't even fathom going CT off juice!! *Shudder*. I mean, is it as bad as say, cold turkey from benzos? Probably not. But it still lasts **MONTHS** which I'm NOT prepared to face right now. I'ma just keep slowly dropping. I want to kick my 20 year old ass for going on the program, and not just toughing it out, but you hit that wall, where, you just can't stand to he sick anymore. It's like anything: there's a quota.
I'm the same way: having a couple bitch beers with my friends is fine. I'm lucky enough to have not flipped that switch of, "omg my guard is lowered an inch; let's go get whacked on dope, gunts!!!" I consider myself blessed, however: I try not to fuck around too much, as I know that switch is sneakily sensitive. One day it's beers with your buddies, the next it's all badness, no radness. You're wearing a stained wifebeater, and you're making your shirt live up to its name.
I've witnessed some HARSH, rank alcoholism in my days, and apparently, my Mom's dad was that kinda guy. I mean, I christened his ex-wife, my Nanny, "The Grandmonster", and I'm sure a lot of her not-rad traits came from being married to a crazed, abusive boozehound. He died a decade before I was born, but the stories I hear from everyone: my Mom, Aunt, Uncle, and The Grandmonster (who had her demons, but was just a human trying to make her way though a seriously fucked up world, and I don't bear her any ill will...the name is just too perfect to abandon).I digress. I've been looking into subcutaine (name/spelling? The Shot) and it looks amazing from here. However, there's this pesky matter of the napsauce to conquer, first. So I may as well stay in the lane vi chose, and continue to slowly drop off this liquid misery. It beats the fuck out of the alternative; I'd rather drink prescribed misery than have to hustle my ass to a piece of beef jerky, just chasing a high I'll never experience again. That ship has *LONG* since sailed for me.
Anyway. Thanks again. That was killer
Laura was always singing about herself ❤
She was a junky?
laura is the best singer and person ever. big up
Exactly why I love the punk community. Don't care who or what you are. Sing your lungs out and we will jam.
By what I mean male or female. No hate from me for anyone
man i saw them at gateway city days before everything went into lockdown. straight up the best show i have ever been to, wouldn't have changed a thing except for maybe not going front row for that one. the majority of the shows i've been to have been at small venues but to say we were packed like sardines would be an understatement. aside for looking back with slight horror at the things we were really out here doing right before everything went to shit, i still think that was one of the best nights of my life. i love this band so much.
Haha, I was also at that show, I’m trying to relive it via RUclips right now. It was one of the best nights of my life too, and it was the last truly happy night I had for like a year and a half. Knowing what we know now it sure was risky, but I wouldn’t change anything for the world!
Greatest song ever written🔥