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For me it's "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times", or at least it did, since things have improved significantly for me since first hearing it. Almost every line resonates with me. For the longest time I didn't feel like I belonged anywhere. I've always been fairly intelligent. However I felt like I was rarely making any progress in my life; like I wasn't going anywhere; sort of a perpetual stagnation. I felt like nothing good in my life lasted; like something would always bring me down. At times I feel like a walking anachronism. I feel cheated out of so many experiences simply because I was born in 1992; like I literally wasn't made for these times. I'm a person with a lot of ideas; things I want to do, things I want to be. In the end most of them ultimately never come to fruition, and usually I don't feel like I have much support. It took me a long time to find the people I knew I could depend on; who wouldn't cop out.

Luckily most of that's behind me now. Thank f*** I'm out of high school (this is why I've never liked "Be True To Your School").
 

Switches from week to week but currently "I'd Love Just Once To See You"

The songs on Pet Sounds and Today!  are close to me because they really relate to my life and are great to listen to when I am in deep thought about my life.

At the moment its Busy Doin` Nothin`. Last Saturday night it was All I Want To Do. At one time it was the infamous line from IJWMFTF, "They say I got brains but they ain`t doin` me no good"(Growing up I was always hearing people tell me how smart I was)...Hell, I could somewhat relate to at least half the songs on PS when I first heard it around age 19-20.

Totally what I feel right now when I listen to that song and album as a 20 year old.

'I Know There's An Answer'

I know too many people who think they have open minds - but they are really closed. I know too many people who think they're peaceful - but really they're uptight.

Perfect song that sums up the majority of society - people following the crowd....people who don't want to think on their own.

And thus I also feel like the song 'IJWMFTT'.

Bull Session with Big Daddy.

("You stepped on my french fries" just about sums it up).

Right now for me it's "Leaving This Town".

Update: Overall in life it's "All This Is That".

A Day In The Life Of A Tree.  ;D Or on a more serious note, Till I Die.

THERE'S SO MANY [fantasy, fantasy world / where planets are spinning around]

WIND CHIMES [smiley smile version]

MELT AWAY [i wonder whyyyyy nothin ever seems to go my way / the world's not waitin just for me, the world don't care what i can be, i feel just like an island until i see smilin]

BABY LET YOUR HAIR GROW LONG [there's gotta be something you're living for, you need to try a little more]

Mandatory mention of A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A TREE / TILL I DIE.

Same for me, Madcap, I also feel like an anachronism, even though I was born in 63. In my case, i yearn for the 50s. And I never attend any high school reunions.

My dad always said that "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" was the perfect song for him. He was the eternal summer of love hippie. He stayed in 1967, and never left.  :)

Chug-A-Lug

I just love root beer so much

New Topic: Beach Boys songs that do not describe your life

01) Life Is For The Living (this song had to be a joke, right?)
02) Lazy Lizzie and all of the other child predator songs (although this is my favorite of the bunch even as an underdeveloped idea)
03) I'm In Great Shape (really, any of US?)
04) Pom Pom Play Girl

Holy sh*t, I don't think I could ever stop with THIS list!

Ding Dang

For me it's "That's Not Me", because it IS me. My story (at one time) in a nutshell.

Shortenin' Bread

Stuck in this damned office and raising grown children.  Oops!  Sorry.  You were looking for SONGS that describe my life.

Stevie

Did they ever record a song called "God, Why Do You Hate Me ?"

IN MY ROOM

We Three Kings

Barbie

i wanna pick you up
hey little tomboy

When I Grow Up To Be A Man - I remember listening to this as a kid and projecting myself into adulthood as it reeled off the years at the end. Now I'm that older guy with kids finding myself repeating some of my dad's behaviour for better or worse, so the song still resonates.

It's just the most profound lyric in the way it transcends time and lives with you through your whole life, plus manages to comment on the unbearable fleetingness of time, but in a non intellectual and unpretentious way - incredible!

I first heard it when i was fifteen, and as I get older I get sad listening to it as I progress through the years chirrupped by the BV's...

Well I checked Belleagio and can't find any reference to such  song....

Shortenin' Bread

Yeah I gotta say I Just Wasnt Made for These Times too, as well as In My Room, Til I Die, I Know There's an Answer, Ding Dang, That's Not Me, Gettin' Hungry- all those ones definitely.

A few years ago I thought that "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" described perfectly how I felt, but later I realized I probably had got a bit overemphasized image of myself. Right now I'm thinking "Vega-Tables". I seem to eat the wrapper every time.

Also "A Day in the Life of a Tree" and "Breakaway" quite fit.

Solar system/Brings us wisdom...

 :serenade

Chug-a-lug

I feel exactly the same way, it's depressing to listen to it and realize that I'm getting to a point where my age is fading out on the track as opposed to remaining safely within the verses.  Funny how a simple song can make you feel different things at different ages.

Ah, but that's what makes the lines "Won't last forever / it's kinda sad" so devastatingly good.

Hot Summer Lovers

"I'm Bugged at My Ol' Man

It really captures that angst that we all feel in our teenage years.

That's an easy one...When I Grow Up(To Be A Man)

Nothing else comes close.

The second version of Time To Get Alone just transforms me to the Hollywood Freeway on a breeezy day arriving from San Francisco after a six hr drive. ;D

"Time To Get Alone."

Coo Coo

Different things at different times. Side 2 of Today and Pet Sounds I think everyone can relate to at one time or another. Personally Break Away/Celebrate The News is a record that reflects a lot about me.

Right now, unfortunately, for me the song is "I Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone".  Been a rough year.

"I Know There's An Answer"

i'm studying for the MCAT.

double post.

I was born in 1991. If it wasn't for that, I'd feel like I wrote the above!

H.E.L.P is on the way, Male Ego, Lines, Ding Dang, She's Got Rhythm, Heads You Win, Tails I Lose and Let Us Go On This Way. I could probably name a lot more.

Wishfully: Breakaway
Most often: IJWMFTT
Realistically: Heroes and Villains - especially since I'm on the verge of moving back home after 24 years in the Spanish and Indian home of the heroes and villains...had enough of the villains, thanks...

But also, very late on a Friday night: Rollin' Up to Heaven

you guys are kinda depressing  :'(

Aw, c'mon, Rollin' Up to Heaven was supposed to make you laugh! (Thereby losing control of your ego and all that stuff!)

Wishfully: Surfers Rule
Too Often: Girl Don't Tell Me; Let Him Run Wild
As a Young Adult: That's Not Me; We'll Run Away
The Romantic in Me: All I Wanna Do; Forever; Our Sweet Love
The (Hopefully Non-Skeezy) Appreciator of Women in Me: Anna Lee, the Healer; Marcella; Got to Know the Woman
The Older I Get: Sail On, Sailor
Sexually The Older I Get: He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to Move

These songs describe my life right now:

Still I Dream of It, I Went to Sleep, The Night Was So Young, Happy Days

Going through a bit of a weird patch right now.

"good vibrations" because i luv orange soda.

My life = "This Whole World" ;D