While I don't associate it with any tragic event that happened in my life, I do relate a lot with them, especially the first part.

 

Kingcrimsonprog wrote: When I was a teen I used to really identify with Slipknot's I Am Hated, but not at all anymore.

 

Well I think that all of us went through that phase once.

 

I sure as fuck know I have! Plenty of times. I don't know why, I normally would consider myself to be a pretty rational person, but whenever I'm alone late at night, whether it be taking a walk in the dark outside or lying by myself in bed, I always get strange unnerving feelings, like there something else in the room with me, or I think I see something move in the darkness for a second, and that song describes it pretty accurately.

Have you ever felt that feeling to be fascinating at the same time?  Usually, I use music to augment the atmospheric darkness.  I took advantage of some time I used to walk around the wilderness when camping down in West Virginia in the dark to listen to Striborg's Solitude.  Nothing but my iPod and an LED lantern at about 11-12 midnight.  Though I've thought the yearning for sleep might also help, I don't feel it right now at this time of night typing this.

Sometimes I often will do just that, and listen to music that will make the atmosphere even darker, although sometimes if I'm really really starting to get seriously freaked out, especially on nights when I decide to sleep in my basement,  I may listen to some really cheesy Power Metal in order to kind of ease out the tension. 

 mainly because of two situations. one being how my mom and I used to be pretty close but now its like she thinks i'm all evil and trying to make her miserable so she kinda ignores me now which is weird since i'm stuck in that house for two more years.

 another is how I'm losing touch with people I considered my best friends. I move a lot and I finally found people who I trust but when I saw them last we couldn't even hold up a good convo. We all changed you know heading in different directions. one friend towards raves and drugs another just lying to be popular and one i'm trying really hard to stay friends with!

  sounds pretty angsty and like a typical teen complaining huh -_-;

 

...the thing with your mother (I read in another thread that you said she is very religious and I guess that�s why you feel she thinks you are "evil") is probably only a phase. Most parents absolutely adore their kids even though they have times where they don�t agree with the decisions made by them. I don�t know what the situation is with you and your mother but if you are gonna live in the same house together for the next two years I�d try and talk to her and patch up the worst differences. There are of course things parents shouldn�t interfere in when you are 17 (IMO). Choice of music is one of them.

That's truly wise and open-minded thing to say  Jonas never fails to deliver, haha, no joke !

I think being a teen is one of the most difficult episodes in life, can't say that being in your 20s is particularly easy though. I heard a lot of people saying that real life begins in your 30s, when you are truly independent, have a job and some kind of peace of mind (or inner peace if you will). 

I hope you'll come to an agreement with your mother, just as Jonas said, you can try to talk that through and prove that listening to metal doesn't make you evil... actually quite the opposite, it makes you fucking awesome. 

 

...oh well we�ed better get  

"Oh yeah, oh yeah, ah, ah, ahh.

For me, typically it's usually social and political lyrics that I can really associate with. I also love the cryptic lyrics of Tool and Chevelle, as they end up creating beautiful poetry that you can interpret however you wish most of the time. I also love the really meaningful personal lyrics.

What I love most, is when you get great lyrics and feel the passion and pain burning through the vocalists voice. Singers like Layne Staley, Maynard James Keenan, Blackie Lawless, Michael Coons (Laaz Rockit), Pete Loeffler (Chevelle), Dawn Crosby (Fear of God), and Chuck Schuldiner. 

Some examples of songs that I can really relate to: Tool - Vicarious, Alice in Chains - Angry Chair, Death - Without Judgement, Killing Joke - Exorcism, and every song on Laaz Rockit's "Nothing$ $acred" album. All these songs in some way reflect my own feelings and opinions.