Music: http://youtu.be/UYPoMjR6-Ao
Lyrics: Sometime Around Midnight Lyrics
Alright, so now that you've heard/seen it, I want to share my thoughts: this song seems to be about love and loss. It just breathes with his raw emotion, and I feel like anyone can relate. I know I went through a very nasty breakup last year and this song seems to really capture that emotional turmoil I felt (aside from the drinking part, I can assure you all I never have taken part in that activity before!!!) Also, I am a sucker for the violin parts as a violinist myself. But what I am getting at here is not necessarily this specific song but emotion, if you want to call it love, go ahead. My questions is, why do we, as humans, continue to put ourselves in situations where we know we will only feel pain? Why do we pour our souls into others when we know we will be heart broken? If you think about it, some of the world's masterpieces are results of pain: Beethoven and his symphonies, van Gogh and the Starry Night (there's a theory that the stars are painted the way they are because when you cry and then look at the sky, the stars are blurry...yea, that changes the way you look at the painting doesn't it?), and so many other artists. So that is my question: why do humans crave pain?
Hot diggity dog this song was my JAM back in the seventh grade!
ReplyDeleteMoving on to the question, I have never exactly craved pain. I've experienced pain and I've had to find different ways to channel it besides crying. I think that people who do choose to put themselves in pain are trying to distract themselves from the truth. The person singing the song decides to stalk his ex at the bar because he still wants to be apart of her life. He is trying to put off the fact that she has moved on. Then, when he sees her with the other man, the truth sets in, and he becomes heartbroken. That's all I can think of to say.
I'm glad you like it too! And I see where you're coming from, pain is an easy way to distract ourselves from the truth.
Deletefor me, I don't think we crave pain. Nobody wants to feel pain, but we do things that leave us in pain. Personally, I have been in a situation with a guy and even though I knew how he treated me and I knew exactly what he wanted, I convinced myself it was okay. I thought it was okay because it made him happy. I loved him so much that I was blind to what was really going on. So for me I guess I put someone else's happiness before my own and I was the one in pain. But I don't regret any of this happening because you learn from it. Like Haley said, some of the world's masterpieces are results of pain. Yes pain is a terrible and awful thing, but it makes something beautiful in the end.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anna I don't think we crave pain. What I think is that as humans we naturally want to feel like we belong some where, and that we want people to care about us and people for us to care about. However, as we are going through life I feel that we are willing to risk almost anything to find where we belong, and who we belong with, even if it means that we experience disappointment along the way.
ReplyDeleteyou sure? are you really, completely sure you've never CRAVED pain, just this inkling of it? longed for it? just a little sinful taste of the Devil's Delight? And, you haven't wanted to forget something? so you can lie in your bed, looking blindly at the ceiling and say i have no qualms? be truthful, please, lies aren't what anybody needs to hear.
DeleteI think what he means is that we don't crave pain, we are craving other things that can put us in harms way emotionaly
DeleteThat sounds about right. I really need to read into things the right way sometimes...
DeleteLove the song!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to say, I do think some humans look for pain. I think it's because we, humans, can't stand to be void of emotion. So, if we can't find love we turn to pain. We enjoy the rawness of the emotion and it makes us feel real. We cause pain because we want to feel something, anything.
I'd say pain is more of a live wire. and that word is getting on my nerves. overused. how about affliction? Ache? Burn? Cramp? Twinge? Throb? Prick? Wound? Smarting? Fever? Convulsion? Anguish? Woe? Grief. Come on, people, let's get specific on what type of pain you suffer. mine... i don't know there's a word for that. but i often can't find words to describe my state of mind. hate putting a label on things sometimes....now I'm musing...
DeleteAmber, that was along the lines of what I was thinking, how some people have a hard time dealing with that void. And Arianna, I chose the word "pain" because I believe that is exactly what it is: that blinding raw stab that sinks into your very heart and soul and leaves you breathless and hurting. It is crippling and cruel. I have researched this topic for my speech on speech team, and the brain cannot tell the difference between physical and emotional/social pain. I won't get all nerdy, but when we are extremely insecure, for instance, after a breakup, our sympathetic nervous system is activated which elevates our heart-rate and blood pressure, which creates unease/pain in the chest--which is where the term "heartache" comes from. I don't know if you've ever felt that before (I'm not saying you haven't) but my chest literally hurt and my body ached after the whole breakup over a year ago, and I can tell you I'd rather have ankle surgery again than feel the pain I felt then. So by "pain" I really felt there was no other way to describe that feeling.
Deletei get the ache. not, the ache that you had, of being in a relationship with a partner that you may have very much well loved. but, how an event, or overheard words can twist the contents of stomach into a toilet. and i knew that fact about interpreting emotional and physical pain. and by all means, PLEASE be a nerd. i am a big science nerd too. i love science more than God likes to punch us in the face with snow at the moment (i can't see the street outside my window). But, if you ever feel the need, NERD IT OUT! Because i do all the time. ( :
DeleteI think we crave pain because it forces us to feel something. It reminds us that we have emotions. I can connect to this because sometimes when I feel kind of emotionless, I reflect on a time of when pain seemed almost unbearable. I feel as if we crave pain so that we don't take all the good and happy emotions for granted.
ReplyDeletei. not we. but I crave pain it reminds of good. if that's as close as i can get, why not let the bad consume? why not watch movies with it, go to the mall with it, spend hours talking with it. but not it. Him. Or Her. spend hours with her. if you can cause that much pain, why not be allowed the privilege of a person. him or her deserves that title. oh God, i am really sinking my TEETH into this post...
ReplyDeleteokay, before, i craved pain. a lot. but, that's lessened to, ya know, a humane degree ( ; but i crave pain because it reminds me of good. Good old sweet times of togetherness, and smiles and rainbows with flipping leprechauns riding Pegasuses.
Oh, and i liked the song lyrics too. this man has quite an obsession with this woman. this sickeningly twisted woman. but if she reminds him of good, why not perjure himself into saying he's fine? all day, every day. I'm fine. I'm OK. when it is not. it's never ok to live with fire in your throat. it burns, badly, trust me.
I really loved this song, I'm glad our class has good taste in music. I do think we as humans crave pain, without really knowing that we do. When you enter a relationship you think that you've finally found the one, but it turns out you were wrong and then you find yourself in a cycle of trial and error. You either break up or get married. You take a test, you either pass or fail, you jump into the ocean to either sink or swim. Why bother if there is a chance you could fail and sink? Because of the hope you might be right this time and swim away happily with the love of your life. We live on the caution of emotional destruction, because sometimes we don't always sink.
ReplyDeleteWow, that was beautifully put.
DeleteI think we crave pain because it reminds us we're human. Sometimes we put ourselves in situations that end in pain because we like feeling. We cant always get happiness on our own, but we can cause pain on our own. Sometimes it's the only thing we can control.
ReplyDeleteHoly cow, short but deep. I agree with you. I believe that was a very accurate statement.
DeleteI agree with this entirely. I can't even continue my thoughts into words about that paragraph.
DeleteSince we are all human, at one point in your life you may have craved pain. By saying human I mean that we all have made mistakes. I did want pain a couple years ago, sometimes by wanting that pain we want that attention that follows. I definitely had made a mistake by wanting that pain because now that pain has somewhat consumed me. I have begun to live with it and now I am accustomed to that pain. Pain will always be a part of us, whether it is emotional or physical.
ReplyDeleteI didn't really like the song because of the band/voice, but in all the lyrics were decent. Humans crave pain, in fact they don't. They consume it, take hold, twist the emotions. Otherwise I enjoyed this. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI think that we put ourselves in situaltions that could end up with us getting hurt because of the what if. If you never try then there's always going to be the what if i tried. what if everything worked out. So i don't think we crave pain, we are just willing to put ourselves down pains path in order to find happiness.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the song. It was very nice on the ears and despite the sad tone of it all, it stood out in my book. And to answer the question, humans crave pain because as much as I don't want to admit it, pain is almost like the spice of life. Pain can bring the best and worst out of a person. It draws out the raw emotion from everyone. Also, a lot of the time, experiencing pain is how we learn. Take for instance a breakup where it was your fault. When you feel the hurt, you know it's your fault, and so you have to learn how to better yourself to prevent whatever happened in the first place.
ReplyDeleteIn some ways I do believe humans crave pain because we are wanting to feel something. How could we know what love feels like without our heart being broken? How would we know good without bad? We need pain to feel good otherwise we would only feel good, and we would then not really feel anything at all the feelings would be the same as any other day. We need pain to function in life.
ReplyDeleteIn retrospect, I can see this topic from many angles, and it leaves me in the conclusion of what pain really is to a human. Glancing over the question from my own views, pain is the thing in the world that makes us see what really is important. From my view, if at the end of the day it doesn't hurt in some way, most commonly mentally and emotionally with the occasional way of physically, why does it matter? In the sense that if losing a family member to death or perhaps a friend if they move, if it does not give the being a tinge or sting within them, what does that say about the person? That they did not care enough to bat an eye at another's death? What that shows others is that they don't see the important aspects of life itself.
ReplyDeleteIn my own personal belief, pain is the thing that keeps the heart beating.
I really liked this song. It was so relatable to how I've be feeling. This song was really good.
ReplyDeleteCraving pain is what makes us human as said by many others. But I don't think many of us crave it, when it occurs I believe we just force ourselves to think that we wanted it to happen rather than just accepting the fact that this is what was supposed to happen the way it did.
ReplyDeleteto me, we crave pain because it reminds us that we are human. It reminds us that nothing is perfect and things go wrong. We need the pain. I really love this song, I've never heard it until now but it really makes sense for me.
ReplyDeletei dont think its the pain we crave more of the reword we seek to get from that pain. we as humans continue to put ourselfs into situations where we could be heartbroken, because the prospect of finding love is so uncomprehencable and great. we know that you have to have pain and sufforing in order to truley understand sucess and joy and so we put ourelfs in those positions not because we want to be hurt but because we know that by being hurt it brings us one step closer to the end gole
ReplyDeleteIs pain worth living for? Or is Living worth the pain?
ReplyDeleteWe don't crave pain, we just want things we can't have in the end and we end up getting hurt. We always want more than what we have and when we can't have it we keep going for it then we get hurt and feel a horrible pain that will at times never go away until you let it.
ReplyDeleteWe really don't crave pain because when we get upset at someone, mostly it wasn't intentional it just kinda happened.. You'll never hear someone say I love being sad and in pain. Pain is a part of life and everyone has to go through it..
ReplyDeleteI Think Everyone Has Pain. Some Of us Are Just Better At Hiding It.
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