Songs that help keep me inspired through my divorce
Here is a brief list of some songs that helped me through my divorce. If you have any songs that hold a special place with you and would like to share them, please send an email to info@ourfamilywizard.com:
1. WONDERFUL BY EVERCLEAR
The song tells the story of a divorce as perceived by a child. Each verse of the song corresponds to a different stage of the divorce. The first verse describes the child hearing his parents fight as he tries to block it out, remembering what it was like before his parents began to fight. The second verse describes the child going to school and pretending to his friends that everything is all right at home, despite what is heard in the first verse. The bridge describes the child lashing out at his parents, not wanting to comprehend that his parents have begun to grow apart and date other people. – Everclear
2. ALL THE BEST BY JOHN PRINE
John provides often hard to find insights in breakups involving children. Considering his circumstance he chooses to take the highroad – Paul Volker
3. SOME DAY NEVER COMES BY JOHN FOGERTY
Someday Never Comes" is simply a song about my parents undergoing a divorce when I was a child and me not knowing many things. When my dad left me, he told me to be a man and someday I would understand everything. Now, I'm here basically repeating the same thing really. I had a son in 1966 and I went away when he was five years old or so and again told him "someday" he would understand everything. Really, all kids ask questions like "Daddy, when are we going fishing?" and parents always answer with "someday", but in reality someday never comes and kids never learn what they're supposed to learn. – John Fogerty 1973
4. GET WHAT YOU GIVE BY NEW RADICALS
Many were drawn to the song's optimistic attitude and feel-good atmosphere (the song itself is about remaining true to who you are and not being "a fake"), making it one of the mainstay singles of the late 1990s. It has been played over one million times on U.S. radio. – Wikipedia
5. THE HEART OF THE MATTER BY DON HENLEY
6. THE LAST DAY OF OUR ACQUAINTANCE BY SINEAD O’CONNER
Speaks for itself.
7. PHOENIX BURN BY ALPHA REV
This is a song that was recommended to us by Thorn the music director from Cities 97, a music station based in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. They are a new band that is starting to pick up steam.
If you have any songs that hold a special place with you and would like to share them, please send an email to info@ourfamilywizard.com.
