songs about leaving and distance...(i miss you)

i got to thinking about the topic of leaving, i know a few people who have people leaving their lives for various causes. faith. work or school. what ever the reason may be, it leaves a pretty big hole in your heart to have some one leave your life especially when you've come to rely on them and expect them to always be there. there's lots of music that might serve as medicinal if only to distract you and let you know that other people out there who are feeling the same as you...people who can play keytar and have better than singing voices than you, they feel abandoned sometimes too.

new found glory dressed to kill is what prompted me to start this topic. personally i feel like this song is for more advanced couples with more experience points than the rest. but with lyrics like "I can't dream anymore since you left I miss you singing me to sleep I can't wake anymore in your arms" at it's core it's a break up song but i pick and choose lyrics lyrics sometime to better suit my needs, sue me...don't actually sue as what i'm talking about is misrepresentation, and might be considered liable. either way theirs some value to this song if you miss some one something fierce.

blink 182 has like 7,000 songs about missing whatever it is they're missing. going away to college is the one i chose. it's really more about the insecurity comes with doing the whole different college's things. because as much as you talk to someone and tell them how you feel it doesn't come close to the security and warmth of having them there in your arms."Just don't forget to think about me
And I won't forget you" is one helluva lyric amongst a sea of corny ones but also pretty sure those dudes were like 15 when that album came out.

you might be saying "brendan, i'm a dude who just misses his bro in a totally hetero way, surely there's no songs for me in this play list of yours?" well friend i have news for you i have not one but two songs for you. greg's last day by the starting line is a song about a dude whose best friend moves away, and he's super bummed. it's a really great song i've gone through this whole thing a couple of times and am currently dealing with it too. it's kind of heavy at times with lines like "Greg's last day is our last chance to be best friends
Until we say "goodbye" and "I'll try to see you when the weather clears" or more so with "Then I went home and prayed that tomorrow
You would turn the car right back around.
Evergreen Rd just won't feel the same,
Since your gone." but if this is to intense for you the alternative is tenacious d with dude(i totally miss you) i don't really feel like i need to explain the relevance of that song, so i won't

now if some one left you it's kind of a bit trickier. your looking for music that says how you feel, but also says they he or she is significant to you "the early November come back is just wonderful...scratch that the early november is wonderful. but come back is applicable so we'll hyper focus on that for a moment. come back is pretty raw and blunt "Come back Please don't leave me now I'll be all that you need in life Because I can't live without you and I know all that you need I can give you everything" if you want to go another route. a considerably creepier route at that the spill canvas "all over you" is dripping with desperation. i'm sure some boy or girl is just dying to hear "i've gotta feel you in my bones again
i'm all over you,i'm not over you,i wanna taste you one more time again, i'm all over you.i'm not over you"

spitalfield has a song for everyone or rather had a song for everyone when they unceremoniously broke up about 2 years ago, still though i push them on people in times when great people are in great need or great music. with great music come great responsibility or something like that. either way the song "i love the way she said "l.A." is pretty specific about missing some one is a very specific so i'm not grasping at straws by saying you'll find some solace in this story if only in the line "When I close my eyes and wonder where you are, and you wish upon a star,
two thousand miles doesn't seem so far."

what if you miss someone not quite permanently, shorter than a semester
but longer than a day(because if you miss someone for less than a day, you're clingy) i like death cab for cutie transatlantacism for when theres an ocean between you and you can't stand being more tha heart beat away. "i need you so much closer" really says it all. kevin devine like cursing kids a great song too it talks about seeing that some you miss in your everyday, and how at thoe moments just everything reminds you of them."I saw your freckles on the shoulders of a stranger today
And my heart lept, and my heart lept"

hot rod circuit safely is pretty intense, sometimes it's hard to be away from someone because you know they need you as much as you need them, safely is all about that. "Maybe I can tell you
To keep your head up and follow through
Good things will come to you
I could worry myself to death about you
Hope you get there safely"

everything sucks(when you're gone) is a sugery sweet almost corny song by mxpx that is on the money about missing someone, no matter how long they're gone, this song is just plain cute. if you want little more somber...try mxpx quit your life. which states "quit your life, and stay with me we'll order in and watch tv..." equally fucking adorable

i love this song. straylight run, your name here(sunrise highway). it's perfect for it and i just realized it..see normaly i plan thses out a little better. this one is a tad more impromptu which iswhy my lead ins are more bizarre than they usually are..or less bizarre. either way i just realized this song was perfect, the chorus is just directions home to someone whose waiting for you. effing great

"Please don't leave me without saying goodbye" i know i'm cheating by using the starting line twice but the other one was different. the starting line "leaving" is about fond memories of those...well... leaving your life whatever the reason may be

west coast by coconut records... jason schwartzman was in rushmore, if you need more this song is also very good. keeping in the same line of thinking always on my mind by phantom planet is a great song to let someone know your thinking about them.

goodbye waves and driveways is that somber song that i ususally use to cap off the overall sentiment. "it's hard for me to breathe, i get all worked up with these feelings" and that whole overwhelming aspect of it all.

say goodbye by Briton Malcolm Bennett talks about that casual relationship that you miss dearly, beauty in simplicity in song form. "miss the nights that we shared, your golden hair, your breath and my chest"

alexi murdoch orange sky... "my salvation lies in your love" the intensity in this somber song is amazing

i'm tempted to write more...but seeing as the songs on here are circumstantial it's really more of guideline anyway.either way the point is saying goodbye is easy it's what comes after thats difficult is what i believe should be taken from this whole mess.

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