48 Days Sober – My addiction recovery playlist

I’m having a great week and wanted to share something more upbeat than the normal addiciton talk. Here are the top songs in my mind this week for breaking up with alcohol (not sure if the artists meant them that way). It’s my music for recovery. I’m posting the YouTube versions, but including the lyrics that most make me think of fighting addiciton.

Let me know about your favorites. Don’t miss similar lists from The Fix blog and Palo Recovery blog and Rehabs.com

Norah Jones – Happy pills

Trying to pick up the pace
Trying to make it so I never see your face again
Trying to throw this away
Want to make sure that you never waste my time again

How does it feel?
Oh how does it feel to be you right now, dear?
You brought this upon
So pick up your pace and go away from here

Please just let me go now.
Please just let me go
Would you please just let me go now?
Please just let me go

I’m going to get you.
I’m going to get you.
I’ve gotta get you out of my head – get out.

Never said we’d be friends,
Trying to keep myself away from you,
‘Cause you’re bad, bad news.
With you gone, I’m alive,
Makes me feel like I took happy pills,
And time stands still.

Twenty One Pilots – Not today

You are out of my mind, you aren’t seeing my side,
You waste all this time trying to get to me,
But you are out of my mind,

Heard you say, “Not today.”
Tore the curtains down, windows open now, make a sound,
Heard your voice, “There’s no choice.”
Tore the curtains down, windows open now, make a noise.

Mumford & Sons – The Cave

But I will hold on hope
And I won’t let you choke
On the noose around your neck

And I’ll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I’ll know my name as it’s called again

‘Cause I have other things to fill my time
You take what is yours and I’ll take mine
Now let me at the truth
Which will refresh my broken mind

So tie me to a post and block my ears
I can see widows and orphans through my tears
I know my call despite my faults
And despite my growing fears

. . .

So make your siren’s call
And sing all you want
I will not hear what you have to say

‘Cause I need freedom now
And I need to know how
To live my life as it’s meant to be

Sufjan Stevens – Should have known better

No, I’m not a go-getter
The demon had a spell on me
My black shroud
Captain of my feelings
The only thing I wanna believe

I should have known better
Nothing can be changed
The past is still the past
The bridge to nowhere
I should have wrote a letter
Explaining what I feel, that empty feeling

Don’t back down, concentrate on seeing
The breakers in the bar, the neighbor’s greeting
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination