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    My Favorite Songs About Healing and Recovery

    April 22, 2017 by Chelsea Kram – XO&So: Vegetarian Comfort Food 1 Comment

    I put together this list of my favourite healing/recovery songs along with the lyrics that make them so special in case they're useful for anyone else!

    Music, and especially lyrics, have always held a special place in my heart for their power to make you feel like you're not alone in the world. Sometimes songs put into words exactly how you're feeling but never knew how to say. And I think that is an incredibly special and useful tool in life.

    Since recovering from Whipple surgery, music has been especially valuable to me and has calmed me down or gotten me to sleep during especially hard times. Specifically, these songs about healing. (Or at least they're about healing to me!)

    • In Repair - John Mayer Favourite lyrics:

    I'm in repair, I'm not together but I'm getting there

    • Everybody Knows - John Legend Favourite lyrics:

    'Cause everybody knows but nobody really knows,
    How to make it work, or how to ease the hurt.

    • Be OK - Ingrid Michaelson Favourite lyrics: Just give me back my pieces
      Just give them back to me please
      Just give me back my pieces
      And let me hold my broken partsI just want to be okay, be okay, be okay
      I just want to be okay today
    • War of My Life - John Mayer Favourite lyrics:All the suffering
      And all the pain
      Never left a name, ohI'm in the war of my life
      At the door of my life
      Out of time and there's nowhere to run

      I'm in the war of my life
      At the core of my life
      Got no choice but to fight 'till it's done

    • Faith - Celine Dion Favourite lyrics:

    Faith!
    Right beside you is where I'll stay
    It's not too late
    Just take me as I am, so please, have faith, in me

    • Heal Over - KT Tunstall Favourite lyrics:

    Doesn't take a genius to realize
    That sometimes life is hard
    It's gonna take time
    But you'll just have to wait
    You're gonna be fine
    But in the meantime

    Come over here lady
    Let me wipe your tears away
    Come a little nearer baby
    Coz you'll heal over
    Heal over
    Heal over someday

    • And the Healing Has Begun - Van Morrison Favourite lyrics:

    When you hear the music ringin' in your soul
    And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows
    And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun

    • A Little Bit Stronger - Sara Evans Favourite lyrics:

    I know my heart will never be the same
    But I'm telling myself I'll be okay
    Even on my weakest days
    I get a little bit stronger

    • Dog Days are Over - Florence & the Machine Favourite lyrics:

    The dog days are over
    The dog days are done
    The horses are coming
    So you better run

    • Recover - Natasha Bedingfield Favourite lyrics:

    We will recover
    The worst is over, now.
    All those fires we've been walking through,
    And still we survive, somehow.
    We will recover
    The worst is behind
    And it hurts, but in time, I know that we will recover.

    • I'm Gonna Win - Foreigner Favourite lyrics:

    I'm gonna win
    I'm gonna win
    I tell you, see when it comes down to the crunch
    I've gotta beat life to the punch
    I'm gonna win

    • Fix You - Coldplay Favourite lyrics:

    And the tears come streaming down your face
    When you lose something you can't replace
    When you love someone, but it goes to waste
    Could it be worse?

    Lights will guide you home
    And ignite your bones
    And I will try to fix you

    • My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit Favourite lyrics:

    Something good comes with the bad
    A song's never just sad
    There's hope, there's a silver lining
    Show me my silver lining

    • By the Grace of God - Katy Perry Favourite lyrics:

    By the grace of God
    There was no other way
    I picked myself back up
    I knew I had to stay
    I put one foot in front of the other
    And I looked in the mirror
    And decided to stay
    Wasn't gonna let love take me out that way

    • Swim - Jack's Mannequin Favourite lyrics:

    You gotta swim
    Swim in the dark
    There's an ocean to drift in
    Feel the tide shifting away from this war
    Yeah you gotta swim
    Don't let yourself sink
    Just follow the horizon
    I promise you it's not as far as you think

    • Light Me Up - Ingrid Michaelson Favourite lyrics:

    And I want to keep us all alive
    And I want to see you with my eyes
    But I see you in the fireflies
    And how extraordinary is that

    Light me up again
    Light me up again

    • Breathe - Anna Nalick Favourite lyrics:

    'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
    And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
    No one can find the rewind button girl,
    So cradle your head in you hands
    And breathe, just breathe,
    Whoa breathe, just breathe

    • Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol Favourite lyrics:

    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

    I don't quite know
    How to say
    How I feel

    Those three words
    Are said too much
    They're not enough

    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

    • Let It Be - The Beatles Favourite Lyrics:

    And when the night is cloudy
    There is still a light that shines on me
    Shine on until tomorrow, let it be
    I wake up to the sound of music
    Mother Mary comes to me
    Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

    Oh, let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
    There will be an answer, let it be

    • Heart of Life - John Mayer Favourite Lyrics:

    Pain throws your heart to the ground
    Love turns the whole thing around
    No, it won't all go the way, it should
    But I know the heart of life is good

    You know it's nothing new
    Bad news never had good timing
    But then the circle of your friends
    Will defend the silver lining

    That's it for now! Please let me know your favourite songs about healing or recovery so I can add them to my list!

    xo - C

     

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    1. Elizabeth Knudson

      September 09, 2020 at 9:58 am

      This is a great list. A huge part of what makes a healing song, healing are the positive lyrics, the songs you listed have plenty of those. I have list I love as well on Spotify, you can find the link at the bottom of this article about song healings and healing songs.
      Best, Elizabeth -The Song Healer

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