[Sanitariumite]

Normally I can't even pay enough attention to any lyrics enough to remember them. I truly listen to rock for the guitar, and the song as a whole. Lyrics usually play little to no part in how much I like/remember a song, but the first time I heard "Broken, Beat & Scarred" from Metallica's Death Magnetic, it spoke to me for one of the first times a song ever has.

Metallica Broken, Beat & Scarred

You rise, you fall, your down, then you rise again
What don't kill you make you more strong
You rise, you fall, your down, then you rise again
What don't kill you make you more strong

Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don't kill you make you more strong
Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don't kill you make you more strong

Through black days
Through black nights
Through pitch black insights

Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life
Broken, beat and scarred
But we die hard

The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don't kill you make you more strong
The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don't kill you make you more strong

Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don't kill you make you more strong
Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don't kill you make you more strong

They scratched me
They scraped me
They cut and rape me

Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life
Broken, beat and scarred
But we die hard

Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Braiding your soul in a hard luck story
Show your scars
Spilling your blood in a hot suns foray
Show your scars
Breaking your life
Broken, beat and scarred
We die hard

We die hard
We die hard

I'm at a point where it's hard to find reasons to persist, after repeatedly failing at the same things, the same ways. It's a good reminder to just get through it, let what's happened be a part of who I am, and move on.