The Art of Pain

About This Group

A place where you can express your emotions while finding the beauty of sadness and pain, and how this has helped you grow as a person. Experiences are invaluable, especially the difficult ones for they force us to grow through the pain we’ve felt. Create art depicting this message and express the beauty of pain.
Show us how you have healed and saw the light, and in doing so, you’re able to help others through your art and poetry as well.

The Dykeenies Love You
As much as I (Julia) love art, I know that sometimes you need something more than a pencil or a paintbrush, because, though whatever you create through your art is completely your own, sometimes you need to know that there’s someone else who knows what you’re going through. In my life, I’ve found that those whose emotions I can relate to most are complete strangers, and I connect with them through their music.
When you listen to a song, and you hear how real the lyrics are, and you find something you can relate to in them – and you realise you’re not alone – it’s one of the greatest feelings in the world. It gives you hope, makes you want to carry on, makes you want to smile, and live your life, leaving the pain behind.
To me, music is one of the most healing things in the world. Whenever I think of the darkest, most painful times in my life, there was always music to turn to. And in many ways it was music that inspired me to start doing art. One of the greatest beauties of music is that you can interpret it as you wish, and relate the lyrics to your own life. Music is my sanity when I feel I’m going out of my mind, it’s the shoulder I can always cry on, and it’s the one thing in the world that will never let me down, or not be there when I need it most.
I wanted to share some music that I particularly love with you, in the hopes that it will inspire you to keep on finding the beauty in your life.
One of my favourite bands in the world is The Dykeenies , a four piece band from Scotland. All their lyrics are beautiful and full of emotion, but one song that stands out is Stitches (and I love the music video for it).
It’s a song that always makes me feel better, whether I dance to it, cry to it, or paint it. Hopefully it’ll inspire and uplift you too.

Lyrics
When you feel so weak
and you scratch those stitches
reminding you of why you fell away at the offset

And you can’t hold sleep
and you’ve gambled more than enough
you can’t depend on them

Still, I adore the taste of rain
and the bounce of bone on ground,
it reminds me

Make a wish tonight
all the stars are out
it’s out of your hands but not out of reach just

It’s not out of reach
no, this is not out of reach

But you feel so weak
you’ve burst those stitches
reminding you just why you felt so cruel

Still, I adore the taste of rain
and the bounce of bone on ground,
it reminds me

That still, I adore the taste of rain
and the bounce of bone on ground,
you can’t depend on them

Make a wish tonight
all the stars are out
it’s out of your hands but not out of reach just

Make a wish tonight
all the stars are out
it’s out of your hands but not out of reach just
(it’s not, its not out of reach)

They build you up, they build you up

Don’t, don’t run away dear
(darling, you’re safe here with me)
don’t, don’t run away dear
(darling, you’re safe here with me)
don’t, don’t run away dear
(darling, you’re safe here with me)
don’t, don’t run away dear
(darling, you’re safe here with me)

See, I adore the taste of rain
(darling, you’re safe here with me)
and the bounce of bone on ground
(darling, you’re safe here with me)
and the crackle of water well in the mark of all your…
(darling, you’re safe here with me)

Make that wish tonight
(darling, you’re safe here with me)
all the stars are out
(darling, you’re safe here with me)
it’s out of your hand but not out of reach
(darling, you’re safe here with me)
it’s out of your hand but not out of reach

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