Can Bands Truly Save Lives?

I believe that bands are the start to saving yourself. I mean sometimes I think if I didn't start listening to my favourite band then perhaps I would have done stupid things, I know I thought about it but they made me feel like I was worth something, I meant something, so I believe band's or their words can influence people to save themselves, thus saving that person. So I guess yeah, bands do save lives...

random, but bands do save lives. I almost commited suicide last year till my xbestfriends introduced me to My Chemical Romance. Thanks t them I am still here. There is a down fall though. I do not know them personaly so I find myself talking to myself alot because I do not know them. But eh.

I think it's more like "My Chemical Romance helped save my life."

They help you out...they don't do it for you.

They give you strength, courage, and a sort of hope. It reminds you there are other people in this world who can also help. Tangible, not made up, oh so real people that are willing to help. People who are like you, know what you feeling, have felt what your feeling, and have been or are there at that moment.

That's my take on the whole topic. That's what I think it really is.

Bands do save lives, indirectly

I have seen a lot of 'My Chemical Romance Saved My Life' stories but for everyone of those there is at least one 'A Band Cannot Save You!' story.

I've seen the "Gerard Way did not take the razor blade out of your hand!"comments
But you know what I haven't seen? Not once... EVER have I seen someone claiming that he did...

Nobody says "My Chemical Romance pushed me out of the way of a speeding bus!"
So don't act like that's what they said.

At this point I would like to say that MCR did not save my life my life didn't need saving, but I don't think for a second that they are not capable of it. If some one is feeling backed into a corner, feeling lost and feeling like there is no way out, and then they find the thing that keeps them sane, the thing that helps them out of that corner and stops them from doing the unthinkable... that thing saved them. And if that thing is a band, well then, what that band had to say saved you.

Now I've heard the "They didn't save you, they gave you the strength to save yourself."
Uhh hello. That's the same thing. No one is suggesting that Ray Toro appeared out of thin air and took those sleeping pills off you (and hid them in his hair :tehe:- couldn't help myself) but if the music he plays makes a person see that there is a reason to live, then he saved them. It doesn't have to be a physical thing... for example people say they find God and that saves them. But that doesn't mean God walked in while they were having dinner one night and said "Yo dude, Imma save you!"
I'm not comparing Gerard Way to God, don't get offended I'm simply saying that the situations are similar, both involving a great deal of faith.

Basically what I'm saying is, people don't really have the right to judge whether or not a band someone. If they say that they were saved by the band, it's good enough for me

Well... not really :shifty
In a way they do, but it's really just you.

Maybe the band can inspire you to live your life?
And maybe change your life :cute:

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Bands do save lives, indirectly

I have seen a lot of 'My Chemical Romance Saved My Life' stories but for everyone of those there is at least one 'A Band Cannot Save You!' story.

I've seen the "Gerard Way did not take the razor blade out of your hand!"comments
But you know what I haven't seen? Not once... EVER have I seen someone claiming that he did...

Nobody says "My Chemical Romance pushed me out of the way of a speeding bus!"
So don't act like that's what they said.

At this point I would like to say that MCR did not save my life my life didn't need saving, but I don't think for a second that they are not capable of it. If some one is feeling backed into a corner, feeling lost and feeling like there is no way out, and then they find the thing that keeps them sane, the thing that helps them out of that corner and stops them from doing the unthinkable... that thing saved them. And if that thing is a band, well then, what that band had to say saved you.

Now I've heard the "They didn't save you, they gave you the strength to save yourself."
Uhh hello. That's the same thing. No one is suggesting that Ray Toro appeared out of thin air and took those sleeping pills off you (and hid them in his hair :tehe:- couldn't help myself) but if the music he plays makes a person see that there is a reason to live, then he saved them. It doesn't have to be a physical thing... for example people say they find God and that saves them. But that doesn't mean God walked in while they were having dinner one night and said "Yo dude, Imma save you!"
I'm not comparing Gerard Way to God, don't get offended I'm simply saying that the situations are similar, both involving a great deal of faith.

Basically what I'm saying is, people don't really have the right to judge whether or not a band someone. If they say that they were saved by the band, it's good enough for me

I applaud you. Thank you for saying that.

Leonore Paisley:

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I applaud you. Thank you for saying that.

Thank you. :arms:

Alright. A band may have not saved lives physically.

But what if they saved you mentally? You guys, just listen. There is no real answer to this. Some people know a band saved their life, like me.

I say this because it's true, I'm not going to get into detail. I had a hard time though, and I watched Life On The Murder Scene, and cried half way through it. Just to know somebody could live through that shit, it gave me more than hope, it did save me, from offing myself.

It wasn't just the music, it was the actual band, the personalities.

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Bands do save lives, indirectly

I have seen a lot of 'My Chemical Romance Saved My Life' stories but for everyone of those there is at least one 'A Band Cannot Save You!' story.

I've seen the "Gerard Way did not take the razor blade out of your hand!"comments
But you know what I haven't seen? Not once... EVER have I seen someone claiming that he did...

Nobody says "My Chemical Romance pushed me out of the way of a speeding bus!"
So don't act like that's what they said.

At this point I would like to say that MCR did not save my life my life didn't need saving, but I don't think for a second that they are not capable of it. If some one is feeling backed into a corner, feeling lost and feeling like there is no way out, and then they find the thing that keeps them sane, the thing that helps them out of that corner and stops them from doing the unthinkable... that thing saved them. And if that thing is a band, well then, what that band had to say saved you.

Now I've heard the "They didn't save you, they gave you the strength to save yourself."
Uhh hello. That's the same thing. No one is suggesting that Ray Toro appeared out of thin air and took those sleeping pills off you (and hid them in his hair :tehe:- couldn't help myself) but if the music he plays makes a person see that there is a reason to live, then he saved them. It doesn't have to be a physical thing... for example people say they find God and that saves them. But that doesn't mean God walked in while they were having dinner one night and said "Yo dude, Imma save you!"
I'm not comparing Gerard Way to God, don't get offended I'm simply saying that the situations are similar, both involving a great deal of faith.

Basically what I'm saying is, people don't really have the right to judge whether or not a band someone. If they say that they were saved by the band, it's good enough for me

I LOVE YOU omgno:

ella jack:

Alright. A band may have not saved lives physically.

But what is they saved you mentally? You guys, just listen. There is no real answer to this. Some people know a band saved their life, like me.

It wasn't just the music, it was the actual band, the personalities.

That's so true.

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Nobody says "My Chemical Romance pushed me out of the way of a speeding bus!"

When I went to a Fall Out Boy concert. Pete said something quite like that. He said something along the lines of:
We hear you telling us that we saved your lives, but it's not like we pushed you out of the way of a bus. It's not us. It's you. You've saved yourself, just taken inspiration from our music and lyrics.
He went on to talk about something else but that was the most memorable part of the speech. :shifty

ella jack:

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I LOVE YOU omgno:

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Thank you. I'm glad people are understanding it. I was worried I was rambling too much for it t make sense.

orly flea?:

I think if you look pass the music and look more into the band, then yes they can save lives. I think being able to relate to a band and knowing you're not alone is what saves lives

I think that music does have the ability to help people save their lives. Obviously My Chemical Romance or Paramore or any other band is not going to physically save you, but some lyrics are just so powerful that they inspire you to get out of your bad situation and live again. I have had some really dark moments in my life and if it wasn't for my music; I really don't know where i would be right now. Music has been my friend in some cases when i had no one else to talk to. Music make you feel like your not the only one out there feeling what your feeling.
This also goes to the other end of the spectrum. A band can't kill you. I know that My Chemical Romance is under fire for being a "suicide cult band" and i think that is completely unfair to them.
Regardless i think that everyone has had a moment where a song or even just one verse of a song encouraged you to find the strength that you needed so badly to survive...

I dont think its the band exactly. But a lot of people definitely do connect lyrics to theirselves and use that to help pull them out of the hole they've fallen in.
So i guess the answer is a partial yes, the band may supply you with hope but you do most of the work to save yourself.

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I don't think they save lives, physically.
I think that music just inspires us to help us help ourselves, if that makes any sense, even if just a little bit.
So..maybe just a tad in the emotional area.

I agree. I had a cutting problem and Avenged Sevenfold helped me express myself without the razor. But Zacky Vengeance didn't come up and take it out of my hands and say, "No razor for you."

Bands can save lives, I mean, a band member can go over to someone thats choking and give them the Heimlich maneuver. :shifty Sorry, I had to say that.

In more seriousness, I don't think bands can save lives. You hear their music, you get inspire and you know that you're not the only one caught up in a big mess. Then you build yourself up and help yourself.

bands dont save lives. you save yourself.

SynysterGates:

bands dont save lives. you save yourself.

But if was that band that gave you hope, gave you the strength to save yourself then that band saved you indirectly

What I think bands do is that they give you that feeling of not being alone. What I found in Jack's Mannequin was a person who didn't know who the hell I was, but the things that Andrew was singing hit home. Being understood by somebody who has no idea what you're going through is for me one of the biggest signs of the universal side of music.

Bands show you that they feel the same things you do, and they got through. SO you can as well.

bellakilling:

Music can influence you to live your life.

If your desprate enough, anything can save you.

I credit MCR for saving my life.

They might not have personaly taken the razorblade out of my hand in my darkest times, but when your hopeless anough and about to attempt suicide agian, if you find something anything that in a sense saves you, then you feel this special connection and you regain alot of the optimism you lost.

Its almost impossible to describe if you haven't been there.

Does a band save yourself, in sense yes from your self. and they do it by saying how they feel.

You might think this post is full of shit, but I honestly do feel that a band can save your life. It saved mine, and I felt that way before I even saw the Life On The Murder Scene dvd or went on some website that proclaimed salvation from MCR. I felt that the first time I heard Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

I am going with this point here, Music itself heavily influences your choices when in an extreme situation.
So in theory Yes bands do save lives albeit an instrumental manner