Songs that remind you of Columbine.

Novocaine by Fall Out Boy, especially the line "And don't mind me, I’m just a son of a gun"



This is a black, black ski mask song
So put all of your anger on
In the truly gruesome do we trust
I will always land on you like a sucker punch

Singing I am your worst, I am your worst nightmare
I am your worst, I am your worst nightmare

If you knew, knew what the bluebirds sang at you,
You would never sing along
Cast them out cause this is our culture
These new flocks are nothing but vultures

Because they took our love and they filled it up
Filled it up with Novocaine and now I’m just numb
Now I’m just numb
And don't mind me, I’m just a son of a gun
So don’t stop, don’t stop until your heart goes numb
Now I’m just numb
I don’t feel a thing for you

I’m just a problem that doesn’t want to be solved
So could you please hold your applause
Take this sideshow and all its freaks
And turn it into the silver screen dream

Singing I am your worst, I am your worst nightmare
I am your worst, I am your worst nightmare

If you knew, knew what the bluebirds sang at you,
You would never sing along
Cast them out cause this is our culture
These new flocks are nothing but vultures

Because they took our love and they filled it up
Filled it up with Novocaine and now I’m just numb
Now I’m just numb
And don't mind me, I’m just a son of a gun
So don’t stop, don’t stop until your heart goes numb
Now I’m just numb
I don’t feel a thing for you

I said one day the valley's gonna swallow me whole
(Hijack the hype! Hijack the hype!)
and I feel like a photo that’s been over-exposed
(Hijack the hype! Hijack the hype!)

They took our love and they filled it up
Filled it up with Novocaine and now I’m just numb
Now I’m just numb
And don't mind me, I’m just a son of a gun
So don’t stop, don’t stop until your heart goes numb
Now I’m just numb
I don’t feel a thing for you

Pumped up Kicks
numb
behind blue eyes
how to save a life

For some reason, Smells like Teen Spirit always reminds me of Dylan Klebold.

Load up on guns; bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over-bored and self-assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word...

I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end

Venganza wrote:

Might be kind of silly, but Stewie's "hitlist" song from Family Guy about the people he wants to kill kind of reminds me of Eric's furious rants towards things and people he found stupid and death-worthy for the most ridiculous, insignificant things.

It reminds me of his "you know what I hate" rant.

Mineral was a indie/emo band that existed 1994-1997. Their songs are very intense/brooding/introspective and deal with things like depression/anxiety/loneliness so naturally, for me, Dylan comes to mind when I listen to them. I like to think if he had heard Mineral and similar bands he might not have felt so alone in the world. The group's singer/songwriter was actually born in Colorado and one of the bands they toured with a bunch from Denver had members that went to Columbine in the early '90s so I have that connection in my head. Haha, I don't know.

In particular, lyrics to the song "If I Could" remind me of something straight out of Dylan's journal. It's basically about pining over a girl but being just painfully shy and feeling inadequate.

Quote :

She stepped outside into the morning air
To watch the cars go by and let the sun dry her hair
I wanted to tell her how beautiful she was
But I just stared

I sat behind the wheel and watched the raindrops
As they gathered on the windshield
And raced down into the humming motor
And she folded up her fears like paper airplanes
And lost them in the trees

And I know I don't deserve this
The capacity to feel
To laugh and cry and to praise
For that I live and breathe and wake each day
Is nothing less than your grace
In awkward and glorious movement

How can I pretend that I don't see,
What you hide so carelesslly,
I saw her bleed,
And you heard me breathe,
And I froze inside myself,
And turned away,
I must be dreaming

We all live, we all die,
That does not begin to justify you

It's not what it seems,
Not what you think,
No, I must be dreaming,
It's only in my mind,
Not real life,
No, I must be dreaming

Help you know I've got to tell someone,
Tell them what I know you've done,
I fear you, but spoken fears can come true

We all live, we all die,
That does not begin to justify you

It's not what it seems,
Not what you think,
No I must be dreaming,
It's only in my mind,
Not real life,
No I must be dreaming

We all live,
We all die,
That does not begin to justify you

It's not what it seems,
Not what you think,
No I must be dreaming,
It's only in my mind,
Not real life,
No I must be dreaming

Not what it seems,
Not what you think,
I must be dreaming,
Just in my mind,
Not real life,
I must be dreaming.

Evanescence -Bleed (I must be dreaming )

For me it is definately:
Smashing Pumpkins- Disarm
NIN- Something I can never have
NIN-Hurt
NIN- Everyday is exactly the same
Marilyn Manson- The Nobodies & Disposable Teens( Mainly Eric )
Flyleaf- Cassie & In the dark (I always think about Dylan when I listen to this one )

Um. all the songs they mention in their Journals. They've ruined Rammstein for me.

Statler Brothers - Flowers on the Wall

Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong
And no one understands you

Do you ever want to run away?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming

No you don't know what its like
When nothing feels alright
You don't know what its like to be like me
To be hurt, to feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one there to save you
No you don't know what its like
Welcome to my life

Do you want to be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
Are you desperate to find something more
Before your life is over

Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With the big fake smiles and stupid lies
But deep inside you're bleeding

No you don't know what its like
When nothing feels alright
You don't know what its like to be like me
To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one there to save you
No you don't know what its like
Welcome to my life

No one ever lied straight to your face
And no one ever stabbed you in the back
You might think I'm happy
But I'm not gonna be okay
Everybody always gave you what you wanted
You never had to work it was always there
You don't know what its like
What its like

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one there to save you
No you don't know what its like
What its like

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what its like
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life



Simple Plan - Welcome To My Life

Take a breath,
Take it deep.
'Calm yourself', He says to me
If you play, you play for keeps.
Take the gun and count to three.
Im sweating now,
Moving slow,
No time to think. My turn to go

[Hook]
And you can see my heart beating
You can see it through my chest.
Said I'm terrified but I'm not leaving
I know that I must pass this test
So, just pull the trigger

[Verse 2]
Say a prayer to yourself
He says 'close your eyes, sometimes it helps'
And then I get a scary thought
That he's here - means he's never lost

[Hook]
And you can see my heart beating.
No, You can see it through my chest.
Said I'm terrified but I'm not leaving
Know that I must pass this test.
So, just pull my trigger

[Bridge]
As my life flashes before my eyes
I'm wondering will I ever see another sunrise?
So many won't get the chance to say good-bye
But its too late to think of the value of my life

[Hook]
And you can see my heart beating.
No, You can see it through my chest.
Said I'm terrified but I'm not leaving no
know that I must pass this test.
You can see my heart beating.
Oh, You can see it through my chest.
I'm terrified but I'm not leaving no
know that I must pass this test.

So, just pull the trigger

[sound of taking a breath]
[sound of pulling the trigger. Gun shot]

Rihanna -"Russian Roulette"

I just heard "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne while at the gym today, and thought of Columbine and E/D. lol

"Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel. It makes me think of how Eric and Dylan wondered what the afterlife would be like.



There is also a really good cover of this by Owl City.

Disarm like many of you but the song Bad Company by Bad Company reminds me of them but Eric especially.
Here's some of the lyrics...

Company, always on the run
Destiny is the rising sun
Oh, I was born 6-gun in my hand
Behind the gun I'll make my final stand
That's why they call me

Bad company
And I can't deny
Bad company
'Til the day I die
Oh, 'til the day I die
'Til the day I die

Rebel souls, deserters we are called
Chose a gun and threw away the Son
Now these towns, they all know our name
6-gun sound is our claim to fame
I can hear them say

"Well, on the day I was born,
God was sick.

They all know that I’m alive,
that I’m vicious; and they don’t know
the December that follows from that January.
Well, on the day I was born,
God was sick.

There is an empty place
in my metaphysical shape
that no one can reach:
a cloister of silence
that spoke with the fire of its voice muffled.

On the day I was born,
God was sick.

Brother, listen to me, Listen . . .
oh, all right. Don’t worry, I won’t leave
without taking my Decembers along,
without leaving my Januaries behind.
Well, on the day I was born,
God was sick.

They all know that I’m alive,
that I chew my food . . . and they don’t know
why harsh winds whistle in my poems,
the narrow uneasiness of a coffin,
winds untangled from the Sphinx
who holds the desert for routine questioning.

Yes, they all know . . . Well, they don’t know
that the light gets skinny
and the darkness gets bloated . . .
And they don’t know that the Mystery joins things together . . .
that he is the hunchback
musical and sad who stands a little way off and foretells
the dazzling progression from the limits to the Limits.

On the day I was born,
God was sick,
gravely."

- César Vallejo

Johnny Cash, Hurt.

Killing Strangers Marilyn Manson
This world doesn't need no opera
We're here for the operation
We don't need a bigger knife (a bigger knife)
Cause we got guns, we got guns, we got guns (we got guns)
We got guns, you better run
(you better run, you better run, you better run)

We're killing strangers, we're killing strangers
We're killing strangers, so we don't kill the ones that we love
We're killing strangers, we're killing strangers
We're killing strangers, so we don't kill the ones that we love

We pack demolition, we can't pack emotion
Dynamite? We just might...
So blow us a kiss, blow us a kiss
Blow us a kiss, we'll blow you to pieces

We're killing strangers, we're killing strangers
We're killing strangers, so we don't kill the ones that we love
We're killing strangers, we're killing strangers
We're killing strangers, so we don't kill the ones that we love

We got guns, we got guns
Mother fuckers better, better, better run
We got guns, we got guns
Mother fuckers better run


We're killing strangers, we're killing strangers
We're killing strangers, so we don't kill the ones that we love
We're killing strangers, we're killing strangers
We're killing strangers, so we don't kill the ones that we love

You better run
Cause we got guns! Cause we got guns! We got guns!

Not my type of music, but a friend of mine used this song and it became linked with shootings in my mind.

This are some songs about Columbine shooting

Hero” – Superchick
“A New Hope” – Five Iron Frenzy
“Cassie” – Flyleaf
“Columind” – Filter
“Who shot the jock?” - GrimDaze Stoners (band)
“Disposable Teens” – Marilyn Manson
“Völkermord” - Apostasy
“Friend Of Mine” – Jonathan and Stephen Cohen
“One by One” – The Calling
”The Anatomy of a School Shooting” – Ill Bill
“The Nobodies” – Marilyn Manson
“This is Your Time” – Michael W. Smith
”Hitmen for Hire” – Evil Anger
“The Kinslayer” - Nightwish
“We Hate You” - Electric Wizard
“Pigs” - Tyler, The Creator
“Witch Hunt” - MDFMK
”White America” - Eminem

Tons of songs most of you have already listed..

But there are 2 that stick with me by Danzig : How The Gods Kill, and Tired Of Being Alive.
The titles obviously and also the lyrics. Plus they've been my favorite band for years.

Don't care
If 'n' you die
Ain't got no reason to cry
Don't feel
Don't need to
Your world ain't nothing to me
I'm fear
I'm your heretic
I'm doom waiting for the number
7 up 7
To the 6 on 6
Bring it on to me

And I'm tired of being alive
Spite of the bleeding
Bleeding light
And I'm tired of their bleeding light
Don't try to feed me
Full of your lies

No regrets
To bring me no tears
Never scared of things men fear
Never easy
Never clean
To be a beast among human sheep
I am fear
I am your heretic
I am your doom
Waiting for the number
7 on 7
To the 6 on 6
Bring it on to me

And I'm tired of being alive
Spite of the bleeding
Bleeding light
And I'm tired of their bleeding light
Don't try to feed me
Full of your lies

And I'm tired of being alive
Spite of the bleeding
Bleeding light
And I'm tired of their bleeding light
Don't try to feed me
Full of your lies

Oh yea, oh yea
I'm tired
Tired of their bleeding
Oh yea, oh yea

Jeremy by pearl jam!

VNV Nation - Illusion

Also - as mentioned - Hurt by Nine Inch Nails is a Dylan song, and Flowers on the Wall is a happier Dylan song.

This is a different type of song than most listed here. But this has always reminded me of it.



Especially these lyrics.

"He's not invisible anymore
With his Father's 9 and a broken fuse
Since he walked through that classroom door
He's all over primetime news"

paradisedreams wrote:

This is a different type of song than most listed here. But this has always reminded me of it.



Especially these lyrics.

"He's not invisible anymore
With his Father's 9 and a broken fuse
Since he walked through that classroom door
He's all over primetime news"

Hadn't heard this before, quite like it.

Definately very Columbine esque.

Killing Strangers, MM

maybe I or someone else has put this already ... I can't keep track anymore

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Kai Straw- The American Dream

John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire  
Van Halen - Humans Being

many of these songs are actually music E+D listened to, the others are from Columbine tribute videos from 2006 to 2008 and many of the songs came out long after the pair passed away, but since I use to watch those tribute a lot those songs will forever remind me of them.

Eric + Dylan:
Switchfoot - This is Your Life
Enya - Only Time
Green Day - Time of my Life
KoRn - Thoughtless, Dead (no not Dead Bodies Everywhere, I mean just Dead, the bagpipe one reminds me of their final moments before suicide)
Hello My Old Heart - The Oh Hello's
Gary Jules - Mad World
American Beauty - Any Other Name, Walk Home
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (not a fan of the band but so many tributes for E+D had this back in the day so I think of them)
Rammstein - Engel, the whole of Mutter CD (even though it came out after they died..)
Smashing Pumpkins -  Disarm, 33, Jelly Belly, 1979


Eric:
Van Halen - Humans Being
NIN - Every Day is Exactly the Same
Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
Doom - Hiding the Secrets, Sign of Evil
KMFDM -  F×S×C×S×P CD
HeXen - Zedek's Temple
Puissance – Raining Vengeance

Dylan:
Matchbox 20 - Unwell
NIN - Hurt, Warm Place
Offspring - Americana
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Pulp Fiction - Surf Rider, Flowers on the Wall, Zed's Dead Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Eye

songs which absolutely do not remind me of them and unfitting when places beside them
Foster The People - Pumped up Kicks
Fly Leaf - Cassie

Remember Me, Eminem

I forgot about this one:

(The bolded lyrics remind me a lot of both Eric and Dylan, especially Dylan. I feel like it best describes his view on the world and how he wanted to end his existence, and having Eric join him in the "journey" of NBK.)
Lyrics:
Baby join me in death
Baby join me in death
Baby join me in death

We are so young
our lives have just begun
but already we're considering
escape from this world

and we've waited for so long
for this moment to come
we're so anxious to be together
together in death

Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death

This world is a cruel place
and we're here only to lose
so before life tears us apart let
death bless me with you

Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death

this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living

Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death

Baby join me in death

I consider this Eric & Dylan's song after they failed detonating the bombs and went up stairs, had a final shoot out with the cops out the window and then perished.

CharlesWhitman wrote:

I consider this Eric & Dylan's song after they failed detonating the bombs and went up stairs, had a final shoot out with the cops out the window and then perished.

Man I love that song. Korn = the real gods.

"Hate Me" by Blue October. Justin Furstenfeld wrote it as a posthumous message to his mother after she died while he was recovering from substance abuse and didn't live to see him sober up. It makes me think of how much E&D's friends, family members, etc. must have been searching inside themselves and blaming themselves for things after it happened - and how Eric was sad about connections he would break and friends he would never see again. I can imagine it would have been easier for him to deal with that if he didn't think anyone truly cared about him.



I actually just lost a friend to suicide a little over a month ago and can attest to how much this song hit home to me in terms of helping me deal with regret about not having talked to him for a long time and feeling like I failed to be there for him. This song helped me through it and made me realize that everyone has regrets after someone they love dies suddenly, and it doesn't mean that we failed them or that we loved them any less. It just means we're human. It helped me get through a recent sudden breakup of a relationship that was a week short of what would have been our third anniversary. Basically, this song has gotten me though a lot.

am I the only one who can't hear this song without thinking of E+D?

There's a song by a spanish rapper called Porta, "Voces en mi interior" (Voices in my interior), about a kid who hears voices in his head. The song is a dialogue between him and his internal voice, the voice convinces him to take revenge on the school and all the bullies who mistreated him. So he goes and gets a can of gasoline, emptying it and lighting it up with a match. Talks about how irresistable hearing their screams was. Then he ends up in a mental institution and talks about wanting to kill the nurses.

Perfect for both of them..

For some reason this song.
The big loud thumps (not sure what else to call it??) remind me of gunshots, and the lyrics  for sure:


When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say live and let live
(you know you did, you know you did you know you did)
But if this ever changing world in which we're living
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die
Live and let die
Live and let die
What does it matter to ya
When you got a job to do
You gotta do it well
You gotta give the other fellow hell

when I hear this song, I see a montage in my head of Eric and Dylan, driving around, playing Doom, making explosives and setting them off, working in Black Jack, sitting in class, going out at night, watching a movie together, clowning around and laughing, this song for some reason really sums up their 1997-1998 days together as friends, before it all changed.

Tyler, The Creator - Radicals

Eniledam wrote:

"Jeremy" by Pearl Jam has always reminded me of Dylan for some reason.

Definitely agree, I used to be obsessed with this song

"Angel" by Sarah McLachlan. It was written in memory of someone who died of a drug overdose but could just as easily apply to the mental illness both boys suffered and, in parts, to them cutting themselves.

Sarah McLachlan wrote:

Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance,
For a break that will make it okay.
There's always some reason to feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day.
I need some distraction - Oh, beautiful release.
Memories seep from my veins.
Let me be empty
Oh, and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight.

In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here.
From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear.
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie.
You're in the arms of the angel:
May you find some comfort here.

I'm so tired of the straight line,
And everywhere you turn,
There's vultures and thieves at your back.
And the storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make to difference, escaping one last time.
It's easier to believe
In this sweet madness,
Oh, this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees.

In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here.
From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear.
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie.
You're in the arms of the angel:
May you find some comfort here.

You're in the arms of the angel:
May you find some comfort here.

I think Eric would have liked this song.....so it reminds me of him:





This song reminds me of Dylan:


Life, it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else

I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

Things not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel

Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now he's gone

No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye

Mo' Murda & Shotz 2 Tha Double Glock by Bone Thugs N Harmony...
That was what I was listening to on 4/20/99.

"The Pass" by Rush has always resonated with me and reminded me of Columbine.

Always

CharlesWhitman wrote:

am I the only one who can't hear this song without thinking of E+D?

It reminded me so much of that I took various clips of E&D and put them to it.

xmichaelmyersii wrote:

It reminded me so much of that I took various clips of E&D and put them to it.

Mad World now always reminds me of Columbine.

Another song from the Natural Born Killers soundtrack that always reminds me:

The Mountain Goats - Up the Wolves

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I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim
Scope out every angle of unfair advantage
I'm gonna bribe the officials
I'm gonna kill all the judges
It's gonna take you people years
To recover from all of the damage

John Darnielle wrote:

"I'm always trying to figure out what to say about this god *&@# song. Part of me wants to say look it's about revenge, but as soon as I say that... no, that's not quite it. Part of me wants to say it's about the satisfaction of not needing revenge... and i say no, that some new age stuff. I think it's a song about the moment in your quest for revenge when you learn to embrace the futility of it. The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are."

Makes me think of E/D a lot.

Also,
Chevelle: The Red.

That song definitely brings the E&D feels.

"A Daydream Away" by All Time Low. It reminds me of how Dylan never approached a lot of the girls he liked, probably because he didn't want to be rejected and hurt. It sounds like the fantasies he'd write in his journal about spending time with his Halcyon girl.

Alex Gaskarth wrote:

I wish you could see your face right now,
'Cause you're grinning like a fool.
And we're sitting on your kitchen floor
On a Tuesday afternoon.
It doesn't matter when we get back
To doing what we do,
'Cause right now could last forever -
Just as long as I'm with you.

You're just a daydream away;
I wouldn't know what to say if I had you.
And I'll keep you a daydream away,
Just watch from a safe place
So I never have to lose.

We would go out on the weekend
To escape our busy lives.
And we'd laugh at all the douche-bag guys
Chasing down their desperate wives.
I would drink a little too much;
You'd offer me a ride.
And I would offer you a t-shirt -
And you would stay another night.

But you're just a daydream away;
I wouldn't know what to say if I had you.
And I'll keep you a daydream away,
Just watch from a safe place
So I never have to lose.

We never stood a chance out there
Shooting love in real-time.
So we'll take it over ice tonight,
With a little salt
And a little lime.

You're just a daydream away;
I wouldn't know what to say if I had you.
And I'll keep you a daydream away,
Just watch from a safe place
So I never have to lose.

You're just a daydream away
I wouldn't know what to say if I had you.