Don't
Use And Abuse Lyrics
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So many different things if you have the time
Give a little more, give it your best shot
On the right track you can't be stopped
All the things I said that I would do
All the brilliant ideas that slipped right through
Sometimes we got to get on and climb aboard
Don't miss the train, don't miss the train
Don't miss the train, don't miss the train
Don't miss the train, don't miss the train
Don't miss the train, don't miss the train
It could be the only chance we have
Have you ever sat and thought about other things?
Living on the street, hanging by a string
Letting people take away your name
Letting people push you into your grave
What you gotta do is stand up for what is yours
Breaking all the barricades, smash the doors
If the chance comes around to save your life
Remember, opportunity doesn't always knock twice
The decision is ntirely up to you
So don't watch the train just pass right through
There is another time that you will meet in life
But the second visit won't be nice
So now you're walking in your sorrow on lonely tracks
Hoping for the day the train will come back
Light on in the tunnel just up ahead
The train is back but now you're dead...TOO LATE
The lyrics of "Don't" by Use and Abuse highlight the importance of not missing opportunities and taking the necessary steps to achieve one's goals. The first stanza emphasizes the limitless possibilities in life and encourages individuals to give their best shot, remain focused, and stay on the right track. The second stanza takes a more cautionary tone and warns against complacency, missed opportunities, and the consequences that follow. Through powerful imagery, the song calls on people to take ownership of their lives, avoid distractions, and pursue their dreams with passion and determination.
The phrase "don't miss the train" is repeated throughout the song, serving as a metaphor for taking action and seizing opportunities while they are available. The song also touches on societal pressures and the importance of standing up for oneself in the face of adversity. Overall, "Don't" by Use and Abuse is a motivational piece that encourages listeners to pursue their goals relentlessly and avoid regret.
Line by Line Meaning
So many different things you can do with your life
There are countless opportunities to explore in life
So many different things if you have the time
If you have the time, you can pursue endless possibilities
Give a little more, give it your best shot
Put in the effort and give everything your best effort
On the right track you can't be stopped
When you are focused and taking the right direction, nothing can stop you
All the things I said that I would do
The promises I made to myself about what I would achieve
All the brilliant ideas that slipped right through
The great ideas that I let go to waste
Sometimes we got to get on and climb aboard
We need to take action and make things happen
But I was one day late and a dollar short
Unfortunately, I missed my chance and didn't take action soon enough
Don't miss the train, don't miss the train
Do not let opportunities pass you by
It could be the only chance we have
This opportunity could be the only chance we get
Have you ever sat and thought about other things?
Have you ever considered all the other things you could do?
Living on the street, hanging by a string
Life can be uncertain and dangerous
Letting people take away your name
Allowing others to diminish your value and identity
Letting people push you into your grave
Allowing others to control your life and lead you toward destruction
What you gotta do is stand up for what is yours
You need to fight for what you believe in and what belongs to you
Breaking all the barricades, smash the doors
Overcoming obstacles and breaking down barriers to achieve success
If the chance comes around to save your life
If an opportunity arises that can change your future
Remember, opportunity doesn't always knock twice
Opportunities are rare and you may not get a second chance
The decision is entirely up to you
You are the one who has to decide and take action
So don't watch the train just pass right through
Do not let opportunities go by without taking action
There is another time that you will meet in life
Another opportunity will come along in the future
But the second visit won't be nice
But it may not be as favorable as the first opportunity
So now you're walking in your sorrow on lonely tracks
Being filled with regret because an opportunity was missed
Hoping for the day the train will come back
Waiting and hoping for another opportunity
Light on in the tunnel just up ahead
Seeing a glimmer of hope in the future
The train is back but now you're dead...TOO LATE
But it may be too late to take advantage of the opportunity
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
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@bandit5561
Please all of you remember that abuse can come in all forms and ways.
Physical abuse:To physically hurt someone (beating, kicking, pinching and so on)
Verbal abuse: To insult or degrade someone vocally "You are ugly" or "You can't achieve anything"
Emotional abuse: Controlling you by using your emotions "If you don't do what I say I will jump of a cliff" or "If you don't come with me I will be extremely mad"
and other forms of abuse
@Anuyushi
God, I was heavily abused in my family and I heard the worst things about it from people I was supposed to trust.
"Just sibling rivalry"
"You have to be there no matter what"
"You can't just cut them out of your life. It happened, get over it and forgive"
"You're overreacting, she's not like that"
"What did YOU do to piss her off and make her punch you?"
And that's just a few.
To put into perspective, she threw me into a wall and I got yelled at for making a noise when I hit it. But her? She was just told to lay down again.
From locking me in my room, to throwing my things down and smashing them, keeping me awake so I would struggle at work the next day, physical assault, then gaslighting and manipulating everyone I tried to go to for help where she would play victim, it took 14 years just to get one person to finally say "She was A LITTLE MEAN to you."
When it comes to family, nobody wants to say it, nobody wants to accept it. They want the perfect loving family, if they don't acknowledge abuse, it doesn't exist.
It's even worse when I'm the older sibling. So no matter how smaller and weaker I am to her, I'm always seen as the aggressor or the stronger one or the one that can take it.
Nobody wants to talk about family abuse and now I don't want to talk to family.
@katrinatilley1427
@@wafflemation6887
The steps to realizing humanity is more good than bad:
1. Unplug from the news and social media.
2. Open your heart and mind, and
3. Look around you - your friends, family, acquaintances, strangers on the street or in the grocery store. Make a note to yourself every time you see someone being kind - you'd be surprised how quickly that number goes up.
4. Research the things you care about (or just good "causes" in general), and pay attention to how many other people in the world are trying to make things better. And if you still see more bad in people than good, then perhaps consider:
5. Making different choices regarding who you surround yourself with.
6. Making different choices regarding your own mindset, beliefs, inner narratives, etc. How you see the world and the people in it is largely a choice.
.....Hope this helped?
@poptartpoltergeist9765
It touches on a part of abuse that I didn't pick up on with my last relationship: Isolation.
He would isolate me front friends, both online and real life. He had a tight grip on what I enjoyed, and when I wanted to do something by myself because Its something he didn't enjoy, he got annoyed with me... Hated when I made new friends.
Then when he'd go out with HIS friends and HE went to do things, I let him. And I think this somehow annoyed him more?
It wasn't that I didn't care, it was that I trusted him to do the right things and to be a good person.
So much for that, lmao.
If Anyone out there are seeing these patterns in YOUR relationship, be careful... it'll start something that's a bitch to stop.
Stay safe guys!
@FunkyFreshYT
I recently got out of a relationship with someone quite abusive and manipulating. We met over a good while back, and she was quite sweet. I felt like I could trust her. Some point down the line, things felt different. Sometimes she would snap at me for the smallest of things, she'd force me of my socials to see who I'm following but she wouldn't let me see who she was following or talking to, when I had to sleep she wouldn't let me sleep, if I was having time with family she'd spam me to focus on her instead of my family. I said to myself that maybe it was just a love thing, that we get jealous when our other is enjoying themselves and we want to be a part of it, but it wasn't exactly a nice kind of jealousy in her case..
Coming up close to our 1 year, she just destroyed me, mentally, emotionally, physically, I've never felt so numb and dry in my life, how I never deserved love, how I was always the problem. I went to a friend for help, she tried her best and tried "distracting" me, and let's say.. I got distracted. My ex found out about this a few weeks afterwards and it all went more to shit. She was saying that her abusing me had nothing to do with me going to someone else for help and doing what was done, she was right, but wrong too. Since then, I had blocked the person who was trying to help me, and I don't know where she is anymore.
Time went on since then, my birthday, my ex barely wished me a happy birthday, and Christmas, same shit too. If it wasn't for her, then she wouldn't care, because it was "always about me" and that I'd "never pay attention to her" when I'd destroy time with my family and ruin my sleep patterns just to talk to her. It got even worse over time, even though she kept pulling cutesy acts and stuff, she'd still have outrages at me, and funnily enough: She always blamed it on mental health, she self diagnosed herself due to her own judgement. I was saying she was narcissistic, she only wanted what she wants, and she always says she's not like that. Well, she kept that up for a year and a half, whenever she got angry it was mental health, but whenever I got angry it was always "toxic masculinity". A lot of times where she was trying to leave and argue for no reason, I felt forced to apologize and beg for her to stay. It felt wrong, so fucking wrong, but I felt like I couldn't live without her. I knew she gave me hate, but I didn't know what to do.
In the more later months, I tried breaking up with her, which only led her to threatening me, my parents, my friends, my life, everything. I'd confront her about how she acts, but she'll blame me for it, and I hate being blamed for stuff I don't do. I couldn't upright tell her I'd break up, so, I just ghosted her. A week went by, I hope she got the message. She came forward and apologized for something, so I went back to talking to her, but I didn't have any intentions for love. She tried making me love her but I told her straight, I didn't want to be in a relationship where I have to jump through hoops for a compliment, and how complimenting her is the lowest thing I could do. And soon after, you guessed it, her anger ensued. I couldn't take it once again and I left, with no responses.
I see her emailing me, talking about getting back together, then a character, then wanting to date someone else, and then wanting to date me again. I'm so confused, this is all I could do, leaving her ghosted. If I block her, she knows I want to get rid of her and she'll track me down, she's done it before. I'm stuck in a limbo right now, I'm talking to someone else, and we're doing good at the moment, at long last I feel like I found someone who truly cares about what I have to say, and I'm happy.
I know this was a long read, I just wanted to get this out. To everyone, no matter who your oppressor is, you have a voice and actions, you have friends and family. Talk to them, be with them and they'll be there for you too. I know it's hard trying to break away from your oppressor, but you have to do it, or they'll latch onto you like you're a thing to them. You're all people, you all have your rights, you're no one's "thing". Be free, be happy, but most of all, be you.
Edit: I also forgot to mention, around the time she found out I was talking to that friend I mentioned, she straight up signed up to an app and asked out multiple guys and showed me the messages, that put me at my breaking point. She kept bringing up the time I cheated and I told her that I felt like I had to cheat to feel love and how she cheated too, but she said it wasn't cheating what she did, and we all know that it was cheating.
@aaliyah_goat947
This is actually 100% accurate.
Unfortunately my last relationship was like this but once I started to listen to my friends and had their support in getting out of it, I felt better.
I felt scared and definitely wouldn't have don't it without them but I'm thankful.
Now I've been with someone for the past 6 months and we both are really happy and always speak about our future together.
He was actually the only one to check on me and try to cheer me up while everyone else was oblivious to me being upset.
This is because I didn't want to bother them and hid it from everyone but my current boyfriend was the only one who noticed and I was reluctant and cautious at first but with the help of a friend, we started dating and we've never been happier.
We even have four guineapigs now 😂
(don't give up hope but please speak to someone if you are in a position similar to the video shown and ask for help)
@Lee-eg8ul
I'm glad u ended that!! Take care!💕💕
My ex was also starting to be like that, made scenes in our dates,instead of enjoying them, he acted cold, angry, threw "shit" at me,or if i wasn't doing enough or correctly,when i always told him he could talk to me if there were issues,or have confort in me, he never wanted to tell more than superficial stuff from his life.
But always used the dates to spit crap,instead of "normal situations", send offended,or passive agressive with indirects messages when anything wrong was done,or too way sneaky, always blamed me, acted weird, started complaining ab my clothing or wanted me to go x way or whatever,even i told him that i wouldn't,that i would dress the ways i liked and not the ones he said.
Asked me a lot ab friends or if i had any "other crush" n shit, couldn't take a no, or that day i didn't want shit with him and like "kinda forced me" but when he saw he was going too far,he always stopped,maybe bc was scared of being reported or sth.
He usually forced me to have long long hugs,so instead of love it turned an "obligation",where if i didn't give it,he would be as an annoying fly around me asking me the whys,or forcing. I sometimes even pushed or yelled at him,that wtf, it's supposed to be love hugs, not an obligation.
One day i went more "active" xd in kissings crap, and he was surprised,aka offended,bc he was off of guard,or wasn't he the "male" asking for them, so I went...
-But don't u like kisses? Why u act those ways?
And he answered quite passive agressive some shit as :
-Weird,u never "want" (remember it turned obligation bc was an annoyance so i wasn't liking him that much at that time already) and yes today? Ur always so weird, but... well whatever I won't complain tho,but remember u were the one kissy person today
And i went (wtf????,Why that answer?? Wth)
Also hated be in photos,drawed or be shared with friends, since i draw good(animated) i wanted to do one together (when we were still ok) and he acted so weird,as if he was a criminal and me a police doing his face sketch.
If you're a good person why should you be scared of appear in photos or drawins!?
Also asked me to not report him as abuser or sth, even when we were "ok"? What kind of questions are those?why should you worry if ur supposed to be a good guy? Started to talk ab sex when just being 2 weeks together,and doing creepy married life plans,or like, putting minimum relationship time (minimum 3 yrs in being together) when i told him that we would be together the time it passed,a lot,or just a few,but not put that minimum range,that was creepy.
I'm asexual apart from bi,so i told him and even he said "ok",the fact couldn't have that sex for me annoyed him. He was mad bc couldn't lose virginity with me
And me like...but u said u don't like me that way or that u could wait,that wasn't urgent. Now ur interested? Wth. What he wanted is to fuck and say he wasn't anymore bc some of his friends did it already.
He also had the balls to say that he didn't like me bc my appearance,he liked me bc my personality. And i thought...ur not also prince charming,my guy. U have also a lot to be disliked too. Who says to his couple that is ugly?...(In some ways he said it...?)
He said that if my clothes were old or sth. When he was the one wearing the SAME SHOES for 4 months LONG without CHANGING THEM. Ew ew. So i returned it to him with that. That yes,maybe old,but you wearing the same shoes as a homeless guy when ur obviously not one. So hypocrite.
He also said crap as that he liked lolis(he is weeb) and that if they looked legal,even being illegal,was ok for him. He's freaking 20 now. 19 back then and me 18.
Now I'm 19.
Wouldn't that be...pedo!???
Yes i also did my "waifus" "harem",but..jeez,legal ones.(yes,i tend to waifus and not husbandos)
A friend and also crush i had (same gender tho) at the same time i was dating him(since his ways of actings made me lose my love for him, just made me puke every time i saw him,so i started liking her instead of him,i was with him like...just bc he's with me but not bc anything more)who also experienced the same,an annoying and bad ex.
She helped me, had a a talk with me and i realized, so i broke up with him. I was planning already to break up with him,but she just fueled it
He got kind of mad, said the i will change i promise shit, or acts weird after the breaking up but... Y'know. I won't keep that crap, I won't believe him,since he did the changing promise and he was the same. So i saw he was sus
I told him everything, even nearly slapped him bc stilk he was acting like a dick, instead of listening or understanding or whatever. He still wanted to have " perks" even being exes or just friends again. And me... wth, I'm breaking up with u.
OFC NOT!!!???
wth. He was so rude.
Not that long ago, was his bday, and he got mad at me and passive agressive bc i didn't remember it. And i was like...
Uuuh... I'm ur ex...? I don't need to be remembering shit now and less from you
Plus i had college exams, i wasn't for remembering things.
Now i have a gf and she's the opposite to him and we're happy now :)
She also had crappy exes, so we understand each other and just share diabetic love all day xd😂😂
@cakefrosting6451
As someone who hasn’t dated despite already being a young adult, I am actually scared of it.
My parents don’t hit us, but they’ve lived by being manipulative and being manipulated at the same time. Mainly it’s the mother doing more manipulation, while the father gets manipulated by the family he was born from and because he’s already emotionally drained and unavailable, he simply ignores my mother for his own good. In that well, he can’t really argue with my mom if everything my mom says has to be taken as the truth and cannot be argued or reasoned with.
There’s too many things I have to straighten out now just because I lived my life thinking this cycle of emotional abuse is normal for families, and even my parents proclaim it’s normal for couples to argue.
But if you’ve ever heard of her deafening banshee screaming one abuse victim is capable of,
or heard of the heartless words from an abuse victim who decided that he can only remain a victim just to have a job, and simultaneously forget about spending time with the 3 kids he decided to make with his wife, and subject them to 70s type of parental treatment in 2022.
I can only say, it’s not normal at all.
They both only repeat the same mistakes their parents made, on us. It’s bad until we kids grew a mask just to handle our mother’s tirade and our father’s continual detachment from reality.
Like if my mother claims her parents limited her opportunities to go out with friends at 21, when her kids are 24, 22 and 20, she’s still policing when we can go out with friends and will b*tch about the child that decided they needed more social time with his friends. This woman likes to make your emotions go through a hurricane every single day.
If my dad wants you to make plans to repair the rotting attic, once you show him the plan, he just blatantly ignores it. He keeps piling unrealistic expectations to the point you already know he just likes to talk but never walk. The only time he does walk his talk is fortunately in his job. Otherwise, he basically ignores your emotional needs.
If I come from such a family where the love is more conditional, where I am starved of having my feelings known and acknowledged as they are rather than being always twisted into something I can only begrudgingly accept it to avoid further conflict, how am I suppose to be a good lover?
I don’t even think I can function well in a work setting, since all I have done was live in constant fear.
@Jah_LEASE_yah
“He can be so romantic and sweet sometimes,” what my best friend said about her ex boyfriend who was abusing her. This video was like the perfect representation of that. He always had flowers for her even as he was becoming more and more abusive.
@Listova
EX? Good, i hope her be happy now
@DivineDefect
My friend said the EXACT same thing about her ex abusive boyfriend... I never did succeed in fully convincing her to move on from him.
@thequackspirit_1886
I can relate
@skylarthompson299
@Defect What do you mean at least they’re broken up? (Sometimes ab@se does that to people.)
@DivineDefect
@Skylar Thompson At the time they were going out, she constantly spoke about how she knew he was bad for her but "he can be so romantic and sweet sometimes" literally the exact same words as op's comment!
I constantly tried to convince her to leave him but in the end he broke up with her and she feels like without a relationship she = nothing. She constantly talks about him even though months have passed and they haven't spoken.
@bandit5561
Please all of you remember that abuse can come in all forms and ways.
Physical abuse:To physically hurt someone (beating, kicking, pinching and so on)
Verbal abuse: To insult or degrade someone vocally "You are ugly" or "You can't achieve anything"
Emotional abuse: Controlling you by using your emotions "If you don't do what I say I will jump of a cliff" or "If you don't come with me I will be extremely mad"
and other forms of abuse
@tokuko9027
Why does the last one remind me of Jacob from Twilight? He threatened to stab himself when Bella said she didn't like him back.
@sabrinaszabo9355
Don’t forget emotional abandonment—-
Its soooooo lonely to be ignored….
@bandit5561
@🧋Tokuko🧋 Didn’t watch it but yes, this sounds like massive emotional abuse