Theme Songs #3: Melotrauma

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I've decided on the cheery theme of reaction to trauma. What I'm looking for are songs that detail the ways in which a person copes (or fails to cope) with traumas that originate in childhood or adolescence. There's a lot of this stuff in teenpop, but I'd like to broaden the scope as well.

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There are lots of song about pain following a break-up, say, but what I'm looking for are lasting wounds, perhaps from childhood, that have healed over, opened up, healed over again. And the most points will go to the most unexpected expression of how this trauma has manifested itself. As I said once of Margaret Berger's "Robot Song," I'd like to be blindsided by pathos if possible.

You have NO limitations on the number of nominations.

Pop lyrics blogs

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Are there any good blogs or other sites which contain analysis of pop's lyrical content? Discussion of particular lyrical tropes, analysis of individual lines, reviews of songs focusing on their lyrics goodness or badenss, that type of thing?

I'm asking because I am thinking of starting one of my own. It's been my general impression that most music criticism isn't; desperately interested in lyrics, and especially so in pop music where lyrics are usually dismissed as being a bit rubbish (outside of rap anyway, where tehy are actually The Point and therefore get a lot of focus). However lyrics are a large part of my enjoyment of any song, and also I love to over-analyse the shit out of stuff that was probably scrawled on the back of a fag packet in five minutes when it was originally recorded, and think there could be a lot of amusement and/or interest to be extracted from deconstructing the semiotics of "la la la". but not in an elitist, ironic way although kinda, but I genuinely enjoy "la la las" and other such things that are on the surface dumb but in a clever and/or expressive way.

Anyway ramble ramble, any suggestions?