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What do you want to thank Simple Plan for?Started by(15 Jun '11)
I just listened to the full version of This Song Saved My Life and wow...that sure brought back memories. After listening I felt like I had to do this. I want to thank Simple Plan and all the fans. I started listening to SP when I was 13 years old. They made me realize what music should be all about.
During my first year of high school I was positive that everything would continue like it always had. Me and my friends hanging out, playing video games and staying up way too long. During that first year, my best friend moved away and our group kind of...disbanded I guess. I've always only hung out with the guys and I've never seen them as just that, guys. We still talked over msn and skype and one day they all told me that all these years, they've never really liked me. They just hung out with me because they felt sorry for me, because the girls wouldn't. I was in shock. I didn't know what to do. The very same day when I walked home from school, some of my so-called friends shouted at me that I was the ugliest person in the world. I was 14 at the time. I think that any 14 year old would be crushed by that. That night I snuck out and went to the train station. I felt like there was no point in continuing like this. Especially in this small town (can't even call it a town) when I had no one to turn to. My parents were in the middle of divorcing and I was struggling with my sexuality and well, let's just say it all hit me at once. I waited for the train and was fully prepared to jump. I had my headphones on..and when I saw the train coming the song Thank You came on. It was the first time I actually listened closely to the lyrics. The part when Pierre sings:
When the tables turn again,
You’ll remember me my friend,
You’ll be wishing I was there for you.I’ll be the one you miss the most,
But you’ll only find my ghost.
As time goes by,
You’ll wonder why,
You’re all alone.It just struck me and I just backed off and went home smiling, thinking I'd f*ing show those bastards. And I did. Now, 7 years later I have the most awesome friends I could ever ask for, the most wonderful girlfriend in the world and a little sister that looks up to me. It's all thanks to Simple Plan. I got the sheet music for that part of the song tattooed on my wrist, so when I'm having a bad day, I look at that and remember why I'm still here. So, thank you.
Now I'm wondering..since SP has the best and nicest fans in the world, what do you want to thank them for? Do you have a special song that changed something in your life?
P.S! I've read all your stories and I'm so amazed that Simple Plan has touched so many peoples lives. It gave me an idea for a video to This Song Saved My Life. If you are interested in being a part of it, please check this out!
http://www.simpleplan.com/forums/2b41d7-help-me-make-a-video-for-this-so...
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I just listened to the full version of This Song Saved My Life and wow...that sure brought back memories. After listening I felt like I had to do this. I want to thank Simple Plan and all the fans. I started listening to SP when I was 13 years old. They made me realize what music should be all about.
During my first year of high school I was positive that everything would continue like it always had. Me and my friends hanging out, playing video games and staying up way too long. During that first year, my best friend moved away and our group kind of...disbanded I guess. I've always only hung out with the guys and I've never seen them as just that, guys. We still talked over msn and skype and one day they all told me that all these years, they've never really liked me. They just hung out with me because they felt sorry for me, because the girls wouldn't. I was in shock. I didn't know what to do. The very same day when I walked home from school, some of my so-called friends shouted at me that I was the ugliest person in the world. I was 14 at the time. I think that any 14 year old would be crushed by that. That night I snuck out and went to the train station. I felt like there was no point in continuing like this. Especially in this small town (can't even call it a town) when I had no one to turn to. My parents were in the middle of divorcing and I was struggling with my sexuality and well, let's just say it all hit me at once. I waited for the train and was fully prepared to jump. I had my headphones on..and when I saw the train coming the song Thank You came on. It was the first time I actually listened closely to the lyrics. The part when Pierre sings:
When the tables turn again,
You’ll remember me my friend,
You’ll be wishing I was there for you.
I’ll be the one you miss the most,
But you’ll only find my ghost.
As time goes by,
You’ll wonder why,
You’re all alone.
It just struck me and I just backed off and went home smiling, thinking I'd f*ing show those bastards. And I did. Now, 7 years later I have the most awesome friends I could ever ask for, the most wonderful girlfriend in the world and a little sister that looks up to me. It's all thanks to Simple Plan. I got the sheet music for that part of the song tattooed on my wrist, so when I'm having a bad day, I look at that and remember why I'm still here. So, thank you.
Now I'm wondering..since SP has the best and nicest fans in the world, what do you want to thank them for? Do you have a special song that changed something in your life?
P.S! I've read all your stories and I'm so amazed that Simple Plan has touched so many peoples lives. It gave me an idea for a video to This Song Saved My Life. If you are interested in being a part of it, please check this out!
http://www.simpleplan.com/forums/2b41d7-help-me-make-a-video-for-this-so...
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I would like to thank Simple Plan because whenever i listen to their music, it feel like someone actually understands me, and actually gives a sh!t about how i feel... They make me think that everything will be okay, and one day it may not be just me against the world(:
I would like to thank SP because I'm a fan since I'm 9 years old. I just love them. But the whole 2010 was a nightmare for me, and half 2011 was too, but when GY?O came out, it was just like it woke me up. I used to cut myself since December 2010, but when I was listening to their songs, everything was ok, and nothing hurts. And when GY?O came out, I stopped cutting myself, I guess that was the sign for me to keep holding on.
Sorry if my english is bad, I'm from Argentina.
Simple Plan shows how much they really care and love their fans and i want to thank them for that and also for bringing a smile on my face everyday. I really love them and they mean a lot to me..really! So, thank you very much Simple Plan for being a part of my life. SP?
Wow.. That's a hell of a story you got there..
I want to thank Simple Plan for their love to us fans, they really care and that means a lot to us. They are role models and this special bond between us is something beautiful. I hope to meet them one day!
It's amazing how music can mean that much to us, right?
I would like to thank simple plan because before i heard about them i had a lot of things going on in my life that most of it was never good most of the time i felt alone cause no one knew what i was going through and the one day i heard there song shut up it really made me happy and i began forgetting about all the problems and any time i am sad or upset there music cheers me up
First off, their lyrics. They are so real and so full of meaning and relatability that pretty much anybody can be touched by them in one way or another. For me personally, i'd like to thank them for Save you and Untitled and Gone too Soon. I lost my mother a year 1/2 ago and times have been extremely hard. Listening to these three songs, and others have really helped me and made me feel a little bit better about everything. Helps me remember her in a way that will always be happy and bright, even if everything else isn't. Pierre himself is one of my idols and I can't thank them enough for all that they have done for me, and all tat they have helped me through. Simple Plan, I love you guys, You have been there for me and I will always be thee to supposrt you and love you, now and forevermore
I want to thank Simple Plan for making meaningful music. Not a lot of artists do that anymore. Simple Plans's songs have gotten me through a lot of rough times and I'm very grateful for that. I love that they try to connect with fans and sing about what we want to hear and they make music specifically how they know we would want it. It's amazing how they can put so much feeling into every song they have out there. When I listen to them I'm a generally happy person. Sometimes it takes a lot to do that to me. So thank you, Simple Plan, for being such an amazing band. I love you guys, and I will be a Simple Plan fan for life,
Thank you for helping me be who I was supposed to be all along, for making me happy and in general lightening up my world
thanks for a great show in WPB guys. It was great meeting you guys and thanks Jeff for asking me if i was ok during the signing, i went and found some shade/water after that, lol. Thanks again for signing my "stop dreaming start playing like david" poster. Pierre, i hope you don't think i'm an idiot for not unwrapping the CD before i got to you guys, i didn't even think to do that, lol. Seb, it was great meeting you at the tent earlier in the day, and chuck and david, it was nice meeting you guys at the signing too. Also, Chuck, thanks for saying you were sorry for my loss when i mentioned my dad's death and how it occured on the day you finished the album and how the song "gone too soon" really means alot to me since i first heard it on father's day this year.
anyway, great to meet you guys at WPB.
thanks, Peter
Your story is really moving Vellah, thanks for sharing it with us :)
I'm just a kid changed my life, and Simple Plan saves it everyday. I heard I'm just a kid for the first time when I was 11, I was a little and nice and shy girl. Everyone appreciated me but no one really cared. I wasn't in peace with myself, I had no real good friends and I had a very bad opinion of myself. I never wanted to die or to escape, I was just sick of myself and I thought that anyone would ever discover the girl I was. Now I'm 18, I have the best friends I could ever have, my family is awesome, I make goos studies, I finally someone with tastes and ideas and I'm ready to fight for it, thank to Simple Plan. When I listen to This song saved my life, the sentence 'you let me know like no one else that it's ok to be myself' touches me more than anyone else. This sentence is for me, for my life, for what they did to me. I'm fucking ok with myself right now. I'm not as pretty as I'd like to be, I'd like to be someone stronger and cooler but well, it's ok. And maybe I would have stayed this afraid little girl I was. Thank you thank you thank you.
Valleh, I have a story similar to yours. When I first bought the album, I listened to it all, and just as I have with the other two I was struck to the point of shear delight. Simple Plan literally saved my life, and when I heard this story it screamed everything that had happened to me. I was suicidal and didn't realize that I was even depressed until I was in health class and we were discussing symptoms. The night I was about two minutes from taking my life, Perfect came on. I stopped and listened, unmoving. I started sobbing when it was over. If I wasn't alone, If I wasn't the only one to feel that way, and they got through it. I could too. Simple Plan saved my life that night. They put me back on track, drove me towards my career and passion in singing and music single-handedly, and helped guide me throughout my life and to God as well. Since that night I have had one goal and one goal through my music, to save a life the way I was saved. Every chance I have to get share my story and to make that impact in someone else's life, just as my was changed forever I do. My senior project, and almost every audition I have been to, I sing Perfect, but this time, I'm singing "This Song Saved My Life." Now let's pray I can get through it without crying.
Pierre, Chuck, Sebastien, David, and Jeff. Thank You ALL, for creating music that saved my life when I was 14. "I was down, I was drowning, but it cam on just in time, This song saved my life." I love you all. I owe you my life. You're my inspiration and rolemodels. Never Change, and keep rocking the world and changing and saving lives. You're the most incredible band ever. You will always be my favorite and most loved band. THANK YOU SIMPLE PLAN.
I'd like to thank Simple Plan for such cool songs. Particularly, one song would be "Astronaut" because whenever I feel lonely, the song reminded me that I'm not the only one feeling the same and that there are other people who feel lonely around the world. SP rocks! \m/
I want to thank Simple Plan for all the great lyrics everyone can relate to. the song "this song saved my life" gives me shivers every single time i listen to it cause:
"sometimes it feels like nobody gets me...
you're my escape when I'm stuck in this small town
i turn you up whenever i feel down"
I want to thank them for all the good songs, and many of them is so beautiful when you have bad times. I just love them! SP FOREVER!
I want to thank them for getting me through some very tough times. I almost had a nervous breakdown on my birthday several years ago and ironically heard "welcome to my life" for the first time within a few days after that and it kind of let me know that i'm not the only one that goes through things like that. I also want to thank them for putting into words how i felt after my Dad died. My dad passed away from a sudden heart attack on nov 18th, 2010, the day SP finished the album. I remember reading that on their website that day and my dad passed away that evening at a friends house. I first heard Gone too Soon on fathers day and it really moved me. I couldn't even finish it the first time. I lost my mom in 2007 and the song "save you" helped me through that as well since my mom had a kidney transplant that didn't go well and she was in the hospital for 5 months between the transplant and her death. I feel like their music connects with me.
Je remercie les SP d'écrire de superbes paroles qui collent parfaitement aux mélodies! Ouai j'ai obtenu mon Baccalauréat grâce à vous! ;) En mettant 2 strophes entières de "Welcome to my life", que je connais par cur (comme beaucoup d'autres d'ailleurs...) ça m'a permis d'avoir une bonne note en anglais! et sans l'anglais, je doute que j'aurais eu ce foutu diplôme... Donc merci les gars!! :p et Bonne continuation, c'est génial ce que vous faites ;)
"This song saved my life" ! :)
I was 13 my parents divorced I have not seen my father for six months and at that time I had a lot of tests I'm still going through a lot of testing
Say that I had friends at this time it's easy I was the most unpopular girl in school must have and at that time I began to hear the Perfect and Welcome to my life and that's what got me out of the trash I was stuck in it
Now I have a good life and I have good friends
And I am in contact with my father
So thanks for saving me Simple Plan
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you
I want to thank them for the best music in the world! Everytime I listen to one of their songs, it makes my day. I love their songs and I love Simple Plan.
I would want to thank simple plan for being their for their fans, and becoming a band. When i was in junior high, i was always called names and bullied, and people told me i wasnt worth anything. Then i started listening to SP more, and i was soo close to ending my life, because i was tired of it, but then i startd listeing to the songs Holding On, Welcome to my life, When i'm gone, Perfect, and my favorite, Me Against The World, and i got out of my closet, and promised myself i wouldn't cry or feel sorry for myself when there are worse things happening in the world, and now i'm on my schools Dance/Drill team, a straight-A student, and when i graduate i'm going to college to be in the Air Force. And i don't care what other people say when they don't even know me. Its not up to them who or what you become its only up to you, because the don't control your life, you do. I'm still bullied sometimes, but i just turn and walk away, because they ain't worth my time, and every 60 seconds you waste being sad, and mad is a minute of happiness that you'll never get back.
I love Simple Plan!! :)
They saved my life. When my hope was gone and I saw no purpose in life, I started listen to their music. The first song I heard was welcome to my life and it spoke to me. It felt like the song was about me. I've had some hard times in life and I still have some hard times, but Simple Plan always helps me through those times.
Guys, my eyes are welling up. I would have never thought that you could have had such difficult times. I am a lucky girl, I have only had some little bad periods, and I want to thank SP for making me feel understood. Welcome to my life totally describes a period I had in my life, and I felt like they could see what it was like, and it helped me feel better. And all the other songs, everytime I don't know how to express myself, they give me the words, they help me clear and understand my feelings. Thank you from the depth of mt heart.
for saving my life
I remember when I was having some sort of sad moments in my life and Simple Plan music just gave me power to be happy and that made me listen their songs all the time. The time was passing by and I always was returning to Simple Plan while they were releasing new albums and every time I was finding the song fitted to my mood. Actually I never found a band like Simple Plan, it's the only one I never get bored of. Your new album Get Your Heart On is definetly the best one, I'm always singing the songs in my house and my daugther loves to hear them :)
I thank them because their music keeps me going.
You know: Holding on: When I open your letter the words make it better. It takes it all away. It keeps me holding on. Just "When I listen to your songs" instead of "When I open your letter" ;)
Thank them for so much...
When I cry while singing along to a song that makes me come through life...
Making me smile with tears in my eyes while singing the lyrics phrase "This song saved my life"
Because it reminds of alle the time when music was the only think that kept me alive...
I payed more attention to Still Not Getting Any and immediately loved Welcome To My Life (it described my everyday school being with my so perfect classmates laughing of me) and Crazy (that reminded me a lot of me thinking about the world). Back then I was just discovering the world of music and its music, and I definitely NEVER regret having Simple Plan in my top10 first ever favorite bands in the whole world. I have like 2 or three more stories, one very alike this boring one I've just written (btw with the same person) but I 've already written enough (and more than that) so I just want to say THANK YOU SP because seriously without knowing me you always know how to make me feel better, keeps me going, makes me want to be a better person and help people, for make me laugh whenever I see your interviews and making my days, for make scream out loud whenever I see one of your videos in the TV, for understanding me (even though you don't notice), for making me cry like a baby when I hear your songs, for giving me the strength to move on and realize that I'm not always the one to blame or laugh or betray and tell it to the world, and in the end, just for being part of my angels of mercy like in One Republic song "Mercy" directly sent from God (I would like to think). It's totally insane for me without even had seen you once live that I love you, but I do because somehow you're a big part of me, like if I can feel you near and see through your soul when I hear your music... THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!! a thousand times and multiplied by infinite :3
wow! after reading all your stories I feel just like a selfish way too much spoiled girl :/ but anyhow I am way too grateful with Simple Plan and I'm sure I'll always be and I have to express myself, so my story is: I was 12 years old when my nightmare begin (even though as I already said it must be nothing for a lot of you) but well, my family and I moved to a new place where I didn't know anyone. I've never been a very outgoing person, actually I'm very shy and even got to go with a psychologist when I was 8, so it was the worst thing ever to me leave the place I´ve lived since I was born, where I knew my Best friends and was finally interacting more with my classmates, but it didn't matter because my mom was about die of a heart attack (literally). In the new school I found a new friend, and easily then my best friend, but then she started keeping me apart. I was broken-hearted; my only friend in that new place didn't want to be with me. A lot of things happened then and I tried to blind myself about she leaving me out. Then I started knowing better her friends and made a good relationship with another girl that at first I hated and she hated me, but I still felt down; highschool wasn't like school when I had good grades, I failed my tests, felt lost, lonely, cried every day, felt useless and my parents and sister where always reminding me that. My brother was my only refuge, but he had his girlfriend to take care of and a job. As everyone I thought about suicidal, but I just had the thoughts, never been able to even attempt it because I knew it God wouldn't forgive me. Then I saw the movie where Simple Plan sings Vacation and I had already heard a little about them, but I decided to dig deeper, and I did. I was amazed when I heard them and immediately related to all the songs.
There are so many things that I would like to thank Sp for. But at first I'm very proud of being a Simple Plan Fan. Sp means a lot too me.There are so many songs which means a lot in my life and in which I see my self too. For example "Welcome to my Life" is a song that I listen to very often. I think everyone can tell you a story about not being accepted by someone in things that you've done. And for me, the song shows me that I'm not alone with that problems and even celebrities have the same problems. In " This song saved my life" the words .. "Sometimes it feels like nobody gets me trapped in a world where everyone hates me There's so much that I'm going through I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you" .. touched me most. Because in that moment I've listen to it everyone hates me and I just had to understand that I have to broke out off my self-pity. And I just have to make my world a bit better with the help of SIMPLE PLAN. So Thank You for being part in my life and helping me getting out of my world where everyone hates me and just make it a good one with many SP songs! THANK YOU
When I first litened to This Song Saved My Life, I started remembering all these moments that I've had listening to Simple Plan. That same week I shook the dust off of my copies of "No Pads" and "SNGA" and listened to all their songs. Most of them that didn't make sense to me at first, since I was 12 and first listening to them, now all came back as a shock to me since my life would've been so much easier if I kept listening to them as time went by.
All these things in their songs like losing friendship, facing up to stupid kids who think they're the best and looking back to moments I've had and wishing that they'd have lasted longer made me feel everything that I've felt during that time when I listened to them, including the lyrics, that came back to my mind like I've been listening to them since forever. I honestly don't know why I stopped listening to them for a while, guess I had some growing up left to do by my own.
But now I'm very thankful for them to have made a huge comeback and writing This Song Saved My Life, because it did save mine and it did come on just in time :)
Thank you for being yourselves. And awesome. Both at the same time =)
Simple plan has helped me get through life. I was put in a psychiatric hospital 6 times. All the madness in my life started when I was 7 years old. I got diagnosed with depression, ocd, and bipolar disorder. I was most recently diagnosed with aspergers syndrome. (a form of autism). I am currently 17 years old and I am going into my senior year in high school. I have a few close friends. I strongly believe that most guys think I'm weird. I have all of these disabilities, and on top of all that I wear a lot of strange dark clothing. I like it and I can't let people bring me down. I have asked guys on dates several times. They either look at me with a freaked out look or say that they are already are dating somebody. I've never been on a date. I just have to keep looking I guess. I sometimes cut myself to take my pain away. I usually listen to simple plan because it helps me stop. Their music helps keep me alive. During my hospitalizations I listened to simple plan. I knew that there was hope. Even today I still attend my therapist appointments. But I know the best way for me to feel better is by listening to them. They are the best. I have had several dreams the past few weeks about meeting them. I know its strange. If I were to meet them, especially Pierre, my life would be complete. When I feel upset I will always turn to simple plans music. Thank you simple plan. You are helping me stay strong.
I truly love your story Valleh! SP helps out so many people and I won't lie, they helped me through so much with just their lyrics. A Backstreet Boy song helped too (What make your different, makes you beautiful) I'd advise checking it out. It gives you that feeling that you are actually worth something.
But I would like to thank Simple Plan for EVERYTHING! I remember sending them messages through this site years ago and when I heard "This song save my life" the verse:
Sometimes I feel like you've known me forever
You always know how to make me feel better
Because of you my dad and me are so much closer
Than we used to be
You're my escape when I'm stuck
In this small town
I turn you up
Whenever I feel down
You let me know like no one else
That it's ok be myself
That verse is very similar to one of the letters i sent them. The ONLY difference was i said MOM instead of DAD. I just started to cry the second I heard that verse. Did they read my letter? Don't know, but I mean, SHIT!
But i want to thank them for helping me move on over being sexually harassed by my high school chemistry teacher (i was 15). At that time the song "Untitled" fit for everything going on. Also, being the only girl in my family, and the youngest (i have 3 older brothers), i felt left out cause my dad called me a mistake, said i would never be anything like my brothers, and he beat the shit out of me several times and almost killed me (from ages 15-16, and just recently 21). So the song "Perfect" was the one that got be through that. All during the 15-16 age time frame, all my friends decided to dump me as a friend because now the "PERFECT GIRL" has issues. "Thank you" also helped me for that. But because of this, my outlet was to write songs, and i have a ton of lyrics. My best one is "Broken Down Perfect Girl" People expect so much from me and when i fuck up, they all abandon me. Hopefully my song will be on the radio one day to help people like Simple Plan does!
Keep your head up!
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