30 Day Music Challenge: Day Twenty

Day 20: A Song That You Listen To When You're Angry

Interestingly yesterday's song would probably have worked just as well for today's post - I do quite like to listen to Slipknot loudly whilst driving fast when I'm raging at the world! However choosing a metal song for this question strikes me as somewhat of a cliche so I'm going to go in completely the other direction... The Dixie Chicks aren't exactly the sort of band you'd associate with unbridled rage but Not Ready To Make Nice is a song they wrote in response to the criticism they received from the US media after stating publicly they disagreed with the Iraq War. I've never heard a song so full of pure anger which makes it the perfect song for listening to when I'm really cross about something. Not just upset or pissed off but genuinely filled with blood boiling rage. It doesn't happen all that often but when I feel that way this song suits me perfectly. 

"Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
What it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting"