Everybody needs a little shelter....what's yours?

Question

"Everybody needs a little place they can hide
Somewhere to call their own
Don't let nobody inside
Every now and then we all need to let go
For some its the doctor
For me its rock and roll
For some its a bottle
For some its a pill
Some people wave the bible, cause its giving them a thrill.....
.......We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper to get us by"

lol, been listening to Cinderella (the band, obviously...not the movie) all day....

Answer 1

Good question! I, as probably most, have many "shelters".

I have two physical shelters, one strange and one not as much. My first shelter is my room. It is rather simple. I think it's a terrible thing if someone can not find the place where they sleep to be somewhere calming, safe, or genuinely happy.
My second shelter is a, more or less, abandoned parking lot between a minor road a mile or so from my bud's house and a daycare center. I sit there and write lyrics, poems, papers, critique screenplays, and mostly play music. I am always really alone there, and it's nice to feel the wind on your back and have no walls to stop your voice when you just let a song rip. There are occasional moments where the kids at the daycare are out, but they're rather beautiful and probably make me love it all the more.

Bringing me to the point that a shelter for me is on a guitar. It doesn't matter how I first picked up a guitar, excited, tired, annoyed, angry, etc - when I put it down, I am always in almost some sort of meditation. Playing guitar, and playing and singing, makes me feel really... "carefree" is, I guess, the best word. There's nothing more comforting and shelterlike than being carefree.

And, of course, folk singer Amos Lee (check him out if you don't know already) probably the last one best: I am at ease in the arms of a woman. It is never just any woman, and anyone who says anything about the way she looks or her hormones or anything is just lying. You have to love her. She can be ugly, but if you love her, you ARE at ease when with her. I don't think I've ever been more sheltered than when I'm with someone I love.


I like the lyrics ya got there, especially since the drugs line is so real. A really big, disturbing one they missed is under a knife. I know my first girlfriend had a profound impact on me, partially because of the first "breaking my heart" thing, but also her love for taking knives to her wrists and showing it to me the next day and stuff. I don't know. I never understood it, I still don't. I don't think a shelter should involve harming yourself. What good is sheltering yourself from outside harm if you'll still cause the harm inside?

Anyways, just two cents. I'm tagging alone, as per request. ;)

Answer 2

I think some are unconcious. Like the aspects now surrounding our lives that we claim are unfair or displeasing. We are all probably trying to re-create certian experiences in our lives that gave us our first taste of really feeling alive. Whatever that event it was for you and how it was played out has a dominating role in all your un-concious reasoning.
I am sheltered by God.
How women look at and feel about their child is something for me that when contemplated provides Natural shelter.

Answer 3

Mine is home. Got all the beings/things I love and like and enjoy there. It's a major mess, but it's where I feel most like myself, where I can be my plain old faulty, stupid, mindless, funny, horrible-looking self without the props. It's where my critters live. It's where my favorite foods are (well, if I've been shopping recently anyway). I can close the door and not answer it if I don't want. My music is there. My pillow is there. I can just be me. And I would be seriously p.o.'d if someone invaded it uninvited.

Answer 4

Agree 100%

Answer 5

Wow! Props for Cinderella and "Shelter Me", I haven't ever met anyone else my age who was into them before! "Heartbreak Station" is my favorite album of theirs-- kinda bluesy.

My shelter is my treehouse. My dad built it for me when I was 8, and renovated it when I was 16. It's got a beanbag, a stereo, and a bookshelf; all my favorite things. Whenever I'm home that's where I spend a good 1/3 of my time.

P.S. Huh. I was just looking back on my past questions and answers, and we are almost freakishly alike in our music tastes. :-)

Answer 6

I love Cinderella - again the band, not the movie - I saw them in concert - I think they opened for Bon Jovi, was a great show!!

Answer 7

I see you have had a few some weed too. That does it for me.

Answer 8

The depths of my dungeon...goes on forever...

Answer 9

a roof over my head

Answer 10

mine are books