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3 of the Best Indie Songs for Getting Inspired to Turn Your Life Around

These three indie songs aren’t cures for loneliness, but they’re still great motivators for getting out of a rut.

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Does this list really need any more introduction? Here are three indie classics that take depression, loneliness, and expectations and turn them into inspirational mantras. For those struggling to get out of a rut, these songs are as motivational as they are catchy.

“Sucker’s Prayer” by The Decemberists

The Decemberists’ 2018 album I’ll Be Your Girl featured the track “Sucker’s Prayer”, which may at first listen feel like a bummer song. It has bright piano, cool guitar, and is overall moderately energetic. But it also has lyrics about wading into a body of water weighed down with rocks, à la Virginia Woolf. What makes this an inspirational indie darling is how all these elements blend together.

The following image after the speaker “took my glasses off and went to find a pond” has those rocks being carried away by the current. There’s a delightful resilience in “Sucker’s Prayer”. The chorus is a great example of this. “I wanna love........

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