Songs about how no one can control your life

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I am trying to make a mix of songs in which the sentiment expressed is about how the singer needs to live their own life and can't be controlled/held down.

Any genre is acceptable.

Very much appreciated.

― DancerLove, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

matthew wilder "break my stride"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"You Don't Own Me" -- Lesley Gore
"The Way I Am" -- Eminem (plus, like, 90 percent of all hip-hop ever)
"We're Not Gonna Take It" -- Twisted Sister
"Positively 4th Street" -- Bob Dylan (or "It Ain't Me Babe")
"My Crotch Does Not Say Go" -- Frightwig

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinks - "I'm not like Anybody Else"
Selby Tigers - "Droid"
Black Flag - "Jealous Again"
Black Flag - "Rise Above"
Beastie Boys "Fight for your Right to Party"

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

xtina -- can't hold us down.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

britney -- stronger
sugababes -- stronger
lydon -- my way

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I AIN'T GONNA LIVE FOREVER

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

george michael -- freedom
joe jackson -- i'm the man
destiny's child -- independent woman pts. I & II

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

cat power -- you are free
velvet underground -- i'm set free
devo -- freedom of choice
skynard -- freebird

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

'Its My Life,' 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place' - the Animals

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Litter, "Action Woman"

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

bad reputation

― gtttt s (kissmyfist), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Queen - I Want To Break Free

― man, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

what the...
suicidal tendencies "institutionalized"

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"They're Not Gonna Get Us" -- T.A.T.U.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Duran Duran - 'My Own Way'.

I have a general feeling that there are several Motorhead and Judas Priest songs like this, but for some reason I can't think of any.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The Offspring - All I Want

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

'My Way', Frank Sinatra

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

pavement ... Box Elder

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

and Jimi Hendrix ... If 6 was 9

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of tunes by Suicidal Tendencies, Excel, DRI. Popular subject matter for the later-80's hardcore metal skate bands.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Dismemberment Plan - Following Through

― abree b (abreebb), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

'freedom of choice' is ironic tho!

or do tongue-in-cheek choices count?

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"A Legal Matter" -- The Who

"Parents" -- The Descendents (maybe too specific/ adolescent, but I've liked the song since it came out, myself!)

And I always thought the Chocolate Watch Band's version of "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" is superior, one of maybe two times where the Kinks were bested by a cover (the other being the Raincoats' take on "Lola").

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Joel- "My Life" or whatever that song was called that played over the opening credits of "Bosom Buddies"

― Will (will), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

gg allin, "eat my fuc"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"uptown" -- prince

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah "I'm Movin' Out" or whatever that song was called that sez "you can never argue with a crazy ma-ma-ma-mama," also by Billy.

He's his own man, dagnabbit!

― Will (will), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

curtis mayfield ... Move On Up
sly and the family stone ... You Can Make It If You Try

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the beatles ... Love You To
and good heavens,
queen ... WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Wilson Phillips - "Hold On"

― Schwingung (Damian), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Boss of Me" They Might Be Giants

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Motorhead -- "Don't Need Religion"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Otis Redding, "The Dock of the Bay"
Loverboy, "Turn Me Loose"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

dino, desi and billy - "the rebel kind"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Jackson "Leave Me Alone"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Star - "Ballad of El Goodo"

― BrianB (BrianB), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Rolling Stones/Soup Dragons: I'm Free

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Cafe Tacuba, "No Controles"

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper
"No Good Advice" - Girls Aloud

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Eddie Money - You Can't Keep a Good Man Down
Jefferson Starship - Stairway to Cleveland (OK, only one line, but still)
Waitresses - No Guilt

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG!
Nobody suggested Rage Against The Machine: 'Killing in The Name Of' so far!

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!
MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!
URGH!!!!!!!!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Almost Grown" Chuck Berry

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sunshine go away today,
don't feel much like dancing . . .

You can't even run your own life,
I'll be damned if you run mine."

Jonathan Edwards "Sunshine" (1970)

― avery_schreiber, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Kiki Dee-"I Got the Music in Me"

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Got Life" from Hair

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Star - "13"

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My Perogative - Bobby Brown

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ballad of Big Nothing" -- Elliott Smith.

― rainman (rainman), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

geeta -- i followed it up with "freebird" so it was trying to be one of those ego-trip "gotcha" lists but meh.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm Not Your Stepping Stone," preferably the Pistols version.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Wendy O. Williams:

I Love Sex(And Rock And Roll)
It's My Life
Ain't None Of Your Business
Hoy Hey(Live To Rock)
Fight For The Right

― DaleK, Thursday, 25 December 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

"My Way" by Frank Sinatra

for what is a man
what has he got
if not himself
then he has but
to say the things he truly feels
and not the words of one who kneels
the record shows
I took the blows
I did it My Way

― Gabriel Law, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Going All The Way
http://Quarterbacks.org

― Gabriel Law, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

As we go up we go down by Guided by Voices

― badg (badg), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:23 (twenty years ago)

"don't tread on me" - kit and the outlaws (i think)

― cb, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Armand Van Helden - You don't know me

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

"Love Is A Battlefield."

― mike a, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

you gotta fight for your rigt to party by the besties

― animal, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Britney - Overprotected
Xtina - Fighter

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

GG Allin & the Scumfucs - Bite It You Scum

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

The Stooges - Raw Power:

"Everybody's always tryin' to tell me what to do
Don't you try, don 't you try to tell me what to do"

― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Wait Till Next Year (Randy Newman)

Why does everybody sing the same old song to me?
I've heard it before so wake me up when you're done
Voices of doom, intent on reformin' me
Relentlessly informin' me that I am a bum

Wait till next year, wait till next year
You've noticed, I guess, that my clothes are a mess
And by this time next year I should care even less

Thanks for the advice, you cut me up real quick
Everyone's so nice it makes me sick
Go ahead and find another dog to kick
Why do you do it, why don't you all leave me alone?
If you don't approve of me, go home

You're world is restricted and I've been evicted
Condemned and convicted for being myself
They never stop whinin' if my shoes need shinin'
My manners need refinin' and they're anxious to help

Wait till next year, wait till next year
I've got an image to nurse, and a role to rehearse
And by this time next year I should be even worse

― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)

HEAD LIKE A HOLE
BLACK OUT YOUR SOUL
I'D RATHER DIE
THAN GIVE YOU CONTROL

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)

dont need religion
dont need no friends
got all i want and i dont need to pretend
dont try and reach me cuz ill tear up your mind
ive seen the future and ive left it all behind

― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

The Fall (Beat Happening)

We were walking along the street
I fell down and you said to me, you said:
"Calvin, you're a guy with incredible blue eyes
But I've got to live my own life."

― mike a, Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

- Sarah Dougher, "40 Hours"
- The Descendants, "Get The Time" (actually about Milo wishing he "had the guts" to "live my life the way I want")
- Johnny Paycheck, "Take This Job and Shove It"

― mike a, Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Talk Talk's "It's My Life,"
probably their other stuff
but I cannot tell

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Presley: Inherit The Wind

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

stiff little fingers - alternative ulster

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

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