Two ACT consistent Eels songs.

For a great example of someone dignifying their values with pain, I can whole-heartedly recommend the autobiography "Things the grandchildren should know" by Mark Everett (Lead singer Eels).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_the_Grandchildren_Should_Know

His songs also hint at vital living: -----------------------------------------------------

Hey Man (Now You're Really Living):

Do you know what it's like to fall on the floor?

Cry your guts out till you got no more

Hey man, now you're really living

 

Have you ever made love to a beautiful girl?

Made you feel like it's not such a bad world

Hey man, now you're really living

Now you're really giving everything

And you're really gettin' what you gave

Now you're really livin' what this life is all about

Well, I just saw the sun rise over the hill

Never used to give me much of a thrill

But, hey man, now I'm really living

 

Do you know what it's like to care too much?

About someone that you're never gonna get to touch

Hey man, now you're really living

 

Have you ever sat down in the fresh-cut grass

And thought about the moment and when it will pass

Hey man, now you're really living

Now you're really giving everything

And you're really gettin' what you gave

Now you're really livin' what this life is all about

 

Now, what would you say if I told you that

Everyone thinks you're a crazy old cat 

Hey man, now you're really living

Do you know what it's like to fall on the floor?

Cry your guts out till you got no more

Hey man, now you're really living

Have you ever made love to a beautiful girl?

Made you feel like it's not such a bad world

Hey man, now you're really living...

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P.S. You rock my world:

I was at a funeral the day i realized

I wanted to spend my life with you

Sitting down on the steps at the old post office

The flag was flying at half-mast

And I was thinkin' 'bout how everyone is dying

And maybe it's time to live

I don't know where we're going

I don't know what we'll do

Walked into the thrif-tee

Saw the man with the hollow eyes

who didn't give me all my change

But it didn't bother me this time

'cause I know I've only got this moment

And it's good

 

I went to the gas station

Old woman honked her horn

Waiting for me to fix her car

I don't know where we're going

I don't know what we'll do

Laying in bed tonight

I was thinking and listening to

all the dogs and the sirens and the shots

And how a careful man tries to dodge the bullets

While a happy man takes a walk

And maybe it's time to live ----------------------------------------------------