Waiting to Hatch

New Favorite Song!

Ok, folks, this is big. I have a new favorite song! Up until a few hours ago, I'd have to say that "Fix You" by Coldplay was my favorite. "Fix You" is a brilliantly wonderful song, but it's time for it to give up its reign to.... "We're So Far Away" by Mae. Let me tell you why. (Ha, it's not like you really have a choice) What first attracted me to it was the beautiful piano in this song. Not only is it beautiful, but it's also very interesting. The beginning catches your ear with a simple and dramatic opening pecked out on the piano. Also, the whole the time, the background music moves well with the song. It's not just a bunch of isolated chords, but it's not a continuous running stream of 16th notes either. Simply beautiful. Secondly, Dave Gaminez has a great voice. He has the rock voice, but where many rock musicians go wrong is in songs like these. When their voice isn't covered by screaching guitars and booming drums and they have to sing a slower song, the nasaly characteristics of their voice comes out. Gaminez does a good job of not getting too nasaly and keeping some good depth in tone in his voice without sounding like too much of a softie. Ok, now moving out of the musical part. The words. I'll admit that I had to get Taylor to interpret the meaning initially because I was distracted by the music. It's kind of hard to understand, but I think it's about God's amazing plan. All the great things that happen in our lives, we have know idea about where or when they will happen. We have no idea. Isn't that amazing? Faith, it's just an incredible thing. We're a society driven on knowledge, and probably half of all middle school classrooms have a poster in the room that says "Knowledge is Power" yet still in my belief the most powerful thing that a person can posess is faith. Why? Because by posessing faith, it's like giving up all your other posessions. The song also talks about wondering if Jesus knew exactly how big this plan was that he was apart of. It's just something interesting to think about. Well, I'm getting tired of typing, so I hope it was inspirtational or something, I dunno.

Oh yea, I would like to thank Taylor and Christopher for my musical inspirations. In other words, I listen to their music and decide I like it and jump on their bandwagon. :) Goodnight!

posted by Shari @ 6:25 PM