Some Songs
If you know me well, you know that music occupies a huge part of my life: listening to it, practicing it, changing it, trying to create it, it's there. Well 3 songs in particular have had a lot of meaning to me lately, so I thought I'd share1. "How to Save a Life" - The Fray
I became hooked on this song through my dear Amy Kate and Grey's Anatomy, two things that are very very precious to me, haha. But anyway, when I first listened to it, I was like, "Ooh! I like how that sounds!" So, I purchased it off iTunes. As I started to listen to it in my car I'd hear lines that I was like, "wow, I know exactly what that means!" It's about saving a friendship. I've been friends with most of my closest friends for a while now. Needless to say, people change a good bit in high school. Some bad, some good, some neither. Either way, you can't keep people the same. The chorus of this song says, "Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend, somewhere along in the bitterness, And I would have stayed up with you all night, Had I known how to save a life." The song describes the conversation that is meant to salvage the friendship. One friend's desperate plea for the other to come back to sanity, a moral standard, good judgement, or maybe just them. I love my friends, probably more than they know. And when the amazing relationship I have with them starts to deteriorate it breaks my heart. People change. Friendships change and sometimes you're left wondering, "How did this happen?"
2. "Breathe (2am)" - Anna Nalick
Another wonderful song that was on Grey's Anatomy (can you tell I like that show?). This past year has been, to say the least, stressful. There have been so many questions that I just don't know the answer to. So many new problems that I have had no idea how to solve. I guess you could say it was a big "learning experience," to give it a positive outlook. Sometimes I just have to breathe. I have to stop worrying about everything and breathe. I remember the day of my concerto concert, I was so nervous and worried about everything. I played this song in my head all day, "cradle your head in your hands, and breathe, just breathe, oh breathe, just breathe." Sometimes we can't help our situations. Sometimes, no matter what we do, no matter how hard we try, no matter how much of ourselves we sacrifice, it's not gonna get easier or better. It just is and it has to be that way. (Let "it" represent whatever you want) God's not going to give us something that's impossible (considering we can do anything with His help, that's kind of scary but also comforting). But you have to remember to breathe. Do what you need to do to survive.
3. "Amsterdam" - Coldplay
Ok, stick with me here, because this concept isn't entirely clear in my head, so we'll see how it comes out onscreen. This past year has been a constant struggle between patience and impatience. Yea, i know I'm just a junior and I still have one more year so I should stop being so dramatic. But as ap exams come up and seeing as how next week is our last week of dship for the year (sniff sniff sniff sniff) I can't help but think about time and it's passage. I have two best friends, one of them is thrilled with the thought that we have one more year before we graduate, the other is terribly saddened by that fact. I fall somewhere in the middle. How does this relate to the song? (I feel like I'm writing an ap essay all over again) This song starts out, "Come on, my star is fading, I swerve out of control, If I'd, If I'd only waited, I'd not be stuck here in this hole." In a way my star is fading, and I'm having to find a new star. (Ok, that sounds ridiculously cheesy, but bear with me.) In some ways, my impatience has caused me to swerve out of control to where I have no idea where I am or what I'm supposed to be doing. But in this song it says, "But time is on your side." I not being worked against. This is just how things happen. I can't really blame time. "sick of the secrets, stood on the edge." I'm tired of being ignorant and feeling like the only person around me that is tired of ignorance. But I'm on the edge of getting rid of that ignorance. The ignorance that I have of God and self reliance, the ignorance I have of the extent of my relationship with Christ, the ignorance i have of how much growth a church can foster.
4. "Scratch" - Kendall Payne
So I added one more, shoot me. Don't worry it's short. Just to contradict almost everything I've already said, "It's a big girl world now, full of big girl things, and everyday I wish that I was small." yea, that's me.
If you managed to read through all of this, you're amazing and I love you, haha, and you must love me. Either that or you're stalking me. Seriously, if you did, I'm impressed and think the world of you for caring. And for those of you that are worried that none of these are technically Christians songs (I mean, I don't think any of them have accepted Jesus as their personal Savior) I'd like to leave you with this quote by C.S. Lewis:
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
Love y'all, have a great night!
posted by Shari @ 7:12 PM
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