*Disclaimer: I recently uncovered a TON of old music. Immediately, I was transported to various points of my life, remembering what I was experiencing, and why I was listening. I decided to create a piece that pays tribute to just how powerful music can be. *Another Disclaimer: While music is a portal to any time, […]
*Disclaimer: I recently uncovered a TON of old music. Immediately, I was transported to various points of my life, remembering what I was experiencing, and why I was listening. I decided to create a piece that pays tribute to just how powerful music can be.
*Another Disclaimer: While music is a portal to any time, for this piece, I’m using summer as my marker (for me, summers tend to exude ‘turning points’ of some kind). I began with the summer of 2009. 18 years-old.
Summer 2009
We were only kids, we ran like water, your dad said ‘stay away from my daughter’
The sun was coming down when I said ‘can’t you just believe?’
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And if you wait for me, I’ll be the light in the dark if you lose your way
And if you wait for me, I’ll be your voice when you don’t know what to say
— Last Train Home, Ryan Star
When it comes to love, I should know better
When it comes to love, I take the blame
‘Cause you are the one I should’ve held onto
— When It Comes To Love, Foreigner
If it is born in flames, then we should let it burn
Burn as brightly as we can
And if it’s gotta end, then let it end in flames
Let it burn all the way down
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And if this is ever meant to end, then I hope it ends where it began:
So hot with love, we burned our hands
— Currents, Dashboard Confessional
Summer 2010
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now
— Airplanes, B.O.B (Featuring Haley Williams)
Tell me what you know about dreamin?
You don’t really know about nothin’
Tell me what you know about them night terrors every night
5 am, cold sweats, waking up to the skies
— Pursuit Of Happiness, Kid Cudi
Do you remember the nights we stayed up just laughing
Smiling for hours at anything
Remember the nights we drove around crazy in love?
— We’ll Be A Dream, We The Kings (featuring Demi Lovato)
Summer 2011
Come on, here’s your chance, don’t let it slip right through your hands
Are you ready for the ride of your life?
— Ride Of Your Life, John Gregory
I had a dream
I could fly from the highest swing
I had a dream
—Dream, Priscilla Ahn
Summer 2012
Tonight I’ll be on that hill ‘cause I can’t stop
I’ll be on that hill with everything I got
Lives on the line
Where and dreams are found and lost
I’ll be there on time, and I’ll pay the cost
For wanting things that can only be found
In the darkness on the edge of town
— Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Bruce Springsteen
Well, I came to your house the other day
Your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
Me and you, we’ve known each other ever since we were sixteen
I wished I could have known
I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean
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Maybe you’ll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train, traveling along
In some motel room there’ll be a radio playing
And you’ll hear me sing this song
Well, if you do, you’ll know I’m thinking of you
And all the miles in between
And I’m just calling you one last time
Not to change your mind, but just to say I miss you, baby
Good luck, goodbye, Bobby Jean
— Bobby Jean, Bruce Springsteen
Summer 2013
A stack of books beside our bed, living out of boxes
Why does the empty space fill with dread?
Why does change still shock us?
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Where would we be right now, if all our dreams had come true?
Deep down I know somehow
I’d have never seen your face
This world would be a different place
Darlin’, there’s no way to know
Which way your heart will go
— Which Way Your Heart Will Go, Mason Jennings
Spinning your umbrella over your head
You should be in bed but you’re here instead
Walking with me towards a midnight swim
I can give you, baby, what you can’t get from him
Hey hey little fighter girl
It’s you and me up against this whole wide world
Sleeping together in the lion’s den
Got your earrings in my pocket till I see you again
—Fighter Girl, Mason Jennings
Summer 2014
So won’t you run to me tonight?
Tonight we’ll pretend that we’re just lovers
But I’ll only ever be a middle distance runner
—Middle Distance Runner, Seawolf
But if you’re gonna go
I’m giving you the key
But only if you’ll go
To Mexico
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All the way to the shore of California Bay
And I’ll be fine
‘Cause I have taken you back for the last time
— Mexico, Jump Little Children
Summer 2015
I want truth and beauty
I want to love someone simply
— Kids On The Boardwalk, Hop Along
Summer 2016
A life line to highs and lows
To seeing the bright side
And I should know
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We wait for the afterglow
To cover the blind side
And I should know
— Afterglow, Chvrches
We are made of the smallest stars
We are breathing and letting go
We will take the best parts of ourselves
And make them gold
— Make Them Gold, Chvrches
*Disclaimer: I recently uncovered a TON of old music. Immediately, I was transported to various points of my life, remembering what I was experiencing, and why I was listening. I decided to create a piece that pays tribute to just how powerful music can be. *Another Disclaimer: While music is a portal to any time, […]
*Disclaimer: I recently uncovered a TON of old music. Immediately, I was transported to various points of my life, remembering what I was experiencing, and why I was listening. I decided to create a piece that pays tribute to just how powerful music can be. *Another Disclaimer: While music is a portal to any time, […]
*Disclaimer: I recently uncovered a TON of old music. Immediately, I was transported to various points of my life, remembering what I was experiencing, and why I was listening. I decided to create a piece that pays tribute to just how powerful music can be. *Another Disclaimer: While music is a portal to any time, […]
