"You know, I’ve got this theory; there are two kinds of people in the world. There are lyric people and music people. You know, the lyrics people tend to be analytical. You know, all about the meaning of the song. They’re the ones you see with the CD insert out like five minutes after buying it, pouring over the lyrics, interpreting the hell out of everything. Then there’s the music people, who could care less for the lyrics as long as it’s just got, like, a good beat and you could dance to it. I don’t know, sometimes it might be easier to be a music person and not a lyric person. But since I’m not, let me just say this: sometimes things find you when you need them to find you. I believe that. And for me, it’s usually song lyrics."
This quote is ME. I analyze everything, and I don't even listen to the new CD, I read the cover back and forth, and analyze it. What the artist said, who they thanked all of that. It makes me either feel like I can relate to the artist or not. For example, Taylor Swift's "Fearless" album's cover was simply amazing, it had this posted in it:
To me, fearless is not the absence of fear.
It’s not being completely unafraid.
To me, fearless is having fears.
Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them.
To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before.
Fearless if walking into your freshman year of highschool at fifteen.
Fearless is getting up and fighting for what you want over and over again…
even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost.
It’s fearless to have faith that someday things will change.
Fearless is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even though you can’t breathe without them.
I think it’s fearless to fall for your best friend
even though he’s in love with someone else.
And when someone apologizes to you enough times
for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s fearless to stop believing them.
It’s fearless to say “you’re NOT sorry,” and walk away.
I think loving someone despite what people think is fearless.
I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is fearless.
Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright… that’s fearless too.
But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after.
That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is fearless
LOVE. I absolutely love that whole paragraph. She's so real, and that's why I fee like every song she writes, is about my life.
I just love lyrics, they all have this incredible story. Even if they are with misplaced beats, and horrible chords. It's a story that someone needed to let out. The other night it was late, and I was watching TV and the Brooks and Dunn special came on where artists gave tribute to them. They have this one song that Jennifer Hudson redid, and oh my it's powerful. Even Maya Angelou thinks so. It's called "Believe." Just go look it up, it's so good. My favorite line in it though:
I can't quote the book
The chapter or the verse
You can't tell me it all ends
In a slow ride in a hearse
You know I'm more and more convinced
The longer that I live
Yeah, this can't be
No, this can't be
No, this can't be all there is
I believe. I trust. I hope. I live.
Blessings,
