the music I run to, the music I live through

Music has a very powerful effect on me, it has always been that way. It brings back memories, changes my mood, and even centers my reality.

I have recently been searching for songs to run by.

I have found some powerful discoveries.
In order to run to a song it
first of all has to have a fast, danceable quality.
It has to speed me up, not slow me down.
second I will like a song initially, but if the video is obscene or the lyrics to nasty I can’t listen to it! It just ruins the experience.

I guess I feel like there are so many good songs, why give any honor to the filth?

First I found Andy Grammer’s “keep your head up”
I found the video amusing, motivating and fun!
I like Bruno Maro’s Gernade also.

Then last night my family was driving home from dinner and I heard a song on KBCO I had never heard before. I liked it right away. One of the musical mysteries for me is if we fall in love with the songs we hear over and over again, or if we listen over and over again because we love the song. This song I heard I loved, but it was half way through, and all I got was the beat, the rhythm that I initially liked.

Than this morning I was driving the kids home from gymnastics.

I hear this song from the start to finish, heard what it was and rushed in to the computer to look it up.

I have listened to it about 10 times so far. I felt this overwhelming feeling like
“this song just saved my life!”
I don’t like to admit that.
It sounds so trifle...or pathetic...

Than I read a comment left on you tube
“This song saved my life, and im not kidding”

I wasn’t the only one!

In the song he says towards the beginning

“don’t give up, this song is for you”

WOW
I know I sound blond and silly, and very very young.
But what if these artists did write there songs for the soul that they could not see? We can all see pain around us. Yet there is so little that we can do to make anything better. I speak for myself in that I can’t even cure my own pain let alone begin to truly help or understand anyone else!




So what does “holding on” mean?