Music & Lyrics (A Follow Up To My Previous Post)

Music. It's part of anyone's day. Whether it be in an advert, playing as background music in a shop or on an iPod or phone. For me, I couldn't live without music. This sounds very dramatic but I don't go a day without listening to some form of music. Getting ready in the morning; in my free periods; walking home from school; getting changed out my uniform and on in the background when i'm just, you know, chillin'.

As a kind of follow up to my last post about films and how they can sometimes give false impressions, I wanted to quickly write my thoughts on music. I think it's a lot more powerful than some people realise. There is quite literally a song to go with any kind of mood you're in or for any situation you are in. If anyone followed me on Twitter they'd soon find out that I LOVE tweeting lyrics from songs. It can get annoying for people to have to read and it can lose me followers but sometimes the only way you can express yourself is through words that other people have written.

Over the past few months i've been listening to music a lot more. It's reassuring to find that other people know exactly what sort of things you're going through and you can connect through their songs. For example, I was maybe a litte obsessed with Katy Perry's song 'The One That Got Away' for ages..

"In another life, I would be your girl,
We'd keep all our promises, be us against the world.
In another life, I would make you stay,
So I don't have to say you were the only who got away"

"..Never planned that one day I'd be losing you"

Pretty obvious what the song is about, but such simple lyrics that many people can relate to now in life. Having regrets where you wished you'd just said what you were feeling not taken things for granted.

On the flip side of that, I love Andy Grammer's song, 'Keep Your Head Up'

"But you gotta keep your head up, so you can let your hair down
I know it's hard, know it's hard to remember sometimes,
But you gotta keep your head up, so you can let your hair down"

I love that song too. It's all about acknowledging that you have troubles in your life but by keeping your head up and battering on through, things will be alright. Such a positive song when you're down or finding things are against you.

I could write and write and write about a million songs that I constantly listen to and whose lyrics people can relate to. It's the best feeling when you feel like no one understands you and a song comes on that explains exactly how you're feeling and you know you're not the only one to go through it!

"This too, shall pass" - English Proverb

Rock on.