Often times music is the creative force that inspires someone to step out of their comfort zone and do something bold. These precious songs got me out of the rut of a stagnant life and compelled me to take my life to the next level.
1. “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” – U2
2. “Come Alive” – Foo Fighters
3. ”The Curse of Perfect Days” – Emery
4. “Pretend” - Lights
5. “To Whom it May Concern” – Underoath
“Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” – U2
"You've got to get yourself together, you've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it"
I was laying in bed one evening, just staring at the ceiling with my iTunes library on shuffle. On most days, it seems as though iTunes knows me better than most people do. I was chewing on the thought that, so far, I hadn’t really done anything in life worth mentioning. Just as my thought was taking shape, this song started playing on shuffle. It perfectly embodies the exact thoughts that were running through my head. I was now inspired to do something about this moment I felt stuck in.
“Come Alive” – Foo Fighters
"You saved me the day you came alive!"
During this period of time in my life I was writing a lot but, on this specific day, I stared at a blank paper, feeling completely dejected, flat, and lifeless. The song wasn’t even playing but the lyrics came flooding on to paper. It was as if the song possessed my writing hand and wrote the words “come alive” over and over and over until the page was completely covered. Possibly, it was a desperate prayer to God, asking to breathe new life and ideas in to my cold, blocked mind.
“The Curse of Perfect Days” – Emery
"The curse of perfect days, is you get just what you make and you find yourself just praying that there's something more to this life."
The reason, I think, that I felt so aggravated with the way my life was is that it was stuck in the same cycle. I had a great time spending time with people that I loved but it was empty. Just endless bars, movie theaters, restaurants and at some point everything starts to become monotonous. This song helped me learn that there is more to life than just making memories. There are deeper, more important things to attribute to being alive.
“Pretend” – Lights
"And when it's the end, our lives will make sense. We'll love, we'll bend, let's play pretend"
This quote from the band Underoath signifies the way I was feeling on this day, “In the end we tend to think of how it began.” This beautiful song by Lights turns up the nostalgia dial. It makes me sad thinking about the much simpler days of being a kid. How the simplest things made me unspeakably happy, and I allowed my life to be touched without any of the emotional walls adults put up. This song helped me close the chapter of being a kid and bury the memories away in a precious corner of my mind as I step forward in to adulthood.
“To Whom it May Concern” – Underoath
"At the end of the road, you'll find what you've been longing for"
This song is reassurance that all of the hard work that I put in to making my life worthwhile will be worth it in the end. My grandmother had just died and it got me thinking about the end and death. I asked myself the question if it would all be worth it in the end. This song played on the way to the funeral (I swear my shuffle knows EXACTLY what I’m feeling!) and I added a quote from the song to my speech, “At the end of the road, you’ll find what you’ve been longing for.” I felt much better knowing my grandmother was with God - what she always longed for.
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