I love music...country primarily (I buy into the idea it tells the stories the best), 80's power ballads, southern rock, and anything that can evoke an emotion and take me back to a similar time (of youth).
With that however, comes the fact that I am an emotional sentimentalist who wears my heart on my sleeve just as proudly as the strain of pearls around my neck. Thus, I usually refrain from those emotional mixes that will conjure up images of lost love or chances that past me by. On the other hand, it seems like a double edge sward.
If we never listen to the sad songs, how will we ever fully appreciate the love songs?
So, I have vowed to starting listen to all those glorious renditions on my IPod. Bring on the "I Told You So" right after the "Blue Clear Sky!" It will be good for me after all...right?
I find I get lost in the words that are sung. "I Go Back" to those times when life seemed just perfect the way it was in that moment, the pain of "Letting Go," and the constant task of saying "Goodbye Earl" while realizing "She's In Love With a Boy." The writers of these songs, whether they be sad, loving, angry, playful, or sentimental hope to help us express those feelings we are not always able to do on our own.
So, "Bring on the Rain" and the tears, the smiles, and yes the memories: good and bad. "Life's A Dance" and a song, and in the end it will be a beautiful melody to be played "When We All Get to Heaven."
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