Sunday, February 24, 2013

Skinny Love

The song I have chosen this week is a very strong one sung by someone who is only sixteen. It is the song Skinny Love by Birdy. It is considered to be a part of the alternative music genre.

            In the beginning of the song, it seems as though she is talking about a person. Throughout the song she makes it more known that she is not talking about a person, but in fact, talking to love itself. The tone of the song seems to be annoyed. She is scolding “love” and is talking about all the things that she has told it to be. She wanted it to be patient, fine, balanced, and kind. It did not turn out to be like that. In the second chorus, she says that the love was wasted and in return, “who the hell” was she? She says that her love was wasted and only hope can save it and make it go back to what it once was.

            The life truth that I got out of this song is that not everything is what you want it to be. Love seems like it is this thing that is always perfect and it never has its problems, but that is just not true. This song does not have to be for a relationship between two strangers who fell in love; it can be for parents and kids, siblings, or two friends.

            This song touches my heart in many ways. One is because of my past relationship that I wanted to last forever and it did not. Another is because my dad has always worked with Department of Children and Families, which is a company that deals with child abuse. I always thought that a relationship between parents and a kid is always full of love and care but sadly, some are not. The child who is abused still has that hope that their parents will love them in the way that they want, but some do not end up like that. It is a very sad life truth but it is in everyday life and we just have to learn to accept it.
  Come on skinny love just last the year,
Pour a little salt you were never here,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer.
I tell my love to wreck it all,
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Right in the moment this order's tall.

And I told you to be patient,
And I told you to be fine,
And I told you to be balanced,
And I told you to be kind,
And in the morning I'll be with you,
But it will be a different kind,
'Cause I'll be holding all the tickets,
And you'll be owning all the fines.
Come on skinny love, what happened here?
Suckle on the hope in light brassieres,

My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Sullen load is full, so slow on the split.
And I told you to be patient,
And I told you to be fine,
And I told you to be balanced,
And I told you to be kind,
And now all your love is wasted,
Then who the hell was I?
'Cause now I'm breaking at the bridges,
And at the end of all your lies.
Who will love you?
Who will fight?
And who will fall far behind?
Come on skinny love,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my.

Monday, February 18, 2013

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger


            I have decided to start over with my blogs. I have been doing them wrong by not adding a life truth to them. My new blogs are going to be about songs and the meaning behind them. I am not going to write only what the song is about, but also what I have learned from it. I will provide all of the lyrics to the song so that you can read them and take from them what you will.

            The song that I have chosen to do this week is What Doesn’t Kill You by Kelly Clarkson. I chose this song because it kind of applies to what I have had to deal with in the past.

            The song is about a girl getting out of a relationship where the guy in it made her feel like she was worthless, almost close to being nothing. She talks about how she bets that he thinks he is the only one laughing and that she is not happy anymore since he is gone. She comes back saying that she is perfectly happy being alone; that even though he has made her feel terrible at times, she has come back even stronger than she has in the past.

            Even though the song is focusing on a relationship, this life lesson can be applied to any situations where someone is trying to make another person feel low. The situation may hurt at times. Whatever is going on might make you feel like you are never going to get through it, but you will. Because you got through it, it will only make you stronger for whatever life throws at you.

Lyrics:

You know the bed feels warmer
Sleeping here alone
You know I dream in color
And do the things I want

You think you got the best of me
Think you've had the last laugh
Bet you think that everything good is gone
Think you left me broken down
Think that I'd come running back
Baby you don't know me, cause you're dead wrong

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

You heard that I was starting over with someone new
They told you I was moving on over you

You didn't think that I'd come back
I'd come back swinging
You try to break me, but you see

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

Thanks to you I got a new thing started
Thanks to you I'm not the broken-hearted
Thanks to you I'm finally thinking about me
You know in the end the day you left was just my beginning
In the end...

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

[2x]
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
(lyrics from azlyrics.com)