I haven't felt this awake in years.

Another song recommendation comin' atcha. 

And I have waited for this awakening for so long, so long.

I gotta get a little light inside. 

And I'm here, holding out for just one thing 

and it's your love, your love---it makes everything feel alright.

I was slowly slowly dyin', slowly dyin'.

It's like the first day I'm alive. 

You're gonna fly with me.

Surprise. I love Keith Urban.

C'mon turn it up.

Start livin' your life,

on the double,

leave your troubles behind.

You and me, we're gonna be 

alright.

You could be a blackbird on a country street

hiding from the world with a broken wing,

but you better believe,

you gonna fly with me.

You are my sweetest downfall.

Rediscovered. Amazing as ever, and now on repeat. 

I will stay here with you, my love.

Why haven't I seen this video until now?

This song has been around for years, and I've enjoyed it, in more ways than one, for all of those years. But for some reason, I've never had the pleasure of watching the music video that sprouted from this gem of a song. I hope you've already seen it, but if not...man. Enjoy.

And I don't want to be a faded memory.

I don't want to be the ghost that you can't shake.

I want to be the real thing.

No one said that we were victims, honey.

No one said we had to keep the things we get.

There ain't no regrets.

And all our friends, they moved to hollywood.

But we ain't that desperate yet.

Ain't nothing like the real thing.

We can do anything that we want to,

and my friendship with Andy Mockler

has truly taught me that.

"Who says I can't be free,

from all of the things that I used to be?

Re-write my history.

Who says I can't be free?

Who says I can't get stoned,

plan a trip to Japan alone?

It doesn't matter if I even go,

who says I can't get stoned?"

Who cares if our choices amount to something?

Sometimes, just the act of making

the choice is all that really matters,

because making choices are what force us to grow.

Andy is an example to me that the world truly

is at our fingertips; what we do with it is our choice.

He is entering the MTC today,

and I know he's going to change many lives,

for he has surely changed mine.

More music, please.

All of my recent posts have been about music.

I think it's just that time of year

when music is the perfect escape from everything.

I'm like obsessed with it right now.

"It" being music. Every kind.

Last night, this morning, and all day today

I have been listening to this song.

Literally all day,

(it's playing for the 100th time as I type this),

and it's easily one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

I just barely looked up the video,

and my first thought was,

"This is the worst music video I've ever seen."

Then I realized that it conveys exactly what the

song is trying to express.

So, it's perfect.

I feel like this song is applicable to not only dating relationships,

but any type of relationship that we encounter in life.

You can use it in any circumstance that you truly love someone.

Have you ever felt like that?

That you can be the best thing for someone,

but they just don't see it?

"The winds of change are blowing wild and free;

you ain't seen nothing like me yet."

Yeah, Bob Dylan has felt like that too, apparently.

And he's felt like this:

"I could make you happy, make your dreams come true;

nothing that I wouldn't do.

Go to the ends of the earth for you,

to make you feel my love."

Mostly I'm obsessed with Pat Monahan.

Really, though. He is a genius.

Not only does he have an incredible voice,

but he writes all is own music and plays like 7 instruments.

This particular song really speaks to me right now.

I feel like every song he writes is applicable to my life at some point,

but this one happens to be super relevant.

It is amazing.

"With the sound of a train that I could've been on,

reminding me that the last one's gone.

With you, it's always midnight."

"Are you blind?

Can't you see me standing here waiting in line?

For you. Are you mine?

Not just when you want to be.

All of the time. Are you? Are you blind?

Won't you tell me what it is I'm waiting to find?"

"A way to get back to you;

a way to get out of here.

I don't want to be alone at midnight anymore.

How do I get away? Want to see you in the daylight.

I don't wanna be afraid of midnight anymore."

"With you, it's always midnight."

There's this weird part of me that really

enjoys a good love story.

Mostly I just love this song,

because it's like...a realistic love story.

I really appreciate a song when its music can

convey what its lyrics are saying, even if the lyrics didn't exist.

This song definitely does. It's so...raw.

So, I jut barely watched the music video and

it's even more romantic than the song.

Props to the Script, because music videos these days

are usually pretty lame.

This band is really talented and their songs are so unique.