My Life; WP 3

Sublime
"What I got"
I can remember getting my first cd, it was exciting all the kids had the the same cd, Sublime. Now that I look back I think that maybe, just maybe we were listening to music too old for us, I at the time could have only been maybe twelve. In the song, "Love is what I got" you see a family and a dog spending their time together in many different ways, from long boarding to chasing the dog along the beach. Just like me my long summer days were spent sitting around listening to the cd, and like in this song skate boarding around on long boards all around the neighborhood, followed by the loved companion, my dog diana. The only thing is that there definitely wasn't any beautiful serene beaches around us. But now a long way from home, I think back to the things I had when I was a child growing up, and the fact is that it wasn't many things, but that didn't matter. Everything I needed, I had. Of course, i didn't have the newest and lately, but no one in my neighborhood did. Everything I needed was taken care of, a home, friends, a dog in this case I had a beautiful half pit, half chow, and I always would come home to a perfect diner. What I had most of and still do even now is "love", just like in the song, "love is what I got." I had nothing, but a loving family and it didn't matter that we weren't rich because just like in the song, I had and still have nothing but total love for my family. And just like in this song, we are united always because we are a close loving family.



Gnarls Barkley
"Smiley Faces"
In this song Gnarles Barkley is singing how "she" brings him a smiling face. And thinking about that I definitely remember my first serious relationship. I remember how I thought that everything was just perfect. Barkley sings at one point, "you need something warm to embrace to put on a smilin' face." And at the time I thought that the answer would be to get involved seriously with this girl. Barkley looks so happy in the song, dancing around these statues that resemble Egyptian statues, and simply not caring about anything and instead dancing because he is so happy. I remember the first time i even jumped up in the air because of just how happy I was. I remember dancing around my door before I stepped in resembling something like a bird doing some sort of mating ritual. It was my first serious relationship and I was perfectly happy, because everything was perfect. He also describes how everyone needs something to smile about. And in this case it was a girl who would become my first serious relationship, and at one point the first that I actually thought I loved, but didn't, but in my defense at this point in my life how was I supposed to know that these were just warm feelings in my heart.




Chemical Romance
"I don't love you"
As in any first serious relationship, most will come to a end fairly quickly, or at least will parish is no time. This is a song of a person trying to tell the other that they don't love the other person anymore. The song reminds me of just how I felt once a upon a time after my first serious relationship came to a halt, and a fiery one at that. Chemical Romance says one line, "I won't try to make you stay." I can only remember how I felt, when out of nowhere, after 9 long months I just didn't care anymore, I to this day have not figured exactly why, or how for that matter. But it was as if there was no love in me anymore for this person. Trying to remember now, I don't think she did anything wrong, I don't think that...oh yeah now I remember. Instead of hate, which it evolved into there was simply no emotion. There was nothing there and it was as if I got not even try to regain this emotion back, but at this point I don't even think that I wanted to. Even when I spoke to her it was as if she was an acquaintance and nothing more, all the memories somehow vanished, and it was as if she was just a distance memory or even possibly apart of a dream that I once had. Deja-voo I guess you could call it, that all that she ever was now that I remember her, but what I will never forget is the hate I once had towards her.



Eminem
"Puke"
Eminem is rapping about a previous relationship with a woman named kim. He is discussing how she makes him sick and how he cannot stand her. As I now look and listen to the song, I cannot, but help to remember that I felt the same way when my first serious relationship came crashing down is a fireball. Eminem sings one line, "you make me sick..you may not think you do, but you do." And I wonder if she truly knew just how I felt. First there was nothing, but emotionless...nothing. But than I can distinctly remember just how I felt after "everything she put me through." Relationships come and go and that's the way it probably always will be. I can remember just like in the song, I wanted nothing to do with her, and in fact I was sick when the thought of her crossed my mind. I remember juts how disgusted I felt after dealing with her, and the emotionless drain came to and end, followed by much hate.



DJ Tiesto
"Love comes again"
After my first serious relation came to a crashing end, and I thought all was over, and the only thing I would ever feel again is hate towards women. That is until I met my now fiance. And I started to realize that, I am beginning to really like this pretty girl. As time grew on so did my affection. I heard this song with her at Global Dance Festival, and I couldn't help, but realize that the words spoken in the song, "Love comes again" is nothing, but the very truth and that just maybe I am falling for this girl. I was very careful in expressing it and showing it, as the man is in this song, but I definitely felt the strongest of sensations I ever had when with her. Whatever happens in any ones relationship, the end is always the same, that is love comes again. The only thing that still resonated in my mind was, how am I supposed to know if this is the real genuine true love that I have been looking for. In the song dj tiesto describes that "you have to take a chance" and it dawned on me that we will probably not know just what love is until we take the chance and really get close. Life I realized at this point is nothing, but chances integrated with cause and effect.



ATB
"9:00 pm"
In the video, a secret agent is coming home to her presumed to be boyfriend for dinner. And now I remember the first time I ever cooked dinner, and it was for my now fiance. Nothing, but nervousness swept over me, as well as making sure that everything was just simply perfect. Just as in this music video you can see that the man is also having problems and just trying to make that perfect dinner for his loved one. As I look back I cannot help, but remember how much of a disaster it was and that nothing went the way it should of. But that didn't matter, it was to be the perfect dinner and I was to "sweep her of her feet" with my quintessential cooking skills that I somehow possess. I remember cooking the chicken Alfredo for her and it completely fell apart. And like in the song it didn't matter just how long I had it was doomed from the beginning, like the man in the video who had all day to cook, both of us shared the same fate in that it was a doomed dinner, but at the same time it was great because in my mind it brought me closer to my fiance.



Maroon 5
"Sunday Morning"
As I was driving down I-80W just not too long ago, I couldn't help, but sit in anticipation of my coming home on Sunday, being home home just right after breakfast, and getting to spend the rest of my day with my fiance. There was no real reason as there is in the video it was just a good thing to be able to spend as much time as I could with my fiance. At the same time I knew that my stay would be short lived neither one of us cared and we just spend our day together doing our normal Sunday routine. As the day grew on I realized that tomorrow afternoon I will be headed back to school. Like in the song, "I never want to leave" only sat in my mind, and I began to wonder if I even will, I began to drift my thought toward things such as, "not returning to school" or "finding a job" back home in Denver where she lives. But of course these were only my fantasies playing in my mind of just how bad I want to stay home and never leave her, but it also crossed my mind that I am not just going to school for myself I am also going to school for her. Like in the song, "Everything I do, will lead me back to you" relates to me, I am not just in school for myself, but also her and that is the way I wanted to keep it. I realized thinking on my long journey home that everything I do, I really do for her.




ATB
"Ecstasy"
ATB has another song that relates to my finance, plain and simple see is my ecstasy. Although I have never done it, I can imagine that like any other drug it is addictive. So there is a strong correlation there, because she is so addictive and that I need her in my life. Also the fact that when I am with her I am having the time of my life, and everything is perfect. I cannot get enough of her, and everything I do, as long as its with her is just perfect. The woman voice sings that "I'll never be the same I'll tell you for sure" and there is just yet another startling correlation. I never really will be the same as long as I live because no matter what, unlike my past relationship everything is both memorable and loving and will never be forgotten.
Ecstasy is a drug described as a drug that not just a feel good drug, but more than that it is a drug in which there are such high emotions. She just like in the song, "you really are my ecstasy" is a meaning to my fiance because, she gives me a feeling of such greatness, and high emotion that I can't feel anywhere else in my life.