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Lyrics I Love

 I love music. I love making my own, I like listening to what others have made. Every bit of music is just amazing to me. Who figured out that making a taut string at a certain level of stretch and density would create a consistent, musical sound? And how does music convey such powerful emotions through little more than sound? After my first breakup, I found that listening to music was very therapeutic in figuring out my feelings: certain lines in different songs would stand out as mine . Words and feelings I needed to understand, but couldn't use my own words for. Phrases and melodies that helped me work through my own complex emotions by showing me how someone else already did. Knowing that other people feel what I feel, that the confusing and complex and crowded emotions in my brain can be worked out, can be simplified. I may not understand how, or why, but music has a way of taking my jumbled mess of emotions and clarifying for me exactly what I'm feeling, whether it's ...

The Guy Falls First

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 Don't you love those stories where the guy falls first? Me too. Cory and Topanga - Boy Meets World "All I understood was that she was the girl I sat up every night thinking about, and when I’m with her I feel happy to be alive. Like I can do anything. Even talk to you like this. So that’s, that’s what I feel is love, Mom… When I’m better because she’s here…” Jake and Amy - Brooklyn 99 "I don't know what's gonna happen on this assignment, and if something bad goes down, I think I'd be pissed at myself if I didn't say this. I kinda wish something could happen, between us, romantic styles." Fry and Leela - Futurama "Leela: You know, Fry, I don't care if you're not the most important person in the universe. It really makes me happy to see you right now. Fry: Then I am the most important person in the universe." Maxon and America - The Selection "In those seconds, I was mourning everything I’d lost. How I’d never get to see you walk...