The Land Of Sugar

My Resolutions are going well...ish...

I made a playlist of happy songs that I listen to on my way to and from work. I realized today that that playlist was 60% Sugarland. This time last year, I knew one Sugarland song..."Stay" Its a real heartbreaker about a woman having an affair with a married man and when the wife calls he goes home and she wants him to stay...Then she gets all strong and tells him, you know what? Next time you feel like coming over here to me and leaving your family, how bout you stay...Of course, those arent the actual lyrics...But I heard that song and saw the video where Jennifer Nettles was all crying and being VERY good at drawing me into the song and I found myself crying with her and being REALLY REALLY sad...so I never ever listened to their album!! NO WAY!!

Then my friend Sarah and I decided to listen to country music "Just for a month" and I heard them again...I heard their other stuff...their happier stuff, and I'm officially addicted.

This morning on the way in I thought about why I'm addicted. Why do I love lyrics like "Its alright, its alright, its alright, yeah sometimes you gotta lose till you win!" and "I ain't settlin for just getting by, I've had enough so so for the rest of my life, tired of shooting too low, so raise the bar high Just enough ain't enough this time," "I've been waiting my whole life bettin on a change see it coming getting better getting better now" "wide wide wide wide open, and its a fine fine fine fine world, this is my my life I'm hopin, they'll be some fire fire fire fireworks..." Lol...its so fun...and it makes me smile every time...

I know exactly why I love it...I love it because it loves me. It says to me that I'm amazing, it says I can do whatever I want, it says its proud of me, it says I'm beautiful, it says I'm going to do amazing things.

Let's think about how that contrasts with favorite songs of the past...Here are the top five most played songs on my itunes.

1. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen: "Now maybe there's a God above, but all I ever learned from love, was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya...Its not a cry that you hear at night its not somebody who's seen the light its a cold and its a broken hallelujah.."

2. Fall Down by Jennifer Knapp: "What am I supposed to do about it now?! Past regrets and long laments they find me somehow, Oh what am I supposed to do about it now, what have I to do but fall down?"

3. Sylvester by Randall Goodgame: "Now I'm so sorry, that i was so proud, the only answer left to tell since I put him through hell is, who's happy now?"

4. That I would Be good, by Alanis Morrisette: "that I would be good even if I did nothing, that I would be good even if I got the thumbs down, that I would be good if I got and stayed sick, that I would be good even if I gained ten pounds."

5. Cold Water by Damien Rice: "Cold, cold water, surrounds me now. And All I've got is your hand, can you hear me now? Lord, can you hear me now, or am I lost?"

When those songs would come on, I'd get excited, turn it up, and sing along...and they put me in a very pensive, PENSIVE place.

Scratch that...


They put me in a very depressed, depressed place.

No wonder I was so grumpers all the time. So I switched it up...I'm listening to silly music, to fun music, to music that makes me dream and think...and I'll be doggone if I'm not happier.

You wanna try it?

Start with The Incredible Machine, by Sugarland...
Whut Oh Whut Oh stuck like glue, you and me baby we're stuck like glue...

Comments

Rosina said…
I love this post. It made me happy :) Just like Taylor Swift's songs. Lol ;)
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