Day 05 - Learning to Breathe

"Learning to Breathe" by Switchfoot is the song that I chose as the "song that reminds you of someone" song. While I tend to discuss my wife in these posts there really is more to my life than just our marriage. However, since none of those things are as incredibly important to me they will not be discussed in this post either. "Learning to Breathe" is the song that Allison and I chose to be "our song." While this may be slightly surprising to someone who knows both Allison and myself, it isn't Ben Fold's "The Luckiest." Allison and I may both believe ourselves to be the luckiest, "Learning to Breathe" was "our song" long before Fold's lyrics ever fell on our ears. "Learning to Breathe" was and will always continue to be a song that attempts to describe the way we feel about each other. So, without further ado, I give you the lyrics of "Learning to Breathe" by Switchfoot.

Hello, good morning, how you do?
What makes your rising sun so new?
I could use a fresh beginning too
All of my regrets are nothing new
So this is the way that I say I need You
This is the way that I'm

[Chorus:]
Learning to breathe
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that You and You alone can break my fall
I'm living again, awake and alive
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies

Hello, good morning, how you been?
Yesterday left my head kicked in
I never, never thought that
I would fall like that
Never knew that I could hurt this bad

[Chorus]

So this is the way I say I need You
This is the way that I say I love You
This is the way that I say I'm Yours
This is the way, this is the way

[Chorus]

Hello good morning how you do?







Until next time,




Mike

Day 04 - Brick

I certainly haven't been doing these posts every day like I would have hoped. However, now that I am done with my first semester of journalism courses I have some more time to write on here--not that I necessarily will.

The next song in my list is Brick by Ben Folds Five. I have loved this song since I first heard it. Allison shared this song with me one day at her parents' house on Blueberry. If memory serves me correctly, it was the first time I ever went over to their house. I remember her sitting at the family computer and me sitting on a chair that I pulled up next to her. I remember her opening Windows Media Player and playing Brick. I will alway associate that moment with this song.

While this sounds like a happy moment--which is was--it doesn't sound like a very good song to have chosen to be a song that makes me sad. The song itself is sad a sad one. It makes me sad. It is as simple as that. Luckily I have that happy moment to bounce me back to my equilibrium.

Brick

6an day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold, car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping, I am numb

An' up the stairs to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out

And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got

Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by it showed that she was not fine
They told me son it's time to tell the truth
And she broke down and I broke down
'Cause I was tired of lying

Driving back to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
And she's alone and I'm alone
And now I know it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly




Well friends, that is it. Day 04 is now complete.

Until next time,

Mike