Friday, October 16, 2009

My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me.

Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional

You understand the words of the chorus? No one ever listens to the lyrics anymore. The first time I listened to this song, it made my spine shiver. The low, mellow build up from the verse that leads into the explosion of sound at the chorus, as the lyrics proclaim the very extent of the regard that this boy holds for this girl. It's like... GENIUS.

His hopes are so high that her kiss might kill him. Because he's wanted it for so long, and she's so amazing, and beautiful, and everything that he dreams for. And even if that one kiss was to kill him, he would die content, and happy, in the knowledge that she held him in the same regard.

The voice of the vocalist makes the song sound solemn and sad, but it's really a happy ending after the bridge, because they end up being together. Hands Down, song of the year.

Maybe I'm stupid for analyzing this too in-depth, but I like this stuff. And nobody else ever realizes how deep these words go. And how far these things extend. Sure, if you're catholic, and you pay attention to your religion, none of this stuff should be real in any way. HOWEVER, what if God sent that girl to be with that boy? And what if they both believed that? Wouldn't that make it real? So let's assume they follow the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they live by God's testament, etc. Just so we can understand the depth of this stuff, because they were meant for eachother.

And I know, they're just fictional characters derived from a song by Dashboard Confessional, but this scenario has happened repetitively over the decades of the Earth's existence. And this is the raw base of human emotion. LOVE is the foundation upon which we stake everything else. This is like, so freakin expansive that this one post isn't gonna cover it all, but it doesn't even matter, because it's the truth. And when somebody finds their ONE, a ballad should be written about it. Songs about it should permeate the air, and it should be sung by a chorus of freakin ANGELS. With harps and stuff.

Blah, I don't know where I'm going with this. I just got excited to write about something. I thought it was gonna be a sad post, but I guess not. Haha. Ok, I'm gonna go read.

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