Red letter day and I'm in a blue mood. Wishing that blue would just carry me away.
Do me a favor and watch this all the way through: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z9ouIZY8J0
I love Sara Bareilles. Her voice paired with her piano playing just melts my soul and turns me into some kind of musical jelly. I've gone through different phases where one of her songs gets stuck on play in my jeep and I simply cannot stop replaying it and singing it at the top of my lungs. This song in particular takes me straight back to Kansas during the time when we were scrambling, trying to find a way to make the move back home to Michigan. I was unhappy and it felt desperate, like we would never find a way to make it work. This song let me sing my frustrations and get that emotional release I so needed. The line I chose for this shot comes late in the song. It goes like this:
Red letter day and I'm in a blue mood.
Wishing that blue would just carry me away.
I've been talking to God, don't know if it's helping or not,
but surely something has got to got to got to give
cause I can't keep waiting to live.
I can't even type it, knowing the way the music sounds at this point in the song, without tears coming to my eyes. It so perfectly voiced my own frustrations at the time, that I felt like this part of the song was written for me. And I think I will always associate that time in my life with these lyrics, and will probably always get emotional when I listen to this song.
Please go listen.
365 Days (self portraits): Day 157
30 Songs in 30 Days: Many the Miles, Sara Bareilles
Red letter day and I'm in a blue mood. Wishing that blue would just carry me away.
Do me a favor and watch this all the way through: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z9ouIZY8J0
I love Sara Bareilles. Her voice paired with her piano playing just melts my soul and turns me into some kind of musical jelly. I've gone through different phases where one of her songs gets stuck on play in my jeep and I simply cannot stop replaying it and singing it at the top of my lungs. This song in particular takes me straight back to Kansas during the time when we were scrambling, trying to find a way to make the move back home to Michigan. I was unhappy and it felt desperate, like we would never find a way to make it work. This song let me sing my frustrations and get that emotional release I so needed. The line I chose for this shot comes late in the song. It goes like this:
Red letter day and I'm in a blue mood.
Wishing that blue would just carry me away.
I've been talking to God, don't know if it's helping or not,
but surely something has got to got to got to give
cause I can't keep waiting to live.
I can't even type it, knowing the way the music sounds at this point in the song, without tears coming to my eyes. It so perfectly voiced my own frustrations at the time, that I felt like this part of the song was written for me. And I think I will always associate that time in my life with these lyrics, and will probably always get emotional when I listen to this song.
Please go listen.
365 Days (self portraits): Day 157
30 Songs in 30 Days: Many the Miles, Sara Bareilles