DAY 01: Your Favorite Song...

Day 1 is already posing a challenge for me. I'm under the firm belief that music is my "oxygen" in life, so picking just one favorite song is like asking me to choose between having my leg or arm cut off. I'm being a little extreme, I know. My iTunes library currently has 2,512 songs in it. My most played song is "Stolen" by Dashboard Confessional, something that I've always been aware of and a little surprised at. But, not my favorite song.

If I had to choose, I would say my favorite is "Wedding Dress" by Matt Nathanson. Why? Cause one of the main criteria I look for in songs that I love is if it talks about something unique. If it touches upon a topic that not many people refer to in poems or songs, etc. Now, they jury is still out on what this song is really about, I've even discussed it with a friend or two and the conclusions were very different. What I think is that it's about the internal fear that some of us hold, that our dream(s) of finally finding that one perfect person to share their life with is something that will slip through our fingers in a second. In the song, I think he's saying that despite the fact that their wedding has come and that should be enough to know that they're all in and in it forever, he still has a fear that the beauty of them will fade away or be ruined because he will not feel good enough for the relationship. It touches upon insecurity and fear and loving someone that much that you're afraid to lose them. The combination of lyrics, melody, and singing voice is what makes this song amazing to me.

So we lie here in the dark
All the wrong things on fire
In sickness and in health
To be with you, just to be with you

In your wedding dress
To have and to hold
'Cause even at my best
I wanna let go

And you hold me in your arms
And all that I can see
Is my future in your hands
And all that I can feel
Is how long ever after is
It's all that I can do
To be with you, just to be with you

In your wedding dress
To have and to hold
'Cause even at my best
I wanna let go

Thought I'd lost you
Thought I'd lost you
I gave you away
Thought I'd lost you
I'm jealous of the moon
For how it moves the waves

'Cause in your wedding dress
To have and to hold
'Cause even at my best
I wanna let go

And I wanna be somebody else now
And I wanna thicken my skin
And I wanna wish it all
Just wish it all away again