Top 5 Most listened to songs

Once every 3 months or so, thats all you get. No, I am going to try to take my blog a little more seriously. Hopefully at least once a week. Anyway, I thought something cool to blog about would be music that moves me. I am known for listening to songs over and over again if it hits me the right way. There are certain songs that inspire me in some ways and other songs inspire me in other ways. And when I am about to do something, I listen to a song that will bring out the best in me for that situation. For example, I listened to “How You Ever Going To Know” By Garth Brooks about 70 times in a row before I proposed to Laurel.

So anyway, here are my top 5 most listened to songs in my itunes, and why I love it:

1) Pearl Jam “Life Wasted” Those of you that know me know that PJ is my all time fave. And this song off their last album is musically a return to their roots, fast and loud. But when a song moves me, it has to be lyrics. I heard Eddie Vedder say he was inspired to write this song after leaving a funeral for one of the Ramones, Johnny I think. “I’ve tasted a life wasted, and I’m never going back again” says the chorus. Summarize this song in a sentence: Life is short, so don’t waste one minute!

2) Caedmon’s Call “40 Acres” “There’s 40 Acres, and Redemption to be found.” Simply, a song about redemption. Maybe I’m wrong, but it sounds like a letter to a family member that has given up on theirself to come out to Texas and turn their life around. “You say that you’re the black sheep, I say you’re still family” GREAT LYRIC, I think about it all the time when I want to give up on those I love getting their crap together…still family. “…This Texas rain, it’s the hardest I’ve ever seen. It’ll wash your house away, but it will also make you clean” Sometimes change sucks, but it’s necessary to be right and “clean”

3)The Killers “All these things that I have done” Good song, but the story behind how it got into my top list is this: I went on a cruise with my brand new iPod, and for some reason, only 15 songs on it. I fell asleep this song on repeat for some reason. “I’m so much older that I can take” sometimes strikes a chord in my 28 year old soul.

4)Rich Mullins “Growing Young” I love Rich Mullins. Some of his stuff sound like horrible 80s Christian music with waayyyyy to much piano. But his good stuff is water for a dry soul, and this song about the Prodigal Son is what I listen to when I feel like I shouldn’t be a Christian because of my short comings.

“Everybody used to tell me that big boys don’t cry, I’ve been around enough to know that that was the lie, that held back the tear in the eyes of every prodigal son” SO TRUE

“I’ve gone so far from my home
I’ve seen the world and I have known
So many secrets
I wish now I did not know
‘Cause they have crept into my heart
They have left it cold and dark
And bleeding
Bleeding and falling apart “

Sin has a way of sneaking into our heart and staying there. I would love to hit the “undo” button and forget some crapola.

5) Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying” One of the best written songs in the last decade. Like the top song, a song that says don’t look back at your life on Earth and say “I should of…” For those of you that have never heard this song (You Anti-Country-ites) A man in his 40s finds out he is dying, and starts living like he should have lived all along. “I gave out forgiveness I’ve been denying” YES YES YES! He also goes bull riding and sky diving.

The only regrets in life are risks we don’t take.

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