When we turn on the radio or sneak a peak at friend’s ipods and mp3 players, what do we usually see?  I don’t know if I’m an isolated case but what I usually find is music that’s depressing at best.  I listen to some of this stuff and wonder just how anyone feels when this stuff is oozing (or blasting) it’s way through their ears.  Not to say that heavy or slow music is bad as I enjoy listening to both, but, some of the lyrical content found in these songs makes you wonder…
     I had what you would call an “emo” phase where I listened to nothing much those bands that idolized self-loathing and aversion towards love and the world.  Looking back on it I see how silly of a phase it was.  If someone says their mood doesn’t change when listening to music then that person clearly is just hearing the music, not listening to it.  Music is meant to convey a message and make you feel a certain way.  Whenever I listen to Mr. Adam Young I can’t help but feel an alleviated feeling.  No matter what I may be going through that day or what’s happened to me I can always turn my ipod to one of his many albums and get transported to some far off place devoid of sadness.  So now I humbly present a song that makes me smile.

Owl City- Fireflies

You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
Because they’d fill the open air
And leave teardrops everywhere
You’d think me rude but I’d just stand and stare

I’d like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep
Because everything is never as it seems

Because I’d get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head
A sockhop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

I’d like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep
Because everything is never as it seems

When I fall asleep leave my door open just a crack
(Please take me away from here)
Because i feel like such an insomniac
(Please take me away from here)
Why do I tire of counting sheep
(Please take me away from here)
When I’m far too tired to fall asleep?

To ten million fireflies
I’m weird because I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell
But I’ll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
Because I saved a few and I keep them in a jar

I’d like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep
Because everything is never as it seems

I’d like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep
Because everything is never as it seems

I’d like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams

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This song perfectly captures the dream that I’ll never wake from.  Oh, and what a lovely dream it is…

(9:17 PM December 6 2010)