Music Gets Me Through It..
I don't know what I would do without music. I use songs to express my thoughts, when I can't tell people what's on my mind. There are many songs that I relate to my life, and it makes me feel like they were created to make me feel different about what goes on. Most of the songs on my iPod apply to me, the way I am, and the way I think. I turn on my iPod when I don't want to be bothered with the world, and it helps me calm down. I remove myself from the world, stay to myself, and turn my music on full blast, so that I can no longer hear what people have to say, to me, and about me.
There are some songs that I turn on for certain people.
Chris Brown : "I Needed You" is a song that I played for my "father," as a way of letting him know how I feel, and why I couldn't care less about him. People always think that they know everything about a person, but they don't know as much as they think, unless they've experienced the same things that they go through. "I needed you
When I needed a father figure.
I needed you
To stop me from makin' the wrong decisions.
At seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't know which way to go."
-Christopher Brown [Chris Brown]
Danity Kane : "Is Anybody Listening" is the song that I listen to when I'm depressed and feel like I'm alone in life. I've been through a lot in life and sometimes, it gets to the point where I feel like I have to go through it alone, and nobody cares. "I just wanna feel I belong,
I just need the strength to be strong,
Show me a way,
Won't you show me a way."
-D. Woods
Kirk Franklin : "Imagine Me," and "Could've Been Me" gets me through everything. They add positivity to my life and make me look at things differently. I used to complain about life 24/7 and never get over anything that happened to me. Now, I see that I will get through it all in the end, and I shouldn't complain because there is someone out there going through things, worse than what I go through. "Letting go of all of the ones who hurt me
Cause they never did deserve me
Can you imagine me?
Saying no to thoughts that try to control me
Remembering all you told me
Lord, can you imagine me?
Over what my mama said
And healed from what my daddy did
And I wanna live and not read that page again"
(Imagine Me)
"It could've been me
With no clothes no shoes and no food to eat
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah)
It could've been me
Without you love Lord tell me where would I be
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah)
It could've been"
(Could've Been Me)
Trey Songz & Drake : "Successful" is one of my favorites (not because it's Trey Songz). People always seem to think that money is just going to fall out of the sky, and that they don't have to produce anything to get it. In the song, Drake says "I want it all, that's why I strive for it." That shows that you have to work for everything you get. You can't always depend on your parents for money. "Trynna find a way but you never got a map
Dream chaser, risk taker
No favor, though haters
They might want me to drown
Holdin' me down
But the throne and the crown
Is all I ever wanted, all I ever needed
If I'm the only one and don't nobody else believe it
Then keep it a secret and watch me achieve it
'Cause I know what I want now
So if you want the money
If you gotta make
If you the only one and don't nobody else believe it
Then tell em to beat it
And watch you achieve it
Sing it if you want"
-Tremaine Neverson [Trey Songz]
Jay-Z & Pharrell : "So Ambitious" is a song I use to dedicate to all of the people who said I would never get anywhere in life. I laugh at all of the teachers and students who told me I was going to be a high school drop out and I wasn't going to make it in life. All I have to say to them is Look At Me Now. I'm on the National Honor Society. This is my second year of high school, and I've had top colleges looking at me since my freshman year. I laugh at those who told me I would never make it, because I look back and I see that I'm ten steps away from where they are in life.
"The motivation, for me, is them telling me what I could not be"