Music Monday

   Welcome to Music Monday. I'm excited for tonight because #1 I love music, and #2 this is a special night. Tomorrow is the official release of the newest Shinedown CD, Amaryllis.  Tonight's song is one of my favorites from the album (it is released tomorrow, but I have heard the whole thing since it leaked to the internet about a week ago. I have purchased a copy that is in route to me at this very moment and it is a package deal with some other goodies).

     Seeing how the purpose of my Blog is to fill you in on the long story that is me meeting myself I present you this song along the theme of growth and renewal.  The song is entitled "For My Sake". This song is about a person breaking some kind of relationship (it is vague whether it is friendship, dating, work related, or anything necessarily specific). I would lean towards a dating relationship, but as the listener hears the song it lends itself well to interpretation. The song is the chant of the person deciding to leave behind the relationship of ambiguous type for their own sake. As I apply it to myself it is not necessarily a specific person, but more about myself. I've grown a lot this last year and the main person in my way is me. It hasn't been easy initiating change, but I know its for myself. There's an episode of How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM as It shall henceforth be referred to) where Ted and Marshall are about to have to decide who gets the apartment that they are sharing after Marshall get's married.  There is a flashback scene where Marshall asks Ted who gets the apartment, and Ted says,"I don't know, but you know who would be able to figure that out? Future Ted and Future Marshall."  Marshall then says, "Yeah let those guys deal with it."  After the flashback Ted yells, "Darn you past Ted!"  Past Owen has left a lot for me to do, and I can't continue to put it off and still expect to grow.  I'm putting my foot down and never looking back for my sake. I'm going to do work now so that later on I'm don't yell out "Dang it past Owen!"

     This song goes along with that theme. I don't know where you are in your life, but if there is someone holding you back, even yourself, you owe it to future you to not let that happen.  I'm going to let you hear the lyrics as they hit you without any line by line interpretation.

"For My Sake"

[Verse 1:]

I remember like yesterday 

You had a dream in your eyes and a smile on your face

And I'm missing those days again yeah I'm missing those days again

And I forgot what really got in the way

Maybe the sun that wouldn't shine should be taking the blame

Cause its raining on me again yeah its raining on me again

[Bridge:]

A paradox

The key you dropped

A manifest

For what you lost, was me

For my sake please..

[Chorus:]

Stop slowing me down, stop holding me up

Quit making a scene, enough's enough.

Let's be honest, your promise, was never meant to last

So am taking you on, am calling you out.

There's nothing left for us here now.

Let's be honest, I promise, I'm never lookin' back for my sake.

For my sake.

[Verse 2:]

Tell me something that's poetic at best

Make me believe there was a time that you weren't like the rest

And I'll never ask you again, and I'll never ask you again

For all the moments and the memories

No one could ever say we never had a history

But I'm leaving that all behind

And there is nothing gonna change my mind

[Bridge:]

A paradox

The key you dropped

A manifest

For what you lost, was me

For my sake please..

[Chorus:]

Stop slowing me down, stop holding me up

Quit making a scene, enough's enough.

Let's be honest, your promise, was never meant to last

So am taking you on, am calling you out.

There's nothing left for us here now.

Let's be honest, I promise, I'm never lookin' back for my sake.

For my sake.

[Bridge:]

A paradox

The key you dropped

A manifest

For what you lost, was me

For my sake please..

Stop slowing me down

Stop holding me up

Stop slowing me down

Enough's enough

[Chorus:]

Stop slowing me down, stop holding me up

Quit making a scene, enough's enough.

Let's be honest, your promise, was never meant to last

So am taking you on, am calling you out.

There's nothing left for us here now.

Let's be honest, I promise, I'm never lookin' back for my sake.

I'm never lookin' back, for my sake. [x3]