Hey Chase,
So apparently I am terrible at getting posts up lately. I have three weeks to cover. I hope your break is still going well. I believe you are back at school now. I loved the package you mailed me! I hung the origami up on my wall as decoration 
I liked this Challenge. Music always speaks to me in my life. I tend to like songs more so for their lyrics than for the tune. Unless its dance music than mainly I just like the beat. Sometimes I wish music would follow me around throughout my day like a musical. It often does in my head at least. I like to try to fit the right music to the moment.
I put together a collection of songs and artist that I like (in no set order). I have decided in order to tell you why I like the song I will include some of the lyrics that I like from each one. Let me know if the link does not work.
Meaning — Gavin DeGraw
“Situation: candle light,
enough to see the bits around you,
but its never very bright.” “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” 2 Corinthians 4:18
“Sometimes our only way is jumpin’
I hope your not afraid of heights”
After the Storm — Mumford & Sons
“And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.” God is Love
Always Love —Nada Surf
“To make a mountain of your life
Is just a choice”
“Slow down, you’re doing fine
You can’t be everything you want to be
Before your time” Slow down and enjoy life. When will you realize, Vienna waits for you? Travel
You Are The Moon — The Hush Sound
“You don’t see what you possess, a beauty calm and clear
It floods the sky and blurs the darkness like a chandelier
All the light that you possess is skewed by lakes and seas
The shattered surface, so imperfect, is all that you believe” Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.” 1 Corinthians 13:12
Drops of Jupiter — Boyce Avenue Cover
“Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day” I am not fully sure what this means…but in a literal way I would really like to dance along the light of day I also LOVE Boyce Avenue!
By Your Side — Tenth Avenue North (I guess I like avenues)
“Here at my side, my hands are holding you” “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:6-7
Times — Tenth Avenue North
“My love is over. It’s underneath.
It’s inside. It’s in between.
The times you doubt Me, when you can’t feel.
The times that you question, ‘Is this for real? ‘
The times you’re broken.
The times that you mend.
The times that you hate Me, and the times that you bend.
Well, My love is over, it’s underneath.
It’s inside, it’s in between.
These times you’re healing, and when your heart breaks.
The times that you feel like you’re falling from grace.
The times you’re hurting.
The times that you heal.
The times you go hungry, and are tempted to steal.
The times of confusion, in chaos and pain.
I’m there in your sorrow, under the weight of your shame.
I’m there through your heartache.
I’m there in the storm.
My love I will keep you, by My pow’r alone.
I don’t care where you fall, where you have been.
I’ll never forsake you, My love never ends.
It never ends.”
Shake It Out — Glee Cover
“It’s always darkest before the dawn”
Smile — Uncle Kracker
“And the moments when my good times start to fade
You make me smile like the sun” Chase, thanks for always making me smile
If I Die Young — The Band Perry
“Gather up your tears, keep ‘em in your pocket
Save them for a time when you’re really gonna need them”
I Don’t Want to Be — Gavin DeGraw
“I’m tired of looking ’round rooms
Wondering what I’ve got to do
Or who I’m supposed to be
I don’t want to be anything other than me” This goes with my love for One Tree Hill – its the theme song.
Good Life — OneRepublic
“Hopelessly
I’m taking a mental picture of you now’
Cause hopelessly
The hope is we have so much to feel good about” We are blessed by the good lives we live.
Love you!!!!
Alex
