Soundtrack to Your Life

Thought I'd share my current Playlist on my IPOD which I am completely obsessed with. If you'd like a CD I'll make you one, I think you'd like it.

1) How Far We've Come: Matchbox Twenty
Remember when they were Matchbox 20? I really just like this new single from them.
2) Inconsolable: Backstreet Boys (Ok, I just can't help that one)
3) Breathe In Breathe Out: Mat Kearney
4) This Is My Now: Jordin Sparks
This is my now people, this is my song...
5) Latest Mistake: Mandy Moore
While this is a breakup song and has depth in that realm, there is this line:
"Cause I wanted you the first time
And I loved you from the second
And I don't know how that ever goes away"
my fascination not so much about the first part- but I love the question about how that ever would go away.
6) That's The Way I Remember It: Garth Brooks as Chris Gaines
Ok, so creepy moment that Garth Brooks had during this time, but I freaking love this CD anyway. This song is classic- and as I think back about my life and people I've met, loved, lost touch with-stories both painful and filled with anguish...I love this song for its simple declaration of:
"It never will be that way again
Maybe it wasn't way back when
But to my heart and soul
This is the way the story has to be told"
7) You Move Me: Susan Ashton
A song that I've loved forever and a day, and especially now in this state of unknown future bliss. Garth Brooks has a cover of this song, and while I do like it- there's something about a woman singing it, reflects more of a relationship with Christ, where Garth makes it come off as much more of a love song between two people. While I would love to put the entire song in here, I will put my favorite part:
"You go whistlin in the dark, making light of this, making light of this,
And I follow with my heart, laughing all the way-"
Ok, I'll put more in:
"But you move me, you give me courage I didn't know I had, and you move me-
And I can't go with you and stay where I am, so you move me.
...And it scares me so much, that I just wouldn't budge.
I might have stayed there forever, if not for your touch."
8) Leaving This Life: Lori McKenna (for more reasons than I could every really say)
9) I'm About To Come Alive: Train
When I moved to VA the summer of '03 I loved this song b/c I connected to the excitement of change and the burst of newness, growing, being stretched, and now four years later I've been drawn to the concept of coming alive again.
10) Who Would Have Thought?: Darren Hayes. Just love it.
11) How To Build A Time Machine: Darren Hayes.
Ok, now this is a weird song. But lyrically very smart. At the natural place in the song he sings in light of having said successfully built a Time Machine what he would do:
"All the things I've lost
All the people I've hurt
All the times I lied
All the moments wasted
All I never did
All the dreams I had
All the things I would change
I can change them"
And just love that part, I often will rewind back to it.
12) Slow Dancing In A Burning Room: John Mayer (Who doesn't love this song, even if they don't really like John Mayer?)
13) Confetti: Lori McKenna
"all of the bright colors that lived inside of me
are now just tiny little pieces
of what we used to be
and it just feels like...confetti"
oh yes, we've all felt like confetti from time to time.
14) So Small: Carrie Underwood.
Mountains and grains of sand, having faith, searching for forever was in your hands...my goodness Carrie Underwood you are an American Idol. Haha.
15) Words: Darren Hayes. I like words.
16) Umbrella: Rhianna. B/c its our song. My two boo's...this is us. And at least two out of three prefer the Mandy Moore version.