Early Teen Years: Song Analysis

Ever since I was young, music has been a big part of my life and how I express myself. Music became an extremely important part of my life during my early teen years when I truly began to change physically and mentally. I began to have new experiences with others and began the process of figuring out who I really am. Without music, I do not know how I would express myself or how I would have endured my adolescence. My interest in music began to rapidly grow around eighth grade. I started listening to alternative bands such as The Devil Wears Prada, We Came as Romans, and The Wonder Years. This time of my life is when my sexuality began to develop and I realized I was gay. Due to this, I became very depressed. I felt very alone and that no

I had a feeling that the night I saw them live for the first time would be a phenomenal one. I had all of these issues bothering me at once and it was the night for me to forget about it all. The moment I knew that my life had really changed because of this band was during their encore. The song was “I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral”. It was a collaboration of every song on their newest album along with the true message of the whole album at the very end. As I was standing in the crowd, singing my lungs off, the end of the song came with the lyrics, “I’m staring up at the sky, but the bombs keep fucking falling. But I wont’ let him in. No, I won’t let him in.” I was staring up at the ceiling singing these lyrics so loud and I began to cry. I had all of these problems coming after me and they were the devil on my front porch. No matter how hard it was, I never let him in and it was all because of music. After that night, my life only

Then one day, little did I know my life was going to change. There was one person in particular that I had talked to on few occasions over the time-frame of about nine months. We finally agreed to meet and it want amazingly. One of the things that he told me that night was, “I’m gonna take care of you.” It was not meant to be this dramatic, time-stopping moment but it was. The perfect song to describe it is the song “Take Care” by Drake and Rihanna. The chorus of the song is, “I know you’ve been hurt by someone else. I can tell by the way you carry yourself. If you love me, here’s what I’ll do: I’ll take care of you.” We both have been hurt multiple times and have gone through multiple trials throughout life. Because of challenges we have faced, we are both stronger people and it makes our relationship stronger than