Live Forever

There are some songs that resonate so strongly with your soul, your heart, your all that you can't explain its meaning, its relevance, or its depth no matter how hard you try. Words will fail. Emotions won't amount.  They are the songs you find yourself unconsciously singing week in and week out, for months, if not years at a time. The lyrics, the tones, the melodies become a part of you. 


Maybe, I'm just crazy and no one else feels like this towards any song, but for me the song that I am describing is "Live Forever" by Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors. I can't tell you how many times I've listened to it, its probably up in the higher hundreds. It's one of those songs that I can listen to at any point in life, in any mood, with anybody. Whether i just lost my job, failed an exam, got my dog run over, and totaled my car (all hypothetical) or just had the greatest God moment, found the girl of my life, won the lottery, or saw the most beautiful sunset, this is the one song I'd want to listen to most.


For a long time now, I've been meaning to write some kind of commentary/reflection on this song but have been intimidated by the fear of failure or inadequacy to do this song justice. No matter what words I type, you'll just have to listen to it for yourself, over and over again, and take out of it what you will for yourself. Its also one of those songs that endless people can listen to and get an endless list of different emotions/meanings/effects out of. 


This song (and especially the music video) makes me realize whats really important in life. A life without laughter is a life of misery. A life without hope for a new, beautiful morning isn't a life worth living. There are gunna be haters in life but screw em. Live your life, let them be jealous. Let them see the something special that you have and maybe in time they will come around and desire the very thing they were hating on before. 


A life without community, family, friends, and love is empty and lacks the ability for enjoyment. God wants us to have a life to the full, he isn't some kind of cosmic fun-hater. He wants us to see us living in joy, in love, in laughter, in fun, in full. He wants us to dance. 


There will come days when the traffic lights aren't all green, when it seems to only rain on you, when the girl you thought you were gunna marry dumps you, when the path for your life you had laid out in your mind gets thrashed by the storms of this life, when you don't get the job you were certain of getting, when the bottom line comes out red instead of green, when bad things happen to good people, but don't waiver, don't worry, don't doubt. Stay strong and carry on. 


Diamonds are formed by pressure. Gold is refined by fire. Sometimes the overgrown, unclear, difficult path leads to the majestic lands of heaven on Earth. Sometimes, the path your were heading down is a dirty, muddy, broken road compared to God's golden-bricked road that leads to a future beyond your wildest dreams. "Get over your hill and see what you find there, with grace in your heart and flowers in your hair."-Mumford.


Many stay distant from God, thinking that a life lived with him will be a sacrifice of fun, of experience, of life. I would argue a life without him is the life that is lacking. He made us, so I'd bet he knows how best to attain that feeling of fulfillment, meaning, and purpose that we inherently seek after; hence his guidelines to life. 


Get out there, dance in the rain, dance in his love, dance with others.






Here's the link to the music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUf4FEiimwg


and lyrics:
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858839304/


buy their music, they're some of the best albums you'll ever come across (especially "A Million Miles Away")