Love In Music

Love is something that cannot be planned. It just happens. If you spend your life searching for love, you will get hurt far too many times. Love comes through unexpected circumstances and in unexpected ways. We all must be open to all kinds of love because the love we expect may not be the love in our future. Love is portrayed in many varying ways. Many songs depict the positive sides of love while others show the dark side. I tend to enjoy listening to the happy sides of love because I feel like I have an optimistic view of love. For love to be true love, it needs to be healthy and positive.

In Taylor Swift’s song, “Tim McGraw”, she sings,

“When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
Someday you'll turn your radio on
I hope it takes you back to that place
When you think happiness.”

This is about a high school love. She knows that it might not last, and she is okay with that.  It is important to experience all of life to end up finding the right one for you.  Your past relationships shape the person you become and you should not regret that time of love.

Parachute’s song, “Forever and Always,” on the other hand, is about the kind of love that will last forever, even after death. 

“I want you forever, forever and always
Through the good and the bad and the ugly
We'll grow old together
Forever and always”

This is the kind of love to build a marriage upon. I believe that love should be supportive. I want my husband to picture us old and gray sitting on our front porch together. Although love is somewhat in the moment, you must also build a stable relationship to last throughout your life.  In my opinion, a person’s soul mate changes as the person changes. The person you are meant to spend the rest of your life with depends on the choices you make leading up to the relationship.

In Lady Antebellum’s “Our Kind of Love,” the love of two best friends is described.

 “Just like driving on an open highway
Never knowing what we're gonna find
Just like two kids, baby, always trying to live it up
Whoa, yeah, that's our kind of love
Mm that's our kind of love”

I feel like you need to be both in love and best friends with your spouse. Having just one will but a burden on your relationship. Love should be fun and you should “live it up.” Fun should be a main component of your relationship. I want my husband to want to simply go “driving” with me.

Michael Bublé’s “Everything” is a song about having stability in your love.

“And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times
It's you, it's you, You make me sing.
You're every line, you're every word, you're everything.”

Your spouse should be the main person in your life. Everything else should form around him/her. You should not spend your life searching for Mr. Perfect because what you think is your everything now will most likely not be your everything in a few years. I want my husband to grow into my everything through love.

Death Cab for Cutie’s Song “I Will Follow You Into the Dark”, illustrates that if love is true love, it will wait.

“If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark.”

If someone truly loves you, he or she will let you know that he or she will always be there for you. They will wait around and always be a support. Sooner or later, you will realize that they are the true one for you. True love will make itself known.