SONG # 9 = A SONG THAT MAKES YOU HOPEFUL.

God, I love this song. I love everything about it and much like with every single song I've posted, there's always a story behind it.

I had my iTunes set up on the family computer, since I didn't get my own until college, so my dad was always fiddling around with Limewire and downloading music onto it that I wouldn't normally listen to. Among his selection of Queen, Stray Cats, Guns N' Roses and Gwen Stefani was this 80s band called Tesla. He downloaded a handful of their songs, but this one song in particular was dedicated to me, as he put it.

Me, being a silly 16 year old teenager, shook it off saying, "yeah, whatever, Dad. I'll listen to it," when I really had no intention of giving it a shot. You know how those moments go. So he kept pestering me about it, I kept putting it off, then he sat me down and we listened to it.

He told me to really listen to what the song was saying and at the end of the song told me that no matter what happens to me later in life that love will always be there for me, because I'd always have him and mom if I ever couldn't handle something. I wasn't able to appreciate the lesson for what it really was, but looking back on it, I'm so glad that my dad shared this song with me.

Listening to the song and thinking back on that always gets me teary eyed, but I'll never lose that glimmer of hope that love lives on no matter what pain you experience <3