Soul Songs

In class the other day we talked about music.  At the very end we did an activity that is done in music therapy.  The question was asked, "If you were a song, what song would you be and why?"  Now, I couldn't think of an exact song but I thought of some songs that speak to my soul, or what I will refer to as Soul Songs.  These are a few of them...

#1 When You Say Nothing at All - Alison Krauss

This songs describes my relationship with Tara, my wife.  The chorus is pretty much everything I see in her.   I can't say it better than "The smile on your face lets me know that you need me.  There's a truth in your eyes sayin' you'll never leave me.  The touch of you hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall.  You say it best when you say nothing at all." 

 Just try to tell me these eyes and this smile don't fit the words of that song.

#2 Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion 

This song always makes me think of my relationship with my mom.  This song describes a powerful type of love.  It is a love that I think most mom's display for their children.  It is a love that I felt from my own mom.  "You were my strength when I was weak, you were my voice when I couldn't speak.  you were my eyes when I couldn't see.  You saw the best there was in me."  My mom was all of those for me growing up.  She always lifted me up because she saw what I could become.  

#3 Your Song - Elton John 

My dad doesn't care too much about music.  He'd rather his radio be on sports radio than anything else.  There is one singer whose songs he will always stop and listen to and that singer is Elton John.  Your Song is the Elton John song that I feel describes my relationship with my dad.  It's a song about not having much but giving everything you have to the people that you love.  If you know my dad, that describes him to a T.  My dad has done some much to help me be the best I can be.  He gives his all for me and my sisters.

#4 Get Off of My Back - Bryan Adams (from Spirit the movie about the horse)

This song always reminds me of me and my sisters.  When we were younger we had a big stereo in the living room.  We would put this soundtrack in the stereo and when this song began we would get so excited because it meant that I would pretend to be Spirit and my sisters would try to get on my back and ride but I would try to buck them off or vice versa.  We laughed and laughed for hours doing this.  We would put the song on repeat until it drove my parents crazy but we had a blast playing.  This is one of those memories that will never die.

#5 Any Gavin Degraw song

We talked about a specific Gavin DeGraw song in class the other day and I have always been a huge Gavin Degraw fan.  He always has encouraging and uplifting songs that help put me in a good mood and I feel like his songs speak to my soul not just to my ears.  

Fire is one of those songs I could listen to on repeat forever.  I listen to it pretty frequently when I am at the gym.  It helps give me a positive boost physically, emotionally, and mentally.  If I ever need a good pump up song this tends to be my go-to song.

I Don't Want to Be is probably the song with the lyrics that I like the most.  They remind me to stop trying to be anyone other than who I am.  I don't need to be something that I am not. I am me and that is everything I am supposed to be.  I am Stephen Trotter and these are my Soul Songs