Music is powerful

It's interesting, the power of music. With a single song you can be reduced to tears, or laughing uncontrollably. Sometimes it's the song itself, or the memories associated with the time you heard the song.
We were listening to a playlist on our way to church, and "Broken" by Seether feat Amy Lee came on. For the first time I remember happy times with my ex, when he brought his guitar to Cottonwood Pointe and serenaded me, and the told me of his parents requirement of a break to prove that we were serious about our courtship (which is ridiculous  and is such a long complicated story that seriously pisses me off I won't go into it now...plus if they would have just waited, we probably would have broken up before a whole year passed, but the fact that we couldn't be together keep us closer than we would have been)

But it also got me thinking about where I've been in life when I think of songs....for instance, I held hands with a boy for the first time (David, one of my first big crushes, who didn't really like me back until I hit puberty, and even then wasn't really nice to me) after listening to DC Talk "Jesus Freak". Then there's "Clumsy" by Fergie, which always makes me think of how I would literally trip and fall over myself with nervousness when Husband and I were first getting to know each other and dating (I lost track of how many plates/glasses/bowls I broke or cracked in that first year....He still teases me about that)

Husband always says it's not the actions in a movie that make you really feel the emotion, it's the music behind the actions driving the point home straight to your tear ducts. Really, just think about it.

And I'll leave you with this video, it's an AMV (Anime Music Video) of "Broken" by Seether feat Amy Lee, the song I was talking about earlier. It's two characters from the anime Bleach,and the combo of the song and the scenes from the anime really just hit the right nerve.

WARNING: If you do follow Bleach or Naruto, the videos do contain spoilers if you are not close to the current chapters!

My other favorite is"Stand in the Rain" by Superchick. I'm guessing most people that read this will have never seen Naruto before, but I think it can be understood either way, but this one makes me tear up every time ...but Hinata is also my favorite character in the series (that's the dark haired girl in the video btw)