I made a point to go see BSS less than a month later at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, out of gratitude, amazement and awe. I guess my experience goes to prove that no matter what the songwriter intended the lyrics to mean, people will have their own personal and sentimental interpretations of a song. Every time I hear this song, memories of that day and all of the bad feelings come to mind, but the feelings of hope and not being alone in my problems also comes to mind. I don't believe in God or predetermination or anything like that, but this song coming on exactly when it did gave me the feeling that maybe there is a such thing as fate. If youre counting couples, I think Romeo and Juliet are severely misunderstood. The song actually made me feel better just as I thought nothing in the world could do anything to make me feel better. He’s the Bruce Wayne that could have existed if, when at the crossroads after his parents’ murder, Bruce had succumbed to his trauma instead of using it as a crucible to ultimately fight injustice. I can't say that the meaning I took from it was what Kevin Drew was feeling, but I can say that the song summed up how I was feeling perfectly, in the form of a beautiful, beautiful song. This, however, was the first time I had heard "Sweetest Kill." As if cued perfectly in a movie, this song came on. I had listened to some of BSS's music, as I had preloaded it with a ton of new music that I wanted to check out while I was on vacation. While walking on a moving walkway just before the terminal, this song came on. I put my earphones in and put my iPod on shuffle. I sucked it up and tried playing it calm for the next few hours of my trip and began the walk to the terminal for my flight that was about to board. I was devastated and heartbroken and wanted to break down right there in the airport. I guess she ended up attending this party/barbecue while I was en route back home and after two hours of ignored phone calls, I caught wind that she had taken an extreme interest in this guy. He was having a welcome back party, and his sister was one of my ex's good friends. ![]() This same day, an acquaintance I had gone to high school with was on a one week leave from his Army station in Hawaii. I immediately tried getting a hold of my woman when I got off the flight, as I was extremely homesick by this point and missing her even more. ![]() I got off of my flight from South Carolina to Detroit for a layover and grabbed some food. We were no longer dating, but trying to work things out and this vacation to visit my brother for a week was supposed to be my chance to get away from everything and clear my head and my girlfriend strongly encouraged this. I was going through a rough breakup with a girl back home that I had been dating for two years. MemoryI first heard this song on my iPod Shuffle when I was coming back from a vacation to South Carolina. Get you through your will, that won't workĪll the time, we get by, trying to figure our lives Well, I thought you were the sweetest killĪll the time, we get by, trying to figure out our livesĪnd they can try to wear you down, put you out And they can try to put you down, wear you out
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