The 10 Days of Paramore – Hear You Me
Day Three
Good afternoon world. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about family. Whether it be your own flesh and blood, or people who have seen you grow and been with you in good times and bad, there is nothing in the world more precious and rare than having that kind of support system as we stumble our way through this crazy thing called life. My family, immediate and extended, is awesome, to put it mildly. Who knows why, but they love me. They put up with my crap, and, most of the time, manage to bring out the best in me.
I spent this past weekend with my saster and our awesome friends. I guess this will be one of the last weekends, I will be spending with her as a “single” chick because in less than three weeks, she will be making her way down the aisle. Not saying that she’s going anywhere or that we’ll be hanging out less. It’ll probably just be different. Anyways, I love her. Not because she was nice enough to make me breakfast. Not because she didn’t complain when I sort of tricked her into doing my laundry. And not because she was nice enough to drop me off at the airport just now. Words really cannot describe how happy I am for my loving saster, and how ecstatic I will be to have most of my nearest and dearest there to share in that moment with her and my future brother-in-law.
If I had one wish though, it would be to feel the presence of another particular person there that day. A person who I know would’ve been especially proud to see her more beautiful and happy than we’ve ever seen her. Proud also because he never had to remind THIS daughter to never have regrets, to be herself, or to let things go.
The following is a cover of a Jimmy Eat World song. I love when bands I love, cover songs I already loved and make them feel new to me again. I first heard this song in the movie Butterfly Effect, but when Paramore covered it, I listened a bit more closely to the lyrics and was overwhelmed by how perfectly it describes my feelings for the first and maybe only man to really love me. I miss you Dad…everyday. I lift this song to you and hope that it carries with it, the weight of all the things I didn’t get to tell you. To those nearest and dearest in your lives, take my advice – don’t be a schmuck, let them know you care. Hear You Me.
There’s no one in town I know, You gave us some place to go.
I never said thank you for that. I thought I might get one more chance.
What would you think of me now, so lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that, now I’ll never have a chance.
May angels lead you in. Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
And if you were with me tonight, I’d sing to you just one more time.
A song for a heart so big, God wouldn’t let it live.
May angels lead you in.
If My Life Had a Soundtrack 