The Soundtrack of My Life

Dear Avery,

I love movies. I especially love movies with incredible soundtracks. I often feel like music can play a character of its own if it’s good enough. I’ve loved song lyrics for as long as I could remember — so when you pair that with a scene without words — and somehow they go together — it’s magical to me.

My favorite soundtrack of all-time is from the movie “Garden State”. It became a favorite movie of mine because of how perfect the music fit with the film.

Sometimes when I’m in the moment, I often wonder what song would be playing if it my life were a movie. This sparked an idea of this post — with the best part being — in 10 years this list might change. More songs will affect me differently, and new songs will be created. Oh, the fun that is to come!

{What would the soundtrack of my life be?}

If I were walking down the beach at sunset, the songs that would play:

• “Snails” – The Format
• “New Slang” – The Shins
• “American Honey” – Lady Antebellum
• “Three little birds” – Bob Marley
• “Man on Fire” – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

If the boy I loved was thinking about me:

• “Magic” – Coldplay
• “She’s Got a Way” – Billy Joel
• “Have I Told You Lately” – Van Morrison
• “A Sky Full of Stars” – Coldplay
• “Always Be” – Jimmy Eat World
• “Angel Eyes” – Love and Theft

If I were thinking about the boy I loved:

• “Bright” – Echosmith
• “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” – Death Cab for Cutie
• “Falling Slowly” – Glen Hansard
• “Make You Feel My Love” – Adele
• “Sparks Fly” – Taylor Swift

If I were kissed in the rain (the passionate – pouring down rain – under a streetlamp kiss!):

• “Stolen” – Dashboard Confessional
• “Till Kingdom Come” – Coldplay
• “Into the mystic” – Van Morrison
• “These are the Times” – Van Morrison — I’d slow dance in the rain to this one. 🙂
• “Holocene” – Bon Iver

If I were driving down the pacific coast highway with the top down:

• “Just a ride” – Jem
• “Hero” – Family of the year
• “Forever Young” – Bob Dylan
• “Such great heights” – Postal Service
• “Free” – Zac Brown Band

If I were going through a rocky stage of a relationship:

• “Yet” – Switchfoot
• “Let her go” – Passenger
• “We are broken” – Paramore
• “The Best Deceptions”‘ – Dashboard Confessional
• “Ships in the Night” – Matt Kearney
• “Mess is Mine” – Vance Joy

If I were on a party bus with my girlfriends:

• “We R Who We R” – Kesha
• “Single Ladies” – Beyonce
• “Royals” – Lorde
• “Wanna be” – Spice Girls — because this one is nostalgic!
• “Hypnotize” – Notorious B.I.G

If we took a flashback to my adolescence:

• “What I got” – Sublime
• “Sweet Child O Mine” – Guns N Roses
• “Hey Jude” – The Beatles
• “Sweet Home Alabama” – Lynyrd Skynyrd

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For more, have a look at my pinterest board of some of my song favorite lyrics. I spent lots of nights wandering through these words!

It would be my great pleasure for you to find these songs one day, and listen to them, like I hear them. And I’d love to hear the soundtrack of your life –

because all you need is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

With love,

Aunt Megs