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I have always been a lover of music. My parents started bringing me to baby music classes as an infant. As I grew up, I started taking piano lessons, and then began playing cello in the school orchestra at fourth grade.
Because of this upbringing, I tend to pay close attention to the lyrics in songs. I often associate them with important people in my life at the time of listening. Over the past twenty-two years, I’ve had my share of falling-outs with friends and others — yet I still think of a certain person when I hear these songs. I have used this project as a method to make them my own again. By mashing up the lyrics into new quotes regarding the relationships that they have come to symbolize, I take these songs back as mine.
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Oh don’t you dare look back
Just keep your eyes on me
I said you’re holding back
She said shut up and dance with me
This woman is my destiny
—WALK
I don’t know why, it’s so hard to swallow our pride!
And I don’t know how many wrongs make a right I don’t know the reason
Sometimes it just feels so, good to cry!
THE MOON, “Shut Up and Dance”
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—Thousand Foot Krutch, “All I Need to Know”
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Sometimes to win, you’ve got to sin
Don’t mean I’m not a believer
And major Tom, will sing along Yeah, they still say I’m a dreamer
—The Cab, “Angel with a Shotgun”
And all we’d seen Was gold and green
Gonna make this garden grow
Inch by inch and row by row
—Slaughter Beach, Dog, “Gold and Green”
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“I chase that feeling
Of an eighteen year old who didn’t know what loss was Now I’m a stranger And I miss the days of a life still permanent Mourn the years before I got carried away”
—Bleachers, “I Wanna Get Better”
“I got up to wash my face When I come back to bed
Someone’s taken my place
Celia, you’re breaking my heart
You’re shaking my confidence daily”
—Simon and Garfunkel, “Cecilia”
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—Mayday Parade, “Black Cat”
“My heart is my armor
She’s the tear in my heart
She’s a carver
She’s a butcher with a smile Cut me farther Than I’ve ever been”
—Twenty One Pilots, “Tear in My Heart”
“And this jealous actress has a habit Of making things sound way too tragic Get your hands off of my star
It’s not your part, but all your fault”
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And then I found me a lover who could play the bass
He’s kinda quiet, but his body ain’t
—Ryn Weaver, “Pierre”
“In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
‘I am leaving, I am leaving’ But the fighter still remains”
—Simon and Garfunkel, “The Boxer”
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“I could be your lover, and you could be my heartache
I could sing the songs that we used to sing when we were kids Maybe that could bring us back to before we got stuck in this”
—EDEN, “catch me if you can”
“I miss the sound of your voice
Loudest thing in my head And I ache to remember”
—Matt Nathanson, “Come On Get Higher”
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songs sing the we used to bring back the V O I C E your of SOUND and my heartache
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“I could fill your cup
You know my river won’t evaporate This world we still appreciate You could be my luck
Even in a hurricane of frowns I know that we’ll be safe and sound”
—Capital Cities, “Safe and Sound”
“His crown lit up the way as we moved slowly Past the wondering eyes of the ones that were left behind Though far away, though far away, though far away We’re still the same, we’re still the same, we’re still the same”
—Of Monsters and Men, “King and Lionheart”
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“And now I’m falling apart My words become a cliché And if I’m stronger than that I’ll find another way Into your heart”
“I want you to marry me We’ll wait a few years I don’t mean to frighten you I just wanna be clear”
—Count to Four, “Lavender Town”
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—Slaughter Beach, Dog, “Acolyte”
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Lyric Credits:
WALK THE MOON, “Shut Up and Dance”
Thousand Foot Krutch, “All I Need to Know”
The Cab, “Angel with a Shotgun”
Slaughter Beach, Dog, “Gold and Green”
Bleachers, “I Wanna Get Better”
Simon and Garfunkel, “Cecilia”
Mayday Parade, “Black Cat”
Twenty One Pilots, “Tear in My Heart”
Simon and Garfunkel, “The Boxer”
Ryn Weaver, “Pierre”
Capital Cities, “Safe and Sound”
Of Monsters and Men, “King and Lionheart”
EDEN, “catch me if you can”
Matt Nathanson, “Come On Get Higher”
Slaughter Beach, Dog, “Acolyte”
Count To Four, “Lavender Town”
Icon Credits:
Icons from the Noun Project
Vinyl Record, cover, by Dale Humphries
CD, cover, by Leopold Merleau
Music Note, pg. 4, by Becca
Eyes, pg. 7, by Icons Producer
Pill, pg. 7, by Alina Oleynik
Sprout, pg. 9, by Abdulloh Fauzan
Day, pg. 11, by iconomania
Smile, pg. 13, by IronSV
Double Bass, pg. 15, by Valter Bispo
Audio, pg. 17, by Thossawat
Hurricane, pg. 19, by Studio GLD
Muscle, pg. 21, by Vivian Ziereisen
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