First of all, apologies are probably in order. Love 2.0 took an unexpected vacation this month. I could make any number of excuses to you all but I'm sure you've either heard them before or could figure them out on your own. Suffice it to say, we're sorry and we look forward to getting you your regularly scheduled content soon.
Oh, speaking of schedules. We now have a new one! I've felt bad recently about the number of filler/last minute articles you've been exposed to and ones that really weren't up to the standards we'd like. Which is why we've decided to do a few revisions. Main one being, every week will simply be a Wednesday post. We will still do single articles and we will still do joint articles, they'll just be spaced out more.
I hope you all will like the new format and you won't be too terribly upset at us for leaving you hanging for so long. Don't worry! Hold tight and new content will be coming your way soon! I promise!
This is the worst version of Hollywood romance the world has ever seen. But that is because this isn’t Hollywood romance. It’s the love between two people who found each other, fell in love, and refused to let distance stand in their way. In a world which has forgotten long letters between far off loves, this is a tribute to the romances of old, made easier thanks to modern life. So welcome to Love 2.0: A Digital Romance.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The Infinite Playlist, Volume 1.2
An Infinite Playlist. A Playlist without end. Songs are added onto it continuously, and nothing is ever removed. This is our Infinite Playlist, songs gathered from every corner of existence we know of that tell of our love and affection. Now of course posting it in it's entirety would be unwieldy and massive, so we have decided to post into small segments. Now this all began when we would send songs back and forth, mentioning how they reminded us of the other person, and soon we had so many we needed somewhere to keep track of it, and so the Infinite Playlist was born.
For Volume 1, we decided to choose songs that defined us alone, and expressed us getting to realize our true feelings for one another. Ending in a declaration that it was alright, we had each other. I would also like to thank Miss Genevieve (whom you can read about here and here) for the amazing album artwork. ^ ^ She has become our resident album artist, so look forward to more of her adorable art with more of these volumes.
Now those of you who have followed our blog will notice this is a repost of an old article of a similar name. For some reason the embedded playlist stopped functioning, and so we decided to venture forth to 8tracks.com and use their services, which has lent itself very nicely to our needs. So, enjoy here, Volume 1 of Digital Romance's Infinite Playlist.
Fidelity by Regina Spektor
I’ve felt like Fidelity was my theme song for years. I’ve always been afraid. Not always sure of exactly what but I put up walls between myself and the world around me, I didn’t let anyone get too close. I suppose I can say I’ve had boyfriends before but, really, they weren’t much more than a convenience to me. I kept them further from me than anyone else and I was always surprised that I hurt them when I left because, in plain language, they meant nothing to me. Sab was the one who came into my life and changed everything. I’ve never let anyone in as fully him, not friends and not family. I don’t know how to explain why it is I trust him so much. He just fits into my life like he was always meant to be there. - Sorcha
For me, Fidelity’s words don’t hold as much meaning as the video itself. The video for this song is a wonderful visual play on the relationship between Sorcha and I. In it, Regina Spektor and her companion sit within a room devoid of all color, a wonderful soliloquy of how I see my life, even my manner of dress includes my love of the monochrome. But this girl, in a literal explosion of color, brings laughter, joy and music to the bleak world. Sorcha is that girl to me, the woman who brought me color in her hands, and wasn’t afraid to share it with me, and she will always be the one who turned my monochrome world into a Technicolor dream. - Sabrael
Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesterday by Carla White
A 40’s girl at heart I’ve always loved big band, jazz, and soft sultry voices. Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesterday fills my head with pictures of smoke filled rooms, lazy pianists nursing drinks between chords, and lipsticked singers holding the microphone close enough to kiss. A song about letting go and holding on is the perfect way to introduce the beginnings of a relationship. It’s then that you wonder which parts of yourself are truly you, which are made up of those you’ve run into along the way, and what it is that truly defines you. I see this song as an attempt to find out who you really are before you can decide to let someone else inside. - Sorcha
Carla White’s soft lyrics have always sung the song of my soul. Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesteday has been my theme song ever since I first heard it, at the end of a beautiful narrative on fate. Is our destiny ours or is it chosen for us by those with more power? For a long time, I wondered on this, and after meeting Sorcha through extravagant twists of fate I realized even if there is something up there, I am the one who needs to move forward by my own will. On my own two legs. I will carry myself. And yes, I have found my inner peace and it has a name: Sorcha G. Dubhsioc. With her at my side, I will gladly brave whatever life may decide to visit upon me. - Sabrael
Summer’s Gone by Aberfeldy
I’ve mentioned before that I started to fall for Sab looooong before I’d intended to but it wasn’t until the end of the summer that I started to give into hope. There was a time where it seemed like it was just the two of us. We talked more, ignored our well placed boundaries, and soon well hidden emotions began to peek out. As the temps began to cool to a bearable 80 degrees and the miserable Missouri humidity started to fade it seemed like there were more things changing than just the weather. We finally realized, “Well we get along, Yeah we really do, And there's nothing wrong, With what I feel for you.” At summer’s end, we finally decided to let our hearts take control of our rational minds and that is one decision that I know I will never regret. - Sorcha
The end of Summer, to most, is sad because they remember the end of summer vacation as kids. I am very pasty, and very Irish, and so the sun is not my friend. So the end of Summer to me has actually meant little but the end of too much sunshine. Autumn on the other hand, the browning leaves, the sweeping winds and the feeling of melancholy that comes over me when it begins has always been beautiful to me. And it was near the Fall that Sorcha and I came together as two lonely hearts finding solace together. Melancholy has never felt so warm and sweet before. Now I look forward to Autumn as the time when I was able to find my Sorcha, and now it is a marker of another year passed, and another year to come with her at my side. - Sabrael
She’s So High by Tal Bachman
There are three songs so far in the history of the playlist that have given me goosebumps. Technically this one is #3 but I like lists that start at the end (and it gives you something to look forward to). Every time I hear it I don my aptly named ‘idiot grin’ and am incapable of doing anything other than flooding Sab with <3’s and I love you’s. It’s not just the obvious giddiness at being compared to Aphrodite or even him seeing me as out of his league (Pshaw on that theory!). It’s the fact that this song goes both ways. I don’t know what I did to deserve having Sabrael in my life. He puts up with my ridiculous mood swings, quirks, and eccentricities with an amazing patience I will never understand. My senior year in high school we had a girls retreat where one of the activities was to write out a list of the qualities of our perfect man. Sab meets Every Single bullet point on that list. Whether it’s luck or fate, finding him is something I won’t easily take for granted. - Sorcha
I must admit, I have a very sappy view of this song. The truth is I don’t feel like I am good enough for Sorcha, and I doubt I ever will feel like I am. I know Sorcha will always argue that I am more than deserving, but I will always thing otherwise. Does this worry me? No, I am in love, and as long as I can shower her with that love I will always be happy. And to add to the sap that is already filling this article, I gladly think my Sorcha is more charming than Cleopatra, more beautiful than Aphrodite, and stronger than Joan of Arc. Every time I hear this song, I think of the video: the odd girl with the staff, wings and goggles, without a care in the world. And I can’t help but think of Sorcha, with that beautiful smile and the way she makes me feel when I see her smile. And of course the desire to do anything I have to in order to make sure that smile never goes away. I am grateful to the universe for letting me have her near me, and I would never trade my time with her for anything. - Sabrael
Accidentally In Love by Counting Crows
This song will make the most sense with a small history lesson. While it is true that I met Sabrael though a mutual friend that is only part of the story. There is a good reason why we were so hesitant. Why we were never supposed to fall in love. That reason was his girlfriend. My best friend. Yes, this changes the story a bit now doesn’t it? No story ever has a set beginning and a set end, there’s always something that happened before and something will always happen after and you often can’t understand the context of one without the other. Yes, I did like Sab from the moment I met him but I never intended to do anything about it. I would fall asleep at night forcing my mind to banish thoughts of him because he was off limits. Untouchable. However if I hadn’t broken all of my rules there wouldn’t be a story to tell here. Accidentally in love is the perfect way to describe what happened to us. Neither of us expected it, neither of us pushed for it, it’s a legitimate case of it just happened. Sometimes love is just unexpected. -Sorcha
Once upon a time, I was living with a girl. She was my girlfriend at the time, but our relationship was somewhat unique. We were more like roommates and very close friends than we were lovers. She was an avid fan of Role-Playing, and through this shared hobby I met Sorcha. Now, Sorcha was sweet, and we shared many things in common, but at the time, we were simply blossoming friends. As my relationship dipped, Sorcha was there to be a reassuring and loving voice, and soon I found myself falling for her, and out of respect for my relationship, I distanced myself from her to remove my own doubts. But I would find myself feeling alone with my significant other at my side, and Sorcha was the only one who kept me company. That was when I realized things were not right. And I found myself in love with someone else. When situations reached new lows, and I moved to Los Angeles, I felt truly alone, the person who should have been there for me wasn’t, and the only person who was meant more to me than I could have expected. And so, we accidentally fell in love, even though rules said we shouldn’t. We couldn’t. But I don’t care, I am happy. And I am glad I accidentally fell in love with Sorcha. - Sabrael
Fly Me Away by Annie Little
It’s hard to expound on this song because in a way it perfectly sums up my feelings on the first few months of our relationship. The first line “Silver moons and paper chains” hold special significance to me because it reminds me of something Sab said to me while I was working on some projects for my Etsy. “She has the moon in her pocket and stars on a string.” It’s become a kind of theme for us, Sab is my Moon Man and I’m his Starry Sky. Even the simple line “Speak to me in foreign tongues” brings up all kinds of memories of inside jokes with my favorite linguist. And quite honestly, at this point I don’t know what I would do without him and I can barely remember what my life was like before he was a part of it. I think I can be happy wherever I am, as long as I have him by my side. - Sorcha
This song is simple, but I think it is a very beautiful song, and it is the one which means the most to me. Sorcha plays some piano, and I think of her playing this early in the morning, waking me up with her beautiful voice. “Now I cant think what life was like, before I had you by my side. Cant say what I'd do without you, knowing what its like to have you.” Those words are how I feel all the time. I can see my life before Sorcha, but I am not me, I am simply watching a sad movie that doesn’t get any better until this beautiful girl enters this poor boys life. I would have to paste all the lyrics here to explain myself. This song describes my Sorcha, beautiful and poetic, and it reminds me of the things that made me fall in love with her. I would gladly fly off with her and see the universe, so long as it meant I could always be with her. - Sabrael
Every Day by Voxtrot
I tried by best to keep it to myself but this past summer I went through a crippling depression. I would wake up every morning almost in tears, panicked by bad dreams. It took me hours to fall asleep because my brain would not stop churning with empty thoughts. There was one thing that I look forward to every day and the only thing that convinced me to get out of bed. That was the thought of talking to Sab and his, then, girlfriend. They were the only ones who could bring any kind of peace or meaning to my life. Through time I came to rely quite heavily on Sabrael, probably more than I should have, but he had this habit of always being there exactly when I needed him the most, like he knew. “Crane my neck to kiss your head, I know, That there is something that I can rely on, And when I strain my thoughts to push this thread I sew, It's some kind of future that I can be sure of.” I know he will always be there for me no matter what and that means more to me than anything else. He’s the one thing in my crazy life that I know I can always rely on. - Sorcha
Voxtrot is a band that takes the feelings in my heart and sings them out to the world. I have yet to find a song of theirs that doesn’t touch me, but Every Day is special. It explains of how my world was upside down, smothering me and making me lose hope in everything, only to have someone take my hands and wrench from me everything I have always tried to keep secret. Making it hard to feel lost, she was there, and I knew she would always be, I felt sure of something in my world. And she was it. Suddenly my world stopped shifting and being so chaotic, and I felt like there was a solid path before me, and walking that path I felt like I had a stable future of me, so long as it meant that future was with her. But this road was a slope, and before I knew it I was tumbling head over heels, but I was laughing the whole way because I knew I was tumbling into love. And I couldn’t have been happier. - Sabrael
I’m No Superman by Lazlo Bane
We are not perfect by any means. Both of us have confrontation issues, anger problems, fits of melancholy, and a whole host of baggage. Life loves to throw curve balls at us, either in the relationship itself or just our everyday lives. However just knowing that there is someone there, that I’m not alone in all of this, makes everything else easier to bear. Every little victory seems like we’re getting closer and closer to our goals. To truly being together like we long to be. It’s so much easier to be strong when you know that someone else is relying on you. I may not be Superman (or Wonder Woman if you feel the need for me to be gender accurate) but Sab makes me feel like I could conquer the world if I wanted to. - Sorcha
I had heard this song for the first time on my drive to work. I was in a crap job, and my life quite frankly sucked. This song always told me that it was fine, life isn’t always easy, but you never have to do it all alone. Now, I think of this song, and I think about the hardest parts of my relationship with Sorcha, and sometimes I feel like it will drown me. But then I see that little window pop-up telling me Sorcha G. Dubhsioc has sign on, and I feel like there is “a hand to break my fall”. And I realize no matter how hard it is, I’m not the only one who is dealing with it. I don’t have to be a Superman, I just have to stay strong no matter what comes my way. And true to the song, some day we will be together, and it will be a great day for both of us, but until then, I only have to keep my chin up and keep moving forwards with Sorcha at my side. - Sabrael
Baby, It’s Fact by Hellogoodbye
Now you all know where the title of my last post came from. Surprise! I may leave little notes for you guys to pick up on from time to time, just to keep things interesting. Really everything I have to say about this song was summed up here. I get so frustrated with fighting constantly to have our relationship taken seriously by others. The line that really gets me is “They don’t know how real love feels.” In all my wildest dreams I never thought I would find a love like the one I have for Sabrael. I’ve seen love in some of the people around me but it’s not the same. It’s hard to describe just how it feels to find the person who completes you and the idea that I would give that up for something as silly as some miles of desert between us is ridiculous. It’s fact, I am in love with Sabrael D. Carroll and though our start may have been somewhat unorthodox that doesn’t make our feelings any less real. - Sorcha
If our relationship had a theme song, Baby, it’s Fact would be it. It touches upon the points that both of us feel is unjust for not only us, but anyone in a long distance relationship. Everyone makes stupid comments, and ridicules us for how our love began, and how it is going now. But like the song says, the only words which matter to me are hers, because “our love is true, the way black is black and blue is just blue.” Everyone is obsessed with how love should be, but in reality, I think our love is how it should be. I fell in love with Sorcha’s words and mind long before I came to admire her beauty. And I will keep loving her thoughts for some time before I can have her in my arms. Most would call it backwards, I call it more forwards than any other love. - Sabrael
Don’t Worry, I’m Yours by DJ Dain
This is a monster of a song but it sums up love so perfectly. I am a worrier by nature. The silliest things set me off onto spiraling logic-lacking trains of thought and usually it takes all my energy to reign myself back in. With Sab I don’t feel that as much. We don’t play silly games, we don’t cloud the purity of our feelings with fights for control or jealousy arguments. We just love. He loves me. I love him. It’s as simple as that. The rest is just details. Since I was tiny (ok, tinier than I am now ^ ^) What a Wonderful World has been one of my favorite songs. Corny as it may sound, being with Sab makes me see that. He is the most beautiful person I know and he’s constantly making me see life in a new light for which I am very thankful. The world through Sabrael’s eyes is an amazing thing to see. It makes me so very glad to know that he is mine. - Sorcha
This song is beautiful. It takes three songs, two of which I hadn’t considered for this playlist, and blends them into a soothing mix that punctuates this, the first of many musical posts. I’m Yours had already been slated to appear on this playlist at some point, a beautiful song about how I am so head over heels for this amazing woman known as Sorcha. Over the Rainbow, specifically the Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version, is a relaxing song that has always put me at ease whenever I hear it thanks to a certain comedy show and a very touching scene using his wonderful rendition of it, coupled with a beautiful shadow play video of What A Wonderful World. To top it off, Don’t Worry, Be Happy, a song with sage advice to someone who worries about details as much as I do, added into the mix reminds me that sometimes one shouldn’t be afraid of the situation, and instead go with the flow. Combined, this song simply puts me into a lull, and reminds me not to panic, and not to freak out, because quite frankly, I am in love. - Sabrael
And there you have it, ten songs that embody the beginning of our friendship, and leading into the beginning of the life we chose together. Next time we'll explore the songs that remind us why we are trying so hard, and why we love each other so much. From both of us, thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoyed this special Wednesday post, and we hope you enjoyed the music. Until next time, give your MP3 Players a hug, and we’ll see you next Monday.
For Volume 1, we decided to choose songs that defined us alone, and expressed us getting to realize our true feelings for one another. Ending in a declaration that it was alright, we had each other. I would also like to thank Miss Genevieve (whom you can read about here and here) for the amazing album artwork. ^ ^ She has become our resident album artist, so look forward to more of her adorable art with more of these volumes.
Now those of you who have followed our blog will notice this is a repost of an old article of a similar name. For some reason the embedded playlist stopped functioning, and so we decided to venture forth to 8tracks.com and use their services, which has lent itself very nicely to our needs. So, enjoy here, Volume 1 of Digital Romance's Infinite Playlist.
Fidelity by Regina Spektor
I’ve felt like Fidelity was my theme song for years. I’ve always been afraid. Not always sure of exactly what but I put up walls between myself and the world around me, I didn’t let anyone get too close. I suppose I can say I’ve had boyfriends before but, really, they weren’t much more than a convenience to me. I kept them further from me than anyone else and I was always surprised that I hurt them when I left because, in plain language, they meant nothing to me. Sab was the one who came into my life and changed everything. I’ve never let anyone in as fully him, not friends and not family. I don’t know how to explain why it is I trust him so much. He just fits into my life like he was always meant to be there. - Sorcha
For me, Fidelity’s words don’t hold as much meaning as the video itself. The video for this song is a wonderful visual play on the relationship between Sorcha and I. In it, Regina Spektor and her companion sit within a room devoid of all color, a wonderful soliloquy of how I see my life, even my manner of dress includes my love of the monochrome. But this girl, in a literal explosion of color, brings laughter, joy and music to the bleak world. Sorcha is that girl to me, the woman who brought me color in her hands, and wasn’t afraid to share it with me, and she will always be the one who turned my monochrome world into a Technicolor dream. - Sabrael
Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesterday by Carla White
A 40’s girl at heart I’ve always loved big band, jazz, and soft sultry voices. Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesterday fills my head with pictures of smoke filled rooms, lazy pianists nursing drinks between chords, and lipsticked singers holding the microphone close enough to kiss. A song about letting go and holding on is the perfect way to introduce the beginnings of a relationship. It’s then that you wonder which parts of yourself are truly you, which are made up of those you’ve run into along the way, and what it is that truly defines you. I see this song as an attempt to find out who you really are before you can decide to let someone else inside. - Sorcha
Carla White’s soft lyrics have always sung the song of my soul. Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesteday has been my theme song ever since I first heard it, at the end of a beautiful narrative on fate. Is our destiny ours or is it chosen for us by those with more power? For a long time, I wondered on this, and after meeting Sorcha through extravagant twists of fate I realized even if there is something up there, I am the one who needs to move forward by my own will. On my own two legs. I will carry myself. And yes, I have found my inner peace and it has a name: Sorcha G. Dubhsioc. With her at my side, I will gladly brave whatever life may decide to visit upon me. - Sabrael
Summer’s Gone by Aberfeldy
I’ve mentioned before that I started to fall for Sab looooong before I’d intended to but it wasn’t until the end of the summer that I started to give into hope. There was a time where it seemed like it was just the two of us. We talked more, ignored our well placed boundaries, and soon well hidden emotions began to peek out. As the temps began to cool to a bearable 80 degrees and the miserable Missouri humidity started to fade it seemed like there were more things changing than just the weather. We finally realized, “Well we get along, Yeah we really do, And there's nothing wrong, With what I feel for you.” At summer’s end, we finally decided to let our hearts take control of our rational minds and that is one decision that I know I will never regret. - Sorcha
The end of Summer, to most, is sad because they remember the end of summer vacation as kids. I am very pasty, and very Irish, and so the sun is not my friend. So the end of Summer to me has actually meant little but the end of too much sunshine. Autumn on the other hand, the browning leaves, the sweeping winds and the feeling of melancholy that comes over me when it begins has always been beautiful to me. And it was near the Fall that Sorcha and I came together as two lonely hearts finding solace together. Melancholy has never felt so warm and sweet before. Now I look forward to Autumn as the time when I was able to find my Sorcha, and now it is a marker of another year passed, and another year to come with her at my side. - Sabrael
She’s So High by Tal Bachman
There are three songs so far in the history of the playlist that have given me goosebumps. Technically this one is #3 but I like lists that start at the end (and it gives you something to look forward to). Every time I hear it I don my aptly named ‘idiot grin’ and am incapable of doing anything other than flooding Sab with <3’s and I love you’s. It’s not just the obvious giddiness at being compared to Aphrodite or even him seeing me as out of his league (Pshaw on that theory!). It’s the fact that this song goes both ways. I don’t know what I did to deserve having Sabrael in my life. He puts up with my ridiculous mood swings, quirks, and eccentricities with an amazing patience I will never understand. My senior year in high school we had a girls retreat where one of the activities was to write out a list of the qualities of our perfect man. Sab meets Every Single bullet point on that list. Whether it’s luck or fate, finding him is something I won’t easily take for granted. - Sorcha
I must admit, I have a very sappy view of this song. The truth is I don’t feel like I am good enough for Sorcha, and I doubt I ever will feel like I am. I know Sorcha will always argue that I am more than deserving, but I will always thing otherwise. Does this worry me? No, I am in love, and as long as I can shower her with that love I will always be happy. And to add to the sap that is already filling this article, I gladly think my Sorcha is more charming than Cleopatra, more beautiful than Aphrodite, and stronger than Joan of Arc. Every time I hear this song, I think of the video: the odd girl with the staff, wings and goggles, without a care in the world. And I can’t help but think of Sorcha, with that beautiful smile and the way she makes me feel when I see her smile. And of course the desire to do anything I have to in order to make sure that smile never goes away. I am grateful to the universe for letting me have her near me, and I would never trade my time with her for anything. - Sabrael
Accidentally In Love by Counting Crows
This song will make the most sense with a small history lesson. While it is true that I met Sabrael though a mutual friend that is only part of the story. There is a good reason why we were so hesitant. Why we were never supposed to fall in love. That reason was his girlfriend. My best friend. Yes, this changes the story a bit now doesn’t it? No story ever has a set beginning and a set end, there’s always something that happened before and something will always happen after and you often can’t understand the context of one without the other. Yes, I did like Sab from the moment I met him but I never intended to do anything about it. I would fall asleep at night forcing my mind to banish thoughts of him because he was off limits. Untouchable. However if I hadn’t broken all of my rules there wouldn’t be a story to tell here. Accidentally in love is the perfect way to describe what happened to us. Neither of us expected it, neither of us pushed for it, it’s a legitimate case of it just happened. Sometimes love is just unexpected. -Sorcha
Once upon a time, I was living with a girl. She was my girlfriend at the time, but our relationship was somewhat unique. We were more like roommates and very close friends than we were lovers. She was an avid fan of Role-Playing, and through this shared hobby I met Sorcha. Now, Sorcha was sweet, and we shared many things in common, but at the time, we were simply blossoming friends. As my relationship dipped, Sorcha was there to be a reassuring and loving voice, and soon I found myself falling for her, and out of respect for my relationship, I distanced myself from her to remove my own doubts. But I would find myself feeling alone with my significant other at my side, and Sorcha was the only one who kept me company. That was when I realized things were not right. And I found myself in love with someone else. When situations reached new lows, and I moved to Los Angeles, I felt truly alone, the person who should have been there for me wasn’t, and the only person who was meant more to me than I could have expected. And so, we accidentally fell in love, even though rules said we shouldn’t. We couldn’t. But I don’t care, I am happy. And I am glad I accidentally fell in love with Sorcha. - Sabrael
Fly Me Away by Annie Little
It’s hard to expound on this song because in a way it perfectly sums up my feelings on the first few months of our relationship. The first line “Silver moons and paper chains” hold special significance to me because it reminds me of something Sab said to me while I was working on some projects for my Etsy. “She has the moon in her pocket and stars on a string.” It’s become a kind of theme for us, Sab is my Moon Man and I’m his Starry Sky. Even the simple line “Speak to me in foreign tongues” brings up all kinds of memories of inside jokes with my favorite linguist. And quite honestly, at this point I don’t know what I would do without him and I can barely remember what my life was like before he was a part of it. I think I can be happy wherever I am, as long as I have him by my side. - Sorcha
This song is simple, but I think it is a very beautiful song, and it is the one which means the most to me. Sorcha plays some piano, and I think of her playing this early in the morning, waking me up with her beautiful voice. “Now I cant think what life was like, before I had you by my side. Cant say what I'd do without you, knowing what its like to have you.” Those words are how I feel all the time. I can see my life before Sorcha, but I am not me, I am simply watching a sad movie that doesn’t get any better until this beautiful girl enters this poor boys life. I would have to paste all the lyrics here to explain myself. This song describes my Sorcha, beautiful and poetic, and it reminds me of the things that made me fall in love with her. I would gladly fly off with her and see the universe, so long as it meant I could always be with her. - Sabrael
Every Day by Voxtrot
I tried by best to keep it to myself but this past summer I went through a crippling depression. I would wake up every morning almost in tears, panicked by bad dreams. It took me hours to fall asleep because my brain would not stop churning with empty thoughts. There was one thing that I look forward to every day and the only thing that convinced me to get out of bed. That was the thought of talking to Sab and his, then, girlfriend. They were the only ones who could bring any kind of peace or meaning to my life. Through time I came to rely quite heavily on Sabrael, probably more than I should have, but he had this habit of always being there exactly when I needed him the most, like he knew. “Crane my neck to kiss your head, I know, That there is something that I can rely on, And when I strain my thoughts to push this thread I sew, It's some kind of future that I can be sure of.” I know he will always be there for me no matter what and that means more to me than anything else. He’s the one thing in my crazy life that I know I can always rely on. - Sorcha
Voxtrot is a band that takes the feelings in my heart and sings them out to the world. I have yet to find a song of theirs that doesn’t touch me, but Every Day is special. It explains of how my world was upside down, smothering me and making me lose hope in everything, only to have someone take my hands and wrench from me everything I have always tried to keep secret. Making it hard to feel lost, she was there, and I knew she would always be, I felt sure of something in my world. And she was it. Suddenly my world stopped shifting and being so chaotic, and I felt like there was a solid path before me, and walking that path I felt like I had a stable future of me, so long as it meant that future was with her. But this road was a slope, and before I knew it I was tumbling head over heels, but I was laughing the whole way because I knew I was tumbling into love. And I couldn’t have been happier. - Sabrael
I’m No Superman by Lazlo Bane
We are not perfect by any means. Both of us have confrontation issues, anger problems, fits of melancholy, and a whole host of baggage. Life loves to throw curve balls at us, either in the relationship itself or just our everyday lives. However just knowing that there is someone there, that I’m not alone in all of this, makes everything else easier to bear. Every little victory seems like we’re getting closer and closer to our goals. To truly being together like we long to be. It’s so much easier to be strong when you know that someone else is relying on you. I may not be Superman (or Wonder Woman if you feel the need for me to be gender accurate) but Sab makes me feel like I could conquer the world if I wanted to. - Sorcha
I had heard this song for the first time on my drive to work. I was in a crap job, and my life quite frankly sucked. This song always told me that it was fine, life isn’t always easy, but you never have to do it all alone. Now, I think of this song, and I think about the hardest parts of my relationship with Sorcha, and sometimes I feel like it will drown me. But then I see that little window pop-up telling me Sorcha G. Dubhsioc has sign on, and I feel like there is “a hand to break my fall”. And I realize no matter how hard it is, I’m not the only one who is dealing with it. I don’t have to be a Superman, I just have to stay strong no matter what comes my way. And true to the song, some day we will be together, and it will be a great day for both of us, but until then, I only have to keep my chin up and keep moving forwards with Sorcha at my side. - Sabrael
Baby, It’s Fact by Hellogoodbye
Now you all know where the title of my last post came from. Surprise! I may leave little notes for you guys to pick up on from time to time, just to keep things interesting. Really everything I have to say about this song was summed up here. I get so frustrated with fighting constantly to have our relationship taken seriously by others. The line that really gets me is “They don’t know how real love feels.” In all my wildest dreams I never thought I would find a love like the one I have for Sabrael. I’ve seen love in some of the people around me but it’s not the same. It’s hard to describe just how it feels to find the person who completes you and the idea that I would give that up for something as silly as some miles of desert between us is ridiculous. It’s fact, I am in love with Sabrael D. Carroll and though our start may have been somewhat unorthodox that doesn’t make our feelings any less real. - Sorcha
If our relationship had a theme song, Baby, it’s Fact would be it. It touches upon the points that both of us feel is unjust for not only us, but anyone in a long distance relationship. Everyone makes stupid comments, and ridicules us for how our love began, and how it is going now. But like the song says, the only words which matter to me are hers, because “our love is true, the way black is black and blue is just blue.” Everyone is obsessed with how love should be, but in reality, I think our love is how it should be. I fell in love with Sorcha’s words and mind long before I came to admire her beauty. And I will keep loving her thoughts for some time before I can have her in my arms. Most would call it backwards, I call it more forwards than any other love. - Sabrael
Don’t Worry, I’m Yours by DJ Dain
This is a monster of a song but it sums up love so perfectly. I am a worrier by nature. The silliest things set me off onto spiraling logic-lacking trains of thought and usually it takes all my energy to reign myself back in. With Sab I don’t feel that as much. We don’t play silly games, we don’t cloud the purity of our feelings with fights for control or jealousy arguments. We just love. He loves me. I love him. It’s as simple as that. The rest is just details. Since I was tiny (ok, tinier than I am now ^ ^) What a Wonderful World has been one of my favorite songs. Corny as it may sound, being with Sab makes me see that. He is the most beautiful person I know and he’s constantly making me see life in a new light for which I am very thankful. The world through Sabrael’s eyes is an amazing thing to see. It makes me so very glad to know that he is mine. - Sorcha
This song is beautiful. It takes three songs, two of which I hadn’t considered for this playlist, and blends them into a soothing mix that punctuates this, the first of many musical posts. I’m Yours had already been slated to appear on this playlist at some point, a beautiful song about how I am so head over heels for this amazing woman known as Sorcha. Over the Rainbow, specifically the Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version, is a relaxing song that has always put me at ease whenever I hear it thanks to a certain comedy show and a very touching scene using his wonderful rendition of it, coupled with a beautiful shadow play video of What A Wonderful World. To top it off, Don’t Worry, Be Happy, a song with sage advice to someone who worries about details as much as I do, added into the mix reminds me that sometimes one shouldn’t be afraid of the situation, and instead go with the flow. Combined, this song simply puts me into a lull, and reminds me not to panic, and not to freak out, because quite frankly, I am in love. - Sabrael
And there you have it, ten songs that embody the beginning of our friendship, and leading into the beginning of the life we chose together. Next time we'll explore the songs that remind us why we are trying so hard, and why we love each other so much. From both of us, thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoyed this special Wednesday post, and we hope you enjoyed the music. Until next time, give your MP3 Players a hug, and we’ll see you next Monday.
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