Ok. (I just realized I start a lot of things with that...hmmm..haha) Back to the point. I was listening to the world's most awesome band (that's Paramore, for those of you who aren't aware of their epicness, for which I will have a discussion with you about later) and the song The Only Exception came on and melodically filled my ears with it's mellow sounds. And for some odd reason (which is the explination for most of my unusual happenings, just so we're clear), as the melody contiuned to play, the song got me to start thinking. (which is never really a good thing, because: a) it can lead to all kinds of crazy things, or b) (on the rare occasion) I come up with something epic.)
Let me break for a moment and explain something. I dated a really good friend of mine for a good amount of time. It was my first real relationship and I truly believe I was in love with him. This song always reminded me of him, because, well, I loved him. After a while, however, he ended things suddenly and every time I heard this song, it dang near broke my heart.
Continuing with the point...I was listening to the song and my mind started getting off track, as it tends to do when I listen to music (as to why, I'm still not sure). But it got me thinking of that past relationship and how much it related to it. But the idea that it(the realtionship) was over made the song hard to listen for a while. To help cope with this first major heartbreak, I went to a High School Camp that my church holds every summer. It was probably the most exciting 5 days of my entire life. I came so much closer to God and I realized I didn't need that past realtionship to be happy because I had Jesus' love and forgiveness; and that's all a girl really needs.
Which (finally) brings me to my point; this melodically, soothing song that once pinged my heart everytime I listened to it had another meaning (to me anyway) behind it than just a girl who likes someone who leads her to believe in love once again; the song can very well be applied to Christ. (going out on a limb here, so lemme see how this goes)
The song basically says that because of past experiences with family, the character (if you can call it that) stopped believing in love. And that when she got older, she found someone who made her start to believe in it once more. For me, this was Christ. As cliche as it sounds, after the breakup with said friend, I didn't think I could ever believe in love because he was one of the only guys I'd ever met who really and truly loved me for who I was. And when he decided to end things out of no where, I stopped believing in love. But after the experience I had at camp, I was only more afirmed in my realtionship with Christ, who made me fully understand that love exists. So, in the song, it describes this experience of this person helping the main "character" believe in love again. For me, this song also says that Christ can be that "only exception" to help me believe in love again. Because if He didn't love me, He wouldn't have died for me.
I really don't know if this makes any sense, but it did in my head. hahaha
Most of the time things make more sense in my head than they do actually spoken aloud or writen, etc.
Basically, The Only Exception isn't just about a boy making me believe in love again; it's about the love that Christ had for me that made me belive in love again, and how the song applies.
Yea. That's it. Haha
XOXO
<3
Linds
