Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Perfection

Unlike my classmates, my day was nowhere near relaxing. After an hour of recycling club, I went straight home to get ready for work, then rushed to Calvin Klein. Thinking about my six hour shift from hell that I knew awaited me, began to stress me out. So, like I always do when I'm stressed, I began to sing in the car. I put on my favorite "calm me down" tunes and got started. The CD of choice was Taylor Swift. And you know what? Awkwardly enough after the first song my initial thought was of The Poem Ruiner! You may think I have no life and dream about him like the other students, but that is not my case. My thoughts were indeed class related.

Taylor Swift, apparently, is a strong believer in the circle format of writing. She starts and ends a majority of her songs using roughly the same lines. I never noticed that until just tonight and well I found it completely genius. There is no better way of getting your point across I think. "Tim McGraw" by Taylor Swift is the first track. If you are not familiar with the first verse it goes as follows:

You said the way my blue eyes shined,
Put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said: "That's a lie"
Just a boy in a Chevy truck,
That had a tendency of gettin' stuck,
On backroads at night
An' I was right there beside him all summer long
An' then the time we woke up to find that summer'd gone

The first three lines of that verse, I'm going to have to say, are my favorite lines in any song. I think they're really poetic and I can't even express in words how much I like them. But anyways what better way to end the song then to use those favorite lines of mine:
You said the way my blue eyes shined,
Put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said: "That's a lie".

GENIUS! That's not even the only song, theres more. It's great.

-Riz

1 Comments:

Blogger mollyandkari said...

her new song, which i love, does that too. idk why but i always love it when songs start and end with the same line...its like thats what the artist wants you to remember out of the whole song.

~mr

October 6, 2008 at 4:27 PM  

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