good life.

my favorite blog has a sweet playlist on it's page. [you have to push play -- it's not an auto-play like so many annoying blogs are these days] and through that i found "good life" by one republic.

it's funny, in high school and college my life was all about music. i used to know every up-and-coming band and went to concerts and made mixes for specific people. in the dorms, my friends and i would post lyrics to our favorite songs in our IM away messages and i spent so much time picking songs that explained exactly what i felt at that moment. music defined me.

music is good. but somewhere in the past few years, i've had to make room for better things like a career and a husband and a baby, and one by one these things pushed music to the back burner.

in fact, life has been a little TOO crazy lately. i've been so swamped with work that i'm barely keeping my head above water, trying to juggle housework and friends and being a good wife and being a good mommy and hobbies and my need for a spiritual balance...it's just too much. i'm in the process of re-evaluating things and dropping clients and picking up exactly what is most important to me. it's hard to realize i really can't do everything, but it's so cleansing at the same time.

anyway, once in a while, a song will grab me and take hold and make me feel music again like i used to, when it made such an impact on me. good life did that for me. everything from the tune to the lyrics to the beat seems to speak to me at the moment i'm living right now and i love it.

i feel a little silly to post these lyrics on my blog, but for old time's sake i thought it was appropriate. imagine you're my 19-year-old self, reading so much meaning and soul into words written by someone else. this song resonates with me. sure i've lived in four states in three years and i feel overwhelmed by my life sometimes (and really have been from paris to colorado), but it's all just so GOOD. this is a good life.

Woke up in London yesterday
Found myself in the city near Piccadilly
Don't really know how I got here
I got some pictures on my phone

New names and numbers that I don't know
Address to places like Abbey Road
Day turns to night, night turns to whatever we want
We're young enough to say

Oh this has gotta be the good life
This has gotta be the good life
This could really be a good life, good life

Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight
Like this city is on fire tonight
This could really be a good life
A good, good life

To my friends in New York, I say hello
My friends in L.A. they don't know
Where I've been for the past few years or so
Paris to China to Colorado

Sometimes there's airplanes I can't jump out
Sometimes there's bulls*** that don't work now
We are god of stories but please tell me
What there is to complain about

When you're happy like a fool
Let it take you over
When everything is out
You gotta take it in

Oh this has gotta be the good life
This has gotta be the good life
This could really be a good life, good life

Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight
Like this city is on fire tonight
This could really be a good life
A good, good life

Hopelessly
I feel like there might be something that I'll miss
Hopelessly
I feel like the window closes oh so quick
Hopelessly
I'm taking a mental picture of you now
'Cuz hopelessly
The hope is we have so much to feel good about