won't give up.

one time my mom told me that i'm a chronic overreacter. she said it nicely, "you feel things deeply," but let's just call a spade a spade here. i do often overreact but it's part of my charm.

the other day there was a short article in the online version of relevant magazine about one of my new obsessions, colony house.

in the article frontman, caleb chapman, talked about how songwriting is his way of expressing himself and how he gets emotions and feelings out. he said he wrote a song from the perspective of his brother (who is also in the band but is the drummer and gets zero time on the mic) as a sort of healing. that song made it on the album, it's called won't give up. 

obviously after reading that little tidbit of news i had to re-listen to the song. it gave it a whole new perspective. there's a line that says, "i take his hand because she loved me." in that moment i swear all of the air went out of my car and everything got really still. i don't personally know the chapman family and i have never lost a sibling but during that 4 minute song i don't think i breathed even once. see? overreaction. 

what the article didn't mention was that a few years ago will accidentally hit his younger sister with his car and she passed away. i know this because it was big news in the Christian music world and with their dad being uber-famous (in that world) it was all over Christian media. knowing that and knowing the song was about that situation and having a flair for the dramatic...it was all too much. 

i applaud colony house's transparency and wearing their hearts on their sleeves and writing fantastic songs. and i will continue to write posts like this, not because they are super interesting but because if i don't my roommate is going to get really sick of me telling her about songs that make my heart hurt. 

don't mind me, i'll just be over here trying to keep it together as i give won't give up another spin.

xo