Here comes the sun...do do do do ♫

Last night was the first night since I was a little girl that I stayed up all night and was awake to see the sunrise. Right before the crack of dawn, life began again. The gas station across the street was already open and full of the daily early birds. It is so different looking at the world with the same eyes as yesterday.
I realized it's not the day you should live by but the moments in the day. You can go through life with one day at a time but before you know it, the days have gone by and life has passed you out. When I wake up in the morning (Or in some cases, the afternoon), my first thought is not what I'm going to do with the day but what I'm going to do right now. There's so much you can learn about life when you keep your eyes open.
Peeking through the blinds this morning and watching the sun rise into the sky, it reminded me of one of my favorite memories with my father. When I was little, I would go with him on the weekends and on an early Saturday morning, we'd wake up, drive to Frackville and sit in the mall parking lot eating McDonald's hotcakes and watching the sun come up over the mountain. Everytime I see a sunrise, I think of that Saturday morning. Good moments that I remember with my father are rare but this is one that I'll never forget. I hope one day you'll see the sun rise and experience it like I did.

Rise Against - Swing Life Away - Story of My Life

Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move
The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon
Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow

I've got some friends, some that I hardly know
But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand....until you hold my hand

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

I've only heard this song today and it suddenly discribed the details of my soul and now I'm going to go through all the lyrics and tell you what they mean to me. ( I recommend listening to this song as you read on ) Click Here for the Youtube Video of it.

Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

This describes how confused and lost I am in the world sometimes and how I don't understand my place in life. It also explains how quick people can change. How you may think you're on track but in reality way off.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

The first line explains how I'll only open up to you if you have something to relate to me. The second line explains how I secretly compare my experiences with people I know to see if they really know the hurt that I know. The 3rd is really my favorite line. It tells me that it's okay to not want to give my life story to some people and I can edit how people see my past.

We live on front porches and swing life away,
We get by just fine here on minimum wage
If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

The first two lines tell me that life is still beautiful no matter how you live it. The next couple lines tell that no matter what you decide to do in life, you need love and someone to be there for you when you go out in the world because in the end, we can't do it all on our own.

I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move
The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon
Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow

These lines say that there's hurt in my life right now but I need to pack my bags and leave it all behind me.

I've got some friends, some that I hardly know
But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

These lines are awesome. I don't feel so bad about the fact that my friends barely know me but yet from our experiences together, we've become so close. It reminds me that I'm alone but at the same time, not so alone.

This song truly seems to describe me and how I feel about life and it reminds me that life doesn't turn out the way you plan it to be but you need to just keep swinging (: