To be fair, I'm biased when it comes to Matchbox Twenty. I grew up with them, as well as other amazing bands that sound the same. But I do not care. These sorts of songs are inspirational to me. But enough fanboying, let's get down to the song.
Every time this song plays, I close my eyes, even for just a couple seconds, and play a story out in my head, the same one every time. I see myself walking around aimlessly in a deserted town, looking for hope. And I find it. People emerge from every corner of every building, we all gather in the middle of a four way street. Then, an unnamed entity comes out of the sky as it turns to a dark crimson. We all cower a bit, but then, we all join together and stare the sky down, as if we know the future and that we are all still here. The confidence in ourselves as a species rises, and of course, that is enough to stop any evil being in the sky. It disperses, the blue in the sky returns, and we all cheer. After, there is a montage of building anew. We start over. The human race evolves even more, we discover new planets, and so on. A very positive message from the imagination center of my brain.
However, when I come back to reality, everything slows down, I mellow out in my chair, and contemplate what I'm doing with my life until I'm satisfied. If I'm not and I'm not doing anything important, I get up and do something about it, like any other self-respecting human being. Matchbox Twenty reminds me that even if we can see the end, it's good to take the time to look back at our accomplishments as well as our failures, learn from them, and continue on, and maybe better ourselves to the point we all don't die out. I refuse to have a miserable, meaningless existence.
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