"how do you keep love alive"

I got my first Backstreet Boys cd when I was in grade five. I loved them dearly, and were the first artists that I invested in not only financially, but also emotionally. I listened to the Backstreet boys for a good four years. They wrote songs about love, and about loss... and about lots of lame things too, but it was relevant to me at that age. I didn't really know what love was, but I knew that I could connect with their music. And I loved Nick Carter.

Around grade ten my tastes started to change, just like many other things in my life. By the time I hit grade eleven, my tastes were completley different. The Backstreet Boys were replaced with a more mature sounding artist, one that I could relate to more now that I was a little older. I fell in love with John Mayer.

I have a very interesting relationship with John Mayer's music... as in, he write songs about me and doesn't even know it. John Mayer comforted me when I needed to be comforted, celebrated with me when I was celebrating, and most of all, cried with me when I feeling sad. Whatever my emotion, he was there right along with me. He never preached, never judged, and was suprisingly comforting. I will carry that with me wherever I go.

So, here I am at the beginning of my twenty's, and I am not the same person I was when I started listening to John Mayer when I was sixteen. Change is constant, but you don't always realize that its constantly going on around you. I knew I had changed when I put Ryan Adams on before John Mayer on a day when I was especially upset. Change is a beautiful thing.

Ryan Adam's music is incredibly personal. Just like John Mayer, Ryan Adam's music can tune into every emotion that I'm feeling, or help me tune out when I need it. If I can't identify with his lyrics, I can identify with the passion in his music. I can feel it. Its soul.

I will leave you with the lyrics to one of my favorite Ryan Adams songs. It is off of his album, Cold Roses, with his band "The Cardinals". The lyrics are beautiful, but you need to hear the song. You will cry.

How Do You Keep Love Alive

Lord, I miss that girl
On the day we met the sun was shining down
Down on the valley riddled with horses running
crushing them with flowers I would have picked for her on the day she was born
She runs through my veins like a long black river
And rattles my cage like a thunderstorm
Oh my soul

What does it mean? What does it mean? What does it mean to be so sad?
When someone you love Someone you love is supposed to make you happy
What do you do
How do you keep love alive?
When it won't

What, what are the words they use when they know it's over
"We need to talk," or"I'm confused, maybe later you can come over"
I would've held your mother's hand on the day you was born
She runs through my veins Like a long black river
and rattles my cage Like a thunderstorm
Oh, my soul

What does it mean? What does it mean? What does it mean to be so sad?
When someone you love someone you love is supposed to make you happy
What do you do How do you keep love alive?
When it won't
How do you keep love alive


"I would have held your mothers hand on the day you was born"
Ladies and Gentleman, that is beautiful. That single line is so powerful, and so sincere. Beauty, at its finest.