#fading west

Who We Are is a song that I love for it’s theme of the innocence of youth, but I also love how it’s a song about fighting for self-love, fighting to love who you are.

When We Come Alive is for the love of being alive, the love of being able to grow into who you are.

Say It Like You Mean It is very much a song about ignoring the BS and doing what you love, despite (or to spite) the critics.

Slipping Away is about losing that fight for something you love, losing hope. Sometimes the fight slips away from you, and you can’t get it back.

Ba55 is the fight for freedom, and finding love in that freedom.

Let It Out is so much fun, and I’m pretty sure my favorite version is the hot air balloon version. It’s a great song about letting go of the baggage of the fight, taking a breath and remembering the things you love.

All Or Nothing At All, another one of my favorites to crank up and sing along, about wanting to get everything out of the fight, about making the most of this life.

Saltwater Heart, a love song for the beach, surfing, good weather, and good company.

And finally, Back To The Beginning Again. The beginning, when love is easy and not a fight.

Love Alone Is Worth The Fight. I love this song so much, because it’s so true. There’s a lot of things we have to fight for, and fight about, in our lives, but love is the most important of them. Love for our family, our friends, for the life we’re living and the things we enjoy. Part of that fight means wholeheartedly embracing love. No matter how knocked down, no matter how beat up, we keep fighting for love.

The thing is, every fight has a cost. What It Costs is a beautiful, heartbreaking song (thanks, Tim). The cost of loving deeply, unconditionally, is that sometimes, we’re going to get hurt. It hurts to see our loved ones hurting, it hurts to sacrifice for love. We have to decide if the cost of the fight is worth the end result, but for love, it is worth it.