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1.

“Tolerate It” by Taylor Swift

This song conveys emotions that I don’t think can truly be given justice through solely speaking.

It describes the odd feeling of having so much love that one would be happier miserable with the

one they love than not having them at all. That deep-seated loyalty and dedication the narrator

has tied with the beauty of the worst aspects of love is really important to me because although

the song is about a dysfunctional romantic relationship in which the narrator is being neglected

by their partner, it connects a lot to the darkest aspects of my relationship with my family. It can

be very easy for me to sometimes feel unappreciated like the narrator is, and the lyrics of this

song convey how easy it is to get lost in the stability of constantly feeling at our worst when in

the presence of those we love. Overall, this song is important to me because it captures not only

the feeling of loneliness it can be even with those you love but also the beauty of the darkest

aspects of love.

2. “Trigger” by Galileo Galilei

This song is really haunting both in terms of its absolute beauty and the terrors of its lyrics. It’s

from the perspective of someone recollecting the strangest years of their life in which they

experienced the beauty of the personalities of terrorists. She sees their isolation and traumas and

finds their destruction of not only the world but of themselves to be beautifully terrible. As dark

as this narrative is, it does help me find a lot of beauty in the unknown. I find myself to be

especially fascinated when on paper, I know everything about something, but I truly have no idea

how to feel about it. When I can’t form an opinion on something because it’s so complex, I

usually think that means there’s such a layer of beauty to it to the point that the word ‘good’ is an

insult to the complexities of it. That beauty in the unknown is at its core what makes me love this

song so much.
3. "The Way It Ends" by Brian Wille

This song is really beautiful in the context of the story that it appears in. What I interpret from

this song is that in this argument, although this can’t be demonstrated lyrically, tonally, one

singer feels an immense sense of loss in the murder that they’re about to commit because they

value their own power so much that they would put themself in eternal misery by losing their

only real connection. It exhibits the beauty of the word ‘understanding’ in that it’s so uniquely

human to have the most intimate aspects of yourself be understood because of the complexities

of an individual mind. That really I think captures why I value understanding so much.

4. "Please Leave The Light On When You Go" (Cover) by Brittain Ashford ft. Dave Malloy

I chose this particular cover because the main singer’s intonation with this song conveys a sense

of emotion that I didn’t feel in the original. The song is a tale of loss, but the added production to

the lyricism of this song really adds to it because it also gives a feeling of contemplation in the

melancholy in which the added peace reminds me a lot of the sense of confusion in

circumstances when I didn’t truly understand grief or what it mean to me as well as this feeling

of total serenity that makes me most appreciative of the being of feeling in general. I interpret the

narrator as the singer just sitting in her grief and allowing time to process it. I think that the

capacity to just sit down and breathe really helps me connect to my perception of grief in that I

wish to grieve this way to give proper justice to those worth grieving or.

5. “All I Ever Wanted (With Queen's Reprise)” by Stephen Schwartz

This song really encapsulates my importance of family as well as my way of perceiving my

religious interpretation of the Biblical form of God. The Queen’s reprise in this song highlights
that she has a relationship with God even if she doesn’t know it because if she raised a

God-fearing man like Moses, then she clearly did incorporate at least God’s love because Moses

and the Queen both know that Moses’ adopted family has a genuine love for them. Moses’ love

for his family in which he values them over anything else (at least initially) because of the

warmth and love they adorn him with makes me consider the story of Exodus when in the

context of the humane perspective as a tragedy as much as it is a tale of liberation because the

Egyptians are a victim and as much God’s people as the Israelites even if he doesn’t go against

them. That interpretation of the Bible is the one that I align with the most in that God is not this

being of all good more so than this being of unconditional love which is what I apply the most to

religious interactions. It also very accurately details the warmth and love that I feel for my family

which makes me so much more easily to connect to the Bible and empathy because through this

song, I can connect to Moses’ warmth and love for his family in the song and apply it to the

warmth and love that everyone has for their family, including even the most unforgivable people

in the Bible.

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