top songs of 2008

i've always wanted to do one of these, and i finally did.

1.   In your atmosphere (live) - john mayer

2.   Falls apart - thousand foot krutch

3.   Four become one - hawthorne heights

4.   Feel good drag – anberlin

5.   Violet hill - coldplay

6.   Cath – death cab for cutie

7.   A song is not a business plan – the rocket summer

8.   Bold as love (live) – john mayer

9.   Syndicate – the fray

10.        Stop and stare – onerepublic

11.        Love lockdown – kanye west

12.        Ready set go – tokio hotel

13.        Your love is strong – jon foreman

14.        Do you feel – the rocket summer

15.        Re-education (through labor) – rise against

16.        Use somebody – kings of leon

17.        Warwick avenue - duffy

18.        Free fallin’ (live) – john mayer

19.        Save – the rocket summer

20.        Mercy – duffy

21.        Storm the gates of hell – demon hunter

22.        Holiest of thieves – the myriad

23.        Lucky – Jason mraz ft colbie callait

24.        Anthem for the underdog – 12 stones

25.        So much love – the rocket summer

26.        I’m yours – Jason mraz

27.        Disappear - anberlin

28.        Scream – tokio hotel

29.        Stop this train (live) – john mayer

30.        Forget what you came for – the myriad

31.        Hey Brittany – forever the sickest kids

32.        I will possess your heart – death cab for cutie [but it has to be the 8 minute long one]

33.        Back burner – august burns red

34.        Rescue me – hawthorne heights

35.        Live every second – tokio hotel

36.        Neon (live) john mayer

37.        Little drummer boy – the almost

38.        The resolution – jack’s mannequin

39.        A clean shot – the myriad

40.        Revenge – jon foreman

41.        Lie to me – 12 stones

42.        Cape Canaveral – conor oberst

43.        You found me – the fray

44.        I’m not over – Carolina liar

45.        Ricochet! – shiny toy guns

46.        Death and all of his friends – coldplay

47.        Sex on fire – kings of leon

48.        Miserable visu (ex malo bonum) – anberlin

49.        Lovers in japan : reign of love – coldplay

50.        Everything starts where it ends – lovedrug

51.        You waste time like a grandfather clock – the myriad

52.        So, in this hour – the rocket summer

53.        Coffee break – forever the sickest kids

54.        Viva la vida – coldplay

55.        My god – this beautiful republic ft. aaron Gillespie

56.        Gravity (live) – john mayer

57.        God of this city – chris tomlin [yes, I really listen to him…]

58.        Awful direction – the almost

59.        Love remains the same – gavin rossdale

60.        Believe me I’m lying – forever the sickest kids

61.        You don’t know me – ben folds ft. regina spektor

62.        Artsy – the grouch

63.        Human – the killers

64.        Whoa oh (me vs everyone) – forever the sickest kids

65.        I don’t trust myself with loving you (live) – john mayer

66.        Grapevine fires – death cab for cutie

67.        Lost! – coldplay

68.        Crashin’ – jack’s mannequin

69.        Heartless – kanye west

you found me

I've become newfoundly obsessed with the fray's latest single over the past few weeks...playing it for everyone and getting their opinions on it.

i've always had a soft spot for the fray, and i think it's because of songs like this.

the song is basically a conversation with God that goes like this...

guy runs into God on the street and asks where he's been.

God says "ask anything"

he asks "where were you when everything was falling apart?"

i am madly in love with the bridge, i love the raw honesty about it...it's been changing some things inside of me...it goes like this:

"Early morning, the city breaks, i've been calling for years and years and years and years and you never left me no messages, you never sent me no letters, you've got some kind of nerve..."

we aren't supposed to talk to God like that...are we?

but maybe God can handle it....maybe thats what he wants to see....the raw and real and honest version of me.

i think this week i was reminded that this is what i'm thankful for.  the opportunity to be honest.  i think the change starts there...

video for "you found me"

Go Don.

so...Donald Miller was asked to pray the closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention. Despite who you will vote for or who you want to be president, I don't think anyone can disagree with his prayer. so here it is.

"Father God,
This week, as the world looks .. the leaders in this room create a civil dialogue about our future.
We need you, God, as individuals and also as a nation.
We need you to protect us from our enemies, but also from ourselves, because we are easily tempted toward apathy.
Give us a passion to advance opportunities for the least of these, for widows and orphans, for single moms and children whose fathers have left.
Give us the eyes to see them, and the ears to hear them, and hands willing to serve them.
Help us serve people, not just causes. And stand up to specific injustices rather than vague notions.
Give those in this room who have power, along with those who will meet next week, the courage to work together to finally provide health care to those who don't have any, and a living wage so families can thrive rather than struggle.
Help us figure out how to pay teachers what they deserve and give children an equal opportunity to get a college education.
Help us figure out the balance between economic opportunity and corporate gluttony.
We have tried to solve these problems ourselves but they are still there. We need your help.
Father, will you restore our moral standing in the world.
A lot of people don't like us but that's because they don't know the heart of the average American.
Will you give us favor and forgiveness, along with our allies around the world.
Help us be an example of humility and strength once again.
Lastly, father, unify us.
Even in our diversity help us see how much we have in common.
And unify us not just in our ideas and in our sentiments—but in our actions, as we look around and figure out something we can do to help create an America even greater than the one we have come to cherish.
God we know that you are good.
Thank you for blessing us in so many ways as Americans.
I make these requests in the name of your son, Jesus, who gave his own life against the forces of injustice.
Let Him be our example.
Amen."

Bill and Jenny

Bill and Jenny

They were so in love

But everyone else could see

That it was all a lie

Until that fateful day

That Jenny walked away

She left him all alone

Feeling broken and betrayed

She took his car

She took all of his money

But most of all

She broke his heart

He attempted to hide the pain

Between a razor and his whiskey

But no matter how hard he tried

Nothing could compare

To the damage that Jenny did

But then that lonely night

It was only him and his knife

He had no one to turn to

He had no where to run

The pain, it finally ended

And he lost the fight

For all of this only made him a shell of who he was

Until he couldn't take it anymore

They found him the next morning

A picture in his hand

Of a beautiful girl named Jenny

With a message on the back

"I love you, until I die"

But then, once she found out

It all filled her with fright

For she had felt the same way

Ever since that night

And then, the next morning

Her roommate found her on the bed

The note was simple

"I love you, until I'm dead"

For no one knew this

But there on his last night

She almost went to tell him

But simply changed her mind

Now they are together

Until the end of time