@thebsidemedia: Some songs do not really change. You do. I think that is what makes music like this so interesting. You can hear a song at 16 and love it, then hear the exact same song ten years later and suddenly realize you never really understood what it was saying. “The River” stops being a sad story and starts sounding like a warning about how quietly life can drift away from the one you imagined. “Leader of the Band” becomes harder to hear once you start seeing your parents as actual people, with sacrifices and regrets and entire lives that existed before you. “Black” becomes less about heartbreak and more about the strange reality of continuing to love someone who is no longer part of your life. Even songs like “Fast Car” change. At some point, the idea of doing something simply because you love doing it starts to feel a lot more meaningful than it did when success seemed like the only thing worth chasing. And then there is “Vienna.” I have written about that song enough that I probably do not need to explain why it is here, but I still think it captures this idea better than almost anything else. When you are young, you spend so much time trying to get somewhere. Older, more successful, more certain, more complete. Eventually you start realizing that there was never quite as much of a rush as you thought. The songs stayed the same. You just finally caught up to them. #music #creatorsearchinsights #songs #musictok #ComingOfAge

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