I'll be using the songs I list on my playlist to tell the story of the life of a butterfly from birth to death. I challenged myself to take a simple, story that life naturally hands us and use the lyrics of songs from different genres and eras to describe the butterfly's actions and feelings.

As a butterfly life begins with growing and developing in an egg laid by the mother with the anticipation of one day breaking free. This stage of life can be best described through Angel & Airwaves song The Adventure.

Hey, oh, here I am,
And here we go, life's waiting to begin.

Of course there are a million and one songs out there about love and relationships, so I’ve decided to be one of the sappy romantics that uses almost ALL these type songs. The only difference there is going to be between my playlist and those of other who use love songs is that the story my playlist tells is my own. I’ve found several songs over time that I can connect to my own relationship and settled on telling my story through all of these songs. I’ve combined all of the songs into one incredibly long “song” which takes you through the beginning of my current relationship all the way up to where we are today. I’ll warn you now, I love this guy, and you’ll definitely be able to tell with the lyrics I’ve chosen. I’ll give you the spliced lyrics and then give you a summary at the end of my relationship in case you weren’t quite following the lyrics.

A new day dawns over 13th century, medieval England. All throughout the kingdom of Changril, the people wake for the day’s chores. The peasants take to the fields, the knights and squires off to training, and the royal family decorates themselves for another day of presiding over their wonderful kingdom.

One peasant family, however, does not head out to the fields, for the mother has just been through an excruciating night, culminating in the birth of a beautiful baby boy right at the unfolding of dawn. She and her husband deemed this child “Diluculo,” the Latin word for “Dawn.”

A guy goes to a party with a couple of friends. The over-populated atmosphere made it hard to maneuver through the crowd. Not expecting to meet anyone, the guy hangs out with his friends. Across the room, the guy sees a beautiful girl he had never seen before. Unable to take his eyes off of her, the guy watches the girl for the duration of the party. When he loses her in the crowd, the guy spends the next few weeks going to parties to find this particular girl.

Aqualung-Strange and Beautiful

I've been watching your world from afar
I've been trying to be where you are
And I've been secretly falling apart

Hunger is a terrible thing. We all have, at one point been attacked by that ravenous pain that imminates from our stomach. It causes our stomachs for form a tight knot that causes discomfort no matter the position. When it strikes all we can think about is making it go away. This is a story about one man's quest to feed the beast. His name is Jake.

Who Needs Sleep?

A woman is walking through the airport, leaving her home town to begin a new life. Among all the rush and chaos, a young man sitting in a clammy airport bar sends her mind spinning back to years before, when she found her first summer love.

*strawberry wine ~ Deana Carter
"He was working through college on my grandpa's farm
I was thirsting for knowledge and he had a car
I was caught somewhere between a woman and a child
When one restless summer we found love growing wild..."

The Rumblers were a huge group in the 70's, mostly appealing to young teenage girls. Composed of 5 guys, they seemed poised to take over pop music. However, everyone stopped looking at the other 4 guys and realized the lead singer, John Markenblad was more than just some sappy teen crooner. After the group's 5th and most critically acclaimed album, which Markenblad co-wrote
and produced most of, he decided to go solo...to the dismay of many.

Babyface- Everytime I Close My Eyes- John was a troubled teen before joining the group in 1972, but that turned around and he knew he had a safe haven in the Rumblers.

Deep in the ocean, where no person could swim, there lived millions of fish of all different shapes and sizes and colors. There was one fish in particular who stood out from the rest. He was covered in the most beautiful scales any fish had ever seen. Shades of blues and greens, and all different colors, with shiny scales that glimmered in the light as he swished his tail back and forth to swim. He was called Rainbow Fish. The other fish loved to watch Rainbow Fish swim by, and when he passed all eyes were on him.