My Life Sounds Like...

It was last summer and I was sixteen, spending the majority of my time in St. George with my girlfriend, Shana. I had just finished my Junior year at Lehi High School and I missed Shana and all my old friends from Dixie High School. That summer was the happiest I had been in a long time, though the thought of going home was always in the back of my head. So I decided that I wasn't ready to go . The end of the Summer was fast approaching and I decided that it was time to tell my dad that I wasn't going to be coming home. I drove up with Shana and stayed at his house for a couple of nights. The day came when it was time to go back to St. George. I gathered all the courage I could manage and took my dad to dinner. I told him what I was thinking of doing and he was calm and complacent, trying to tell me the flaws in the idea and that I couldn't leave. Then I dropped the bomb shell and told him I wasn't asking for his permission. We drove back to his house in silence. When we arrived at his house, he kicked us out along with our bags. We drove slowly back to St. George, thinking of all the things that were to come. From that day on, I didn't have others to guide or support me. I had to make decisions for myself. The song says, "Now I'm feeling like my life is finally mine. With nothing to look back to, we just continue to drive." The play list plays 30 seconds of the song but the whole song represents that day and how I felt. This year has been tough but I've managed to keep a high GPA and work full time to support Shana, myself and our dog.
The song "Gone Going" shows my feelings on both life in general and material things. I feel that people get so caught up on how they look and the things that they don't have that they soon become a slave to the dollar bill. It says in the song that we feel safe looking in the mirror because we see the man that looks familiar but it can't forever cover up your soul. It then goes on to say that these things aren't something that you can take to your grave, meaning their not something that we're going to be remembered for. Every person that was ever worth remembering made sacrifices to create value in other peoples lives.