Repeatable: Fearless

As countless people who have lived with me can attest, (my brother/college roomies/Peter), when I find a song that speaks to me, I like to repeat it. A LOT. My current obsession is a little song by Colbie Caillat, a ditty that was probably intended to help people get over a break up while carting around a box of kleenex. But somehow this song keeps unveiling layers of meaning for me – it reaches deep into my gut and makes me reflect on my life, my calling, my past and future, my spiritual life, my loves – pretty good for a ‘girlie song.’ 

I first heard this song while in an airport en route in Thailand on our recent overseas adventure. I kept coming back to the song, playing it over and over in different locations throughout Chiang Mai and then on the island Koh Chang – and it kept growing and growing on me. I listened to it over and over in Japan on our layover on the way home, and tonight I found the “settings:controls:repeat:one” function in i-tunes. It’s a very repeatable Liz song. 

The melody is half of the power of this song, so you haveto hear it to get the full effect – but here are my favorite lyrics: 

(verse 2)
If this is how it hurts
it couldn’t get much worse
if this is how it feels to fall,

Then that’s the way it is
we live with what we miss
we learn to build another wall
‘til it falls…

(bridge)
If it’s between love and losing
and to never have known the feeling
I still side with love
And if I end up lonely
At least I will be there knowing
I believed in love.

Go on, go and break
my heart, I’ll be okay
there is nothing you can do to me
that is ever going to break me….
I’m fearless, better believe
I’m fearless…..
Fearless.