this is an answer from the Q&A blog. feel free to ask more! 🙂
Question: What would be the soundtrack of your race?
Answer: I'm assuming you're refering to this post on soundtracks.
No?
Well then I guess you know me really well. 🙂
Reasons Why by Alli Rogers
might be my heart that has to feel it all
my feet that like to make their own prints in the sand
follow the wind wherever it may call
I'll be out sailing while you build your house on the land
If I had to pick ONE song, this would probably be it. I listened to it obsessively all year long, and if you don't know it, go buy it. I'm a total Alli fan. 🙂
Ok let's be honest: to quote one of my favorite movies, "I could no sooner choose a favorite star in the heavens." I can't REALLY pick just one song. But I can tell you which songs were repeated throughtout the year…
I'm Letting Go by Francesca Battistelli
I'm letting go of the life I planned for me and my dreams
I'm losing control of my destiny…
One day in India I went postal, snuck out onto the roof with my iPod and danced until I could barely move. It helped. 🙂
I Am by Jill Phillips
Oh gently lay your head upon my chest
and I will comfort you like a mother while you rest…
I sang this song obsessively in Nepal until Faith finally gave it to me.
Halfway Gone by Lifehouse
Talk is cheap, give me your word you can keep
cause I'm halfway gone and I'm on my way…
Sometimes all I wanted to do was LEAVE, but I couldn't, so I just daydreamed. Mostly during team times. Oops. 😉
If I Die Young by The Band Perry
And if I die young, bury my in SATIN…
Kacie and I may or may not have played this one about a thousand times in the kitchen in Romania and evertytime it came on again we'd go, "oh my goodness- how did that happen??" also, I struggled to get the satin part, so whenever we got to that line, we'd shout it.
Watch Over Me by Aaron Shust
I was broken
every prayer that I had spoken reached Your ears
and all my tears weren't cried in vain
this was a real song of comfort during some difficult days… funny how music (and Starbucks) helps. 🙂
I'm Not Who I Was by Brandon Heath
I wish you could see me now
I wish I could show you how I'm not who I was…
At some point I started realizing I had changed and started freaking out that no one at home would recognize me.
Your Love Never Fails by Chris McLarney
There may be pain in the night but joy comes in the morning…
Confession: the night before Easter Sunday I was prepping for what I was going to say and thinking about the previous year and I just started crying.
We Have Come by Will Reagan
We have come to bring You glory…
Mike played this song for us at debrief in Romania (during our giant team changes) and it became the theme of trusting in the Lord even when I don't understand what's going on
Are We All Forgotten by Paper Route
Don't you break my heart again…
Vinny played this song all the time in Moldova, and then in Swaziland we had speakers, so I played it a loootttt.
Hope by Alli Rogers
Stay when dirt is on my face from my ravaging and waste
I'll be redeemed…
One of the many lessons I learned this year was that I'm a MESS, and it's OK (sometimes).
Till the World Ends by Britney Spears
See the sunlight, we ain't stoppin'
Keep on dancin' till the world ends…
I ran to this song in Thailand a LOT- it was a hard run (a 6k lake that started with a ginormous hill) and it was HOT, but I kept repeating what a dance teacher told me: 'you can do anything for a minute twenty.'
If I can dance until the world ends, if I can finish out the Race, then I can run this hill- I ain't stopping.
And I made it.
ET by Katy Perry
You're an alien…
Charlotte and I listened to this song maybe every day in Mozambique, and then in South Africa we ended up making a music video (which will probably never be aired online, but it may have been my favorite night on the Race).
Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy
Your fingertips upon my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind
You sang me spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes
Sometimes you just need sad, slow, haunting melodies. I think I sang this one for a solid two months. Straight. I might have driven Kerri crazy…
Nobody Knows Me At All by The Weepies
Very late at night and in the morning light
Nobody knows me at all
The Weepies and I became friends because of Tabi, who was slightly obsessed. whenever we got in the car in Thailand (usually sneaking off to the beach), she'd say, 'put on The Weepies!'
