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Sorry I missed yesterday, I honestly didn't have a spare moment. =P

2. Relient K

Relient K are the band I relate to the most and for all reasons should be my very favourite, but for some reason aren't. I like them because their songs about self-improvment. As you'll see some of my favourite songs by them are about being lazy, taming the tongue, self-esteem, etc. But they just don't complain about life like most bands seem to do today, they say "well this is an issue in me which I've noticed and this is my journey through it." It's beautiful, really. Matthew Theissen is nothing short of a genius. They also get 15 songs because they're awesome.

15. I So Hate Consequences.
This song is on the Mmhmm album. If you could only ever buy one album on this planet, I would suggest Mmhmm. It's brilliant from start to finish. I So Hate Consequences is quite typical of a song on the album, fast paced pop-punk song with a slow 'resolution' part at the end. The lyrics in this can be a bit emo at times (I wanna run away, I wanna ditch my life) but it's nicely wrapped up at the end. So here I sit, looking at the traffic lights. The red extinguishes the hope that the green ignites.

14. At Least We've Made it This Far
I'm not sure if this is actually true, but I've always regarded this song to be about a long-distance relationship. The two people are madly in love with another but know that their relationship cannot go further unless they meet eye-are-ell so they do. I've never been in an online relationship before, nor do I plan on ever doing so, but I guess I like this song because I have so many online friends who I love deeply. It's generally a very positive song, 'everything's been great so far and now that we've met it looks like everything will be good for a while' to sum it up in a sentence. The way we say 'I Love You' a thousand times, we say those words but we can't look into each other's eyes.

13. Apathetic Way To Be
AWTB is a nice blend of the newish style of Relient K mixed with the cheek of their older albums. It's just about being lazy and apathetic, which I'm sure you already know, I am completely. It's really clever and full of cheek, but also makes it's point. And a half of me's all about apathy and the other half just doesn't care.

12. The Lining is Silver
This is from their newest EP with the best name for an EP ever, The Nashville Tennis EP (What can I say, I'm a sucker for puns). I hadn't heard the phrase 'silver lining' before this song so it took me a while to figure out what it was about. Then I realised it's about seeing the positive aspects in the ordinary things in life. Finding the 'silver lining'. I'm not sure if I'm an optimist of pessimist, I guess it depends on my mood, but this song definitely brings out the optimist in me. I found my new black shoes while cleaning out the bones left in my closet.

11. Bite My Tongue
This song deals with something I have a lot of troubles with: the taming of the tongue. I listen to this song and can totally relate to every word in it. I have an issue of speaking my mind, or saying thing's I'm not meant to, or just generally not shutting up in a certain situation and it's gotten me into a bit of trouble in the past. This song puts it all into perspective for me. Sometimes I say things that I wish that I could take back, the most crucial thing I lack is a thing called tact. And if you're always so intently listening then the smartest thing to say is to tell myself not to say a thing.

10. Mood Rings
I literally lol'd when I first heard this song. It's a song for guys about trying to figure out girls. The song is about how girls are so moody and the only way we're gonna have any chance with them is if we all give them mood rings so we can tell what mood they're in and can act accordingly. The line in particular a laughed-out-loud to is We all know the girls that I am talking about. She likes you Wednesday, but now it's Friday and she has to wash her hair. I just plain loved this song from the first time I heard it. haha. She's so pretty but she doesn't always act that way, her mood's a-swinging on that swingset almost everyday. She said to me that she's so happy it's depressing, and all I said was 'Will someone get that girl a mood ring?'

9. Getting Into You
Second song in a row from the Two Left's Don't Make a Right... But Three Do album! Cool. This song is nothing short of beautiful, I believe about two guys who share an amazing friendship together. A very Godly friendship, like a newly on-fire Christian and his mentor or something. Part of it is about this friendship, but the chorus always brings God back as the centre of the song, suggesting that in the friendship God is the centre of them. I have a friendship like this and always think of this person when this song comes on. When you looked at me and said 'I kinda view you as a son', for one second our eyes met and I met that with the question. 'Do you know what you are getting yourself into?'

8. Who I am Hates Who I've Been
Mmhmm was the first Relient K album I owned and as I said, is by far their best effort. This was a single off that album. It's about becoming a new person simply, getting over the past and changing old ways. It's catchy and meaningful, what a killer combination! I'm sorry for the person I became. I'm sorry that it took so long for me to change. I'm ready to be sure I never become that way again, because who I am hates who I've been.

7. For the Moments I Feel Faint
This is their biggest Christian song and if you asked any Christian what songs Relient K had, they would mention Pressing On and this one. But they'd probably call this song Never Underestimate My Jesus, because most people download songs nowadays with wrong names. Frustrating. And homygosh, when i just mentioned Pressing On I just had the biggest nostalgic moment. I love that song. Anway, FTMIFF has even been performed by my church before and it's lyrically one of the most beautiful things I've heard. Never underestimate my Jesus. You're telling me that there's no hope, I'm telling you you're wrong. Never underestimate my Jesus. When the world around you crumbles, he will be strong, he will be strong.

6. Must Have Done Something Right
This song has never failed to bring the biggest smile to me face. It's happy-go-lucky, optimistic and love-inspired. It's just about how lucky a guy is to have a girlfriend such as the one he does now. It's got some really corny, but really lovely lines and makes me smile just thinking about it. We should get jerseys, 'cause we make a good team.

5. Be My Escape
This would be their best song from Mmhmm, but not my favourite. It's one of those 'christian' songs where you're not quite sure whether it's about God or it's about another person, but I believe it to be about God, especially seeing as it makes reference to some Godly stuff like grace. The meaning of the song is nicely encaptulated by the video clip. It show the band playing in a room with the walls slowly closing in on them, and if I remember correctly at the end they're playing in a field. Maybe not, I haven't seen it in a while. I've given up on giving up slowly, I'm blending in so you won't even know me apart from this whole world that shares my fate.

4. Which To Bury, Us or the Hatchet.
This was my immediate favourite from Mmhmm and I have really loved it ever since. On my old computer, it was my most played song on itunes and is still rather high on this one. It's about people fighting, but more about what they're going to do. Should we end this relationship (bury us) or should we work out the problem and continue on (bury the hatchet, the cause of the problems). This song contains my favourite lyric from a Relient K song. I tried to move you, but you just wouldn't budge. I tried to hold your hand but you'd rather hold your grudge.

3. In Love With the 80's (Pink Tux To the Prom)
Now I wasn't even born in the 80's (though only just, 1990) but I am in love with this song. The song is about all things which were cool in the 80's. I guess I like it because it's catchy and I'm nostalgic and uhh...it's a good song! And I'm only gonna pierce my left ear, and I've been working on this moustache all summer long, and my favourite band will always be Tears for Fears, and I'm gonna wear a pink tux to the prom.

2. More Than Useless
My favourite song from Mmhmm. I can relate to it a lot as I fall into thinking myself as useless more often than is healthy. This song has picked me up and helped me out of that trap many many MANY times before. Sometimes I think that I'm not any good at all. Sometimes I wonder why, why I'm even here at all. But then you assure me I'm a little more than useless. When I think that I can't do this, you promise me that I'll get through this and do something right, do something right for once.

1. Faking My Own Suicide.
I know, incredibly odd choice for a favourite song. I've heard that people know people who love Relient K but refuse to listen to this song (either because of what it's about or because it's crap, I dunno) but nevertheless, it's my favourite song by Relient K. It's all about a man who pretends he committed suicide in order to get the attention of a girl. Weird, hey? I don't know why I like, but I think it's kinda sweet even though this guy would be the biggest jerk in the history or jerks if he did that. I guess I also like it because of it's naivity. The guy in the song truly believes that if he was to fake his suicide, the girl he loves will realise that she loved him all this time and once she admits it, he would "come back to life" and they'd go run away and get married together. I forget what the word for that is. We all know that it wouldn't work and he'd probably lose all his friends by doing that, but the fact he believes it would work...I don't know, it's kinda cute. I just love the song. Here's a really cute video to the song.



So I've made up my mind,
I will pretend to leave this world behind
and in the end you'll know I've lied
To get your attention, I'm faking my own suicide.

I'm faking my own suicide,
Because I know you love me, you just haven't realised.
I'm faking my own suicide.
We'll hold a double funeral, because a part of you will die along with me.

I wish you thought that I was dead,
So rather than me, you'd be depressed instead.
And before arriving at my grave,
You'd come to the conclusion you'd loved me all your days
but it's too late, too late for you to say.

Because I'm faking my own suicide,
Because I know you love me, you just haven't realised.
I'm faking my own suicide.
We'll hold a double funeral, because a part of you will die along with me.

I'll write you a letter that you'll keep,
Reminding you your love for me is more than six feet deep.
You say aloud that you would've been wife,
And right about that time is when I come back to life and let you know,
I'd let you know...

That all along I was faking my own suicide,
Because I know you loved me, you just never realised.
I was faking my own suicide.
I'll walk in that room and see your eyes open so wide,
Open so wide, because you know...

Because you know you will never leave my side
Until the day that I die for the first time.
And we'll laugh, yeah we'll laugh and we will cry,
So overjoyed with our love that's so alive,
Our love is so alive.