SONG #13: Ben Folds - Still Fighting It

June 25, 2013

Inducted on June 25, 2013

This could very well be my favorite song if I listened to it more. But I can't. It's too hard. Especially now that i'm a dad. It hits me on all sides... the pain of growing up... the pain of watching my parents grow older... the joy/pain of knowing what my sons will have to experience - both the good and the bad - as they grow older.. My theology allows me to understand the joy of knowing where my loved ones and I are going when we die, but the song taps into those raw feelings of living in a broken world. I don't always need a song to reflect my faith perfectly in order for me to get something out of it.

The hardest line in the song...? "And You're so much like me, I'm sorry". I know that will be an apology I will make to my boys one day.

Like I said, I can't listen to this song very much. But I love it.