slow dancing in a burning room...

I decided to put that John Mayer song as a title because it's one of those songs that I can't get out of my mind at all. Not necessarily one of those songs that is very catchy and it won't get out of your head (IE: Lady GaGa - 'Just Dance'), but a song that has touched your heart & life so much that you can't stop thinking about the meaning and emotion of it.

I've been told that I read way too much into things, especially art-affiliated subjects such as music and film, so I completely understand if none of what I'm about to say makes sense.

A brilliant song is like heroin.

It's not like cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, meth, etc. It's a drug that's overwhelmingly addictive and something you love to hear and can't get enough of, yet there's a sting of painful sorrow that comes with a brilliant song that's also filled with emotion. I know it's not the most grammar-correct way to put it, but it's such a difficult thing to explain.

'Slow Dancing In A Burning Room' has to be one of my most favorite slow John Mayer songs. Only recently did I truly listen to it and find out how much I adore the music & lyrics. I had heard it before, several times, but never truly listened to it.

Even though the song discusses an ending relationship, I think it can be a good representative of other situations as well...

Ending friend-relationship - I know I've met girls who've been the 'a bitch because you can'. It's that bittersweet ending of a friendship that you thought was amazing in the beginning; then you saw the person's true colors and realized that no matter what you tried to do to keep the relationship going because it was so great in the beginning, it has to end for the sake of both persons. And most of the time, it ends in that slow dance type of way, (eww, that was horrible grammar.) like you're in a burning room of emotions & exaustion. I know that probably didn't make much sense to anyone else, but it did to me.

The start of a for sure doomed relationship - Through various situations, I've met girls who've gone into a relationship knowing just how bad it will turn out in the end. To me it doesn't make that much sense to go through something like that, but I guess to certain types of girls it does..? Just to enter a relationship for the thrill of it, to be with a guy for a peroid of time instead of being alone. And yes, that is understandable in a certain respect; but I guess I could never go through with something like that myself, it just doesn't make sense to enter a relationship that has no future whatsoever.

I don't know...I love this song and so many other songs that have deep meanings and make you think hard about where you are and where you've been. 'Slow Dancing In A Burning Room' does that for me, makes me think of the many situations that I've gone through that can be represented by a phrase like that. Haven't we all been slow dancing in a burning room a few times in our lives? The walls inflamed so much that there's no way out of the situation than to just dance your way through it.

The whole week I spent trying to write this, I never felt like I was making sense at all. So if you read this (Kaylyn ;P) and thought it sounded alright, let me know.


Cheers!
- L