Over – A romantic comedy online graphic novel by Tyler James

Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac

Key Lyrics: If I could/ Maybe I’d give you my world/ How can I / When you won’t take it from me?

Felix Rating: 94 (Acceptance)

Analysis: Upbeat break up songs are a lot of fun.  And even though unrequited love sucks plain and simple, it’s a part of life, and doesn’t last forever.  Right?  Fleetwood?  Mac?

Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It by Darius Rucker

Key Lyrics: Don’t think I don’t wonder ’bout/ Could’ve been, should’ve been all worked out

Felix Rating: 88 (Acceptance)

Analysis: Hootie front man Darius Rucker is a good country singer.  And in typical country fashion, here he sings about the girl he let get away. In all of our lives, there are going to be some decisions we’ll make that we’ll always wonder what would have happened if we’d gone another way.  “Between the work and the hurt and the whiskey,” we’ll replay those key moments over in our heads and do some second guessing.  The moral of the story…be a risk taker.  Most people at the end of their lives regret more the chances they never took than the ones they did.      

You Found Me by The Fray

Key Lyrics: Losing her, the only one who’s ever known/ Who I am, who I’m not, and who I want to be

Felix Rating: 64 (Depression)

Analysis: The Fray is another band that seems to have the market on melancholy cornered.   If what they say, “In the end, everyone ends up alone,” is true, it pretty much makes you wonder why we bother in the first place.  (The sex, probably.)  If we conclude that the depression phase is pretty much the rock bottom of licking your wounds after a breakup, this song’s gotta be there.  However, here The Fray direct their despair not toward the one that left, but rather toward God of all people.  (That’s when you know it’s bad.)  “Where were you, when everything was falling apart?”  It’s like the footprints in the sand poem set to music.

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