"No Better Life..."

"...Than the life we're living..." as well as the lyric just before this one, "No better you than the you that you are." Which are from this song of Alessia Cara's are those which pumped through my head during my semi-long run today.

Yesterday I'd thought it'd be this song since it's catchy, I'm familiar with it (the line "don't you know I'm human too"? as well as "I'm gonna marry her anyway") & I'd heard it shortly before beginning my car ride. ...Rather it was this song of Alicia Keys' which I found intriguing as I had to use my Sound Hound App once again while listening to it on the car ride to where I'd planned to begin my day's run. Although I've owned this song since the song's album first came out, I've not listened to it in, well, in about that much time. I'd like to say I think she sounds a bit like Pink at first listen - especially if, when the DJs putting on the next song, in your subconscious you're figuring that it's gonna be a more current tune. Though that's just me. 😂😜

On Wednesday, a song which I didn't particularly care for [read: avoided at all cost/judged poorly based on its video which I highly disliked with a severe passion at first watching it (now I just don't watch it, since I still don't care to)] by Maroon 5 danced through the subconscious of my eardrums for the few hours of mileage I endured. The song's significant lines being, "'Cause I really don't care where you are...I just wanna be there where you are..." I own several of the band's songs; I'm a fan of their work - including this song; it's just the video which catches me so poorly.

On Tuesday, like Thursday, which were my "rest days" from training for these upcoming marathons, I happened to be in a number of stores. One store had me distracted & I picked up on this song on the overhead. It stayed in my head for the remainder of the day in the same like fashion as these "running songs". I particularly enjoy, the up & down of the words within the lyric's lines...Yes, there's a musical term for this, which I cannot currently recall... Taylor sings, "Oh I knew you were trouble when you walked in...So shame on me now...Flew me to places I've never been, yeah...Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground..." And then the almost echoing, "call out" of the "Oh"s at the end of the lyric "Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble...Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble". So that's what I pleasantly had swaying through my mind on Tuesday.

Monday's tune came to my subconscious as this song, the last song on the car's radio before I got out to begin running. "Oh, oh, oh...oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...oh, oh, oh...oh, oh, oh...oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...oh, oh, oh...'Cause if you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it...If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it...Don't be mad once you see that he want it...If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it...oh, oh, oh..."

I think I heard the "oh"s of this song much in the same way I heard the "oh"s of Taylor's song. Completely differently, & justly relating to their own specific song, yet a defining "catch" lyric all their own within their song.

The final, or first song, depending on how it's looked at, would be this song. I heard it throughout my run last Saturday. And I realized while it was settling in among the thoughts of my subconscious that I'd heard it on my ride to where I was running. I think the song's lyrics, particularly the stream which ran through my mind: "My head's under water...But I'm breathing fine...You're crazy and I'm out of my mine...'Cause all of me...Loves all of you...All your curves and all your edges...All your perfect imperfections...Give your all to me...I'll give my all to you...You're my end and my beginning...Even when I lose I'm winning...", were the most unrelatable to the "theme" of my subconscious in each of the other songs which happened to play on my mind.

These are some of the reasons why I don't bother with hooking music up through an mp3 player, my smartphone, or another device, while I'm out-n-about. Considering what my subconscious finds in the back of its "attic" is all the more entertaining. The strength & "sass" of the song lines (other than this final one) which I unconsciously took for preference are an education on me all their own.

After running 15 miles last Friday, I ran 10 miles last Saturday (to train my body for the "Day 2 suck"). I then took off on Sunday, re-ran 15 miles again on Monday, took off on Tuesday (which is when I floated in & out of a few stores), ran 16 miles on Wednesday (even with the weather beating me up), took off on Thursday, & then finished out the week with 17 miles yesterday, which is what I'll re-run this coming Monday. Today I managed 8 miles. I meant to try for 9 miles, which would've been the "half of my previous day's run"...It just wasn't happening. A gal can only wipe her nose due to the weather so many times. I'd scheduled my day around the two hours the weather app reported would be the days' warmest; the high for the day, & I still only managed those eight sluggish miles. At the same time I "beam with pride" 😂; I did get them in!

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