All this is based off of this video and song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU.
I don’t know if you’ve ever listened to a song and felt like, “Wow…this is me.” Or maybe you just sing it with everything you have every time you hear it on the radio.” Music always does that to me. It gets me so often that when I was a sophomore in college, I decided I wanted to host a radio show about the effects music has on people.
Me as a radio host – not so great. The mic would be positioned above my head and somehow while on air it always would manage to smack me in the face and all that button pushing… you don’t even want to know how I did with that, but we did have the most listeners of any show at the radio station. Probably because my mom and all my relatives we’re listening.
I think it’s because our show was an interesting topic. It was called “Not Listening.” I hosted it with my friend Jes and it was all about how we aren’t listening to the music we are hearing. Now I know you must be saying … “Huh?” Well we sing words and frequently we don’t know what words we’re even singing, let alone what we are actually singing about.
For so long I used to sing the song “Miami” by Will Smith and on the chorus I thought he sang “Am me ee mo a Miami.” Well some of you may know my room mate is actually from Miami where there is a large Cuban population so a lot of times Spanish can be more common than English. Some of you also know I’m a pretty proficient Spanish speaker. One day, I was feeling a little slap happy so I walked into my roommate’s room and I bust out into this song. She looks at me like I have three heads and says “What the heck are you singing?” I say, “You know the Will Smith song.” She just goes, “Your stupid…the words are Bienvenidos a Miami.” I have an epiphany…Welcome to Miami is what they are singing. I know the Spanish translation. How often though do we not even know what we are saying when we sing along with a song?
Somehow though, music seems to come down and touch a part of our hearts…I might even be so bold to say it touches a part of our souls. Like when I hear Goo Goo Dolls song Iris or Slide, I just seems to reach into my body and pull on my heart. That’s what we’re going to talk about today. How songs affect us. In particular, we are going to talk about B.o.B. and Hailey William’s song Airplane. This song gets me every time…I’m always singing in the car and it brings up the same emotions within me that the singers are trying to express. Take a look at the first part I think is important:
You get another hand soon after you fold
And when your plans unravel
And they sayin' what would you wish for
If you had one chance
To me, this part is all about how things just don’t go the way you’d have them go. I hear this guying saying, I gave up on one crappy bunch of cards life dealt me just to get another bunch of cards that I can’t deal with. He just seems to be going through trial after trial. I can relate. When my friend committed suicide, the next month another friend confessed to me she was cutting, and then 2 weeks later I went through a really bad break-up. Yeah I get repeatedly being dealt cruddy hands and all the plans I’ve made unraveling right before my eyes. I couldn’t even catch the plans and try to manage them…everything just imploded in front of me.
I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this
I could take all that messed up stuff going on in my life and really use a dream coming true. Or a magic genie to grant me one wish. Or to go back to a time where I didn’t have any drama…you know the time when I was cruising the streets on my Big Wheel. I can relate. Sometimes I do feel like that. Sometimes I do wish I could just slip out of all the drama, pain, and suffering. I wish I could just find a shooting star, make a wish, and poof my life is better.
The song suggests:
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now
Well if we can’t really have a wish on a real shooting start (because you know those actually work NOT), then why not fake like an airplane is a shooting star and make the wish. That way I can kind of cope with the situation at hand. She’s essentially saying, “I’m going to trick myself into thinking this plane is a start, so I can at least make a wish of some sort.”
I can’t knock her. I sing the song just as loud as the next person who loves it AND I actually relate to those lyrics. I want a wish sometimes. I want to escape sometimes. But I think there’s one flaw in that, staying with that feeling of wanting to wish yourself out of a situation.
Pastor Mark talked a few months ago about having hope around Christmas time. He said it’s on thing to be hopeful for the future, but it’s another thing to have your hope attached to something stable…meaning Jesus.
I get swept up in this song and sometimes I forget I actually have hope. I don’t have to make wishes on airplanes.
Where do we have hope? We have hope in:
• HOLY SPIRIT: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13
• BIBLE: For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope
Romans 15:4
• GOD: He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us...
2 Corinthians 1:10
I know that when I wish on an eyelash or a lady bug or a shooting star that nothing is going to happen. It’s not. We don’t have to waste our time making wishes to comfort our hopes and dreams, we can actually have hope in God.
So I could see you doing a few things in response.
1. You could try taking your hope in the Holy Spirit…by asking the Holy Spirit to provide you guidance.
2. You could try putting your hope in the Bible….that’s full of truth, lessons to learn from, and encouragement
3. You could put your hope in God who has done great things and works all things together for your good.
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