Okay, okay, so Warped Tour ‘07 was my second concert ever and it was the first time my sister and I saw Anberlin live and since then it’s kind of become this unspoken tradition to see them together whenever they’re in town even though I don’t listen to them much anymore (though I do recommend Cities to anyone ever because it’s just a damn good album), and I usually don’t really think too much of it until I’m there, except my sister isn’t nineteen anymore and I’m not, I’m definitely not fifteen, and she doesn’t turn up her speakers in her car anymore and only ever reads books for church, and me, well I have a reckless impulse now and I’m always getting myself into trouble and just generally being the bad seed of the family, but Anberlin feels solid and grounding and like a red string tied to both of our index fingers, and look, I hope you have a sibling, because it’s like unconditional love, but unconditional love that’s not stifling or always worried, it’s love that doesn’t tell on you even when they smell alcohol on your breath, or when your friends are in the backseat of their car talking in a slurred ramble about how the Bank of America building downtown is the tallest building on earth (no), and it’s nice. Anyway. My sister told me once that the end of this song was completely ad-libbed in the studio by the lead singer, and I really don’t know if that’s true but I choose to believe it because spontaneity makes any type of art more beautiful. Also, my friend always makes fun of me for seeing Anberlin because he claims they’re too old, and I don’t know, but I hope that when I’m thirty or forty or fifty I’m still smart enough to realize that there’s no retirement age to art or doing what you love, because there isn’t, there isn’t, and there shouldn’t be.
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theenglishmanzombie said:
One of my favorite songs, albums, and bands ^-^
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