"Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat

Two days ago, I was dealing with the aftermath of a catastrophic break-up with a guy who I thought would stick around for longer than 3 months. I guess stick around may be the wrong term because I was actually the one who booted him out for being arrogant and bringing me down. I had been praying for a friend to come and rescue me and the one who did is not surprisingly my friend Anya, with whom I have the strangest yet most amazing connection.

Anya and I met as composers at an intense pre-college program and after we had found similarities in the patterns of our love lives, started to find even more fascinating similarities within ourselves. It's funny how the value of a friend can have little to do with the time they've been in your life. Anya's only been in mine for two years, but the echoes of her impact are endless and feel as if they have reached back through time.

Today as I prepare to head off on a train to go visit her, "Bubbly" is running through my head because it is the first song out of many that Anya and I bonded over. We were in a practice room with a few friends and realized, not to our surprise, that this song had been stuck in our heads for the entirety of the week. We were dealing with feelings for two shockingly similar mysterious guys who in essence did make us feel "Bubbly" and for the entirety of that seemingly temporary period in our lives, that song did its duty in making us feel that "tingle" whenever we listened.

"Bubbly", paired with the glimmers of flashing trees, made me think about a comment in Colbie's blog about what several of her listeners tend to realize. Colbie had said, "People tell me ‘Bubbly’ made them realize that they weren’t in love with their boyfriend because their boyfriend doesn’t give them those feelings in the song."

Though this wasn't Colbie's intention in writing the song, it is true that "Bubbly" does create a mirage of perfect feelings that a girl would want to feel about the person she's with. Because it is within the nature of listening to a love song to juxtapose on top of it your current love life, it becomes pretty obvious if the emotions don't match up.

I've found from experience that convincing yourself of feelings never works in the long run. The same barriers preventing you from feeling "Bubbly" about a person will always stay in place because of the natural chemistry between the two of you. I'm not saying that a relationship doesn't take work beyond a solid natural chemistry. But if you're not feeling "Bubbly" from the get-go, something's probably already destined for failure. What a lot of listeners seem to be realizing from listening to Colbie's song is that they've been settling for something less than their emotional potential.

Seeing as I've been doing a lot of settling recently, I hope that ingraining "Bubbly" permanently in my history as a love-song listener turned blogger will remind me that it may be better to be temporarily alone than to settle for something less than what will "stay for awhile."

Lyrics to Bubbly :
Will you count me in?

V1: I've been awake for a while now
you've got me feelin like a child now
cause every time I see your bubbly face
I get the tinglies in a silly place

C: It starts in my toes
and I crinkle my nose
where ever it goes I always know
that you make me smile
please stay for a while now
just take your time
where ever you go

V2: The rain is fallin on my window pane
but we are hidin in a safer place
under covers stayin dry *(safe) and warm
you give me feelins that I adore

C: It starts in my toes
make me crinkle my nose
where ever it goes
i always know
that you make me smile
please stay for a while now
just take your time
where ever you go

B: What am I gonna say
when you make me feel this way
I just........mmmmmm

C: It starts in my toes
make me crinkle my nose
where ever it goes
i always know
that you make me smile
please stay for a while now
just take your time
where ever you go

V3: I've been asleep for a while now
You tucked me in just like a child now
Cause every time you hold me in your arms
I'm comfortable enough to feel your warmth

C: It starts in my soul
And I lose all control
When you kiss my nose
The feelin shows
Cause you make me smile
Baby just take your time now
Holdin me tight

Where ever, where ever, where ever you go
Where ever, where ever, where ever you go
Where ever you go, I'll always know
Cause you make me smile here, just for a while

Link to Music Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PWfB4lurT4