Be Brave

Going along with the “face your fears”, be brave Sara Bareilles has a super great song titled, take a guess, Brave.  It is a great song and I totally forgot about it until I was bored on Youtube and procrastinating but it is incredibly catchy and makes me want to dance J

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4 Music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyAfjUHlFSM Lyric video

You can be amazing
You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
You can be the outcast
Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love
Or you can start speaking up
Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do
And they settle ‘neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

Everybody’s been there, everybody’s been stared down
By the enemy
Fallen for the fear and done some disappearing
Bow down to the mighty
Don’t run, stop holding your tongue
Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one of these days you can let the light in
Show me how big your brave is

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

Innocence, your history of silence
Won’t do you any good
Did you think it would?
Let your words be anything but empty
Why don’t you tell them the truth?

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave
(3x)
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you

I will start with the song in general, I am a huge sucker for strings, piano, a solid beat and a great choreographed dance, which are all in the song! The fact that the song starts off with just a beat and then adds in solid chords to the beat, just great and super catchy and the song builds up perfectly to the chorus! I can’t even think of much more to say other than the fact it just makes me want to dance, so I will try to keep this quick so I can J

The video, just amazing.  It isn’t even like the people can’t dance, they all just have totally different styles and seem like very unlikely dancers.  I always love choreographed numbers, mainly because I can learn them and it makes me feel like a better dancer, Miley Cirus’s Hoedown Throwdown, that is probably the song I feel most confident dancing too. 

Lyrics, love them! I am going to start with the chorus just to shake it up a bit.  I love the challenge of saying what we really want to say because most of the time I think what we say and actually think are two totally different things, some people call it maturing, holding your tongue, lying, but sometimes it wouldn’t kill us to actually share our opinion.  The only example I can think of at the moment is telling the person you “like” (we really need a better word for that feeling) that you “like” them.  Totally cliché and I am not going to suggest you do that because I have never ever done that ever, I “liked” the same guy for 5 years in elementary school and I am pretty sure he knew most of the time but I never ever told him to this day, I doubt I ever will.  Plus it there is a lot on the line, though if there is nothing being risked it wouldn’t be considered brave.  That is why love is so crazy and awesome, you are completely trusting somebody else with yourself and they could easily hurt you but for some reason you believe that they won’t, insane stuff for a totally different blog.

I really need to dance but do it, be brave, tell somebody something crazy about yourself, give them the gift of going second and letting them know it is okay to share something crazy too J