top 5....or somethin' like it

Okay, so let me just go ahead and say this was a nearly impossible assignment. To pick a personal top five songs of all time is simply too much to ask...a top 500 maybe. The best I could do is pick what MAY be a top five of my college years, and not necessarily based on playcount or anything like that. These are just songs that I think got me through some difficult times. With that being said, let's go. In no particular order, Vapour Trail by Aqualung, Falling out of Love by Aqualung, Secrets by Alice Smith, Butterfly by Corinne Bailey Rae, and somewhere in there is a tie between Mr. Officer, and If There's Love by Citizen Cope. The first three songs are essential parts of my "relax" playlist that not only helps me to relax, but helps me to think clearly and gives me inspiration. That's the playlist that gets me through writing tough papers and taking tests, so clearly you can see how these songs are important to me. Of course, this description isn't going to be able to show you why I picked them as my most important songs, but that's because they are, and are not my most important at the same time. They're important to me, but there are tons of other songs along the same lines that do the same things for me...the assignment was jus to pick five and as painful as it was, I had to pick only five. Butterfly helped me soooooo much in making the move from Clinton, MS with my mom where the whole rest of my family was only 5-10 minutes away in either direction to Birmingham, AL where I was alone. None of my friends came here, no family was here...I was alone. That song always comforted me and just made me feel that security that I felt when i would just sit on the couch and listen to it with my mom. Lastly, I've recently discovered Citizen Cope and I just think they produce some of the most amazing music. That's pretty much all I can say about it. It's beautiful and I just love it, particularly Mr. Officer, and If there's Love. Again...I didn't even skim through my CDs, these are just a few selections from my digital library. Who knows what other treasures I've lost with time, but as of right now I'm going to go with these six songs as my top five spots.....or at least representatives of my top five lol.