Pieces of My Heart

Do you ever have a moment that you hear a song for the first time and it changes you, it speaks to you and you think I will always remember where I was the first tme I heard this song. It was one of the first warmer days of this year, warm enough where you can drive with the windows down and not be cold, and I was stuck in traffic, and got bored of whatever over played song was on the radio at the time so I changed stations. Gary Allan's voice came on and his upbeat melody with profound lyrics filled me with even more happiness than the sunshine through my rolled down windows. It was like I was hearing a song that I could have written from my heart and experiences. "I've been broken, torn and scattered, I've loved Holy I've loved sin, I was rollin' on the wind it didn't matter. I was so sure of who I didn't wanna be, every smile, every fear, every laughter, every tear it was all me, it was all me. Pieces of my heart, pieces of my soul, pieces that I'm gonna be I don't even know. I gave a lot to lovers, gave a lot to friends, everything I took from them, made me who I am, pieces. We've all been lied to, we've all been liars, nothing is perfect in this world, everybody has been burned by the fire. Guess I'm learning that what doesn't break you makes you grow. I'm not hiding where I've been gonna let the light shine in, what I don't need gonna let that go. Pieces of my heart pieces of my soul, pieces that I'm gonna be I don't even know. I gave a lot to lovers, gave a lot to friends, everything I took from them, made me who I am, pieces. The good and the bad, pieces, the happy and the sad, pieces, the wrong and the right, that's my life." The lyrics speak for themselves, we are all made up of pieces others gave to us, and others are made up by the pieces we gave to them.