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Matchbox Twenty- “The Difference”

“For all you know this could be the difference between what you want and what you want to be”

Upon making this blog I knew I would start with this song; it’s the last track on Matchbox Twenty’s More Than You Think You Are album that was released in 2002. I discovered it in 2003 when I was in eighth grade when I realized what an extensive cd collection my parents had sitting right at my fingertips. I spent one weekend raiding every cd, every album and loading them onto my ipod; this happened to be the first one I decided to obsess over.

Eighth grade was a really tough time for me, as it is to most teenagers. My best friends started drinking alcohol and smoking weed, and I separated myself from them because of their actions. It was a tough decision, but I could not be more proud of myself today for getting by with no friends in middle school/entering high school. This album was the first ever that I became totally obsessed with every song for reasons other than the tunes were catchy. I felt like I could connect on a deep level to each track; I felt like Rob Thomas was singing personally to me. At first I thought the album was about losing a girlfriend/boyfriend, but the more I listened I realized a lot of the songs are about a troubled person (“Disease”, “All I Need”, “Unwell”).

I’ll probably post a lot about songs from this album. Whenever I feel alone, I listen to this and my mind instantly goes to eighth grade, sitting in my room with my headphones in, doodling, playing guitar, or playing my keyboard. I think of painful busrides where I would quickly sit in the front seat with my violin, button-covered bookbag and ipod, back when nobody even knew what an ipod was. I remind myself, if I got through alone then, I can do it again.