Monday, March 3, 2008

That Song (revised)

Rico opened his phone and tried to call his brother Macho. I thought to myself " why is he doing his?" I knew why he wouldn't get an answer. But the reason he wouldn't get an answer made me cry. It started off as a normal day in our lives. First we went to school of course. It was so boring because school is always boring unless something happened and on this day nothing happened. I came home and got changed. Rico then called me and and asked if I wanted to hang out today like we normally do. Most of these days were fairly boring unless we find something to do. However, this day we couldn't find anything to do. So I put on some music and started my homework. As we sat there, Rico started to think about a song. I asked him "what song?" He said he didn't know so I started guessing and got it right. It was "How To Save A Life" by The Fray. I thought to myself "what a stupid song!" He told me that the song makes him think of how messed up this world was. So we sat there in silence and listened to it.
It was the kind of silence that seems like you're gonna here a cricket in the woods. I saw a tear come to his eye and that is when he opened his phone and tried to call his dead brother Macho who died in a car crash in January. Then I began to think about my grandfather who passed in September which made it worse. So we sat there weeping softly, just us two. Because of this day, this song is one of the best songs I ever heard and because of this day, I will never listen to this song again.

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