It’s Been Two Years

Back in college, we have our song that doesn’t really get played very often. Well, actually I decided what “our song” would be. I had a monopoly on it. You see, I was a music elitist that couldn’t play music and compensated for this lack of talent by going out of my way to ensure that the music I listen to was far away from the Top40 charts (still do actually, current state of music now is really sad, btw).

So anyway, the song is Untitled by Pearl Jam as heard on the Live on Two Legs album. I was just getting into how good the band was through college network mp3s and Pearl Jam was a hard rockin band. But they write even better, meaningful ballads.

Untitled is just a short, two minute acoustic ditty that Eddie Vedder mumbles the lyrics to. But the melody and words  really comes out as a yearning to be with someone, how you feel complete when that person is around and that you feel like you can take on the world. More importantly, she makes you feel like everything is alright.

And the wonderful thing about this song is that it is made constantly alive and fluid, the lyrics keep changing at every live show and I was really stoked to find this version online (have a listen to the first line) for this year:

Its our 2nd year of marriage together. And alhamdullilah, it has been a joyful 2 years so far with a kid in tow and many new experiences to learn from to be a better person.

Let us pray and make doa that we will be better people when celebrating this occasion again next year, insyaAllah.

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