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Some songs are more than just a few notes and chords.
We remember this every time we’re in love, every time we get dumped, and every time we feel inspired to post the lyrics of a song as our new MySpace headlines. (Whether you’ve acted on it or not, don’t judge. You’ve been there.)

Some songs represent the bookmarks of our lives. They speak to us when we can’t speak for ourselves, and sometimes they say the things we’re not eloquent enough to express without a little help.

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There’s no doubt that it takes a little bit of crazy to really express it.

There’s something in the song “Selah” by Lauryn Hill that helps to calm whatever insanity is sometimes brewing under the surface. More than once in the song, she pleads, “please save me from myself” and I know exactly what she means. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies; our own harshest critics. If we could get out of own way(s), life would be a better place.

In the second verse, she asks, “How beautiful is fruit still in denial of its roots?” and it hits home in ways that help me to understand what “Killing Me Softly” is really all about. Later in the same verse, she humbly realizes that her pride has gotten the best of who she really is in the lyric, “Selfishly addicted to a life that I depicted, conflicted because it’s not reality.” Sometimes we get so caught up in projecting a certain image of ourselves that at some point we realize that even our best friends don’t really know us at all.

“Selah” tends to find me when I most need it. If Lauryn Hill really is as crazy as the media wants us to believe her to be, this song reminds me that one person’s craziness can end up being someone else’s saving grace.

- Raechel Pond