Take a Walk | Passion Pit

I’ve been listing to this song for a while…wanting to love it…but I just couldn’t.

It really had to do with the lyrics. I loved jumping around to the chorus but the verses just didn’t connect with me. I just couldn’t connect with story. The dude…selling flowers…trying to get his family to the states…dealing with a mother-in-law…and pension problems. It’s not that I can’t appreciate this man’s story. It’s just not my story. And it doesn’t hit me in that place where really great songs can hit you.

But I woke up today needing to take a walk. Needing to walk something off. And what better song than this one to accompany me. I still didn’t love it when it first started. But it kept growing on me and towards the end, the song started to build and pound and say: I’m just too much a coward to admit when I’m in need. 

I’m kinda feeling this man’s story now.