March Music Challenge - Day 2

Today's challenge, Day 2, is to post the first song that appears alphabetically in your music library -- for me, I'm proud to say that my music library is my original Classic 5th generation iPod 5th with the rotary wheel and 120 GB of memory. That thing has been my travelling companion across continents. It's been dropped, scratched, mistreated, and well loved. Even though sometimes like this week, it threatens to quit on me, it hasn't so far.

The first song listed is The A Team by Ed Sheeran. Sheeran's debut single came out to critical acclaim and he's quoted as saying that the lyrics came from a visit he made to a homeless shelter when he was 18 but he purposely chose to set the lyrics to an upbeat rhythm which I believe is part of its appeal as well as its irony. The melody was what originally drew me to the song until I really listened to the lyrics. I love how he plays with the ideas of cold (weather and society), snowflakes, and cocaine -- this song eloquently paints a very real picture for the listener. As a motherhood scholar, the idea of flying "to the Motherland" is interesting as motherland can be such a loaded term -- one's home or native land, where we come from, the land of one's ancestors -- and makes me wonder about the pre-story. How did this girl get to this place, obviously if she flies to the Motherland, she didn't always live in this place.

For me this song carries the message that we -- parents, people, society -- need to be so careful with our youth. They are so precious.

Often it's too cold for angels to fly.