Hopeful Songs

Lately, we have all heard at least once a song that depicts a broken heart. Adele, for example, won a number of Grammy awards for her album that is full of melancholy from a broken relationship. But, there are also some songs that give you hope and the light that future will be much better. Let me suggest some.

1) Maher Zain - Insha Allah.

I cannot agree more if someone says that this song inspire him or her to feel hopeful because there is "He" up there to watch over us. Religion has been shown to be an effective coping mechanism in times of difficulties and this song is just about that. It's about when you can't just seem to depend on anything, you know that there is God, who loves you more than you yourself do.

2) Christina Perri - A Thousand Years

Say what you want about this song, and despite the fact that this is a theme song for a movie that everyone seems to hate, I have a personal interpretation which I think would not astray much from the intended meaning. I believe that the lyrics are about a person who would not give up love, even when he or she has not met the other half. "A Thousand Years" tells us, as I see personally, that the person believes when the time is right, love will come, and he or she has prepared enough love for that.

3) Fun. - We Are Young

This song has everything about being a youth - that you cannot prevent from making mistake at least once. But when we are young, it's also a time when we learn and learn and learn, until we are adults with wisdom. This song asks us to embrace "youngness" and find friends who can "bring home" when we feel like falling down.

4) OneRepublic - Good Life

What is more hopeful than a song that sees this life as a good life. OneRepublic admitted to some screw-ups in the lyrics, but at the end of the day, whatever screw-ups there may be, this life is still a good life. This is optimism to the core.

5) OneRepublic - Marchin' On

I don't know why, but OneRepublic's second album is filled with positive songs - and "Marchin' On" is one of them. It calls for the need for us to move forward and force ourselves to "swim" to the better place. The song is right - whatever happens, we keep moving forward, and here we are, surviving! We keep marchin' on, mostly because we have this automatic faculty inside our mind that picks us up. My most favorite piece of lyrics is, "There are so many wars we fight, there's so many things we're not, but with what we have, I promise you that, we're marchin' on..."