Christmas 2006 was an odd Christmas for me and my family. We knew what we had, but we were not allowed to have use of our things till Christmas Day. I, at the time, only got cds. One of them being one of Copeland's albums, Eat, Sleep, Repeat.
I had a bunch of cds I received for Christmas, so choosing which one to listen to first was a hard choice. I think I saved Copeland for last because I was scared I wouldn't like it. I've been disappointed with bands before. and this was long before they became my favorite band. I think that Christmas I got Edison Glass, Sanctus Real, Emery and probably some other albums. I can't really remember.
Copeland I saved for January. After the new year. I think it was either the 2nd or 3rd, I finally opened the case. It was an interesting case. My first, ever, (I believe) where it was artisticly made to be opened the way it was made.
You opened where the people were, turning the flaps until you saw a booklet with a grey house in it. (It is because of this album grey and red are my two favorite colors.) I put the cd in my portable cd player (no, I did not have an iPod at the time. I didn't even know what one was until the next year actually.) and listened to it. I remember I had a policy that whenever I liked more than 2 or 3 songs by a band, I would get their album. WIth Copeland, the first album I got was In Motion. Of course, I fell in love with the entire album. When I got Eat, Sleep, Repeat, I was afraid I wasn't going to like what I heard. I was proven wrong (yet again.)
I didn't hate what I heard at first. But I listened to it. again. and again. and I made a habit of putting it in my cd player to listen to on my way to church, every Sunday morning. and it thus became my, "Sunday Album." From the first song, to the last song, I listened to it all the way through. This album made me feel less dead inside. With it being cold and dull in the Winter season, my heart has always been heavy with melancholy. This album made me think of Spring, in a way. The leaves suddenly growing on the trees. Flowers blooming. Birds singing. This album made me come alive. and like In Motion, it brought back memories from my childhood.
"It occurred to me at once that love gets everything it asks for, like a young girl picking flowers in the lawn. She gets every kiss and tear, she gets every smile and fear but still, she never finds the last of them is gone."
When I was younger, I used to find my escape outside. There was a particular flower bush, up a hill behind my house, that I'd rip the petals off and throw them in the air. I wanted it to be like in the movies when you saw someone get married or celebrate something when petals are falling everywhere. I laughed and giggled and had so much fun with those flower petals.
I have many more memories with this album. and with their other albums. But I think the one thing I treasure most about this album is that I thought fondly about sitting on my roof, outside my window and watch the sunrise. Every morning whenever my parents and I would get ready to leave for church, I'd breathe the cold air in and look towards the east to see, always, the most beautiful of sunrises. As I'd get in my frosted car and ride away with my parents, I'd begin this album and sometimes look behind us at the sun. And looking at how it shown light on everything else surrounding us. This...made the cold bring me hope. I adore this feeling. and this is why I love January now.
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