Awesomeness Demands Theme Music

You need theme music. If you fancy yourself to be an awesome individual, but don’t have any….fancy different. The following awesomeness avatars have theme music, why shouldn’t you?

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Optimally, you would have a valet following you around with a shopping cart full of speakers hooked to an iPod, laptop, Walkman, turntable, or something.  But in real life, that’s not how it goes. Functionally, you have certain songs that play in your mental background at certain times that you connect with on some profound level. This is a good indication that it may be your theme music. Allow me to share with you the Top 5 selections of personal theme music (in no particular order) that comprise my Awesomeness Soundtrack. And my valet pushes the button…

Sacrifice by The Roots feat. Nelly Furtado

Whenever I’m on the grind and I feel like I’m without the strength I listen to this. And I am powerful. My feet can walk a little further. My arms can press a little longer. Like my life’s purpose is an inch away and I only have to stretch further to grasp it. I reach for awesomeness.

Chorus:

Tell you one lesson I learned, if you wanna reach something in life/You ain’t gonna get it unless you give a little bit of sacrificin’/Ooooh sometimes before you smile you gotta cry/You need a heart that’s filled with music, if you use it you can fly.

Selected Lyrics:

Clap for your freedom, dog, that’s what’s happening/My spit take critical political action/The hustle is a puzzle each piece is a fraction/And every word that’s understood is a transaction…Close to the utmost but no cigar/Nose to the grindstone head to the stars…Its true so the true gone sense it.

Dream On by Aerosmith

The guitar sequences carry me away into a dream of my most awesome self. And I’m singing (not literally though).

Chorus:

Sing with me sing for the year/Sing for the laughter and sing for my tears/Sing with me just for today/Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away/Dream on. Dream on. Dream on. Dream until your dream come true.

Selected Lyrics:

Every time when I look in the mirror, all  these lines in my face getting clearer/The past is gone, it went by like dusk to dawn/Isn't that the way?Everybody’s got their dues in life to pay/I know nobody knows where it comes and where it goes/I know everybody sins, you gotta lose to know how to win

Fame by Irene Cara

Yup. Fame. I am convinced that I will live forever and learn how to fly. You will remember my name. 

Hint: It’s the Awesomeness Consultant.

Chorus:

Fame/I’m gonna live forever, I’m gonna learn how to fly/High/ I feel it coming together, people will see me and cry/Fame/I’m gonna make it heaven, light up the sky like a flame/Fame/I’m gonna live forever, baby remember my name.

Selected Lyrics:

Baby look at me, and tell me what you see/You ain’t seen the best of me yet, give me time I’ll make you forget the rest/I got more in me, you can set it free/I can catch the moon in my hand, don’t you know who I am? Remember my name.

Color of Success by Morris Day

Yup. Morris Day. If you need to understand cool, study him. If you are unaware of his awesomeness, drink up your shame. All that aside, when its time for me to get cutthroat at a game of Sorry or Monopoly or Wii Boxing or a staring contest, its whatever – this is the theme music.

Chorus:

Play to win/That’s the color/Color of success/I play to win, Ohh I/Play to win/There’s no other/Color of Success/I play to win

Selected Lyrics:

It’s really not necessary to quote lyrics for this song. Just look at Morris again.  If you disagree then you just don’t get it.

Cain Marko by Ess Jones

You’ve probably never ever ever heard of this song. That’s because the only place that it could have possibly been heard is 

a) in my kitchen or 

b) at my now defunct Myspace music page.  

That’s right, I write and record my own awesome theme music…in my kitchen.

Chorus:

I don’t care whether you a thug or not/I’m a juggernaut/Touch you whether you tough or not/Unstoppable force rushing spots/Immovable object, I Juggernaut

Selected Lyrics:

You can spit dumb, I spit dumber/You can be the hottest day of summer, I’m the sun’s big brother…You seen the price of gas, this fool drive a Hummer/And need to pull equipment when its time to bang thunder (not me)/I got a thunder tongue, when I spit its like guns is slung…I succumb to none, be done brung you some/Don’t worry cuz my time only begun to come.

My counsel: Discover those songs that resonate deeply with you and let them ring out in your inner space and manifest the beauty/strength/purpose that they call forth from you.  Sing them boldly, loudly, and often. Or get a valet.

Soooo, what’s on your Awesomeness Soundtrack?