This week I was challenged to write an article about lyrics that inspired me. I decided this would be the perfect opportunity to browse through my songs and pick something meaningful. It took all week long trying to pick a song. And until I stopped searching for those perfect lyrics and just sat back to listen to music, I had found the perfect song: Molly.
Molly
Molly as we know it more often than not, is a drug. People take it to get that high kind of feeling, mostly associated now with raves and huge party scenes.
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The song Molly is by a nontraditional rapper who goes by the name of, please don't laugh, Lil' Dicky.
Alright, so to get some insight this rapper is Jewish, and has a business degree. He was very very smart and kept a 3.9 GPA throughout his entire collegiate career. He's smart to say the least.
All of his songs are usually funny one's, and always contain all kinds of jokes people would laugh at. We are talking about the same person who wrote the song Lemme Freak. Do you see what I'm saying here? The point is that this one song is different from all of the others one's he has ever written about. The song starts off with him saying, "Damn, this is the softest thing I ever did, but it's about something important to me".
Nothing much to look into there but if you listen to any of his songs or maybe after reading this, you might want to check it out, you can tell this song has a very different feel to it.
The hook proceeds those two lines of text. One of the lines in the hook simply says, "Really wish that I didn't care about you anymore".
So not even knowing what the song is about you can tell he care's for someone or something deeply and can't just forget about whatever it is.
Now before we even delve into why I picked this song and why it is so important to me, let's begin with what the song is about.
David Burd, the man who goes by the name Lil' Dicky, is writing about his ex girlfriend Molly.
The song isn't an apology, or an asking of forgiveness, it's the realization of the outcome of the choice he made. I want to acknowledge the chorus as the main part of this song, which gave me the passion to want to write about this. The chorus goes like this:
"It's the hardest rule to follow (I'm thinking of you)
I really wish that I could call you (What can I do?)
You can find another me tomorrow,
And that's the hardest pill to swallow, babe
If I woke up and I called it quits (I'm thinking of you)
If today I gave up all of this (I don't know what to do)
Maybe I could get you back tomorrow (oh) And that's the hardest pill to swallow, baby"
From the outside looking in, this doesn't mean much to pretty much anyone who hasn't heard the song, however someone like me or other fans of him understand the viewpoint this chorus brings.
The story of this song is simple, but takes on an honest and sad approach to life that we all avoid any chance we get. Molly and him were in love, and he worked in some office somewhere being bossed around not enjoying the job he had that he ultimately went to school for. He had an ambition to become a rapper, as music has been an important part of his life. His motto: To change the way rap music is today and give a lighthearted approach to it. In order to follow his dream he would have to leave where he was living and move away to another state. His girlfriend couldn't do that, and ultimately he made the decision to split up and pursue his dream and his passion.
You're probably thinking, "Wow he's such a jerk, why is he so rude?", the answer is, he's not rude.
People have dreams, and sometimes, mostly all the time, if we put our efforts towards doing what we truthfully want to do, we can accomplish our dreams. He wanted to pursue his life in music and if he held back he wouldn't have this song, and he wouldn't have changed a big part of me. I look around and see the people by my side. I have family and friends and groups I belong too. If a writing job was offered to me, or I wanted to become this big time author and was forced to move away, I would have been hesitant. This song isn't about romance, it's truly about following you're dreams, and has steered me away from that hesitanetness.
He gave up such a huge piece of him emotionally to pursue a career that may have not even have been successful. Everyone told him not to do it and he went and did because this is his dream and his chance to make himself be heard.
Would you give away a loved one if you could pursue you're dream? If you had a passion for something and was offered a job in that field in another state, would you leave everything behind? People everywhere avoid this question and avoiding it truthfully is the hardest pill to swallow. Sometimes the things you're doing now aren't the things you truly have aspired to do your entire life.
This song taught me that sometimes you need to make the hard decision, sometimes you need to let go to better yourself. When you look at it, in you're mid twenties is the prime age to go out and do something and fulfill those dreams you've always had. The more you push something off the later your life will get and the farther you'll get from accomplishing you're dream.
Lil' Dicky gave up a huge part of his life and his love to someone to go pursue a career in rap that everyone told him not to do.
Sometimes making the difficult decision can be hard, but ultimately, if it benefits you, then why not jump on it? Looking at it now, I would do the same. I need to better myself and I would leave to get myself in a position where later in life things would be easier for me. I would go pursue my dreams if a window opens up.
This is why I chose this song, from a wacky nontraditional rapper. It has inspired me to start looking at the bigger picture. I hope you listen to it, and it does the same for you.
