Our Song

Intro

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• intense
• walk down the aisle
• punk rock
• theme

• slow dance
• your song
• speak to
• break up

• rebel
• figure out

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Is there a certain song that always makes you and your partner say “awww” and turn up the volume when it comes on? Is there a song you love to slow dance to, or one that makes you giggle, or one whose lyrics seem so perfectly to describe your relationship? If so, that might just be your song.

A lot of couples have a song they think of as “theirs.” It speaks to them and defines their relationship in some way. Even if they break up, they’ll always think of their time together when they hear that song—whether they want to remember their relationship or not.

Find out which songs define Ella and Amy’s relationships.

Dialog

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Amy

Ella

Amy:  So, my cousin is getting married, and she’s trying to figure out what song she wants to play when she walks down the aisle.

Ella:  They don’t have a song already? I mean, there’s a song for each relationship, I mean one would think.

Amy:  Yeah, I mean, I guess there’s supposed to be. But it made me think about, you know, do I have a song? Like, what song would I pick if I were getting married to my boyfriend? And we don’t really have a song.

Ella:  Really?

Amy:  No.

Ella:  Every boyfriend I’ve ever had, we’ve always had a song.

Amy:  Really?

Ella:  So, you know…

Amy:  How does it become “your song”?

Ella:  You know, I don’t really remember. It’s just like, whoa, we both kinda like the artist, and then it’s like, whoa, we both kinda like this song, oh, I guess this is our song. And it’s like…with my last relationship, it was any John Legend song. And before that it was any punk rock song. I mean, there were specific ones but there was always kind of like a theme to the relationship.

Amy:  Huh. So, was that a pretty intense relationship when your song was like a punk song? I mean, isn’t “your song” usually sort of like romantic…

Ella:  One would think so. But you know, you’re seventeen, you want to rebel. It’s like, yeah, punk songs, this brings us closer. I’m pretty sure it was like an All-American Rejects song or something like that, so we felt pretty bad ass.

Amy:  Yeah. That’s cool. I should get a song.

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