KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays
September 20, 2026
The Desire to Control
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world; and thank you for joining us this second last Sunday of September 2026. Happy Fall to all of you as we begin that season Tuesday, and what a beautiful season it is. Welcome to “Message at the Top.” Get set for the top 10 songs of our area right now as determined by the research from your requests, as well as the research of Mediabase 24-7 for the reporting date of today, September 20, 2026 and get ready for some other top 10 songs as well including the music of Teddy Swims and Rachel Platten among many others. I am Fr. Mike, and you have your dial set to today’s best music Mix 103.3, the number one popular music station of Central Kansas. Our plea to you is to enjoy the music, and listen to the message so as to allow that message to be somewhat of a guide for you. The music and message of 22 popular songs are directly in front of you for the next two hours.
Jaten Collins Dimsdale better known as Teddy Swims will be 34 years old this Friday. He was born and raised in Conyers, Georgia and known for his genre-blending music that includes elements of R&B, soul, hip hop and contemporary pop. The song that began his national career is our lead song this morning.
Most of his songs are “love songs” in one form or another as are most artists’ songs. Let’s think about that for a minute. When do you use force in love, or a more general question, when do we use force, that is force someone to do something instead of simply “suggest” and hope that the other person will follow through? Sometimes it may be necessary to force another to do something. A young child, for example, must be forced to stay away from busy intersections or not to play with fire, or the like. But, forcing another, generally speaking is not the way to bring about some desired end.
Be that as it may, the song “Lose Control” is an attempt on the part of the man in the relationship to control the situation. Some words of the song are these: “Something’s got a hold of me lately,” he sings, “No, I don’t know myself anymore, feels like the walls are all closing in and the devil’s knocking at my door. Outta my mind, how many times did I tell you I’m no good at being alone? It’s taking a toll on me, trying my best to keep from tearing the skin off my bones. Don’t you know I lose control when you’re not next to me. I’m falling apart right in front of you. You’re breaking my heart. You make a mess of me.” So, it is loneliness because one special person is no longer there for him. One of the problems of early relationships is that we get too serious too soon and when the situation breaks up for whatever reason, it causes loneliness for the person, and blocks the possibility of relationship with another.
So, let’s use a theme this week of “The Desire to Control” and to start us off, let’s listen to Teddy Swims, from his album with the title of “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, part 1”, “Lose Control” from 2023—happy birthday, Teddy Swims on MATT.
(double) LOSE CONTROL / Teddy Swims
THE DOOR / Teddy Swims
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Double Teddy Swims there, that last one called “The Door” from 2024 also from his album “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, part 1,” on MATT. It is a song about making a serious discovery about the love of someone else. He said of the song that it was a statement of how to save one’s own life and walk out of an abusive relationship. “I took a page out of your favorite book,” he begins his song. “You sold me lies just by the way you look, taught me a language that I’ve never speak. That ain’t for me. You took me higher that I ever flew, too many times, gave you a second chance. I’m just a man. No more thinking’ about you late night, no more runnin’ around with your friends now, done pickin’ up pieces of my soul up off the floor. I said I would die for you, but I can’t take this pain no more. I thought I was willing, but tonight I save my life when I showed you the door. I can’t play this game no more.” In terms of our theme, sometimes the only way to control a situation is to simply get out of it.
Now, let’s go to our top 10 right now, and give us numbers 10, 9 and 8. Number 10 is a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. Tough song, teaching the importance of a good childhood. In terms of our theme, part of a good childhood is coming to understand that we can’t control everything that happens to us. This is 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll” , number 10 on MATT.
(triple) 10 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
9 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
8 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
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21 year old Shane Michael Boos there, that is Sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” at number 8 this morning on MATT. It is a song about the scenario in which a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” / It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. As I have said with the song, I believe that one of the evils of society is giving in to too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about—say--what love truly is, and in terms of the song, what a permanent commitment consists of. In terms of our theme today, the lady in the relationship is trying to control the love situation by weakening her understanding of a permanent commitment, and that’s not good.
Before him, we heard from Ariana Grande and her song at number 9 this morning, a song of a breakup with some personal overtones about her career, from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me”. According to the music critics, it addresses regret over a relationship while also reflecting her conflicted feelings about fame and public scrutiny. “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” So, a relatively negative song, and in terms of our theme, beginning romantic relationships may not always be smooth and one of the reasons just might be that we are trying to control the situation while not including the feelings of the other.
That theme of the desire to control a situation, especially love situations came from Teddy Swims. We have more top 10 music of the present and the past coming up, and before we get there, here is a thought from author John Aughey who died in 1911, “Lost time is never found again.” Therefore, let’s use the time that we have well, and learn perhaps that our desire to control may result in troubles. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top” and your dial is set at Mix 103.3.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Part 4
We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3 and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of today and yesterday as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings in the light of how we can live better in this complicated world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of today’s best music, Mix 103.3, and we are pursuing the thought of our desire to control things, a thought that came from Teddy Swims’s song “Lose Control.”
There are five songs on my website www.frmikesully.com this week and the one recently passed that I call your attention to. The first one was on my website last Monday. It is a song that speaks of life, I believe—that is, trying to live it as best we can, but life is difficult at times. The person in the song is enjoying the ride, taking his/her time living, but it often feels like he/she is falling, that is without direction. During the life, the person thinks about what it means to be a friend of someone, whether he/she would die for the other or not. Then it seems the person in the song feels like he/she is thinking too much, saying “Help me” either to a friend or perhaps even to God. It is a very interesting song, and one that you can spend a lot of time analyzing along with the video. In terms of our theme, one of the things that we can control is being a friend to others. This is the duo Twenty-One Pilots, that is, Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph from their album “Blurryface”, and their song from 2016, “Ride” on MATT.
(double) RIDE / Twenty One Pilots
7 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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Our current number 7 song on MATT, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, it is hardly ever the right thing to try to control other people when it comes to romantic endeavors—we simply should be concerned about ourselves.
Let’s continue with some songs from my website www.frmikescully.com. This Friday, we have a song of a person who understands that his partner in the relationship is not serious with him, and that all she wants, as he says, is attention. “You’ve been runnin’ around throwin’ that dirt all on my name ‘cause you knew that I’d call you up. I know that dress is karma, perfume regret. You got me thinking ‘bout when you were mine. You just want attention; you don’t want my heart. Maybe you just hate the thought of me with someone new. Yeah, you just want attention. What are you doin’ to me?” He knows what she is doing, but he still doesn’t want to let go of the relationship. In terms of our theme, he is trying to control the situation by getting the partner to understand what she is doing, and that’s not a bad thing to do. This is Charles Otto Puth Jr., that is Charlie Puth from his album “Voicenotes” and his song from 2017, “Attention” on MATT.
(triple ) ATTENTION/ Charlie Puth
EYES CLOSED / Ed Sheeran
6 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
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The first song in the top 10 for him this morning, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 6 song right now, “I Just Might” on MATT. The song was a former number 1, a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in general, that is the problem with people trying to control others, our theme today.
Before him, on my website last Wednesday, Ed Sheeran and his song “Eyes Closed” from 2023. It is a song which reflects, as he says, losing someone, his friend by the name of Jamal, saying music helps heal, and he’s dancing with his eyes closed to try to get through it. “I know it’s a bad idea,” he begins his song, “But how can I help myself? Been inside for most this year, dealing with the cards life dealt while my friends are somewhere else. Every song reminds me you’re gone, and I feel the lump in my throat cause I’m here alone. Just dancing with my eyes closed ‘cause everywhere I look I still see you and time is moving so slow, and I don’t know what else that I can do, so I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed.” He’s feeling the pain of loss, and in trying to control the situation, he is simply putting up with the time of pain as he goes about his life.
We are looking at the songs of our show from the point of view of our desire to control a situation. During this next segment, we will give you songs in order of appearance from Olivia Rodrigo for the first time today, Miley Cyrus, Pink, birthday person Bruce Springsteen, Olivia Rodrigo again, and Mat Kearney. First, a thought about courage from my favorite author, Mr. Mark Twain: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” It takes real courage to know what is right, whether you are with the majority or not, and we can be thankful that we have the wherewithal to think, no matter what the situation. I hope your first week of Fall turns out to be a great one, and I hope our music and message is making it even a little better. I’m Fr. Mike, your dial is set to today’s best music Mix 103.3, and I hope you keep it right where it is.
This is MATT on Mix 103 and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs as of the reporting date of the second last Sunday of September 2026 together with some other top 10 songs. We call our show MATT because we take all of our songs and analyze their meanings in the light of how we can live better in the complicated world we live in. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of Mix 103.3 where our plea is for you to enjoy the music and listen to the message, allowing that message to make us better than we are. This still Summer Sunday morning, we are pursuing the thought of looking carefully at controlling a situation, a thought we took from birthday person Teddy Swims and his song “Lose Control.”
Let’s begin this second hour with the first song from Olivia Rodrigo on our show today—we have three of them. This one is a story in song of a person who is very bitter about a breakup. The lady in the relationship is in pain because the man in that relationship decided to move on, and she is reflecting on it. At first it sounds like she is okay that he has achieved what he wanted after he left her, but as you listen, you hear how bitter she really is. “Well, good for you,” she sings, “I guess you moved on really easily. You found a new girl and it only took a couple weeks. Remember when you said that you wanted to give me the world. And good for you, I guess that you’ve been working on yourself. Well good for you. I guess you’re getting everything you want. It’s like we never even happened. What is up with that? Well, the heck with you. You will never have to hurt the way you know that I do. You look happy and healthy. Not me, if you ever cared to ask. Maybe I’m too emotional, but your apathy’s like a wound in salt.” I changed the words a little. So she is really angry at him even while she sarcastically says “Good for you.” In terms of our theme, she is trying to control the situation by her anger, and it never will. This is Olivia Rodrigo from the year 2021 from her album “Sour,” “good 4 u” the name of the song on MATT.
(triple) GOOD 4 YOU / Olivia Rodrigo
USED TO BE YOUNG / Miles Cyrus
TRY / Pink
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Pink, there, that is, Alecia Beth Moore Hart, and her song “Try” from 2012, an excellent song of meaning from her album “The Truth About Love” on MATT. It was on my website last Tuesday and is an excellent song because it illustrates the leadership principle of “Never Stop Trying to do Your Best.” “Ever wonder,” she sings, “about what he’s doing, how it all turned to lies. Sometimes I think that it’s better to never ask why. Where there is desire, there is going to be a flame. Where there is a flame, someone’s bound to get burned. But just because it hurts don’t mean you’re gonna die. You gotta get up and try.” She is singing of a failed love relationship, but it is a very good principle of living. In terms of our theme, she may have the desire to control the love situation in her life, but she is going about it the correct way. Good song.
Before her, we heard a former number 1 from Miley Cyrus from her album, “Endless Summer Vacation”—digital reissue, and her song “Used to be Young” from 2024. She says of the song: “This song is about honoring who we’ve been, loving who we are and celebrating who we will become. I feel proud when reflecting on my past and optimistic when thinking about the future.” So, the past for her is a good thing, and her future is likewise good. She sings, “The truth is bulletproof. There’s no fooling you. I don’t dress the same, me / and who you say I was yesterday have gone our separate ways. Left my living fast somewhere in the past ‘cause that’s for chasing cars; turns out open bars lead to broken hearts and going way too far. I know I used to be crazy, I know I used to be fun; You say I used to be wild, I say I used to be young.” I consider it to be a 10+ category song of meaning because she will not look at the past or present or future as a negative, and being positive is essential for any relationship and it means that there will be no desire to control, our theme today.
Right now, let’s remember another birthday, this one from Mr. Bruce Springsteen, the Boss ,who will be 77 this coming Wednesday and a great statement about the waste of time, some of which is not bad. We need to relax, / and remember the good old days—the “Glory Days” as he sings—but we don’t want to dwell too much on it, because time will slip away someday, and we need more than glory days to show accomplishment in our lives. The hope connected with the song is that we will all have glory days, and that they will continue throughout our lives. As we think of our theme concerning controlling a situation, if we could control every day to be glory days, that would be a good thought. This is Bruce Springsteen and his song “Glory Days” from 1985—happy birthday to him-- on MATT.
(triple) GLORY DAYS / Bruce Springsteen
GET HIM BACK / Olivia Rodrigo
NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE / Mat Kearney
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Mat Kearney there, a 47 year old American musician born in Eugene, Oregon and his song “Nothing Left To Lose” from 2006 from his album named after that song. He speaks of hope in a romantic life in the song. It is a love song about a girlfriend that he is hopeful that he will meet. “I’ve held your hand through the darkest night,” he sings, “don’t know where you’re coming from, but you’re coming soon. Come on and we’ll sing, like we were free. I’m off the floor one more time to find you, and here we go: there’s nothing left to choose, and here we go, there’s nothing left to lose.” And he goes out in search of her. There is a certain confidence in his song as he sets out on his love life and such an attitude may or may not lead to the desire to control the situation, but he has to find the relationship first.
Before him, we heard the second song of our show from Olivia Rodrigo, a song of true revenge, from her album “Guts” and her song “Get Him Back”. The words are quite explicit with regard to revenge. “I met a guy in the summer and I left him in the spring. He argued with me about everything; he had an ego and a temper and a wandering eye. So I miss him some nights when I’m feeling depressed til I remember every time he made a pass on my friend. Do I love him? Do I hate him? I guess it’s up and down. If I had to choose, I would say right now: I wanna get him back. I wanna make him jealous, wanna make him feel bad. Oh I want sweet revenge, and I want him again. I want to get him back.” And as I say, the lady in the song is quite explicit as to how she will get revenge. In terms of our theme, there is little doubt that she wants to be in control so that she can get back at him.
And we have made it to our final segment of our show before Fall begins. During that final segment, you will hear and hopefully enjoy the artistry of in order of appearance of Rachel Platten and then the top 5 songs in our country right now. I take you to break with this thought. It comes from Katherine Hepburn: “You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.” Super quote about what is really happening in life and control of others is not part of it at all. I’m Fr. Mike, and you’re listening to “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3.
Part 10
We are back for our final segment of a show that gives you music and their messages. I hope the wonderful season of Fall which begins this week will begin well for you. I’m your host, Fr. Mike on “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3. Thank you for joining us again this morning. It’s great to have you with us as we have taken our theme from birthday person Teddy Swims and his song “Lose Control.”
Let’s begin our final segment with one great song of real commitment to a friend. “Hands,” she sings, “put your empty hands in mine, and scars, show me all the scars you hide, and if your wings are broken, please take mine so yours can open too, ‘cause I’m gonna stand by you. Even if we’re breaking down, we can find a way to break through. Even if we can’t find heaven, I’ll walk through hell with you. Love, you’re not alone, ‘cause I’m gonna stand by you.” The lady in the relationship is not trying to control the other, our theme today, because it seems like this friendship will last no matter what. From her album “Wildfire,” 45 year old Rachel Platten, and her song of commitment to a friend, great song and great video, “Stand By You” from 2015. Listen to the words on MATT.
(triple) STAND BY YOU / Rachel Platten
5 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
4 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
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The second song in the top 10 for him, also from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, and his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, number 4 right now on MATT. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars” he sings, “I’ll do anything, anything you ask me to. Say you want the moon—watch me learn to fly, ain’t no mountain you could point to I wouldn’t climb. It’s crazy, but it’s true. There’s nothing I won’t do. I’d risk it all for you.” In just a couple of words, he describes a permanent commitment to another really well, I believe. In terms of our theme this week, he is trying to control himself in the romantic relationship, and that is exactly what we should be interested in.
Before him, we heard the number 4 song on our current chart, and the third one from her this morning. Olivia Rodrigo from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,”, and her song “Drop Dead”. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the band the Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone carries with it the desire to control the situation, and that is not good.
And we are up to our top 3 songs of our week. At number 3 inching a little closer to number 1 is a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. In terms of our theme, a personal pride in loving is fine, but too often we human beings try to control the love situation which eventually destroys the relationship. This is “Midnight Sun” from the album of the same name from Zara Larsson at number 3 on MATT.
(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
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Our current number 2 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre,” they begin their song. “The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and one of the problems with that understanding as we grow is that we will often try to control how we feel the situation should go, and it should be a matter for both to develop.
And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 11 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it sounds as though she is trying to control the situation, our theme today, and that is okay for her, but both of them have to discover what’s best.
And so, we have the answer to the question of what the top songs of America this almost last day of summer say about the desire to control. My prayer for you and me is that we will always be people who will act well when it comes to controlling ourselves or others. Thank you for being with us today. My thanks to the production staff here at Mix 103, especially Jeff, and to our sponsors, especially Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays and Auto World in Hays. If you would like to request a song to be studied or want to comment on any of my comments, feel free to write me here at KJLS, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website for a transcript of the show, and meditations on some Gospels and songs and movies is www.frmikescully.com. We invite you to join us on the web if you happen to be away from your radio by choosing www.hayspost.com and clicking on Mix 103.3 at 10 am Central time every Sunday morning. One last thought comes from one of my favorite presidents, Mr. Abraham Lincoln who had some amazing quotes that can still help us, and a pretty amazing president: “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” Amen, Abe. As you listen to the number 1 song in our land from Olivia Dean and her song “So Easy,” may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music, Mix 103.3 and as we get ready for the season of Fall on Tuesday, we urge you to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS to the likewise beautiful city of Hays, KS and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
September 13, 2026
When One is Too Proud
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Hello, Central Kansas and around the world. Happy second Sunday of September, almost the season of Fall, and happy football to those who you who enjoy that sport. I hope all is well with you. Right now, welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host. We play the top 10 of today and yesterday and give you their meanings at the same time. Today we continue that tradition, giving you the songs that have been most popular as of this week, ending today September 13, 2026. As promised, we will give you the meanings of the songs so that they can inspire and/or challenge each of our lives. During our show today, we not only will give you the top 10 as of today, but we will choose a song from 2010 as our lead song, and we will use the top 10 of that date as well as the songs popular today on our show.
The song from 2010 that is our lead song is on my website www.frmikescully.com today, and concerns “pride”. It was the number 3 song on September 13, 2010 and was from Mike Posner, a Detroit MI-born singer-songwriter who is still on the music scene, and his song is an interesting one to study from a spiritual point of view because it deals with the subject of pride. But it is also good to see what pride does to romantic relationships which the song is dedicated to, and that will be our quest this morning—to see what happens with the circumstances of the song that we play with regard to being proud, or as we will call it today, “When One is Too Proud.” Before we get to his song, let me say something that comes from my website.
The sin of pride is a preoccupation with self and the only way to determine it is by taking the time to study our motives, why we do certain things. It comes out in the way that we look at our own abilities, and especially in the way we look on others. Mike Posner in his song sings about a person who is taken up with herself, and therefore a victim of pride.
Is there a remedy to pride? I believe so. It begins with recognizing our own problem. In the romantic world, as Mike Posner sings, a relationship will go nowhere when there is too much pride involved. It is a fact of life as well. The first sin is pride: it destroys everything. Once we have fallen into it, it will destroy our lives. We must understand the noise that it makes by analyzing ourselves.
His song? Well, it is all about a relationship that is troubled. “If I could write you a song and make you fall in love,” he begins his song, “I would already have you up under my arm. I used up all of my tricks; I hope that you like this. But you probably won’t, you think you’re cooler than me. You got designer shades just to hide your face and you wear them around like you’re cooler than me. And you never say, ‘hey’, or remember my name. It’s probably ‘cause you think you’re cooler than me. You got your high brow, shoes on your feet, but you don't know the way that you look, when your steps make that much noise." Like I say, a troubled relationship with both thinking that each is better than the other because of too much pride.
He gives us a great theme this morning since it is very interesting to see how pride plays or could play a part in the different songs of our day. We’ll entitle our show this morning: “When One is Too Proud” and find out how each of the songs work with that question. This is Michael Robert Posner, giving us our theme this morning, from his album “31 Minutes to Takeoff,” the name of his song “Cooler Than Me” at number 3 in the top 10 of September 13, 2010 on MATT.
(double) 3* COOLER THAN ME / Mike Posner
COOL / Gwen Stefani
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The number 5 song of meaning from 2005, a 10+ category song of meaning, another song of “Cool”, and the name of the song is “Cool”, and in true teenage language, it indeed is “cool”—from Gwen Stefani and her album “Love, Angel, Music, Baby” on MATT. MATT placed the song high in meaning because I think that Gwen Stefani presents the perfect picture of what should happen in life as we work with past love relationships. It is generally known that we will not marry the first people that we fall in love with. Granted there are a few exceptions, but for the most part, the fact means that we will have a temporary falling out with people that we like a whole lot at some time in our lives—either they will leave us, or we will leave them. However we say it, it spells / breakup. Many times that breakup is hostile and angry, and leaves people out of sorts for a long time. Well, Gwen Stefani sings about a good life after the breakup. She begins by talking about the once-upon-a-time relationship and says that it is hard to remember what it was like now that she has found the true love of her life. She sings, “After all the obstacles, it’s good to see you now with someone else, and it’s such a miracle that you and me are still good friends. After all that we’ve been through,” she sings, “I know we’re cool.” It is a great attitude and the best way to handle any past love relationship so that we can remember it with a good feeling. What happens when a person is too proud in this situation? No doubt, they will follow the path of a lot of people, and hold a grudge against the person they once had the relationship with.
We will give you the songs of this date in 2010 and the songs at that number right now on September 13, 2026. That means we owe you number 3 right now that comes from Bruno Mars. It was our theme last week when we spoke about what a true permanent commitment means. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars” he sings, “I’ll do anything, anything you ask me to. Say you want the moon—watch me learn to fly, ain’t no mountain you could point to I wouldn’t climb. It’s crazy, but it’s true. There’s nothing I won’t do. I’d risk it all for you.” In just a couple of words, he describes a permanent commitment to another really well. In terms of our theme this week, it is okay to be proud of the fact that he keeps a permanent commitment; he has to watch though that he can become too proud of himself. This is from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, and his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, number 3 right now on MATT.
(triple) 3 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
5 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
5* SEPTEMBER / Daughtry
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Number 5 on September 13, 2010, Chris Daughtry and his band’s song from their album “Leave This Town”, and their song “September” on MATT. It is a song of reflecting on the past, a past that never did work out, but nonetheless was a good experience for the man in the relationship. “How the time passed away, all the trouble that we gave,” he begins his song, “Has it all gone to waste? All the promises we made one by one, they vanish just the same. Of all the things I still remember, summer’s never looked the same; the years go by and time just seems to fly, but the memories remain. In the middle of September we’d still play out in the rain—nothing to lose but everything to gain, reflecting now on how things could have been, it was worth it in the end. Now it all seems so clear, there’s nothing left to fear, so we made our way by finding what was real. We knew we had to leave this town, but we never knew when and we never knew how.” The man in the song had memories and applying our theme to the song—if he has too much pride in those memories, the chances are that he will be self-centered in his approach, which is not a good thing at all.
Before them, fulfilling our promise to give us the songs of September 13 of both 2010 and 2026, we heard from number 5 right now. It is a song about the scenario in which a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. It comes from 21 year old Shane Michael Boose, that is Sombr from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends”. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. As I have said with the song, I believe that one of the evils of society is giving in to too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about—say--what love truly is, and in terms of the song, what a permanent commitment consists of. In terms of our theme today, too much pride may bring about the desire to temporarily put the commitment on hold.
Our theme this Sunday morning is the thought of looking how too much pride affects a person. We will continue to pursue that thought in a couple of minutes with music from in order of appearance Bruno Mars again, John Mayer, Ariana Grande, Rob Thomas and Taylor Swift. First, here is a quote to lead you into break from Anne Frank: “Think of all the beauty around you and be happy.” She could say that after all she had been through and what she knew would probably happen to her at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Super lady, super thought. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top” and your dial is set at Mix 103.3.
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We are back for “Message at the Top” and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of today and yesterday as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT and analyze their messages in the light of how we can live better in this complicated world of ours. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of the best mix of music, Mix 103.3, and we are pursuing the thought of discovering what too much pride does to a person, that thought having come from Mike Posner’s 2010 song “Cooler Than Me.” And we are playing the songs of September 13, both of 2010 and 16 years later, today.
At number 7 today is another song from Bruno Mars. The song was a former number 1, a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in general in terms of our theme, he just may be too proud of his own dancing ability. This is the second song in the top 10 for him, Bruno Mars, also from his album “The Romantic” and his number 6 song right now, “I Just Might” on MATT.
(double) 7 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
7* HALF OF MY HEART / John Mayer
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That was John Mayer with the help of Taylor Swift at number 7 on September 13, 2010, and his song “Half of My Heart” from his album “Battle Studies” on MATT. He began his song: “I was born in the arms of imaginary friends, free to roam, then you come crashing in, like the realest thing, trying my best to understand all that your love can bring. Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart’s got a right mind to tell you that I can’t keep loving you with half of my heart.” The person in the song is not loving his current fiancée because of something that has happened in his past and he sings correctly that he can’t love with only half of his heart. Later on, he correctly sings: “You will hate that I never gave more to you than half of my heart.” He is correct with those words—she will hate that she was never given more than half of his heart because such a love is doomed to failure—very simply, one cannot love with only half of one’s heart. In terms of our theme today, he may be too proud to admit that he must take the time to love the person completely. That is what happens when you only love with half of your heart.
Let’s go to number 9 right now in our top 10. According to the music critics, it addresses regret over a relationship while also reflecting her conflicted feelings about fame and public scrutiny. “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” So, a relatively negative song, and in terms of our theme, beginning romantic relationships may not always be smooth and one of the reasons just may be the pride of one of them. This is a song of a breakup with some personal overtones about her career, from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” from Ariana Grande, number 9 on MATT.
(triple ) 9 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
9* MOCKINGBIRD / Rob Thomas
10 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU / Taylor Swift
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That was number 10 right now, a former number 1, in the top 10. It came from Taylor Swift “I Knew It, I Knew You” speaking the mind of the character known as Jessie in the movie “Toy Story 5”. It talks of the concepts of reunion and memory, and the emotions that go with it. “I knew you through the daze of the blades of the grass in summer,” she begins her song, “parachutes for the free fall of being younger. I memorized the sound of your bare footsteps running wild. It’s been a long time; life has ways of leaving those days behind. But seeing you tonight, I remembered I loved you, came back when it mattered. I saw you, standing there in the light of the window, wearing that same smile. Man, it’s been a while, but I knew it, I knew you.” Remembering a past love is its theme, and in terms of our theme this week, if our minds are clouded by our own pride of what we do, chances are that we will not remember that past love as we should.
Before her, we heard from Mr. Rob Thomas from his album “Cradlesong” at number 9 on September 13, 2010, his song “Mockingbird”. He begins with this thought: “Here we stand somewhere in between this moment and the end. Will we bend or will we open up and take this whole thing in?” One is led to believe that the relationship really could work out, but you’re not sure that it will. “Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,” he sings, “we can’t move on; we can’t stay here. Maybe we’ve just had enough, well, maybe we ain’t meant for this love. You and me tried everything, but still that mockingbird won’t sing. I don’t wanna love you now if you’ll just leave some day. I don’t wanna turn around if you’ll just walk away.” Up to that point in time, the love had not worked out, and the man in the relationship is ready to move on in life because his fiancée has not been true to him in the past. In terms of our theme, if he were too proud, he would have blamed everything on that situation in his past—and blamed the other person, and would probably look at the future with a chip on his shoulder.
We are exploring that theme of “when one is too proud” today. During this next segment, we will hear from people like Tame Impala and Katy Perry. First, a thought from an anonymous author: “We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.” Yes, indeed, and learning to live together is a way to overcome pride. I hope our music and message will help you live a little better. I’m Fr. Mike, your dial is set at Mix 103.3, and I hope you keep it right where it is.
We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 and I am Fr. Mike. We call our show MATT because we take the top 10 songs and analyze their messages in the light of how we can live better in the complicated world we live in. Welcome back to the top 10 show of Mix 103.3 where our plea is for you to enjoy the music and listen to the message, allowing that message to make you and me better than we are. Today we are enjoying the music of September 13, both of 2010 and 2026. We begin hour number 2 together on this almost Fall Sunday morning, and we are pursuing some thoughts about what happens when a person is too proud, a thought which we took from Mike Posner’s 2010 song “Cooler Than Me.”
We played our current number 10 just before break, so in keeping with our format this morning, let’s give us number 10 of the year 2010. It is a love song with an excellent message not only for the discovery of love, but also for life. The thought is that there are reasons why love will not be present, but eventually we will find love. They tell the story: “When I was younger,” they sing, “I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. He broke his own heart and I watched as he tried to reassemble it. And my momma swore that she would never let herself forget. And that was the day that I promised I’d never sing of love if it does not exist. Well, you are the only exception.” And the girl in the relationship closes the song with hope: “I’m on my way to believing,” she sings. As we consider the song with our theme, a person will have a problem with pride if they think that they are hurt so much that they will never be able to love—and the person in the song finally realizes that. This is the band Paramore formed in Franklin, Tennessee in 2004 and are on a brief hiatus right now from their album “Brand New Eyes,” and the name of their song “The Only Exception” at number 10 on September 13, 2010 on MATT.
(triple) 10* THE ONLY EXCEPTION / Paramore
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
2* MISERY / Maroon 5
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Number 2 on September 13 2010, the band Maroon 5, and their song “Misery” from their album “Hands All Over” on MATT. It is a song of begging the girlfriend in a relationship to respond to the man’s desires. "So scared of breaking it," they sing, "but you won’t let it bend. And I wrote two hundred letters I won’t ever send. Somehow it cut so much deeper than they seem. You’d rather cover up, I’d rather let them be, so let me be, and I’ll set you free. I am in misery. There ain’t no other who can comfort me. Why won’t you answer me? Your silence is slowly killing me. Girl, you really got me bad; I’m gonna get you back. I’m desperate and confused, so far away from you. Why do you do what you do to me?" The man in the relationship is in very bad straits, and his girlfriend is not responding. Consequently, he is about to make matters worse--he is threatening revenge. That is not the way to work with misery. In fact, a person who works with misery by showing revenge is a person who is probably too proud to try to do anything about his problem.
Before them, we heard our current number 2 song this week, from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre,” they begin their song. “The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and one of the problems with that understanding as we grow is that we become too proud to force ourselves to make any changes that must be made, being “too proud”, our theme today.
Now, let’s go to number 4 on our current chart. It comes from Olivia Rodrigo. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the band the Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone can be studied as a form of pride because often we might feel that no one can love that person the way he/she can, and that is not true. This is from Olivia Rodrigo’s album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,”, and her song “Drop Dead”, number 4 this week on MATT.
(triple) 4 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
4* CALIFORNIA GURLS / Katy Perry
6 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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Our current number 6 song on MATT, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, we can be proud of what we try to do when it’s the right thing, but when we become too proud, we can easily lose sight of the good that we can do.
Before them, we heard the number 4 song on this date in 2010, a former number 1 from Katy Perry from her album “Teenage Dream”, “California Gurls”. She talks about physical beauty. Now, I think that we are all called to enjoy the beauty of God’s creation, respecting at all times what God has done. That is my premise as I listen to Katy Perry’s song. She sings about a journey in her song: “I know a place where the grass is really greener, warm, wet and wild—there must be something in the water, laying underneath the palm trees. You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you’ll be falling in love. California girls, we’re unforgettable, sun-kissed skin so hot.” It is a journey to a California beach, and as you listen to it, it is a pleasant journey indeed. It is a song dedicated to the beauty of the female body. My fear is that too many people use the beauty of the female body for their own enjoyment, and that is a misuse of something created by God. Tying that thought into our theme today, it is easy to feel too proud about our looks, and we have to make sure that we are realistic in our thinking about ourselves.
Which brings us to our final segment that will begin in just a few moments with a birthday wish and the remaining top 10 songs of September 13, 2010 and today. To break, let me give you this thought from my anonymous collection: “A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.” You bet, and being truly happy is something that will make us proud of the proper things in life. Yes, indeed. Don’t go way, we’ll be right back on the MATT music network.
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Part 10
We are back for the final portion of the show MATT, a show that takes the top 10 songs from the past 46 years including today and studies their messages in the hope that those messages can truly help our lives. Our motto therefore is to enjoy the music and listen to the message. The theme of our show today deals with the thought that we can be too proud in the way we go about life.
Let’s begin this final portion of our show with the song at number 6 on our chart 16 years ago today in 2010. It is a song in my opinion that sounds happy, but the message is a direct statement of things not going right. The lady in the relationship is telling her boyfriend exactly what she thinks of his behavior, and she doesn’t think very highly of it, to say the least. “So many things I’d say if only I were able,” she sings, “but I just keep quiet. You got opinions, man, we’re all entitled to them, but I never asked. So let me thank you for your time, and try to not waste any more of mine; get out of here fast. I hate to break it to you, but I’m not drowning: there’s no one here to save. Who cares if you disagree. You are not me. Who made you king of anything? So, you dare tell me who to be? Who died, and made you king of anything?” And she goes on to make it perfectly clear that he hasn’t done real well in the relationship, and he has to get out of her life. As we think of the theme of using the question of what happens when a person is too proud in this situation, it sounds as though the man in that relationship is too proud to admit that he is making some mistakes. From her album “Kaleidoscope Heart,” Sara Bareilles, and “King of Anything” on MATT.
(triple) 6* KING OF ANYTHING / Sara Bareilles
8 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Lasrson
8* HOME / Goo Goo Dolls
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The song at number 8 on September 13, 16 years ago in 2010, the Goo Goo Dolls, from their album “Something For the Rest of Us”, and their song “Home” on MATT. Their song is a song of missing someone and the desire to be with that someone, in a place the man in the relationship calls “home,” the name of the song. “Crowded rooms full of empty faces,” they begin their song, “our deepest conversation full of lies, another night with all my friends, the kind you’ll never see again. I wonder if they’ll see through my disguise. And I want to say that I can’t hold back, and it might be wrong, but it’s all I have. Come take me home tonight. Oh, I need you now. I’m lost without you. A million miles but I will find you, so take me home.” The person in the song is remembering a past experience, and because it was a pleasant one, they want it back. As we ask our question of what would happen in the situation if the person were too proud, well, most probably, the person would blame the other for ruining the relationship, refusing to look at his part in the problem.
Before them, we heard the number 8 song on our playlist right now. It is new to our top 10 and extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. The name of the song “Midnight Sun” from the album of the same name from Zara Larsson. “No nightmares when you can still see the light, can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. In terms of our theme, a personal pride in loving is fine, but too often we human beings lose sight of the importance of others as we congratulate ourselves.
Now, let’s wish a happy birthday right now. Alexander Warren Hughes better known simply as Alex Warren will be 26 years old this Friday. This song has the honor of spending most weeks at number 1 in our top 10–19 weeks—since 1980. It is another song of sincere commitment, at least from the man’s point of view. He sings, “They say, ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually’. So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece. I take one look at you. You’re takin’ me out of the ordinary. I want you layin’ me down ‘til we’re dead and buried. You got me kissin’ the ground of your sanctuary. At your altar, I will pray. You’re the sculptor, I’m the clay. You take me out of the ordinary.” As I say, he is pretty taken with his friend, and it could very well be real love, but one would have to know how she feels. In terms of our theme, one has to control his/her pride if he really wants to make the mundane a masterpiece. That is probably the best line of a song that I have studied during this past year—our call is to make the mundane which we live every day a true masterpiece. This is Alex Warren—happy birthday to him, his song from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid,” and his song from last year “Ordinary” on MATT.
(double) ORDINARY / Alex Warren
1* IF IT’S LOVE / Train
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The number 1 song on September 13, 2010 from the group Train from their album “Save Me, San Francisco” and their song “If It’s Love” on MATT. They sing: “While everybody else is getting out of bed, I’m usually getting in it. I’m not in it to win it. But I’m afraid when I hear stories about a husband and wife, there’s no happy endings, but you are the greatest thing about me. If it’s love, and we decide that it’s forever, no one else could do it better. If it’s love, and we’re two birds of a feather, then the rest is just ‘whenever’. We can be two birds of a feather that flock together. Got to have something to keep us together. Love, that’s enough for me.” And obviously, the two seem to love each other, and will do things for each other—at least, he will do things for her. Tying it into our theme today, if either of them are too proud, the chances are very strong that the relationship will not be one of love for very long.
And the number 1 song this date of September 13, 2026 is once again from London born Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 10 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it’s pretty easy to see what could happen if one is too proud in this situation, our theme today—he/she just may think too much of their ability to love so well.
We have worked with that thought throughout our show today—what does pride do to a person in our world, a thought that Mike Posner gave us two hours ago. My prayer for you and me is that we will be people who control our pride and recognize the imortance of everyone. My thanks to our producers and our sponsors, especially our sponsors at Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays. If you want to contact me by mail, I hope you do so at KJLS radio, Hays, KS, 67601 or my e-mail address is frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you can find some meditations on some Gospels, our music and some movies along with a transcript of the show. You can join us on the web every Sunday morning by clicking on www.hayspost.com and then choosing Mix 103.3 at 10 am. A final thought as we lead into the number 1 song, this thought from Mae West who died in 1980: “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” You bet. The most important word in that quote is “if”. As we close with the number 1 song once again from Olivia Dean and “So Easy,” may I remind you that right now you are listening to today’s best music, Mix 103.3, and part of our advice to you is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence through the likewise beautiful city of Hays, and to the world as we prepare for Fall next week, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
September 6, 2026
A Permanent Commitment
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Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world; thank you for joining us this morning, this first Sunday in September, 2026, and getting close to the season of Fall which begins later this month, ah, looking forward to it. A couple days from now, of course, is a sad remembrance day. We remember all of those who died on 9/11 and those injured, especially the families who were affected. May the Lord give them peace. Right now, welcome to MATT on today’s best music, Mix 103.3. It’s great to have you with us today as we discover exactly what the attitudes and meanings of popular music are all about. I’m Fr. Mike, your host for MATT and it’s my pleasure to work with some great songs and great messages—that being what we are all about: songs and messages. We take the top 10 popular songs of today and yesterday, study them a little bit, and come up with a message that can help us live better. We’ll let Bruno Mars direct our thinking today.
And he will do it with a song of commitment. The songs of our day speak about love an awful lot, and almost always there is an idea of commitment that runs through them. Our world doesn’t do well with commitments. Ruled by selfish human natures, people of our world too often make what might be called “temporary permanent commitments.” Of course, such commitments are a contradiction, but they are so much easier than “permanent permanent commitments.” Granted that there are legitimate exceptions in which permanent commitments should be abandoned, but one wonders whether there should be as many exceptions as there are.
Of course, the answer to the problem of commitment comes before the commitment is made. People must spend time and study on questions like “Are you willing to say and mean ‘forever’?”; “Do you know what you are getting into?”; Are you aware of the scope of ‘for better and for worse’?”
A couple songs in the top 10 right now addresses those thoughts and one of them comes from Bruno Mars or Peter Gene Hernandez who has two songs in the top 10. His song expressing a permanent commitment is at number 3: “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars” he sings, “I’ll do anything, anything you ask me to. Say you want the moon—watch me learn to fly, ain’t no mountain you could point to I wouldn’t climb. It’s crazy, but it’s true. There’s nothing I won’t do. I’d risk it all for you.” In just a couple of words, he describes a permanent commitment to another really well.
So, let’s let the songs of our show today lead us into some thinking about a permanent commitment. We’ll play our top 10 of course, along with the songs on my website this week and eight special songs of permanent commitment. To start us off, this is from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, number 3 on MATT.
(double) 3 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
6 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
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A double play of current top 10 songs for him, Mr. Bruno Mars, and his number 6 song right now, “I Just Might” on MATT. It is also from his album “The Romantic”. The song was a former number 1, a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but in general, if the two have made a permanent commitment to each other, it can always be shown by dancing with each other.
There are four recent songs on my website www.frmikescully.com this week, and let’s give you all four in the next four songs. One of them is an excellent song about the magic of the good old days, basically saying we must live in the present and realize that what we did in the past is affecting what we do today. “I wish somebody would have told me,” Ke$ha begins the song, “someday, there will be the good old days, all the love you won’t forget and all these reckless nights you won’t regret—someday soon, your whole life’s gonna change.” In the rap part of the song, Macklemore says, “Now look at where we are, still growing up. Now that I’m here, wishing for those good old days.” Some great philosophy in the song, telling us that remembering the past is good, but we will always be able to remember the past—what we must do now is live well. “Been scared of the future, thinking about the past while missing out on now,” they sing. Thinking of it with our theme, one of the things that will affect present, past and future is making a permanent commitment and living with it in action. This is Benjamin Hammond Hagerty better known as Macklemore and with him is Kesha Rose Sebert better known as Ke$ha and their song “Good Old Days” from 2017 from Macklemore’s album “Gemini” on my website today on MATT.
(triple) GOOD OLD DAYS / Macklemore f/ Ke$ha
RATHER BE / Clean Bandit f/ Jess Glynne
LOCKED AWAY / R City f/ Adam Levine
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On my website this Thursday, R City or Rock City, that is a duo from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Theron and Timothy Thomas featuring Adam Levine from Maroon 5, and their song, “Locked Away” from 2017 on MATT. Their song is an important extended question about commitment, and phrased very well, a question that every serious couple should ask themselves. “If I got locked away,” they sing, “and we lost it all today, tell me honestly, would you still love me the same? If I showed you my flaws, if I couldn't be strong, tell me honestly, would you still love me the same? Right about now, if you judge for life me, would you stay by my side? Or is you gonna say goodbye?” Challenging English, but important questions for a permanent commitment, our theme today. Good song and video.
Before them, again on my website tomorrow, we heard the band Clean Bandit singing with British singer/songwriter Jessica Hannah Glynne better known as Jess Glynne and their song “Rather Be” from 2014 from Clean Bandit’s album “New Eyes”. They are a British group formed in Cambridge, England in 2009, and their song is a song of devotion to another while the interesting video goes another direction. “We’re a thousand miles from comfort; we have traveled land and sea, but as long as you are with me, there’s no place I’d rather be. I would wait forever, exalted in the scene. As long as I am with you, my heart continues to beat. If you gave me a chance I would take it; it’s a shot in the dark, but I’ll make it. Know with all of your heart, you can’t shame me.” You don’t know how the other feels in the relationship, but if it is the same way as the one singing, you can count on the fact that they will live up to a permanent commitment if they make one, our theme today.
Important things being said there—not because I said them, but because we all need to understand them to understand life a little more. We’re talking about the best in popular music for the past 46 years on our show that we call MATT and today exploring thoughts about permanent commitments. Get ready for music from Shawn Mendes and Sombr among others. Leading us to break, let me quote my famous anonymous quotebook: “If you think you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” Yes indeed. You’ve got MATT on your dial today, this 6th day of September 2026. I’m your host Fr. Mike, and this is your invitation to stay right where you are.
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We continue with MATT. Welcome back to the only show of its kind in these parts. We take the attitudes of the songs we play here on Mix 103.3, and we look at their meanings in the hopes that you and I can learn to live better. I’m Fr. Mike, your host, and it is great to have you with us again today. Our theme came from an excellent song by Bruno Mars named “Risk It All” and we are talking about permanent commitments.
The final song of the week on my website www.frmikescully.com is up for us next. It is on my website on Saturday and it is a song about feelings, a song of real devotion to another but it seems to even go further than that. It is almost like the person in the song cannot even exist without the other. “I can't write one song that's not about you. Can't drink without thinking about you. Is it too late to tell you that everything means nothing if I can't have you? Oh, I'm good at keeping my distance. I know, / that you're the feeling I'm missing. You know that I hate to admit it, but everything means nothing if I can't have you.” The person in the song is describing a permanent commitment that he has made to his friend, our theme today. This is Shawn Mendes and his song “If I Can’t Have You” from 2019 from his album “Shawn Mendes: Deluxe” on MATT.
(double) IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU / Shawn Mendes
10 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
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Going back to our top 10, at number 10 is 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll” on MATT. It is a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. Tough song, teaching the importance of a good childhood. In terms of our theme, if a person has a relatively good childhood, she/he will usually learn what a permanent commitment is.
Right now, let’s listen to three top 10’s in a row beginning with number 9. According to the music critics, it addresses regret over a relationship while also reflecting her conflicted feelings about fame and public scrutiny. “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” So, a relatively negative song, and those negative feelings are important for us in a way, because in terms of our theme, beginning romantic relationships may not always be smooth and we need to learn to work with those negative feelings. Because if we do, we will be able to know what a permanent commitment is, our theme today. This is a song of a breakup with some personal overtones about her career, from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” from Ariana Grande, number 9 on MATT.
(triple ) 9 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
8 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
7 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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Three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X there, and their number 7 song this morning, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, that is pretty important if we are deciding to go into a permanent commitment.
Before them, we heard a good song about the scenario in which a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. It comes from 21 year old Shane Michael Boose, that is Sombr at number 8 in our top 10 right now from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends”. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. As I have said with the song, I believe that one of the evils of society is giving in to too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about—say--what love truly is, and in terms of our theme today, what a permanent commitment consists of.
We are looking at the top 10 of this week together with some top 10’s of the past, and we have taken our lead from Bruno Mars and his excellent song “Risk It All” and we are speaking about a permanent commitment. During this next segment, we will hear music in order of appearance from John Legend, David Cook, Katy Perry, Rob Thomas, Jason Mraz, and the band Disclosure. Let’s close out this segment with a quote from Mr. Socrates, from a long time ago, and still great advice: “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” A superb thought, and if we live with honor, when we make a permanent commitment, we will mean it. We look forward to your joining us after the break. I’m Fr. Mike, your dial is set at Mix 103.3, and I hope you keep it right where it is.
Indeed, this is MATT on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us this morning—it’s great to have you here. We are back for “Message at the Top,” and we do welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings in light of the messages of human living. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of Mix 103.3, “Message at the Top.” Our theme this morning came from a song from Bruno Mars and we are thinking about a permanent commitment.
And it is a theme that we have used often on our show because it comes up so often in the songs. Individual love experiences usually end in some type of commitment and the love songs of our day—which is by far most of the songs that we listen to—will reflect on the circumstances of making or not making that commitment. I thought it would be interesting to look at some relatively recent songs that speak of commitment and talk about them. What follows are 8 songs that speak of that commitment.
In alphabetical order, here they are beginning with a song from John Roger Stephens better known as John Legend, an American singer/songwriter, on the music scene since 2004. The song is a love song, but his girlfriend is just a little mixed up, although it sounds as though she is coming around to what the man in the relationship wants. “What would I do without your smart mouth,” he begins the song, “drawing me in and you kicking me out.” But the refrain is: “All of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections. Give your all to me, I’ll give my all to you. You’re my end and my beginning. Even when I lose I’m winning ‘cause I give you all of me, and you give me all of you.” It is a song of beginning romantic love, and the man is hopeful that the relationship will last. And from his point of view, it will become permanent. This is from John Legend’s album “Love in the Future” and his beautiful song from 2014 “All of Me” on MATT.
(triple) ALL OF ME / John Legend
COME BACK TO ME / David Cook
DARK HORSE / Katy Perry f/ Juicy J
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A statement by the girl in the relationship that if the man wants a commitment from her, she will give it, but he’d better be sure of what he’s doing. It is from Ms. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson better known as Katy Perry singing along with Jordan Michael Houston better known as Juicy J, from Katy Perry’s album “Prism” and their song “Dark Horse” from the year 2013 on MATT. “I knew you were gonna come to me,” the lady in the relationship sings, “and here you are, but you better choose carefully ‘cause I’m capable of anything and everything. So you wanna play with magic, boy, you should know what you’re falling for. I’m coming at you like a dark horse. Are you ready for a perfect storm ‘cause once you’re mine, there’s no going back.” There’s no going back—part of the definition of a permanent commitment.
Before her, we heard from the album named after him, American Idol number 7 David Cook, and “Come Back To Me”. It is another song of strong commitment. “You say you gotta go and find yourself,” he sings, “you say that you’re becoming someone else. I know there’s really nothing left to say. Just know I’m here whenever you need me. I’ll wait for you. So I’ll let you go, I’ll set you free, and when you’ve seen what you need to see. / When you find you, come back to me.” It is a great statement of how people should handle breakups when one says to another that he/she needs a temporary time away. Real commitment, our theme today, is shown in the fact that he will wait. But there is another side to this, of course, and that is the situation in which the man has made the commitment—as he has in the song, and then the woman finds someone else. It is the situation in which he has sung—“when you’ve seen what you need to see,” and what she has seen is that their relationship is over. Then it becomes a problem because it moves from a commitment situation, our theme today, to a breakup situation. And that is tough to work with.
Another 10+ category of meaning song for me is up next, another song about commitment. “We were drawn from the weeds,” Rob Thomas begins the song, “we were brave like soldiers, falling down under the pale moonlight. You were holding on to me like someone broken, and I couldn’t tell you but I’m telling you now—just let me hold you while you’re falling apart, just let me hold you and we’ll both fall down. Fall on me, tell me everything you want me to be, forever with you, forever in me, ever the same.” The idea of commitment that is sung about all the time is so important for our world, and I’m convinced that if we would all understand the idea of a permanent commitment better, we would have such a better world. This is from his album “Something To Be”, Rob Thomas, number 3 of all the songs of meaning of 2006, “Ever The Same” on MATT.
(triple) EVER THE SAME / Rob Thomas
I WON’T GIVE UP / Jason Mraz
LATCH / Disclosure
Part 9
The English duo of brothers, Guy and Howard Lawrence who call themselves Disclosure, and performing with them is the English singer Sam Smith from Disclosure’s album “Settle,” and their song “Latch” from 2012 on MATT. The song is another song of devotion to another. “You lift my heart up when the rest of me is down,” they sing, “You enchant me even when you’re not around. If there are boundaries, I will try to knock them down. I’m latching on, now I know what I have found. I feel we’re close enough. I wanna lock in your love. I think we’re close enough, could I lock in your love? Now I got you in my space, I won’t let go of you. Got you shackled in my embrace, I’m latching on to you.” It is another song of real commitment to another, and as we are saying with these commitment songs, if both share the commitment, their lives will be infinitely better.
Before them, yet another song of strong commitment and a great song to study for all of us, I believe, Jason Mraz from his album “Love is Four Letter Word,” and his song “I Won’t Give Up” from 2012. “I won’t give up on us,” the person sings of their commitment to each other, “even if the skies get rough. I’m giving you all my love; I’m still looking up. And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be there patiently waiting to see what you find. I don't wanna be someone who walks away so easily. I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make. Our differences, they do a lot to teach us how to use the tools and gifts we got. And in the end, you’re still my friend; at least we did intend for us to work. We didn’t break, we didn’t burn. We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in. I had to learn what I’ve got, and what I’m not, and who I am.” To me, the song is a perfect teaching tool to the people who choose marriage as a way of life. One of the ways to help make a commitment real, our theme today, is that the couple will know what a permanent commitment is.
We have two more special songs of permanent commitments to go yet from the band Nickelback and Ed Sheeran and then the final songs of our top 10. Let’s go to another good quote from my favorite author Mark Twain. “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.” Dare I say, that we find evidence of that in our political parties. And my comment: idiots can never make a real commitment. I’m Fr. Mike, your host for this show which we call MATT, and we are on the airways on Mix 103.3 in Hays, KS and on the internet at www.hayspost.com. I hope you are still here when we come back in a few moments.
Hi again, everyone, this is “Message at the Top”, on Mix 103.3. Thank you for spending part of your Sunday with us. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some great songs of the past. And what is amazing about them is that with a little bit of help, those songs can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. That aspect of behavior that we are talking about right now is the thought of a permanent commitment.
Two more songs with that thought are up next for us. The first one comes from the year 2009. “Time is going by so much faster than I,” they sing, “and I’ve started to regret not spending a little with you. I’ve gotta let you know. You’re never gonna be alone from this moment on. If you ever feel like letting go, I won’t let you fall. When all hope is gone, I know that you can carry on. We’re gonna take the world on. I’ll hold you until the hurt is gone. I'm gonna be there all the way, I won't be missing one more day." The man in the relationship is singing direct communication and a solemn promise of commitment, our theme today. This is the Canadian group Nickelback from their album “Dark Horse” and their song “Never Gonna Be Alone” on MATT.
(triple) NEVER GONNA BE ALONE / Nickelback
THINKING OUT LOUD / Ed Sheeran
5 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU / Taylor Swift
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Number 5 in our countdown this morning, Taylor Swift “I Knew It, I Knew You” speaking the mind of the character known as Jessie in the movie “Toy Story 5”. It talks of the concepts of reunion and memory, and the emotions that go with it. “I knew you through the daze of the blades of the grass in summer,” she begins her song, “parachutes for the free fall of being younger. I memorized the sound of your bare footsteps running wild. It’s been a long time; life has ways of leaving those days behind. But seeing you tonight, I remembered I loved you, came back when it mattered. I saw you, standing there in the light of the window, wearing that same smile. Man, it’s been a while, but I knew it, I knew you.” Remembering a past love is its theme, and in terms of our theme this week, if that past love was a permanent commitment, which it wasn’t in the movie, then it should still be strong, that which is the nature of a permanent commitment.
Before her, we closed off our special songs of commitment with Ed Sheeran and his song “Thinking Out Loud.” It was the Song of the Year from 2015 according to the Grammys from his album “X” or a multiplication sign. It is a song that speaks of a solid commitment between lovers, and he adds a characteristic that is extremely important for any romantic commitment, and also for any other commitment. The nuance that he adds is that not only has the commitment occurred at one particular time, but he says that he will "fall in love every single day." There is no time limit when it comes to love. If we love someone, we will love them "right where they are," that is, every moment, every day. "When your legs don’t work like they used to before,” he sings, “and I can’t sweep you off of your feet, I fall in love with you every single day, and I just wanna tell you I am. I’m thinking out loud that we found love right where we are.” As I say, a great love commitment song, our theme today.
And we are up to our number 4 song this week from Olivia Rodrigo. It was our theme last week when we spoke about being infatuated with someone else. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the band the Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone can end up to be a permanent commitment between the two, but some time and effort will be required. This is from Olivia Rodrigo’s album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,”, and her song “Drop Dead”, number 4 this week on MATT.
(double) 4 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
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That was Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”, number 2 this week on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre,” they begin their song. “The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and if he accomplishes that, he may be able to make a permanent commitment a little later in life, our theme today.
And the number 1 song is once again from London born Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 9 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and both of them seem to be growing up well in their relationship together and it can easily end up in a permanent commitment with each other, our theme today.
That rather common theme of a permanent commitment was taken from Bruno Mars and his song “Risk It All” and we have tied in that idea with all of the situations of the songs of our show. I hope it made some sense to you. My prayer for you and me is that every one of us will understand love and when we make a permanent commitment, we will mean it. My thanks to our producer Jeff and sponsors, especially our sponsors at Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays. If you want to contact me by mail, I hope you do so at KJLS radio, Hays, KS, 67601 or my e-mail address is frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find some meditations on the Gospels and on these songs and some great movies and a transcript of this show. If you want to join us on the web, go to www.hayspost.com and click on Mix 103.3 at 10am every Sunday morning. One final thought, this one from my quote book marked anonymous: “Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back.” I love it. As we close with Olivia Rodrigo’s “So Easy” may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103.3, and our advice today among all the other points that we have said is to hold a good thought. From beautiful almost heaven West Virginia through the beautiful cities of Lawrence and Hays, KS to you and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean