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I had a great deal of difficulty real boiling down what I wanted to focus on for this assignment. I find many times that I can't personally come up with the coolest things to say but I've always heard someone else say the right thing for the situation. That was a slight basis for the inspiration behind this project. I decided to look to one of the people who has truly created some of my favorite modern day lyrics; Marcus Mumford of Mumford&Sons. I went through all of the songs and chose several of the phrases that really stand out to me. Taking these sets of lyrics from their album "Sigh no More," I attempted to weave a narrative through a character in the images. As a virgo, I've always been a little bit of a romantic. The story I created follows one girl on her voyage to freedom through finding love.

 "You'll be happy and wholesome again when the city clears and sun ascends"

This is, more or less, the preface to the story. The time when you are living with a broken heart. Still in that shell of hurt and everything seems down or dreary.


"Come out and see the world hanging upside down"

This is the beginning of the story where she is just starting to explore that whole new world of love and perhaps is ready to have her heart out in the open again. It's about trying to look at the world from a new perspective.

"I will hold on hope"

There is belief that some good will come soon. That she can be happy again.

"Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life."

That feeling of falling or reaching out off of a ledge to that person you know will be right there for you always. 

"Love; It will not betray you, dismay or enslave you. It will set you free"

Finding freedom through truth and love.