Megan's Story

One of my friends was dating this real asshole. The whole time he went out with her, he was also seeing his girlfriend of 2 years but my friend didn't know it until after she'd been going out with him. While she was with him, she turned into a completely different person. I hardly ever talked to her, and when I did, we usually just fought. She was slacking more than usual on schoolwork and she was always sluggish and tired. And he always upset her.
Well, when Tori's album came out, we both bought it cuz she's also a Toriphile. Northern Lad touched her because it was her relationship with this kid. And the line, "Girls you've got to know when it's time to turn the page when you're only wet because of the rain" kinda showed her the light - she needed to take control and give him the keys to the street...and that she did. And she was back to her old self again (albiet a few emotional scars). I think that, had that album not come out, our friendship may never be the same.

My grandparents lived in the town over in a nice house on a main road. My grandfather died when I was little but my grandmother didn't pass away until I was a freshman in high school. This death was very upsetting because she meant the world to me.
Anyway, for four years the house still remained ours. Sometimes my mother would go and get some stuff or do whatever there and when I went, I'd stare at the spot on the floor where my grandmother had collapsed or I'd look at the fireplace and remember the warm family times we had there. So this Christmas, about four years later, the house finally sold. And I'd drive by it and look in the big window and see another family there. It was really upsetting to me...and so one day I was listening to Here. In My Head and for some reason all my feelings about these new occupants just came flushing forward and I just started bawling. I don't know why it made me think of it.

Tori has said that the song, to her, is about endurance and how you don't know what's going to happen from day to day. Well, a friend of mine...her mother was always getting sick and stuff. And one day she called me up and told me about how her mother had a stroke. She's doing better now, but after I hung up the phone that night, I went downstairs and pressed "play" on the CD played and Choirgirl happened to be in there and Spark played and for the first time, I really understood what it was all about and I just got this wierd feeling over me...I can't really explain what it was, though. But for the first time, I really think I understood Spark on the level at which it's supposed to be understood.

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