Heartbeat by The Fray

If you're a Grey's Anatomy fan, The Fray needs no introduction. You would've heard their "How To Save A Life" featured in an episode of Grey's Anatomy Season 2 alongside Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" which was also featured in Grey's that season.

The Fray is about to release their third studio album next year entitled "Scars and Stories", and it pulls together songs that were inspired from The Fray's travels in the past year.

Reading the album's inspiration from wikipedia, it says:

"We've been through a lot of stuff personally, and as band we're still together, and I think we like the idea of scars you know, because they're healed you know. They are not like wounds necessarily, but they're still kind of a road map of where you been, and sometimes kinda point to where you want to go."

I love music that comes with a story, an inspiring story at that. It makes every tune played and every word sung all the more meaningful. And the first single "Heartbeat" is a song like that, inspired by an expatriate woman Isaac Slade (Vocalist) met during his travels through South Africa and Rwanda. As the woman shared her story of miracles and overcoming odds, he felt connected to her and he was inspired to write.

Reading about all these only makes me anticipate their album a little more, and next year feels like a really long wait.

So for now, I'm going to replay "Heartbeat" and let the words seep in...  "And you don't look back, not for anything. If you love someone you love them all the same" - How true.