KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays
November 2, 2025
“Do the Right Thing”
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this first Sunday of the beautiful Fall month of November 2025. I hope you had the time right this morning. Happy normal time, everyone. Welcome to MATT. Get set for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by the research from your requests, as well as the research of Mediabase 24-7 for the reporting date of today and get ready for some top 10 songs of the past as well. I am Fr. Mike, and you have your dial set to Mix 103, the number one popular music station in Central Kansas. Get ready now for a show dedicated to the thought of understanding the popular music of our day and helping our lives by means of it. Today we will talk a little about the right thing to do.
And the reason for that is our lead song this morning. It is the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntrix—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. 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 left out the Korean words, of course. As I have said with the song, I haven’t viewed the story, and my Korean leaves a lot to be desired, but it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and that is an appropriate thought for us as we celebrate positive thoughts on our show.
We tend to do things the same way day after day. We don’t like to disturb those routines, and if we have put into those routines something negative, something wrong, we tend to keep doing the same thing, and therefore make the same mistake. I feel that that happens a lot, and what we have to do is face the fact that we could be doing things wrong, and correct them—as we say here—and be determined to do the right thing. That will be a good thought for us throughout our songs today. Let’s listen to our songs in light of doing the right thing. To start us off, this is the fictional K-Pop girl group Huntrix from the 2025 animated musical fantasy Netflix film “KPop Demon Hunters” a film inspired by Korean heroines and their song “Golden”, number 7 today on MATT.
(double) 7 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
DELICATE / Taylor Swift
Part 2
That was Ms. Taylor Swift, and we’ll hear from her a couple more times in our show this morning, that one from her album “Reputation,” her song from 2018, “Delicate” on MATT. It is an interesting song about a relationship that seems to be good at the moment, but the lady in the relationship realizes that their time together is for the wrong reasons. She sings, “I like you; this ain’t for the best. My reputation’s never been worse, so you must like me for me. Yeah, I want you. We can’t make any promises now, but you can make me a drink. I know that it’s delicate, isn’t it?” The lady in the relationship wants the feeling of the man’s presence, but she wants it to be for the right reason—"you must like me for me.” That’s a great thought, and our theme today: doing the right thing.
Our first triple play begins with a song that lets the partner know exactly how she, the other in the relationship, really feels. “Did a full one eighty,” the lady in the relationship sings. “Crazy, thinking about the way I was. Did the heartbreak change me? Maybe, but look at where I ended up. I'm all good already, so moved on. It's scary: I'm not where you left me at all. So if you don't wanna see me dancing with somebody, if you wanna believe that anything could stop me, don't show up, don't come out, don't start caring about me now.” Her intention in the song is to get across to her ex-boyfriend that she is doing perfectly well without him. In terms of our theme, perhaps one of the problems of the relationship was that the man was feeling that he controlled the lady, and she let him know how that felt because it was the right thing to do no matter how difficult it was. This is Ms. Dua Lipa from her album “Future Nostalgia”, and her song “Don’t Start Now” from 2019 on MATT.
(triple) DON’T START NOW/ Dua Lipa
CREEPIN’ / Metro Boomin
10 THE DEAD DANCE / Lady Gaga
Part 3
New to our top 10 and our theme next week, the very popular Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta or Lady Gaga and her song “The Dead Dance,” a song which fits into this season of Halloween quite well. Actually, it is a part of the soundtrack to the second season of the Netflix show “Wednesday” in which Lady Gaga appears. According to Lady Gaga, the inspiration for the song was a breakup, and it is all about the way that we feel when it’s over—how a relationship ending can kill our ability to feel hopeful about love. But a happy song in that you’re having fun with friends after you’ve been through something tough. “Like the words of a song,” she begins, “I hear you call; like a thief in my head, you criminal. You stole my thoughts before I dreamed them, and you killed my queen with just one pawn. This goodbye is no surprise; this goodbye won’t make me cry. Yeah, I’ll keep on dancin’ until I’m dead. ‘Cause when you killed me inside, that’s when I came alive. Yeah, the music’s gonna bring me back from death. You’ve created a creature of the night—now I’m haunting your air, your soul, your eyes.” An interesting video also. In terms of our theme, it is the right thing to get over a breakup, and she’s doing that by dancing even though she is “dead.”
Before her, we heard from producer Tyler Wayne better known as Metro Boomin’ from his album, “Heroes and Villains,” and singing are Abel Makkonen Testfaye, that is The Weeknd & 21 Savage whose real name is Sheyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph and their song, “Creepin’”. Its story is this: the man in the relationship is not looking for the truth because he knows that the truth is not going to help his situation, and so he is hiding from the truth—which is not a good situation. It is a song of a break up in a sense since the man in the relationship knows that it is happening, but he doesn’t want to admit it. “Somebody said they saw you. The person you were kissing wasn’t me; and I would never ask you. I just kept it to myself. I don’t wanna know if you’re playin’ me, keep it on the low ‘cause my heart can’t take it anymore, and if you’re creepin, please don’t let it show. Just go on and do your thing and don’t come back to me.” The man is in pain, and he must face his feelings, realize that the relationship is over, and move on in his life. In terms of our theme today, it is difficult, but it is the right thing to do.
We are asking the songs of our show about that thought of what is the right thing to do. Let me take you to break with a thought from George Carlin: “No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you’re screwed because it’s all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain’t in it.” Now, that describes how we feel sometimes to say the least. But, if we are choosing the right thing to do, we will withstand that feeling and say that I WILL join the club, and we will be stronger. Coming up for us in order of appearance are: Lady Gaga again, the band Simple Minds, the band No Doubt, Taylor Swift again and Justin Bieber. I’m Fr. Mike inviting you to stay with us. Your dial is set for Mix 103 and you are listening to “Message at the Top”.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
You are in tune, my friends, with MATT, your top 10 show on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us this morning. We welcome you back to the songs that have been the most popular in this area during this past week that ends today. We take the top 10 of the present and past and study their messages, and then call our show MATT. I’m your host Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We began our show with the animated characters Huntrix and their song “Golden.” Our theme is revolving around the thought of doing the right thing.
And as promised, let’s listen to another song in the top 10 from Lady Gaga, and this one has been in the top 10 for a whole year plus. It is a song about a true commitment to another, and singing with her is Peter Gene Hernandez that is Bruno Mars. “I just woke up from a dream,” they sing, “Where you and I had to say goodbye; and I don't know what it all means, but since I survived, I realized wherever you go, that's where I'll follow. Nobody's promised tomorrow, so I'ma love you every night like it's the last night. If the world was ending, I'd wanna be next to you. If the party was over and our time on earth was through, I'd wanna hold you just for a while and die with a smile.” So, as I say, words of strong commitment, but there had been struggles, it seems. They sing, “Lost in the words that we scream, I don't even wanna do this anymore 'cause you already know what you mean to me. And our love's the only war worth fighting for.” It seems that the couple was close to a breakup before, but they did some serious thinking and some strong communication, probably, and they remained together, and no doubt they were able to overcome every problem in their commitment to one another, and celebrating then and there a great moment together. In terms of our theme this week, as we think of doing the right thing, living out a commitment that we have promised, is certainly the right thing to do. This is their song of the year for a duo from the Grammys this year “Die With a Smile” at number 6 this week on MATT.
(double) 6 DIE WITH A SMILE / Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) / Simple Minds
Part 5
Going back to the 80’s, the theme of one great movie called “The Breakfast Club”, the band Simple Minds, from 1985, “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” They are still on the music scene. It is a song asking to be recognized. I have used it over the years to be the statement of what we call “invisible kids” in our schools, young people who just attend school, and really don’t get involved in anything else, who are too shy to do the things that “visible kids” would do. They are calling out to the members of the school who can do the leadership and do the activities, and they basically are saying the words of the song: “Don’t you forget about me, will you stand above me? [Will you] look my way, never love me. Will you recognize me, call my name. As you walk on by, will you call my name?” It is a love song, actually, with the words directed toward one particular person, but I think it can be extended to include everyone. I believe that everyone of us has a Christian obligation to pay attention to others, especially those who are most forgotten. It fits into our theme this way: if we are people interested in others, we are doing the right thing. Good song.
Immediately we go to another triple play as we close out our first hour together. It begins with these words: “The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason,” they sing the thoughts of the woman in the relationship, “but your love keeps on coming like a thunderbolt. Come here a little closer ‘cause I want to see you real close up over here. You got me feeling hella good, so let’s just keep on dancing. You hold me like you should, so I’m gonna keep on dancing.” “Hella good”is a way of saying that she is feeling pretty good about life and especially her life with her boyfriend. Dancing and having fun is what should make us feel pretty good about life, and that is the right thing to feel as we grow, doing the right thing our theme today. This is from the band No Doubt from their album “Rock Steady,” and their song “Hella Good” from 2002 on MATT.
(triple) HELLA GOOD / No Doubt
WILDEST DREAMS / Taylor Swift
4 DAISIES / Justin Bieber
Part 6
From his latest album “Swag”, number 4 this morning, and “Daisies”, Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Bieber on MATT. The song speaks of the makeup of a permanent commitment again. “’Throwin' petals like, "Do you love me or not?” he begins his song, “Head is spinnin', and it don't know when to stop. You said ‘Forever,’ babe, did you mean it or not? Hold on, And if it ain't right, babe, you know I respect it. But if you need time, just take your time. Honey, I get it. Way you got me all in my head, think I'd rather you in my bed. Whatever it is, you know I can take it. I'm countin' the days, how many days 'til I can see you again?” It is an important point that even though the permanent commitment has been made, there are still question marks and there must be days of re-commitment. The thought of re-commitment to the permanent commitment is very much a part of life to people who have made the commitment, and in terms of our theme, it is certainly the right thing to do.
Before him, we heard once again from Ms. Taylor Alison Swift, this time from her award winning album “1989”, and her song “Wildest Dreams” from 2014. The lady in the relationship has broken up with the man, and she talks about how he is going to feel about her. “He said, ‘Let's get out of this town,’” she sings, “’drive out of the city, away from the crowds.’ I thought heaven can't help me now. Nothing lasts forever, but this is gonna take me down. He's so tall and handsome. I can see the end as it begins. My one condition is: say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, red lips and rosy cheeks. Say you'll see me again, even if it's just in your wildest dreams.” The breakup has occurred, and she is feeling the pain. In terms of our theme, she is doing the right thing as she communicates with her once-upon-a-time boyfriend.
Good stuff being talked about here this morning, even if we have to offer some rather strong opinions. These songs make us really think about life and love. Our topic this morning is the thought of what is the right thing to do. We will continue to search with that thought in mind on MATT in just a few moments with artists like Duncan Laurence and Ed Sheeran. Let me take you to break with this thought. It is a challenge from author Charles Allen: “Remember that you are truly needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless YOU do it.” And my comment: take the time to figure out what we can do today that only we can do. Stay with us; we’ll be right back. You’ve got MATT on Mix 103.
We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103, and we 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 and messages in the light of how we can live better in this complicated and complex world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of today’s best music, and we are pursuing a theme from the Korean group “Huntrix” and their song “Golden.”
Another triple begins this second hour of regular time today, and it begins as we play our number 9 song right now. It is the story of what happens when a person is lonely. He sings “Something’s got a hold of me lately. 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, but it is loneliness because one special person is no longer there for him. Considering our theme today, the right thing to do when it comes to loneliness is to really work at it to get over it, and it usually is quite difficult to do. Teddy Swims here, the number 1 song of popularity for the whole year of 2024 and at number 9 this week on our playlist. It comes from his album “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, part 1”, his song “Lose Control” on MATT.
(triple) 9 LOSE CONTROL / Teddy Swims
ARCADE / Duncan Laurence f/ fletcher
5 MYSTICAL MAGICAL / Benson Boone
Part 8
Benson Boone there at number 5, from his album “American Heart” and “Mystical Magical” on MATT. It is a song concerning a necessary virtue to develop, namely, self-confidence. It is the story in song of someone quite sure that things will work out with the romantic love part of their lives. “There’s nothing colder,” he begins his song, “than your shoulder when you’re dragging me along like you do. And then you switch up with no warning and you kiss me like you want it; how rude. But I kinda like it anyways. I don’t mind if this is going to take a million days. I know you’ll come around to me eventually. If you sit back, relax, join my company. Once you know what my love’s gonna feel like, nothing else will feel right ‘cause it feels so mystical, magical.” His confidence is something to be imitated, to be sure, and therefore the right thing to do as he practices it, but he must watch being over-confident. Over-confidence can easily lead to arrogance, and we have to stay away from that.
Before him, we heard from Dutch singer Duncan de Moor better known as Duncan Laurence and featuring Cari Elise Fletcher better known simply as fletcher, and their song from 2021 from Duncan Laurence’s album “Small Town Boy”, and the song “Arcade”. It is a song about fixing problems in life and love. He sings: “A broken heart is all that’s left; I’m still fixing all the cracks. Lost a couple of pieces when I carried it home. I’m afraid of all I am, my mind feels like a foreign land. I’ve spent all of the love I saved; we were always a losing game—small town boy in a big arcade. I got addicted to a losing game.” Being addicted to a losing game is pretty descriptive of something that has ended in a lot of pain. In the process of describing the breakup, he says, that he is still fixing the cracks, and in terms of our theme this week, it is definitely the right thing to work at fixing any relationship we may have messed up for some reason.
Yet another triple play as we continue our second hour together, this time with a song about the feelings of a love that the man in the relationship had at the moment of the song, “You should see the way the stars illuminate your silhouette,” he begins his song, “I had to count to ten and take a breath. You think that you don’t have beauty in abundance, but you do. That’s the truth. You’re frozen in moment, a perfect picture in a frame. Some visions don’t ever fade. I don’t need a camera to capture this moment. I’ll remember how you look tonight for all my life. When everything is black and white, your color’s exploding. There’s something in the way you shine. I don’t need a camera when you’re in my eyes.” So, some nice poetry about the way his friend looks, and in terms of our theme this morning, it is definitely the right thing to do to tell her how he feels about her. This is Mr. Ed Sheeran, from his album “Play,” his song “Camera” at number 8 this morning on MATT.
(triple) 8 CAMERA / Ed Sheeran
SAVAGE LOVE / Jason Derulo f/ Jawsh 685
STAY / The Kid Laroi f/ Justin Bieber
Part 9
The song featured on my website www.frmikescully.com for today, the number 1 song of 2022. It came from The Kid Laroi or Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard along with Justin Bieber, and their song “Stay” on MATT. The song is about the man in a relationship who no longer has the lady in the relationship around, it seems, and it is probably his fault, and therefore he will have to face the truth sometime. “I do the same thing that I told you that I never would,” they sing, “I told you I’d change, even when I knew I never could. I know that I can’t find nobody else as good as you; I need you to stay. I get drunk, wake up, I’m wasted still. I realize the time that I wasted here. I feel like you can’t feel the way I feel. I’ll be messed up if you can’t be right here.” I cleaned up the language a bit. The man in the relationship has to work on getting his life back in order and if he wants the relationship, it is the right thing to do, our theme today.
Before them, we heard from Jason Joel Desruleaux from the year 2020 with the song produced by Jawsh 685, and his song “Savage Love”. I like to look at the song in as positive a way as possible, even though the lady in the relationship is being negative toward the man. From his point of view, he wants the love between her and him to be honest and good, savage in the sense of very strong. “If I woke up without you, I don’t know what I would do,” he sings, “Thought I could be single forever ‘til I met you. I just found out, the only reason that you lovin’ me was to get back at your ex-lover, but before you leave—usually I would never even care. Every night and every day I try to make you stay, but your savage love, I still want that.” In my humble opinion, the right thing to do, our theme today, is to move on in his love life, that is, he should breakup right then, but it doesn’t seem like he will.
Ah, isn’t it interesting what these songs of popular music bring into our thought. “What is the right thing to do” is our thought this morning. We are asking our music to explore that idea which we will continue to do with our final segment in just one minute. Before that happens, we will have a break, and before that break, let me say this along with St. Sir Thomas More, the patron saint of one of our sponsors: “What you cannot turn to good, you must at least / make as little bad as you can.” What a great statement and it is a way to do the right thing. I’m Fr. Mike, this radio station is Mix 103, this show is MATT, and we’ll be right back.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Hi again, everyone! This is “Message at the Top” on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us this morning. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10’s of the past. And what is amazing about all of our songs is that with a little bit of help, they can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today concerns the thought of doing what is right and we are asking the songs of our show to fit into that thought.
Let’s go to the year 2017, and the first song of this triple is the song of a birthday person on Saturday. Rap singer Solana Imani Rowe, better known as SZA, will be 36 years old then. The song says what lovers have to do is to make up their minds about each other. “Tell me if you love me or not. I bet the house on you. Am I lucky or not? Been wishin’ for you. Are we too grown for games? Are we too grown to play around, young enough to chase, but old enough to know better? I can’t wait forever. Both of us should know better.” What lovers must do is study their relationship and determine whether it will last or not, and if they think it will, it is the right thing, our theme today, to go for it, and keep working at it. She sings with Maroon 5 here and their song from Maroon 5’s album, “Red Pill Blues”, the song “What Lovers Do” from 2017. SZA and Maroon 5 here on MATT.
(triple) WHAT LOVERS DO / Maroon 5 f/ SZA
BELIEVER / Imagine Dragons
IT AIN’T ME / Selena Gomea f
Part 11
MATT presenting from 33 year old Selena Marie Gomez along with 34 year old Norwegian Kyrre Gorvel-Dahll better known as Kygo, and their song “It Ain’t Me” from 2017. It is a song of someone who has had it with the person in the relationship and is saying that it is no longer a relationship. “We stopped seeing eye to eye. You were staying out all night and I had enough. No I don’t wanna know where you been or where you’re going, but I know I won’t be home, and you’ll be on your own. Who’s gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning? It ain’t me.” Pretty straightforward, there. That relationship is over. In terms of our theme, hopefully they have spent some time thinking about it before they decided on the fact that it was the right thing to do.
Before them, we heard from the group Imagine Dragons and their album “Evolve”. The name of their song is “Believer” again from the year 2017. It is a statement that the pains of life have determined some things in their lives. “I was broken from a young age,” they sing, “Taking my sulking to the masses, writing my poems for the few. They looked at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me singing from heartache from the pain, take my message from the veins, speaking my lesson from the brain, seeing the beauty through the pain. You made me a believer; pain, you break me down, you build me up. Let the bullets fly, oh let them rain. My life, my love, my drive, it came from pain.” Interesting thought—our lives come from pain. Tying it into our theme today, working with the pain and through the pain is the right thing to do.
That was 2017. What about the top 3 songs of November 2 in the year 2025—today! Well, at number 3 is a song of permanent commitment again, but also the art of remaining independent. “See, right now,” she begins her song, “I need you, I'll meet you somewhere now; slow down, be cool, I miss you, come here now. I need you right now, once I leave you I'm strung out; if I get you, I'm slowly breaking down. Oh, it's hard to see you, but I wish you were right here. Oh, it's hard to leave you when I get you everywhere. All this time I'm thinking we could never be a pair; Oh, no, I don't need you, but I miss you, come here. He love me not, he loves me. He holds me tight, then lets me go. Don’t loosen your grip, get a hold on me. Now, forever, let’s get back together.” Generally speaking, we like our independence, but at the same time, we like the fact of choosing a commitment that will bind loved ones together. In terms of our theme this week, as we have been saying with these songs about a permanent commitment, if we have made the statement that includes “forever” with a person, it is the right thing to pursue it while remaining the type of person we want to be. This is Chicago-born Ravyn Lenae and her song from her album “Bird’s Eye”, and the name of it, “Love Me Not” at number 3 on MATT.
(double) 3 LOVE ME NOT / Ravyn Lenae
2 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
Part 12
Our theme last week when we spoke about what will save us. From her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” the first release from it, that was “The Fate of Ophelia”, Ms. Taylor Swift at number 2 on MATT. It is an altered story of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a little tragic, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover who is a literal resurrection and according to the people who should know about such things, resembles the likes of number 87 of the Kansas City Chiefs. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” The fate of Ophelia, of course, was death, but the song is positive in the sense that someone has saved her from suicide. It is certainly the right thing, our theme today, to pursue something like that.
And continuing at number 1, making it the longest recipient of being number 1 at 19 weeks since we began the show in 1980, the song “Ordinary,” from Alex Warren. The song talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” It comes from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)”. He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there is a great description of how to save ourselves in this world, and therefore the right thing to do, our theme today—work on making the ordinary mundane things true masterpieces. Good song.
Today we have considered some thoughts about that theme of finding out the right thing to do in different situations. We took the theme from the Korean movie group Huntrix, or Korean names that I would not pronounce correctly. My prayer for you and me is that we will always choose things in life that we know are the right things and pursue them in our lives. My thanks to our producers and to our sponsors, some of whom include Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, and Hays Car and Truck Alignment. If you would like to comment on any of my comments, feel free to write me at KJLS-FM, Hays, America 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations on these songs and some great movies as well. As I mentioned the meditation on that web site today is the song “Stay” by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber. You can join us on the web also every Sunday morning at 10 regular Central Time now by clicking on www.hayspost.com and choosing Mix 103. One final thought before we go from humorist Arnold Glasow who died in 1998: “Success is not a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” That is, it is the right thing to do. As you listen to the number 1 song from Alex Warren and his song “Ordinary” may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103 and MATT’s advice to you, among the things that we have said already, is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence KS, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, do the right thing, and be good.
1 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
October 26, 2025
“What Will Save Us”
Part 1
Hello, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top,” and happy Halloween in a couple days to all of you. May Halloween be full of treats, with no tricks at all for you. Welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host and get ready for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our own research and Mediabase 24-7 as of today, October 26, 2025. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning, we have top 10 songs from today and yesterday, concentrating on the current top 10 and top 10 songs of the recent past.
Last week, Taylor Swift gave us the first song from her new album and it involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and his once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a little trajic, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover who is a literal resurrection and according to the people who should know about such things, resembles the likes of number 87 of the Kansas City Chiefs. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.”
There are a number of ideas that we could concentrate on in the song, but maybe a good one would be the idea that her friend will help her. And the question might come up then of what are the different ways that we can help or be a resurrection for another person.
The primary way, of course, involves talking to the person, and trying to make him/her see that there are some things in life that he/she could do in order to feel better or be better. Be that as it may, let’s concentrate on the theme of “The Ways to Save or Help Another” this morning, and see what the songs of our show lead us to. From her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” the first release from it, this is “The Fate of Ophelia”, Ms. Taylor Swift at number 3 on MATT.
(double) 3 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
ANTI-HERO / Taylor Swift
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Double Taylor Swift there, and we will have a couple of other songs from her during our show today. That last one is from her album “Midnights,” and the song “Anti-Hero”, from 2022 and the latest song of my top 6 songs since 1980 with the most meaning. It is a great teaching song because it talks about the negatives of a person’s life, and the desire to get rid of them. The video acts it out very well. There’s no better explanation than in Taylor Swift’s own words: “This song is a real guided tour throughout all of the things I tend to hate about myself. We all hate things about ourselves. It's all of those aspects of the things we dislike and like about ourselves that we have to come to terms with if we're going to be this person. So, I like "Anti-Hero" a lot because I think it’s really honest.” In the words of the song: “I have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser. Midnights become my afternoons when my depression works the graveyard shift. All of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room. I should not be left to my own devices; they come with prices and vices, I end up in crisis, I wake up screaming from dreaming. One day I’ll watch as you’re leaving ‘cause you got tired of my scheming. It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me.” And some great words in the song with the story of a life gone bad because of “the monster on the hill” as she calls her bad self, the self who is causing the problems. Without actually saying it, although it is clear from the song: she teaches us that we are the ones who are making bad choices, but we can reform if we want. And, in terms of our theme, one of the ways that we can save ourselves is to carefully study the problems that we have caused, and try to do something about them.
Our first triple play of the day begins with another top 5 song. This one is at number 5. The song speaks of the makeup of a permanent commitment. “’Throwin' petals like, "Do you love me or not?’ he begins his song, “Head is spinnin', and it don't know when to stop. You said ‘Forever,’ babe, did you mean it or not? Hold on, And if it ain't right, babe, you know I respect it. But if you need time, just take your time. Honey, I get it. Way you got me all in my head, think I'd rather you in my bed. Whatever it is, you know I can take it. I'm countin' the days, how many days 'til I can see you again?” It is an important point: even though the permanent commitment has been made, there are still question marks and there must be days of re-commitment. The thought of re-commitment to the permanent commitment is very much a part of life to people who have made the commitment, and in terms of our theme, a way to save their life together. From his latest album “Swag”, number 5 this morning, and “Daisies”, Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Bieber on MATT.
(triple) 5 DAISIES / Justin Bieber
DANCING WITH A STRANGER / Sam Smith f/ Normani
BREAK MY HEART/ Dua Lipa
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Ms. Dua Lipa there from her album “Future Nostalgia” her song “Break My Heart” from 2020 on MATT. It’s an interesting love song to study. Here are some of the words: “I’ve always been the one to say the first goodbye,” she sings, “Had to love and lost a hundred million times, had to get it wrong to know just what I like. Now, I’m falling. Centre of attention, you know you can get whatever you want from me whenever. I’m afraid of all the things it could do to me if I woulda known it. I would’ve stayed at home ‘cause I was doing better alone. But when you said, ‘Hello’ I knew that was the end of it all. I should’ve stayed at home ‘cause now there ain’t no letting you go. Am I falling in love with the one that could break my heart?” A question that is most probably answered “yes” according to the song. In terms of our theme today, what will save us given the circumstances of the situation? Again, it’s that idea of taking the time to carefully consider why she feels the way she does, and trying to correct her image if necessary.
Before her, we heard from British performer Samuel Frederick Smith or simply Sam Smith and Normani Kordei Hamilton better known as Normani from the group Fifth Harmony and their song from 2019, “Dancing with a Stranger.” It is a story about loneliness and what it causes for two people who are both lonely in a relationship. The man in the relationship sings that he doesn’t like to be alone, and therefore goes to someone else; the lady in the relationship says the same thing—she doesn’t like to be alone and does the same thing—goes to someone else. It seems that both are unhappy and really want to be back together, but you don’t know whether they will or not. Loneliness is one very big problem in our world, as we have said several times on our show, especially among young people who have suffered some type of break-up. Asking the question of our show of the situation of the song, “Who will save us from loneliness, well, obviously, much of it depends on ourselves, but we may have to seek help from people who have addrssed the problem already in their lives.
Important words being said here, not because I said them, but because if people would know them, we’d be able to understand our life a little better, I believe. What great messages these songs have. Let me take you to break with a thought from Bonnie Prudden, a physical fitness pioneer who died in 2011: “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” That is, we can work to make some more time for ourselves and some time to work out good plans to help ourselves and others or as we are saying during our show today, save ourselves. Our show is called MATT; I am Fr. Mike, and I hope your Sunday of the weekend before Halloween is a good one for you. Don’t go way; “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 will be right back.
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This is MATT and it is so good to have you back with us. We welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as of the week ending today, and we welcome you back to some top 10 songs of the past as well. And with our music, we always give the meanings of the songs. I’m Fr. Mike, your host for the only top 10 show of its kind in this area, maybe in the world, the show that takes the top songs and explains their messages, and then we call the show “Message at the Top.” The topic of our show this morning was given to us by superstar Taylor Swift and her song “The Fate of Ophelia,” and we are talking about what we can do to save ourselves from the negatives in our world.
We said that we would listen to a couple more Taylor Swift songs from her past albums as we celebrate the arrival of her latest album. Her song here sounds like a statement on the lady in the song’s part about a relationship that is failing, but the two are not ready to let it go yet. “We're so young but we're on the road to ruin,” she sings. “We play dumb but we know exactly what we're doing. I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me. And every day is like a battle, but every night with us is like a dream. We're the new romantics; come along with me. Heart break is the national anthem. We sing it proudly. We need love, but all we want is danger.” Not a good relationship, it would seem, and as we think about what will save us this morning, one of them would be to work with honesty, and sometimes, it might mean shutting down a relationship that is not healthy. An interesting song to study here from Taylor Swift, on the deluxe edition of her “1989” album, the song “New Romantics,” from 2016 on MATT.
(double) NEW ROMANTICS / Taylor Swift
9 BIRDS OF A FEATHER / Billie Eilish
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Back into our top 10 playlist after a little time away, at number 9, Billie Eilish from her album “Hit Me Hard and Soft”, and her song “Birds of a Feather” on MATT. It is a song about falling in love with a person that she wants to "stick together" with. The love to her significant other brings her to tears and begs the lover to never end their relationship. “I want you to stay 'til I'm in the grave”, she begins, “'til I rot away, dead and buried, ‘til I'm in the casket you carry. If you go, I'm goin' too / 'cause it was always you and if I'm turnin' blue, please don't save me. Nothin' left to lose without my baby. Birds of a feather we should stick together. And I don't know what I'm cryin' for; I don't think I could love you more. It might not be long, but I'll love you 'til the day that I die, ‘til the light leaves my eyes, ‘til the day that I die.” The lady in the relationship is truly committed to the other and if it is a mature love, presuming that the other in the relationship feels the same way, that commitment will stay there, and they will be in the process of saving each other, our theme today, what the permanent commitment is designed to do.
Remaining in our playlist, let’s begin this triple with our number 8 song right now. It is the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntrix—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. 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 left out the Korean words, of course. As I have said with the song, I haven’t viewed the story, and my Korean leaves a lot to be desired, but it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and it fits into our theme very well this morning: if we really strive to do the right thing always, it will be what will save us in this complicated world of ours. This is the fictional K-Pop girl group Huntrix from the 2025 animated musical fantasy film “KPop Demon Hunters” a film inspired by Korean heroines and their song “Golden”, number 8 today on MATT.
(triple) 8 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
MADE YOU LOOK / Meghan Trainor
AS IT WAS / Harry Styles
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From an Album of the Year on the Grammys, Harry Styles and his album “Harry’s House,” and his song nominated for both Record and Song of the Year, “As It Was” on MATT from 2023. The commentators on the song said it was about the artist’s relationship with fame and how his life is not the same as it once was since he has entered the public eye. I look at it as a statement of the need for change. “Holdin’ me back, gravity’s holdin’ me back,” he sings, “I want you to hold out the palm of your hand. Why don’t we leave it at that? Nothin’ to say when everything gets in the way. Seems you cannot be replaced and I’m the one who will stay. In this world, it’s just us. You know it’s not the same as it was.” He has had a relationship with someone in the past, and it is over, and he must let it go in order to have a happier life. As we think about what will save us, our theme today, one of the things would be the ability to let past relationships go and move on.
Before him, we heard from Meghan Elizabeth Trainor’s album “Takin’ It Back,” and her song “Made You Look” from 2023. It was released according to her with the intention of still feeling sexy after having a baby, and she speaks of a lady in today’s world who wants to be noticed. “I’ll make you double take soon as I walk away,” she sings, “Call up your chiropractor just in case your neck break. Tell me what you gonna do ‘cause I’m about to make a scene, I’m about to turn the heat up, gonna make your glasses steam. When I do my walk, I can guarantee your jaw will drop ‘cause they don’t make a lot of what I got. I could have my Gucci on, I could wear my Louis Vuitton, but even with nothin’ on, bet I made you look.” As I say, she wants to be noticed, a necessary thing in our Western world, for people who want to get together, and in her opinion, it will make her life better when she is noticed. It is the beginning part of finding love, love which will eventually help us live well and even save us in life, our theme today.
And, we have played our way to a brief hiatus, as we close off our first hour together. In the second hour, get ready for music from Taylor Swift again and Tove Lo among others. We began our show with a song from Taylor Swift and her latest album, and we are speaking of what ways will save us during our show today. Leading us into our break, here is a thought from Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous: "Happiness is like jam. You can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself.” And happiness certainly is part of the different ways to save us. Don’t go way. I’m Fr. Mike, and this is the “Message at the Top” music network.
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Part 7
Hi again, everybody. I am Fr. Mike and this is “Message at the Top” on 100,000 watts of power, today’s best music, Mix 103, our only top 10 show which gives you not only the current top 10 but top 10 music of the 2000’s and some of the 90’s and even some 80’s and we give you the meanings of the songs at the same time. The title of our show this morning is “Ways to Save Us” and we are studying all the songs of our show asking them to shed some light on that topic.
Let’s begin our second hour together with a song that talks especially to the men in the lady’s life. She sings, “You said your phone was broken, just forgot to charge it; Did you just say you’re finished? Didn’t know we started. It’s all just so familiar, what do you call it? Stupid, or is it slow? Maybe it’s useless? But there’s a cuter word for it, I know, Man-child. Why you always come a-running to me? Won’t you let an innocent woman be? Never heard of self-care, half your brain just ain’t there. Man-child, why you always come a-running, taking all my loving from me?” It is a song that is speaking of the immaturity of young adult love, especially men and it is a picture of what can happen when one is only out for fun in a relationship. In terms of our theme this morning, enjoying ourselves is part of life, and it is a characteristic of someone who is at the same time working on saving him/herself in life. Unfortunately, sometimes having a good time tends to dominate a relationship and doesn’t help the serious side of it. This is from her latest album “Man’s Best Friend,” and the name of it is “Manchild” from Sabrina Carpenter, number 7 on MATT.
(triple) 7 MANCHILD / Sabrina Carpenter
MY EX’S BEST FRIEND/ Machine Gun Kelly f/ blackbear
10 CAMERA / Ed Sheeran
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A song about the feelings of a love that the man in the relationship had at the moment of the song, Mr. Ed Sheeran, his song “Camera” from his album “Play” on MATT at number 10 this morning. “You should see the way the stars illuminate your silhouette,” he begins his song, “I had to count to ten and take a breath. You think that you don’t have beauty in abundance, but you do. That’s the truth. You’re frozen in moment, a perfect picture in a frame. Some visions don’t ever fade. I don’t need a camera to capture this moment. I’ll remember how you look tonight for all my life. When everything is black and white, your color’s exploding. There’s something in the way you shine. I don’t need a camera when you’re in my eyes.” So, some nice poetry about the way his friend looks, and in terms of our theme this morning, for him, something that will save him as he tries to grow in love in his world.
Before him, we heard from Colson Baker, better known as Machine Gun Kelly and Matthew Tyler Musto, better known as blackbear from Machine Gun Kelly’s album “Tickets to My Downfall” from 2021 and their song “My Ex’s Best Friend”. It is a song that speaks of a relationship that began rather suddenly, then fell apart and then finding the consequences of such a falling out. “You know my ex,” they begin the song, “and that makes it all feel complicated. I swear to God I never fall in love, then you showed up and I can’t get enough of it.” But then it fell apart, with the man in the relationship saying, “First off, I’m not sorry, I won’t apologize. You play like I’m invisible. Girl, don’t act like you ain’t saw me. Go our separate ways, but look at this damage you did to me.” He used the word “complicated,” and that’s what happens when people try to rebuild a relationship. Apparently neither person in the song is being very honest and she in his opinion is someone who changes according to the circumstances, and is into playing games. “Look at the damage you did to me.” He is blaming everything on her, and my guess is that he was as much to blame as she was. This is obviously not a way to pursue love—in pursuing love, both people in the relationship have to be totally honest with each other, and it is a way of saving each other in life, something that couple will not accomplish.
Yet another triple play will grace our airwaves right now, and it begins with another song from our lead singer today. The lady in the song says that she "shakes off" the insulting words that are spoken to her. "I stay out too late. Got nothing in my brain, that’s what people say. I go on too many dates, but I can’t make them stay. At least that’s what people say. But I keep cruising, can’t stop, won’t stop moving. It’s like I got this music in my mind, saying ‘It’s gonna be alright.’ ‘Cause the players gonna play, and the haters gonna hate. I’m just gonna shake. I shake it off. Heartbreakers gonna break, and the fakers gonna fake. I’m just gonna shake it off.” She is taking charge of her own life, not worrying about what people say. That, of course, is very good, and it is exactly what one should do as we look for what will save us, our theme today. This is from her Grammy award winning Album of the Year, “1989”, Taylor Swift again and a song from 2014, “Shake It Off” on MATT.
(triple) SHAKE IT OFF / Taylor Swift
I DON’T CARE / Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber
6 DIE WITH A SMILE / Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
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A song featuring the artist of the year on the MTV-VMA awards, a song about true commitment to another, from Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta or Lady Gaga along with Peter Gene Hernandez that is Bruno Mars, and their song of the year for a duo this year “Die With a Smile” at number 6 this week on MATT. And it is another record-setting song for MATT--in our top 10 for over a year, and a song of true commitment to another. “I just woke up from a dream,” they sing, “Where you and I had to say goodbye; and I don't know what it all means, but since I survived, I realized wherever you go, that's where I'll follow. Nobody's promised tomorrow, so I'ma love you every night like it's the last night. If the world was ending, I'd wanna be next to you. If the party was over and our time on earth was through, I'd wanna hold you just for a while and die with a smile.” So, as I say, words of strong commitment, but there had been struggles, it seems. They sing, “Lost in the words that we scream, I don't even wanna do this anymore 'cause you already know what you mean to me. And our love's the only war worth fighting for.” It seems that the couple was close to a breakup before, but they did some serious thinking and some strong communication, probably, and they remained together, and no doubt they were able to overcome every problem in their commitment to one another, and celebrating then and there a great moment together. In terms of our theme this week, as we think of what will save us in our complicated worlds, if we have made a commitment that is truly permanent, we will be able to face whatever happens in our world. Good song.
Before them, we heard from two other superstars and a song about the man in the relationship not being real happy with the situation he is in except for the fact that his significant other is there. They are Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber and their song “I Don’t Care” from 2019 from Ed Sheeran’s album “No. 6 Collaborations Project”. “I’m at a party I don’t wanna be at”, they sing. “Don’t think I want to be at this party, I always feel like I’m nobody, who wants to fit in anyway ‘cause I don’t care when I’m with my baby, all the bad things disappear. And you’re making me feel like maybe I am somebody. I can deal with the bad nights when I’m with my baby.” He or she is really important to this relationship, perhaps too important. One person cannot always take care of all the problems that we have, that is, save us, our theme today.
Our theme today is that idea of saving us—what will do it. Our next set of music and message will explore that theme with the top 3 songs of our land as we speak, and wishing happy birthday to one particular person. Let me go to break with this thought from the creator of Peanuts, Mr. Charles Schulz: “Life is like a ten speed bicycle: most of us have gears we never use.” Oh, so true. We learn to use just a couple of them and our world will get a lot better because we would probably learn a lot more than we know now. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these words of wisdom, and then I hope you come back for more.
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Hi, everyone! Happy Halloween in a couple of days and welcome back to “Message at the Top”, our top 10 show on Mix 103. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of today and the past 45 years. And what is amazing about all of our songs is that with a little bit of help, they can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today concerns the ways of saving ourselves in our world. The thought came from the Ms. Taylor Swift’s first release from her latest album, her song “The Fate of Ophelia.”
Happy birthday right now to Ms. Tove Ebba Elsa Nilsson better known by her stage name of Tove Lo. She will be 38 years old on Wednesday. Tove Lo is a Swedish singer/songwriter/musician and she sings a song whose conclusion although unwritten is that bad habits will never take away a problem. And that is a pretty good conclusion to remember. Her situation is that her boyfriend left and the lady of the once-upon-a-time relationship sings: “I gotta stay high all the time to keep you off my mind.” In the process, she mentions all of the bad habits that keeps her high, but she realizes that it will get her nowhere. As she sings, “I’m staying in my play pretend where the fun ain’t got no end.” But she’s only pretending and this type of behavior—bad habits—will never solve any problem. In terms of our theme this week, if she wants to be saved in her life, she must do away with bad habits, and begin following good ones. Her song is from her album “Queen of the Clouds,” and her song “Habits” from 2013 on MATT.
(triple) HABITS / Tove Lo
HEROES (WE COULD BE) / Alesso f/ Tove Lo
50 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE / Train
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The featured song on my website www.frmikescully.com for tomorrow, October 27, the band Train’s song “50 Ways to Say Goodbye” from 2012 from their album “California 37,” and a former number 1 on MATT. It is a song of how to deal with pain, and specifically how to deal with someone who has left the relationship with the person in the song: “My heart is paralyzed,” the group Train sings the thoughts of the man in the relationship, “My head was oversized. I’ll take the high road like I should. You said it’s meant to be, that it’s not you, it’s me. You’re leaving now for my own good. That’s cool, but if my friends ask where you are, I’m gonna say,”—and he goes on to make up all kinds of things to say about her leaving—things like she fell into a cement mixer full of quicksand, met a shark underwater—and always ending with the words “help me, help me, I’m no good at goodbyes, I’m all out of lies, and ways to say you died.” Although it almost sounds like a happy song, it is a song of dishonesty since he will not face the truth about his situation. In terms of our theme, and we’ve said this a couple times today with our songs, we have to work at really being honest as look at what will save us in this life.
Before them, we heard another song from our birthday person Tove Lo, a song which she sings with Alessandro Lindblad better known as Alesso, a Swedish DJ and record producer, and their song “Heroes (We Could Be)” from 2014 from Alesso’s album “Forever”. It is a song of a relationship of two people who seem to be searching for love. “We could be heroes,” she sings, “me and you. Anybody’s got the power: they don’t see it ‘cause they don’t understand. All we’re looking for is love and a little light.” The song seems to say that if they found that love and light together, their life would be happy. The video goes an entirely different direction, and is very interesting. You might want to check it out. In terms of our theme, one of the things that will save us is that we really have to work on our relationships if we want them to be real.
From 2014 when we first heard that song, we travel to 2025, let’s give us the top 3 songs in our land as of today, October 26, 2025. Since number 3 was our lead song from Taylor Swift this morning, let’s give us numbers 4, 2 and 1. At number 4 is a song concerning something which is very much a part of something to save us in our worlds—self-confidence. It is the story in song of someone quite sure that things will work out with the romantic love part of their lives. “There’s nothing colder,” he begins his song, “than your shoulder when you’re dragging me along like you do. And then you switch up with no warning and you kiss me like you want it; how rude. But I kinda like it anyways. I don’t mind if this is going to take a million days. I know you’ll come around to me eventually. If you sit back, relax, join my company. Once you know what my love’s gonna feel like, nothing else will feel right ‘cause it feels so mystical, magical.” His confidence is something to be imitated, to be sure, and therefore something to save him but he must watch being over-confident. Over-confidence can easily lead to arrogance, and we have to stay away from that. This is Benson Boone again, here at number 4, from his album “American Heart” and “Mystical Magical” on MATT.
(double) 4 MYSTICAL MAGICAL / Benson Boone
2 LOVE ME NOT / Ravyn Lenae
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Remaining at number 2 on our playlist, a song of permanent commitment again, but also the art of remaining independent. Ravyn Lenae and her song from her album “Bird’s Eye”, and the name of it, “Love Me Not” on MATT. “See, right now,” she begins her song, “I need you, I'll meet you somewhere now; slow down, be cool, I miss you, come here now. I need you right now, once I leave you I'm strung out; if I get you, I'm slowly breaking down. Oh, it's hard to see you, but I wish you were right here. Oh, it's hard to leave you when I get you everywhere. All this time I'm thinking we could never be a pair; Oh, no, I don't need you, but I miss you, come here. He love me not, he loves me. He holds me tight, then lets me go. Don’t loosen your grip, get a hold on me. Now, forever, let’s get back together.” Generally speaking, we like our independence, but at the same time, we like the fact of choosing a commitment that will bind loved ones together. In terms of our theme this week, a person who is able to develop a permanent commitment but at the same time remain somewhat independent will have the best of both worlds.
And continuing at number 1, making it the longest recipient of being number 1 at 18 weeks since we began the show in 1980, the song “Ordinary,” from Alex Warren. The song talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” It comes from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)”. He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there is a great description of how to save ourselves in this world—work on making the ordinary mundane things true masterpieces. Good song.
That theme of what can save us in our world was taken from Taylor Swift’s intriguing number 3 song “The Fate of Ophelia.” My prayer for you and me is that we will learn what will save us, that is make us better people and then learn to practice it every day. My thanks to our producers and sponsors, especially our sponsors at Hays Car and Truck Alignment, 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, these songs and some great movies and a transcript of this show. The meditation for tomorrow, as I mentioned is on Train’s “50 Ways to Say Goodbye.” If you want to join us on the web, go to www.hayspost.com and click on Mix 103 at 10 am CDT. A final quote from Voltaire, a French philosopher who died in 1778 speaking of someone who had a lot of answers: “He must be very ignorant / for he answers every question he is asked.” Well said, Mr. Voltaire. Good stuff there. As we close with Alex Warren’s song, “Ordinary”, may I remind you to hold a good thought. Speaking to you from beautiful downtown Lawrence KS, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
October 19, 2025
“Negative Feelings and Working With Them”
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Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top,” and happy Fall again—such a beautiful time of year. Welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our own research and Mediabase 24-7. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. If you listened to last week’s show, I made a couple mistakes with some songs out of place. I apologize for that. This morning, I’ve double checked everything and we have top 10 songs from today and yesterday, concentrating on the current top 10 and songs of the past top 10’s that include music from Taylor Swift’s latest album and birthday people Doja Cat, Dean Lewis, Drake and Katy Perry.
Last week, Ed Sheeran debuted a new song in our top 10 named “Camera,” that was all about the feelings of a love that the man in the relationship had. “You should see the way the stars illuminate your silhouette,” he begins his song, “I had to count to ten and take a breath. You think that you don’t have beauty in abundance, but you do. That’s the truth. You’re frozen in moment, a perfect picture in a frame. Some visions don’t ever fade. I don’t need a camera to capture this moment. I’ll remember how you look tonight for all my life. When everything is black and white, your color’s exploding. There’s something in the way you shine. I don’t need a camera when you’re in my eyes.” So, some nice poetry about the way his friend looks.
A couple of things interest me about the words of the song, and one of them is his words about how the other feels about her own beauty. “You think that you don’t have beauty in abundance, but you do,” he sings. That’s a relatively common problem that people have, especially younger females. They don’t think that they are pretty enough and they live out that fact in their lives. The problem is not the truth, but it is merely negative thinking about the truth.
Somehow we must learn to think in more positive ways about ourselves, and thus come closer to the truth perhaps. So, let’s talk about negative feelings today and how to react with them. Here, the man in the relationship must remind the other of just how wrong her negative thinking may be, and she has to spend some time thinking about that.
This is the latest from Ed Sheeran hovering around the top 10 this morning; he also has a similar song in his music called “Photograph” which we will play along after this one. This is from his album “Play,” and his song “Camera” on MATT.
(double) CAMERA / Ed Sheeran
PHOTOGRAPH / Ed Sheeran
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Fulfilling our promise of the song “Photograph” from his album which is a multiplication sign from Ed Sheeran from 2015. It is a beautiful love song extolling the essence of love, I believe. “Loving can hurt,” he sings. “Loving can hurt sometimes, but it's the only thing that I know. When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes. It is the only thing that makes us feel alive. We keep this love in a photograph. We made these memories for ourselves, where our eyes are never closing, hearts are never broken, times forever frozen still. So you can keep me inside the pocket of your ripped jeans, holdin' me closer ‘til our eyes meet.” Beautiful statement of love to another, and it is still possible that the lady in the relationship can have negative feelings about what the man sings, but again the possibility of truth must prevail. His job, so to speak, is to convince her that she looks just fine, even if she wonders and to make sure that no negative feelings will develop about her looks.
Let’s close off this segment of our show with the statement in song of our theme in this first song of the triple. It is a song of pain, and revolves around the fact that her boyfriend broke up with her. She doesn’t mean literally what she sings and she tells us that at the very beginning: “I’m still a fan,” she says and she says that she was just so upset to see him with another person. Then she sings what she feels like, saying in sarcasm that she is so mature because she has a therapist. She sings: “I might kill my ex, not the best idea; his new girlfriend’s next. I still love him, rather be in jail alone.” And she knows what she is doing—“I did it all for love, I did it all on no drugs, I did all of this sober; don’t you know I did it all for us.” And in the last verse she actually does it, closing with her words, “Rather be in hell than alone.” As I say a song of pain, and the feeling of being alone. In terms of our theme, she has let the negative control her life, and that has severe consequences. The song comes out of the movies of the same name, Solana Imani Rowe better known as SZA from her album “SOS” and her song “Kill Bill” from 2023 on MATT.
(triple) KILL BILL / SZA
BEAUTIFUL THINGS / Benson Boone
8 BIRDS OF A FEATHER / Billie Eilish
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Sneaking back into our top 10 playlist at number 8, Billie Eilish from her album “Hit Me Hard and Soft”, and her song “Birds of a Feather” on MATT. It is a song about falling in love with a person that she wants to "stick together" with. The love to her significant other brings her to tears and begs the lover to never end their relationship. “I want you to stay 'til I'm in the grave”, she begins, “'til I rot away, dead and buried, ‘til I'm in the casket you carry. If you go, I'm goin' too / 'cause it was always you and if I'm turnin' blue, please don't save me. Nothin' left to lose without my baby. Birds of a feather we should stick together. And I don't know what I'm cryin' for; I don't think I could love you more. It might not be long, but I'll love you 'til the day that I die, ‘til the light leaves my eyes, ‘til the day that I die.” The lady in the relationship is truly committed to the other and if it is a mature love, presuming that the other in the relationship feels the same way, that commitment will stay there, and they will be able to overcome any negative feelings which may arise, our theme today.
Before her, I made up for a mistake that I made last week. I said that I played all of Benson Boone’s songs and I left this one out, “Beautiful Things” from his album “Fireworks and Rollerblades,” from earlier this year. It is a song about a man in a relationship who has discovered a person that he really likes and he wants to keep it that way. “For a while there, it was rough,” he sings, “but lately I’ve been doing better than the last four Decembers I recall. And I see my family every month and I found a girl my parents love. She’ll come and stay the night, and I think I might have it all, and I thank God every day for the girl He sent my way. But I know the things He gives me, He can take away, and I hold you every night and that’s a feeling I wanna get used to. But there’s no man as terrified as the man who stands to lose you. I hope I don’t lose you. Please stay. I want you, I need you. God, don’t take these beautiful things that I’ve got.” I’ve mentioned before that it is evident that the person is tuned into God, and from my point of view anyway, that is one of the ways to stay away from negative feelings, our theme today, because we should know that God is only interested in giving us good things according to the Christian theology.
We have taken that theme of overcoming negative feelings from Ed Sheeran’s latest song “Camera” and we will pursue some more thinking about that theme in just a couple of minutes with music from in order of appearance Sabrina Carpenter, Enya, Huntrix, the band Glass Animals, and Justin Bieber. First, a thought from Vince Lombardi who knew something about football and life: “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” That’s one of the major ways to bring about negative feelings. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top”, this radio station is Mix 103, and we’ll be right back.
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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 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, and we are asking each song of our show how they react to negative feelings in a person’s life.
Number 6 on our playlist this week is a former number 1. It is a song that talks especially to the men in the lady’s life. She sings, “You said your phone was broken, just forgot to charge it; Did you just say you’re finished? Didn’t know we started. It’s all just so familiar, what do you call it? Stupid, or is it slow? Maybe it’s useless? But there’s a cuter word for it, I know, Man-child. Why you always come a-running to me? Won’t you let an innocent woman be? Never heard of self-care, half your brain just ain’t there. Man-child, why you always come a-running, taking all my loving from me?” It is a song that is speaking of the immaturity of young adult love, especially men and it is a picture of what can happen when one is only out for fun in a relationship. In terms of our theme this morning, enjoying ourselves is part of life, and it is a characteristic of someone who can make a permanent commitment. Unfortunately, sometimes negative feelings accompany that making of the commitment. Incidentally, I just placed this song on my website www.frmikescully.com and you can find it under the heading of “index of songs”. This is from her latest album “Man’s Best Friend,” and the name of it is “Manchild” from Sabrina Carpenter, number 6 on MATT.
(double) 6 MANCHILD / Sabrina Carpenter
ONLY TIME/ Enya
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The number 2 song of meaning from 2001 according to MATT from Irish singer Enya whose real name I would never be able to pronounce correctly. She speaks of how important the concept of time is / in her song “Only Time." She begins her song: “Who can say where the road goes, where the day flows—only time. And who can say if your love grows as your heart chose—only time. Who can say why your heart sighs as your love flies—only time. And who can say why your heart cries when your love lies—only time.” It is an ode to time, a poetic statement about how time determines whether love is real or not. As we think of the song with our theme, namely looking at things from a possible negative point of view, if we convince ourselves in time that there are negative things in our lives, we will have a difficult time trying to correct them.
Back to our playlist, let’s begin this triple with our number 10 song right now. It is the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntrix—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. 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 left out the Korean words, of course. Admittedly, I haven’t viewed the story, and my Korean leaves a lot to be desired, but it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and it fits into our theme very well this morning: if we really strive to do the right thing always, we will have very few negative feelings. This is the fictional K-Pop girl group Huntrix from the 2025 animated musical fantasy film “KPop Demon Hunters” a film inspired by Korean heroines and their song “Golden”, number 10 today on MATT.
(triple) 10 GOLDEN/ Hundr/X
Heat Waves / Glass Animals
4 DAISIES / Justin Bieber
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From his latest album “Swag”, number 4 this morning, and “Daisies”, Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Bieber on MATT. The song speaks of the makeup of a permanent commitment. “’Throwin' petals like, "Do you love me or not?’ he begins his song, “Head is spinnin', and it don't know when to stop. You said ‘Forever,’ babe, did you mean it or not? Hold on, And if it ain't right, babe, you know I respect it. But if you need time, just take your time. Honey, I get it. Way you got me all in my head, Think I'd rather you in my bed. Whatever it is, you know I can take it. I'm countin' the days, how many days 'til I can see you again?” It is an important point: even though the permanent commitment has been made, there are still question marks and there must be days of re-commitment. They consist usually of negative feelings for one reason or another, our theme today, and usually the commitment will take care of them, but we have to be careful that we don’t let them get us too much in the negative.
Before him, we heard the number 2 song for the whole year of 2020, from the British band Glass Animals from their album “Dreamland” and their song “Heat Waves”. It is the story in song of a man in the relationship who broke up with his fiancée for some reason and now is looking at that relationship in a philosophical way. “Last night all I think about is you; can’t make you happier now. Usually I put something on TV so I never think about you and me, but today I see our reflections clearly; in Hollywood, laying on the screen. You just need a better life than this. Heat waves been faking me out.” According to the leader of the group, the song is about realizing you can’t make everyone happy. And when we try to, then we have to cover up our feelings and hide inside TV shows or video games or drink or drugs. It is the statement of our theme today—there will be negative feelings in life, and the solution must be something other than activities which hurt us in the long run.
We will continue with that thought of how negative feelings can mess up our lives as spoken by our songs today. Get ready for a second hour which will continue to give us the best songs together with their feelings. Let me take you to that second hour with this thought from Mr. or Mrs. Google, and really the problem with communication. “The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” And when we do that, we often think negative thoughts that can hurt us. Your dial is set for “Message at the Top”; may I implore you to keep it there. Like MacArthur, we will return.
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Every song has a message, and most of the time that message can make us do some serious thinking about life. Such is our thinking here. Hi again, everyone. You are in tune with “Message at the Top,” on Mix 103, your top 10 show that plays the top 10 songs in our land right now, and we also play great songs of meaning from past top 10’s. We take the top 10 of the present and the past, study their messages, and then call our show MATT. I’m your host, Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We’re concentrating on a problem during our show today. That problem: we often allow negative feelings into our lives when there should be no negative feelings at all.
We begin this second hour with our number 9 song as we speak. It is the story of what happens when a person is lonely. He sings “Something’s got a hold of me lately. 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, but it is loneliness because one special person is no longer there for him. A person who is lonely in today’s world has a serious problem, and in general, a simple resolution to get over it will not work. It will cause further negative feelings, our theme today, and it will take real work to get out of them. Teddy Swims here, the number 1 song of popularity for the whole year of 2024 and at number 9 this week on our playlist. It comes from his album “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, part 1”, his song “Lose Control” on MATT.
(triple) 9 LOSE CONTROL / Teddy Swims
BEFORE YOU GO/ Lewis Capaldi
5 DIE WITH A SMILE / Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
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A song featuring the artist of the year on the MTV-VMA awards, a song about true commitment to another, from Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta or Lady Gaga along with Peter Gene Hernandez that is Bruno Mars, and their song of the year for a duo this year “Die With a Smile” at number 4 this week on MATT. And it is another record-setting song for MATT--in our top 10 for over a year, and a song of true commitment to another. “I just woke up from a dream,” they sing, “Where you and I had to say goodbye; and I don't know what it all means, but since I survived, I realized wherever you go, that's where I'll follow. Nobody's promised tomorrow, so I'ma love you every night like it's the last night. If the world was ending, I'd wanna be next to you. If the party was over and our time on earth was through, I'd wanna hold you just for a while and die with a smile.” So, as I say, words of strong commitment, but there had been struggles, it seems. They sing, “Lost in the words that we scream, I don't even wanna do this anymore 'cause you already know what you mean to me. And our love's the only war worth fighting for.” It seems that the couple was close to a breakup before, but they did some serious thinking and some strong communication, probably, and they remained together, and no doubt they were able to overcome every problem in their commitment to one another, and celebrating then and there a great moment together. In terms of our theme this week, as we think of negative feelings that sometimes plague our lives, if we have made a commitment that is truly permanent, we will be able to overcome those negative feelings well. Good song.
Before them we heard from the songs of meaning of 2021 from Lewis Capaldi’s album “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent” and his song “Before You Go” on MATT. It is a song that speaks of good human behavior. “All I hear were the words I needed to say. When you hurt under the surface like troubled water running cold, well, time can heal but this won’t. So, before you go, was there something I could have said to make your heart beat better? If only I’d had known you had a storm to weather. So before you go, was there something I could have said to make it all stop hurting.” That is a tremendous attitude. He is trying to figure out how he hurt her, hopefully so he wouldn’t do it again in another relationship. This is a way to correct selfish behavior, and is a perfect way to figure out negative feelings which others including oneself show, and presumably then do something about them.
Back to our current playlist now and the beginning of another triple play and a song that almost demands an explanation, and the internet is full of them. The song involves Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” and his presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a little trajic, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover who is a literal resurrection and according to the people who should know about such things, resembles the likes of number 87 of the Kansas City Chiefs. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” We will make it our theme next week, but in terms of our theme this week, this lover of hers was able to get rid of all the negative feelings of despair, and turn it into a real love affair. From her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” the first release from it, “The Fate of Ophelia”, Ms. Taylor Swift at number 7 on MATT.
(triple) 7 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
FEEL IT STILL / Portugal the Man
FIREWORK / Katy Perry
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We have four birthdays to celebrate today, and that is the first one, one of the songs with the most meaning of the early 2000’s according to us, that was Ms. Katy Perry, from her album “Teenage Dream”, and her song from 2010, “Firework” on MATT. Katherine Elizabeth Hudson or Katy Perry will be 41 years old on Saturday. The song is a 10+ category of meaning song for me, the highest I get and one of the 6 songs of the most meaning since 1980. She is singing about the potential that we all have in life, no matter how bad the circumstances are. It has a great video also that says the same thing. Listen to these great words: “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind,” she begins her song, “wanting to start again? Do you know that there’s still a chance for you, ‘cause there’s a spark in you. You just gotta ignite the light, let it shine, just own the night like the 4th of July, ‘cause you’re a firework: come on, show ‘em what you’re worth. You’re original, cannot be replaced. It’s always been inside of you, and now it’s time to let it through.” She is singing that we can be so much more than we are now, and we shouldn’t be discouraged with who we are. In fact, she sings, “maybe you’re the reason why all the doors are closed: so, you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.” Her point is: discover your potential, and don’t let the problems keep you away from everything you can be. Or put into our theme, don’t let the negative feelings dictate to us.
Before her, we heard the song featured on my website today www.frmikecully.com and the song “Feel It Still” from the band Portugal the Man. The song was from 2017. “Can’t keep my hands to myself,” they sing, “think I’ll dust ‘em off, put ‘em back up on the shelf in case my little baby girl is in need. Am I coming out of left field? I’m a rebel just for kicks, now I been feeling it since 1966, now might be over now, but I feel it still. Let me kick it like it’s 1986, now might be over now, but I feel it still. Is it coming?” It seems to be a song in which the person is remembering what it was like before and now it’s over, but he would like the feeling again. In terms of our theme today, one of the things that should be taught to all of us is to realize that the past was good, even if there was some negative feelings because you learn from them.
Which brings us to our final break of the day. Our final session will include three more birthday wishes and the top 3 songs in our world today. To break with a quote from author Marthe Troly-Curtin: “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Now that is encouraging and a statement that some wasting time might be necessary for a good life. Our show is MATT, and we’ll be right back. I invite you to stay right where you are.
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We welcome you back to MATT as we celebrate the third Sunday of October together. We get closer to Halloween as all the stores around us keep reminding us. This show plays the top 10 songs of America, as well as some of the top 10 of the past, and we talk about their meanings, and how they can make us be a little better than we are already. I’m Fr. Mike, and we are ready to pursue our final portion of MATT together as we consider some thoughts about negative feelings.
As promised, let’s wish three more birthdays right now. Drake will be 39 years old this Friday, and let’s remember that fact with his song of a breakup that has happened, and the man in the relationship is not sure what really happened. “You used to call me on my cell phone late night when you need my love. And I know when that hotline bling that can only mean one thing. Since I left the city you got a reputation for yourself now. Everybody knows and I feel left out. You got me down, you got me stressed out, ‘cause ever since I left the city, you started goin' out more, glasses of champagne out on the dance floor, hangin' with some girls I've never seen before. Ever since I left the city, you and me we just don't get along. You make me feel like I did you wrong, going places where you don't belong.” So, a break up initiated by the lady in the relationship, one would assume, and it is extremely difficult for the man to handle. It is one of those songs of negative feelings our theme today, and what must happen with all negative feelings is to think seriously about them in the hopes of getting rid of them. This is the Grammy -award winning Best Rap Song in 2016 from Canadian singer/songwriter/rapper/actor Aubrey Drake Graham, better known simply as Drake and his song “Hotline Bling”. Happy birthday, Mr. Drake, on MATT.
(triple) HOTLINE BLING / Drake
I LIKE YOU / Post Malone & Doja Cat
BE ALRIGHT / Dean Lewis
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A singer / songwriter from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Mr. Dean Lewis and his song “Be Alright” from 2019 as we celebrate his birthday on Tuesday of this week. He will be 38 years old. It is a song of wondering what to do when your girlfriend has cheated. “I look up from the ground to see your sad eyes. You look away from me, and I see there’s something you’re trying to hide. And then you say to me you made a dumb mistake. And I feel the color draining from my face. And my friend said, ‘I know you love her, but it’s over. It doesn’t matter, put the phone away. It’s never easy to walk away. Let her go, it’ll be alright.” Smart friend and a little later he sings: “Nothing heals the past like time. They can’t steal the love you’re born to find.” Great advice, and it will be alright, but he has to make the move first to move on unless she really means her love this time. Sometimes negative feelings, our theme today, are true feelings and we have to pay attention to them.
Let’s also wish happy birthday to Doja Cat. She will be 30 years old this Tuesday She sang with Post Malone in this song. It is from Post Malone’s album, “Twelve Carat Toothache” and the song “I Like You” and in parenthesis (“A Happier Song”). The words signify some type of friendship, a song of feeling good about someone else. “I like you, I do,” they begin the song, “I wanna be your friend, go shoppin’ in the Benz, I like you, I do. I’ll hit you when I land, can you fit me in your plans? I need a good girl, I need someone to ground me, so please be true, don’t mess around with me. I need someone to share this heart with me.” I cleaned up the words a little; it is a statement of feeling love toward another. In terms of our theme today, one of the ways to overcome negative feelings is to continually pursue love for the person that we like.
As usual, as we close our show, we have the top 3 songs of our area right now. At number 3 was our theme last week when we talked of self-confidence, exactly what the song is all about. It is the story in song of someone quite sure that things will work out with the romantic love part of their lives. “There’s nothing colder,” he begins his song, “than your shoulder when you’re dragging me along like you do. And then you switch up with no warning and you kiss me like you want it; how rude. But I kinda like it anyways. I don’t mind if this is going to take a million days. I know you’ll come around to me eventually. If you sit back, relax, join my company. Once you know what my love’s gonna feel like, nothing else will feel right ‘cause it feels so mystical, magical.” His confidence is something to be imitated, to be sure, but he must watch being over-confident. Over-confidence can easily lead to negative feelings, our theme this week, but self-confidence is certainly a virtue to be worked at. This is Benson Boone again, here at number 3, from his album “American Heart” and “Mystical Magical” on MATT.
(double) 3 MYSTICAL MAGICAL / Benson Boone
2 LOVE ME NOT / Ravyn Lenae
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Remaining at number 2 on our playlist, a song of permanent commitment again, but also the art of remaining independent. Ravyn Lenae and her song from her album “Bird’s Eye”, and the name of it, “Love Me Not” on MATT. “See, right now,” she begins her song, “I need you, I'll meet you somewhere now; slow down, be cool, I miss you, come here now. I need you right now, once I leave you I'm strung out; if I get you, I'm slowly breaking down. Oh, it's hard to see you, but I wish you were right here. Oh, it's hard to leave you when I get you everywhere. All this time I'm thinking we could never be a pair; Oh, no, I don't need you, but I miss you, come here. He love me not, he loves me. He holds me tight, then lets me go.” Generally speaking, we like our independence, but at the same time, we like the fact of choosing a commitment that will bind loved ones together. In terms of our theme this week, a person who is able to develop a permanent commitment but at the same time remain somewhat independent will conquer the negative feelings involved in life.
And continuing at number 1—what a popular song this is--making it the longest recipient of being number 1 at 17 weeks since we began the show in 1980, the song “Ordinary,” from Alex Warren. The song talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” It comes from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)”. He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there is a great description of how to conquer the negative feelings connected with life—make the mundane true masterpeices. Good song.
And that has been our theme today, what do the songs of our show suggest about negative feelings. It came from Ed Sheeran’s latest song “Camera” in which he talked about the negative feelings of a girlfriend. My prayer for you and for me is that we will address the negative feelings that come into our thoughts and realize that really we are pretty good people as we try to live well in our world. Thanks for your time today and thanks to our producers and to our sponsors, especially Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School 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-FM, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies. Our media meditation today is on the song “Feel It Still” which we played earlier. A reminder that you can join us on the web every Sunday morning at 10 wherever you are: simply choose www.hayspost.com on your internet provider and click on Mix 103 at 10 am CDT for another couple weeks anyway. Before we take our leave, one final thought from Wayne Gretzky of hockey fame: “You miss 100 percent of shots you never take.” Yes, indeed. As you listen to the number 1 song in our area, from Alex Warren again and his song “Ordinary” and as we lead into it, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103 and our advice to you is, among the other things we have said, hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 ORDINARY / Alex Warren