KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays
April 26, 2026
“Loneliness”
Part 1
Hello, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top” your top 10 show on Mix 103.3. This is the show that gives you the messages of the top 10 of today and yesterday, and, surprisingly enough, the songs enable us to see exactly what can help our lives be a bit better than they are already. I’m your host, Fr. Mike; thanks for being part of our show this morning. We have the top 10 music of today and the past 46 years all warmed up on our computers. Some of those songs include music from Morgan Wallen, Huntr/X, Lil Nas X, Bruno Mars and a lot more. Our motto continues to be to enjoy the music which you are doing or else you wouldn’t listen to this great radio station, but at the same time—what our show adds—listen to the message, allowing that message to sink into our minds and actually guide us to better living. And today, let’s think about loneliness.
It is the topic of the featured song on my website www.frmikescully.com today, the song “That’s What I Want” by Lil Nas X from 2021. It is a difficult topic because it is one of those realities that must be experienced before it can really be understood. The person in the song has experienced it, to be sure. “These days I’m way too lonely,” he sings, “I’m missing out. I know these days I’m way too alone, and I’m known for giving love away, but I want someone to love me, I need someone who needs me, ‘cause it don’t feel right when it’s late at night and it’s just me in my dreams. So I want someone to love, that’s what I really want.” I adjusted some words there.
It is a problem for a person who has nothing to do for whatever reason, and a problem even for those of us who are “busy” because when all the activities are over, the feeling of boredom can set it.
What causes it? The answer that I think of right away is the fact that we often become so wrapped up in ourselves that we believe that there is no one who loves us or who cares for us. Perhaps we must spend time on the fact that we are loved and cared for by others.
Often that doesn’t do it either. And so, it is always good to do some reading about it. The internet has all kinds of references to overcoming loneliness. One that I read as I prepared for today gave 12 ways to overcome loneliness. See what you think of these: I’ll read them slowly and I’ll repeat them at the end of the show just in case you want to jot some of them down. They come from a lady by the name of Michele Jordan. They are: “Be Kind to Yourself; Be Kind to Others; Plan Ahead; Adopt a Pet; Use Social Media Wisely; Rediscover a Hobby; Reconnect with Others; Find Your Why; Get Outside; Move Your Body; Seek Therapy; Learn to Cherish Alone Time.”
Some good advice in those twelve suggestions. So let’s think of “Loneliness” today and as I said, we’ll begin with Montero Lamar Hill better known as Lil Nas X from his album “Montero,” his song, the featured song on my website today, “That’s What I Want” on MATT.
(double) THAT’S WHAT I WANT / Lil Nas X
THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS / Selena Gomez
Part 2
Another song about wanting something, this time about a girl who desperately wants the love of a boyfriend, Selena Gomez from her album “For You” and her song from 2014 “The Heart Wants What it Wants.” The boyfriend she wants is apparently not returning her love. The video to the song presents the picture clearly. "There’s a million reasons why I should give you up, but the heart wants what it wants,” she sings. “The future that we hold is so unclear, but I’m not alive until you call. The heart wants what it wants. You got me scattered in pieces shining like stars and screaming but then you disappear and make me wait, and every second's like torture, finding a way to let go. No, I can't escape.” A lot of pain there, and loneliness, our theme today, causes much of that pain. We have to recognize it, and want to do something about it.
Let’s go into our countdown this last Sunday of April morning. At number 10 is a song about thinking about dating in a philosophical way. Harry Styles, the singer, comments that the song gives him the opportunity to study his dating patterns even as he sees his friends getting married. “I’ve known you for ages,” he sings, “it’s all that I’ve heard. My friends are in love with American girls; I’ve seen it in stages all over the world. Her sweet eyes, your temptations don’t deny her frustrations. Just spend your life with those American girls.” So, in a sense, a song studying one’s dating patterns. And that can make one lonely, our theme today, if he is not in a pattern of his own. In fact, he said of the song that the song to him is quite a lonely song in a lot of ways. From his latest album “Kiss All the Time. Disco Occasionally,” this is “American Girls” number 10 this morning, Harry Styles on MATT.
(triple) 10 AMERICAN GIRLS / Harry Styles
9 HOMEWRECKER / sombr
8 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
Part 3
Closing off a top 10 double play for him, number 8 in our countdown here on MATT: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” on MATT. It is a song about the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, judging from how often this happens among people, people often pursue a love relationship by pursuing it in a physical way too early, and that often leads to loneliness, our theme today.
Before him, him again, sombr, the beginning of a double play of top 10 songs for him, and his song new to our countdown, number 9 this morning, “Homewrecker.” It is a song of desire for the girlfriend of someone else. “You leave me filled with regret,” he sings, “at the end of the night. I always find myself wondering why. Do you got plans for life? ‘Cause I don’t wanna just romance tonight. I wanna see you in another light—with rhythm, there is rhyme. With you, there always can be I. I don’t wanna talk down on your lover, I don’t wanna be a homewrecker. I just know I can be better, I don’t wanna be a broken record. We lay and contemplate—just one more round of love before you go home to another one.” The love that he wants just may come to be, as the video shows, but before it happens, and especially if it doesn’t happen, he can expect to be lonely, our theme today.
The thought that we are working with today came from Lil Nas X and his song “That’s What I Want” which is the song on my website today with the theme “Everyone of us must feel that someone loves us or else we will be lonely. ” Let me take you to break with a thought about love, and there are literally hundreds of them on the internet quote books. Here’s one from the Mahatma Gandhi: “Love never claims; / it ever gives.” Giving to another is such an important element and a person who learns to give to another completely will seldom be lonely. In our next segment, we have in order of appearance: a great song from Foreigner, Adam Lambert, Raye, Morgan Wallen along with Tate McRae, and finally Christina Aguilera. I hope you don’t even think of touching that dial. It is set for the Mix and this is MATT.
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You are in tune with “Message at the Top,” your top 10 show on today’s best music Mix 103.3 on the last Sunday of April, 2026. Welcome back to the songs that have been the most popular in this area during this week that ends today. We are giving you the top 10 of today and some of yesterday along with their meanings, and then we call our show MATT. I’m your host, Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We have taken our theme from a song from Lil Nas X and his song “That’s What I Want .”
Since 1980, there have been 6 songs whose title contains both the words “What” and “Want”. We have played two of them; we will play the other four in our next set of music. This next one is the first of the six songs since 1980 that I say is a song with the most meaning of all the songs that we have played on MATT. I really like the fact that the group here, namely Foreigner employed a college choir group to help them with the refrain to the song since they wanted young people singing “I Want to Know What Love Is” the name of the song. You can see it on the video to the song, and a great one it is. I used to use it all the time on youth retreats. It is from 1984 from their album “Agent Provocateur”. I consider it to be a “should be theme song” for young America, speaking the desire of every one of us to know what love really is, including love of others, love of self and love of God. In terms of our theme, as we said before, if we really understand love, we will hardly ever be lonely people. This is Foreigner, “I Want to Know What Love Is” on MATT.
(double) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS / Foreigner
WHATAYA WANT FROM ME / Adam Lambert
Part 5
An artist from the American Idol program. Not quite at the top, but a great singer to be sure, Adam Lambert, from his album named “For Your Entertainment”, and his song “Whataya Want From Me”, the number 2 song of meaning from the year of 2010. He sings: “There might have been a time I would give myself away, but now here we are. So whataya want from me. Just don’t give up: I’m workin’ it out. Please don’t give in, I won’t let you down. It’s plain to see that you’re beautiful and it’s nothing wrong with you. It’s me. But thanks for lovin’ me ‘cause you’re doing it perfectly.” So, the man in the relationship admits that the problem in the relationship is him, and he really doesn’t want her to give up. He has to make some changes, and he is saying it to her. The man in the relationship is seeking to control his desire of selfishness, a desire whose origin is often loneliness, our theme today.
Yet another triple play is in store for us right now, and it begins with our number 7 song from Taylor Swift. It is a familiar song to our current top 10—she entered the top 10 last October with the song. As we have said over the months it has been in the top 10, it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s 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 tragic situation, 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. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire, and there is no loneliness, our theme today. It is the number 7 song from Taylor Swift and her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia” on MATT.
(triple) 7 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
WHAT I WANT / Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae
WHAT A GIRL WANTS / Christina Aguilera
Part 6
From the year 2000, and the number 8 song of all the songs of meaning of that year, the sixth song whose title has both words of “want” and “what,” Christina Aguilera, and her song “What a Girl Wants” on MATT. “There was a time I was blind,” she sings, “I was so confused, I’d run away just to hide it all from you. But you knew me better than I knew myself. They say if you love something, let it go, and if it comes back, it’s yours, that’s how you know it’s for keeps, and you’re ready and willing to give me more than what a girl wants, what a girl needs. And I’m thanking you for giving it to me.” Her boyfriend in particular is what she wants, and he is there for her. I like that idea of “thanking” him, the thought of gratitude being very important in life and in love, and a pretty good remedy to loneliness, our theme today.
Before her, talking about having fun in life, Tate McRae singing with Morgan Wallen from Morgan Wallen’s album “I’m the Problem”, and their song “What I Want.” It is a song about fun without too much of a commitment. “She said ‘You don’t want this heart, boy, it’s already broke’” they sing, “told me everything she touch / just goes up in smoke, only stay a couple nights, then she’s gonna be gone. I said, ‘Baby, that’s what I want. And you ain’t gotta worry ‘bout no trust issues with me. I got ‘em too; you ain’t gotta worry ‘bout no exes that’s crazy, I got ‘em too. If you’re in a hurry, nah, you ain’t gonna hurt me tonight and it won’t be the worst thing if this is all it is and in the middle of a kiss.” The couple is only beginning their relationship and it sounds like they are being totally honest with each other, and almost like they expect there to be a breakup. And they are okay with that. Certainly a way not to get hurt, but it can easily lead to some type of loneliness, our theme today.
That is our theme today, and it came from Lil Nas X’s song “That’s What I Want.” As always, the songs of our show can take that theme and work with it—with a little bit of help. Songs always seem to say a lot if we are looking for the messages. We are exploring the idea of loneliness in each of the songs of our show today. Still to come on MATT during the beginning of our next hour together is music from Raye and Aerosmith among others. Let me take you to break with this thought about true love. It comes from one of the people responsible for the moral thinking of the founders of America, Francois de la Rochefoucauld: “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about / but few have seen.” Think about that! That’s a pretty negative statement, but unfortunately, it could be true! And the cause of a lot of loneliness in our world. There’s a challenge for seeking love for all of us. It is great to have you with us on 100,000 watts of power, Mix 103.3, and MATT.
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We are back for “Message at the Top” on today’s best music Mix 103.3. Thank you for giving a little of your Sunday to us, as we are well into the wonderful season of Spring in the Heartland and in the beautiful state of Kansas where our show originates and West Virginia where I am now. I’m Fr. Mike, ready to lead you through the second hour of our show this last Sunday of April Sunday morning. We urge you to keep enjoying the music but to listen to the message because that message may even help you a little just as it helps me.
We have played all of the songs on our playlist with both the words “want” and “what” as part of their titles. Let’s close off the extra songs of our show today with some songs that have the word “want” in their titles. There are far too many of them to play on our show today, so we will choose a couple that I especially like for one reason or another. That means that we will have to go to the 80’s, where some of my favorite songs reside. Let’s go to the year 1984, and one of the top songs of that year. It is one interesting song about a lady who only wants to dance, even though there is trouble all around her. He sings of that trouble: people picking up prisoners, rebels causing problems, Molotov cocktails, crazy people walking around with blood in their eyes, wild eyed pistol waivers, selling weapons, a civil war, and an unhappy clientele wanting to chase them from their island. In the midst of that trouble, all she wants to do is dance and make romance. I remember commenting on that song back in 1984, that dancing and making romance is a heck of a lot better than all of that fighting, but the truth is that we find time for both usually. Perhaps the lady is showing us what we really should want for our world—love over hatred. If we don’t manage to do that, we will end up lonely people, I believe. This is Don Henley from the album “Building the Perfect Beast,”, 1984, “All She Wants To Do Is Dance” on MATT.
(triple) ALL SHE WANTS TO DO IS DANCE / Don Henley
I DON’T WANT TO MISS A THING/ Aerosmith
6 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND? / Raye
Part 8
A song about the desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband, the lady who calls herself Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song at number 6, “Where is My Husband” on MATT. It is a song that is a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe, of someone’s need for romantic love. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” In terms of our theme this week, searching for and finally finding that love is the hope of every relationship, and usually comes about because of some type of loneliness.
Before her, “The Bad Boys of Boston,” as they were called, or their real name Aerosmith and their song “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing” from the soundtrack of the 90’s movie “Armageddon”, and a song of intense commitment, / that idea not uncommon to the songs we play here. They sing: “Don’t want to close my eyes; I don’t want to fall asleep ‘cause I’d miss you, and I don’t want to miss a thing, ‘cause even when I dream of you, the sweetest dream will never do, I’d still miss you. And I don’t want to miss a thing.” Like I say, intense commitment. He is totally dedicated to her. And it must be that way if they are making a permanent commitment to each other. Of course, she must feel the same way, and in the movie, she does. Again, and we say this a couple of times today—if there is true love between the two, neither will be lonely, our theme today.
Let’s stay with our triple plays and continue our countdown at number 5 and a song of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why—the relationship depends on it. There is no doubt that one of the remedies for loneliness is the ability to communicate well. This is the first song from her in the top 10 this morning, Olivia Dean, from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”, number 5 this week, former number 1, on MATT.
(triple) 5 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
I WANT A NEW DRUG/ Huey Lewis & the News
4 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
Part 9
From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid” that was Carlsbad, California-born Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 4 on our countdown this week on MATT. It is a song about the opposite of its title. The title of it is “Ordinary” and it is about what is not ordinary. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” 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 make life a little better—try to make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces, and if we manage to do that, we will never be lonely. As I have mentioned, the song came into the top 10 on May 11 of last year and is still there after spending a record setting 19 weeks at number 1.
Before him, we heard from the 80’s again, Huey Lewis & the News was the group, from their “Sports” album, “I Want A New Drug” from 1984. They want a drug that did not make the person in the song sick, or make him crash the car, no pill, nothing that would cost too much, nothing that would keep him up all night, or sleepy during the day. What he needed was love, they sing. A drug that makes him feel good like when he’s with her. We all need to develop such a love, and when we have it, we will find very quickly that such a romantic love can control the situations of our lives. If we really have that kind of drug, it will give us the power we need to be truly loving people and will conquer any loneliness in our lives.
We are studying the top songs of this week ending today, April 26, 2026. And we have our last segment to go yet, when we’ll hear among other people, Olivia Dean again and Zedd. Taking us to break is this thought from Ms. Lilly Tomlin: “I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.” Now, that is a unique perspective, and my guess is that complaining does not lead one to better times and often gives rise to dishonest conversation and may even cause us to be lonely. I’m Fr. Mike, and you’re listening to “Message at the Top” on the Mix. I hope you stay right there.
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Every song has a message, and our belief is that the message can help us in one way or another. This is the MATT music network on today’s best music, Mix 103.3, your music station in Central Kansas. I’m Fr. Mike, ready to give you the final segment of our show, this last Sunday of April, 2026. It is great to have you with us once again as we are developing a theme that Lil Nas X gave us with his song “That’s What I Want,”and a theme of loneliness.
We have three more songs with the word “want” in their titles during this segment 10 presentation. The first one comes from the Calloway brothers, Reginald and Vincent, better known as Calloway who are more producers now than singers. In the song, perhaps they are speaking the mind of the majority of American people. People want to be rich. Why do we want to be rich? Calloway tells us the answer in their song: “For a little love, peace and happiness.” They speak the mind, as I say, of the majority of American people. The clear truth that may be unwritten in our society, but fundamental at the same time, is that we believe that wealth is an answer to the problem of achieving the good things in life. And the good things in life will enable us to have love, peace and happiness. It sounds like simple logic, but there is a catch to the whole thing. Rich people tend to concentrate on themselves and make it difficult for them to hear about the importance of others or giving to others. One of the secrets to inner peace is that we must grow out of such selfishness, and likewise one of the realities is that many of us do not do it, thus bringing about some loneliness in our lives. Another opinion of mine. / From 1994 this is the duo Calloway, and their song “I Wanna Be Rich” on MATT.
(triple) I WANNA BE RICH / Calloway
I WANT YOU TO KNOW / Zedd f/ Selena Gomez
ALL YOU WANTED / Michelle Branch
Part 11
What MATT called the number 6 song of meaning of 2002, from Michelle Branch and “All You Wanted” from her album “The Spirit Room”. “I wanted to be like you,” Michelle Branch began her song there. “I wanted everything, so I tried to be like you, and I got swept away. I didn’t know that it was so cold, and you needed someone to show you the way. So I took your hand and we figured out that when the tide comes, I’d take you away. If you want to, I can save you. I can take you away from here. So lonely inside, so busy out there, and all you wanted was somebody who cares.” She’s the person who cares for him, but what happens is very interesting. She starts sinking, she sings. She becomes exactly like him, mired in despair, and she reaches out her hand so he can hold on to her. It’s like both of them are going to end in despair. But she is trying to help him. Like I say, interesting. Tying it into our theme of loneliness, both of them are lonely, but if they succeed in carrying out their desire to help each other, they will probably overcome that loneliness.
Before her, we heard from Mr. Zedd or his real name Anton Zaslavski. He was born in Germany, the son of two musicians and grew up as a classical trained musician. He has grown to be an excellent producer of music. The song is sung by Selena Gomez. It is from Zedd’s album “True Colors”, and the name of the song “I Want You to Know” sung by Selena Gomez from 2014. “I want you to know that it’s our time,” she sings, “You and me bleed the same light. I want you to know that I’m all yours. You and me run the same course. I’m slippin down a chain reaction, and here I go. And once again I’m yours in fractions. It takes me down, pulls me down low. It’s raining tonight, but storms always have an eye. Tell me you’re covered tonight, or tell me lies. I want you to know that it’s our time. You and me we’re the same force, I want you to know that it’s our time.” So, a song of wanting the presence of another, and the lady’s reasoning why. For her, it is a way of overcoming the hurt in her life. And in general, experiencing love is a way to overcome the hurting in our lives, one of which is loneliness.
As usual, we close off with our top 3 songs as we speak. At number 3 is the Academy Award winning Best Song of the Year. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “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.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, doing the right thing may unfortunatly make us lonely people, our theme today. This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Academy Awards, “KPop Demon Hunters” the name of it, and their song at number 3, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.
(double) 3 GOLDEN / Huntr/ X
2 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
Part 12
The second song in the top 10 for her, Olivia Dean, also from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, number 2 this morning on MATT. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone looking for love of a particular person. In terms of our theme, a person with this much love for another will not be lonely if things work out. But if they don’t, perhaps it will be the worse case scenario of loneliness.
And at number 1 for six weeks altogether is the song “I Just Might” from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez. It is a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart,” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, if someone takes the time to learn to dance well, the person will not be lonely.
Today we have looked at that thought of loneliness. My prayer for you and for me is that we will understand that we can overcome any loneliness in our lives. I said that I would repeat the 12 ways to overcome loneliness from Ms. Michele Jordan. Here they are again, all great ways to overcome loneliness in our lives. “Be Kind to Yourself; Be Kind to Others; Plan Ahead; Adopt a Pet; Use Social Media Wisely; Rediscover a Hobby; Reconnect with Others; Find Your Why; Get Outside; Move Your Body; Seek Therapy; Learn to Cherish Alone Time.” And one we would add here after listening to our top 10—When You Fall in Love, Do it Completely. Good stuff there.
My thanks to the producers of “Message at the Top,” who put the show together, to the staff here at Mix 103.3, and to our sponsors, my friends at TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Auto World in Hays, and Hays Car and Truck Alignment. If you have some song suggestions, or if you want to comment on anything I have said, 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 meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies and a transcript of the show. Remember that you can join us on the web every Sunday morning at 10 central daylight time by going to www.hayspost.com and choosing Mix 103.3. Let me close by quoting my dear friend Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous: “When I have a problem, I sing, then I realize that my voice is a lot worse than my problem.” No wonder I like to sing. Bruno Mars leads us out with his song “I Just Might”, and as you listen to it, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103.3, and among other things we remind you to hold a good thought. My name is Fr. Mike Scully. Stay safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
April 19, 2026
“Easy / Not Easy”
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas, happy Sunday to all of you. Thank you for joining us this morning and welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for top 10 songs of the past 46 years. 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 some great songs all warmed up on our computers, including our current top 10 here at Mix 103, the number one popular music station of Central Kansas. Our plea to you is to enjoy the music, and listen to the message so as to allow that message to be somewhat of a guide for you.
Let’s concentrate on the idea of being easy today, coming from the title of Olivia Dean’s latest song. According to the dictionary, “easy” is defined as “achieved without great effort, presenting few difficulties, or a period of time or way of life that is free from worries or problems.” A relatively well-known word that implies something uncomplicated or effortless as one does something.
In Olivia Dean’s song, giving her love to someone special to her is “easy.” She sings, “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop, the icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone looking for love of a particular person.
It’s important to see that the relationship has not been established yet, and so she can speak of falling in love with her as easy, but the fact is that if he doesn’t respond, the chances are that it will not be very easy for her to take.
And so, a theme is shaping up for us as we listen to the songs of our show today, namely what is easy and what is not easy. Let’s listen to our top 10 today as well as some good songs of the past with that idea.
Speaking that theme, this is a double play from Olivia Dean’s album “The Art of Loving,” with the beginning song being “So Easy”, number 2 this week on MATT.
(double) 2 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
5 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
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The second song from her in the top 10, Olivia Dean, also from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”, number 5 this week, former number 1, on MATT. It is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why—the relationship depends on it. Achieving good communication is relatively easy if one takes the time to work at it; the problem is that many of us do not take that time, and so it would probably be described as not easy by most people as they study it over time.
There are only two other songs that have made it to the top 10 in the past 46 years that have the word “easy” in their titles, and we’ll play both of them right now. One of them happens to be one of my favorite songs because the person in the song is looking to discover who he really is, and having to play the part of a super human is not only is wrong, but it takes away from his real self. “I can’t stand to fly,” he sings, “I’m not that naïve. I’m just out to find the better part of me. I’m more than a bird, I’m more than a plane, more than some pretty face beside a train. It’s not easy to be me.” It’s not easy, our theme today, to discover who we really are, and change for the better, but it is an ideal to be sought after. This is a 10+ category of meaning song from Five for Fighting or Vladimir John Ondrasik III from his album “America Town”, his song “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” from the year 2000 on MATT.
(triple) SUPERMAN (IT’S NOT EASY) / Five for Fighting
EASY ON ME / Adele
JAR OF HEARTS / Christina Perri
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Philadelphia-born Christina Perri from her album “The Ocean Way Sessions,” and her 2011 song “Jar of Hearts” on MATT. Her song is a beautiful one—not only a great voice, but great music as well. Its message is very simple: you hurt me in the past, and now you want me back, and there’s no way it’s going to happen—exactly what the person in the song should say in my opinion. “I know I can’t take one more step toward you,” the woman in the relationship begins the song, “’cause all that’s waiting is regret. You lost the love I love the most. I learned to live half alive, and now you want me one more time. Who do you think you are? Runnin’ ‘round leaving scars, collecting a jar of hearts, tearing love apart. You’re gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul. Who do you think you are?” Strong bitter words, but they should be said. In terms of our theme, after being hurt as the lady in the song, they are easy to say.
Before her, we heard the close of a double play of “easy” songs, this one from the album “30”, the highest selling album of 2021 and her song “Easy on Me”, Adele Laure Blue Adkins or simply Adele. Its message is what a divorce does and the pain that comes from it. “There ain’t no gold in this river that I’ve been washing my hands in forever. I know there is hope in these waters, but I can’t bring myself to swim. When I am drowning in this silence, let me in. Go easy on me, I was still a child, didn’t get the chance to feel the world around me. I had no time to choose what I chose to do, so, go easy on me. There ain’t no room for things to change when we are both so deeply stuck in our ways. You can’t deny how hard I have tried. I changed who I was to put you first, but now I give up, go easy on me.” The lady is choosing to do a very painful thing, and in terms of our theme, she is facing the fact that her life is pretty messed up and she wants to do something about it, easy to say, not so easy to do.
We have taken that theme of easy or not easy as our theme today, and we will pursue it in just a couple of minutes with music from current songs on our playlist from sombr and as well as double play music from the group Neon Trees and a double play from Justin Timberlake. First, a thought from John Bunyan, English author of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” who died in 1688, and this can be looked at as a truth that is helpful or harmful, I believe: “He that is down / need fear no fall.” If you are already down, you need not worry about falling, and you can accomplish great things because you would be willing to try them—that’s hopeful. If you are pessimistic, and you’re down, you can’t fall any lower, and you might as well feel sorry for yourself all the more. Hopefully we accept the former and not the latter. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top”, this radio station is Mix 103, happy Sunday, everyone; we’ll be right back.
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We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 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 very complicated world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of the best mix of music, and we are pursuing a theme from the number 2 song “So Easy” and that theme is “Easy or Not Easy.”
Let’s go to a song that says that everybody is talking too much about love and what you need is a little more action. “Hey, won’t you look my way,” they begin their song, “I can be your new addiction. What you gotta say? All you’re giving me is fiction; I’m a sorry sucker and this happens all the time. I found out that everybody talks. It started with a whisper, and that was when I kissed her, and then she made my lips hurt. I could hear the chit chat. Take me to your love shack.” And a little later, they sing, “Never thought I’d live to see the day when everybody’s words got in the way.” Well, sometimes words get in the way, as they sing, but for the most part, words are what are necessary for sincere communication and if we want an easy life, our theme today, we need sincere communication. From the year 2012 from their album “Picture Show”, the 4 member band Neon Trees, and their song “Everybody Talks” on MATT.
(double) EVERYBODY TALKS / Neon Trees
ANIMAL / Neon Trees
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Closing off a double play from the band Neon Trees, a former number 1 from 2010 from the group Neon Trees from their album “Habits,” and their song “Animal” on MATT. It is the song of presumably the man in the relationship who wants love to happen. “Here we go again,” they sing, “I kinda wanna be more than friends, so take it easy on me. We’re sick like animals. We play pretend. You’re just a cannibal and I’m afraid I won’t get out alive. I won’t sleep tonight. Oh, I want some more, what are you waiting for. Take a bite of my heart tonight. Say goodbye to my heart tonight.” It is a love relationship that is just beginning, and neither party seems totally committed to the other. They are at the stage of infatuation with each other, struggling to find whether the love feelings that they have will be permanent or not. And that can only be desrcibed as “not easy”, part of our theme today.
Yet another triple play is in store for us right now, and it begins with our number 7 song from Taylor Swift. It is a familiar song to our current top 10—she entered the top 10 last October with the song. As we have said over the months it has been in the top 10, it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s 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 tragic situation, 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. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire, and that is an accomplishment that can only be called “not easy”, our theme today. It is the number 7 song from Taylor Swift and her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia” on MATT.
(triple) 7 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
NOT A BAD THING / Justin Timberlake
MIRRORS / Justin Timberlake
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The close of a double play from him, one of the top songs of 2013 and former number 1 from Justin Timberlake from his album “The 20/20 Experience” and his song “Mirrors” on MATT. It is the story in song of the man in the relationship who has left for a while, and now he is back again, and he doesn’t want to leave the relationship again. It has a great video, by the way, in my opinion. He sings: “I don’t wanna lose you now. I’m looking right at the other half of me. The vacancy that sat in my heart is a space that now you hold. Show me how to fight for now, and I’ll tell you it was easy coming back into you, once I figured it out—you were right here all along. It’s like you’re my mirror, my mirror staring back at me.” There was a lot of pain in the past but he was able to overcome it and keep the relationship. A good line in the song so full of meaning is—once you finally figure something out, it is relatively easy, our theme today, to carry through with it.
Before that song, the first part of the double play from him, Justin Timberlake and his song from his album “The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2” and his song “Not a Bad Thing” from 2014. It is a song of commitment to a person who has been hurt in other relationships. “I know people make promises all the time,” he sings, “Then they turn right around and break them when someone cuts your heart open with a knife, and you’re bleeding. But I could be that guy to heal it over time. So don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me, ‘cause you might look around and find your dreams come true with me, spend all your time and money just to find out that my love was free.” In terms of our theme, the man doesn’t sound like he is giving into any selfishness; he just wants to give of himself which may be the remedy to the evil of selfishness, and is not an easy thing to do, our theme today.
“Easy or Not Easy” is the title of MATT this morning. The latest song from Olivia Dean gave us the idea with her song “So Easy”. Our next segment of music and message will explore that theme with top 10 music from Alex Warren, sombr and Taylor Swift again as well as music from the past in the persons of Jesse J, Hot Chelle Rae, and the classic band Queen. Let me close this segment with this thought from a friend of mine: “We have happier days when we give others a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.” And giving to others this way is certainly an easy thing to do if we want. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these great thoughts, and then I hope you come back for more … great thoughts.
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Part 7
Good morning, everyone. Happy third Sunday of April to all of you. This is “Message at the Top”, on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us again on 100,000 watts of power. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10 of the past. And what is amazing about them is that with a little bit of help, those songs can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today is the thought of judging something as easy or not easy.
Let’s go back to the year 1980 and a song that appeared on the album “The Game” from the band Queen. The song is all about what the emotions of love do to a person. “It swings,” they sing, “it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.” It is a pretty straightforward statement that love makes a person feel great, and with our theme this morning, it will come pretty easily if the love is strong. From the 80’s, the band Queen and their song, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” on MATT.
(triple) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE / Queen
BANG BANG /Jesse J f/ Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj
9 ELIZABETH TAYLOR / Taylor Swift
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New to our top 10, Taylor Swift again, also from her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and her song written with the thought of a person who is thought to be similar to Taylor Swift herself, namely Elizabeth Taylor who died in 2011, and the song named “Elizabeth Taylor”. The song has all kinds of references to Elizabeth Taylor’s movies, and the video has the same. The words reflect the similarities of the two stars. They say how fame and public perception affect personal relationships. “I’d cry my eyes violet.” she sings, “Elizabeth Taylor, tell me for real: do you think it’s forever. You’re only as hot as your last hit, baby. And I can’t have fun if I can’t have you.” The study of the lyrics leads to a study of the life of both Elizabeth Taylor and Taylor Swift. As one studies the song, one of the conclusions that I have in light of our theme today is that it is not easy to be a superstar.
Before her, we heard a song which Ariana Grande sings with Ms. Jessica Ellen Cornish better known as Jesse J and Onika Tanya Maraj better known as Nicki Minaj and their song “Bang Bang”. It is a pretty straightforward song about asking the man in the relationship to come for sexual pleasure and consequently, you can bet that I have some opinions about it. As a clergyman, I believe strongly that the sexual part of marriage should be between two people who have made their commitments known for marriage. Of course, God made the sexual part of our beings just as God made everything in our world, but to my mind, it must be reserved for marriage which it was created for. In terms of our theme, one of the easy parts of love is to fall completely in love with someone you really care for.
Yet another triple play is coming our way right now, and it begins with our number 6 song as we speak. It is a song about the opposite of its title. The title of it is “Ordinary” and it is about what is not ordinary. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” 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 make life a little better—try to make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces, something that can only be described as “n0t easy”, our theme today. As I have mentioned, the song came into the top 10 on May 11 of last year and is still there after spending a record setting 19 weeks at number 1. From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid” this is Carlsbad, California-born Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 6 on our countdown this week on MATT.
(triple) 6 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
TONIGHT, TONIGHT / Hot Chelle Rae
8 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
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Number 8 in our countdown here on MATT: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” on MATT. It is a song about the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, judging from how often this happens among young people, it is never easy to simply pursue a love relationship without pursuing it in a physical way.
Before him, we heard from the band Hot Chelle Rae from their album “Whatever” and their song “Tonight, Tonight” from the year 2011. "It’s been a really really messed up week," they sing, "seven days of torture, seven days of bitter and my girlfriend went and cheated on me. Whatever, it doesn’t matter. We’re going at it tonight, tonight. There’s a party on the rooftop top of the world and we’re dancing on the edge of the Hollywood sign. I don’t know if I’ll make it but watch how good I’ll fake it. It’s alright tonight. Just don’t stop, let’s keep the beat pumpin’. It’s my party dance if I want to; we can get crazy; let it all out." The person in the song is convinced that a party is the best answer to the way he is feeling at the moment. Often having a party will help in a situation, and it is usually pretty easy, part of our theme today, but one of the things that should get our attention is that if we want to party too much, then it could hurt us, and that is not so easy to take.
Which brings us to our final break of the day. Our final session will include numbers 10, 4, 3 and 1 along with some music of The Weeknd and the band Fun. . To break with this thought from Golda Meir, Israel’s third prime minister who died in 1978, and a quote I have used before because it is so good: “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” Isn’t that a great quote? There are a number of situations in our country and world right now to whom it should be said. This is MATT on the Mix and we’ll be right back.
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We welcome you back to MATT on Mix 103 as we celebrate the second last Sunday of the interesting weather month of April. Happy Sunday to all of you. It’s great to have you with us. This show plays the top 10 songs of our area right now, 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 the theme of speaking about situations that are easy or not so easy. It came from a song from Olivia Dean named “So Easy.”
Back to our countdown right now, and we haven’t played number 10 yet, and so, we’ll remedy that right now. It is a song that has returned to our countdown from a number of weeks ago, my number 6 song of all the songs of meaning of 2025. It is a song about a man in a relationship talking of the lifestyle of each of the partners. His own is a late-night one along with a little too much relaxation / and the partner is an early bird with a cautious lifestyle. “It can’t be said I’m an early bird, it’s ten o’clock before I say a word. I can never tell how you sleep so well. You keep telling me to live right, to go to bed before the daylight, but then you wake up for the sunrise. But while in this world, I think I’ll take my whiskey neat, my coffee black and my bed at three. You’re too sweet for me.” We have mentioned before that opposites sometimes attract when people are discovering love, but not often, and therefore we must remember that if we try to set up a permanent relationship between opposite personalities, it will not be easy, our theme today. This is Irish singer/songwriter Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, better known simply as Hozier, and “Too Sweet” at number 10 this morning on MATT.
(triple) 10 TOO SWEET / Hozier
SAVE YOUR TEARS / The Weeknd
CARRY ON / Fun.
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The song featured on my website www.frmikescully.com today, from the band Fun. from their album “Some Nights,” and their song “Carry On” from 2012 on MATT. It is a great song of meaning in that it begins with despair, and ends with happiness. “Well, I woke up to the sound of silence and cries were cutting like knives in a fist fight,” they sing, “and I found you with a bottle of wine. You swore and said, ‘We are not, we are not shining stars.’ This I know, I never said we are. Though I’ve never been through hell like that, I’ve closed enough windows to know you can never look back. / If you’re lost and alone or you’re sinking like a stone, carry on. May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground. Carry on.” And they go on to sing just the opposite of the way they began: “We are shining stars, we are invincible, we are who we are on our darkest day when we’re miles away. Sun will come. We will find our way home.” As we think ab0ut life and easy and not easy, well, learning to love ourselves well, may sound easy, but to really love ourselves is not so easy because we give in too quickly to selfishness. But, great consolation—sun will come! Good song.
Before them, we heard the song “Save Your Tears”, a song that was in the top 10 songs of both 2022 and 2021, from Abel Makkonen Testfaye, that is The Weeknd from his album “After Hours”. It is the story in song of a breakup that happened and he would like the relationship back. “I saw you dancing in a crowded room,” he begins, “You look so happy when I’m not with you. But then you saw me, caught you by surprise, a single teardrop falling from your eye. I don’t know why I run away, I’ll make you cry when I run away. Take me back ‘cause I wanna stay. Save your tears for another day. So, I made you think that I would always stay, I said some things that I should never say. Yeah, I broke your heart like someone did to mine, and now you won’t love me for a second time.” He said that he said some things that he should never have said, and of course, that is one of the principal problems in any relationship. In terms of our theme, it is never easy to pursue a relationship when we have said bad things about it at one time.
Back to our countdown now, and our number 4 song, a song that is the Academy Award winning Best Song of the Year. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “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.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, unfortunately, in our society, that may be not so easy when I believe it should indeed be easy, our theme today. This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Academy Awards, “KPop Demon Hunters” the name of it, and their song at number 4, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.
(double) 4 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
3 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye
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Continuing our countdown, a song about the desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband, the lady who calls herself Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song at number 3, “Where is My Husband” on MATT.“Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe, of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, searching for and finally finding that love is the hope of every relationship, and usually would be described as never easy, our theme today.
And at number 1 for five weeks altogether is the song “I Just Might” from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez. It is a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart,” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, learning to dance is both easy and not so easy—easy in the sense of movement of the body, not so easy in the sense of really good dancing.
That has been our theme today—looking at what is easy and not so easy in our songs. My prayer for you and for me is that we will be people who try to make the good things that we should do a little more easy. My thanks to our producers and to our sponsors, especially Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, 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, 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 the Gospels, on these songs and some great movies. Remember that you can join us on the web every Sunday morning at our usual time of 10 am CDT by choosing www.hayspost.com and clicking on Mix 103. Thank you for your time today. One final thought from an author by the name of Bernard Meltzer, one I’ve used before because it says something so well: “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” Yes, indeed. And true friends will always be people who know the meaning of true love of another and strive to make it easy to do. As you listen to Bruno Mars and his song “I Just Might”, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103 and our advice among the other advice of our show is to hold a good thought. From the beauty of West Virginia and the beauty of Lawrence KS, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
April 12, 2026
“Being Hopeful”
Part 1
Hello Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this second Sunday of April of 2026. I hope your April has begun in a beautiful way and that the Spring weather is good to you. Thank you for joining us and welcome to MATT on today’s best music, Mix 103, the number 1 popular music station in central Kansas. It’s great to have you with us this Sunday morning as we study the top 10 of today and yesterday, not only listening to the music, but studying their meanings as well. I am Fr. Mike, your host for MATT and it’s my pleasure to give you some great songs and some great messages. Get ready to listen to some songs from Imagine Dragons, Raye, Tal Bachman, Taylor Swift and many more.
Let’s talk about hope this morning,because of a song coming from a group whose leader has a birthday today. Brendan Urie, lead singer of the band Panic! At the Disco is 39 today. They disbanded in 2024. I did some checking on the idea of hope, and something I didn’t know came to light—in my mind anyway.
Elpis is Greek for “Hope” and it appears in ancient Greek mythology with the story of Zeus and Prometheus. Prometheus stole fire from the god Zeus which infuriated Zeus. In turn Zeus created a box that contained all manners of evil, unbeknownst to the receiver of the box. Pandora opened the box after being warned not to, and unleashed a multitude of harmful spirits that inflicted plagues, diseases, and illnesses on humankind. Spirits of greed, hatred, revenge, despair and other spirits scattered far and wide looking for humans to torment. Inside the box, however, there was also an unreleased healing spirit named Hope. From ancient times, people have recognized that a spirit of hope had the power to heal afflictions and help them bear times of great suffering caused by malevolent spirits and events.
Now I did not know that Greek mythology was the source of Pandora’s box and within it not only were bad things, but Hope was there also, and it had the power to heal from all the evil.
Well, I doubt that the band Panic! At The Disco had any idea about Pandora’s Box and Hope but they certainly see the importance of hope for the world. “Had to have high hopes for living,” they sing, “shooting for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing. Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high hopes. Mama said, fulfill the prophecy, be something greater, go make a legacy, rewrite your history, light up your wildest dreams.” Smart Mama, indeed, who is inspiring him. And that is one of the elements of being hopeful—that you have some inspiration to turn to in order to give one hope.
We’ll make that our theme today. What are some elements of being hopeful? We will look into our songs and see some hints of the make-up of the virtue of hope together with the song. Starting us off, here is the song speaking our theme of “Being Hopeful,” from the year 2018 and their album “Pray for the Wicked”, Panic! At The Disco, their song “High Hopes” on MATT.
(double) HIGH HOPES / Panic! At the Disco
HEY LOOK MA I MADE IT / Panic! At the Disc0
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Even though they have disbanded, they have quite a sound, the band Panic! At the Disco from their album “Pray for the Wicked” again and their song “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” from 2019 on MATT. It was number 18 of all the songs of that year. It is a good song to study and one to learn from. They sing of a person who wanted to go to the top, he did, and now he finds that he is not satisfied. “All my life been hustling and tonight is my appraisal ‘cause I’m a hooker selling songs and my pimp’s a record label. This world is full of demons, stocks, and bonds, and bible traders, so I do the deed, get up and leave, a climber and a sadist. Are you ready for the sequel, ain’t ready for the latest? In the garden of evil, I’m gonna be the greatest in a golden cathedral. I’m be praying for the faithless. He look Ma, I made it, everything’s coming up aces, and if it’s a dream, don’t wake me.” And the result: some like him, many don’t. He made it, it seems, but doesn’t feel good about it because he has met evil up front and personal. Putting those thoughts into our theme, even though we have hope achieved in life, it doesn’t do away with evil, and we have to see that even with evil in our world and our lives, we still can have hope.
There are a number of songs on our playlist of the top 10’s since 1980 with the word “high” in their title, and I thought it would be interesting to follow the lead of our title, and play some of those songs. Let’s begin this triple play with a good song of meaning because it could be sung to nature—beautiful dawn, or to a girl that has made him so happy. “Beautiful dawn—lights up the shore for me. Thought I would die a lonely man,” he sings, “in endless night. But now I’m high, running wild among all the stars above, sometimes it’s hard to believe you remember me.” The person in the song was ready for despair and loneliness, but he feels the love of someone else, or something else if he is talking about nature, and he is fine again. In terms of our theme, one of the elements of being hopeful is the belief that someone else or something else loves us. From the album “Back to Bedlam”, James Blunt and his song from 2004, “High” on MATT.
(triple) HIGH / James Blunt
HIGH ENOUGH / Damn Yankees
10 TOO SWEET / Hozier
Part 3 Coming back into our countdown briefly, my number 6 of all the songs of meaning of 2025, from Irish singer/songwriter Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, better known simply as Hozier, and his song “Too Sweet” at number 10 this morning on MATT. It is a song about a man in a relationship talking of the lifestyle of each of the partners. His own is a late-night one along with a little too much relaxation / and the partner is an early bird with a cautious lifestyle. “It can’t be said I’m an early bird, it’s ten o’clock before I say a word. I can never tell how you sleep so well. You keep telling me to live right, to go to bed before the daylight, but then you wake up for the sunrise. But while in this world, I think I’ll take my whiskey neat, my coffee black and my bed at three. You’re too sweet for me.” We have mentioned before that opposites sometimes attract when people are discovering love, but not often, and what does the song say about “Being Hopeful” our theme today? Well, if the opposites are as hopeful as they could be, the relationship could work.
Before him, another “high” song from the group Damn Yankees, and their song “High Enough.” The group Damn Yankees was a group formed in 1989 and continued singing together until 2001. “I don’t wanna hear about it anymore,” they began their song, singing the thoughts of the man in the relationship, “It’s a shame I’ve got to live without you anymore. There’s a fire in my heart, a pounding in my brain. It’s driving me crazy. Don’t say goodnight, say you’re gonna stay forever. Can you take me high enough, to fly me over yesterday. Can you take me high enough? It’s never over, yesterday’s just a memory.” Apparently something happened to their relationship, and the song is sort of an apology and begging her to come back. In terms of our theme today, if someone makes a mistake, one of the elements of being hopeful in a situation like that is that there is a willingness to apologize.
Our theme song this week is from the band Panic! At the Disco and their 2o18 song “High Hopes.” I’m Fr. Mike inviting you to stay with us. Let me take you to break with a thought about communication from Harry S. Truman, one of our great presidents, and here talking about the principal problem of our world and why communication is so important to make everything better: “We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.” Everyone of us has to work at that and if we do, there is indeed hope for a good life. Hey, don’t go way. MATT will be right back.
You are in tune with “Message at the Top,” 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. We take the top 10 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 a theme and title setting song from Panic! At the Disco and their song “High Hopes”. The theme that comes from it is: “Being Hopeful.”
We are playing some songs with “high” in their title, and here is one by the band Creed. They disbanded after their tour in 2010. It is a good song of meaning because it contains the message of going to a place which is in our dreams, a place of comfort and respite from the complicated world. “When dreaming guided into another world,” they sing, “time and time again, as sore eyes I fight to stay asleep, ‘cause I don’t want to leave the comfort of this place, ‘cause there’s a hunger longing to escape from the life I live when I’m awake. So let’s go there, let’s make our escape. Can you take me higher, come on, let’s go there, let’s ask, can we stay.” And a little later on, they sing, “I wish I could make the earth and my dreams the same.” We all want a better life because we see the horrible things that go on in our world. Therefore, it is a song of longed-for maturity, and a person who can take the person in the song there. Part of being hopeful, our theme today, is that we learn to look at the world with the possibility that it can be and will be better. From the year 2000 and from their album “Human Clay” Creed’s song “Higher” on MATT.
(double) HIGHER / Creed
SHE’S SO HIGH / Tal Bachman
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Another “high” song from our playlist of the past 46 years, from the year 1999 and a song from Canadian singer/songwriter Tal Bachman from his album named after him, and his song “She’s So High”on MATT. He sings of a person who does not have the self-confidence that he should have. His girlfriend who seems to like him, apparently has made an approach toward him, and he is “frozen” at the thought: “What could a guy like me ever really offer?” he sings, “She’s perfect as she can be. Why should I even bother? She’s so high, high above me.” He needs a good dose of self-confidence, and the way to build such self-confidence is to recognize that he has a lot to offer, even if he thinks that he is not as perfect as he thinks she is. Tying that thought into our theme today: part of being hopeful is to have self-confidence to show a little hope in life.
Let’s return to our current countdown now, and give us three in a row beginning with number 9 and a song that also comes back into our countdown briefly from Billie Eilish. 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 therefore will have a lot of hope concerning their happy life together. This is Billie Eilish from her album “Hit Me Hard and Soft”, and her song “Birds of a Feather”, number 5 of my songs of meaning from 2024, and number 9 this week on MATT.
(triple) 9 BIRDS OF A FEATHER / Billie Eilish
8 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
7 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
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Number 7 in our countdown here on MATT: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” on MATT. It is a song about the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, usually a person who wants out of a true love relationship after a commitment has been made, does not understand the idea of commitment, and there is little hope, our theme today, that the relationship will work out in the end. Good song to study.
Before him, we heard from Taylor Swift, and a familiar song to our current top 10—she entered the top 10 last October with the song. It is the number 8 song from Taylor Swift and her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia”. As we have said over the months it has been in the top 10, it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s 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 tragic situation, 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. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire, and they can be quite hopeful, our theme today, that things will work out between them.
That is the title of MATT this morning—finding different ways to be a little more hopeful in life. The song from Panic! At the Disco gave us the idea with their song “High Hopes.” Today is Brendan Urie’s birthday, the founder of the group who broke up a couple years ago. Our next segment of music and message will explore that theme with top 10 music from Alex Warren and Raye, as well as music from Taylor Swift again, Selena Gomez, Lauv, and the band Imagine Dragons. Let me close this segment with a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist who died in 1894: “Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” Great thought--unfortunately. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these great thoughts, and then I hope you come back for more.
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Good morning, everyone. This is “Message at the Top”, on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us again on 100,000 watts of power. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10 of the past. And what is amazing about them is that with a little bit of help, those songs can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today is the thought of being hopeful, a thought from a song from Panic! At the Disco, and we are giving you the songs of our show with the thoughts of “being hopeful”.
Let’s begin our second hour together with the number 6 song on our coundown right now. It is a song about the opposite of its title. The title of it is “Ordinary” and it is about what is not ordinary. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” 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 make life a little more hopeful, our theme today—try to make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces. As I have mentioned, the song came into the top 10 on May 11 of last year and is still there after spending a record setting 19 weeks at number 1. From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid” this is Carlsbad, California-born Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 6 on our countdown this week on MATT.
(triple) 6 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
DELICATE / Taylor Swift
BACK TO YOU / Selena Gomez
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That was Selena Gomez and her song “Back to You” from the TV show “13 Reasons Why” soundtrack on MATT. It is the story of a girl who seems to want an old relationship to re-appear, and it speaks of what could happen if they get back together. “Took you like a shot,” she begins, “Thought I could chase you with the cold evening, let a couple years water down how I’m feeling about you. And every time we talk, every single word builds up to this moment, and I gotta convince myself I don’t want it, even though I do. You could break my heart in two, but when it heals, it beats for you. I know it’s forward but it’s true. I wanna hold you when I’m not supposed to, when I’m lying close to someone else. You’re stuck in my head, and I can’t get you out of it. If I could do it all again, I know I’d go back to you.” With a person who is this way—thinking of another when you are supposed to be in love with someone else, there will be very little hope for her, our theme today, until she finally decides what she is going to do.
Before her, we heard a former number 1 from Ms. Taylor Swift again, this time from her album “Reputation,” and her song “Delicate”. It is a 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?” She wants the feeling of the man’s presence, but she wants it to be for the right reason—“you must like me for me” she sings. Therefore, as she sings, it is a delicate situation, and if she is wanting love for the right reason, it is a hopeful sign, our theme today.
Right now, another triple play is directly in front of you. It begins with a song about permanent love, with a great video that shows that the young love was indeed permanent. “To be young and in love in New York City,” he sings, “To not know who I am but still know that I’m good long as you’re here with me. I like me better when I’m with you. I knew from the first time, I’d stay for a long time. I don’t know what it is but I got that feeling waking up in this bed next to you, swear the room it got no ceiling. If we lay, let the day just pass us by. I like me better when I’m with you. Stay here with me.” Making a permanent commitment and then keeping it is always a hopeful sign, our theme today, that the relationship will work out. This is from his debut album “I Met You When I Was 18”, Lauv or Ari Stapran Leff and the song “I Like Me Better” on MATT.
(triple) I LIKE ME BETTER / Lauv
NATURAL / Imagine Dragons
5 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye
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Continuing our countdown and continuing triple plays, a song about the desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband, the lady who calls herself Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song at number 5, “Where is My Husband” on MATT.“Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe, of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, searching for and finally finding that love is the hope of every relationship, being hopeful, our theme today.
Before her, we heard a great song of meaning from Imagine Dragons and their song “Natural,” from 2018 and from their album “Origins”. It is song as lead singer Dan Reynolds says, about finding yourself and being willing and able to stand up to whatever adversity comes your way. So, a song about being a natural in a positive sense in today’s world. “Will you hold the line when every one of them has given up and given in? Tell me in this house of mine, nothing ever comes with a consequence of cost, tell me, will heaven step in, will it save us from our sin? Will it? ‘Cause this house of mine stands strong. That’s the price you pay.” As one faces adversity, we must be able to adjust, and if he/she or they as a couple can do that, it is a very good thing, because it is one of the elements of hope, our theme today.
And once again, we have played our way to a brief pause. In our next segment, get ready for music from our top 4 right now as well as former top 10 music from Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber. Our quotation for this segment comes from Mark Twain, and a good statement about real romantic love, and no sarcasm here: “When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.” You know, he said good stuff as well as sarcasm, and if you do that…bait with your heart, you are pursuing love the way you should, and you will make things better and hopeful in your life. Don’t go way. I’m Fr. Mike, and this is “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.
My name is 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 that gives you the music of the 2000’s, some 90’s and even 80’s along with all of their messages. And we make the statement: enjoy the music and listen to the messages because the messages probably will help your lives. The title of our show this morning is “Being Hopeful.” It came from Panic! At the Disco’s song “High Hopes”.
Back to our countdown right now as we begin another triple play. At number 4 this week is the Academy Award winning Best Song of the Year. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “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.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, if one is always trying to do the right thing, that person will usually be a very hopeful person, our theme today. This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Academy Awards, “KPop Demon Hunters” the name of it, and their song at number 4, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.
(triple) 4 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
THE A TEAM / Ed Sheeran
LOVE YOURSELF / Justin Bieber
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The song on my website today www.frmikescully.com, “Love Yourself”, Justin Bieber, from his album “Purpose”. It sounds like a good personality trait, namely loving ourselves in order to really understand love but the song is not that at all. The song is a statement to a girlfriend that all she does is love herself, and therefore it is the end of any love relationship. “For all the times that you rain on my parade,” he sings, “And all the clubs you get in using my name, you think you broke my heart, you think I'm crying on my own. Well, I ain't, and I didn't wanna write a song 'cause I didn't want anyone thinking I still care. I don't. But now I know. You should go and love yourself.” That last phrase says it all—she really should love herself, the proper way, that is, with no selfishness at all since true love of self is part of love of God and love of others. And the person who knows this—really understands—will be content with life, and quite hopeful as that person lives, our theme today.
Before him, we heard a tough song with a tough video, but good to think about from English singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran from his album “+”, and his excellent song “The A Team”. It is a song about a girl who has problems, and she won’t get out of them for a while because she is choosing not to / or can’t, maybe. She has problems with drugs and struggling to make ends meet. The refrain is: “And they say she’s in the class A team, stuck in her daydream, been this way since 18, but lately her face seems slowly sinking, wasting, crumbling like pastries. And they scream: the worst things in life come free to us ‘cause we’re just under the upper hand and go mad for a couple of grams, and she don’t want to go outside tonight, and in a pipe she flies to the Motherland or sells love to another man. It’s/ too cold outside for angels to fly.” And that thought of being too cold outside for angels says to me that it is a hopeless life for her. The lady he is singing about is hopelessly on drugs and committed to a life of prostitution. Thinking of our theme today, that of hope, it is quite difficult to find any hope in her life, but it is important to know that she can get out of the situation if she wants—and that is hopeful.
At number 3 this morning is the first of a double play of top 10 songs for Olivia Dean. This one is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, if a couple have achieved perfect communication, the couple can hope for—our theme today—a very good relationship. From London, England, the first song from her in the top 10, Olivia Dean, from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”, number 3 this week on MATT.
(double) 3 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
2 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
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The close of a double play of two top 10’s for her, Olivia Dean, also from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, number 2 this morning on MATT. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone looking for love of a particular person. In terms of our theme, a person with this much love for another will no doubt be hopeful, our theme today, that things will work out.
And at number 1 for four weeks altogether is the song “I Just Might” from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez. It is a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart,” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, if someone takes the time to learn to dance well, there is the hope that usually such a person will take the time to work at the relationship. How’s that for reasoning!
And there you have it, as Kasey Kasum used to say, the top songs of our land along with some songs of the past. Today we have spoken of some elements of hoping, a thought that we took from Panic! At the Disco’s song “High Hopes.” My prayer for you and me is that we honestly try to be hopeful people in everything that we do. If you want me to study a song, or if you would like to contact me, my e-mail address is: frmikescully@yahoo.com or the address at the radio station: KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find meditations on Gospels, songs and movies and a transcript of the show. Thank you for your time today. My thanks to the producers of our show, and to our sponsors, especially Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays and Auto World in Hays. Another thought as we leave. It comes from Socrates who died in 399 BCE, a long time ago, and a thought full of wisdom: “Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” A profound statement of pretty good theology. Our number 1 song from Bruno Mars and his song “I Just Might” leads us out. From the beautiful state of West Virginia through the likewise beautiful downtown of Lawrence, KS, I’m Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars