Final Essay: Roll Back

Essay Final Song

Finally, as the last final essay of the school year, as the last essay of all middle school year. This essay is about a song that represents my eighth grade year, or a song that reminds me of eighth grade year. The song I chose for this final essay is “Roll Back”, now I’m not the type of guy who listens to lyric songs, but I do sometimes. The type of songs I listen to are most of the time instrumental or just don’t have lyrics. This is why the assignment is hard for me to do. “Roll Back” is the type of song that falls in between, with only four sentences throughout the entire song.
I chose this song for many reasons, one is that I couldn’t think of any other close to my school year. My first reason why the song connects to my eighth grade school year is the sentence in the song where it says “roll back to yesterday”. This is something that went through my mind a lot throughout this year, thinking about having an easier life, because being a teenager is a hard time well for me it is. The sentence “roll back to yesterday” is me thinking of the day before of living that, because everyday is a

I would always tell myself at swimming practice and at lifting with the high school swim team that to be greater than people I needed to be working harder than them, but something that went through my mind was that I wished to roll back to yesterday because the pace was a little slower. Those efforts and the goal for reaching of being better than others at things that I was not as good made me better as a person and to stop thinking about “oh I wish I could back to yesterday, because it was easier”, but to think about the