Theme
Songs about acceptance
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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![Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan, March 18, 2001] by Green Day](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/0a/a8/e2/0aa8e2b4-4f34-f01a-717e-ab424aaddfff/093624833260.jpg/600x600bb.jpg)
Green Day
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan, March 18, 2001]
A bittersweet farewell that reframes an ending as an experience worth having, delivered by a punk band trading distortion for an acoustic guitar
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Big Time Rush
Boyfriend
A four-guy pop-boy-band pitch to a girl who's rumored to be single, promising patience, persistence, and a clean slate if she'll just say yes
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HANRORO
You and I
A love song that accepts impermanence as the price of a union so complete it dissolves the line between two people
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Benny Rivers
Step by Step in Time
A late-in-life walking song about trading speed for attention, and finding that aging is less a loss than a slow correction of priorities