Topic > My Music: The Influence of Music in My Life - 1029

Personally, this is the music category that I absolutely love. When I was a senior in high school, a guy I'd been with for two years broke up with me. Of course, as a teenager this seemed like the absolute end of the world. The song I listened to non-stop was “Trojans” by Atlas Genius. Keith Jeffery, the lead guitarist, begins the song by speaking to his mind and telling it to "get all thoughts off your chest" about what he and his ex-lover "had been". Jeffery wants to forget the relationship he had and free himself from what they had together. He wants to “take a picture that [he] could never recreate,” in other words, he wants to make a new life without this lover who broke his heart. The catchy beat with which the song begins captures the listener and when the lyrics begin it makes them want to know more about heartbreak. The next verse is the chorus talking about her ex-lover's "trojans in [her] head" and this is where the name of the song comes into play. A Trojan is a famous story of a horse in the Trojan War. The war ended after the destruction of Troy by Greek soldiers who were hiding in a giant horse they had given as a gift. The Trojan is commonly used as a metaphor to describe something strong or symbolically unbeatable. When Jeffery uses the Trojan to describe this lover who is stuck in his head, it is used to show that love will never go away.