Rachel Platten Fight Song Analysis

Music, for me, is a way to express how I feel, when I cannot think of the words myself. There are many songs in this world that touch me, but one certain song hits me hard. “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten has an extreme impact on me and there is a little story behind it. On December 24, 2013 my aunt, Brenda Cost, was diagnosed with B Cell lymphoma. This news shook the world for the entire family. Brenda has always been the rock of the family. She was always the one to prepare Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas dinner, etc. Also, she always made sure she bought green olives for family events, just for me. Brenda was the type of person that would bend over backwards to make sure everyone was happy and taken care of. She was the most hard working, …show more content…
The cancer had deteriorated a bone in her hip. Stubborn as a mule, she finally went into the hospital and found out that she had cancer. Brenda went through chemotherapy and still managed to go to work full time and also be a full time mom to a sixteen and thirteen year old. She was losing her hair, but still managed to keep a smile on her face. After she went through chemotherapy, the doctors said the cancer was gone. This was amazing news, but a couple months later the cancer came back in her brain. Brenda went through several treatments of radiation and chemotherapy. Also, she even tried an experimental drug, but nothing was working. Even through all of this, she still wanted to go to work. Since she was sixteen years old she has worked at the Licking Memorial Hospital in the radiology department. The cancer started taking over her brain and body. Her doctors started to give her a time period of how long she has left. Brenda started to set small goals of first making it to Easter in Indiana, then it was to make it to my graduation party, then it was to her sons …show more content…
In “Fight Song” one of the lines in the lyrics is, “And it’s been two years and I miss my home.”2 All Brenda wanted was to be cured and go home. She wanted her normal life back. This song fit her situation so well. It gave Brenda strength and her family strength. After we dedicated this song to her, it started showing up everywhere in our life. Every time we got in the car as we were leaving the hospital, it would play on the radio. It kind of reminded us all that everything will be just fine; Brenda is a fighter. When Brenda got to the time in her fight where she was going to hospice, the doctors told us a couple days to a week. Almost a month later, Brenda was still with us. Nobody had a clue how she was still pushing through. It was so hard seeing her struggle like that, but one night we all prayed around her and each one of us told her how much we love her and that it was ok to let go. Jenny and I got in the car that night and the first song that came on the radio was “Fight Song.” The next morning, Brenda became our guardian