On August 10, Boys Like Girls played their first concert in Philadelphia since September 15, 2012. It's one of the few shows for the 10 year anniversary of their self-titled album's release.

It was also the first time I saw them live in the ten years that I've listened to their music.

When the Boys Like Girls album was released, I was just starting to transition into teenage years that were filled with angst. I hated everything about my city, my parents were the worst (even though they really weren't), and my friends were everything. The album was practically the soundtrack to my year. It spoke to everything I was feeling at that point in time, everything that I wanted to feel, and things that my friends were going through.

Every time I hear "The Great Escape," I think about all the time I spent that year hanging out at the local mini-mall and the playground. I think about me trying to start a band when none of us had any musical talent (or instruments, for that matter. But we killed it at RockBand). I remember feeling invincible.

Through the process of growing up, paired with the fact that Boys Like Girls haven't released music in a while, I'd glazed over my love for their music. Whenever it comes on shuffle on iTunes, I smile and listen. I still know all the words to most of the songs. If they come on in the car with my friends, I sing along, loud and proud. But I didn't appreciate them as much as I used to.

Then I saw them play live, and it was like I was back in an even better version of 2006 for their entire set. It definitely wasn't the reaction I was expecting to have. I was excited to see them, sure, but I was mostly excited to be going to a concert with my friends again.

Their opening act, The Old Fashioned, took the stage and blew me away. Their original music was great, and they played fast-paced mashup covers of every song you can think of. They were quite possibly the best opening act I've ever seen at a show.

When the lights dimmed again for Boys Like Girls to play, and the opening chords to "The Great Escape" sounded through the venue, I couldn't keep the grin off my face.

When they played "Me and You and My Medication," I couldn't stop myself from singing every word at the top of my lungs.

When they stopped the encore in the middle of "Love Drunk" to pull a dad from the crowd on stage, then restarted the song, I knew that this show was something special.

When Martin walked back and forth across the stage after the show thanking as many individual people in the crowd as he could, it was the final spark to relight the fire in my heart for this band.

I worried for a moment that it might have been a 'farewell' reunion tour. But the entire feel of the show and the emotions it left have me excited to see what Boys Like Girls does next.

Whatever it is or may be, I hope it's released soon.