Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
There are songs that no matter what I am doing or where I am, I will stop to listen to.
With Or Without You (Joshua Tree, Side One, Song Three, if you had the cassette, as I did) by U2 is one of those songs.
It just came on.
And suddenly I’m not almost 37 any more and I haven’t published a word and I’m nobody’s mother and my hair’s not purple.
And you give yourself away.
And you give, and you give, and you give yourself away.
What songs do that for you?
M
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February 13th, 2008 at 2:10 pm · Link
Finger Eleven – Paralyzed…. I am just loving this song.. I keep on repeating it.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:31 pm · Link
I just had this song up last week on my blog. It’s a very, very, very fave.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:20 pm · Link
You’ve probably never heard it. James Marsters wrote a song called “This Town”. I only ever hear it when it comes up on random in my mp3 player…
But every time, I see myself getting on that plane to Phoenix and leaving home for the first time.
Eighteen and thinking love will conquer everything, keep our bellies full and pay the bills too, moving into a tiny apartment and sleeping on the floor cause I’m too proud to admit we don’t have any furniture. Using my shoes for a pillow when he complained I was too hot laying on his chest.
I see the coffee table we made out of packing boxes and draped in an old sheet, dollar store candles burning in saucers we got from Goodwill. Playing cards and telling jokes because we don’t even have a radio, much less a TV. And not missing either one.
Living like a gypsy, walking till my soul and my soles wore out, with nothing in my pocket but the lint and a hole, my only constant companion a water bottle I’ve refilled for the hundredth time with Clorox-scented Phoenix muni water, but happy and alive.
I stop and listen because instead of looking back on those days and feeling like a fool and deceived. Hating the man who alienated me from my family and friends, who lied to me, cheated on me, verbally abused me… I smile. I listen because a song almost no one knows gave me back the good times that I let be overshadowed by all the bad ones that came later.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:29 am · Link
Sandy — Love that Song!
Rosie — it’s a good one!
Gem — Songs are so powerful…sometimes we need them to remember what we would otherwise forget.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:14 pm · Link
Megan
I absolutely love that song. I’m actually writing a blog post to go up soon about the songs that have defined my life and that is one of them.
Every time I hear it I think of me and my best friend mooning around her bedroom because the object of our joint affections (kinky huh? Well not in teenage land)had gone to the snow for school camp for a whole week and we were lost without him. Makes me laugh now; I was so infatuated with this guy (a friend) and now I see it was so hormones. He was a little slow, but had a surfers chiseled body, deep olive skin, soulful brown eyes and long blondy brown hair. Divine.
Another one that gets me every time into winsome reminiscing is Patience by Guns N Roses. I fell in love for the first time to that song. So logn ago…
Kelly