Any one that knows me at all knows that I’m fairly obsessed with music. But do any of you know just how obsessed I really am? Yes I constantly have it on, and yes all my facebook photo albums are song lyrics but there is more. And maybe this is everyone and I’m just completely normal, But I also gauge my over all happiness using music. When I don’t have the creative words I would like to have to explain how I feel I know that I will be able to find a song that can express it for me and maybe even explain to me what I’m really thinking.
I don’t think I have ever told any of you this, I think it’s maybe just never come up. You all know that it took me a long time to decide if I should stay in Glencoe or move home. It was a song and the way that I related to that song that made me realize that I needed to get out. The song “No Surprise” – Daughtry. Maybe I never said it out loud because I thought it might sound a little crazy or maybe I just never really thought about it again I honestly don’t know. We all know it wasn’t just the song that forced me to move out but it was what made me realize what the right thing to do was. After I came to this realization I started noticing other music related things. I had stopped having the music cranked and singing along in the car. At first I thought maybe I was just growing up and had grown out of this stage of having to rock out in my car at all times!.......WRONG……….. I eventually found out this was definitely not the case! Looking back its easy to see that moving out was what needed to happen I think we are both better off! Chips may have got the short end of that stick but she’ll get over it! If she hasn’t already she is a dog! But the idea that a song can have that kind of power got me to thinking. Who else has made life altering decisions based on a song? I can’t be the only person. A song is such a powerful thing and there are so many things I can think of off the top of my head to prove that!
Songs have encouraged people to donate to a good cause, they have the power to change a persons mood, they can tell someone’s story or teach you new things. What kind of world would we be in without music? It would certainly be a much less vibrant one! Sometime how you relate to a song can make you realize things about yourself you didn’t even know.
Some moments in my life… and the songs that bring me back to them.
Dixie Chicks – Wide Open Spaces: The day I found out I had got in to Niagara for school
She thinks my tractors sexy – Kenny Chesney: Basically any beer tour we went on during a hot summer day (but there is one particular tour that comes to mind)
Billy Jean – Michael Jackson: Ashton on another particular beer tour I remember quiet well
Tim McGraw – BBQ Stain: Underage drinking at Colin’s (some great times)
Garth Brooks – Anything: Reminds me of my mom & learning how to line dance with my parent’s friends when I was a kid. A lot of Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn songs bring this memory back as well.
Gwen Stefani – Sweet Escape: On particular St. Kitts party weekend(s) Carrie and Bill’s birthday and St. Pattys day.
Anything by Kings Of Leon: Summer of 2009 - Billy’s party weekends, Beach Sundays, Drinking at Ashton’s, Their concert ect.
Gavin Degraw – I don’t wanna be: Watching one tree hill at Rempel’s during high school.
Single Ladies – Beyonce: Dancing around at Meg and Tims at Christmas time last year.
Lost in this Moment – Big and Rich: Meg at Laughton’s the night before their stag and doe.
Counting Crows – Accidently in love: Roller balding around Bayfield with Martha while we were at the cottage, after some other people had showed up.
The Beatles: A great trip to Vegas with some amazing friends (Katy Perry Teenage dream has this affect as well).
So I may have turned my I-pod on and shuffled threw a few of the songs to complied this list, but if these are the ones that I can think of in the span of about 20 min listening to my own iPod I’m sure you can imagine how many more songs bring back a memory for me. I have no doubt that each of you are able to come up with a similar list. The list may only include one or two of the songs off my list, but may include many of the same sort of memories. But what are memories created from? Why do we remember some things and relate them to a song? When other memories you look back on and smile at in silence?
She thinks my tractors sexy – Kenny Chesney: Basically any beer tour we went on during a hot summer day (but there is one particular tour that comes to mind)
Billy Jean – Michael Jackson: Ashton on another particular beer tour I remember quiet well
Tim McGraw – BBQ Stain: Underage drinking at Colin’s (some great times)
Garth Brooks – Anything: Reminds me of my mom & learning how to line dance with my parent’s friends when I was a kid. A lot of Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn songs bring this memory back as well.
Gwen Stefani – Sweet Escape: On particular St. Kitts party weekend(s) Carrie and Bill’s birthday and St. Pattys day.
Anything by Kings Of Leon: Summer of 2009 - Billy’s party weekends, Beach Sundays, Drinking at Ashton’s, Their concert ect.
Gavin Degraw – I don’t wanna be: Watching one tree hill at Rempel’s during high school.
Single Ladies – Beyonce: Dancing around at Meg and Tims at Christmas time last year.
Lost in this Moment – Big and Rich: Meg at Laughton’s the night before their stag and doe.
Counting Crows – Accidently in love: Roller balding around Bayfield with Martha while we were at the cottage, after some other people had showed up.
The Beatles: A great trip to Vegas with some amazing friends (Katy Perry Teenage dream has this affect as well).
So I may have turned my I-pod on and shuffled threw a few of the songs to complied this list, but if these are the ones that I can think of in the span of about 20 min listening to my own iPod I’m sure you can imagine how many more songs bring back a memory for me. I have no doubt that each of you are able to come up with a similar list. The list may only include one or two of the songs off my list, but may include many of the same sort of memories. But what are memories created from? Why do we remember some things and relate them to a song? When other memories you look back on and smile at in silence?
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. - (1940 - 1993)
Hey hun, songs do make a difference. When I made my decision to move to Taiwan...I was always singing in the shower and car:
ReplyDeleteKelly Clarkson - Breakaway and
Christina Aguilera - Cruz
And...when I leave again, I'll always come back to those! xo