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Ever hear a song on the radio and have a flashback to a moment in your life where you either first heard the song or shared a special moment with someone while that song was playing? When you are taken back to that place in time it can make you feel all sorts of emotions. The song can take you back to a time when you were sad, happy, angry and can make you re-feel all those emotions again.
This happened to me recently. I was listening to my iTunes song library on shuffle (which is an experience in itself) and the song Vegas Skies by The Cab started playing. I was instantly transported to a summer night during high school where my best friend Shawn and I were sitting on his porch swing at his mom's house. Everything was silent with just a faint sound of music playing on the cd player and it was one of those moments when we didn't need to speak, we just needed each other's company. This was the song that was playing and that night we made it out friendship song. Although its a love song, we had a different meaning for it and when we graduated and he was moving to Indiana to go to school closer to his dad we sat on his porch swing on his last night home and just sat silent listening to this song. No words had to be said.
So when that song came on my shuffle, I'll admit...I cried. He is my best friend and I practically lived at his house and now, its been 4 years and I only get to see him for a few months out of the year. It really sucks.
That trip down memory lane made me think of other songs that have special meanings to me and I thought I would share (briefly) what some of those are.
First I'm taking it way back to when I was a kid and my dad would drive my brother and I to my grandma's house so she could babysit us before school while our parents were at work. All three of us would pile into his old pick up truck and I would flip the cassette player to play Fred Bear by Ted Nugent because at the time that was my favorite song. I knew every word of that song (yes all 7 minutes complete with words and instrument solos) and I would sing it during the short trip to grandma's house. Now that I'm older, and its been ages since we've been taken to grandma's to be babysat, whenever I hear that song I grin from ear to ear and I turn it up and sing it like I did when I was 7 years old!
But, like I said...songs don't always bring you back to a happy memory, they can make you angry as well. One song in particular for me is Forever by Chris Brown. Although this sounds cheesy now, it made me angry then and still does now. I was dating a boy and I was really "falling" for him hard...as hard as a high school relationship can fall and this was our song. I remember going paintballing with him and they played it over the PA system in the dining area of the arena and that it was specially requested by the boy I was with. It made me feel so happy at the time. But then the relationship started to turn for the worse (which is a whole other can of worms that I'm not opening) and every since we broke it off whenever I hear this song I think of him and get angry.
It is amazing how songs can do this to us. How certain ones hold a special place in our memories and can take us back to a time in our lives to be relived again for the duration of the song. These songs that link us to memories act like our soundtrack. Like if our lives were a movie, these songs would be part of the soundtrack; each song for a specific moment or scene in the film.
My list could go on and on since music is ver prominent in my life with everything I do, but how long is your soundtrack?
What are some songs that you hear that take you back to your past?
Until next time my misfits,
Stefanie
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