Another Song Died Yesterday

Someone said, or maybe I read it somewhere, that “The Song Remembers” . . .

Yesterday, at a Karaoke bar I understood the full implications of what it meant. The song played, someone sang (badly, I might add) and it took me (despite the bad vocals) to the past. A past, that has been simmering, churning and bubbling in the simmering cauldron of the mind and its memories.

The song allowed the waves in the cauldron to lap at the words for a bit and then got pulled under. Never to re-surface as a warm fuzzy emotion in the heart. It drowned. It will never make me cry again.

So, starting with yesterday’s death, here are a few more that I’m burying today . . .

I Love You (Just The Way You Are) – Billy Joel
Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac
Sometimes When We Touch – Rod Stewart
More Than A Woman – The Bee Gees
Being With You – Smokey Robinson
Whole Hearted – Extreme
Linger – The Cranberries
Never Tear Us Apart – INXS
Stuck On You – Lionel Richie
Fast Car – Tracy Chapman