Don't you find it weird that you can listen to one familiar song, one song, like looking at a picture of you and an old friend. A million things rush through your head, different moments - memories. But just one feeling in the pit of your stomach like someone reached right through your skin and played with it like a stress ball.
The intensity of this feeling is what gets me. Why? Was the time of your life so prominent that it had to be conveyed in the type of music, the specific song that you loved at the time? Seriously, why a song? You would think it would be a word, I could say fuck, shit, love, lost, hurt, fall, drink, eat, sad, mad.. but no emotion is attached to those words. What is music that makes your feelings spark up? You would think that I would have an answer for you. But I have nothing but a question. Why? Why is the brian so powerful, or maybe lack power in a way. Shouldn't millions of things pop in your head after every word? That sentence as I wrote it was completely meaningless. However I could write out lyrics after lyrics that I could scream at the top of my lung, tap my foot to, and know exactly when the guitar.. the piano.. and then more importantly when my emotions kick in.
I am mad because I listened to a song that I love, and it is just attached to such a crappy time in my life that I want to avoid it like the plague. It just made me realize how I could go through every song on my play list and attach a month to it. Proof?
The Spill Canvas - Self Conclusion - January 2008
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away - February 2008
Less Than Jake - The Brightest Bulb Has Burnt Out - March 2008
Ingrid Michaelson - Masochist - April 2008
From Autumn To Ashes - Short Stories With Tragic Endings - May 2008
Devilfish - Devilfish - June 2008
Sublime - Boss DJ - July 2008
Remy Zero - Fair - August 2008
Regina Spektor - Consequence of Sounds - September 2008
Ben Folds Feat. Regina Spektor - You Don't Know Me - October 2008
T.I - Whatever You Like - November 2008 (Don't judge me)
AMEN.
None of them particularly effect me lyrics-wise. Just brings me back to either the shitty, or good times of that month.
So September just fucked me when listening to music. Thought I would let you know.
SJF.