Miscellaneous

That Song

I think everyone has that one song that silently ruins their lives along with the melody. Mine would be Yesterday Once More by the Carpenters.

There was a time before I became generally disturbed with radical thoughts, that sprout from the lobes that make up my brain, and cause nothing but 3am chaos. When I was generic, so to say. When all I ever wanted was to smoke, get lame (not so lame at the time) tattoos and experiment with the most dangerous and precise teacher -- Experience. I was an awfully mainstream adolescent (I still kinda am).

But then while listening to Deuces by Chris Brown on YouTube, the corner bar that normally consisted of related videos had this totally misplaced song. Yesterday Once More was in between Perfect Two by Auburn and With You another Chris Brown song.

Ironically, the narrative concept in Yesterday Once More is exactly what that song was to me. My brother use to sing that song when we played together on Sunday afternoons. My godmother taught him how to sing along with oldie' tunes, and he always nailed that song on Golgatha perfectly (in my 6-year-old opinion).

It was the song that I forgot about along the way, and accidentally stumbled upon again much later. The song that took me back to a certain time frame in this VHS tape that wasn't clear, but I knew exactly what was playing. This song reminded me what good music is.

So to paraphrase Owen from Sarah Dessen's Just Listen: music is the only universal constant. People change, the environment changes. society changes and even you do too... but music doesn't. Because one song can take you back to certain time and make you feel a certain way again.

I just sounded so cliché.

" When I was young
I'd listen to the radio
Waitin' for my favorite songs When they played I'd sing along
It made me smile.

Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they'd gone
But they're back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well.

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.

When they get to the part
Where he's breakin' her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more"

I'm grateful that the lords of fate and gods of fiber optics collaborated to ensure that I would find this song that ruined me in the best way possible again.