When I’m stressed, I tend to take a nosedive into my brain, where it seemingly takes joy in harassing me.
Me: I’m stressed.
Brain: Alrighty then, I’ve got this.
Me: Thank you! I could use some help.
Brain: Okay, I’ve thought a lot about this and I know you love music..
Me: YES!! Music!!! Thank you, brain! Thank you! Music brings me such comfort!
Brain: Yes, yes… I know you love this song, you know the one… the one that says “So lonely…”
Me: Lonely? I need more… What is lonely? I need more lyrics!! I NEED MORE!!
Brain: Afraid all I’ve got is this snippet of tune to go with it. I’m sure you’ll figure it out….
I hate it when I get one line of a song stuck in my head, yet I have no idea what song it is from. Don’t you? It’s like this little memory splinter that is an irritation that you just can’t seem to pull out. Sometimes it’s even the same song that I’ve forgotten all over again, but remember just one single line. I’ve done that a few times with the song “Say Hello”, by Deep Dish. I can hear it and even somewhat remember the music video. I’ll remember kids and a tin-can phone. I’ll remember the obvious “Hello”, but try Googling the lyrics “Hello” and you’ll get a million results, not one of them Hello, by Deep Dish.
The past couple of days a new mystery song has been stuck in my head. And it’s only a flash of a glimpse of a lyric. And it’s been so aggravating to my brain. I hear the word “lonely”…. But what is the lyric? I can get lonely? You can get lonely? Life can get lonely? WHAT. IS. LONELY?!?!
I don’t know!!!
And then I ran across Mr. Lonely, by Bobby Vinton and I thought I’d found it. I was relieved as only a person who is searching for that missing song can be…. But my brain kept playing that sample and it wasn’t lining up.
“This is because I’m old isn’t it?”, I wondered. But then I remembered that in my 30’s I couldn’t ever remember the name of Stone Temple Pilots. I’d always think, “That band… that band…NOT Pearl Jam, but ….that other band, named…. ??????
Lonely….
Suddenly, I my brain caught onto a Cranberries song, When you’re gone. And then, another Cranberries song, Will You Remember … .both reference lonely. I’m not sure if I landed on the correct song, but I’ll take it.
I was thinking about the above, when I was on my after-work-walk. That’s when I happened upon this cold hearted snow. And my brain, who loves to think in song, took off in a different direction…..
Cold Cold Man – Saint Motel
Mrs. Cold – Kings of Convenience
Cold Heart – Elton John (PNAU Remix)
Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
And so on, and so on.
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