Garth

 Many many months ago I said that I wanted to go through my playlist and put a lyric or two of a song up here and explain why that lyric made me need the song in my life. 

There are many reasons why a song reaches out and takes hold of us. Maybe the song was playing on a dusty jukebox in a dark bar when your eyes met his or when you caught him cheating or when he whispered “ I love you” 

Maybe you were driving with the windows down on a cool summer night, your hair whipping around your face, your heart pounding as you laughed and that song was playing.

Maybe you had your heart broken and that song, sung by a raspy voiced lead singer belted out the words like “I hate everything about you!” And your friends played it for you to make you scream out the lyrics to mend your heart, strengthen your soul.

Maybe on a spring day you and your friends gathered in the street in front of your house to play frisbee  while 70’s rock boomed from the stereo speakers on your porch and you drank cheap beer and had piggyback rides and swapped taunts about whose side would win and now those songs take you back and you can feel the sun on your face, the warm breeze, the pure joy.

Maybe there are days where you just need a good cry and there’s a few words strung together with a melody that touches you where you’ve been hurt deep inside and in its own, painful way, it helps to easy the ache inside. 

Maybe there’s a song that just can not help dancing too with a lyric that you won’t be able to get out of your head

We’re gonna be talking about those tear jerker, dance inducing, sing as loud as you can, shower concert, funny, sad, encouraging, memory makers of the soundtrack of my life, Baby! 

These are chosen at random and today’s, my God, if there’s a human alive whom this song doesn’t squeeze at their heart, they kick puppies. 

AND NOW I’M GLAD I DIDN’T KNOW, THE WAY IT ALL WOULD END,THE WAY IT ALL WOULD GO. OUR LIVES ARE BETTER LEFT TO CHANCE, I COULD HAVE MISSED THE PAIN, BUT I’D HAVE HAD TO MISS, THE..... DANCE....

Tracy