My Life in Music...

Maybe, maybe, quite possibly.... do I download music.  I might have, on
occasion --in extreme circumstances-- been required to download a song.

Or two.

Or 500 or so.

No matter the case, I've noticed that throughout my life, there are certain
songs that get implanted in my head and stick around for quite some time. 
The occasional song makes it through the years, but most of the time they drift
away and if I hear them every once in a while it stirs up memories for me. 
Kind of like the AC-DC song that reminded me of Brenda that day we met a few
weeks ago.  There are songs that stick in my head for various reasons, but
I honestly acknowledge love and pain (coincidence?) are the two clinchers for
making songs stick around.

When I met my wife, Wet Wet Wet's 'Love is All Around,' was a big one. 
When we first parted, on her part never to see me again --but I was infatuated
and needed to see her again, I had 'Always Something There to Remind Me' by Eyes
Naked (I think) going through my head.

Christmas 2002, it was this:

The Shining 

by Badly Drawn Boy 



Faith pours from your walls, drowning your calls

I've tried to hear you're not near

Remembering when I saw your face

Shining my way, pure timing

Now I've fallen in deep, slow silent sleep

It's killing me, I'm dying



to put a little bit of sunshine in your life



Soleil all over you

Warm sun pours over me

Soleil all over you

Warm sun



Now this slick fallen rift came like a gift

Your body moves ever nearer

and you will dry this tear now that we're here 

And grieve for me not history

But now I'm dry of thoughts wait for the rain

Then it's replaced, sun's setting



and suddenly you're in love with everything



Soleil all over you

Warm sun pours over me

Soleil all over you

Warm sun

That was the time I had to acknowledge that there was feelings there for Sex
Caffeine.  It wasn't for a few months that I realized how far those
feelings had gone and at that point:

Tell Her This 

by Del Amitri 



Tell her not to go 

I ain't holding on no more 

Tell her something in my mind freezes up from time to time 



Tell her not to cry 

I just got scared that's all 

Tell her I'll be by her side, all she has to do is call 



Tell her the chips are down 

I drank too much and shouted it aloud 

Tell her something in my heart 

Needs her more than even clowns need the laughter of the crowd 



Tell her what was wrong 

I sometimes think to much 

But say nothing at all 

And tell her from this high terrain, I am ready now to fall 



Tell her not to go 

I ain't holding on no more 

Tell her nothing if not this; all I want to do is kiss her 



Tell her something in my mind 

Freezes up from time to time.

When we hard our big confrontation, there was two ways to go and for the longest
time it was this:

Good Life 

by Francis Dunnery 



Softly now, you owe it to the world

And everyone knows that you're my favourite girl

But there are some things in life that are not meant to be

I'm not meant for you, and you're not meant for me

Here's to our problems and here's to our fights

Here's to our achings and here's to your having...

A good life, from me



Softly now, you owe it to yourself

And don't think that you will be left on the shelf

Cuz, there's someone for you and there's someone for me

Like me, you'll meet them eventually

Here's to your lover and here's to my wife

Here's to your children and here's to your having...

A good life, from me



Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby



Loudly now, you've lost all your pain

You're married with children and happy again

Now I'm regretting the moves that I made

Fatal mistakes are so easily made

Enough of my problems they only cause fights

Forget that I rang you and promise that you'll have

Such a beautifully happy and painlessly romantic...

Good life, from me

Good life

In actuality, it was more like this one:

Please Forgive Me 

by David Gray 



Please forgive me

If I act a little strange

For I know not what I do.

Feels like lightning running through my veins

Everytime I look at you

Everytime I look at you



Help me out here

All my words are falling short

And there's so much I want to say

Want to tell you just how good it feels

When you look at me that way

When you look at me that way



Throw a stone and watch the ripples flow

Moving out across the bay

Like a stone I fall into your eyes

Deep into that mystery

Deep into some mystery



I got half a mind to scream out loud

I got half a mind to die

So I won't ever have to lose you girl

Won't ever have to say goodbye

I won't ever have to lie

Won't ever have to say goodbye



Whoa whoa whoa I

Whoa whoa whoa I

Whoa whoa whoa I



Please forgive me

If I act a little strange

For I know not what I do

Feels like lightning running through my veins

Everytime I look at you

Everytime I look at you

Everytime I look at you

Everytime I look at you

I'm going about this all wrong, but at least I'm keeping busy singing on my
way to and from work...