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r e b m e m e R e W Songs PART I
words Liesel Schmidt image ssuaphotos/Shutterstock
I ’ VE ALWAYS TH OU GH T it amazing how music
Ram 1500 while Maroon 5 sang “She Will Be Loved.”
can conjure a memory from the recesses of your brain,
It was a short-lived romance that burned hot and fast,
reminding you of one very specific moment in time,
eventually coming to an end when I realized that we were
whether that moment brings you joy or pain as you recall
too different to sustain anything lasting. And listening
it. I have many of those songs, many of those moments,
to Colin Hay croon the lamenting words of “Waiting for
creating a soundtrack for my life that I don’t seem to be
My Real Life to Begin,” I remember sitting on the floor
able to escape.
of a darkened apartment in my bridesmaid’s dress while the song played on the stereo, wishing that the young
So many of my memories are set to song, like making
pilot sitting next to me would realize that he loved me.
out with a boyfriend in the cab of his shiny black Dodge
Coldplay’s “Yellow” brings a flashback of sitting in a truck
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