Do you have a song with someone? I have lots of songs that bring up people and memories of them.
Roxette brings up a schoolgirl crush that wasn’t really a crush. I just thought I was supposed to have one, so I looked out the bus window when someone asked who my crush was, and the person that everyone had a crush on was standing next to someone else. So I picked the someone else to be different. It spiraled from there in bad ways, with even my sister making fun of me for it.
There was another boy in school, oddly with the same name as the first, and I didn’t have a crush necessarily, but when I heard Chicago, I thought of him. I have no idea why.
My best friend, when I was a senior, would not be surprised that when B-52’s comes on, I still see his face. He was one person who actually made me a mix tape and wrote the best poem that hit me right in the feels at the accuracy of how he saw me. That is one of those fantasies I have had since I was a kid, someone writing me a song or a poem.
My husband had several, but “our song” was When You Say Nothing at All, the Alison Krauss version.
Dance Me to the End of Love by The Civil Wars also has a way of bringing a certain Australian to my mind.
I have other songs that float in my head that I think should be associated with people, but they are not. They almost were, but those people did not prove to hold a place in my mind at all.
I wonder what our song will be. How will my mind decide? It is not really up to me, you know. My brain does it for me.
Lisa Gray 