While I don't think I'm alone on this, I haven't been able to find anyone who feels similarly.
I wake up in the morning to music. If I'm home I play music via iTunes or Pandora or my cd player/radio. If I watch a TV show, inevitably a very familiar song will accompany the action. In other words, music somehow threads its way through just about everything. And I have often decided, oh, I like this song, and sometimes I say, I really like this song. But I never say any more, I love this song. What is wrong with me? What has happened to me? I recall how often I declared as a pre-teen and even as a teenager that I LOVED a particular song. I will never stop wanting to bray Sweet Caroline as forcefully as I can (touching me touching you) for as long as I have a voice. And that's what has caused me to conclude that you can never again fall in love with a song the way you did (or do) as a tweenie, pre-teen or teenager. The lyrics had (or have) such profound meaning at that life stage. Nowadays, I don't even hear the words, everything sounding like yuAHaaaawwwoooluuuuuguckaguchaguuuuuuu. Sadly, I sing along to that string of sounds as if it were being sung in the Tagalog language. Of course it has no meaning. . . at least to me. All it does is suspend me temporarily and give me visceral pleasure. . . and then life's noises flood back in, overlapping each other and making me blink-blink-blink to keep my composure.
Like I said, no one has been able to relate to this; instead, I'm told that anyone can fall in love with a song at any time. Perhaps I've just never found a song that makes me genuinely feel that good times never seemed so good, so good, so good. (Sigh.) So, what do YOU think - can you love love LOVE a song at any point in your life?
