"Every time I hear that song, I go back"

The power of a song to take you, as Kenny Chesney so beautifully put it, "to another place and time" will never cease to amaze me.  Everytime I hear a song from around this time last year, I think of him, and how badly I wanted things to work out, and for my friends to be wrong.  (Sidenote- They weren't)  This weekend last year, I went on a mini-golfing date, after being truly, 100% happy to tell my bestfriends about everything that had been said.  It was all lies.  But I learned my lesson there.  "If you have to ask, you already know".  I really do believe that now.

But back to the songs bringing me back.  Everyone has a song that reminds them of a certain person, or a certain time.  Rockstar 101 will forever remind me of jamming out the last two weeks of summer with Taylor, being loners because everyone abandoned us.  Beamer, Benz, or Bentley and Rude Boy will always remind me of Daytona Beach Spring Break 2010, and how it was easily the best week of my life. Pocketfull of Sunshine takes me back to the summer before Junior year, and how for a short time, everything was perfect. Lauren and me have so many songs together, I made her a CD dedicated to just the last four years for her eighteenth birthday.  It was hard to make cuts.  And Rascall Flatts will always remind me of Lauren Blouin.  She loves them, I love her, its easy to fill in the blanks. 

But those are the easy songs to remember.  Its the hard ones that suck. Allison can't even hear the opening beat of "I Got  a Feeling" because its the curse song. I'm convinced now too.  I can't listen to the cheesy, stupid, inane "He Could Be The One" because that was the night of the kitty cat under my foot, and the night the secrets finally came out.  I struggle listening to "I'd Lie" because it was the song associated with a single person for so long, that once they let me down, I couldn't love it anymore.  And "Say Something", while still a Luminia favorite jam, will always be directed at one person, and my wishing we could just talk about everything that happened, and move on to way less awkward times. 

Music is powerfull.  And well sometimes it sucks to have a song ruined for you, its nice to have such good memories with songs too.  When they make me a life video, I would want both in there, because life definitley has the good and bad times.