My sister posted a meme the other saying ‘if you can’t handle me randomly blurting out song lyrics that relate to what you just said, we can’t be friends’. It’s obviously a genetic thing. We take music very seriously in our family.
I find music an unbelievably powerful force. I can’t just stick on something in the background. I get far too involved. Music gets inside me, burrows under my skin and penetrates the deepest recesses of my soul.
Some songs get right to my emotional core and this is most obvious when lyrics speak directly to me about my amazing daughter. I can hardly hear the line “If you fall I will catch you – I’ll be waiting. Time after time” without big, hot, tears building up. It’s no surprise that this is one song I hope doesn’t come on in the background when I’m supposed to be concentrating on something else.
“Time After Time” – Cyndi Lauper
Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,
And think of you
Caught up in circles confusion –
Is nothing new
Flashback – warm nights –
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories,
Time after –
Sometimes you picture me –
I’m walking too far ahead
You’re calling to me, I can’t hear
What you’ve said –
Then you say – go slow –
I fall behind –
The second hand unwinds
[Chorus:]
If you’re lost you can look – and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you – I’ll be waiting
Time after time
After my picture fades and darkness has
Turned to gray
Watching through windows – you’re wondering
If I’m OK
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time –
[Chorus:]
If you’re lost…
You said go slow –
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds –
[Chorus:]
If you’re lost…
…Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Written by Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman
Today’s earworm: ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ – Stardust
Last night’s different dinner score: 3 😦
Love those songs
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