Do you ever associate songs with people? Of course you do, everyone does (right?). We were chatting in the pub last night about music and covered the best bitter break up songs. My vote as always goes to Green Day’s Time of Your Life (Good Riddence,) but I was surprised to find that Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls was considered a depressing song and suitable for breakups. I’ve dug my singles of both out and just put them again. Again as ever the first few seconds of Iris just get me. It hits. Listening to it again, it certainly could be used as a break up song but I always thought of it as an unrequited love song.
Anyway the original point of the past was to note that it is nice sometimes when songs loose the meaning you have assigned to them and just became the same pretty song you have always loved but with no hidden deeper meaning. Of course sometimes it’s not very nice.
I’m going to try and spend the day in my happy place. It somehow feels right. I’m going to go and watch Angel now while I leave Smallville downloading. With a bit of luck it will be done in a couple of hours and then I can watch that before the evening’s entertainment begins.