THOSE songs

I love it when you find a song that describes EXACTLY how you feel, to the letter. It’s almost like someone has reached into your soul, plucked out the most salient and raw elements to your emotions and thoughts, and knitted them together into a whole piece that reads your mind over roughly 3 minutes. They can make you feel things you didn’t even know you felt.

People who can write songs like things are geniuses because its something not everyone can do. As I’ve said in the past I’ve tried writing stuff myself but it just doesn’t express how I’m really feeling properly. That’s why it is so amazing that other people are able to do it for you, who’ve never met you, but essentially had your experiences. Listening to songs like this puts in mind the person you’re thinking of and what you want them to know, makes you feel elated with happiness, confused about your future, or just that you’re going to have a REALLY good night. They can be about anything, but some of them really really really are scarily accurate to your life. These are the best ones.

I also love that songs are connected to memories, and people, and times in your life you can’t have back. For example, in my friend group we have ‘Academy’ songs, which date from 2009 and will always be ‘Academy songs’, until we’re pushing round our zimmers with our wrinkly tattoos and sprinkle of piercings in old age. Songs can transport you to somewhere other than where you are now, and forget your time and place for just a bit while you immerse yourself in what you’re listening to.  

Songs can be a musical tardis.

Songs can make you dance like a psycho, cry in all different ways (happy, sad, reminiscent), smile because you remember ‘that ace night back in Freshers’, wonder ‘how did it get like this’, ‘God this would be a right tune on holiday’, or even ‘this just sounds bloody good’.