Musical memories

There are those songs that you can go years without listening to and still recite every single word. They are the songs that bring you down even on your worse day.They are songs that bring you back to when everything was good. Or maybe it is the song that reminds you of a loved one that passed away. I guess that is part of the reason why a high school class has a class song. It is the one song that when everyone you graduated hears it remembers the good memories made in those four years. Then again if you do not remember your class song or if you do not care, there are others. There are songs that your friends listened to all the time. There are the songs that, when played, will be song on the top of your lungs. Of course unless you are a professional singer it usually sounds pretty terrible. But who cares? Like the Beatles said, "What would you do if I sang out of tune?" It goes without saying that that is a song that I usually prefer to sing out of tune. I guess I like to be a little ironic. When I first got my car my cousin and I would drive around a lot just because we could. If a good song would come on the radio or c.d. player we invented a little game. We would keep driving until the song ended. If arrived at the destination in the middle of the song we would drive around the block. It got to the point where I had the timing down perfectly. We could have easily put the song on pause or waited in the car until it came to an end. That was not as much fun. Now I am in bell choir at church. So often I will hear the songs we play. They do not have words that I know of. They are all notes and counts. On many Saturdays I will hear one and two and three and four and in my head repeatedly. It is never ending. But you know what? I am quite okay with it.