The Song Remembers When

*reposted from my private blog, September 2008 

...I heard that old familiar music start...........

For even if the whole world has forgotten

The song remembers when........

-Trisha Yearwood "The Song Remembers When"

One song can hold so many memories for me......an album can hold a million more.

(Me on BYU campus my first year there)

I put some of my old CD's into the changer today to have some fun background music. The Dixie Chicks song, "Wide Open Spaces" came on and I immediately thought of when I was packing up to head to Utah to attend BYU. The song and lyrics spoke to me. They became my anthem of independence while reminding me that I wouldn't have gotten to where I was without those wonderful people who raised me.

Who doesn't know what I'm talking about

Who's never left home, who's never struck out

To find a dream and a life of their own

A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone

Many precede and many will follow

A young girl's dream no longer hollow

It takes the shape of a place out west

But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed

[Chorus:]

She needs wide open spaces

Room to make her big mistakes

She needs new faces

She knows the high stakes

She traveled this road as a child

Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired

But now she won't be coming back with the rest

If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test

[Repeat Chorus]

She knows the high stakes

As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"

Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl"

She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"

When she stood there and let her own folks know

[Repeat Chorus]

She knows the highest stakes

She knows the highest stakes

She knows the highest stakes

She knows the highest stakes

-Dixie Chicks, "Wide Open Spaces"

So many songs bring back memories that are always fond, sometimes sad, and often funny.....

• Audry and I heading to COD and listening to Sublime
• Sitting in the back of Mitch's Toyota Supra and singing Informer's Snow(I knew most of lyrics...I know, I know pretty impressive)
• Dancing too and rocking out to Shoop, by Salt & Peppa', with my BYU and Miller apartment's roommate Jen Allen
• Having my high school boyfriend dedicate Chicago's, You're My Inspiration, to me(cheesy, I know...but still pretty sweet)
• Singing along to Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Deep Blue Something, on the way home from my first date with my future husband(We went to the Salt Lake Olympics)
• Crying in my room in high school while listening to Alanis Morissette's Perfect, because even then I struggled with depression and my need to be perfect so people would love me(don't worry I'm doing good now, months of therapy will do that to you)
• Driving down the highway in Utah with my sister Kolette and singing You Make Me Sick by Pink, just because we thought it was the coolest song ever!
• Listening to Godspeed by Dixie Chicks while coping with losing my first pregnancy to miscarriage and suffering through a deep dark depression.
• Singing Baby Mine to each of my children while I rocked them in my arms as infants.
• Pulling up to my eighth grade graduation in Mitch's Toyota Supra with Def Leopard's Pour Some Sugar On Me blasting! (Ya, I was cool! I actually have a lot of memories of Mitch's Toyota Supra...great car and killer stereo system)
• Singing Daddy's Hands, by Holly Dunn with my sister Mikol because we were gonna make it someday!

I think I could go on forever and ever. Perhaps I'll do a post here and there of songs that spark my memories and what memories go with them, so I never forget.


Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~Buffy Sainte-Marie

Music is my memory.