Music Meme, Day 20
Jul. 18th, 2017 09:59 amApparently I forgot to do yesterday's meme, I blame Games Evening. The prompt is "a song that has many different meanings for you". This is quite difficult for me, that's not particularly how I usually think about songs. Ones I remember tend to have one strong association rather than several. After a bit of thought (and getting partway through a post using Bellowhead's version of Roll Alabama) I ended up here:
There's a lot of different associations and memories jammed into this pretty short song. Some of them just twig off one or two lines - I can, for example, still remember the phone number that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
atreic had when she lived with her parents in North Notts, and that and a couple of other lines reminds me of the time in our lives when life was nice and simple; "We won't all be here this time next year, so while you can take a picture of us" made it the theme song for my last few weeks at Zeiss when I knew that R&D was being severely shrunk in size. Then there's the section about the loss of the London Astoria to build Crossrail, which always makes me contemplative and thoughtful about the relative value of art and music, and occasionally wonder how sad I would feel if we lost the Junction (very). Finally there's the chorus and the overall theme of the music, which is both hopeful and sad, a message to cherish your memories but not to get stuck in them, and also a reminder that I'm not great at mementos (I don't, for example, have a photograph of K - she didn't like them, and I kind of felt like we'd probably have forever so there wasn't a rush).
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There's a lot of different associations and memories jammed into this pretty short song. Some of them just twig off one or two lines - I can, for example, still remember the phone number that
atreic had when she lived with her parents in North Notts, and that and a couple of other lines reminds me of the time in our lives when life was nice and simple; "We won't all be here this time next year, so while you can take a picture of us" made it the theme song for my last few weeks at Zeiss when I knew that R&D was being severely shrunk in size. Then there's the section about the loss of the London Astoria to build Crossrail, which always makes me contemplative and thoughtful about the relative value of art and music, and occasionally wonder how sad I would feel if we lost the Junction (very). Finally there's the chorus and the overall theme of the music, which is both hopeful and sad, a message to cherish your memories but not to get stuck in them, and also a reminder that I'm not great at mementos (I don't, for example, have a photograph of K - she didn't like them, and I kind of felt like we'd probably have forever so there wasn't a rush). 
