So, sometimes a song comes along and you hear it speak to you. Years will go by and you will still think of this song from time to time, and in the end, you realize that you are just supposed to love the song. Maybe it goes in and out of your life, meaning different things at different times. You might even love the song for a time, forget about it, then hear it again and remember why you loved it to begin with. But other songs require a journey to find them. You hear them once on the radio and you spend years trying to figure out what the song was, and then one day you find it.
This has happened to me for several songs in my life so far.
The first song was "All Coming Back to Me Now." I first heard it when I was seven, living in Apex, NC with my mom. We would listen to it on the radio and I knew every word by heart, but I didn't know the title. All I really knew was that I loved it and it was sung by the Titanic lady. This was back in the mid-nineties and I remember watching the music video of it and just thought it was wonderful.
But we moved and I stopped hearing the song. A few years later, I heard it again somewhere, I can't even remember, and I remembered how great it was. I finally found it and was happened.
The second song was "If God could Talk." I don't remember where I first heard it, but I know that it came back into my life in middle school when I was having a lot of trouble dealing with concepts of God, religion, and a lot of other things. In any case, it was a song that I really connected to as a confused twelve-year old. This time, I at least knew the artist was Meatloaf.
The third song was "The Future Just Ain't What It Used to Be." I first heard this in 2002/2003 in the horrible MTV movie Wuthering Heights. While the movie was horrible, I really liked the song, but I forgot it for about seven years. It wasn't until this year, watching the movie again and hearing the song again that I remembered how much I liked it. I even sang parts of it in a performance for a comm class this spring. I didn't realize it was a cover.
Okay, so where is all this going? I recently picked up a Meatloaf album and listening to it, discovered that all three of these songs are on this one album. It's strange that all of these songs, which influenced me in different ways at different points in my life all came from this one album. Neat how things work out, huh?
The album is The Monster is Loose by Meatloaf and has a lot of other great songs as well.
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