Jan 06, 2009 21:01
Have you ever noticed that when you have a song stuck in your head, the only possible cure you can think of is to listen to that song? It NEVER helps. If anything, it just sticks the song in there that much harder. But it's satisfying in a strange way. I guess it's because it gets a little fuzzy in your head, and it's never the whole song. Sometimes you want to hear the whole thing, and experience it. As clearly as I can hear some music in my head, it's still just a vague imprint that can never compare to the real thing. Sometimes you can control hearing the song, by pulling out a CD or ipod or youtube or any other manner of small to large effort one can go through. Sometimes nothing is available, so you just have to wait for it to come on the radio...but you still choose not to turn it off. The only way to purposefully get the song out of your head is to get another one in there, but even then, at some unconscious moment the old one usually pops in. It's also funny, though, that you can never put your finger on the moment that the song is out of your head. One day it won't stop bothering you, and the next it's gone.
It's just a week for metaphors I suppose.