Song of the Moment

You know how sometimes a song can strike you just right at just a certain moment, and resonate with where you happen to be in your life just then? The song doesn't even have to have an overall, literal, one-to-one correspondence to your life. Maybe the chorus, maybe a random lyric, maybe just a word or two, maybe the chord structure reminds you of something. There's just something there to grab on to that makes you want to listen to the song over and over again for a week or so.

It doesn't even have to be a new song. Maybe it's something from the back of your collection that you haven't listened to in years, or a CD you borrowed from someone.

And it would be impossible to explain to someone else exactly why that song. Maybe it would require a three hour story about people you haven't seen in years, or people you wish you weren't seeing quite so much of now. Maybe it would require you to explain feelings you don't quite have a grasp on yourself.

That's the concept. Maybe I've explained well enough

Song of the moment for January 27, 2000.

Momentum - Aimee Mann

Oh, for the sake of momentum
I've allowed my fears to get larger than life
And it's brought me to my current agendum
Whereupon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive

And I know life is getting shorter
I can't bring myself to set the scene
Even when it's approaching torture
I've got my routine

Oh, for the sake of momentum
Even though I agree with that stuff about seizing the day
But I hate to think of effort expended
All those minutes and days and hours I have frittered away

And I know life is getting shorter
I can't bring myself to set the scene
Even when it's approaching torture
I've got my routine

But I can't confront the doubts I have
I can't admit that maybe the past was bad
And so, for the sake of momentum
I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past

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