Memory Lane

I love it when music can transport you back in time, to a different part of your life. When you can close your eyes and be in that moment and feel all that you were feeling. To this day, whenever I hear The Cure's Disintegration album, it reminds me of a 10 hour train ride from Penn Station to Pittsburgh going back to school. It was bittersweet as I loved school and never wanted to leave, but had just left my boyfriend to continue our long distance relationship. The Sinead O'Connor album, The Lion and the Cobra, brings me back to freshman year at Allegheny College and being so on my own and so happy and so naive. It was the time of no responsibility other than making friends partying and doing school work. It was the calm before the storm of going into the real world to be an adult.

In the adverse affect, there are moments that have ruined some songs that remind me of people that are no longer in my life. When I hear the songs, I can't help but think of those people. Not in a nostalgic "oh I wish they were here" kind of way, but in a "look at how far I've come from that place" way. I can't hear "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel without thinking of my first boyfriend and forget Sade or Jill Scott. What are your songs that bring you to a different time and place?