Stops you in your tracks.
October 19th, 2009 at 7:20 pm. Posted in Just Rachel.Do you have that one song that just completely stops you in your tracks when you hear it? The first few bars play and you’re transported back in time and the memories are so vivid that you swear, for those few seconds that you’re right back where you were when that song meant something huge.
Back when Matt and I were together for the first time back in the summer of 2004, we went up to Six Flags a ton. We weren’t realy adults yet, so we had our summers to play and we did. We made the three hour trip quite often with a group of friends, but this time we were going to see a concert.
Back on 04′ I was just starting to listen to country music and Sara Evans was playing at the park. We had season passes, so the concert was free. I was so excited, I remember talking about going up to the concert forever. When we got up there, we took our seats in the bleachers, stage left. She sang a ton of songs and I remember sisng along and giggling, all the while holding Matt’s hand. I was so grateful to have him there with me, he had just gotten back from a deployment and it was like a dream come true.
She did a cover of “I Could Not Ask for More”, you know that cheesy song by Edwin McCain? Yeah, that one. Except with her voice, it was just so beautiful. She hadn’t even made it to the chorus yet when Matt hopped over the railing and motioned for me to do the same. I thought he was insane, but I was crazy about him, so I did it anyway. So there we were staning in this big open area with nothing around us except the audience on either side and Sara Evans in front of us. (This situation had the potential to be ALL KINDS of awkward, right?)
He grabbed my hand and spun me around. Before we knew it, I was down there with him dancing in front of everyone. We danced for the whole song, it was one of the sweetest things i’ve ever experienced in my life. Cheesy, maybe. But ever since then, and in all the years that we weren’t together… It never failed, every single time I’d hear that song on the radio or on my ipod it would stop me dead in my tracks. I’d listen to those first few notes and I was transported back to right then. Even when I thought I didn’t love him anymore, or we were nothing more than friends… that song just sent this rush over me and I still get a little giddy whenever I hear it.
I’ve never been the type to be like “Oh, this is OUR SONG”. I always thought that was kind of dumb, but this? This is OUR song.
What’s YOUR song that brings you back, that stops you dead in your tracks?
i know exactly what you mean when you talk about song that stops you dead in your tracks. i cheese it hard core to a lot of songs, but the one i always have loved is called “nothing fancy” by dave barnes. LOVE it=)
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