I forgot to post this entry yesterday. I haven’t journaled in so long. I just stopped back in November, after Thanksgiving (super huge, massive explosive relationship altering fight with my wife’s parents). I decided to start a new book instead of just continuing to write in the old one. It’s time for something new.
Anyway! The entry I forgot to post:
I woke up with the most random song stuck in my head. “If I Die Young” by The Band Perry. Country isn’t really my brand of music, though there have been some artists that I really like in the past.
I have zero clue as to why the song was in my head. I got up and started to get ready for work; took my meds, brushed my teeth, got in the shower – and there it was. If I die young/bury me in satin/lay me down on a bed of roses… No idea where it came from. The shower is where I end up thinking about a lot of random stuff that wouldn’t otherwise come to mind. I’ve made jokes about getting some sort of waterproof or grease pen so I can scribble on the walls or glass whatever’s on my mind, so I can look it up after. Of course, I always forget.
On my way to work, I found it on Spotify and listened to it. I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes (raised by a musician), but metal tends to be where I settle (no rhyme intended). If I’m at work, I usually listen to something instrumental and at night, I usually start with my headphones in listening to a lo-fi sleep playlist or something similar. On the regular, I’m generally in a metal playlist.
The fact that I wound up on this song is random. I’ve proceeded to listen to it probably 8 times this morning. Then, I went to look it up on Google to try to find out more about it and found an interview with Kimberly Perry about how she wrote the song as a teenager.
I still have no clue why I woke up with it on my mind or why I’ve been so fascinated by it today.
She even wrote a part 2, which is clearly from the perspective of someone that looks back on their life with much more experience. It’s just as good. I’ve been very contemplative about my place in my own life with a combination of being a parent to young kids, turning 40, and the changes in certain relationships, so the second one feels a little more unique to me. Those of us that are a bit older can probably look back with a bit of nostalgia and relief when it comes to the subject matter of the first version, I think.
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