A couple of years ago, there were a lot of songs that reminded me of snowflakes. What I really want to know is why aren't there more this year?
This time of year gets me down. I don't know why. I hate the cold. I hate the dark. I hate running around like crazy to the mall when it gets dark by 4:30. I hate waking up to frost that I have to scrape off my windshield while I freeze my butt off. I hate the fact that my heater doesn't work quite properly in my car and I'm too cheap to fix it. I hate how cold and wet my toes get inside my shoes.
And every minute I am outside, I find myself wanting a drink. If I could drink my way through the winter nights, I would be a happier person, but sadly, I don't have the stomach for that these days, so all I can do is feel grim about the cold.
And when I feel like that, all I really want to do is listen to songs like "Cab" by Train or "I Will Follow You into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie or "Beautiful Wreck" by someone I don't want to look up or "One More Drink" by DMB or track 6 off the About a Boy Soundtrack.
Those songs remind me of cold nights driving home alone in my car from various places. They remind me of seeing my breath hiss out in a cloud over the stearing wheel. They remind me of seeing the lights all foggy through my windshield. They remind me of frozen lakes. They remind me of leaving Old Chicago at 2 AM on any given Tuesday night. They remind me of various highways and neighborhoods all the way from the Cities to Thief River Falls to Grand Forks.
And all I really want is a new song that sounds like winter and cold and bitter wind. I want to hear something new that pulls on my insides. I want to hear the cold in my music since it's so hell-bent on permeating everything else.
I suppose I should just go to bed instead.
Posted by LoWriter at November 18, 2008 12:05 AM