Saturday, August 23, 2008

Songs in the head

As I walk around, the folk song "This Land was made for you and me" (or whatever the proper title is) playing in my head, I wonder how a song I haven't heard in a VERY long time could be stuck in my thoughts.

Have you ever noticed how that happens? It's never your favorite song that floats in one's head, it's always something strange and out of place. At one point, I had the song about accentuating the positive in my mind. You know, the one that goes "You have to ac-cent-tuate the positive, E-lim-inate the negative, latch on, to the affirmative, don't mess with Mr. in between . . ." I haven't heard the song since elementary school.

One must wonder. They say we only use approximately 10% of our brains at a time, and maybe as things are purged into the back, stored in the 90% we aren't actively using, that maybe things from our past sneak their way back up front.

What is even more annoying is when a song that annoys you gets stuck in there. For example, WGN is crazy and has brought back the horrible teen soap, 90210 and they run the commercial like every 5 minutes. For several days I couldn't get it out of my mind.

How do you fix something like that? It seems like no matter how hard I try, I can't get the songs I love stuck in there. All well, I guess I'll have to turn the radio up and blast out the songs in my head.

I know this is not exactly an intellectual topic but hey, who cares, right? That's life!

2 comments:

Ruth Gjukich said...

My solution to the songs stuck in my head is to re-write the words. Over the years I have written a dozen songs using other peoples music that has become stuck in my head. Songs that God actually wrote through me with a powerful enough message to sing in church and to a homeless mission.

kathy said...

Good idea Ruth. Rachel. Thanks for getting the songs stuck in my head!!!