Blast From the Past

DC continuously tags me on his 7-Day Wayback Music Challenge even though he knows I don’t have time to write a post. So here it goes, a combination of (one) new and old songs. I know I’m not following the rules of the contest to the dot, but I’ve never been one to follow rules on here. Who has time to write a song post every day for seven days?

Getting a post out so ahem, no one can allude to someone being a prune since I never respond to his other challenges.

Stevie B - When I Dream About You

Here is a blast from the past to meet the challenge. I don’t know if there is still a day called ‘senior ditch day’, but we had those back in the days. I’ve always been a nerd in high school but I started hanging around the cool people and life became more exciting. We weren’t seniors at the time, but when senior ditch day came around, my new friends decided to join in the fun. They did have to do some arm twisting to get me to ditch, but I happily agreed when I found out my high school crush was going.

So my high school crush. He was part of the cool crowd and of course paid me no mind! We started hanging out in the same circle since my friends were all “cool” now. On senior ditch day, we all got on the bus for the 10 minute drive to the beach. This song was playing on the bus’s stereo system and I remember sneaking glances at this heartthrob several rows down. We did have a beautiful day at the beach and he even signed my yearbook! Sadly, I lost said yearbook the same day so no clue what he wrote in it. It could have been a confession of his puppy love back, but I will never know what could have been. Sigh. I wonder what happened to him.

When I dream about you
That's when everything's alright
You're in my arms, here next to me, forever
When I dream about you, girl you never go away
Just close my eyes, wait for my dreams
'Cause I still love loving you.

Macklemore ft. Kesha – Good Old Days

Here is a newly discovered song. Not my typical artist choice, but I do enjoy listening to this song. We all reminisce about the good ol’ days and dream of what could have been and all the while, could be missing on the now.

Never thought we'd get old, maybe we're still young
Maybe we always look back and think it was better than it was
Maybe these are the moments
Maybe I've been missing what it's about
Been scared of the future, thinking about the past
While missing out on now

Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply

So if any one of you remember the days of pagers and being considered ‘cool’ if you have a song intro as your voicemail greeting, well, here was my song choice. I made sure this chorus part was playing so others could see how cool and loving I had been then.

I want to stand with you on a mountain,
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever,
Until the sky falls down on me

Genesis – In Too Deep

Phil Collins is one of my absolute favorite artists. I was a fan of soft rock in my younger days and started listening to him way before my high school years. I continued listening to this song in my high school years and had it recorded on almost every one of my cassette playlist.

My cousin-in-law told me years later that the song was on his mind for the longest time but he had no idea who the singer was. Mind you, these were days before the internet so we couldn’t simply do a google search to find out an artist’s name. He had to dig for truths the hard way. He could have just asked me and saved himself the trouble. 😀

All that time I was searching, nowhere to run to, it started me thinking,
Wondering what I could make of my life, who'd be waiting,
Asking all kinds of questions, to myself, but never finding the answers

Gary Barlow – So Help Me Girl

Last song of my blast from the past. I remember cruising with my girls in high school and they absolutely loved this single. So it played in the car again and again in our rides around the city or ditches to the beach. Notice I love the beach?

You could have kissed me
Like this wasn't gonna last
Kept me from saying
Something I'll never take back
You could've held me like there was no chance of me waking up where I am
You could have stopped short of every dream I ever had

Here are the rules (that I’m following)

Choose one song(s) from your high-school/college years.

Write a few words about who made you listen to this song for the first time, what this song means to you (was it a breakup song? you blasted it at 100% on your audio system when you were partying with your friends?) whatever you want.

Write your text while listening to the song. As soon as the song ends, wrap up what you where writing and submit it.

Tag it with #musicwaybackchallenge and include these rules at the bottom of your post.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a BEE-ATIFIC day!

Image Sources:
Prune,Stevie B,Macklemore,Genesis,Gary Barlow
Beeyou image by@seaslim