The time has come for colds and overcoats

Last night I couldn't sleep so I was listening to my iPod. Incidentally, I play it on random and it played a bunch of songs I haven't really listened to in awhile and it brought back tons of memories...

1. Brand New Deja Entendu...makes me think of sophmore year, hanging out on the balcony with Megan, listening to the CD on a portable CD player (god, wow...portable CD player? seriously?), sitting in one of those cool lawn chairs. For some reason, although I listened to the CD a lot during the summer as well, it makes me think of fall.
2. We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls...makes me think of Tyson. I think I started listening to We Were Promised Jetpacks when I started dating Tyson.
3. Bright Eyes Fevers and Mirrors...although I got this CD years before, it reminds me of when I first moved back to Colorado. Mostly because of one song...but if I think back on it hard enough, it reminds me of the summer of my junior year of college and hanging out with the Koreans. I guess it has good and bad memories attached to it.
4. Brand New The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me...Iowa. Well, more specifically, leaving Iowa. Borrowing Corey's car to drive to Target, blasting Jesus Christ while buying more tape to pack up my boxes.
5. My Chemical Romance Welcome to the Black Parade...again, Iowa. More specifically, the bad times when we were fighting and I would just sit there pissed off playing this CD as loudly as I could to annoy Corey.
6. The Flys Got You Where I Want You...freshmen year of college...second semester. Meeting Corey for the first time and him liking the song...
7. The Strokes Is This It?...freshmen year of college. Sitting around in my dorm room either reading for class, doing homework, or reading for fun. Makes me think of walking around campus in tune with the music.

I don't know what it is about songs and music that can just take me back in time and I feel like it's almost real...I can almost smell the scents associated with that memory and almost feel the sun on my face or the cold...

And this is why I love, love, love music, it's always there for me in times of joy and sorrow. I love nothing more than feeling that surge of emotions too complex for words when a melody or lyric crashes through to my heart. Sometimes it's too great for words...