It's me, pretending to be me.

not much soft about it

"The Soundtrack of Your Life" 

It has gotten less easy and it is only February 7th. However, I look at the list of the songs I played most last year and I am less than inspired. I don’t have a list of songs I wish were on there or think should be, but I look at the list and think - really? This is the list?

But it is what it is and the nitty gritty truth applies across the board. These are the songs on the list.

I went drinking with my sister this evening. She has not lived here in more than a decade. Her husband was in the navy and she’s been everywhere. We did NOT get along for the majority of our lives but her life isn’t as great as she used to think it was and so she has lowered her pedestal a bit. Plus - I have that good ole’ shit moms pound into their first daughter’s heads incessantly - I am the big sister. So no matter how much I have disliked her in the past I will still always do sisterly shit for the brat. Drinking on her dime is not exactly a hardship.

It is a good way to get away from Husband A for a little bit, and honestly being with my sister makes me do things that are more like me, but generally kept under wraps around the people in my town. On the way home one of the songs from my list played. An old one too so….fate has dictated that I choose it.

Remember the fucking Fugees?!
I don’t like Lauryn Hill that much but I do dig some Wyclef. And while it is a good damn song, the best part of this whole thing is that fool in the background going, “One time.” “Two times.”

I like the tempo changes, Wyclef, and the fact that we all know at least one person who fucking strums our pain. And since it was written in response to hearing a song and the reaction that it invoked - I think it definitely tracks with the theme. I would use the Roberta Flack version because it is good -but it is less funky and has no “One time.”