Musical question

[firecat]

Songs that, when you first heard them, reminded you of things that hadn't happened to you yet.

Do you have any?

(This post brought to you by "Diamonds & Rust," which I first heard when I was 18, and "Killing Me Softly," which I first heard when I was 8, I think [ETA: I must have been 11 or 12, because the version I heard didn't come out until 1973])

Comments

[jazzfish]

"29" by Gin Blossoms, which I heard at, um, fifteen? Sixteen? That was a really interesting moment of "this song is going to be extremely relevant to me someday but right now it's just vaguely melancholy."

[firecat]

And did it turn out it relevant someday?

[jazzfish]

It did indeed! I spent much of my twenty-ninth year FINALLY finishing up my undergrad degree (a process which felt more like "The Distance" by Cake than any sort of achievement) and ... still bumming around in Blacksburg, making acceptable money for small-town 2006 and hanging out with college students.

29 you'd think I'd know better
Living like a kid
When my lies may seem less than clever
Is when I fall for it
Only time will tell if wishing wells
Will bring us anything...

Thankfully I got tired enough of it that summer to move to the DC area and find a job.

[firecat]

Hanging out in the college town past the appropriate age, that sounds familiar.