Songs that are perfect miniature short stories

Fancy, by Reba McIntyre.

Rocky Racoon

“The wrecking of Edmund Fitzgerald”

American Pie

Leader of the Pack (The Shangri-Las)

Alice’s Restaurant (Arlo Guthry)

The Homecoming Queen’s Got A Gun (Julie Brown)

Big Shot by Billy Joel is about Bianca Jagger.

Postal Service have a beautiful song called “Brothers On a Hotel Bed”. I suppose it fits in this thread. It’s heartbreaking.

Lola (The Kinks)

"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia."

"Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray," sung by Patsy Cline.

"Devil Went Down to Georgia."

Really, most songs used to tell a story. Now, not so much.

Country songs always told a story years ago. I'm thinking of El Paso by Marty Robbins.

Hotel California (Eagles)

Don’t Stand So Close To Me (The Police)

One Tin Soldier (The Original Caste)

I'm Still Here

"Angie Baby." "Delta Dawn." Helen Reddy was queen of this for awhile.

Maybe Brandy: You're a Fine Girl. More a little character study, but that's a short story I think.

[quote]what did the narrator and Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchee bridge?

I always assumed it was a baby

Space Oddity

I can't think of the name but the one about meeting an old girlfriend...shit! I thought it was Todd Rundgren but that's not it. It's winter and they meet at a store and they talk about their past love. WTF! I can't think of the song!

Louise

R16 you're thinking of Another Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg.

Cat's in the Cradle and Taxi - Harry Chapin

Josh Ritter - The Curse

Oh! "Harper Valley PTA." Classic three acts: daughter brings note home from school, mom goes down to the school board to discuss it and ends up reading the "Harper Valley hypocrites" to filth.

Bohemian Rhapsody

R13, good choices. "Delta Dawn" always makes me cry. (I know, I know, MARY!)

The Pina Colada Song

Lorrie Morgan’s “Something in Red”

Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle”

Sorry, R19 got there first!

The Carroll County Accident-Porter Wagoner

What's Your Mama's Name?-Tanya Tucker

"Coat of Many Colors", which is Dolly's most perfect song.

Country music's greatest song.

And a completely self-contained story song that, within it, contains another self-contained story.

"He Thinks He'll Keep Her" by Mary-Chapin Carpenter: young woman excited to be married, turns into a depressed housewive, ends up "in the typing pool at minimum wage" as a divorced, middle-aged woman.

Based on the old commercial where the husband says "My wife — I think I'll keep her."

R18 Thank you! That would have made me crazy!

"Copacabana" -- Barry Manilow

He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones. Beautiful lifetime story.

Bruce Springsteen has several. My favorite is Thunder Road.

Sorry, I forgot to post link.

I was literally just going to post that R33. Good one

I know, I know. But this really is a great story song.

The story unfolds within the body of the song and refers back to itself when she (they) sing to him:

"Yes sir, already told you in the first verse and in the chorus

But I will give you one more chance"

Canadian Railway Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot.

Not only does it tell a story but the tempo actually drives the narrative as well.

R19 - Harry Chapin had lots of short story songs.

The Deal - Pat Campbell

It's been regarded as hysterically funny in the UK for decades, makes it onto every worst record compilation. It's a complete story, I've never managed to sit through it without laughing.

Thunder Rolls by Garth Brooks

The Only Living Boy In New York

The story is the break up of S&G in the context of Art Garfunkel splitting to make "Catch-22".

Heck, take your pick of any Springsteen song:

Meeting Across the River (basically an early Scorsese film put to music)

Darlington County

Sherry Darling

The River

Nebraska (based on the Terrence Malick film Badlands)

Johnny 99

To name just a few.

"Billie Jean"

What exactly did he do with her? And is it true? The kid is not your son?

R41 I've heard - but can't prove - that Garth has sung a version of Thunder Rolls in concert with a last verse where she shoots him dead!

Yes, R45. In his "This Is Garth Brooks" special, he sang the 3d verse. The crowd roars when she kills him.

Diary by Bread

The trashy barroom trilogy of death:

Stagger Lee

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

You Don't Mess Around With Jim

Hurricane by Bob Dylan

The Killing of Georgie ( Mary!) and Maggie May by Rod Stewart

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves:

Act 1: traveling carnies treated like trash

Act 2: "picked up a boy just south of Mobile"

Act 3: teen daughter gives birth, ends up stripping like her mother

Tangled up in Blue

Jolene by Miss Dolly

Like a Rolling Stone

Uneasy Rider by Charlie Daniels

He let out a yell that'd curl your hair But before he could move I grabbed me a chair And said watch him folks 'cause he's a thouroughly dangerous man Well you may not know it but this man's a spy He's an undercover agent for the FBI And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

"Hello in There," John Prine

"Skeletons," Rickie Lee Jones

In My Life. The Beatles

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby. Nash, & Young.

Elton John - Ticking

R18 Thank you - I'd still be going crazy trying to find it! Dan Fogelberg, of course.

Shoot Down the Moon. Elton John

"Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts" by Bob Dylan

"Hello, Big Man" by Carly Simon, about her parents meeting, courting, etc.

Your So Vain by Carly Simon

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant—Billy Joel

Tweeter and the Monkey Man by the Traveling Wilburys. Takes you on a wild ride. There’s a lot of Springsteen references here, too.

I could see Tarantino writing a screenplay for this.

Walk on the Wild Side

Kathy's Song by Simon and Garfunkel

Most of Al Stewart’s songs

Springsteen's "Used Cars"

R65 Yep! One of the best story songs ever. Link below.

Schubert's "Der Tod und das Mädchen," perhaps?

[quote] a beautiful song tells a whole little short story in three acts. There aren't many of those now

Lyrics are inaudible now.

Bungalow Bill by The Beatles

The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel

Puff the Magic Dragon

By

Peter, Paul, and Mary

Richard Marx - Hazard

DL sleuths, what happened to Mary!?

Luka by Suzanne Vega

[quote]Schubert's "Der Tod und das Mädchen," perhaps?

We can go for that.

The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel

Jack and Diane

Fancy-- obviously. R1 is correct. But also: Pancho and Lefty.

Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves

Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty

“By the time I get to Phoenix” Glenn Campbell

‘Galveston” is another good one from Glenn

Heart’s All I want to do is make love to you

Goodbye Earl by The Dixie Chicks

Good bye, Earl Those black-eyed peas They tasted alright to me, Earl You feelin' weak? Why don't you lay down and sleep, Earl Ain't it dark wrapped up in that tarp, Earl

Goodbye Earl by the Dixie Chicks

Good bye, Earl Those black-eyed peas They tasted alright to me, Earl You feelin' weak? Why don't you lay down and sleep, Earl Ain't it dark wrapped up in that tarp, Earl

Sultans of Swing

A lot of Kate Bush songs are stories.From the incest suicide of “The Kick Inside” to the snowman sex of “Misty”.

A lot of 10,000 Maniacs songs qualify as well. Here's another fun one about child abuse.

Fortunate Son by Credence Clear Water

How to Save a Life by The Fray

Thanks for the summer of '75 memories, r71 r65.

"You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry

Fairytale of New York

Harper Valley PTA by. Jeannie C. Riley

Der Erlkönig.

Boys of Summer by Don Rapist Henley

Zoe and Zam. A lesser known Monkees tune about two kings who want to start a war against each other but none of the soldiers show up so the war’s off. Kickass.

"Gainesville" - Linda Ronstadt

Last Dance with Mary Jane by Tom Petty

Well, then there's Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July Asbury Park." and "Incident on 57th Street."

Janie Got a Gun by Aerosmith

Schubert's "Der Tod und das Mädchen" is a string quartet isn't it?

Sans lyrics.

Up the Junction by Squeeze. Also Labeled with Love.

Fuck You I'm Drunk by Bondo

And Springsteen’s Rosilita (Come Out Tonight) and Jungleland

Surprised Neil Young hasn't come up yet in this thread, he wrote a lot of amazing story-songs. Two of his best are "Powderfinger" -- narrated by a dead teenage boy who fails to protect his family from a gang of marauders -- and "Revolution Blues," which is about Charlie Manson. Amazing lyrics:

I see bloody fountains -- And ten million dune buggies, comin' down the mountains -- Well I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars -- But I hate them worse than lepers, and I'll kill them in their cars

Candies Room by Bruce Springsteen

"Carmelita" - Warren Zevon

Goin’ Down

Micky could sing!

R100 - Also Ohio and Sugar Mountain

Big Black Cow by Steely Dan

Copperhead Road by Steve Earle

Copacabana / Barry Manilow

Killer Queen by Queen

"The Eyes of Lucy Jordan" - Marianne Faithfull (written by Shel Silverstein)

A bit of a downer by Meatloaf:

Annie's Song by John Denver

"Sylvia's Mother" - Dr. Hook (Shel Silverstein)

I always liked Jon Bon Jovi's version of "Sylvia's Mother"

You can't always get what you want. The Stones,

In the Garden of Allah. By Don Henley

Music video starring Kirk Douglas- another rapist

Faraway Eyes by The Sones

April 29, 1992 by Sublime

Rosanna by Toto

"Well, he walked up to me and he asked me if I wanted to dance..."

Norwegian Wood by The Beatles; a very melancholy slice of life song

The Glamorous Life

r126 you beat me to it, but with a different song. My twelve year old JNCOs wearing dumbass proudly sang this in the middle school hallway.

Vincent ( Starry, starry night). Don McLean

Young Turks

Just about to post that r133.

R131 yes!

‘She picked up a rockthrew it at the carhit him in the headnow he's got a big scar.’ Said as fast as I could.

"Summer (The First Time)" should be on the list.

R128 always reminds me of Adventure in Babysitting. I thought the guy at the end was soo cute.

When You're Hot, You're Hot -- Jerry Reed

I'll Never Smoke Weed with Willie Again. Toby Keith .

In the fetal position with drool on my chin We broke down and smoked weed with Willie again.

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Extraordinarily well-structured song.

Springsteen really has a ton. Here’s a gem from a later album: Outlaw Pete. I love Sister Susie Tyrell’s violin.

Paradise by the dashboard light. Meatloaf

Dark Lady by Cher; Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash

Piano Man by Billy Joel

"Fun, Fun, Fun" - Beach Boys

Some of these are great songs, but I question if they're true story songs. I'll give an example of one that's not great, but came to mind: "Poor Side of Town" by Johnny Rivers. On the one hand, the song has Johnny remembering how his girlfriend traded up, only to learn that a rich guy was slumming with her. There's stuff going on, but can we call it a story song? I feel like a story song needs a beginning, middle and end, not just someone's point of view. We've got the beginning and middle, but the end isn't quite there.

Lying Eyes The Last Resort by The Eagles

Layla by Derek and the Dominos

Tuesday Afternoon by The Moody Blues

I know what you mean r148. I'm torn about "House of the Rising Sun." It's got the elements, but more of a mood and atmosphere. But I would read the story if somebody would write it.

"Johnson's Love" - Dwight Yoakam

Honey by Bobby Goldsboro makes me want to vomit but it does have a story

Also—Billy Don’t Be A Hero and Run Joey Run

Stan by Eminem

Tom's Diner

In The Ghetto by Elvis

The Beach Boys Sloop John B

Creepiest Alley by the Mamas and the Papas

Fuck, Creeque Alley

"Captain Jack" - Billy Joel

Tom's Diner Suzanna Vega

R159 - The Mamas and Papas greatest hits! I wore that tape out! Dream a little dream of me. 🎶 Cass and her gorgeous voice

[quote]I feel like a story song needs a beginning, middle and end, not just someone's point of view.

Agreed. I think "It's My Party" is a short story only in tandem with "Judy's Turn to Cry."

Rainy Days and Mondays Carpenters

Coat of Many Colors- Dolly Parton

Dead Man’s Curve.

Jan and Dean

Let's make it a trilogy, r164, and imagine Lesley's singing about Johnny in "Maybe I Know."

Jason Isbell has a number of these. Here’s one of his best.

Lots of Sufjan Stevens songs, for someone more contemporary— his song “Fourth of July” makes me sob

The Monster Mash

That’s a party I want to go to.

Eleonor Rigby Beatles

Love Potion Number 9

Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

Poison Ivy by The Coasters

Another Billy Joel tune.

Going down to Jackson Jonny Cash and June Carter

Love Potion No. 9

Hit the Road Jack. Ray Charles

99 Red Balloons by Nena

R171- Good one!

Brandy by Looking Glass

R182- I can't believe I didn't remember that song! It has always been a favorite.

Gotta get a message to you. Bee Gees

ITA, R148. I don’t think many of these are story songs. They’re just songs.

A story song is about somebody/something else. Not yourself.

"Down the shore, everything's alright..." (thanks, Tom Waits)

Sunday Morning Coming Down. Johnny Cash

"All I Wanna Do"

I'm your captain. Grand Funk Railroad

There is a DL song thread spam troll.

Three Little Pigs by Green Jelly

Nate Dogg and Warren G- Regulate

Desolation Row Bob Dylan

Devil Went Down to Georgia

[quote]There is a DL song thread spam troll.

No one has posted six Belinda Carlisles in a row (yet). Maybe he's sleeping.

Is "Mrs. Robinson" a short-story song? It's certainly not linear, but it paints a picture of a woman being checked into an asylum or rehab, making sure her problem is kept from the kids, the futility of modern politics, and concludes with a striking image of when America was optimistic: "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"

Roads to Moscow by Al Stewart

George Jones' "Grand Tour."

Step right up ... come on iiii-in.

One hit wonder band Fastball with The Way

This song is based on an elderly couple who went missing after driving to a blues festival or something. Turns out they got lost and drove off a cliff and died.

No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen

This tells a weird little story about three kids.

[quote] Norwegian Wood by The Beatles; a very melancholy slice of life song

I wouldn't say it's melancholy as it ends with arson.

[quote] Is "Mrs. Robinson" a short-story song?

I'd say no, it's not. A lot of us have seen "The Graduate," but you can't import the plot line of the movie into the song.

Wild Billy’s Circus Story

A rare short-story song from the disco genre ... "There But For the Grace of God" by Machine ...

Carlos and Carmen Vidal move out of the Bronx to protect their daughter — "Let's find a place they say, somewhere far away, with no blacks, no Jews and no gays" — but the daughter ends up "popping pills and smoking weed," running away at 16 with "a man she met on the street."

Sad story

[quote]Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

Agree r174, sung by Janis, written by Kris Kristofferson. Think it counts as a story song, about a relationship, beginning, middle, and ending in Salinas:

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin on a train

Feelin near as faded as my jeans

Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained,

And we rode it all the way to New Orleans.

One of my favorites: "Time Marches On" by Tracy Lawrence.

Sure looks strange to me!

Ruby , Don't Take Your Love to Town. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition

The Human League's Louise

Stan by Eminem

sorry, forgot the link^^

Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene Nobody - Sylvia The Rain - Oran Juice Jones Jesse - Carly Simon I Believe - Blessed Union of Souls

R214 here — I swear I typed those as list - each song beginning on a new line. Sorry!

Bills Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses, Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks, I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene, Nobody - Sylvia, The Rain - Oran Juice Jones, Jesse - Carly Simon, I Believe - Blessed Union of Souls

R214, R215, You have to double space.

Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin

"Paradise By the Dashboard Light" by Meatloaf

Roll me away by Bob Seger

One Tin Soldier Rides Away ( Billy Jack)

Spill the Wine. Eric Burdon and War.

YMCA

Cher - Dark Lady

“He dealt two cards an ace and a three then he mumbled some shit that was so strange to me”

Jesus F'ing Christ, some of you people have no idea whatsoever what a story song is.

What the fuck is the story told in "Annie's Song", or "Rainy Days and Mondays"? Or "Layla", for that matter?

This is a story song. It's basically the plot of "Imitation of Life", told in less than 3 minutes.

"I'm Livin' in Shame" by Diana Ross & the Supremes

A story about a girl named Lucky

“Where the Wild Roses Grow” by the unlikely duo of Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue.

Spanish Eddie!

[quote]In another thread we were discussing Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car," which in addition to being a beautiful song tells a whole little short story in three acts.

This story never made sense to me. She works in the market as a checkout girl. She lives in a shelter. But she wants to buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs.

She’s not going to find a house bigger than the shelter ??

Jim Stafford - Swamp Witch

The Telephone Man

"Tonight is the Night" by Betty Wright

The Freshmen by Verve Pipe

Matty Groves by Fairport Convention

Horrorist - One Night in NYC

Harper Valley PTA

The Tennessee Waltz

Run, Joey, Run!

"Daddy, please don't! We're gonna get MAR-ried!"

Work by Rihanna

Who Run the World by Beyoncé

Both are deep ballads.

Do you eat ass?

My neck, my back

"Sallie's Pigeons" by Cyndi Lauper and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

"Another Day"-- Paul McCartney

"Jenny Wren"--Paul McCartney

Alone Again (Naturally)

"Here Today"---Paul McCartney

“I spent my life exploring, the subtle whoring…”

"He Went to Paris" - Jimmy Buffett

"(Looking for) the Heart of Saturday Night" - Tom Waits

Kitty’s Back, baby!

Best song about cats.

Martha by Tom Waits

Maxwell's Silver Hammer--The Beatles

Goodnight, Saigon - Billy Joel

One of favorite songs of this kind is Lyle Lovett's LA Country. He's a wonderful storyteller and song writer.

Son of a Preacher Man, Dusty Springfield

Wildfire by Michael Murphy

Casimir Pulaski Day, Sufjan Stevens

SOB!

Sister of Mercy - Thompson Twins

Edith and the Kingpin, Joni Mitchell.

Sharing the Tina Turner version here.....I like it too, and the lyrics are sung a bit more slowly for those that want to hear the story.

Last Time Forever, Squeeze

another slightly Gothic-maybe-someone-gets-killed story in a song

John Prine was a fantastic story teller if anyone is fond of older country western music I highly recommend him

Cory’s Coming by Harry Chaplin. It’s about this chick who likes to get it on with hobos

This new song by EBTG.

A ne'er do well aims for a better life.

"The Three Bells" - the Browns. It's a story. A definite story. One of my mother's favorite groups.

The Bells - Laura Nyro and LaBelle

"D-I-V-O-R-C-E" - Tammy Wynette. It may have been the most-played song on the Ninth Circle jukebox in the mid-to-late 1970s. Well, except for "Love Hangover" or Dr. Buzzard.

Is the OP a dumbfuck that doesn't know what a ballad is?

John Doe No. 25 by Mary Chapin Carpenter -- a true story.

^^Oops, John Doe No. 24, not 25.

"She Works Hard For The Money" - Donna Summer tells us the story of Onetta there, in the corner .

"Bad Girls" - Donna Summer tells us the story about street walkers looking for work on the Sunset Strip.

"Lucky" - Donna Summer tells us the story about a street walkers experience with a john.

"We're So Close" - Carly Simon

"Tonight Is Forever" - Carly Simon

"Interview" - Carly Simon

I'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned considering it is quite literally in short story format.

"Children's Story" by Slick Rick

Hurrah for Baffin's Bay

"The Way" by Jill Scott

It's literally a song where she sings about going about her day.

There are so many characters and stories in Steely Dan songs someone wrote a fucking BOOK about it!

"Drive west on Sunset to the sea," r273.

I remember hearing Tom T Hall was a great songwriter /story teller but can't give you an example.

"Last Time I Saw Him" - Diana Ross

"Sleepin' " - Diana Ross

Cherchez la Femme

Inky Dinky Spider was the first story-song I learned and it still holds up.

Otto Titsling

[quote]“The wrecking of Edmund Fitzgerald”

Oh, dear.

I would like more details regarding Edmund's wrecking. Did it involve anal penetration?

Where The Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue

Edmund Fitzgerald was an insatiable bottom.

Is That All There Is?

Something Cool by June Christy

Richard Marx: Hazard. As close to perfect as they come.

Coward of the County and The Gambler- Kenny Rodgers

R287, you’re right about “Coward of the County”, but what an awful story it is. The moral of the story is that it’s ok to fight AFTER your wife has been gang-raped to avenge her, but not to appear strong beforehand to prevent it?

Another vote for “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town”. I think someone should write a song about Ruby and Jolene getting at each other’s throat.

HARDY's 'Wait in the Truck' Feat. Lainey Wilson. Great murder ballad.

Bad, bad Leroy Brown

Cat’s in the Cradle

Stan - Eminem

By far. Especially when coupled with the video.

Papa Was a Rolling Stone

Timothy

Little Red Corvette

Abba's "The Day Before You Came"

For the rare chance they have not yet been mentioned:

Cole Porter's Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today).

The B-52's Is That You Mo-Dean?

Tom Waits is good at this. This one could be a story by Carver. The language is so economical yet suggestive. (Of course, Waits played a Carver character much later in Short Cuts.)

Bump.

Another Jason Isbell story song:

Yvette - another murder ballad, teenage boy kills the abusive father of a neighbor girl

Red Norvo and His Orchestra feat. Mildred Bailey - Week End of a Private Secretary

(written by Johnny Mercer and Bernie Hanighen)

I have to add that I love that the song at R300 was remade into a track ("Cuba Libre") by Parov Stelar and was being sung live on stage in 2018, eighty years after the Mildred Bailey recording (I say it that way because Red Norvo went on to record "Week End..." with other female vocalists following the Bailey version).

Link below goes to the correct timestamp for the Parov Stelar live version.

^or it should go to the correct timestamp... it's at 16:08.

I guess this is better, at 23:09 (linking directly to the timestamp has proved useless):

I Eat His Babies

Perception Check and Businessman by Tom Cardy.

Lots of good ones on here. I do think Ode To Billie Joe, Eleanor Rigby, and She’s Leaving Home are great.

Hit Me Baby One More Time.

Your Luv Is Like a Booger on My Finger (& and I Cannot Flick It Off) Pt. 1

Duran Duran's "The Man Who Stole A Leopard".

All those "tragic teenager" songs from the '60s -- Teen Angel, Patches, Tell Laura I Love Her, The Leader of the Pack, etc.

Farmhouse Whore

My neck, my back.

A real story song

The Pina Colada Song.

Taxi- Harry Chapin

As long as we’re invoking Harry Chaplin—Mr. Tanner.

Chapin not Chaplin

R273

I love that you mentioned a book from the University of Texas Press because I’m always reminded of their Land Acknowledgement. I’ve never seen anything similar anywhere else:

We acknowledge that the University of Texas Press is on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what is now called North America. Moreover, we acknowledge the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa, Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, and all the American Indian and Indigenous peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of these lands and territories in Texas.

Alabama-Coushatta

“MacArthur Park”

Better Days by Dianne Reeves

99 Bottles of Beer (on the Wall)

It’s a story about increasing scarcity of beer - also, about counting.

Stan.

Stan.

Welcome to the Boomtown by David & David.

Robert Altman's Short Cuts in less than six minutes.

MANY of these are NOT story songs!

Just felt like listening to Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy.

Now I'm re-listening to The Year of the Cat.

As you get older, there are times that make you remember a certain song to invoke that feeling, that sense, that time. These songs. It's almost like a ritual...you're stirring up those ashes, those times.

That's what i feel tonight, for some reason. And it makes me smile while i listen and sing to the music.

R327, I just came here to post “Wildfire.” Eerie.

Eleanor Rigby.