Showing posts with label OMC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OMC. Show all posts

Friday, July 27, 2007

Music and Lyrics

It amazes me how tightly music is connected to memory. More than once this summer I have been stuck in traffic or cruising down Congress and the song "How Bizarre" by OMC came on the radio. Immediately I was transported back to 16, I had had my license a month, and my cousin asked me to drive her car in Houston. Terrified I agreed. I turned on the radio and the first song I found that wasn't in Spanish, was "How Bizarre". We weren't going very far, so the song pretty much lasted the majority of the ride and calmed my nerves.

There is a new version of "Every Step I Take" playing on the River. It is NOT the version we use at Camp LIFE, but I can't help dancing to it whenever it comes on. Yesterday I heard just a clip of the song "I am Free" by the Newsboys. It wasn't even the whole song...just snippet as part of an advertisment. But BOOM! I was in Nakatindi Hall dancing like a crazy white person with all of my incredible children.