Shavasana Musings

While we were in Shavasana at hot yoga tonight (Shavasana is corpse pose, the final pose in yoga), the song “No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Do” by Band of Horses came on.  I really, really like that song – it feels very comforting to me.  My mind was wandering (which is exactly the opposite of what it’s supposed to do during that pose) and I started thinking about how that song, and others that are popular now, are going to be the songs that my kids will maybe still hear on the radio in 5-7 years and will think of as old.  I can remember the radio in the kitchen being on all the time at my parent’s house and the songs that weren’t new but still played a lot – but now thinking of them they seem so old.  I was trying to think of a comparison from my childhood and the first song that popped into my head was “Broken Wings” by Mister Mister.  I started singing that song in my head and realized they are fairly similar songs.  They both have a lot of pauses in the middle of sentences and the tune goes up and down a lot.  Maybe it’s a stretch, but I totally see it in my head.  I also got a goofy smile on my face while thinking about it and really hoped Anne wasn’t watching me and wondering while I was smiling like that instead of letting my mind be blank.

I specifically remember rollerskating around the basement when I was young and hearing “Broken Wings” on the radio.  The basement was unfinished and very old, so it was kind of like extreme roller skating – there were ramps made from boards that went over a gravel pit (for the sump pump??) and parts of cement that were particularly rough and uneven.  It doesn’t seem very big now that I’m grown, but it seemed pretty big back then, especially considering there were usually several of us skating down there.  I’m not sure why/when we stopping skating…if I had to guess, it was when we grew out of whatever secondhand skates we had or they finally broke from the floors being so bad. So anyway…I guess if I was 7 right now, I’d be roller skating to “No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Do”.  Actually, probably not – I don’t think kids roller skate these days…I guess I’d be playing my DS while listening to that song.

What ever happened to roller skating?  It was super-popular back then.  I remember my dad taking us to the rink and teaching us how to skate, which kind of feels like a fake memory because it doesn’t seem like something he would have done.  But I remember he had black skates and we had to skate around the outside near the wall because people were going SO FAST on the inside.  To know him know, it seems just downright hilarious that he used to go roller skating.

Are there any songs that take you back to a specific memory from your childhood?  I actually have a lot that do – sometimes I don’t have a specific memory, but more of a feeling from back then.

Here are the songs for your listening pleasure.