This morning I woke with Fox on the Run playing in my head. Yesterday it was an Indigo Girls song. And while I always wake with a song in my head from my playlist, it’s not always a song I’ve heard recently, and usually I can’t move on with my day until I’ve listened to the song to help get it out of my head. I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember.
It started with Paul Simon songs, usually lyrics, “still crazy after all these years.” Sometimes it would be nothing more than a tune, a song without words playing in my mind like a curse, like tinnitus to a tune. For some reason in high school and in college it was often a classical piece, something famous by Mozart. Something everyone would recognize if they heard it, but not something I necessarily listened to.
Writers ask each other about their playlists, share their playlists, encourage one another to keep a playlist to help them get into their writing zone. I haven’t tried it, which shocks me – I love music! Perhaps it’s partly because I do the majority of my writing on the couch, in the dark, at 4:45am while the rest of the family is asleep? True there are ear buds, but then I wouldn’t hear if one of the kids cries out for mama, or the dogs get restless and need to be let out, or if the coyotes are hunting and I need to make sure the dogs are in.
Still, I’m considering making a playlist for the other parts of the day when I find myself in front of the computer needing to edit, needing to write, needing to submit. And I wonder what would be on that playlist. What songs could I listen to that would stay in the background and not take over my writing groove when I’m in one, that may even allow me to go deeper into it?
What songs are on your playlist?
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