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Forgetful

"I Will Not Forget You" - Sarah McLachlan I found a CD with just one word scrawled across it: "Breathe." I don't remember anything about it even though I knew I gave it its title. I kept thinking about when I possibly made it and for what reason, but nothing really came to mind. Maybe I just threw some songs together for myself to play for fun or to unwind. I used to do that before I decided to make compilations with a purpose, whether to say "I love you" or "I hate you." So, I decided to give this another go to figure out the message behind it. This was the first song. But...I guess I did forget after all. Lyrics: I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping Your body gripped by some far away dream Well I was so scared and so in love then And so lost in all of you that I had seen But no one ever talked in the darkness No voice ever added fuel to the fire No light ever shone in the doorway Deep in the hollow of earthly desires ...

Kiss

"Kissing You" - Sade I was experiencing song-block and knew far too well that if I just selected whatever came to mind without any real heart behind it...well, I wouldn't be able to write. So I typed in a few of my favorite artists like Sia, Anna Nalick and Jimmy Eat World, but although I love a lot of their music, their art just didn't quite call to me tonight. So then I thought, "Ok, just put the one song from Sade that you hate to love because it reminds you of a sad time in your life..." But of course at that very moment, the title left me. Figures... So as I searched through Sade's list of songs, dreading the one I've been avoiding to write about for so long, I ran into this. My, my how I let myself forget this I can't say why... but how lovely it was to find again. I first heard this song from the movie re-make of Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. It makes me laugh a little thinking about it because I was so drawn ...