Song of the Week

I've gotten into the bad habit of listening to only CD's in my car because my favorite dance music radio station doesn't always come in loud and clear now that I've moved farther south.
In a hurry driving to work, I was tired of the CD I was listening to and just switched to the radio. I always feel like I've missed something anyway, I want to catch up. Is there some awesome song that just came out that will send me on this desperate hunt to find the artist and name? As annoying as that quest can be, I totally live for that moment of capture. When I download (completely legally of course) the song and listen to it for the first time on my computer there's always this feeling of excitement and completion. I really love it. There's just something about finding the song and then being able to listen to it whenever, not pining after a radio station, hoping they'll play it on the drive home while I'm stuck in traffic.
All of that aside, this time, as I'm in a rush to get to work, I hear a song that I'd heard before, Dido's "Sand in My Shoes". I've actually only heard the trance like remix, which I prefer for all Dido's stuff anyway. But as I'm driving toward the city where I use to live, for a moment, I look around me and I got sort of sad. Later that night I was going out to meet up with some co-workers at our usual spot and the song came on again. I’m a bridge that goes right through the heart of the city. All I could think about was how much I missed living in that area and all the things that had happened to me in the past year when I had been living there. It was about then this song opened up for me. I really heard the lyrics and I discovered what an awesome song this is.
She talks about having been away where she can watch a sunset and take her time. There is moments when I look around realize that life has flown by. I'm getting older. I'm trying to live my life, and I have to work hard in order to play hard. But I've been saying for a while that I need a vacation. I do actually need a moment to slow down and not think so hard.
As for the lost love, I've been there too. There's been that guy that you have your moment with and it seems silly to expect the romance to follow you home, sort of speak. So you say goodbye, but he does come home with you. His presence is there in your mind when you get back to the life you left. I've always found it amazing that even though people come and go in my life, so many linger on because I'm the one that can't let them leave.

Sand In My Shoes
By Dido (Above and Beyond Radio Edit)
Two weeks away it feels like the world should've changed
But I'm home now
And things still look the same
I think I'll leave it to tomorrow to unpack
Try to forget for one more night
That I'm back in my flat on the road
Where the cars never stop going through the night
To real life where I can't watch sunset
I don't have time
I don't have time

[Chorus:]
I've still got sand in my shoes
And I can't shake the thought of you
I shake it all, forget you
Why, why would I want to
I know we said goodbye
Anything else would've been confused but I wanna see you again

Tomorrow's back to work down to sanitation
should've run back ?? before I left here
Try to Mama show her that I was happy here
Before I knew that I could get on the plane and fly away
From the road where the cars never stop going through the night
To real life where I can't watch sunset
And take my time
Take up our time

[Chorus]

I wanna see you again
Two weeks away, all it takes to change in time around by
falling
I walked away and never said that I wanted to see you again

[Chorus x2]

I wanna see you again
I wanna see you again