Have You Ever Seen the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival except you’re listening to it on a portable radio as you walk through the rain in an unfamiliar and quiet small town. The weather and loneliness have definitely got you down, but perhaps tomorrow things will be better.
Low Tide by Triathalon except it’s playing on the radio as you make dinner for your spouse for a Saturday evening in. It’s windy and warm outside, and your kitchen is bathed in orange light as the early fall sun begins to set. You are filled with love, and you feel at home.
now or never by elvis, except it’s being broadcasted on one of the wasteland’s last remaining stations. you turn your busted radio to it as you camp alone in the wilderness, watching the dying fire. as the song plays, a deep sorrow fills you, a longing for a place that no longer exists
strawberry fields forever by the beatles except playing from a cheap speaker as you and your sister are lying in an uncomfortable hotel bed. as she rereads the lightning thief for the second time during this trip, you sketch your favorite parts from the beatles love. your grandparents are asleep in the next bed, but you and your sister are too wired to sleep from the excitement of seeing the show, and are content to exist together as the nightlife of las vegas rages on outside your window.
“And so the line in the song is like, ‘don’t follow your head, follow your heart.’ But I think– And for me, that makes sense but I have friends that, I think, they’re wired a little bit differently and it makes them happier to be logical […]. So I don’t know that it necessarily makes sense for everyone to ‘don’t follow your head, follow your heart’ but for all of us, I think that was the way that it worked.”
Broke Bohemian 