When I was in elementary school, and my mom would pick me up at the end of the day, she would put on this one CD and press a certain track number and a smile would grow wide across my face. The song that wold come out of the stereo loud speakers was "Build me up Buttercup" by the foundations and it is a song that has made me smile even during the worst days. It's a song that brings back a lot of fond memories of belting the tune out with the sun roof open as we would sit in waht seemed like hours of traffic on the highway just trying to get home. As a child, I would sing whatever song popped into my head, normally very loudly, and this song was always at the top of my list.
Some days when I feel upset about something, I put on this song and it makes me smile. The song has a cetain sound about it. It catches your ear from the moment it begins with its long intrumental solo. The drums begin to build as the lead singers tarts to belt out the tune. I can only imagine what growup in the 60s was lilke and hearing this song play daily on the raido. It's upbeat and fun to sing along to despite its depressing lyrics. It tells the story of a man waiting by the phone for his girl to call but she never does. She leads him on and yet he still goes crawling back to her. I guess everyone can relate to what the lyrics are saying. It may not be in the form of a relationship, but in anything in life. It talks about addictions and how sometimes we cannot overcome them no matter how hard we try. "But I love you still...I need you...More than anyone darlin'...You know that I have from the start" that is just a piece of the lyrics from the song and they tell the struggle a person feels with someonething or someone. I know personally I can sometimes become addicted to things like Facebook or a television show or even hcocolate. And no matter how much I try to stop or cut back, some days I just keep coming back to those things I try so hard to avoid.
Whether I am feeling depressed or energetic, I often play this song and it puts me in a good mood. I'll dance around my dorm room or sing it in the shower to the catchy tune. It makes me rememeber what being seven or eight when the worst things in school was five math problems for homework and the teacher ran out of Jolly Ranchers. Back then life was much simpler and easier. Huge problems then, are simple problems today. Life didn't revolve around jobs or grades or worrying about the future. Back then, the world was much more fun. Cartoons and playing school with my dolls was what occupied my night time instead of psychologoy tests and hours of calculus homework. Sometimes it's nice to go back and remewmber not to take advantage of the present. They say that youth is wasted on the young, and looking back, I agree. I'm not saying I'm old but I'm saying that I miss being a kid some days because life was eaier then. I guess that's the worst part of gowing up, is realiing that the times when things were solely about fun with no responsibility are gone.
I just rambled on about two completely different topics in this blog. I guess that's kinda cool that a song can cause me to write about two totally different things. I love that it made me reminisce about my childhood. Sometimes I have to sit back and remember those days before the memories are all gone. With the help of a song about a guy still in lvoe with a girl who treats him badly, it's a little easier to remember.
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