You ever get the feeling that your psyche is screwing with you? I do. No sooner do I announce the fact that I wake up most mornings with a song in my head, the music disappears. Is this some sort of joke? Did I call attention to something that was better kept to myself? Maybe my brain ran out of quarters for the subconscious jukebox.

I’ve been annoyed with the mental silence over the past few days and feared it was permanent. That was the feeling as I was showering this morning but then I got a little brain tickle. There had been a song in my head when I woke but it flashed through so briefly that I almost forgot it. My brain must have found the change machine and got some more quarters.

Today’s song is “One Man Wrecking Machine” by Guster. The lyric that I remember hearing in my head upon waking is “like true events on movie screens, I am a one man wrecking machine.” I’ve no idea what that means to my subconscious but my conscious mind has a few thoughts.

Like, why was that song running through my head? It’s not even my favorite song on the album, Ganging Up on the Sun. The best song, “The Beginning of the End”, is inexplicably buried next to last on the album. That’s the song that regularly runs through my conscious mind since getting the album. So what’s up brain? Do you secretly like “One Man Wrecking Machine” more but are afraid to show it so you sneakily play it while I’m sleeping? I want answers!

Ps. Apologies for using “showering” and “tickle” in the same sentence. No one deserves that mental image.

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