The other day one of my Facebook friends reminded me of a band I really loved in high school. Have you ever heard of The Lemonheads? In addition to being quite small in high school, I was also quite the little alternative rock fan (and always a closet pop music junkie…but that’s a different story). Anyway, Come on Feel by The Lemonheads was one of my very favorite cassettes. In fact, until we got our first car without a cassette player, this tape accompanied me on road trips for many years, even though it was quite outdated and was obviously wearing thin.
At some point I lost track of my tape. We’ve long since burned all of our CDs on to our computer and I’ve tried to make notes of music I had on tape that I’d like to have again. Somehow this gem slipped my mind, until like I said, I got the reminder the other day. I immediately found it, and downloaded it to my Amazon Cloud. The next day, I queued it up when I was on the treadmill. For a brief moment, I was the small girl wearing the ever-present 90’s flannel tuning out the world with her music. I think for the first time ever, I was grinning from ear to ear at the gym.
And specifically, these lyrics. They helped me. This journey, whatever it is. It is on me.
The Lemonheads
“Down About It”
Gotta own up on my own somehow
Toss the beginning and try to live it down
'n work my way out
I been so down about it
It gets the same every time I shy
Away from the blame and I stand my time
You can understand why
I been so down about it
She's gonna give me all the time I need
to finish it
and if I can't I'll sleep
over
And out like a light when it's not plugged in
fading around if it starts again
you just don't get it when
I get so down about it
I drop you a hint so I hope you don't catch
You fumble your keys and I throw the latch
You'll still worried that
I been so down about it
Out of it so I'd hope she'd be there
Talk to her as I climb the stairs
I told her
gotta own up on my own somehow
gotta own up on my own somehow
gotta own up on my own somehow
Toss the beginning and try to live it down
'n work my way out
I been so down about it
It gets the same every time I shy
Away from the blame and I stand my time
You can understand why
I been so down about it
She's gonna give me all the time I need
to finish it
and if I can't I'll sleep
over
And out like a light when it's not plugged in
fading around if it starts again
you just don't get it when
I get so down about it
I drop you a hint so I hope you don't catch
You fumble your keys and I throw the latch
You'll still worried that
I been so down about it
Out of it so I'd hope she'd be there
Talk to her as I climb the stairs
I told her
gotta own up on my own somehow
gotta own up on my own somehow
gotta own up on my own somehow
Now I need to go listen to this song. I'm trying to make a list of songs for my (eee, newly purchased) treadmill.
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