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Miss Double Shot 2002: Ex-Ish (get it? He and I dated...ish) and I drove around in my car, hanging out, wasting gas and listening to the Beatles. He was 15 and didn't have his learner's permit yet, so he navigated streets slowly but sloppily, his hands shaking at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel. Paperback Writer, the song about wanting to have a better future and getting to do what you'd always wanted to, played on the CD player.
I can never listen to it without flashing back to that moment - wondering if we'd get caught by the cops, my heart in my throat and being kind of in love with him.
2006: Ex-Ish and I catch up after four years - we've gone to school in two different states, are both dating other people and haven't talked except for the occasional hi, how are you. Our parents are good friends and thought we should go out and talk after such a long time - "even if you're dating other people, you should still be friends," our moms agreed - and he plays Frank Zappa's Peaches en Regalia as he (legally) drives us to a restaurant for our catch-up dinner.
We aren't sure where to start or even how to talk to each other - can he curse? is that allowed? can we talk about the parties we've been to and what we've done? a lot happens in four years - but Zappa makes us talk. He turns the music down to try and jump-start the conversation.
"No, turn it up...I love this part," I say. "The sixteenth note runs slay me." He smiles.
"Right on," he says, drumming in time on the steering wheel and pointing at the appropriate time when my favorite part comes in. "So..."
We start talking, and by the end of the night, it's like we haven't been apart at all. Thanks, Frank.
Do you associate songs with exes? Which songs are they?
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a whole lot of fobby sappy korean pop songs hahaha
oh my..I was just thinking about this the other day, too. Hahaha~
For my last previous relationship, it would be Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable."
I've been avoiding listening to it for almost a year and a half now.
Maybe it's time to start listening to it again, eh?
Maybe I should try what you guys did. lol~
Stay with Me by Josh Gracin. My ex- called me one night and told me to turn the radio on...Stay with Me was playing. He said that he was dreaming of the day when I would "...stay with me/share all your secrets tonight..." Not long after, we were engaged!
I was actually about to write a post about this subject myself. My ex and I had a pretty nasty break-up. I have the hardest time listening to Panic! At the Disco's song, "Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off." One night, he and I were sitting the backseat of a friend's car (who was driving at the time), and he started kissing me. I always flash back to that moment when I hear it. It just popped up on my iPod the other day, and I started to cringe a bit...
best of you - by foo fighters. for the most recent ex.
going back...
unwell by matchbox 20 has another ex-ish's face attached
she will be loved - maroon5 and always - bon jovi belong to yet another ex.
Funny hadn't thought of those fools in a long time.
every song that was ever playing when he drove me around reminds me of him. rather sad, since all of them were pretty much my favorite songs. "first time" by lifehouse however, was the first song we ever had in common. it literally hurts to listen to it