Music is my medicine (part two).

So a few posts ago I did a little compendium of some songs and what they mean to me, and I found it quite enjoyable, and promised/warned that I would do it again. Well, here it is:

Foo Fighters- Everlong.
I imagine a lot of people have a special attachment to this song, but that's understandable: it's probably one of the most enduringly brilliant, heart-wrenching songs of the past 15 years or so. My Everlong moment (and I think everyone has one, whether they know it or not) came in Hyde Park in 2006, as the band themselves played the song to close what had been a long afternoon of music. Over the course of the day, the large party of six or seven that I had begun the show with split up, until I was on my own.
I found myself at the barrier for the close of the show, and as the soft strums of this song began, there was the expected surge within the crowd... which brought forth the most beautiful girl besides me, pushed to the fore by the movement. Underneath the emerald green lasers which scored the night sky, she and I sang every word together, sharing the occasional 'isn't-this-amazing-so-amazing' glance and smile.
I never saw her again after that one song, or even got her name, but for those five minutes of my life, I don't think I couldn't have been any happier. Just finding and watching the video now, 4.07 still puts me right back there.
"And I wonder, when I sing along with you... if everything could ever feel this real forever? if anything could ever be this good again?"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvOrvgI_Co


Misery Signals- The Year Summer Ended In June.
'Regular readers' may have picked up on a theme here this summer, of agonising decisions and torn heartstrings. Not to be indelicate towards the other parties, but it was essentially a few months of hell. Then I heard this, and the season had a sound.
(The song itself is actually about the death of some friends of the band, so I feel a little bad for appropriating it for my own ends, but I intend it as a compliment)
I'm in no mood to be enigmatic right now, it's not in the spirit of things, so these are the parts that really chained this song to my heart in the heat of the high season, and what they meant to me.
"This time was our summer. It was something no one could take from us." (A year of waiting could have ended in those months, graduation had filled me with a sense of bravado and daring, and I felt like the world was mine for the taking.)

"Hope that tonight things are fine. As I lay awake, the light cuts the southern sky."
(For all the separation, I never hoped you were regretting your choice. We were in different countries, but under the same stars, and that thought made me feel like you were still near somehow.)

"Waiting to see and be with you again. Wishing the best for you my lost friend. Man I swear I'd give the whole thing up for you."
(I'm still waiting, I suppose, and I still wish you the best, but I send my wishes in envelopes sealed with jealousy and regret. I would have given up so much for you, and you don't even know, but that is not your fault.)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CqRkYBTCv3Y