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A Song in My Head
How did it get there?
A few mornings ago I woke up with a Coldplay song looping in my noggin. I don’t think I’ve heard that song in at least three years. What the hell made it suddenly start playing?
The noggin is a funny thing.
What would make a song I haven’t heard in three years suddenly start playing in my noggin? I didn’t search for it on my mental search engine. It was too early for any of the engines of my noggin to be fully working. I had just gotten up from sleeping.
But this song was blaring out. I couldn’t find the volume controls even if I wanted to. It just started playing and playing and playing.
I got out of bed and put on my flip-flops. Standing fully erect seemed to make no difference to the song resounding across the tableau of my VERY early morning.
I found myself practically dancing to the bathroom. I was lucky to not have bumped into anything.
As the song continued to pound away in my noggin I finally made it to the bathroom. And then suddenly everything was…
… yellow.
Okay, that was a cheap joke. But seriously, the Coldplay song, Yellow, just turned itself on and it seemed to take over my noggin. It kept playing, on and off, for almost 48 hours! And I was utterly helpless to…
