30 Day Music Challenge - Day 4: A Song That Makes You Sad

I met this chick many years ago that set something off in me that I had never felt before. When we first met her, I had a good feeling inside of me. So good that I started whistling while I worked and for some reason started having a lot flash backs at the time. Told a friend of mine that I had a winner. These feelings lasted for months. I was on the defense though, not wanting a relationship and she did.

I think we had watched Jungle Fever one day and I heard some Stevie Wonder songs so I started downloading more of his music. I came across Overjoyed. At the time, unknowingly, I wanted change. Change to the point that I was willingly to move out of town to where this chick lived if I had got a job paying enough for me to move.

By this time, I was all happy and listening to Steve Wonder.  I didn’t tell her what I was feeling inside. Probably because I didn’t know what I was feeling nor did I understand it. Just knew I had this feeling inside of me. Well, the job turned me down. Maybe a month after that, this chick cut me loose. No explanation or anything, just gone.

I can remember one night, about 2 weeks after the last time we talked, I had been sipping on some trusty ol Gin. She called and I snapped. All I got were excuses and nothingness. I was devastated on a whole new level of devastation. 

After that night, I couldn’t drink alone for years. I think I stopped drinking for a while because it would depress me. It took a little over two months for me to begin to get myself together. The whole time I was depressed and lost, I was listening to Overjoyed on repeat……

Kind of hate that I like the song but she crosses my mind when I hear it. I’m not in pain anymore but I don’t want to think of someone like her when I’m listening to good music.