My first job started the summer after my Junior year of High School. It was at a Taco John's. I was often a closer. Time feels different while closing down a fast food joint. It slows down & stretches on. There's always more to do... & most often all you have to look forward to is going to sleep & then getting up the next day to do it all again. My colleagues, naturally, would put on the radio during these times. And that summer/year two particular songs received prime rotation on their preferred station.
As a result, the only song I distinctly remember dancing to at my Senior Prom (which I attended as a double date me & my best friend with the Prom King) was the former of these two songs.
The other songs I seem to link with my High School I link specifically with the gym.
The first I played in the Pep band, & the second was sung by someone in my gym class the first week of High School.
From my time in college there are many songs I will always smile fondly on, but there are a few which stand out.
I will ever associate Pfeiffer lounge with the illustrious In the End by Linkin Park.
I will never forget walking back from Dairy Queen with some friends & hearing their rendition of Common People inspired by William Shatner.
& I will always remember the last day before graduation, all the grades in & the official feeling of being done upon us, riding about campus in a friend's car & listening to a song I heard many times that year... Sheep Go To Heaven- Cake... we would often replace the line "goats go to hell" with "goats go to Cornell".
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