It's amazing when you throw your music on random and it plays a song that brings back a lot of memories. I bought Roachford - Permanent Shade of Blue when I was in Year 11-12 ( 93-94). At the time Lay your love on me was hitting top of the charts, a catchy tune although quite pop and corny.

I bought the album to impress a girl I liked at the time who was raving on about it, yet I never impressed my secret romantic ideal of love to her because she was seeing someone else at the time (a good mate). Yet I kept the album, and it stayed and piled dust on it. Sure I listened to it a couple times. But, 93-94 was my Pearl Jam / Nirvana years and was nothing better to listening to back-covers and polishing off a bottle of beam while listening to Kurt Cobain strain his unique vocal chords towards the rear section of his famous and intimate unplugged album.

Roachford popped back up my life in 99 when a long lived destroying relationship collapsed, thus beginning my reign of terrible relationships since.

This song crept into a stable repeat mode, played over and over again. Like a desperate man clinging to the hope that some ideal of his life would be sorted out with these lyrics. The song itself is heartbreaking to listen to. Obviously it meant something to Andrew Roachford when he wrote them, because when it's sung, it's actually got meaning to it. Listening to someone else's heart-break sometimes makes you forget about your own.

People have these tunes which remind them of things past. I smiled when it came on tonight. It's good to remember when things get forgotten.