2017 Songlist

Short list this year as I didn't have much exposure to new music or events to inspire them.

Telephone by Lady Gaga. "Stop callin', stop callin', I don't wanna talk anymore!". Gaga seems to always ends up on a songlist. One of my goals this year was to quit spending so much wasted time on my Blerch. Took most of the year!

Broken Halos by Chris Stapleton. "We're not meant to know the answers, they belong to the by and buy". My injury song for the year. I had to learn to quit looking backwards to understand why things happen the way the did, and look to the current moment for solutions, and to the future for inspirations.

Riptide by Taylor Swift (cover). "I just gotta, I just gotta know, If you're gonna, if you're gonna stay." I first found the original version but like her cover better. Found in a YT video, there's a trend here as I filled running time with Blerch time. Bouncy and random, it stuck with me a few weeks of wondering what the rest of the year would be without my beloved training.

I Don't Know My Name by Grace VanderWaal. "I am lost, trying to get found, in an ocean of people". Really an odd one found during a late night YT surf (reference Telephone song...). Kind of a raw song, unpolished, really young singer from a TV show. Hence the "odd" designation. I felt lost without my running and the social group I have with it. This just spoke to that feeling.

Skinny Love by Birdy (cover)."Come on skinny love, just last the year". Another one from YT, what the heck? Like the lyrics say, just last the year. And that became my focus. Just get through what I needed to, in order to start again next year.

Rainbow by Kesha. "I know that I'm still fucked up, but aren't we all my love? Darling, our scars make us who we are". Dug this song in the weeks before the surgery, played it from the phone while biking. I have a memory of riding home on Arsenal, in the middle of the empty street, singing along outload with the sun rising ahead of me.

One by Johnny Cash (cover). "We're one, but we're not the same. We hurt each other, then we do it again". Post-surgery, overheard at PT. I was in a mental low, battling Monster and wondering about depression. Self sabotage seemed the trend. And yet another cover song?

Run by George Straight. "Baby Run, cut a path across the blue sky". This was supposed to be in the 2016 Songlist, but I left it out. Good thing because it fits better here. In mid December I got the permission to get on the Return To Running protocol. Need any more explanation than that for this song!?