Monday, October 13, 2025
Time: 7:47 PM
Song: Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Artist: Neil Young
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle on the way to work.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/3VTIjTBvhxsKEvMqNUYv12?si=14ae407c346e42ac
This was the third song
in a row to include love and or lover in the song title. Is shuffle messing
with me? Is it a cosmic message?
It started with “Love
Sick” by Bob Dylan, followed by “Lover of the Night” by Mumford & Sons. I
wonder if shuffle has gained intuition. Rather than random code picking songs,
it’s mixing a message for me.
After the Neil Young
Song, I get “Wide Awake” by Katy Perry. So, the streak ends, although this song
is about getting over lost love.
When I leave work,
the first song it shuffles to is “Your Love” by The Outfield. We’ve done love
songs on the Pandemonium, but I don’t remember if we did a list where “Love”
has to be in the title. Maybe that would be a good one for Valentines Day.
Later, as I watch
the Bears game, I read Tim O’Brien’s short story, “The Things They Carried,”
and it opens with one of the soldiers “carrying” his love for a girl back home.
He’s uncertain if she shares the same feelings.
He ends up blaming
this love for the death of one his fellow soldiers, ruining that love and turning
it to hate.
All this love talk
in the middle of October. Maybe it’s not the shuffle component of my phone app.
Maybe it’s the universe sending me a message.
I’d love to know
what that message means.
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