For some good reasons, in junior high, I took to doing my homework around 3 or 4am. I grew up in a
large family, and there were just too many distractions during normal waking hours. I found that in the dead of morning, I could concentrate exceptionally well. But I still needed something to keep the
bogeyman away during those dark and cold pre-dawn hours, and the local "oldies" station (
94.5 KOOL-FM) did just that for me. Back in the day when disc jockeys still jockeyed discs or tapes or whatever, and sold dreams to boot. Anyway, certain songs like "
Instant Karma" and the one I'll post below, seem to transport me back to just that moment, when I was 13 years old, huddled on my bed with all of my books and homework, listening to the radio; it being turned down so low so only I could hear, and a tiny lamp on my nightstand the only thing warding off the shadows that danced around the room with every pass of my pencil. Those were the days. When Smokey Robinson's "
Ooh Baby Baby" started to resonate with the hormones flooding through that teenage body of mine, just as much as Color Me Badd's "
I Wanna Sex You Up" or
Mötley Crüe's "
Girls, Girls, Girls".
Jay & The Americans - Come A Little Bit Closer
Anyway, "Runaway" is such a great song...good selection!
