It was also the year that I had my first period "accident". I was in Science class, in a mini skit (thankyouverymuch) and just started bleeding all freaking over. I tried to go to the bathroom but had used all my bathroom passes and my teacher wouldn't let me go. He was a..He. A friend donated hers and I ran to the bathroom, cleaned up and called my mom. She brought me clean clothes but as I'm sitting in my bloody skirt in the hall by the office, anxiously awaiting her arrival Thad walked by. Thad. With hearts. Thad. He was my crush. And it was the FIRST FREAKING TIME he ever spoke to me. Sitting there hoping to God above he didn't notice anything weird. Good times.
Of course, it was also the year I had my first "steady" boyfriend (John Pharr), started going to dances and met my very best friend in the whole wide world, Michel. In fact, one of my children has her name as their middle name.
So, as part of Mama Kat's writing Assignment, she gave this prompt and I just couldn't pass it up:
1.) Verse by verse, dissect a favorite song you had in 7th grade.
I had SO many favorites! Talk Dirty to Me by Posion (uh, how was this appropriate?), Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, Guns and Roses and yes *hangs head in shame* I even dabbled in Tiffany and Deborah Gibson. What? You wanna throw down? Psh. That's what I thought.
So what was my most favorite song? Well, it's still one of my favorites today that's how much I love this song. It remained a favorite through the years, and when it comes on the radio station now I totally hit the volume to full and rock out the mini-van. In my mind I imagine I'm Tawny Kitain - I mean, who didn't want to be Tawny Kittain when this video came out? Huh?
Here I go Again by Whitesnake
I don't know where I'm going
But, I sure know where I've been
It was a mystery, indeed.
Hanging on the promises
In songs of yesterday
So many promises in the songs of yesterday to hang on.
An' I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time
Time was a wastin'. I wasn't gettin' any younger.
But, here I go again
Here I go again
Again. Here I go. Because I've gone before and now I'm going again.
Tho' I keep searching for an answer
I never seem to find what I'm looking for
I was looking for a lot when I was in 7th grade and there was no cheat sheets.
Oh Lord, I pray
You give me strength to carry on
Middle school requires infinite amounts of strength.
Cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams
No, I wasn't a streetwalker - but the street of dreams was just up the road from Electric Avenue so, yk, I was familiar with it.
An' here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
A lonely 12/13 year old drifter. On the only road I'd ever known. Can you feel my pain and agony? The despair??
An' I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time
Seriously. There's no time to waste. 8th grade would be here before I knew it and I needed to not be "on my own".
I'm just another heart in need of rescue
Waiting on love's sweet charity
Sad, lonely 12/13 year old heart needing rescued from the pain. Sadness. Loneliness.
An' I'm gonna hold on
For the rest of my days
Cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams
An' here I go again on my own
Going down the only road I've ever known
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An' I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time
But here I go again
Here I go again
Here I go again
Here I go again
Cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams
An' here I go again on my own
Going down the only road I've ever known
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An' I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time
An' here I go again on my own
Going down the only road I've ever known
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
Cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams
Awesome guitar solo in there, too. But you can see why it appealed to me, right? There I was about to embaek on a tremendously lonely journey: Middle School/Jr. High. I needed to find solace in song. *sigh*
You can watch a video of it here but I can not embed it because the jerks have gone and required it disabled for copyright purposes. Whatever.
What was your favorite song in 7th grade?
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12 comments:
Oh man I LOVED Debbie Gibson! I actually still listen to her on my ipod! :)
I'm telling my age, here, but...
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel!
Girl I cannot even remember back that far. I am thinking it was sweet dreams by the Eurythmics or come on Eileen. Electric avenue because at that time I lived on Electric avenue. LOL For real.
Huh, I liked Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. I guess I dabbled in GNR and Poison and Bon Jovi. ;)
As far as 7th grade goes. . .My parents divorced that year and that's all I remember. Thankfully, Wikipedia has a better memory than I do. I was listening to Tears for Fears (shout and Everybody wants to rule the world), Phil Collins (easy lover and sussudio), culture club, DeBarge (rhythm of the night), songs from Footloose, Duran Duran, Stevie Wonder (called to say I love you), Billy Ocean, Madonna (like a virgin), and that song from St. Elmo's fire (man in motion?) OOOH and my favorites from that year were a-ha (take on me) and Julian Lennon (too late for good byes.) Yeah. Good, bad times.
And the gymnastic moves on them cars? Ouch!!
Girl...when you were listening to Whitesnake in 7th grade, I was being Tawny Kitain on somebody's car. HA! Sorry you got beat up.
In 7th grade I loved Rock On by David Essex. 1973-74.
Mine was Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson, Miss. Jackson if your nasty:)
I was close to tears when I read your story on the period accident. The shameful things we went through in Jr. High. good thing we had awesome music to help us out!
LMBO Ohhhh, how I've missed your entries! LOL
I actually heard that song by Whitesnake the other day ... but my XM has now ran out so I suppose I will hear it no more. *sniff*
I'm not sure what my favorite song was. I was a music freak, (as I am now) ... gonna have to think it over.
LORI
I can't tell you my favorite song in 7th grade but I can tell you that White Snake was (and is) a favorite band of mine . "Here I go again" is great. excellent choice in songs. :D
quick funny story. My baby son was about 4 and he was singing "Great White - Once bitten twice shy" and turned to the cashier and sung... "My best friend told me your the best lick in town". I about died of embarrassment. On a slightly lighter note he sung this song ALL.THE.TIME and would just one the coffee table with his jean jacket on and whip it off and trow it like a rock star (he wanted to be) - he won a TV for his performance.
That was a long, long time ago. I think that was the year of my first concert ... Tears for Fears!
Yes, that was an awesome song indeed and still is! I also loved Debbie Gibson and Tiffany so don't hang your head too low!
I got my first kiss in the summer between 8th and 9th grade. My first day of high school I met his girlfriend (whom he'd forgotten to mention). She was a junior — one year older than him and two years older than me — and slammed me against a locker and slapped me. Terrifying. And I got over my crush on Jeff M. real fast.
Oh, good times, Heidi :)
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
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