1/17/2024 0 Comments Memories lyrics![]() Rather it is up to the listener to apply their own interpretation to the track as to why the person who is relaying these sentiments has been devoid of the company of a loved one for so long that now he is forced to rely on “memories” of the two of them being together. Visit her website at email her at or join her column’s Facebook discussion group at Debra-Lynn Hook: Bringing Up Mommy.You can view the lyrics, alternate interprations and sheet music for Maroon 5's Memories at. Hook of Kent, Ohio, has been writing about family life since 1988. Such promise of nostalgia and joy to the world was no more so for me than when my children sang in school choirs, perhaps the most memorable being when my youngest, then 10, performed “Somewhere in My Memory” from “Home Alone.” Sitting cross-legged in little tuxes with red vests across the front of the candlelit stage at one of our city’s premier auditoriums, he and 30 other children lifted their sweet prepubescent voices and sang like angels: “Somewhere in my memory, Christmas joys all around me. Living in my memory, all of the music, all of the magic, all of the family, home here with me.”ĭebra-Lynn B. For my money, nothing does it like the tried-and-true Christmas songs that come year after year no matter what. We all like to feel the feels at Christmas. Among these are Judy Garland’s 1944 tearjerker, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and the 1943 “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” which struck a chord with the families of soldiers returning, and not, from war. The songs that were the biggest hits were written in many cases before I was born, in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s, the heyday of the Christmas song, when commercial radio first came into being and people were needing relief from world wars and the Great Depression. These include Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” and the title song from the 1990 movie “Home Alone.” The songs I consider along my most treasured are almost never modern hits, which are non-existent anyway with a few exceptions. And when I praise “Silent Night,” I am not talking about the obnoxious version by punker Iggy Pop. ![]() My list of favorite Christmas songs does not include the canned music that store clerks are subjected to from Halloween to New Year’s, which I imagine is how the haters come to be. I hear the Santa-centric songs, “Up on the Housetop” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” and I am sitting on the lap of the real Santa or I’m in bed on Christmas Eve, straining my 8-year-old ears to hear the prancing and pawing of each little hoof.Ĭlearly I draw the line somewhere. Even yet, hearing the song always made me feel like we could. And I am a child again in the Deep South longing for the snow we will more than likely not get. I hear “White Christmas,” the best-selling single of all time, written by a grieving Irving Berlin whose son had died on Christmas Day a decade before. Today, when I hear “All is calm, all is bright,” I am inside that strikingly beautiful moment again. On this particular night, “Silent Night” is on the radio, and she suddenly and uncharacteristically begins singing along in a high, clear voice that takes our breath away. ![]() I am in the car with my sisters and my mother who was often depressed and overwhelmed by life, but at Christmas, came alive.
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