Day 1 My favourite song.
Like most people I would guess they would be hard pressed to state their outright number one song.
So, I can only go with my favourite song of the last couple of years, which would be in my top ten anyway.
It is a favourite for bitter-sweet reasons.
The sweet for when I first heard it, as I thought it was a beautifully crafted song, and it was in my range, so I could sing it in the car and so I went and bought the album on the strength of it straight away, and it became a great favourite. A modern classic of an album that I thoroughly recommend.
The bitter for later on when I was playing it in the car with Callum and Kizzy, it was a few months after their mother, my wife at the time, had left us all for a "different" life.
The lyrics are poignant and they were picked out by the kids as particularly relevant to what they said their mum had done to them, and to me, down to the "no sympathy" for her from them because of the "shouting out loud", and "we don't know where you're spending all of your days, knowing the love isn't here" as a relevance to what the three of us may have been thinking about her. So it became a soundtrack to that time for the three of us and Callum and Kizzy requested it, sometimes when they were with me alone or when we were all together, and it almost became a therapy to release sadness or anger at what they felt, and it was a way of saying something without talking as I knew what they meant when they wanted to hear it.
They both said in slightly different ways that the message to their mum was that she did indeed take something perfect, (them or us all), and painted it red, (ruined it).
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