fureverywhere
beloved friend who will always be with us in spiri
- Location
- Northern NJ, USA
I'm sure folks who have been widowed can relate. A particular song or tune that reminds you so much of whomever you can't bear to listen to it anymore. For me it was Elton John's "Tiny Dancer". I sang it to her as a newborn. As she grew she was such a dancer she could have gone to Julliard. We saw "Almost Famous" together and it was one of the main soundtrack songs.
Then she became estranged. Then after a decade a snarky FB about merely being her "birth mother"...how the %$&# does that work? Let me find this real mother and she can go back in time to all your crap. But today at work "Tiny Dancer" came on the muzak. You know what? I didn't dissolve in tears...I'm okay now. Fun backstory to the song-Lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote it for his first wife. A few years later she ran off with the bass player.
In later interviews he tried to cover it with " Oh it could have been about any groupie or woman connected with the band, not about her at all". But you know the pain...I understand completely. He got through it somehow and I will too. But really this is the first time in maybe fifteen years I could listen and just hear it as another tune after Katie Perry.
Then she became estranged. Then after a decade a snarky FB about merely being her "birth mother"...how the %$&# does that work? Let me find this real mother and she can go back in time to all your crap. But today at work "Tiny Dancer" came on the muzak. You know what? I didn't dissolve in tears...I'm okay now. Fun backstory to the song-Lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote it for his first wife. A few years later she ran off with the bass player.
In later interviews he tried to cover it with " Oh it could have been about any groupie or woman connected with the band, not about her at all". But you know the pain...I understand completely. He got through it somehow and I will too. But really this is the first time in maybe fifteen years I could listen and just hear it as another tune after Katie Perry.