ksmith | Earworm of the day

My earworms usually turn out to be songs I hate. One hypothesis I read concerning why a song I hate would insist upon looping through my brain like a skipping LP is that while I may not like that particular piece of music, my brain does. Maybe this ties in with why these things are usually bits of songs that were pretty popular. They flipped a vast number of switches and wormed into people's brains, and most of those people didn't mind.

Yet another earworm began looping yesterday, but for a nice of pace, it's a song I actually like. Tapestry, the title cut of Carole King's album. It was, iirc, one of the first albums I ever bought, and the first popular album as well. I played it over and over, to the point that I could sing the whole thing by heart. I still remember some of the songs in their entirety. Sang Tapestry all the way through while standing at the kitchen sink yesterday, just to see if I could, and I could, save for the odd word. And as I did, I really listened to the words for the first time, and my, but that's an unpleasant song. Eerie.

In times of deepest darkness...I've seen him dressed in black---now my tapestry's unraveling...he's come to take me back...he's come to take me back.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I wouldn't go with that man. The singer, however, apparently does.