don’t think i’ve left you all behind still love you and tennessee you're always on my mind and mama every saturday i can hear your southern drawl a thousand miles away saying “god, what have you done you're a pink pony girl and you dance at the club” oh mama, i’m just having fun on the stage in my heels it’s where i belong down at the pink pony club
"You stole the best years of my life/I'll give them back"
Hits so damn hard when you think about it. It speaks of a lifetime of highs and lows, by each other's sides for better and indeed for worse. And given that the song is about alzheimer's/dementia, it hurts just a little bit more. As her memories fade, she loses the best years of her life: the ones spent with him. And still, he promises to give them back, to relive those days with her over and over just so that she doesn't have to lose them. Still, he loves her. Still, he chooses her, because
Now I get to meet you for the first time every single day.
Listening to 'Legally Blonde' from the Legally Blonde soundtrack on repeat and crying because it's so stupidly sad and beautiful and I'm a weak little emotional coward
But more specifically this feels like an older Ted, homeless Ted or box Ted, in a rare moment of clarity singing about Jenny. But even now his mind was changed by Tinky. He can't keep all the time metaphors and that box out of his head.
Singing about a love and a life he never got to have.
Inversely it could be Tinky singing this to taunt, taking a heartbreaking song and twisting it to make Ted feel even worse.
This song has always been a heart grabber to me. It's so sad, but it's so beautiful. I play it when I feel like I might panic. I may be sad, but I can process sadness better. Especially when that sadness is being given to me through a song I can turn off. It puts the control back into my hands. Its a golly darn beautiful song and I can see so many angst fics using lyrics. Or tinkofski fics.
My Brain is rotting away. I have tears in my eyes.
I'm imagining so many different ways this could go.
Heaven, Iowa is so beautiful but I never will forget that my favorite band of all time included the name of a state often forgotten in their song title. I love Iowa lol
I know this is just me but listening to this song from a 80's dog anime that I really like has made me realize that it kinda sounds like Mitzi is singing it if she were to sing in Japanese... I can't unhear it.
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Half of the songs from Ginga Nagareboshi Gin make me cry ngl... the songs HIT HARD.