Broken-Up Music #1

Don't be sensitive, it's nothing at all, seriously. Recently I've taken a shine to broken up music, with a collector's ear kind of interest. It's one of those things that everybody sings about, even though when you think about it, it's kind of weird to think that the first reaction people would have to emotions like regret, wistfulness, sentimentality, hurt, anger, despair is to sing, but the human voice is an expressive instrument.

I love collecting emotions. And sometimes trite phrases that come up in lyrics ("The heart of a gypsy; the soul of a stone" - Take That) just make me laugh.

Anyway, first part of the broken up music collection: Take That - Like I Never Loved You at All

In celebration of the fade-to-zero emotion that comes in with a break-up. I used to think that the worst thing you can do to someone is to fade-to-zero, so I love it that this is the first song that put it quite so literally. At least I can say Take That has become honest in their lyrics.

Where, where are the stars?
The one that we used to call ours
Can't imagine it now
We used to laugh til we fell down.

The secrets we had
Are now in the past
From something to nothing, tell me.

How did we lose our way?
It's hard to remember
All that we shared
Now we both have separate lives
From lovers to strangers, now alone
There's no one catching my fall
No one to hear my call
It's like I never loved you at all.

Now you're so far away
And I see our star is fading
One too many times
Guess it just got tired of waiting around.

The nights that we thought,
If these walls could talk
From something to nothing, tell me.

So now does he give you love
Is it only me now that's thinking of
What we had and what we were?
Did you ever care?
Baby was I ever there?

Ever passed an ex along the streets, glanced at each other, there was a clear sign of recognition, but all you get back was a blank stare? Bottle up that feeling and put it in a song.