Haunted Playlists

August 16th, 2024

Note: At my last job, we played a game where every other week, someone would name a playlist, and the rest of us had to submit songs that fit that theme. The winner would get to select the next theme.

I never won. But that gave me a lot of time to think about the themes that I’d select, if I ever got the chance.

Last Tuesday, I recited these (from memory, thus with errors), and so I now consider them done. Here they are.

Songs that divulge idiosyncratic truths and hearing them leave anothers lips is more unnerving than affirming.

Songs too massive to fit on the track, where listening offers just a glipse of its powers like the sun through the gaps in your fingers.

Songs you can’t listen to lest you disturb the memories entombed within.

This last one wasn’t read, out of an abundance of caution.