Nostalgia songs.

The other night, while I took Rosita for a walk, Brandi Carlile's "The Story" began to play on my headphones.

We had a couple "our songs." This was hers, I think. | #NowPlaying "The Story" by Brandi Carlile ♫ https://t.co/2G5sv1VCsI

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) February 21, 2017

I added a video to a @YouTube playlist https://t.co/Kg8T8EmVN6 Brandi Carlile - The Story

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) February 23, 2017

"The Story" is one of my ex's songs. For years, she loved it and adored it and sang along with it whenever she could. I remember it was one of the songs she wanted me to teach her on the guitar. It's a gorgeous song fleshed with loads of common imagery and Carlile's performance meshes perfectly with the content. 

But I don't think it was one of "our songs." It was her song. So of course it sent me deep into the dregs of nostalgic reverie.

We walked down the aisle, just over ten years ago, to Pierce Pettis' "You Move Me."

And we walked down the aisle to this. It's still a good song.| #nostalgia #NowPlaying "You Move Me" by Pierce Petti… https://t.co/Af8IKJhzFi

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) February 21, 2017

I added a video to a @YouTube playlist https://t.co/7jMdDus2iR Pierce Pettis You Move Me

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) February 23, 2017

Our first "date," if you could call it that, was a Pierce Pettis basement show in Delta, BC, back in January or so of 2006. It was only appropriate that we'd walk down the aisle to the song.

And it was appropriate because she did move me for a long time. I'd like to think that our relationship lived up to the ideals that the song promoted. I mean, read it:

Read “You Move Me” by Pierce Pettis on Genius

But now I'm back on the couch, taking the therapy, heart hanging out. And I guess I'll never get to listen to the song the same again.