girl, put your records on....

i heard carly simon's "that's the way i've always heard it should be" on the radio today and got nostalgic...for the songstresses of the '70s...i remember doodling lyrics on the back of notebooks...every line speaking directly to me...the quiet  angst of teenage girls...carly...joni mitchell...linda ronstadt...and for those "life sucks" moments, janis ian...some songs featured their own lyrics...some the pure poetry of dolly parton...karla bonoff...images of vinyl...the excitement when purchasing a new record...scrutinizing the pictures...the layout...playing them over and over again...the first awful scratch...revealing to everyone your favorite song...or chorus...and i catch my breath and wonder...was i ever that young?...were they ever that young?...the radio snaps the moment...taylor swift is whining that "we are never ever getting back together"...it's like an audibly-induced coma...it makes me secretly wish that harvey weinstein would sell her as the next kate winslet...keep her from the recording studio...ah, well, "that'll be the day"...