The Songbook Case

The soundtrack of my life

I am not sure the exact time I started to listen to music, but I sure do appreciate all the songs I preserved and repeated several times; they should be marked by strong rhythms, or else have really good lyrics. Some of them might just pass through my life without inheriting anything other than accompanying me in my growth. In my early years, music was more like entertainment. I would not think too much when I was listening. In contrast, I tended to be a person thinking deeply about things and grasping useful information from detail as I grew older.

When I was in primary school, I learned lots of simple but nice songs from my English teacher. Two of them left a deep impression on me. Edelweiss and Rhythm of the Rain.

Edelweiss is an episode of a famous movie named The Sound of Music. Every time I heard that song, I would dance and hum. And the elegant tune and beautiful melodies made my parents feel relaxed. We all loved this great song and even my mother used it as her ringtone. Because of the soft music that caressed the ears, my mother could not always hear it and would forget to answer the phone, so she had to change it even though she was loath to do so. Furthermore, this song reminds me of my childhood, naïve and happy. These days, I would not start to dance with Edelweiss, yet it relieves my tension as usual.

Rhythm of the Rain sung by The Cascades is a love song. My teacher explained the meaning of it word by word but it went into my left ear and out my right, simply not reaching my mind. Remember I was a little girl, the sad lyrics made no sense to me at that time. However, "I would not let him down if I could find my boy, who could ever harm a person really care about me", I said to myself, "she must be out of her mind if she left her beloved". These lyrics have never left me as they signify the first time I approached the concept of "what is love". For this reason, I consider this song marking a milestone in my emotional development.

Unlike others from middle school, under the influence of my mother, I paid more attention on the songs that are at the beginning of the republic. When I came home from school, some songs sung by Teresa Teng began to haunt me. I often heard her singing one song called "When will you return", and it is my favorite one just because its lyrics. "The fresh flowers cannot open frequently, good prospect cannot continue long", this is the exact description for life as well as my own personal transcripts. At this time, my perspective was colored by my fluctuating academic achievement. I felt like riding on a roller coaster. I enjoyed the eminence at the same time hated

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