Did that ever occur to you?
Somebody playing the piano in your neighborhood, a familiar tone, a song from long ago, from very long ago, and it got you crying?
That happened to me right now. The tune was The Beatles’ Yesterday. It wasn’t played perfectly, apparently with just one hand, the guy was exercising apparently, a few false tones, it was getting better, the further he got. He hadn’t played it in quite some years. It was played with an attempt for the right intonations, staccatos, breaks…
Did it remind him of a couple of yesterdays? Guess so! Names, places, embracements, kisses, some shy, some not, tears, despair, disasters… – healing and recoveries as well? We don’t know.
Oh, actually I do know. It was “idiot me” opening the songbook on just the right page for today. Do you want to join me shedding tears?
Let me see, what pages that songbook still has for me!
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Spent a splendid time in the kids’ / music room now, playing the piano and finally also the guitar. Poor neighbors also had to bear me singing.
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