Anyone listening?

There are songs and there are songs. What you shouldn't do is associate them with someone, some time, some place or something. Definitely don't play them on repeat when you're alone and sipping that drink. If you do, turn off the phone or leave it behind somewhere else. And try not to sleep sober because then the images will haunt you and you're awake anyway.

And don't write about it ever, never.
Don't write.

If you must, make copious notes on chord progressions and picking patterns instead. Don't try to think of a  happy song, b'cuz chances are after 15 minutes of hard thinking, you still won't be able to name one. Then you'd go back to that playlist with untoward outcomes.

Don't write. About the songs. Or the places, or the times and associations that come with their music. Don't write with Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough in the background. Or Queen, Floyd, McLachlan, U2, Evanescence.

The songs are not it. It's your ears messing with your head messing with your heart. Though Dido wonders if you're alive if your heart is a shield; just just don't let it down. Your heart.

Don't write about this heart when the music's in your head. Please. Don't.