I listen to Gold 90.5. That is old news. Last night when I was in the car, the laney’s car (yay!), the radio station played Yesterday Once More. The laney and I sang along to it.

When I was young
I’d listened to the radio
Waitin’ for my favorite songs
Waiting they played I’d sing along
It made me smile
Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they’d gone
But they’re back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well

I had the Carpenters Greatest Hits cassette tape when I was in primary school. In primary four, I brought my walkman to school and listened to it under the flag pole and was caught by a prefect for bringing contraband items to school. I was not that gungho then and was rather terrified by that incident.

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-wo-wo
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they’re starting to sing’s
So fine

I was only perhaps seven or eight or nine when I knew every single word to each and every Carpenters Song. The words about love never made sense at that age. It was only when I grew a little older that I found out that Karen Carpenter, her of the golden silky voice, starved herself to death. In their music videos, she would be this little skeletal person wearing loose long dresses.

When they get to the part
Where he’s breakin’ her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It’s yesterday once more

Lookin’ back on how it was
In years gone by
And the good times that I had
Makes today seem rather sad
So much has changed

Now I am all grown up, and I have the Greatest Hits on CD. The lyrics to this song resonate such emotion in me. I never knew that I would think of this song so fondly. Back then, I listened to these songs every day and sang along as my daily activity. The little me would never have realised that the grown up me would feel this way when I sang along to the same song so many years later.

It was songs of love that
I would sing to then
And I’d memorize each word
Those old melodies
Still sound so good to me
As they melt the years away

All my best memories
Come back clearly to me
Some can even make me cry
Just like before
It’s yesterday once more