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Peter Hammill -- Too Many Of My Yesterdays... Seems like this song now truly relates to my situation right now. If you look at my previous posts, you will know my situation. But here's the cliff notes version. My wife and I are splitting up after 9 years of a marriage that started out so beautifully. But once moving back to her hometown, the shit hit the fan. She started partying like she was single again, to a point that she was using me only as her gravy train. She refused to go to marriage counseling. And finally she started communicating sexually over her cell phone. It broke my heart to have to leave her and there are sometimes I second-guess what I'm doing. Because too many of my yesterdays belong to her. I don't enjoy this song. Because it hits me right where it hurts. And It's true to me. Here's a link and the lyrics...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXR6mP0YBc

So many years ago, I thought you were the one -
Who knows when people change, surrender into strangeness,
Adrift upon their lives, encompassed by the past?
Who knows which one becomes the last goodbye?
Don't try to tell me nothing dies.
Don't try to tell me nothing's changed,
Don't try to tell me nothing's new,
Too many of my yesterdays belong to you.

I shelved my broken heart, I put you from my mind,
I got up from my knees, I picked up all my pieces,
But seeing you again puts shakes into my soul.
Just when I think I'm finally over you,
Don't come and show me that's not true.

Tell me about it, talk to me -
I hear it coming, I feel it coming,
The way you want this thing to be.
You're only trading on our memories
Don't go and say you still love me.

You're trading on my memories,
You're trading in a rosy past;
You know I'm lost on stormy seas...
But I still stand before the mast,
Beneath the stars and under sail
Towards horizons out of true...
Behind the dance of seven veils I still see you...

Tell me about it, have your way;
I see it coming, I hear it coming,
I know what you're about to say.
You've had too many of my yesterdays,
And I don't want to fall again.

Don't try to tell me nothing's changed,
Don't try to tell me nothing's new,
Too many of my yesterdays are lost in you.
Prisoner1972 · 51-55, MVIP
Btw, you would probably never hear this song on mainstream radio. Maybe on some kind of college radio or WMNF 88.5 (Tampa, Fl) but never on Q105* (LOL!) I found this on a sampler album known as Enigma Variations 2. (http://www.amazon.com/The-Enigma-Variations-Various-Double/dp/B00C3ULO2I) It was put out by Enigma Records and featured "alternative" bands like The Dead Milkmen, Agent Orange, and Wednesday Week. (Not to be confused by the symphony composed by Edward Elgar.) I found this record in Sound Exchange. Sound Exchange was a used record store in Tampa in a shopping center on the corner of Livingston Ave and Bearss Ave. Their current location is on Nebraska Ave between Malibu Grand Prix and the Salvation Army. I have Sound Exchange to thank for my diverse musical taste. I was constantly searching for new kinds of music and their bargain bin was my primary source. (It's good to see they have outlasted Alternative Record Store and Vinyl Fever. I'm not surprised to see Alternative Record Store go away because their stuff was too overpriced and their staff seemed to have attitude problems.)


*Q105 (WRBQ 104.7) was a top 40 radio station popular in Tampa, Fl in the mid 80s. But thanks to to Power 93 (WFLZ 93.3) Q105 soon became the laughingstock of the Bay Area in the late 80s. Power 93's radio promotions often involved throwing Q105 under the bus. Q105 never seemed to retaliate and that cost them in popularity.
S74rxed
Can't seem to wrap my head around how the compiled the track list for the Enigma Variations album.
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Enigma-Variations-2/release/493311
Prisoner1972 · 51-55, MVIP
I think it was pretty much a hodge-podge of all the artists that enigma had signed and simply weren't getting the attention required to sell their records. When I bought it I was familiar only with The Dead Milkmen. I had heard of Mojo Nixon only because The Dead Milkmen mentioned Mojo in the tune "Punk Rock Girl." That's my theory and I'm sticking to it unless presented with further evidence.

 
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