Moments in songs and 'delete'

Songs have a way of capturing a particular moment in memory. Not it's lyrics, nor the melody, but the moment it played. Sometimes a tangible memory -- a place, a face, a day perhaps. Sometimes, it is the memory of an emotion. And that can often cause heartbreaking nostalgia.

There are songs that bring me the memory of being deliriously happy. It's all summer day and brightness in life. Blue-skied mornings on which the song had played and I had hummed along in sheer bliss. Now, the very first notes of the song bring such a wretched yearning to go back to that delirium that I can't bear the song.

I am yet to associate sorrow to a song. Or perhaps I have just erased those from memory.

Talking of erase, I've realised people hardly use that word anymore. They use 'delete'. Like they have forgotten the time before computer keyboards. In fact, when I realised the prevalence of 'delete' in everyday conversations, it took me a long while to recall the words we had before we had delete.