Music in Pain #1: Come Home (From Paris)

I thought I'd revive my blogging habits (for fun, rather than the Very Serious Update) by going through a few songs that accompanied me during various stages of my illness. From last spring I had difficulty sleeping with pain and anxiety (sometimes worse than others) so I spent a lot of hours listening to music in the dark on my iPod, and eventually trained myself to go to sleep when I listened to a playlist marked, "sleepy music".

A One Republic song that SA cast members performed in a cabaret entered YouTubeLand a couple of days after I arrived in Paris, and it was stuck in my head while I was going through the fun and the trauma of that period! I found it unusually reassuring and calming, and probably should have let its message - "Come Home" - penetrate earlier. At the time I felt it was just torture, as I wanted to enjoy being in Paris but just wanted to go home, and my head was chanting, "Come home, come home" at me. Still, it worked out in the end.

Specifically, this version