Sometimes it doesn't matter when the song was realised, but sometimes, sometimes it just whisks me back to an earlier time. To an earlier me. When I listen to certain songs, I can hear the gleeful laughter that would escape my lips when I would dance and spin until I was just dizzy. Dizzy.

It runs through my blood as though it were an adrenaline supplement, and I just feel younger for a moment. Sixteen, seventeen, young enough to believe that I could conquer the world singlehandedly, get the guy (or the girl) and still make it home in time to finish my homework, fix dinner, and get a good night's rest. Then, I didn't know what was possible, and what wasn't. I had the innocence during my teenage years that most people talk about having when they're children.

I don't remember being a child. I remember being a teenager and being certain of all that. Maybe I was that innocent. Maybe I wasn't, and claimed that innocence later. I don't know now, and I'm not sure I ever will.

This song brings that back, teases and tempts me to become her again. And I can. She's within reach. If I can just get away from this energy drainage, I can see her again. That laughing, dancing, magical, musically inclined nymph that I was. I can see her eyes, and she has me by the hands, pulling me into her world.

Because you know... I never lost the innocence.

I just hid it away for a while.