This one is off Reba’s new album. That’s right, Reba is still making music. And damn good music, too. The Bar’s Getting Lower is a song about a woman who once had big dreams, and has seen them slip away with each passing year.

She’s getting older, and the bar’s getting lower.

Now that’s a gut punch. And setting at its saddest.

A perfect country song.

On the other hand, there’s a golden band

To remind me of someone who would not understand

Love that line.

A classic I never get tired of hearing.

Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?

The best by Eric Clapton.

I had this kind of childhood, filled with American Honey summers. Nostalgia for a childhood summer is one life’s sweetest gifts.

This Jewel song is about the ups and down of fame, and the ups and downs of life. It’s about the things that make us who we are and what makes us do the things we do.

Jewel writes autobiographically about her upbringing in Alaska, and how she’s moving to Stephenville, Texas to live her her boyfriend.

This is one of my favorite songs lyrics:

And this Alaskan girl was living in Stephenville, Texas
Yes, you guessed it, I moved here because I fell in love with a man
And I moved his ex-old lady’s things out of the closet
The same closet I had to move my things back in
It didn’t make me feel that great, as if to demonstrate
Everything’s temporary if you give it enough time

Indeed, it easy temporary. This song takes on a different tone knowing that she and the man she moved to Stephenville for have both married and divorced since this song was written.

Roooooxxxxxxxaaaaannneeee!

Love Sting on this one.

The best song ever written about enduring love.

I’ll admit, I had to look up the singer of this 80s hit. It’s Tommy Tutone, so obviously a one-hit number.

But this is a great one and it takes me back to my college days. Even though it was already an old hit by then, it was always played at bars and parties.

I hope he hurries up and calls Jenny already!

This song off her Red album is classic Taylor Swift. A melodramatic ballad of lost love. This needs to be on a movie soundtrack, backing up a montage of the heroine and hero sitting alone in their respective kitchens, thinking about all the things that went wrong and right.

Do I want to see that movie? Not almost about it, I do!