Colt 45 and 2 Zig Zags

Have you ever had a song just pop into your universe out of nowhere?

I'm not talking about a "new" song. Not like Bruno Mars or Lady GaGa just released a new record and it's your new favorite song. I'm talking about a song that seems to have just popped itself into your world. A song with a history of which you had no prior knowledge. A song to which everyone (except you) already knows all the words. And, one day, that song just falls from the sky and into your life as if it had always existed but never existed all at once. I imagine a "song God" of sorts placing songs into my life with a set of tweezers -- much like a very precise chef at a Michelin start restaurant might perfectly place a delicate little flower in just the right spot on my $75 farm-to-table appetizer.

There have been a couple of these instances in my life that would be easier to write off with a shrug and an "I guess I just didn't know about it." But sometimes those songs seem so well known by others or just so obvious that part of me wonders about when and how they really found their way into existence.

I don't necessarily believe in one straight timeline -- from birth to death -- from dust to dust. For the sake of our sanity, I think we do interpret time as a straight path. But, does a song actually exist before you've heard it? Does a song come into existence when an artist first sings it, or when a record company first releases it... or... is it at all possible that these things simultaneously explode into existence when the listener -- the person experiencing (and possibly creating) a life, moment by moment -- manifests a song along with its entire history and backstory all at once with one big pull from the void of which everything is born? Is this God at work? Is this how creation and manifestation work?

These are the big existential questions that I ask myself when, for example, I get a request for "Colt 45", and I'm like,"I have absolutely zero clue what that is." But, then someone else says, "wait I know it. Let me help." Then, 10 minutes later the entire crowd is singing, "Colt 45 and 2 zig zags. Baby that's all we need. We can go to the park, after dark, and smoke that tumbleweed."