Kodachrome - Song.a.Day

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school

It's a wonder I can think at all

And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none

I can read the writing on the wall

Kodachrome

You give us those nice bright colors

Give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

If you took all the girls I knew when I was single

And brought 'em all together for one night

I know they'd never match my sweet imagination

And everything looks worse in black and white

Kodachrome

You give us those nice bright colors

Give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

-Kodachrome by Paul Simon

This song takes me back to the spring of my senior year of high school. I took AP Environmental Science and part of our curriculum was a fun trip to various places in Southern Utah to study, not surprisingly, the environment. Of course, one of those places was Kodachrome. We sang along to this song while driving to various parks.

The first line is particularly awesome for anyone experiencing "senioritis." If you take it a giant step further and went to Highland High... everything does look worse In Black and White (the name of our lit mag for which I was head editor).

A fun fact about this song: Back in the day the UK wouldn't allow it to be played on the air. Why? Because the government deemed it an advertisement for Kodak and Nikon.