A Moment Remembered

I remember I was about 10 years old and riding my bicycle down Briggs in Fairfield...with a walkman in one hand as I clutched the handle bars with the other...the wind was warm and I was wearing jean cutoff shorts and a t-shirt. My sun bleached hair whipping around my shoulders and headphones glued to my ears...a borrowed Bon Jovi tape playing...rewind...playing:

Bon Jovi - Wild is the Wind
I tried to make you happy
Lord knows I've tried to so hard to be
What you hoped that I would be
I gave you what you wanted
But I couldn't give you what you need

You wanted more from me than I could ever be
You wanted heart and soul but you didn't know baby

Wild (Wi-i-i-i-ild) is the wind that takes me away from you
Cold is the night without your love to see me through
And baby wild is the wind that blows through my heart tonight and tears us apart ohhwoooh
Wild is the wind
Wild is the wind
You've gotta understand baby
Wild is the wind
...

I'm not sure why this song struck me as so moving at that age...
Why it brought tears to my eyes and gave me goosebumps

And I couldn't get volume loud enough...I wanted to make it a part of me...filling my ears until I felt like my ear drums would explode...rewind...play...rewind...play...
I had it down to where I could predict how long I had to rewind it to get it back to the beginning...I couldn't listen to it enough. I craved the song...I would dig through my sisters tapes until I found it...anxious to have it in my hand...to hear the stuccato of the guitar strummings as it began...

And as I listen to it now I'm reliving that childhood moment...