Scars are Souvenirs You Never Lose

I’ve been writing down quotes, song lyrics, and other random collections of words that meant something to me since sometime back in high school. One of the first songs that ended up in one of those early notebooks was “Name” by the Goo Goo Dolls, specifically this verse:

“And scars are souvenirs you never lose / The past is never far / Did you lose yourself somewhere out there / Did you get to be a star? / And don’t it make you sad to know that life / Is more than who we are?”

Why I scribbled those particular lines down, I honestly can’t remember—it was probably something stupid, like thinking about the scars on my shins from getting spiked during a track meet—but every time the song pops up it immediately puts me in a reflective mood. The latest such instance of this was just a few days ago when YouTube recommended this video of the Goo Goo Dolls recently performing “Name” live at Stagecoach. Anyway, I had no idea the band was even touring anymore, but damn, John Rzeznik still sounds really good.