Almost everyone has a favorite song, a song that takes them back or sends them forward to a place and time that is not the present. What makes us pick out our favorites? What kind of affect does a song have that it requires us to constantly hum it or sing it at the top of our lungs? While I cannot speak for others without some kind of group consultation, I can explain the things that make me feel so intensely about this song, "Lithium," preformed by a 1990s grunge rock band, Nirvana, and sung by Kurt Cobain.

The introduction to this song makes me think of a nursery rhyme. It takes me back to being a young child singing "Ring Around the Rosie" and laughing and playing with others without a care in the world. Though this feeling only lasts a few seconds, and I know that...