Beloved Song (Remember Me Songs, 3)

There are many songs that remind Herself of her Beloved:  the songs that kept Herself company during the three years of their long distance courtship; the songs played at their wedding; the songs that have marked various trips, occasions, and moments throughout the twenty years of their marriage.  Nevertheless, one song stands out most of all.

Herself's junior year of college, she had become acquainted with her Beloved, and they were beginning to become friends. She had stopped by his dorm to chat with him, and he offered to play his favorite song for her. She was curious - what could it possibly be? She listened closely.

When Marty Robbins warbled out the first strains of El Paso, Herself was confused.  Was her Beloved joking?  She did not think so. Yet why on earth was this foreign, slightly odd, and not particularly musically interesting song his favorite?  She spent a great deal of time later trying to imagine why this would be.  And she looked up El Paso on a map.

Gradually, she learned of the importance of her Beloved's home town to him:  it is in his blood, he needs to be here.  She does not quite understand, still, for she is not tied to a particular place.  Nevertheless, she promised her Beloved long ago that they would make their life together in El Paso.  And so, here they are, in this desert they call home.