Tuesday, February 17, 2009

of all the sweetest things in life, MUSIC

Of all the unsolved mysteries and of all of earths complexities music is by far the zenith of any feeling I can embrace. What a gift it is to have an escape such as music. Amplification is musics' business and it is good at it. Take whatever feeling you have at any moment and if given the right song it will shock you to your core. Music is completely inexplicable and literally impossible to explain in words. It can sooth you at your lowest low and make you feel higher than you have ever felt before.

Music has a way with giving you strength. When you have reached that lowest low it dares you to feel lower, it amplifies your feeling of sadness and gives it depth you have never known before. It is almost as if when you are sad you want to listen to a sad song and feel even MORE sad. And yet it is almost as if that song brought you down to the bottom to humble you and than bounce you back up to strengthen you.

And what does it do to you when you feel as if life couldn't get any better? It injects such a happiness in you that your body cannot stay still. You flail your limbs in motions never done before but they are in such harmony the music complements you with a shudder of happiness down your spine. The buildups the break downs the bridges and the pure ecstasy of the chorus that quenches that unknown thirst of yours.

Music can take you to places you could and never will see again. When a story is told in song it comes alive in your mind and runs deep inside it pulling you with. You have to sing along and whatever the lyrics are it doesn't matter. They can sound like you want them to sound like and mean what you want them to mean. Nothing is more malleable than song meaning.

and there are those moments where the music can perfectly explain how you feel. Each line in the song further making you so amazed at how well it captures your deepest most profound thoughts and as if that wasn't enough, it ties into your current situation and flirts with your past. How does it do that? The lyrics can sometimes describe the scene around you and say things that have come to pass right in front of your very eyes and you can't help but wonder, " How could this song not be any more perfect for my life?"

Music is something you love to drown in, it is something you love to get lost in. It is a friend, a passage, a sign, an embrace, providing total meaning, and magically a step above perfection. Music is something that you can go inside and float in, never returning until it lulls you back into reality. the transitions are seamless and perfect, the guidance of it couldn't be any more reassuring. It can give insight that is beyond any amount of time spent searching.

Music can give you a single answer but open your mind at the same time. The lessons learned inside the timewarp of a song are life long and feel timeless. It gives you such an infinite feeling in under 5 minutes.

but wait that is just what it is like to listen to music. What happens when you create music? Could such a thing be done? It happens so well you feel like it enveloped you. The music itself told you where to take it and when it opened up to you its sound captivated your wonder. What is a better joy than to play your favorite song and sing it in your room? What better friend to keep you company than a guitar when it is late at night and all you want is an embrace. The best way to describe the greatest taste for your mind would be for your favorite song to resonate around the quiet room and soak into your body.

When you play music it is like it is literally coming straight out of your body as something that you can feel allover in return. but wait I haven't even mentioned writing music.

A well written poem can be greater than all the books of your lifetime. A well written song can give your life better meaning than can be described. All it takes is for that song to hit you in that critical moment and it almost always does.

Music can heal, honor, represent, comfort, and be everywhere at once. When humanity is long dead and gone the universe will join the planets and galaxies in harmony as the eternal song echoes through space and time with the asteroids thumping, the suns exploding, and the stars blinking to the universal beat.

Music can also take on very many forms, colors, and images. If music is one thing it is this, the union of humanity and their love of that infinite beat of eternity.

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