I believe in listening more often
than you write. In allowing a song to cripple you, breaking apart everything
you thought you knew about your own musical taste and stitching yourself back
together with a completely new view of the world.
I believe in controlled
chaos. In using every single instrument at your disposal to create a cacophony
only you can hear the beauty in. In blending every different genre in just
three minutes, allowing every nerve ending to get chilled.
I believe in
headphones on the bus to drown out the inane chatter and silence while you walk
to enjoy the music in everything organic. In approaching every new song with an
open-mind and ignoring the gut reaction to be critical.
So please, bring
me to my knees every time a song manifests itself before my eyes. Allow it to
shatter my senses and leave only ice creeping its way up my spine. Visit me in my
waking hours instead of my dreams, where as I gain consciousness you quickly
flee. Leaving me with only a whisper of song or phrase in my head. Allow me to
appreciate the words and measures you’ve already brought me. Give me strength
to harness every bit of chaos into perfect consonant cacophony.
1 comment:
I really like this piece! Reading this made me realize too, how much music helps and shapes me and how much I rely on it. Like everyone, I listen to music on a daily basis but reading your post made me see that music plays a defining role in determining my feelings and mood. I think you conveyed the sense of music and listening very well, especially when you wrote that listening to music can give us “a completely new view of the world.” I think this part is particularly true because different songs and genres of songs can help open one’s eyes to a world of other things. Your piece is really compelling and it unknowingly helped me understand something that I never thought much about before.
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