I have no greater equivalence to the experience of beauty than the incident of live music.
I was just thinking, actually, I was remembering a conversation I'd had with some young women in England, where we ackowledged the delightful ecstasy, not to mention freeing verification, of discovering a song in which the lyrical content seems to have been written by you only with another's pen. That is, it beautifully articulates exactly what it is you'd like to say, only it says it better because it's in song; it serves as the most eloquent mediator.
like a poetic young woman, asking a confused young man to understand her as Damien Rice wrote Cannonball...and I believe he went and bought the album.
or replacing 'feck you' with goodbye as simon and garfunkle sing aboug america...
I'd not ask for you to tell me about the songs you know that have explained you better than you can explain yourself, because, let's face it, sometimes that is just cheeeseball territory like noone can believe.
Instead, I'll ask you this, does it only happen to me, that you come across a song whose lyrics seem to pertain so obviously to you, and you simply wish for another to recognize it, without you aknowledging first? Rather, you wish the lyricist had you in mind.
I'm assuming there's more than one song, if this has ever taken place in your stereo, and so, if you could spare one example, I think I'd love it.
but save it for a conversation.
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i think there's something to be said about people taking love songs to be "something written better than you could have written yourself." but i think using a love song in this conversation is too easy of an interpretation of what you asked here.
but on the other hand, you my friend, taking a song like Volcano as your own, or those songs we listened to today (by Ani D.) hold much more weight in this context.
as far as a song for me goes, i would have to give it some more thought. i could easily give you a love song as a cop-out, but i don't think either of us would be satisfied with such a response.
so i'll wait until something really hits me.
i had thought that the damien rice song was volcano...
the Damien Rice reference isn't about me...but does involve a cp...
thank you for making my life beautiful....
thank you for making my life beautiful....
thank you for making my life beautiful....
sorry for posting 800 times. but i meant every word. all three times:)
sorry for posting 800 times. but i meant every word. all three times:)
angry anymore?
i am and have always been in love with live music. it's funny that i love seeing live preformances and then when buying the album of the band i have just seen, hate their entire cd.
although, most of the artists i enjoy now i've discovered by incident or accident of their live preformances.
saying this, i feel as though guilt, sorrow, and tension in general are extraordinarily interesting and complex emotions in the kinds of situations we apply them to, and often are not for legitimate or even logical reasons. i think good song writers (such as the D) recognize this complexity and exploit it in such beautiful and interesting ways.
perhaps 'refusing to be a man' by the winnipeg boys of propaghandi explain this best. as in so far as it might apply to myself i mean. you are now entering cheeseball territory.
wow, when I saw "10 comments" I thought for sure I was gonna hit up posts that made lists of songs by dashboard confessional (or bands of that effect) that blantantly went against your suggestion of coversation. glad to see I was wrong.
although dashboard haaaas had a profound influence on my life.
not.
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