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Dearly Departed: A Conversation with Anu Lakhan
7 years ago
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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There is a God
for athiests
There is a Life
of normality
For the damaged
If I just stay with you
can we forget the world?
Your eyes are perfect,
I feel what you feel
I need to see you
to breathe you
every moment away
quiets my voice
to desperate whispers
I want you
I want you
silence to suffering
imagined insecurites
my steps to heaven are weary
soles sore slowly
sweetly crying to stop
but I will make my way to you
And with you
we will meet God
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Listen In
Play this song as you read :)
Music is a strong trigger for memories and emotions, the melody takes you by the ears and pulls you into a paradise or a hell, depending on the feelings being drawn out. Music is a release as well, a relaxant or a get-away if you will. For me it is one of my biggest inspirations. The following was inspired by the song you're listening to now -
You're beautiful
More than you believe
From the belly of your distrust
un-rust, wind back time
And un-know experience
Your pain
Is beautiful
Your smile
Is beautiful
Your laugh
Is beautiful
Take your devotion
they are your wings,
angel let your love flow
through me beautiful
harmony....
Lyrics, rhythm, musical harmony. It's an almost cosmic event that takes place to bring melody to fruition. It's something we take for granted, a process that nearly everyone except musicians and dancers themselves seem to ignore. What makes us like a song? Do we hear it repeatedly on the radio until we graze where we are tied like cows?
A song is something sacred to the person who enjoys it. For me, the music and the lyrics must have the same feel, we know what a sad vibration is even unconsciously we are able to discern this. For instance, there is a song called Break Even by The Script. The lyrics are heart-breaking yet the music and the singing itself - "I'm falling to pieces" may as well be "It's all sooo pretty!!!". I still like the song alot, the lyrics more than anything else had won me over. Conversely, the second I hear the intro for any Red Rat, Lady Saw or Beenie Man chune the air around me gets a little...err...heated. However the same does not apply for the 'clarks song'. Is it simply proof that people really don't care what they gyrate to that this song topped the local charts? :S
I sometimes feel brainwashed by radio, I forget sometimes all the great music I can find on youtube by randomly typing a sentence or a word, like this song from the Indian film EMI. I can't remember what I typed to get this song, but I love it. The lyrics are along the lines of becoming speechless when near the one you love, and wishing time would stop so that the embrace you share would never end...awwww!
Moral of the lesson kids - don't let someone else dictate your preferences, music is something precious and a part of you(if not the whole of you) is aware of that. Listen around, decide on what suits you, not what you can be made to suit. Don't allow yourself to be put out to pasture!
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