Music

It creates a sort of high for a listener when he or she discovers a sound they connect with. When the lyrics and the beats flow through your ears and flow in rhythem with your heart – it’s a nice feeling. It’s becoming easier to find, especially now when you can download practically anything you want. We watch movies, and hear a song that envelopes your ears and sends chills down our spings, and the first thing we do is find it through googling lyrics or searching the band, and download it. Then we spend hours with the song on repeat until we know word for word and know each pitch off our hearts.

Music in the early 90’s brought us the likes of one hit wonders, the Pixies, the Replacements and Smashing Pumpkins, to name a few I’ve listened to. You had bands even before that, who’s songs were nothing short of amazing. Flooded with meaning and beauty, there were no songs like those of today. E.g The majority of Rap music includes lyrics like “smack that ass” or “i’ll put my cock in ya mouth and listen to you moan.” Luckily, there are still a few bands that emerge as wonderful, like Placebo, City and Colour, A Thorn for Every Heart – to name a few that are all different genres.

One particular song fromThorn for Every Heart song – Worthless stands out among today’s ‘music.’

This is the first verse and chorus.

“There are times in our lives
When we just can not compromise
Can’t take advice
But can’t deny
All of the things wrong in our lives
Need a reason for a new dream
When it seems like dawn won’t come
Search for answers
Feel the darkness
When it seems that there are none

I’m not coming home
There’s nothing left there at all
Now I take this on my own

Of the bridges that we’ve crossed
Of the loved ones that we’ve lost
Till your lungs fill up with blood
Shut up and wait for the break down”

I think it’s a beautiful song. It means something, and when you read those incredibly well put words, it sinks in and makes you think and wonder. I get extremely attached and involved with particular songs like this. Songs that make me question myself, my feelings, the world I am in. Artists voices are such pleasant sounds, how can you not love sitting down and listening to YOUR type of passion?