Thursday 2 June 2011

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"Well Im forming and Im warming
pushing myself and I dont mind asking now..

Smoke surrounds your perfect face and im falling.
pushing a broom out into space, and this is where I found a way."

Music.
It speaks to the mortal soul.
When I can not explain what I feel.
Scratch that.
When I can not even begin to fathom the depths of what I feel, a song, an arrangement of notes, some lyrics, they bring it all to the surface.
and suddenly it all makes sense.
There's this feeling..
It overwhelms and overtakes.
makes everything else fade into complete oblivion.
That emotion, that feeling, become paramount.
Becomes me.
I begin to define myself for those three minutes as just that emotion.
A tear trickles down my face and suddenly, it makes sense.
When I am lost, and nowhere to be found.
When the path I am on makes no sense.
My life, makes no sense.
There is this feeling, this emotion I can not describe.

Music
Suddenly it all makes sense.
Every irrational thought, becomes rational.
Every intense emotion is validated.
Every word of the song, is me, is my life, is who I am.

"stranger things have happend both, before and afternoon. and I'm forming and I'm warming, state of the art until the clouds come crashing."

Sometimes, I can make sense of the lyrics.

"Alone inside my forest room and it's stormy. I never thought Id be in bloom, But this is where I start."

Sometimes, I just do not understand.

"Stadium Arcadium, a mirror to the moon.
Well Im forming and Im warming
(warming to you)"

Yet, there is a part of me that does, a part of me that relates.
A part of me that can identify that someone that makes me feel like the song does.
Makes me feel like sometimes I understand them and sometimes I dont.
Makes me feel like if I try a little harder, do just a little bit better, I might just understand, I might just be better than who I am.

Music.
The word does not even begin to describe what it can do. The word itself, is nothing. It's quite an amusing word. It does not give you a heads up, a warning. Does not give you even a sense of what is about to come.
Music.
It speaks to the mortal soul.
Even if the mind doesn't understand.
It give me this feeling, this emotion I can not define.
Sometimes, a chill down my spine, goosebumps, a connection.
Sometimes, happiness or overwhelming sadness.
Sometimes, the will to write again when I have lost all hope, or to sing, or to dance, or to just run. To go places you have never been before.
Sometimes, a complete understanding, explaining, defining who I am.
Music.
My heart, my soul, me.


Note: The song used in this post is Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

3 comments:

the hint of a spark said...

"Music.
The word does not even begin to describe what it can do. The word itself, is nothing. It's quite an amusing word. It does not give you a heads up, a warning. Does not give you even a sense of what is about to come. " - i like that!

then you went on to say - "It speaks to the mortal soul."

When i'm in my most unprejudiced, and unbiased frame of mind, I consider what I am.. We naturally live like we'll never die.. I wonder why though? Even though there's death everywhere.. we still just live as if we'll live forever... therein I think is proof of the fact that the soul is indeed immortal and not mortal.. our bodies of course are mortal.. but our soul is another thing altogether... the fact that it is our natural tendency to live as if we're immortal, suggests to me that the soul really is immortal.. but since it's embodied.. we 'physically' experience death.

does that make sense?

anyway... i wanna read more of you're writing.. reminds me of the rheu that i always knew.. : )

Rheu Dubey said...

HAHA I wrote after like a bajjilion years.
I get what you are saying aboutt he soul being immortal but when you live like you are immortal, it is because of you mind.
I cant completely grasp the idea of a soul and what it could possibly encompass you know? Like what part of me in my soul.. what part is my mind/heart..
But when I listen to music, more than anything else it speaks to the soul. I call it mortal because I mean every living being. Ive seen buzz come down with music.. Ive read experiments where plants grow better with certain kinda music..
Makes sense? or am I getting it all wrong?

the hint of a spark said...

ah.. i not only get what you mean.. but what you said about differentiating the soul from the mind/heart has got me thinking..
I think there is a hierarchy in which one can classify these- from material to spiritual.. starting from the mind and senses(material) to the soul(spiritual).. Our mind, from direct experience, can be perceived as in a constant state of chaos.. an average human being has 2 thoughts every 3 seconds.. such chaos and flux is a reflection of the material/temporary world and therefore the mind must be material too... our heart is more of what one would call consciousness or ego... and it can be pure or it can be covered (by greed, lust, etc) .. so this seems closer to spiritual than the mind... and when we take all that away (senses, the mind, intelligence, the heart or ego, consciousness)... all we're left with is an entity that desires.. that must be the soul.. the life spark that leaves the body on death...

samajh aaya? :p