This Is One True Signpost to Survival

If walls could talk, there would be so much more that we could know. And the world’s walls are walls of sound.

The sound of music is a beacon we are constantly in pursuit of, but that beacon was placed simply for us to know. Not to find.

I believe that music is God, the One, the Most High, whatever the divine is to you, communicating with us.

Lyrics are part of this, but I think melody and rhythm are much more important. We can hear song lyrics every day in an instant. Walking down the street, sitting watching TV, spending time with friends and family, and even when alone writing or reading.

Melody and rhythm take work.

It is only in these that our soul becomes moved.

This is why to me, true instrumentation is under-appreciated in the popular music industry. Creativity does not equal music itself, but the creation of something that penetrates deeper than the ears and brain.

I don’t know if I am just crazy but I feel like music is currently a tool for the masses to achieve “fun,” whatever that means. (SN: I told my class yesterday that “fun” was literally the most boring, un-”fun” word ever.)

I can’t go a day without listening to music, and there are some songs that I can’t go a day without listening to. Every person has those kinds of things they love when it comes to music, but are they only surface-level?

Emotion and familiarity, pain and anger, cleansing and burdening — all are aspects of music (and sound itself, in some ways) that the divine wants us to be able to manage.

If a certain melody places a burden on you or in the same way removes it, is that not an affectation of more than just something that passes through us, electrical impulses that zig-zag and then give up?

If there is one thing that I want to impart from this, which is really just a borderline journal entry of my thoughts about music, it is to never take music for granted.

There is a reason that dystopian television shows portray music as a highly valued pastime because only in its absence, will we realize truly how important it is to our survival.

What part of yourself do you want to survive?

A song that touches my soul very deeply in many ways:

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