Nothing terribly funny to say today. It's actually just before midnight on Sunday and I decided to get Music Monday kicked off early. I was sitting here listening to tunes from my past when this little tune came on:
How beautiful is that? How deep and meaningful. I've never seen two people come away from their first time listening to this song with the same idea of it's meaning. It's just such a wonderful song to touch each person in such a different yet profound way. It's saved a lot of good people from leaving this world early, and it's helped me reach out to people and show them that they're worth something. It taught me that everything I did for those around me DID make a difference, and nothing was quite as pointless as I thought it was. Now lets consider the band, VNV Nation. These are the same people who wrote this.
And this
How did an industrial/EBM group just find the most meaningful of reaching out to everyone? Half of their music is the closet thing to trance I can listen to, and the rest just speaks to me on this disgusting deep level, and it's truly some of the most beautiful music I've listened to.
Speaking of some of the most beautiful music I've heard, a lot of Kamelot's music can be very hit & miss (but hey, you get bragging rights when you inspire the legendary Epica and they name their band after your album). Their album Silverthorn is about a lady named Jolee dying, her siblings witness it, and her family is left to cope. It's a terrible tale of loss, recovery, and that downward spiral we all feel.
Naturally, I'm addicted.
The album is great, and then they drop this song on you, Song for Jolee. I don't cry. I can't shed tears at funerals, my mourning is all internal, and yet this song wrench a fit of crying so hard I could leave the couch, curled in a ball. The second the song ended, I skipped right back to the beginning and left everything out all over again
It's that one whispered line, that tragedy in and of itself. It's the one thing we say to every loved one we have ever lost;
I'm sorry, but I can't stop the bleeding.
I couldn't save you. I was powerless. I couldn't change this or do anything about it. It's what we blame ourselves for and need to come to terms with. They wrote a 27 line song and every fiber and drop and ounze of emotion and love and pain is summed into that entire line that we all blame ourselves. We couldn't stop the bleeding.
Finally just a little tune from Muse, that I've always associated with the depression in my life, and how it important it is to never give up on those around you in their times of need, as they should never give up on you
Sorry if this was a slightly depressing version of my little rants. I thought it might be nice to give a bit of a look into what moves me and makes me feel alive after everything I've endured and come out from. These are the songs that are precious to me and really make me love life and what to live it to its fullest. Metal might boil my blood, but this is what wakes me up.
Till next week, what are the songs that define you?