Music

Ahhh that feeling when music is so good, you just want to inject it straight into your bloodstream so you can get a faster hit.

Music is one of the best things that this life offers. It's as good as sex or chocolate.

I feel like songs that admittedly aren't particular deep, can still hit these strings in my heart that nothing else can, just from the beat and the sound of the artists voice. I can't even describe it. It's why I like clubs and Retro, because there is something very appealing about being crushed from all sides, with music booming at a deafness inducing level, closing your eyes in a dark, flashing room and screaming along unheard to lyrics of powerful songs. Especially a little drunk, because that increases the sensation like crazy, because you have that added disconnect and you just don't give a fuck about what other people think.

I'm not a muso, my music taste is thoroughly uncool, but that's the thing about music, it doesn't matter at all. It's just finding what you like, whether it's mainstream, or pop, or hipster, or uncool, or punk or oldies.

Music is one of the most fundamental ways humans can communicate. I don't believe in the soul, but deep in human consciousness, there is a universality centred on music and rhythm and voice and movement.

When  I first wrote this post, I had in mind 'Alone Together' by Fall Out Boy, I heard it and it made me ache. My heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it's broken, do you wanna feel beautiful? It doesn't make me feel like that anymore, I over-listened to it, plus it's my ringtone and it was my alarm (a sure fire way to make me hate a song), but I remember that it did nearly make my choke, just how badly it made me want to sink into it and just live in the lyrics and the beat.

Lots of songs make me feel like that for a short window. I remember a quote, 'ignorant is what you call people who don't know what you just learnt', and for me, with music, when a song enters this hype stage for me, when it is the most important thing, the most meaningful, the most memorable song in existence, I believe that everyone else must feel the same way and tend to make them endure it for as long as my fascination lasts.

Music is one of those things that on one hand, you really shouldn't declare that you really love a song, until you listen to it 100+ times over a month. Then you know if it's a passing feeling or not. On the other hand, when I listen to the same song on repeat for days and days and days, I get so much pleasure out of it, who cares if it's a fleeting pleasure or not?

Someday I know we're gonna feel again, just like we did when we were yo...u...un...ger...

My TSwift pleasure songs lately have been Holy Ground, State of Grace and All Too Well. Songs I didn't really know before. I'm a way better T-Swift fan now than I was, seriously, I missed like half the album.

Some of the songs have found their way onto my page already. So you were never a saint and I loved in shades of wrong. We learn to live with the pain-- mosaic broken hearts. But this love is brave and wi-i-ild...

I know I used these lyrics in an earlier entry but maybe from now on I should add song lyrics to every entry, to commemorate whatever the song of the week is.

Tonight I'm gonna dance, like you were in this room, but I don't wanna dance if I'm not dancing with you. Darling, it was good... never looking back... and right there where we stood, is Holy Ground...